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When Touya stressed over how he should

tell him how he felt about him now, Kiri let out a small sigh.

“Well, it can’t be helped. I’m the one at fault for keeping

quiet about it. At first, I intended on being more patient, but—my

plans got a little out of hand. If you don’t marry me, we’ll have to

discuss what you……”

Once he realized he had taken that

as a refusal, Touya frantically interrupted Kiri’s words.

“—Um,

Kiri.”

Since he had a feeling a conversation about whether

he was going to be his wife or not was happening way too fast, he

planned on telling him, please give me more time, until I’ve regained

my true self. However, once he knew Kiri had tried to get close to

him while taking care not to frighten him, something welled up in his

chest. At the moment, he liked him, but he may have felt something

like gratitude more. Even so, when Kiri had said, cats and tigers are

similar—as if to play dumb, he suddenly felt dear to him. That was

because even if he were to search the entire world, only a tiger like Kiri would pretend to be a cat so he wouldn’t be

feared.

“What?”

Touya took a deep breath, then

spoke immediately.

“Kiri—um, I’d like to have the

wedding. I want to live with you and the children.”

Kiri

froze for a moment as he looked at Touya. He was worried that he

hadn’t heard his very important decision.

“Wedding—seriously?”

Now Touya was the one confused by

the reply that finally came.

“Huh? Seriously……were you

joking, Kiri?”

“No way. It wasn’t a joke. But your ears

are still lowered in fear.”

Shocked, Touya held down his cat

ears. It didn’t matter if the person himself had made the decision,

or that he didn’t think Kiri was scary, his body’s reaction seemed to

be totally betraying him.

“I-I’ll get used to it soon. I

mean, you’re a big cat. Mimizuku seems to truly believe that

too.”

“————”

Kiri’s mouth warped a little

before he let out hearty laugh. He wondered what was so funny, he had

made the decision himself, but—when he started to feel like

objecting, a hand was suddenly held out towards him.

“—That’s

right. I’m a big cat. Come here.”

“…………”

When

he slowly came closer, his arm was grabbed, pulling him closer into a tight embrace. Kiri stroked Touya’s cat ears

gently, carefully combing his fur, he then kissed and licked them. He

once again really did feel as though Kiri was someone special to him.

He knew he was a tiger, but he felt at ease in his arms……

It

was like Kiri said, the differences between a cat and a tiger were

insignificant…..

However, there was something he was concerned

about regarding their marriage.

“—Kiri, I have one more

question.”

“What is it?”

“Since you and

I……since cats and tigers are different, how can we have children?

Even males can get pregnant, right? Is it still all right if it’s not

two cats, or two tigers?”

Ever since he found out Kiri was a

tiger, that had been pulling on his heart somewhere. His doubts were

innocent, but Kiri looked as though he were at a loss.

“It’s

a little different from animal reproduction……it’s like I

explained before, it’s through spiritual energy.”

“Then, I

can have a tiger baby?”

“That’s right. But we don’t need to

rush to have children. We have Natsuki and Akio after all.”

He

thought that was surely the reason Kiri wanted him as a wife, but

that didn’t seem to be the case.