Living in Tokyo, all I want to do is laze around.

"Is this price acceptable?"

Akane Rina looked at it, nodded, and said, "Okay."

Kai Uesugi, holding two cats, couldn't resist peeking at the calculator's display screen.

One, ten, hundred, thousand...million.

Total...2023220 yen.

Wow, over two million yen!?

Uesugi Kai's heart skipped a beat. Three cats cost over two million yen?!

That's over 10 RMB.

More than 10, three kittens.

Even though he used to enjoy taking taxis and was used to luxury, he still felt that keeping a pet was too expensive.

This isn't the end of the story.

After buying the pet.

Store manager Zewan then took Akae Rina to pick out the things the three cats needed for their lives.

Wet wipes, cat food, toys, a large bed, cat litter, a litter box, an automatic feeder, etc., a set can cost more than 100,000 yen.

These are all necessities for buying a pet; they are items you must purchase.

Kaito Uesugi felt incredibly exhausted even while holding the cat.

"Meow~"

Kai Uesugi looked down and saw that it was the same chubby blue cat from before, who had sat down next to him.

"Meow~" The cat licked its lips, seemingly recalling the taste of the steak.

Uesugi Kai didn't respond, only feeling that looking at this guy was like looking at a moving lump of gold.

......

Store manager Zewan pushed up his glasses with his middle finger: "The cat can only be taken away tomorrow. It needs to stay here with us today for a check-up, which is necessary."

None of them objected.

The cat can only be taken away tomorrow, but the cat's necessities need to be taken back today. Akane hailed a taxi at the intersection, intending to move these things to the coffee shop first.

"Uesugi, lend a hand."

Only after loading all the cat food, cat bowl, cat litter, and other items into the trunk of the taxi was today's business finally considered over.

Kai Uesugi clapped his hands, looking at the huge pile of things in front of him.

He felt that this was not like raising pets, but more like raising three daughters, and he had to take care of everything.

Have modern people's views on pets reached this point?

Kai Uesugi breathed a sigh of relief.

This was the first time he felt like he lived in a different world from people who own pets.

The sun was now directly overhead, almost in the afternoon.

"Meow meow!"

Kai Uesugi turned around when he heard the sound and found that it was the same British Shorthair blue cat from before, scratching at the glass door of the cattery with its paws and meowing at him.

Hanabi Hanabi laughed and said, "Kai-kun, this cat seems to really like you. It's been sticking to you from the very beginning."

Akane Rina saw it too, and turned to ask Uesugi Kai, "Aren't you going to take it with you?"

What would I do with it?

"Meow~ Meow meow..."

Kai Uesugi stared at its two fleshy paws that were constantly scratching at the glass.

It's a cat, and even if it has claws, it can't scratch the glass door, let alone push it open, even though the glass door is many times its own weight.

Its tiny body looked so small and powerless in front of the glass door of the cat shelter.

"Meow..."

The British Shorthair blue cat scratched at the glass a few times before being picked up by the shop assistant. The shop assistant smiled and apologized to the three people outside, then carried the struggling cat back into the warmly lit cattery.

"Kai-kun, won't you consider it?" Hanabi Hanamaru asked with a smile.

Akane Rina gestured for the taxi driver to wait a little longer, then said to Uesugi Kai:

"Uesugi Kai, this blue cat seems to really want to follow you. It's quite pitiful. Why don't you just buy another one? You can talk to the shopkeeper when you get back."

"Fine, take pity on it."

Kai Uesugi sighed and went back into the store.

"How much is it?" Uesugi Kai asked the shopkeeper, Zewan, pointing to the blue cat in the shop assistant's pocket.

The shop manager adjusted his glasses and smiled, "This British Shorthair is almost a year old. The price is written on the cage: 502200."

"Meow! Meow!" The cat, which had broken free from the shop assistant's arms, immediately climbed onto Uesugi Kai's pants.

"Alright, thank you for your help. I'll buy this one as well."

"It's alright." The shop manager's smile grew even wider.

"Meow~meow~"

Kai Uesugi glanced at the British Shorthair blue cat with teary eyes on his lap and wondered what was going on.

......

Time had already gone from morning to afternoon, and we went through the process again, except that we no longer had to watch three hours of training videos.

Kai Uesugi glanced at the British Shorthair blue cat in front of him, which was fawning over him with its eyes: "I'll pick you up again tomorrow."

"Meow!"

The store manager smiled and said, "Mr. Uesugi is very kind-hearted."

"good."

......

The three of them took a taxi to the downstairs of Mimi Coffee Shop.

A whole bunch of things are waiting to be moved upstairs.

"You should have called Totsuka too." Uesugi Kai carried a bag of cat food in each hand as he went up to the second floor.

Kai Uesugi took out his key and opened the glass sliding door of the coffee shop.

The shop was under renovation, with lots of materials piled up. Some sections of the wall next to the bar had been chiseled out to accommodate bookshelves.

The workers must have gone to eat right now; even the store manager isn't here.

Kai Uesugi placed the cat food on the front desk and then walked out, bumping into Hanabi Hanamaru who was carrying a cat bowl.

She smiled and said, "Hanabi remembers, Kai-kun is a cat too, right?"

"Ah."

"Then why has Kai-kun turned into a cat less often lately?"

"Do you want it? If you want it, then I will." Uesugi Kai met Hanabi's eyes, which were different from Hanabi's usual eyes at this moment, as if they were always carrying a faint smile.

"Kai-kun is so kind, but since Kai-kun can turn into a cat, can he understand what cats are saying?"

“Yes,” Uesugi Kai said, unsure if she had noticed anything, “but you can only understand the general idea, and most cats have rather confused minds and are easily distracted by small things, so their meows are meaningless at that time.”

"Fireworks, I have a question."

“Mm.” Uesugi Kai nodded.

"Since Kai-kun can turn into a cat, then... could you turn Hanabi into a cat too?"

Hanabi Hanamaru smiled in front of me; her smile was sweet, lovely, and captivating.

###Chapter 453 Another Firework in the Morning###

Living in Tokyo, all I want to do is laze around.

As soon as Uesugi came out of the classroom, he ran to the school's bicycle parking area.

I hopped on my bicycle and quickly rode to the vicinity of yesterday's family restaurant.

When he parked his car, he took out his phone to ask Hanabi where she was. After sending the message, he immediately went into the restaurant.

Uesugi searched for the waitress who had poured him a Coke yesterday inside the restaurant.

"Excuse me, did the rather thin girl who worked here yesterday afternoon come here today?"

"Relatively thin..."

"It's the one with the rabbit jewelry on her hand."

"Ah...it should be Nanbu, right? She's still a high school student, it should be during class time now, she'll only come here to work in the afternoon."

"Do you know which school she attends?"

"You are..."

"Me? I'm her friend. Her parents said she's missing, and I'm here to help look for her." Uesugi made up a reason on the spot, not caring whether it was reasonable or not.

Seeing that he was in a hurry, the waiter didn't think much of it and immediately told him:

"It should be Hamamatsu Kita Private High School... I'm not very familiar with Nanbu, so I'm not too sure."

"Okay, thanks."

Uesugi quickly left the restaurant and used his phone to find the location of "Hamamatsu Kita Private High School".

As he opened the map tool to prepare for navigation, Hanamaru Hanabi replied to him with a message that popped up from the top of his phone.

Uesugi quickly clicked to view it.

"Would you like to come over?"