Chapter 18

"Hehe, don't be in a hurry, let me see what your name is." Kitakami Yoru smiled unexpectedly and gently reached out to touch the fat cat's head.

"Meow~"

The fat cat meowed, its big amber eyes wide as saucers, and it patted Kitakami Yoru with its paw.

You can raise me, but don't touch my head!

This fat cat was still a bit wary of strangers.

And so.

Kitakami Yoru could only sneak an attack from below, pressing the fat cat's belly with one hand and reaching for the small tag on its neck with the other.

The tag was made of brass, very dirty, and had significant wear.

"Sasha..."

Rubbing the dirt off the tag with his fingers, the information engraved on it was already blurred.

"A string of Arabic numerals, several of which are blurred; it should be the original owner's phone number..."

"And... what is this number?"

Above that string of Arabic numerals, there was another line of small text, almost worn away and illegible.

Only one Chinese character remained: 【San】 (Three).

"Is it your original owner's name? No... or is it your name?"

Kitakami Yoru muttered.

Immediately, he gently stroked the fat cat's fur in his hand, remembering that today was Wednesday.

Now, it was also exactly three o'clock.

"How about I call you San-san? How's that?"

"San-san?"

Being stroked by the fleshy big hand, San-san seemed very comfortable and even squinted its eyes.

"San-san is a little female cat~"

Kitakami Yoru picked up the showerhead and body wash on the side and began to help San-san take a bath.

San-san was very smart; it seemed to know that the human in front of it wouldn't hurt it, and since the bath was comfortable, it was very cooperative.

But after the bath, once this hateful fat cat's fur was blown dry, it ran away directly and wouldn't let him touch it anymore.

"I'll take a shower too."

Kitakami Yoru muttered, turned on the bathroom heater, and took off his clothes.

Looking at himself in the mirror, stark naked, with circles upon circles of fat all over his body, he couldn't help but grit his teeth!

The only comfort was that a certain place was truly robust.

Just like the comparison between his own physique and others'.

"Kasumigaoka Utaha! Shijo Kaguya!"

Kitakami Yoru punched the wall hard again!!!

After showering, Kitakami Yoru came to the living room.

In these past few days, he hadn't stopped for even a moment.

Almost all his time was spent buying furniture and figuring out how to decorate the living room he liked with the least amount of money.

The cozy living room and layout decorations were no longer what they were when he first rented the place.

San-san was lying quietly in the corner of the sofa.

Kitakami Yoru decided not to disturb it, went to the kitchen to get a bottle of sugar-free, zero-fat oolong tea, sat beside it, and watched it think.

To be honest, wanting to raise a cat was a spur-of-the-moment decision.

Kitakami Yoru himself didn't know much about raising cats; he only knew that some cats couldn't eat human food and could eat fish, chicken, etc.

They also needed regular vaccinations and deworming, which was good for both the cat and the owner.

Besides that, he didn't know anything else.

There were no such conditions at home for the moment, and he didn't know much, so he planned to take San-san to a nearby pet store to resolve these matters when he had time.

"Dong dong dong~"

The door was knocked, and immediately after, Gabriel's polite voice came from outside.

Kitakami Yoru hurried to open the door in his slippers and saw Gabriel standing at the entrance.

She was short, only reaching his chest.

"I'm actually quite tall; I was 176 last year, already far exceeding my peers."

Muttering to himself, Kitakami Yoru looked at Gabriel curiously.

"Kitakami-san, can I ask you about school?"

"Tomorrow is the first day of school, and I just arrived here, finding that I don't understand many things..."

Gabriel smiled a bit embarrassedly, twirling her golden hair with her fingers.

"Ah, sure, no problem. Do you want to come in?" Kitakami Yoru blinked his big eyes.

"Okay, thank you!" Gabriel flashed right in.

Kitakami Yoru: "...?"

"Forget it, Gabriel is truly thick-skinned, or maybe she's just not afraid of me..."

Someone looked at the petite and cute-looking Gabriel, then looked at himself.

Isn't she afraid he'll do something bad?

Closing the door, Kitakami Yoru went into the kitchen and took a bottle of drink and some fruit to treat Gabriel.

Returning to the living room, he found Gabriel holding San-san in her arms, gently rubbing her face against it.

"Kitakami-san, is this a cat you're raising? When did this happen?" Gabriel asked curiously.

San-san showed no guard against the stranger at all, letting Gabriel rub against it, occasionally meowing twice.

"I just picked it up and adopted it. It's just very friendly to you, but still a bit wary of me." Kitakami Yoru sighed gently.

Does even a female cat hate him?

"Oh, that's easy to handle. I'll make an exception to help Kitakami-san later, using a tiny, tiny, tiny bit of power. The Heavenly Realm won't know." Gabriel muttered silently in her heart.

Sigong family mansion, inside Sigong Kaguya's room.

The blonde ponytail maid Hayasaka Ai held a stack of documents in her hand without making a sound.

She appeared behind Sigong Kaguya silently, giving Sigong Kaguya a fright.

"Hayasaka?" Sigong Kaguya blamed her.

"Sorry, Young Lady Kaguya, you were too absorbed. The information has already been retrieved." Hayasaka Ai chuckled with a bit of dark humor.

"I won't look at it; just tell me the result directly." Sigong Kaguya had absolutely no interest in the information of a dead fatty otaku.

"No suspicious points were found. The information shows that similar suspected incidents occurred during Kitakami Yoru's elementary and middle school years, but they cannot be verified, and it's impossible to determine if they are true or false."

"He himself has no abnormalities, and no DNA was found, but the possibility of him being the culprit cannot be ruled out, nor can it be ruled out that he isn't."

Hayasaka Ai said, avoiding some unnecessary information.

This document contained all the detailed information of Kitakami Yoru's family, down to underwear sizes, and even included Kitakami Yoru's online shopping records and browser history within the last year.

Everything had been dug up by Hayasaka Ai, who had read it carefully without missing a single detail.

Privacy!

As a human, the most crucial privacy!

Just like that, without any reservation, it was placed in front of Sigong Kaguya and Hayasaka Ai!

"It can be almost certain that you haven't suffered any harm." Hayasaka Ai finally concluded.

17: Eriri's abnormality

Thursday.

Xiuzhiyuan's first day of school; today, unusually, it was good weather.

The sun was bright, and the weather was fine.

Countless high school girls full of youthful vitality could be seen everywhere—on trains, in cafes, and in the streets and alleys.

"Ha~"

Eriri, all by herself, yawned as she walked into the magnificent and solemn Xiuzhiyuan gate.