The Strange Cat from Fuuto

Weak and powerless, Miku let Mick pull him up. After looking Miku up and down for a few seconds, Mick said mockingly, "Hey, Miku. I have a question for you!"

"Whether it's posture, ability, or power, if two identical entities exist, one as a king to dominate the battle, and the other as someone who sits up to increase their power, do you know the difference between the two?"

“It’s instinct!” Before Miku could answer, Mick continued on his own:

"This is also what you lack. We are brothers, and we should be about the same, but look at yourself, you don't look like the person you should be!"

"The real Miku is long dead!"

Struggling to speak, Miku gripped Mick's hand tightly and said in a trembling voice, "Turn back, brother!"

“Turning back?” Mick, tilting his head, grinned and said, “I’ve never done anything wrong from the beginning, so how can you say I’m turning back?”

"On the contrary, you believe in those empty and abstract things, that in this world only power is everything!"

"Whether you're a knight or a monster, strength is the foundation!"

Mick, having released his grip, watched as Miku fell to the ground.

"In the end, that's all you're capable of." As he spoke, Mick squatted down in front of Miku and took out Fourzai's four astronomical switches.

With a release of the hand, all four switches fell down simultaneously.

The astronomical switch, made of an unknown material, fell to the ground with a crisp sound. Mick lifted Miku's chin and said, "Here's your trash back. You can play house with your kids in peace!"

"But if you dare to get in my way again next time, I'll send you down to find your mother!"

With cold indifference in his crimson eyes, Mick turned and left without paying attention to Miku's reaction.

But no one noticed the guilty look in Mick's eyes as he turned his back to them.

"Won't I get punished for treating Miku like this later?!"

Feeling increasingly guilty, Mick quickened his pace and disappeared into the square in a flash.

Only Miku, lying on the ground, and the Kamen Rider Club running towards him remained.

With a flash of light, Miku deactivated his transformation, and a hazy light shrank back into his body, transforming him back into a cat.

"Miku, are you alright!?"

"Hey, Miku!"

"Are you injured!?"

The Kamen Rider Club members all gathered around, and Miku forced a smile as he raised his head and said, "I'm fine!"

"Gentaro, I've got your switch back!"

After struggling to sweep the switch towards Gentaro with her claws, Miku's eyes rolled back and she fainted.

"Mick, you bastard, how could you hit me so hard? Just you wait!"

Chapter Twenty-Four: I'm Just a Porter of Star Apprentice Switches!

The office of the chairman of Tiangao, a dark room.

"Mick, I thought you were going to kill him, but I never expected you to let him go!"

Sitting upright in the space chair, I gazed at the light and, as usual, fiddled with the Starlight Switch. Bathed in starlight, Mick opened his mouth, yawned, and lazily said, "Sometimes death is a relief. Besides, where am I going to find such a fun toy without Miku?!"

"Furthermore, I must now fulfill my promise to you, Chairman!"

"Oh?" I looked up at Guangming with a smile, seemingly lost in thought, and said, "Then I look forward to the surprise you have in store for me!"

"Just watch!"

............

Lunar base, rabbit burrow.

"That's too much! They're brothers after all. Mick treating Miku like this is just too much!"

Gently stroking Miku's back, Yuuki's eyes were filled with tears. Miku, wrapped up like a dumpling, was lying in its cat bed. Yuuki had brought Miku back from home. If her parents saw Miku like this, they would inevitably give her a lecture and interrogation.

"Ugh!"

Miu sighed, arms crossed, while Gentaro, Sougo, and JK stood to the side, watching Miku with concern.

"Staying here won't help. All we can do is make Fourze stronger, so that we might have a chance to fight Mike!"

"Yes!" Gentaro nodded emphatically, his hands clasped together. "Kengo is right. I'm still too weak. I need to become stronger so that I won't let Miku down after all the effort he's put into me!"

"Then first we need to find out Canes Venatici's official identity. I'll leave that to you, JK!"

"Okay!" JK readily agreed, quite pleased with herself. "Leave the information gathering to me!"

"I'll continue testing the new switch!"

"I'll go with JK to find out more information!"

"Ok!"

After everyone was assigned their tasks, they all got busy. Yuuki stayed by Miku's side while she was unconscious, hoping that she would recover soon.

As night fell, apart from Yuuki who was keeping Miku company, the others in the rabbit den all went home.

The hatch connecting to the space passage suddenly opened, and Mick, with his hunched back, slowly walked in.

"This is the rabbit hutch! It looks so much better than my place!"

As is customary, after feeding Yuuki, Mikko transformed back into his cat form and cautiously approached Miku.

"How's it going?"

"Thanks to you, I won't die!" Mick's golden eyes flickered as he slightly opened them. "You bastard, you really know how to be ruthless!"

"hehe...."

Mick could only laugh awkwardly and didn't dare to say anything. Although it was acting, he had gone too far.

"I don't even know when the last time I was injured was!"

Miku slowly turned over and looked at the anxious Mick with a smile, "Don't take it too hard. To be honest, I really didn't expect things to turn out this way."

"Ok?"

Confused, Mick tilted his head. Miku explained, "If you want people to be closer, you need a common enemy. You've done a great job with that!"

"The Knights Club has now accepted me, and even that little brat Kengo the singer has given up his doubts about me!"

"So that means I just stumbled upon this by accident?"

Mick cautiously opened his mouth, observing Miku's expression. If the other party's expression showed even the slightest sign of something amiss, he could expect to get beaten up!

"That's it!"

Miku shifted her position again, finding herself more comfortable.

"How many Star Disciple Switches do you have left?"

Nine!

"Distribute them all. We can't afford to delay any longer. Produce star-patterned coins as quickly as possible, the more the better!"

"What about the twelve apostles?"

"Take this opportunity to confuse the situation and awaken Cancer. Use this to show your sincerity, after all, the astronomical switch is an essential tool for creating the star-patterned coin!"

"I understand!"

"Go ahead then, but don't disturb my rest!"

"Good, good, good!"

Mick said "good" three times and turned to leave the rabbit hutch. Miku lay in the cat hutch, staring at the closed hatch.

"Let's go crazy and keep things going!"

...........

"Have you heard about that?"

"what? What?"

"It's the Blood Eye in the third-floor storage room!"

"A strange tale has been circulating on campus lately: students harboring hatred and resentment can encounter a pair of blood-red eyes in the storage room after class, and then gain the power of revenge..."

"really!"

"Who knows? Don't you think it's interesting?"

"What's so interesting about it? There have been so many strange things happening lately, aren't you afraid?"

As he listened to the gossipy girls' chatter, a struggle flickered in Amano Yukiteru's eyes.

"If it's true!"

"Perhaps I can..."

"Forget it, who would I be fooling now!"

The moment a glimmer of hope rose in his heart, he extinguished it again.

Every class has a marginalized student who is suppressed and despised by the whole class, and Yukiteru Amano is one of the many students who suffer from bullying.

When the taciturn Amano Yukiteru returned to the classroom, he couldn't even muster the urge to sigh. His desk, which he had just wiped clean, was once again covered in obscene graffiti.

Not only that, the textbooks were also torn to pieces and scattered all over the ground.

Amano Yukiteru walked back to his seat, feeling the gazes cast upon him, but his heart remained unmoved. Numbly picking up the tattered remains of his textbook, he sat down in his chair, but before he could even settle in, the chair was snatched away by a delinquent in the class.

As Amano Yukiteru crashed heavily to the ground, he listened to the jarring laughter around him, stared at the white ceiling, and slowly closed his eyes.

"I'm such a detestable person!"

After class, Amano Yukiteru, having packed his things, slowly walked up to the third floor and entered the storage room at the end of the corridor.

The storage room was filled with all sorts of odds and ends.

Dusty art supplies, vacant-eyed mannequins, old desks piled together, and a mirror covered with a yellow curtain.

"How did I end up here!?"