Chapter 161: "You horny little feline, just wait till your eyes roll back."
On a street in Shibuya, Cat-onee-san was looking around.
"What are you looking for? Cat food?"
Sakurai Saki asked.
"I'm looking for a way to relieve stress." Cat-onee-san scanned the surroundings.
Someone who sleeps all day needs to relieve stress?
Moreover, her way of relieving stress... unexpectedly resembled his.
However, Sakurai Saki relieved stress through games, while this girl was far worse—she didn't even see street thugs as human.
She even seemed to enjoy setting traps, staging scam scenes.
Considering he had nothing to do tomorrow, Sakurai decided to go along with her.
He was a bit bored and wanted to see blood flowing like rivers.
...
Half an hour later, Sakurai Saki and Hayasa-nyan walked out of a narrow alley.
Behind them were groans that echoed clearly even from over ten meters away, a miserable scene unworthy of witnessing. The screaming was enough to tear throats apart, and yet, the Boss of the Red Demon Gang still didn't come to their rescue.
"Is that enough?"
"Even more relaxing than watching a hydraulic press crush slime, nyan~."
/ᐠ˵> ⩊ <˵マ₊˚⊹♡
What the hell kind of example is that? Sakurai couldn't understand at all.
"Where do you live? I'll take you home." Sakurai asked.
"Let's go to your place."
Honestly, compared to this kind of fighting, the other kind of 'fighting' was even more relaxing.
"?" Sakurai asked in confusion, "Do you think I went along with you this whole time just to get your body?"
"Nyan?"
Cat-onee-san pinned Sakurai against the wall, a pleasant voice coming from behind her mask: "Wrong, it's Onee-san who wants to get Little Brother's body."
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Sakurai Saki's face darkened.
Almost forgot, this girl was the type of Onee-san who actively hunted prey, not some ordinary girl.
"Brother!?"
Suddenly, a loud voice called out, the kind of volume normal people wouldn't use.
And the person who let out that voice was, of course, not a normal person.
Sakurai Saki turned toward the voice and saw a muscular, tan-skinned guy.
Shit! It was one of the low-class demons he had run into on his first date with Hayasaka Ai.
Didn't Gabriel say she'd take care of all the demons within two weeks?!
Sakurai knew that useless angel couldn't be trusted, and yet one fish still slipped through the net.
"You know him?" Hayasa-nyan asked, clueless.
"Brother, don't you remember me? I broke out of prison." The demon said sentimentally: "Too bad, all my bros got locked up in the Demon World prison, only I escaped early and completed my path to enlightenment."
Hayasa-nyan leaned close to Sakurai and whispered: "Who the hell is that? He looks mentally ill."
'You're one to talk.' Sakurai was left speechless.
Even if you put the two of them together, you still wouldn't get a normal person.
"I was wondering why my boys kept getting into trouble—it's because of Brother's woman. Haizz." The tan demon sighed.
After being out of jail for a few days, he'd read quite a few books and came to understand that if he wanted to survive in the Human World, he couldn't rely on just himself—he had to form alliances.
So, he immediately sought out a delinquent gang, punched their leader once to flip him over, and took the top spot.
But before he could even warm the seat, he heard from one of his underlings that a 'dark heroine' had been frequently appearing in Shibuya lately. He immediately thought of recruiting Hayasaka Ai to his side, but in her 'White Cat' persona, Hayasaka Ai couldn't understand what anyone was saying—she only knew how to fight. After a conflict, the two basically became enemies.
"What's your current dream?" Sakurai Saki finally asked.
"…To buy a large order of fries."
"(ᵕ—_—)" Sakurai was speechless.
Like trying to build a wall with mud—these demons were beyond saving.
The Demon World had never once failed to disappoint Sakurai Saki.
Looking a demon more saintly than an angel, like Vignette, was enough to represent the level of the Demon World.
Sakurai dragged Hayasa-nyan along, preparing to leave.
"Brother, be careful. The one next to you isn't a normal person," the demon suddenly said.
That kind of strange anomaly was the hardest to predict.
As demons, they had a certain understanding of the situation in the Human World. In the West, there were dragons and vampires. But in the East, in China, supernatural phenomena had been heavily suppressed decades ago, preventing youkai from growing stronger. But Japan was different.
All those urban legends here could become real—demons had already investigated that before.
Sakurai Saki turned his head to look at him.
So kind, huh?
The Demon World really was full of good people—he'd definitely have to visit Vignette's hometown someday if he got the chance.
As for the matter of the person next to him not being human—
Sakurai Saki had already realized it earlier. When this Cat-onee-san was fighting those punks, her hand hadn't even touched them yet, and they were already collapsing. Eliminating the possibility of them faking it, the only explanation was that she wasn't normal.
If Sakurai were just a normal guy, he probably would've been fooled by her.
[She's not a normal Oddity.] Shinobu finally spoke up.
She'd been sulking since morning, apparently because Sakurai had ignored her feelings while getting it on with someone else.
Shinobu: (¬⤙¬ )
But Sakurai Saki didn't have much choice. Was he supposed to drag Shinobu into that too? That'd be way too perverted, and Shinobu wouldn't agree anyway.
[Not a normal Oddity?]
[The scent is very familiar. Just ask this cat girl directly.]
After saying that, Shinobu paused a few seconds——[Donuts. Three!]
[Got it.]
If only donuts could truly earn her forgiveness, that'd be great.
Otherwise, every time he slept with someone else, Shinobu would get jealous again. That'd be a pain.
"Is what he said true?" Sakurai asked.
"We'll talk at home," Cat-onee-san replied.
She originally thought Sakurai Saki was a normal human, but now it didn't seem like that was the case.
Last time when Little Sakurai went to the Shinomiya residence, Hayasaka Ai already had her suspicions. Now that White Cat had inherited all her memories, she was naturally able to connect the dots immediately.
...
Once they got home, they opened the door.
Switched to indoor slippers at the entryway.
Sakurai Saki stepped in and put away everything that needed to be stored.
"Can you tell me now?"
Just as he finished speaking—
Hayasa-nyan took off her mask and baseball cap, revealing the face Sakurai Saki had seen countless times during the day.
"Ai-chan?" Sakurai Saki looked shocked.
He had been wondering why there was that strange feeling of familiarity yesterday.
"It's both right and wrong, nyan," Hayasaka Ai replied. "She and I are two different personalities. I know everything about her, but my memories haven't been transferred to her yet."
Sakurai Saki froze for a few seconds, then rubbed his forehead and collapsed onto the sofa.
In other words, the one-night stand partner from last night… was actually his own girlfriend?
He couldn't process it right away!
His emotions were all over the place: first panic and fear, then inexplicable excitement and joy, and finally just emptiness and boredom.
"I'm a special Oddity born from the fusion of an Oddity named [Sawarineko] and her strong will and spiritual power. In essence, I'm no different from her." As she spoke, she revealed her cat ears and tail.
A white, slender, and agile tail swayed beside her perked, curvy butt.
"Spiritual power?"
"In daily life, she builds up pressure strong enough to crush any ordinary person. That pressure mutated into spiritual power when [Sawarineko] entered her body." Hayasaka Ai sat down beside him and leaned on his shoulder.
"She falls asleep and then you appear?" Sakurai Saki guessed.
No wonder she said she slept during the day.
Even the part this morning where she tipped him so much money now made sense.
"Umu. I'm in charge of relieving her daytime pressure. Just think of me as Ai-chan's 'Onee-chan'."
Sakurai Saki looked up at the ceiling and asked, "What exactly does she do for a living?"
"That I can't tell you—you'll have to ask her yourself." Hayasa-nyan replied.
Sakurai Saki roughly understood.
Sawarineko, a parasitic-type Oddity, extremely weak. He'd heard of it in urban legends.
——
"Same body, two different personalities. Getting two girlfriends in one shot, happy or what?" Hayasaka Ai gently pushed Sakurai Saki down onto the sofa.
She then tossed her jacket to the side.
"Let's do it~ Onee-san wants to unwind a bit."
Hayasa-nyan: (˵ ¬ ¬˵)
"This really doesn't count as cheating?" Sakurai Saki hesitated.
The two of you don't even share memories, do you? And you just said you're Ai-chan's 'Onee-chan'!
"It doesn't count." Hayasaka Ai began unbuttoning his shirt.
"But I feel like…"
"You beta. Aren't you a man? The pussy is already right in front of your mouth!"
Hayasa-nyan: ( ｡ •̀ ⤙ •́ ｡ )
Sakurai: <(ꐦㅍ _ㅍ)>
That line—no man could resist it.
Sakurai Saki flipped over, pinning her down onto the sofa.
"You horny little feline, just wait till your eyes roll back."