"Meow... probably not."
Little Yukino meowed hesitantly, "Because if I can't change back for the time being, then once Sister finds out about what happened to me, she'll definitely take me away."
"And Sister might hurt you too, Su Yang."
"Sister is very harsh toward the people around me."
"When I was little, I tried making friends, but Sister scrutinized every single one of them. Whenever I made a new friend, she demanded that I bring them home, and then she bullied them."
As she spoke, Yukino Cat let out a sigh.
"..."
Su Yang felt that Yukino Yukinoshita probably misunderstood her sister.
Because that wasn't dislike or excessive behavior. She was protecting you.
Investigating the people around you first and then testing them was really just evaluating whether they would hurt you as your friend.
If Su Yang had some creature like a little sister, he would do the same.
As for a little brother... well, there was no need to worry about that. Boys could be raised however.
Still, if Haruno really was that kind of person, then she probably liked her little sister even more than he had guessed.
So.
Why had she made her little sister afraid of dogs?
Could it simply have been to keep her little sister away from the danger of being bitten by dogs? But if she was worried about rabies, cats could transmit it too, and Yukinoshita had become super fond of cats.
As someone who understood her little sister so well, Miss Hiyori should know that too.
So why?
Su Yang was interested in this.
"But how are we supposed to find out from Sister why I'm afraid of dogs?" Yukino Cat asked again.
"That's simple. This competition."
Su Yang paused. "It's not just your sister here. Her friend, um,