I'm having fun in Tokyo

"cute......?"

She asked a question, but it took her a while to squeeze out the next one.

"......Thanks"

Morikawa Yu finally smiled.

"Thank you? That's not how you answered just now. You even told me to stay away from you."

Nishino did not answer; his tail stood upright behind him, the tip tilting backward.

In her previous life, Morikawa Yu had raised cats and dogs and knew about some animals' emotional expressions. She had looked up the connection between a cat's tail and its mood and knew that it represented the cat being in a "reserved" state.

Although the transformed cat is a yokai and is different from a cat, the difference should not be significant.

It seems Nishino wants to explain, but is too embarrassed to do so.

He smiled again.

"Change back to your original form."

"Turn back to normal?" Nishino asked, somewhat puzzled.

Seeing that Morikawa Yu did not answer, she felt somewhat frustrated.

"You don't like me anymore... ah, no, I didn't say anything."

She bit her lip, and finally reverted to her original state.

He stared coldly at Morikawa Yu, turned around, flicked his tail, and was about to leap up and return to his original position on the roof.

"Wait a moment."

Morikawa Yu called out to Nishino again, looking at him with a smile.

Nishino was somewhat puzzled by the stares.

He seemed to recall what Morikawa Yu had said earlier, and the incident of touching his cat ears, and his face turned cold.

"You scumbag devil who took advantage of me and then denied everything, what else do you want?"

A scumbag devil...?

Why are you calling me a scumbag too?

Morikawa Yu couldn't help but think of her own vice-captain, feeling somewhat embarrassed. She coughed lightly but didn't answer.

He recalled Nishino's attitude before and after the change in form, as well as Nishino's behavior at Mr. Odajima's house yesterday, and began to make a guess.

In his boyish form, Nishino is rather aloof yet mature, with his own bottom line, but he is also loyal and obedient to the family god's orders.

In her catgirl form with long, straight black hair, she is rather arrogant and has a naive air about her. She is very obedient, but easily panics when faced with problems.

So this is how you play with the gender change of a cat?

Having one cat is like having two, doubling the cat-petting experience, which seems quite interesting.

He walked up to Nishino.

"It's nothing, I just have some questions I want to ask you."

"Ask if you want, otherwise I'm going to sleep."

"Sleeping during the day?" Morikawa Yu was taken aback for a moment, then immediately realized that the other party was a cat demon, and it was normal for them to be active at night and rest during the day.

"Okay, I'll try to keep my questions simple."

He thought for a moment and then said, "Yesterday you and that stray cat demon killed someone in Renha-cho, Bunkyo Ward. I want to ask, why did you do that?"

"The Metropolitan Police Department also wants an answer, after all, yesterday it wasn't just Mr. Takenaka from Senryu Shrine who died, but also a family of four."

"Because I and that wild cat demon received orders from the household god to monitor Yoshimitsu Odajima, but it couldn't resist its hunger and couldn't suppress its bloodthirsty nature, so it ate a whole family."

Nishino answered without hesitation.

As he spoke, he realized he had simplified the statement, so he added another sentence.

"That stray cat demon was one of the stray cats that the God of the House found in some parks after he came to Tokyo, and he used his demonic power to create it."

"A stray cat found in the park?"

Morikawa Yu was stunned for a moment.

He used to have a habit of feeding stray cats in the park, and he had even tested his skills on the stray cats before, but he hasn't been going there much lately.

Could it be that he fed some of those wild cat demons that were catalyzed by the Fujiwara clan's shrines?

That stray cat demon from yesterday was so annoying; it looked a bit like a cat he had taught a lesson to.

"Yes, these wild cats have received demonic power from the household god, but they are only slightly stronger than lesser demons, far inferior to us, the household god's messengers who are close to being great demons."

"However, they pose a great threat to ordinary humans. Unless one is a strong human, there is no way to deal with them, and they also hate humans."

"The household god assigned us wild cat demons as partners, to be used as cannon fodder when we encounter trouble, but he forbade us to execute these wild cat demons at will, saying that they would be useful if kept alive."

"Wait, what are you doing?"

Nishino looked at Morikawa Yu with some surprise.

Morikawa Yu was holding a small notebook, listening, taking notes, and making annotations.

"Ah, I'm used to it, sorry."

He paused writing, but only briefly, before continuing to write down what he had written.

Will Chapter 163 be too much?

Because of her profession in her previous life, Morikawa Yu likes to record trivial information as supplementary intelligence when conducting criminal investigations.

Although most of this information is useless, even just one piece of useful information can greatly help the entire case.

"You're treating me like a prisoner."

Nishino's face looked very grim.

As an envoy of the Fujiwara clan's household deity, he was often dispatched by the deity to assist the officials of Fushimi Inari Shrine or to help the Kyoto Prefectural Police Headquarters handle cases involving yokai.

He had met some detectives who liked to do the same thing.

However, his expression quickly changed back, and he looked somewhat gloomy.

"Fine, I am indeed a prisoner now."

"Although I didn't kill anyone yesterday, nor did I carry out Lord Iejin's mission properly, I did knock that old man unconscious and didn't put him in a safe place. Otherwise, Matsuke wouldn't have had any evil intentions."

Morikawa Yu watched as Nishino gradually became withdrawn, twirled the pen, and then clipped it to the notebook.

"Alright, now that you know you've done something wrong, you should make amends properly."

"If you cooperate with me now, it's considered that you're redeeming yourself. Once this matter is resolved, I'll explain to the Metropolitan Police Department on your behalf."

"Now answer my second question: why did you come to Tokyo?"

"Because of the request of the household god."

Nishino continued, "A few days ago, Her Highness the God... Her Highness Mitsuko summoned Lord Igami, and then Lord Igami, for some reason, made us follow her."

"You're saying that Mitsuko summoned Asaka?"

"Yes."

Sure enough, this matter has the greatest connection to the big fox.

Morikawa Yu narrowed her eyes.

"Exactly a few days ago?"

"Three days ago, on March 26th."

Morikawa Yu wrote it down in her notebook.

"The third question is, why did your household god kill Yoshimitsu Odajima?"

"I don't know." Nishino shook his head.

"do not know?"

"Yes, because it's the request of the household god, we usually don't question it, we just obey."

Morikawa Yu sighed.

Well, he really is a loyal and devoted household god.

I wish I could have such a powerful demon subordinate someday.

"How is Mr. Odajima doing?"

Seeing that he didn't speak, Nishino finally asked a question.

"Fortunately."

Morikawa Yu replied.

He remembered that Odajima had asked Nishino about the same thing, and now Nishino was asking him back.

These two are really interesting.

"I had Inspector Kurokawa of the Metropolitan Police Department take Mr. Odajima and his family to the hospital and protect them. Mr. Takenaka's body is also at the scene, and the Metropolitan Police Department should take care of it as well."

"He should be fine, he's just exhausted, he'll recover soon."

After all, the other party has also mustered their resolve. With such resolve in their body, they will probably recover as quickly as their experienced friend, Takeda Keiko.

However, that's not necessarily true.

Keiko Takeda's determination to create "Hatsubud" is, after all, a specialization of resilience and vitality, different from Odajima's approach, and the results should be different as well.

Nishino nodded and breathed a sigh of relief.

He didn't actually want to kill the other person. He had even put on an act at the Arai family's house before, trying to scare them away.

However, the other party has family members to protect and has been staying at home.

He was under orders from the household god, and had no other choice but to do so.

However, he still did his best to give the other party a chance to kill Matsusuke, so that he could have peace of mind.

Since the other party is alright, I don't need to worry anymore.

"Is there anything else?"

"Have."

Morikawa Yu nodded.

Since Nishino doesn't know Asaka's thoughts, he might as well just ask Asaka directly.

She is the second suspect under the big fox, and her stance is unclear.

Although she keeps Nishino by his side under the pretext of easy communication, she is actually monitoring his movements in reverse.

He understood this, but he also needed Nishino to contact her, which was why he didn't leave Nishino aside yesterday.

"Contact your household deity; I have something to ask her."

Nishino hesitated for a moment.

"Okay, I'll contact her now."

After he finished speaking, the two tails behind him rose up, with the longer one shining slightly.

A few breaths later, Nishino's expression suddenly changed.

He shook his head, as if adjusting to the things in his field of vision, and seven illusory black tails extended from behind him.

"What do you want from me?"

His voice also changed, becoming the same Asaka's voice that Morikawa Yu had heard yesterday, sounding similar to that of a young girl, and his figure also shrank to some extent.

He looks like a completely different person.

Morikawa Yu paused for a moment, then immediately realized that Asaka had possessed Nishino's body.

So, the way she mentioned to contact Nishino was actually possessing him?

Is it really that simple, crude, and direct?