Pet Cat
I was practically dragged by the arm to the park bench in front of my apartment—the same one where I had met Seol Eun—and made to sit.
...Is there something special about this bench or what?
"...Are you going to eat that whole bag of snacks by yourself?"
"...Huh?"
I looked over at Myomyau at the sudden, out-of-nowhere question. She was eyeing the snacks I was holding as if they already belonged to her.
Come to think of it, I had been so busy reading her mood and rushing to grab something that I had never even properly checked what kind of snack I had picked up.
...I looked down at the packaging. The unusual purple wrapping caught my eye. Thinking it might be a sweet-potato snack, I turned the bag around to check the front.
Fresh fruit-juice flavor added!
Grape-flavored potato chips
...?
Grape-flavored... potato chips?
W-why on earth was something like this even being sold in stores...?
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I held the bag out to her.
"...Y-you can just have the whole thing."
"Really? Thanks."
She smiled as she took the snacks. But there was nothing simple or pure about that smile. It was a languid, seductive curve of the lips, the corners of her eyes dipping just slightly, as if she were already concealing some private intention.
She tore open the potato-chip bag and brought a single chip to her mouth.
"Mmm~ Delicious."
She must have found it truly delicious, because her body gave a little shiver. When she pushed her padded hood back, her wavy, dark-blue bob spilled free, gleaming like silk. Those swaying strands looked for all the world like waves rolling across a deep night sea.
She tightened her linked arm around mine even more firmly.
It was oppressive. I slowly retraced my memories, trying to figure out exactly where everything had gone so wrong.
...No. It was probably pointless by now.
Myomyau was already sitting right beside me like this. All I could do was hope she would leave soon.
Just then, Myomyau's violet gaze pierced straight through me.
"You. Right now you're wishing I would hurry up and leave, aren't you?"
She asked the question sharply, as if she had read my mind.
"...A-ah, no."
My flustered reaction made her smile faintly. Then, in a single sudden motion, she shoved her head into the open gap of my padded jacket.
From inside the padding she rested her head on my lap and looked up at me.
"Ahh~ It's so warm in here."
The abrupt, seductive move made my head go hot. Both arms dangling uselessly over the back of the bench, I could only keep glancing back and forth between the scenery around us and Myomyau's face, at a complete loss for what to do.
"Haha, your reaction's so cute."
When she laughed brightly, it felt as if the whole area around us had grown lighter. Myomyau provocatively tilted her head a little farther toward my stomach. Because of my chest I could no longer see the way she had burrowed in, yet the hot breath she exhaled made her presence unmistakably clear.
That breath kept tickling my waist through the thin top under my padding, and only then did I try grabbing her shoulders to push her away.
"Nngh... I like your scent too, and your skin is so soft..."
She murmured the words in a tiny voice while pressing herself even more tightly against me in answer to my attempt to push her off. Like a real cat purring, she kept nuzzling her face against my stomach. I strained with all my strength to shove her away, but her hands had already looped around my waist like a snare and were holding me fast.
"P-please stop... Other people will see...!"
When my strength failed, I waved my hands and pleaded with her.
"Hnn..."
Still clinging to my waist, she pulled her head back just a little and looked at me. Then she lifted her face for a moment and scanned the surroundings. After a brief pause, her eyes were fixed on me once more.
...But the expression she wore while looking at me was somehow strange.
A suggestive smile. Playful, languid eyes. I knew exactly what kind of expression that was. It was identical to the look Seol Eun wore right before she laid me down on the bed and the real show began.
"...W-wait—"
Before I could do anything about the sudden sense of danger, her head forced its way inside my T-shirt.
"...!"
The coolness of her cheek, the heat of her breath, and the softness of her hair all touched me at once, creating a bizarre sensation. Sensing how thoroughly flustered I was, she slithered upward like a snake in one smooth motion from just below my navel all the way to just beneath my chest.
"...Nn... aah..."
She hugged my trembling, helpless body tightly.
"Then... if I do it like this, other people won't be able to see, right?"
I answered by trying to push her off, but she had already burrowed all the way under my T-shirt and showed no sign of coming out. Moving around too much here would only draw more stares from the people nearby. With no other choice, I pulled my padded jacket closed so that no one could see Myomyau nestled against me. Now she was pressed completely flush against my chest.
"By the way, you... hiding something like this inside your padding... The real thing is even more violent than the photos, isn't it?"
I could feel her body shaking with laughter.
"...Ugh... D-don't lick it so casually..."
"No way, no way. Something like this has to be worn down as fast as possible so there are fewer victims."
Of course a chest could not actually be worn down; only after a little more than an hour, when my chest was thoroughly coated in hot saliva, did she finally stop.
A short time later, the cold touch of a wet wipe met my chest.
"...Nn."
Straddling my lap and using her own body to block the view, she wiped the spit-smeared chest clean. Her hands felt somehow sly, but I decided not to say anything about it.
"A-are you satisfied now...?"
I asked her. For an instant her eyebrows lifted slightly, and she put on that signature languid smile that dropped the corners of her eyes.
"Hnn? What is that supposed to mean~?"
...It had been a thoughtless remark that just slipped out, born from nothing more than the wish that she would leave soon.
"······."
But I immediately realized what a massive slip of the tongue it had been. Hearing my words seemed to spur her on; she lowered her head toward my neck. The cool scent of perfume rose from the hair tickling my throat.
"Hmm? After tormenting me like that~ Hnn... you're asking if I'm satisfied with just this much?"
Myomyau pressed me as if she found me utterly cheeky. She pressed herself right against my collarbone and glared up at me. It was as alluring as a cat, yet at the same time it carried a clear threat. In her smiling face I could see the expression of a predator deciding exactly how it was going to devour me.
"······."
I tried to hide the fact that I was trembling by lowering my head, but she used her index finger to lift my chin so I would look at her. Then, the way one might stroke a pet's chin, she caressed my jaw with the rest of her fingers. A sensation that was both ticklish and spine-chilling slid down my back.
"I-I'm sorry..."
"You know I didn't come here just to listen to that kind of half-hearted nonsense and then leave."
"······."
"Hnn~ You know what you did wrong too, right?"
"...Yes."
My voice shrank. In an instant she had made the hierarchy of this situation unmistakably clear.
"Hnn... What should I make you do, then..."
She continued in an exaggerated tone, deliberately making sure I could hear every word. After putting on a little show of thinking it over, Myomyau suddenly gripped the backrest of the bench behind me, rocked her hips, and pressed herself completely flush against me. Sitting with the sunlight at her back, the shadows on her face made her distinctive violet eyes gleam even more vividly.
"Just for today—how about being my cat?"
"...A-a cat?"
"Yeah. A cat."
Her demand was openly lewd and crimson-tinted, but at the moment I had no other options. At the same time I felt the numbness spreading through my legs, I also read the look on her face that said she would never let go unless I agreed.
...Fine. Just for today.
I had no choice but to nod. Only then did she stop binding my body and pull away.
"Hnn~ Sitting like that for so long made me all stiff. Let's go somewhere fun—anywhere's fine."
"Yes..."
I looked at her as she took my hand, as excited as a little kid. She was pulling me somewhere. Then, without warning, she dragged me into a rather dingy-looking building. The slightly eerie atmosphere made me a little scared, but by this point I could not pull my hand free. No—she was gripping my hand so tightly that I could not have shaken her off even if I had wanted to.
As I climbed after her I read the signs stuck to the stairwell walls. One that immediately grabbed my attention read:
XX Karaoke — 2F
While climbing the narrow stairs I asked her,
"...Are we going to karaoke?"
"Yeah. Why?"
"I... I don't really know any songs... I-it'll be boring..."
She laughed.
"Then you can just listen."
At the landing I caught her eyes. She was still smiling with the corners of her eyes stretched long, but somehow the suspicious air about her seemed even stronger. Still, her smiling eyes had looked like that from the very beginning, so I decided not to worry too much and let it go.
"Hello~"
Arriving on the second floor, Myomyau opened the door and casually greeted the employee.
"Yes, how many hours?"
A middle-aged man who looked like the owner tore his eyes away from the TV and looked our way.
"Two hours."
"Got it. Head into the room at the very back labeled Blue."
She nodded and headed for the inner room. I followed after her. Every time we passed another room I could hear people singing, but the soundproofing was good enough that it never got truly loud.
Clack—
Once we entered the room and shut the door, every other sound vanished as if by magic, leaving only quiet stillness. It was my first time in a karaoke room. I had never realized the soundproofing could be this thorough.
"Okay. You go sit deep inside first."
I carefully walked over and sat on the sofa. She followed me onto the sofa as well. But the moment I sat down and saw the microphone hanging there, a scene I had witnessed earlier flashed through my mind.
The person I had seen through a window, clutching a mic and singing. And yet the sound had been tiny. The level of soundproofing I had felt the instant I stepped into this room...
......D-don't tell me... she planned all of this...!
"It's already too late♡"
The moment I whipped my head around, Myomyau was already lunging at me, trying to push me down. I resisted, straining to keep from being laid flat.
"You knew and still let yourself get caught, didn't you? Unless you're a complete idiot, you should've been suspicious the whole way up the stairs."
"Th-that's..."
"Oh my, you really didn't know? Are you actually an idiot?♡ Maybe I should've just teleported us here from the start."
I looked into her eyes now that her true nature was fully revealed. Without a single thing held back, they poured out a blind, ravenous desire for me. Only then did I understand the reason her gaze had seemed even more suspicious earlier.
Using an angle that could not be seen from the window in the door, she finally succeeded in laying me down. She leaned her body over mine. Her breath tickled my lips. Letting out a soft little "nngh..." she pressed herself even closer.
"Y-you...! Do you even do this kind of thing to a cat...!?"
I shouted at her, clutching at straws.
"No one would leave a cat that looks like this alone. Come on—no one can see or hear anything in here anyway. Come here~"
Looking at her eyes and her merciless movements, I became certain. Today she was absolutely going to have her way with me.
Soft lips covered mine, and I felt a hand slowly cradle the back of my neck. While I was still frozen in shock, her tongue slipped into my open mouth.