I am a teacher at a girls' school in Tokyo

The white cat also rubbed his hand gently with its head.

As expected, he is someone who has an affinity with cats and is qualified to be a tiger trainer.

Ok.

Chapter 26 Mrs. Cat, you don’t want your children to be bullied by me, do you?

After giving the cat a bath and then slowly drying it with a hair dryer, Tetsufumi Hirakawa, who had been squatting and serving the cat, was already tired.

"Cat slaves and the like, the description is indeed correct."

Tetsufumi Hirakawa sighed, stood up from the ground, and put the hair dryer away.

My waist is a bit sore from squatting for too long.

It had nothing to do with poor health or kidney deficiency, it was just because he squatted for too long. Although no one saw it, this was the only point that Hirakawa Tetsufumi wanted to emphasize in his heart.

This is dignity.

After repeating this in his mind, Tetsufumi Hirakawa looked at the cat on the ground again.

Pure white cat, pure white fur, pure white bath towel, pure white tile floor. Against the backdrop of all the pure white, this cat really looks pretty.

It huddled in the towel, only sticking its head out to look around. When it met Hirakawa Tetsufumi's gaze, it stared at him with its pure amber eyes.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa is not a cat lover, and he never had a cat in his previous life. But as I said before, humans naturally like beautiful things.

These animals with round heads and pointy ears have become more and more in line with human aesthetics through generations of domestication. At least this white cat still fits his aesthetic.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa just stared at the cat for a long time, and after a while he couldn't help but bend down and pick it up. So the mixture of liquid and bath towel lay safely in his arms - the cat was really liquid.

Also, this cat is too well behaved.

I rubbed its head with my hand, and it just meowed softly without resisting. Just like that, Hirakawa Tetsufumi carried it back to the living room, put it on the floor, and took off the bath towel.

Watching it begin to explore the new environment by sniffing here and there, Tetsufumi Hirakawa sat down on the sofa.

What should he do next? He had no experience raising cats, so he really didn't know.

So, after thinking about it, Tetsufumi Hirakawa picked up his mobile phone and took a picture of the cat on the ground. Attracted by the sound of the camera, the cat looked back at him.

However, Tetsufumi Hirakawa no longer interacted with the cat. He tapped the screen of his mobile phone and opened an instant messaging software called Line, which is similar to WeChat in his previous life.

I opened a group chat called "Literature Club", which was a club that Tetsufumi Hirakawa joined during his college years. He stayed in it after graduation and it has continued to this day. It has become a chat room for random people - the kind where people talk about everything except literature.

Taking a quick glance, several group members seemed to be discussing topics such as anime.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa tapped the screen and sent a message.

Pingchuan: picture.jpg

Pingchuan: Has anyone ever had a cat?

Pingchuan: I picked up a cat with three kittens. Is there anything I should pay attention to when taking care of them?

After sending the message, after filtering out irrelevant information, several group members responded to him.

but……

"It looks like a rural cat." This should be the only useful information given by a senior cat owner.

As a result, everything went awry when news like "Will she become a cat girl?" came out.

“How long will it take for it to change?”

"My cat has changed."

"Mrs. Cat, you don't want your children to be bullied by me, do you?"

"..."

Most of the time, group members are extremely outrageous.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa closed Line with a blank expression. He would rather go to Google instead.

-

Half an hour later, Tetsufumi Hirakawa, who had returned from Google, turned off his phone.

He looked at the cat that had already gone back into the box, then walked over to the box and met its amber eyes.

After staring at each other for a long time, he sighed, "It really is troublesome to raise you."

The cat blinked at him in confusion.

For someone like him, raising such a group of cute creatures sometimes seems too troublesome.

So please, Amamiya Ye, make up your mind quickly.

With such thoughts in mind, Tetsufumi Hirakawa rubbed the cat's head again, daydreaming and his thoughts drifting away.

But how to solve Amamiya Yoru's problem? This girl, like Shiori Shinohara, has a very difficult problem.

A closed heart, the chuunibyou that has been suppressed for too long, and the thoughtfulness between him and his mother... that made him not know how to evaluate it.

sigh.

It's a bit bad that there are two problem students in just one class.

Such thoughts kept echoing in his mind, and he was completely worried about the sense of responsibility of a teacher called "professional ethics".

I was in a daze for who knows how long, with my hand always on the cat's head, so the cat, which had been very well-behaved, finally became dissatisfied.

"Meow--"

This cat's cry became the clarion call for resistance, and the white cat stretched out its poisonous hands... its poisonous claws, towards the hands that had oppressed it for so long.

With a dull "pa" sound, Tetsufumi Hirakawa's hand was slapped by the cat's claws.

He was startled by the sudden attack and subconsciously retracted his hand.

Fortunately, the cat did not extend its claws.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa looked carefully at the place where the cat hit him, and there were no scratches.

I feel relieved.

After checking, Tetsufumi Hirakawa looked at the white cat. Its front paws had been lowered and rested on the edge of the box.

I stared at him, but... I didn't see any signs of him trying to continue attacking. He didn't get angry or growl or anything.

I was just annoyed by his touching just now.

He gets irritated when touched, no wonder some people jokingly call him "cat master".

Hirakawa Tetsufumi continued to stretch out his hand unconvinced, wanting to rub the white cat's head again.

As expected, it was shot down again.

And no matter how much I tried to rub it, it wouldn't want to do it anymore.

Feeling quite regretful, Tetsufumi Hirakawa reluctantly withdrew his hand and prepared to get up.

The feel of it is so good that it would be a shame not to let you rub it.

However, just after he stood up, he suddenly thought of something, blinked his curious eyes at the white cat, and squatted down again.

The man and the cat returned to a confrontation.

Then...

Hesitating and tentative.

After a long time, the hesitant voice of Tetsufumi Hirakawa was heard in the quiet living room.

"Mrs. Cat...you don't want...your children to be bullied by me, do you?"

"..."

Chapter 27 This is the secret that Tetsufumi Hirakawa will never tell

Monday, April 14th.

The short two-day weekend has passed, and Tetsufumi Hirakawa once again experienced the feeling of being woken up by the alarm clock.

I tried hard to open my slightly dry eyes and greeted the dimly lit bedroom.

I lay on the pillow for a few seconds, and after thinking about it, I realized that I had to go to work today.

I yawned, and my dry eyes became a little moist. I forced myself to cheer up, propped up my hands and sat up. The alarm from my cell phone was still ringing in my ears, and the sound was getting louder and louder.

So he fumbled under the pillow for a while, found his cell phone, turned it off, and the bedroom fell into darkness and silence again.

"..."

"..."

"..."

As usual, I was daydreaming. This kind of quietness in the early morning always makes people immersed in it. There was only a little bird song coming from the window in my ears. The quietness of the world has not yet recovered.

But you can't linger for too long.

Lifting off the warm quilt and leaving his hometown where he had lived for a whole night, Tetsufumi Hirakawa sighed and finally gave up his weekly routine of "why not just quit my job".

I think there must be many students who are thinking at this moment, "Should I feel unwell today?" and "It's normal to catch a cold, right?"

Monday mornings are always filled with such willful thoughts, there's nothing I can do about it.

Scratching his messy hair from the early morning, Tetsufumi Hirakawa opened the bedroom door in his pajamas and slippers. However, when he was about to go out, he caught a glimpse of a white, unidentified object on the ground out of the corner of his eye.

After a closer look, I realized it was a cat.

He saw it sticking out its round head with its ears erect, looking past his feet and looking around the bedroom.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa squatted down and met its probably puzzled look.

"Good morning."

I rubbed its head and it felt really good.

"Did the alarm wake you up too?"

The answer I got was a "meow".

Tetsufumi Hirakawa, who has the highest level of cat affinity, thinks it means "yes", but it doesn't matter if it's not.

He stood up and walked down the stairs, and the cat behind him followed him down. After seeing Tetsufumi Hirakawa enter the bathroom, he squatted at the door and watched him.

"..."

Tetsufumi Hirakawa had to close the bathroom door.

This cat seems to be a little too curious. It's inevitable, after all, this is a new environment for it, and there's a saying that curiosity kills the cat.

In short, after the usual morning routine of "excreting the fluid produced by metabolism in the body" and washing up, Tetsufumi Hirakawa walked out of the bathroom.

For breakfast, I had porridge with some pickles and an egg. The porridge was cooked using the timer set last night in the rice cooker, the pickles were given by my parents when I went back to my hometown during the spring break, and the egg was freshly boiled in water.

It was a simple breakfast, which I ate under the quiet gaze of the cat.

It's time to go to work.

I went back to my room, changed into my teacher's uniform, went downstairs again, changed my shoes in the entrance hall, and prepared to go out.

When he looked back, the white cat was squatting on the steps of the entrance hall, looking at him, its amber eyes were as clear and bright as jewels no matter how he looked at it.

"I'm leaving first, remember not to run around."

After giving these instructions, he changed his shoes and stood up. His hand had already reached the door handle, but he stopped just as he was about to open the door.

It's annoying.

He sighed and put down his hand that was about to open the door. He turned around to take off his shoes, put on slippers again, and rubbed the cat's head. Amid its dissatisfied cries, Tetsufumi Hirakawa crossed the entrance again.

I went up to the second floor first, checked the windows and the door to the balcony, and closed them all. Then I went to the first floor and did the same thing.

Only then did he feel at ease returning to the entrance and said goodbye again to the white cat that was still squatting there.

"I really have to go now. See you tonight."

"Meow."

Hearing the sound of the cat behind him, Tetsufumi Hirakawa pressed the handle and pushed open the door.