"It still ended up like this..." Amber shook her head, feeling a little regretful that nothing had changed in this regard. "The little kitten didn't have to do that."
"We can look for him later."
Hei fell silent. The cat had been a Contractor; only after losing his body had he remained attached to the cat. Because a cat's brain capacity was insufficient, he normally downloaded information from the organization's servers to make up for that deficiency. Otherwise, before long, his own consciousness would be suppressed by the animal's instincts.
He would become a truly ordinary cat.
After that, trying to find one particular cat within an entire country would be more than merely difficult. And without outside help, it would be utterly impossible for the cat to regain its own consciousness. In short, the hope was so slim that even Hei... Hm?
Hei suddenly looked toward Jiu Ming. Perhaps he could?
Then he shook his head. Perhaps the strange black book in Jiu Ming's hands could help, but it seemed it would be useless in practice. He didn't know what the cat had looked like when it had still been a human Contractor!
Without knowing that, even if Jiu Ming produced an identical cat, it would be no use. At most, he would bring out that cat's consciousness—and that cat probably would not even acknowledge such a situation. It wouldn't work...
Perhaps he could find records of the cat's former identity within the organization someday... Come to think of it, he really had not paid much attention to other people in his daily life!
"Hei, you've changed so much." Amber, who had been watching Hei's expressions all along, suddenly spoke. A great many emotions had flickered across that cold face just now. In the past... only when facing his