C1 Part25

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“……it’s nothing, you’re just not used to it yet, so next time I’ll go slow. Natsuki and Akio should be coming back soon.”

“Yeah.”

He nodded honestly. Kiri laughed cheerfully as if something was funny about that. Being laughed at this much, he started to feel like it wasn’t all that funny. Since he was a cat, he should be used to being groomed. He knew it was a way to communicate. Still, in this form, it raised feelings different from a cat.

“You really aren’t scared of me, are you?”

Touya thought it was strange that Kiri asked him that.

Scared of you—? Why?

He was thankful to the one who helped him when he had been thrown into a completely unknown world and passed out, there was no way he could be scared of him. Now that he thought about it, even though Kiri had shown him proper affection by touching him like that earlier, he realized he hadn’t touched him back. He figured he should extend a greeting to the one who let him into his home. On top of that, he wanted him to teach him various things, so if he didn’t step up, it would be bad manners.

“—Kiri.”

For now, Touya took Kiri’s hand and squeezed it tightly. He had a feeling that rubbing his scent with his nose onto his body like a cat would as a greeting would be strange in a human form.