Jiang Xia, using the Cat persona, silently rose to his feet. His vertical pupils shifted slightly as his gaze settled on the police chief making rounds through the exhibition hall.
Inspector Nakamori listened to his subordinate's report while casually jotting notes in his Memo.
As he walked from the sealed doors of the exhibition hall toward the windows,
his shoulder suddenly grew heavy—something landed on it with a soft plop.
Inspector Nakamori froze, then sharply turned his head and met a pair of round eyes. The Black Cat with White Paws had somehow jumped down and was now comfortably stepping across his shoulder as though it were a cat tree.
"..." Inspector Nakamori stared blankly for a second, then exploded in fury and shouted at the subordinates nearby. "...Why is this cat still here?! How did you idiots catch it just now?!"
As he called for someone to catch the cat, he rolled up his sleeves and reached for his shoulder.
But just as his hand stretched out, the cat leaped lightly, stepped onto the top of his head, and leisurely strolled from his left shoulder to his right. At the end, it even lifted its chin, giving him a faintly provocative look.
"!!!"
It was as if a tiny flame of rage had suddenly ignited above Inspector Nakamori's head.
He tossed aside the Memo in his hand, snorted, accepted the cat's challenge, and reached out to grab it again.
However, before he could catch it, a crowd of police officers who had received his command surged over.
—The subordinates had little experience catching cats, but they had an abundance of experience catching Kid.
With the situation so sudden, they could only rigidly apply what they knew. The group piled together like a human pyramid, pressing Inspector Nakamori down