It Was Uzo Who Stole Your Cat

And judging from the surveillance footage, it had indeed been an easy cat to care for—it never messed with potted plants or randomly shoved things off tables. Its favorite pastime seemed to be pouncing at the air, perhaps chasing dust floating in the light...

Looking through all the clips, the only thing that could be called "making trouble" had happened a few nights ago. After Okiya Subaru had fallen asleep, the cat came over and circled his face once, accidentally stepping on the phone beside his pillow. The lit-up screen seemed to catch White-Clawed Black Cat's attention, so it began diligently pawing at the phone. Before long, it pushed the phone into a blind spot beside the bed, then followed after it. Both vanished from the surveillance footage together.

...If it had been a person disappearing into that blind spot with the phone, it might have alerted the observer—for example, they might worry that someone had tampered with the phone.

But when a cat did something like that, at most, people would worry that the phone had fallen and broken.

And Okiya Subaru's phone was clearly sturdy. It remained intact to this day.

Seeing Akai Shuichi's gaze linger on that footage for a moment, Okiya Subaru quietly explained on the cat's behalf, "The phone just happened to light up, and it couldn't resist giving it a push. It's already much better behaved than other cats."

Akai Shuichi silently nodded. He had merely noticed that the phone had been pushed away, so his instincts had made him pay attention. Once he came back to himself, he did not think much of it. No matter how vigilant and cautious he was, he would not suspect a cat of sneaking a look at a phone.

Okiya Subaru stared at the precious cat videos