"You needn't trouble yourself over that. You're probably the only one who thinks so." After saying this helplessly, Cat raised a paw and pointed at the résumé Jiu Ming had placed in front of him. "Could you roll this up for me?"
Jiu Ming rolled up the résumé, put it into a tube, and stuffed it into Cat's open mouth. "Watch out for bratty kids on your way back."
Cat shook his head indifferently. When he reached the door, he set the tube he had been holding in his mouth on the floor and looked at Mai Kashiwagi standing nearby. "Could you open the door for me?"
Although people along the way were curious to see a kitty carrying a tube in its mouth, none of them paid it much mind. "Hei, have you really decided to go over there?"
"Mm." Hei nodded.
Who knew what that guy was thinking. Cat narrowed his eyes. "To actually let the situation develop into this."
Not a single relevant trace could be found—it was simply absurd. "Be careful they don't make things difficult for you."
Leaving those words behind, Cat jumped down from the edge of the window Hei had come through.
"Make things difficult for me..."
Hei stared silently at the résumé in his hand.
"Letting the wolf into the house?"
"Of course not." Jiu Ming shook his head. "All I can say is that those people are overthinking it. There's clearly nothing here, yet every last one of them insists on thinking in the opposite direction. What can I say?"
"..." Mai Kashiwagi fell silent for a moment. "Aren't you worried about the consequences if they find out?"
"Of course I'm not worried! If I were, I wouldn't be doing this." With his arms folded, Jiu Ming spoke as though it