Chapter 233

The nursing home staff were definitely cleaning them regularly.

"Meow~ meow~"

A sudden cat meow caught Kitakami Yoru's attention.

He stopped, looking around curiously.

In the colorful vegetable garden full of racks, he distinguished the direction of the sound source.

"Meow meow~"

"Meow meow~"

The cat meow sounded again, it should be nearby.

Kitakami Yoru walked a few dozen steps and locked onto the source of the sound.

This was an area planted with potatoes, very open.

Kitakami Yoru stopped quietly, appearing behind Tokisaki Kurumi, watching the scene before him.

Tokisaki Kurumi was teasing a cow cat.

But the cow cat had no intention of paying attention to her.

Lazily lying on the ground, not afraid of people at all.

"Ara ara, why are you ignoring me?"

Tokisaki Kurumi used a weed to gently tease the cow cat.

The other party had no reaction, she complained with her catchphrase.

Subsequently, Kitakami Yoru walked up, and Tokisaki Kurumi noticed him.

"Maybe it just doesn't want to pay attention to people, or weeds aren't cat cans and dried fish..."

"I've walked through the circle nearby."

Kitakami Yoru squatted down beside Tokisaki Kurumi, first exchanging pleasantries, and then looked at the cow cat.

"I've also carefully checked several areas..."

Tokisaki Kurumi pointed to the other side.

Kitakami Yoru nodded slightly, and together with Tokisaki Kurumi, decided to rest for a while.

He slowly reached out to touch the cow cat.

The cow cat's pattern was like a cow, with mixed black and white patches, which is why it's called a cow cat; orange cats are the same.

Very smoothly, Kitakami Yoru's hand rested on the cow cat's back, gently stroking it.

The cow cat lay quietly and lazily in the dry yellow soil, licking its paws.

"Eh?"

Tokisaki Kurumi looked at Kitakami Yoru in surprise.

She wanted to touch it, why wouldn't the cow cat?

"This should be a cat raised by the nursing home, free-range, that's why it's not afraid of people."

Kitakami Yoru withdrew his hand.

"I didn't think of that..."

Tokisaki Kurumi said, without raising her head, tentatively reaching out again.

"Meow meow-----"

The cow cat meowed twice, its body swayed, and it dodged.

It just didn't want to let Tokisaki Kurumi touch it.

"This... me?!"

Tokisaki Kurumi was stunned, eyes wide, looking at her own hand, then at Kitakami Yoru.

"I don't know about that."

Kitakami Yoru shrugged his shoulders.

"Hmm... hmph..."

Tokisaki Kurumi stood up, a bit unhappy.

"Let's continue working."

Kitakami Yoru patted the mud off his hands; the vegetable garden was huge.

"Okay, by the way..."

"Kitakami is so knowledgeable about cats, do you raise a cat at home?"

Tokisaki Kurumi asked curiously.

"Yeah, I have one."

Kitakami Yoru saw clearly that Tokisaki Kurumi, like Yukinoshita Yukino, was also a cat slave.

"You like cats so much, do you have one at home too?"

Kitakami Yoru asked back with interest.

"Ah... yes..."

Tokisaki Kurumi replied subconsciously, and then her mood instantly dropped.

Kitakami Yoru was slightly stunned; did he say something wrong?

"It died..."

Tokisaki Kurumi's eyes were filled with a bitter smile, and she shook her head gently.

Actually, she wasn't sure if her Pudding was still alive or not?

After it accidentally ran away, she and Ichinose Honami... sigh...

They searched back and forth in the area for a full half a month, posting countless cat-finding flyers.

Nothing...

They asked all the nearby pet supply stores and pet clinics.

No one had seen her Pudding.

Because Pudding looked very unique and cute.

It was a black cat with rare amber eyes, a large frame, round, and looked like a ball in normal shape.

Very round.

Anyone who had seen it would definitely remember.

A full half a year had passed.

Tokisaki Kurumi had long since given up hope of finding Pudding and accepted the situation.

Pudding was a house cat, raised by her since it was small, its wild survival ability was worrying, and its resistance was low...

Not to mention food, a cat plague or cat ringworm might have killed Pudding.

"Sorry... I didn't mean to..."

Kitakami Yoru sighed in his heart.

However, asking this question also cleared up one of his doubts.

Just now, when he saw Tokisaki Kurumi teasing the cat, Kitakami Yoru thought of his own Kurumi.

Around Kurumi's neck hung a damaged nameplate with a 'three' on it.

Coincidentally, it was the 'three' from Tokisaki Kurumi.

Yukinoshita Yukino also said that the nameplate on a cat's neck basically has the owner's name and phone number.

Kitakami Yoru had a tiny bit of suspicion; could Kurumi be Tokisaki Kurumi's cat?

But it was too coincidental; he didn't believe it at all.

Now that he asked, Tokisaki Kurumi's pet cat had passed away.

Mourning her for three seconds also proved that Kurumi wasn't the other party's cat.

"I'm just too suspicious; actually, I shouldn't have even thought of that."

Kitakami Yoru thought secretly.

"Hoo..."

"What about your cat, what's its name?"

Tokisaki Kurumi squeezed out a smile, signaling Kitakami Yoru not to feel sorry.

"Eh?"

Hearing this, Kitakami Yoru looked at the cute girl before him and opened his mouth.