“Meow~”

“There you are.” Following a cat its more difficult than I thought.

She looks quite weak, making it easy to approach her. Stretching my hands, I pick up the cat. She doesn’t look very happy being picked up, but it’s not like she has the energy to run away.

After seeing how she was treated I’m afraid of giving her away. As long as I know there are people who want this pet dead, I will be unwilling to let it go. Maybe I could hide her in my room for now.

“So you found the cat.”

I see Noah approaching me from some feet away. When did he get there?

He was so dismissive before, yet he still came. Could it be he was actually worried about me?

“Do you know who is it from?” I ask.

“No, I don’t think so.”

“What if I tell you its name?! Christine, Christine is its name.”

“Christine…? It sounds familiar, but still... no, I don’t remember.”

“What a shame.” I sadly look at the cat and gently stroke its fur. It seems we will be together for a while, Christine.

“What do you intend to do with it?”

“I will keep it until I find the owner. I wonder… if that’s for the best.”

“In your dorm room? Well, just don’t be found.”

You don’t need to tell me.

“But that would be for the best, I think. Many people would like to sell such expensive cat. Or keep it, if they feel so.”

Sell? I completely forgot that. Right, this isn’t a simple street cat. I now feel even more strongly about keeping the cat.

It must have lived a good life, and now, it’s suddenly away from its owner. Don’t worry, Christine, I will find your owner for you.

Now that I will keep her I need to take good care of her. What kind of food did she eat? Expensive animals only eat animal food don’t they? I heard they don’t take other foods quite well. She’s probably used to good food too.

“Is something the matter?” Noah notices the concerned look on my face

“I was wondering what kind of food I should give it.”

“I don’t know much about pets, but I can imagine that spoiled cat only eating what he likes.”

I can’t help but frown even more. My budget is going to suffer, isn’t it?

“I should go, thank you for your-“

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“Hey, just one more thing. I wanted to ask you something. Have you met my brother before? You seemed to know of him at least.” he asks a question I really want to ignore. Nothing good would come from saying yes.

“Not really. He is just well known.”

“I guess that’s true...“

Why did I feel a chill?

“People always say we look alike. Well, that’s to be expected, we are twins, but people still get surprised. If these eyes were red, do you think we could be confused as the same person?”

“Why are you asking me something like that?”

“Simple curiosity.”

“It would depend on how you act, I guess. Then, if you excuse me-!” I adjust the cat in my arms and turn around.

“Oh, by the way, don’t find it weird to find me with red eyes.” He says not even looking my way anymore.

This is a tactical retreat, alright?

Back in my dorm room, I take Christine out of my bag. Yes, bag. She looks seriously mad at me. I once heard cats are all about revenge, but I decide to forget my fears and think of cute cats in mugs. I take a good look at Christine.

“Mmm, too big to fit in a mug.”

Really, if I’m found, those adult books I have hidden will be the least of my problems. I really am… a fool.

I start putting out things she could knock over. Since I spend a big portion of my day out of the dorm I can’t have her making noise; else we will be found out. I also toss a teddy bear I brought from home in the closet. I can’t have her ripping that apart.

I don’t know if those guys stole her or found her wandering around but, in my opinion, they seemed quite afraid of that owner, almost so that I find them stealing her a bit weird. Ah whatever, it’s not like I have a way to know.

“Alright girl, I will even spend the rest of the day studying here to keep you company. Be grateful.” She turns around and completely ignores me. No, get back, please love me…

Since then, four days have passed. In the library, with a History book open in front of me, I diligently do my homework. The sound of the chair next to me moving goes almost unnoticed but at the end finally breaks my concentration. I only spare energy to look over.

“Good morning.” Says the red-eyed boy.

The original heroine could distinguish between the two twins. I’m honestly amazed at how she could do that, to the point I would completely understand if they fell in love with her from that alone. Well, maybe not that much.

The red-eyed boy rests his ear on his hand and looks at me, in a manner that’s much like Michael’s.

“I’ve been looking for you. I happen to know something that will make you really happy.” He lowers his voice, so that only I would hear, “It’s about that cat.”

“Noah…?”

“Yes, we meet again.”

“When did you-?”

“I just happened to hear about someone who lost a cat. It’s someone from your class.”

“Really?” The person was that close?

“Tiane.”

…What?

Tiane has a cat?!

Tiane Amblerson, none other than the villainess herself. The second prince’s fiancé and someone who inconvenienced the heroine till the very end, going as far as to harm her in some routes. In the end, her engagement was annulled and she became a commoner. The best way to describe her would be… a bitch. She truly pissed me of in the game. Many players were satisfied that this prideful person who abused her power meet her just end. But now that I know her in reality I can’t look at her as anything but pitiful, either I think she deserved it or not wouldn’t change that fact.

To think I ended up with her cat…

All I did was avoid places that appeared in the story, but ended up with something equally as troublesome, I run head first into the villainess.

That is, if Noah is telling me the truth. But there’s no reason for him to lie about something like this, right?

“What will you do now?”

“I…” Will give it back, but first… if only I could do… “Friday” During the outdoors class we will have on friday, I will give it to her.

That day, two classes of first years and two classes of second years will leave with some teachers to the forest for an outdoors class. That is the day I would get out of the common route too. If I have the villainess take care of her cat that day, maybe she wouldn’t have time to make trouble for me.

Right, that day, we will spend quite some time together…

“Matthew!” I meet Mathew in the hallway. “Going to class?”

“Yeah” He says with is usual deadpan face.

“How should we get there? Maybe that way…?” I’m having fun with how big this place is.

No response.

“Matthew?”

“Let’s not go there.”

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