My Cat Came Back as a Hot Guy (And He Remembers Everything)
Sakura Tsukishima, a 21-year-old college student, has lived with her black cat Kuro for five years. One morning, she wakes up to find a tall, ridiculously handsome guy with black hair and golden eyes sleeping in her bed. He has a crescent-shaped mole on the back of his neck — just like Kuro.
"Good morning, Sakura. It's me. Kuro."
Sakura runs. Kuro calmly opens the fridge and eats a tube of cat treats. There's no doubt. It's him.
Kuro's first declaration? "I'm here to pay back five years of gr
My Cat Came Back as a Hot Guy (And He Remembers Everything) - The Best Day for Kuro—From Hoshizora Street to the Sunset over Kagura Hills
Curled up against the wall, she spent the night.
Crying, crying, crying until it stopped, then crying again. When she noticed, the window had begun to pale.
Tsukishima Sakura lifted her face. Her eyes were swollen. Her nose felt stuffy. But she was done crying.
At the edge of the futon, Kuro was there. Sleeping in a cat's sprawl, breathing softly. Black hair fell slightly across his face, his golden eyes closed. The crescent-shaped mole on the back of his neck was visible and quiet in the morning light.
Sakura gripped her phone.
She sent a LINE to Aoi.
"I don't know how long Kuro can stay human. I want to do everything I can for him while he can. Will you help me?"
Send. Next to Ren.
"Same request. Just for one day. Please"
Send.
She waited. Less than three minutes later, Aoi replied.
"OK! Leave it to me! I'll make the plan!! Cuteness is justice!!"
Ren took ten minutes.
"……I guess I can't help it"
That was all.
Sakura stared at the screen. She whispered "thank you" under her breath. Her voice was hoarse.
Kuro slowly opened his eyes. His golden gaze looked at the ceiling, then at Sakura.
He glanced at her face. He must have noticed immediately that her eyes were red.
His mouth opened as if to say something, then stopped.
"We're going out with four people today"
Sakura said it first.
Kuro raised an eyebrow.
"Four people?"
The scene changes.
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The Hoshizora Street arcade looked brighter than usual in the morning light.
Aoi walked at the front, unfolding a printed sheet of paper. Her silver-white long hair swayed with each step. Her transparent blue eyes alternated between the paper and their destination.
"First, we eat. Kousaka Dou for crescent-shaped mochi. This is non-negotiable"
Ren frowned beside her.
"Don't treat your own family shop like a tourist attraction"
"It is a tourist attraction. It's Tsukimi City's specialty"
"……Fine"
Kuro walked slightly behind Sakura. His golden eyes slowly took in the arcade's bustle. A fruit shop, a drugstore, a flower shop. He'd been here the whole time—but always from outside the window or from Sakura's shoulder. Now he was standing here on his own feet.
They arrived at Kousaka Dou.
The crescent mochi sign. A sweet smell. Ren pulled out his key and opened the shop.
A voice came from the back.
"Oh, Ren! Customers?"
Ren's mother, Misuzu, appeared. Small, smiling, wearing an apron. The moment she saw the four of them, her eyes lit up.
"Well, well! Four of you out together? You're all so close!"
Ren started to say "we're not close," but Misuzu wasn't listening anymore.
Ren wrapped up one mochi for each of them and handed them out. When he handed one to Kuro, there was a slight pause.
"……It's our signature product, after all"
That was all he said.
Kuro received the crescent-shaped mochi. He looked at it. He took a bite.
He stopped.
His golden eyes widened slightly.
"……It's good"
He murmured shortly. He took another bite.
"When I was a cat, I couldn't taste anything"
Ren's words caught in his throat. He tried to say something, then stopped.
Sakura was watching Kuro's profile.
Her chest tightened. Happy and painful at the same time.
Misuzu reached over the counter and added one more mochi to everyone's pile.
"Take these with you! Eat lots!"
Kuro immediately started on his second one.
"You eat fast!!"
"Is that a problem"
"Cat!! Completely a cat!!"
"I'll take it as a compliment"
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Cafe Harukaze was a five-minute walk from Kousaka Dou.
It wasn't Aoi's shift, but when they opened the door, the owner Seta was at the counter. In his fifties, always blunt, the type who didn't say unnecessary things.
When he saw the four of them come in, Seta's eyes turned to Kuro. He looked for a while.
"You really do seem like a cat"
Kuro replied without hesitation.
"That's a compliment"
Seta was silent for three seconds.
"……I see"
He said only that and started brewing four cups of coffee.
Aoi leaned over the counter.
"Seta, were you open today?"
"I felt like it"
The four of them sat in a row at the counter. Aoi on Sakura's left. Kuro on her right. Ren next to Kuro.
Ren and Kuro didn't speak to each other.
The coffees were set down. Ren shifted his cup slightly toward Kuro's side.
Kuro said quietly.
"What"
"Left-handed. It was in the way"
"……I see"
Sakura and Aoi exchanged glances beside them.
Aoi leaned close to Sakura's ear.
"Just be nice to each other today"
Sakura whispered back.
"I think that's impossible forever"
Seta spoke from behind the counter.
"Quiet"
The four of them went silent for a moment.
Sakura and Aoi burst out laughing at the same time.
Ren gave an exasperated look. Kuro kept his mouth in a straight line, his eyes looking slightly away.
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Minase University's campus was sparsely populated in the early afternoon.
At Aoi's suggestion, they decided to take a walk around campus. The May greenery was deep, the sky wide. A few students lay on the grass.
Kuro stopped in front of the grass.
A stray cat approached him.
A light brown cat. It looked up at Kuro and meowed.
Kuro silently turned his gaze toward it.
As if responding to that cry—from the grass's shadow, from tree roots, from under benches, cats came pouring out.
Two, five, ten—before they knew it, about fifteen cats had gathered around Kuro, sitting neatly. All of them looking at him.
Kuro looked down with a serious expression.
His arms slightly spread, he was frozen.
He genuinely didn't know what to do.
Sakura laughed out loud.
Holding her belly, tears streaming down her face. The weight that had pressed on her chest until yesterday suddenly burst. It came pouring out as laughter.
"Don't laugh"
Kuro said it with a sullen face, but Sakura kept laughing.
Kuro looked away slightly. Then he murmured quietly.
"……If Sakura's laughing, then I guess it's okay"
"So cute!! Both of you are so cute!!"
Aoi pointed back and forth between Kuro and Sakura, shouting.
Ren said with exasperation. His mouth was slightly relaxed.
"You're completely a cat, aren't you"
The cats remained sitting around Kuro, unmoving. Kuro stood there with a troubled expression the whole time.
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Kagura Hill's observation deck was reached in the evening.
210 meters above sea level. The Utse River was dyed red. Lights were beginning to flicker on throughout Tsukimi City. The sky was wide, the sunset imminent.
The four of them stood in a line, gazing at the view.
No one spoke.
For a while, that was enough.
Ren stood beside Sakura. Facing forward, he opened his mouth.
"Hey, Sakura. There's something I've never been able to tell you"
Kuro and Aoi's movements stopped simultaneously.
Ren continued, still looking at the sunset.
"I like you. I have since elementary school"
Sakura's eyes widened.
Kuro quietly stood up and positioned himself in front of Ren. His golden eyes looked at him.
"I understand your feelings. But—Sakura is my owner. I've been with her for five years"
Ren's eyes narrowed.
"That's when you were a cat! Human feelings are different!"
Kuro replied quietly.
"They're not different. Only the form changed"
The two stared at each other.
Aoi stepped between them. Her silver-white hair swayed in the evening breeze.
"Hey, you two. Don't you want to hear what Sakura feels?"
After saying that—Aoi took Sakura's hand.
"Sorry, I'm going to say it too"
She looked at Sakura. Her blue eyes were serious.
"I've always liked you, Sakura. Not just as a senpai"
Sakura couldn't move.
From three people at once.
Ren from the front. Kuro right there. Aoi, holding her hand.
She had to say something. She could feel an answer forming inside her. But—if she admitted it, something would change. If it changed, she could never go back.
Words wouldn't come.
Sakura looked at Kuro.
Kuro's left foot—its outline was blurring.
In the red light of the sunset, everything below his calf was becoming transparent. The ground was visible through the shape of his foot.
The color drained from Sakura's face.
Ren noticed. Aoi noticed.
Everyone's expression changed.
Kuro—wasn't looking at his foot. He was still looking at Ren. Then at Sakura. Following her gaze downward, he slowly looked down.
Silence.
The sunset dyed the Utse River red. Lights in the city came on, one by one.
Kuro's left foot continued to fade quietly into the colors of the evening sky.
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