C1 Part10

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“Now then.”

Kiri began to speak a little uneasily.

“About your question from earlier—your cat self has died.”

“Meow!”

He had meant to say, I knew it, but a meow slipped out.

Kiri smiled pleasantly.

“But when I say die, I mean you’ve become a resident of the Country of Cats. You went from being a normal cat, to an ayakashi cat.”

“An ayakashi cat?”

“A youkai. Cats that live for a long time change. Regular cats have some spiritual energy. That energy accumulates and naturally—change into a case where magic is involved.”

Touya was dumbfounded. He became an ayakashi cat and had now changed into a human form? He remembered—what had happened in his dream before he woke up.

“I don’t care if I become a bakeneko, because I want to be by your side”—that boy he said that to must have been his owner. However, Touya had no memory of his time as a cat. He had a feeling that he had been a stray for a long time though. All alone……