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I: The Flowers Are Not Sleeping
Chapter 38: Song of the Day
Suguru Geto, I and you are at odds with each other.

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Yayoi was a strange little red-haired girl.

Satoru thought so when he saw the bright red hair from a distance for the first time.

Every part of Yayoi's body exuded a strange smell. The strange thing was Yayoi's red hair, her five senses that were developed to the point of abnormality, and the strange thing was Yayoi herself.

Yayoi's hair grew very fast, and when they first met, her hair was only about shoulder length. The little redhead didn't use any hair accessories, not even a hair tie, just letting her hair fall on her shoulders.

The pink cherry blossoms blooming in spring occupied most of the field of vision, and the sky was spotless tile blue, as clean as if it had been washed. When the overly bright red appeared in the line of sight, it was unusually abrupt. Although it did not occupy much of the field of vision, it's enough for people to notice it at a glance.

There were no negative emotions, no leaking curses, and no disgusting curses. It was like a blank piece of paper that had not been colored by the world.

The golden sun leaked from the shade of the trees overhead and fell into the amber eyes. The light and shadow in those eyes flickered.

Spots of sunlight fall on the hair, which had become dull due to the shade of the trees.

She seemed to be dazed. After the sun fell into her eyes was blocked by shadows, her amber eyes turned into inorganic stones.

'Like a mirror.'

Yayoi's eyes may be more like mirrors than stones.

The mirror itself had no emotions at all. It would only reflect the things in front of you on the smooth mirror surface. Trees were trees, grass was grass, and the sun was the sun. Your own emotions would not change your subjective feelings. Because it itself was simply a dead thing, without any emotion at all.

After turned into a cat, he unexpectedly saw more things than when he was a human.

When Yayoi had nothing to do, she would be in a daze, and the thoughts in her mind would disappear. The sparkle in her eyes would disappear, and her eyes would look lifeless like the ceramic dolls he had seen.

Somewhere in the Shikoku region, there was a custom of making ceramic dolls, and most of the ceramic dolls produced were women. When he went to Shikoku to exorcise the cursed spirits, Satoru bought a beautiful ceramic doll out of curiosity. It was really a very beautifully made ceramic doll. The craftsmen carefully carved her exquisite facial features, clothes and The decorations were all made of high-end fabrics.

The eyes of the ceramic doll were also very beautiful. They were made of beautiful colored glaze. When the sunlight fell iin, they would glow like a rainbow. Inexplicably, Yayoi's empty-eyed look overlapped with the ceramic doll in his memory, so similar that it made people feel a little chilled.

The best colored glaze was indeed beautiful, but it had no spirit or feeling.

Yayoi was sitting by the window of the bus, with a Tangerine on her left hand and a Gojo the Cat on her right. The green pine trees outside the window were covered with white snowflakes, and there was a faint light on the white snowflakes. The bus was driving leisurely on the road, and was shaking slightly.

Yayoi looked out the window, and her highly developed senses allowed her to hear clearly the sound of the bus engine running, the subtle conversations in the bus, the sound of tires rolling across the road, and the whirring outside the window.

Sitting on the double seat two seats apart in front of Yayoi, sat a young high school couple. The girl's giggles and the jokes she told the boy all reached Yayoi's ears through the air as a conductive medium.

Yayoi was holding her two cats. Tangerine, who was used to being in the cat bag, had begun to take a nap. Gojo the Cat who sat on Yayoi's lap, was wagging his tail and occasionally glancing with one eye half open.

This bus could be considered quiet. People in the bus try to keep their voices to a minimum. Even the voices of the young couple in the front row could be considered restrained. However, in Yayoi's world, all kinds of sounds were mixed together. Like a mess and a ball of kneaded wool, stuffed into Yayoi's ears one by one.

Yayoi's eyes were unblinking, and she began to empty her thoughts. Her thoughts were pulled out of this body. Her eyes were empty, and the sun reflected the changes in her pupils.

Satoru was lying on Yayoi's lap, flicked his fluffy white tail.

It's like this again.

Many times Satoru would see Yayoi in a daze in that sunny Japanese-style room, sitting like this, motionless, like a stone, her eyes empty, reflecting the changing sunlight in the courtyard. If the sunshine was bright, her eyes would be bright in color. Today's weather was a bit gray, so her eyes were dull.

It's like the soul had been pulled out of the body. The five senses were no longer there, the emotions were no longer there. The soul was being crushed silently and dissipated bit by bit. The fragments were drawn into the vortex, and gradually blurred, left only an empty container sitting under the eaves.

The sun was a thin golden color, streamed down from the tiles on the eaves, cast thin and shallow shadows on the wooden floor.

"Meow." The big white cat emerged from the room, his gentle meow sounded like pebbles fell into the water.

Yayoi saw the big cat on her lap wagging his tail, his beautiful blue eyes stared into her amber eyes under his small sunglasses.

The sound of the bus's engine running suddenly stopped, the sound of the wheel axle rotating suddenly stopped, the rubber tires scraped the ground, the sounds in the bus stopped for a moment, and someone stretched his neck to look in front of the car door.

"Meow."

The white furball shook his fluffy white tail, his back straightened, and the pale blue in his eyes was as clean as water, just like the blue that emerged bit by bit from the gaps in the dark clouds after a heavy rain.

The bus stopped at the station.

"Meow."

Yayoi stared into those beautiful eyes in a daze, with an expression on her face as if she had woken up from a dream, a little dazed and a little silly.

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As soon as his best friend's words came out, Satoru's whole cat's fur exploded. He was struggling in the arms of the little redhead, stretching out his small paws and popping out sharp nails to scratch Suguru's fox face.

"Meow meow meow!" Gojo the Cat meowed angrily.

With a look of horror on her face, the little red-haired girl took a few steps back holding the white furry cat. Finally, she seemed to notice that there was more than just a white furry cat beside her, and quickly covered Tangerine's cat bag.

#Go away#

#Cats are so cute, you actually want to steal their balls!#

Tangerine behind her, as if sensing the change in its poop-shovel's mood, Tangerine poked its head out of the cat bag and gave a confused 'meow'.

"Meow?" Tangerine's fat paws were afraid of pulling the cat's bag, and it poked out its orange head.

Yayoi pushed Tangerine's head back and looked at Suguru like she was in danger, "Don't come out, someone wants to sterilize you and furball."

Tangerine: ???

Tangerine: Meow?

Suguru smiled and pointed at the white furball in Yayoi's arms, "I only do it for him."

Yayoi breathed a sigh of relief, then became angry again, "No, what did the furball do wrong? Why did you cut off his pee pee? He never goes out to seduce little female cats!"

Suguru: "...Pffft."

Satoru: "..."

You could shut up, I never go out to hook up with little female cats.

And were you, a little girl, really a person who spoke so straightforwardly?

Suguru took a step forward, and Yayoi hugged the furball and took a step back with Tangerine on her back. Finally, Suguru took advantage of his long legs to push Yayoi three steps forward. He stretched out his hand, quickly and accurately, and pinched the back of Gojo the Cat's neck. He lifted the whole cat up, but Yayoi forcefully hugged the cat's soft belly in mid-air.

Yayoi looked at Suguru with a fierce look on her face, not giving in at all. If he dared to snatch Gojo the Cat away, she would dare to fight him.

Gojo the Cat had never felt that the little redhead was kind and cute as it was now.

Suguru wasn't angry either, and smiled gently. His eyes were originally the narrow red phoenix eyes. When he smiled like this, his eyes looked like willow leaves when they were narrowed, and he looked like a cunning fox.

"Neutering the cats is also for their health." Suguru said with an innocent look on his face.

Gojo the Cat paused when he felt Yayoi's hand holding him loosened.

Gojo the Cat: !!!

Little redhead! Little redhead, you couldn't waver, little redhead! That's my ○○! If it's gone, it's really gone! It's not hair, the kind that could be grown by applying some aloe vera!

"You know, cats are not people." Suguru sighed, his eyebrows full of sadness, like a weasel paying homage, "The life span of a cat is much shorter than that of a human being."

Yayoi paused, and Suguru noticed that Yayoi's amber eyes had become glazed over.

'Very good.'

Suguru made a "V" sign in his mind.

"The physiological structure of cats is very different from that of humans, and this guy is a male cat." Suguru's eyes were full of meaning.

"What's wrong with the male cat?" The redhead confused. jpg

Gojo the Cat: "Meow meow meow meow-!"

Did it matter to you that I am a male cat?!

Suguru: "..."

Oh, I forgot, little redhead didn't understand this.

Suguru: "In short, neutering can reduce cat diseases."

Yayoi: "..."

Suguru: "Cats live longer and healthier lives."

Little Red Hair: "..."

Suguru: "Cats will also become more well-behaved."

Yayoi: "..."

Shamefully heart-broken

Gojo the Cat: !!!

Gojo the Cat's eyes gradually lost their luster, and he watched helplessly as Yayoi was shaken by his dog best friend's nonsense.

While Yayoi was in a daze, Suguru pinched the back of Gojo the Cat's neck quickly and accurately, picked him up, and took Yayoi over to consult the nurse at the service desk about the benefits of cat sterilization surgery.

"I'm going to discuss it with him." Suguru carried Gojo the Cat and left. The cat kept struggling in his hand, reaching out to scratch his face many times.

Unfortunately, the scruff of a feline's scruff was what determined its fate. No matter how much Satoru stretched out his claws, he could not scratch Suguru's face.

The little nurse at the service station next to me looked at the back of the young man who was carrying the cat and said that he was going to discuss the sterilization operation with the cat. They would fight for your life.

Gojo the Cat sneezed twice.

Considering Yayoi's abnormal five senses, Suguru specially ran to the farthest corridor on the third floor and pulled Shoko with him.

The door in the corridor was a safety door made of alloy. The sound insulation effect was several times better than other doors. As soon as Suguru closed the door, the sound was separated on the other side of the door. The sounds of barking and meowing in the pet hospital were mixed together. With the interference of the nurses and doctors' voices, and the fact that they were three floors away, Suguru didn't have to worry about Yayoi hearing what they said for the time being.

Shoko raised her eyelids and said, "Don't you need to be so exaggerated?"

Suguru's face was serious, "Shoko, you don't understand. The little redhead's five senses are so developed that they are almost abnormal."

He was not as abnormal as Yayoi was.

He remember one time Satoru told him from afar that he would sneak into Yayoi's house to scare her. As a result, he climbed over the wall of Yayoi's house and saw the locked windows inside and outside of the door of Yayoi's house.

Later, Satoru directly pick-locked into Yayoi's room. By the way, Satoru pried the window of Yayoi's room. As soon as he entered the window, the two started fighting.

Yayoi's mother heard the doorbell and opened the door for him with a confused look on her face. They accidentally started chatting while drinking tea. Her mother said that Yayoi locked the doors and windows twenty minutes before they entered, she said that a pervert wanted to come to the house to scare her.

Suguru: "..."

It was actually heard.

It was too painful to look back on the past. After looking back, Suguru had already received a claw from Satoru on the face.

"You two are really perverts." Shoko said with contempt on her face.

Suguru wiped his face where Satoru scratched him, "Don't say that."

Other people's perversions were basically done voluntarily. He was not voluntary, he was forced.

"Satoru, please calm down and listen to what I have to say." Suguru picked up Satoru that was waving his claws wildly, and tried to stay as far away from his handsome face as possible to avoid being scratched by his claws.

Shoko thought this was a serious mistake. If you want to sterilize him, could you still calm him down? Do you know that a man who could calm down after such a thing was no longer a man?

Suguru, with scratches all over his face, began to explain, "In short, there is an incredible curse in this place. Before the hospital was built, someone bought it through underground channels and used it to ward off evil spirits. But as you know, once the seal is loosened, it will cause a backlash."

Gojo the Cat: "...meow meow!"

What did this have to do with you sterilizing me?!

"That thing... is a finger." Suguru said softly.

Gojo the Cat's waving claws stopped.

Countless possibilities flashed through his mind, which one could mobilize Suguru, and finally settled on the most serious one. Satoru immediately realized what it was.

"Shoko and I searched the whole hospital and couldn't find it," Suguru said. "But there was still one place we couldn't find."

Gojo the Cat: Meow?

"Operation room." Suguru said, "The hospital control system is very strict, and not everyone can enter the operating room."

"There is a seal on that thing, and I can't feel its remnants even from a distance." Suguru paused, "Besides, we are not the only ones eyeing it."

"Ordinary cats have a 99.99999% chance of being neutered." Suguru changed the subject.

"But you are not an ordinary kitten." Suguru stroked the cat's soft white fur affectionately, his small eyes full of love.

"Go ahead, I'll ask the cursed spirit to change the anesthetic into glucose, just treat it as a sugar supplement for you." Suguru's face was solemn.

Satoru: "..."

So Gojo the Cat was sent to the operation room.

The cat's shrill meowing almost knocked over the ceiling of the pet hospital, and the cat's white tail swung around angrily, almost turning into a propeller.

"Meow meow meow-"

Suguru Geto, I and you are at odds with each other!

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· Genuine translation can be found only in OchatimesBlogspotCom, FanFictionNet, and Wattpad

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MVP of the whole game · Brother Suguru: If you come out to fool around, you will always have to pay back.


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