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"Kitahara-kun... what are you doing?"
The familiar, clear voice of a young girl sounded from behind.
Kitahara Makoto turned his head and saw a graceful young girl in a school uniform with long blue hair reaching her waist, walking towards him in the bright morning light. It was Togawa Sakiko.
"Good morning." Kitahara Makoto greeted her. "I'm feeding stray cats."
"Eh?"
Togawa Sakiko instinctively tilted her head.
You're a boy, and instead of going to school early in the morning, you've come to the park to feed stray cats?
This is something only retired grandmas like to do, isn't it?
Togawa Sakiko pursed her pink lips but couldn't resist her curiosity: "Kitahara-kun, do you really like cats?"
Kitahara Makoto casually replied:
"Not particularly. I wouldn't say I like them. The main reason I came to feed stray cats is because I had a dream last night."
"Eh?" The girl's long, slightly curled beautiful eyelashes trembled slightly, and she couldn't help but recall last night's terrible dream. "...What dream?"
Even now, last night's dream remained incredibly clear, without any blurriness or fading. In short, it was quite strange.
Kitahara Makoto spoke nonsense with a straight face: "Last night, I dreamed of a beautiful catgirl doing the bunny dance. She told me that if I came to feed her cat treats this morning, she would turn into a catgirl and come home with me."
Togawa Sakiko: "..."
Bunny dance?
Catgirl?
Togawa Sakiko's expression remained unchanged, but her delicate fingers secretly tightened on her clothes, her heart filled with surprise and uncertainty.
In last night's terrible dream, besides making her do the bunny dance, Kitahara Makoto even made her act as a catgirl later. Now, it's all matching up... Is it really just a coincidence?
By common rationality, it was just a coincidence.
But the girl's intuition told her that this matter might not be a coincidence at all.
"Since ghosts exist, it's not entirely impossible for two people to dream the same dream, is it?"
Togawa Sakiko exhaled lightly, her beautiful eyes looking at Kitahara Makoto's profile, wanting to ask him about it, but ultimately not opening her mouth.
No matter how she looked at it, the possibility of it being a coincidence was greater... If the same situation occurred again later, it wouldn't be too late to ask then.
Kitahara Makoto sighed, saying helplessly:
"It's a shame, I don't know what's going on, these stray cats won't let me get close at all. The cat treats I just bought will just go to waste."
Togawa Sakiko extended her delicate hand: "Give me the cat treats."
Kitahara Makoto was surprised: "You want to eat them?"
"Of course, I'm going to feed them to the cats." Togawa Sakiko glared at him playfully. "Since you've already bought them, instead of wasting them, it's better to feed them to the cats."
"Togawa Sakiko is absolutely right."
Kitahara Makoto reached out and handed over the cat treats.
"Meow~"
"Meow~"
Unexpectedly, the stray cats, which had been extremely wary and unwilling to approach, quickly gathered at Togawa Sakiko's call and lowered their heads to lick the cat treats in the girl's hand.
Looking at Togawa, whose lips were slightly curved upwards and whose pretty face unconsciously revealed a gentle expression, Kitahara Makoto asked curiously:
"Do you often feed these stray cats?"
"No." Togawa Sakiko raised her hand to tuck a strand of dark hair that had fallen onto her chest behind her ear, revealing a jade-white earlobe. She said softly, "This is my first time feeding them. I'm just very popular with small animals."
Kitahara Makoto sighed: "Tears of envy flowed from the corners of my mouth."
Togawa Sakiko: "..."
Before long, the few stray cats had finished all the cat treats.
"They've all eaten it, there's nothing left..."
Togawa Sakiko's lips curved into a smile as she gently stroked a stray cat's head. The bright morning light fell from above, casting dappled tree shadows on Miss Fallen Ojou-sama's face. As a gentle breeze blew, the tree shadows swayed, and the girl's skirt fluttered gently along with them.
Thump-thump.
Kitahara Makoto felt his heart suddenly accelerate for a moment.
Oh no, I've been critically hit.
Humans are indeed visual creatures; they feel affection when they see something cute.
Good thing I didn't have any special thoughts last night. If I had entered the dream today, I might have turned into a villain!
"Let's go."
Noticing Kitahara Makoto's gaze, Togawa Sakiko quickly reined in her smile, transforming back into the cool and distant, strong Togawa-chan: "It's almost time to go to school."
"Okay..."
Kitahara Makoto was about to speak when he suddenly felt a stir in his heart and instinctively opened the System.
Daily Quest: Nyanko-san, the cherry blossoms of our hometown have bloomed
Task Summary: Feed any three stray cats.
Current Status: Completed.
Task Reward: Your Charm has been permanently increased.
"It's actually completed?"
Kitahara Makoto raised an eyebrow in surprise.
He wasn't interested in Charm, but Togawa Sakiko had clearly fed the cat treats just now, so why did the task show as completed? Was it because he personally handed out the cat treats, or could someone else indirectly complete the task on his behalf?
Kitahara Makoto suddenly realized that he didn't understand the System well enough. Unfortunately, the System was unintelligent and lacked any communication ability, so he could only slowly explore it little by little.
"Thank you very much." Kitahara Makoto smiled, "It was really thanks to Togawa-san just now."
Togawa Sakiko tilted her head in confusion: "Hmm?"
Kitahara Makoto said seriously:
"I have a premonition that a beautiful cat girl will come to my house to repay her kindness tonight."
Togawa Sakiko: "…"
A puberty-stricken boy, he really dreams of everything.
"Let's go, to school."
Kitahara Makoto, in a pleasant mood, was about to turn and leave when he suddenly felt someone grab his arm.
"What's wrong?"
Kitahara Makoto turned his head and saw Togawa Sakiko's pretty face slightly pale, tightly clutching his right arm.
"I saw a woman in the woods…" Togawa Sakiko lowered her voice, her tone tense.
Kitahara Makoto followed her gaze. In the park in the morning, there were only a few retired elderly people strolling around, and he didn't see any so-called woman. He asked in a low voice:
"What about the woman?"
Togawa Sakiko took a deep breath and whispered, "That woman was hanging upside down from a tree. She wasn't human at all."
"It's okay, don't panic." Kitahara Makoto gently comforted her, "Are you sure you didn't see wrong?"
"I didn't see wrong." Togawa Sakiko's tone was firm, "I saw her clearly. That woman looked very strange. After I saw her, she disappeared in the blink of an eye."
"Is it a ghost again?" Kitahara Makoto lightly furrowed his brow, "The other people in the park can't see it, only we can. Is it because you fed the stray cats?"
Togawa Sakiko lightly bit her lower lip: "People often come to this park to feed cats. I don't think seeing it is related to feeding cats, otherwise it would have been in the news already."
"Is it a side effect of ghost Senpai possessing you?" Kitahara Makoto thought of another possibility, comforting her gently, "It's okay, if you saw it, you saw it. It's probably just a chance encounter… It couldn't possibly cling to you again, could it?"
Togawa Sakiko: "…Kitahara-kun, please don't jinx it."
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