Chapter Summaries

Richie asked Twilight for a kitty as his reward, and Twilight agreed after Richie nearly ran away when he thought he was being offered a dog instead. The chapter ended with a blue-eyed Ragdoll Cat in a filthy pet shop lamenting that she had transmigrated into a cat.

• Si Ang put the girls who had questioned him in their place, and Richie watched him before class began.
• At lunch, Becky helped Anya choose a reward, while Richie decided he wanted an ordinary cat for a pet.
• Anya asked Twilight for a dog, and Twilight agreed to give her one as a reward.
• Twilight considered steering Richie toward a dog, but Richie insisted that he wanted a kitty and threatened to run away.
• Twilight promised to get Richie a kitty, and Richie stopped crying.
• A blue-eyed Ragdoll Cat in a filthy pet shop complained that she had transmigrated into a cat.

Twilight took Anya and Richie to find pets, but the children rejected the animals at the pet shop. When Twilight spotted a new mission, he pretended to have diarrhea and sent Yor and the children ahead to a rescue center.

• Brantz arrived in Berlint for ministerial talks ahead of a summit between the two countries' leaders.
• Yor helped Anya recover after she choked at breakfast, and the family went out together.
• Richie started singing a cat song on the street, and Anya and Yor joined in.
• Anya and Richie rejected the vicious dogs and elderly cats at the pet shop, so Twilight's contact directed them to an adoption event at a rescue center.
• Twilight spotted a mission and pretended to have diarrhea, sending Yor, Anya, and Richie ahead while he stayed behind.

At the adoption event, Anya saw Bond and followed him while Richie heard a voice that revealed another transmigrator was nearby. Richie traced the voice to a house and realized its speaker was a cat.

• Yor took Anya and Richie to the adoption event and told them to stay in separate animal areas.
• Anya saw Bond outside, read his thoughts, and decided to follow him without telling Yor.
• Richie followed Anya, then turned aside after hearing someone mention transmigrating.
• Richie waited near a house until the voice spoke again and identified its owner as a transmigrated cat.

Richie overheard assassins plotting to kill the Westalis foreign minister with poisoned cats and provoke a war, but they caught him and decided to kill him. He used Yor’s fighting move and his newfound strength to shatter an assassin’s knee, then found himself trapped with the armed group.

• Richie listened as seven assassins planned to poison cats and use them to kill the Westalis foreign minister, triggering a war.
• An assassin caught Richie eavesdropping and carried him inside, where the leader ordered his execution despite one man’s objection.
• Richie punched the man holding his hat with tremendous strength, shattering his knee and sending him flying.
• Richie ran for the open door, but a burly guard rushed in and shut it, trapping him with the assassins.
• The leader watched Richie menacingly as Richie took a fighting stance and prepared to defend himself.

Richie surrendered to the assassins, but used mind reading to discover that their leader planned to train him as an assassin. Bound and held captive, Richie began plotting an escape and a way to thwart the gang’s plans.

• The leader ordered his men to capture Richie alive, and Richie surrendered to avoid being killed.
• Richie taunted the assassins as they bound his hands with a cat leash.
• The leader told Richie he would stay with him, while Richie read his thoughts and learned he wanted to train him as an assassin.
• Richie realized the gang planned to provoke a war between the eastern and western nations, and started devising a plan to escape and stop them.

Richie was rescued from a criminal hideout when Twilight’s team raided it, and he pretended to be a frightened kidnapping victim. Twilight planned to hand him over to Yor before returning to his mission, while Richie helped him invent an excuse for being away.

• Richie prepared to attack the assassins and rescue a kitten, but Twilight’s team burst in and subdued the criminals first.
• Twilight learned the hideout held twenty-three people and that its leader was still missing.
• Richie pretended to be scared and clung to Twilight, claiming the criminals had kidnapped him while he searched for a pretty kitty.
• Twilight carried Richie outside, asked where Yor and his sister were, and explained that he still had a mission to finish.
• Richie suggested Twilight had been treating his psychiatric patients, and Twilight agreed before Richie asked if he would use the Beating Therapy Method.

Richie searched the building for a cat from his original world and found a white Ragdoll Cat whose thoughts were full of Chinese profanity. After he whispered to her, she relaxed and let him pick her up, and Twilight led them out wondering what Richie had said.

• Richie slipped away from Twilight and searched the caged animals for the cat whose thoughts he had heard.
• Richie found a white Ragdoll Cat and asked Twilight to let him take her.
• Twilight opened the cat’s cage, but warned Richie that she might bite him.
• Richie persuaded Twilight to let him approach, then whispered to the cat.
• The cat relaxed, rolled onto her back, and let Richie hold her.
• Twilight led Richie and the cat out and asked what Richie had said to her.

Anya and Bond escaped the students' hideout but ran into their kidnappers again before Yor rescued them. After Yor called the police, Anya foresaw a future without Papa and urgently told Yor that he had gone to the toilet without toilet paper.

• Bond foresaw the students answering a phone, and Anya used the distraction to escape with him.
• Anya urged Bond to take her to Yor, but Bond ran in circles until they ended up near their kidnappers again.
• The kidnappers caught Anya and Bond, but Yor arrived and knocked one attacker unconscious.
• Yor rescued Anya, scared off the dog, tied up the attacker with Bond's leash, and called the police.
• Anya saw a future without Papa and told Yor that Papa had gone to the toilet without toilet paper.

Twilight searched for Yor and Anya with Richie, who kept urging him to return to work while carrying a cat. Yor caught up with them and confessed that Anya had gone missing, but Richie reassured her that Anya would likely come back when she realized Twilight was not in the bathroom.

• Richie urged Twilight to check on his patients and blamed Yor’s cooking for Twilight’s supposed diarrhea.
• Twilight and Richie walked through a quiet alley, where a fast-moving shadow startled them.
• The shadow doubled back and turned out to be Yor, who had rushed past them before recognizing them.
• Yor told Twilight that Anya had run off to bring him toilet paper and that she had lost track of her.
• Richie comforted Yor and promised not to run off, and Yor asked Twilight whether he had finished in the bathroom.

Yor and Richie searched for Anya while Twilight resumed his mission, and Yor stopped Keith’s car with a kick. The family reunited at dusk and learned they had all been caught up in assassination attempts, ending with Anya insisting they keep Bond.

• Twilight left Yor and Richie to search for Anya, while Yor and Richie walked the streets calling her name.
• At sunset, Yor recognized Keith, kicked his car into a wall, and called the police to report him.
• Twilight, Yor, and Richie reunited with Anya, who rode out of an alley on Bond.
• Twilight learned that Yor and Anya had encountered a dog-bomb plot and Richie had become involved in a cat-based assassination attempt.
• Twilight’s superior said Bond and Richie’s cat had to be taken away, but Anya insisted that Bond stay with the family.

Richie and Anya convinced Twilight to let them keep the cat and dog rescued from the terrorists, and the animals joined the Forger family the next day. Anya and Richie welcomed their new pets, while the dog remained nervous about his unfamiliar new home.

• Richie and Anya threatened to stop going to school unless Twilight let them keep the cat and dog, so Twilight's superior approved the adoption and took the animals for medical checks overnight.
• Twilight and Yor led the exhausted family home, while each of them believed they had helped save the world; Richie teased Twilight about his exhaustion and wrote an essay about his father's back.
• Anya eagerly waited for the pets the next morning as Twilight watched a report about the previous day's explosion.
• The staff member delivered the dog and cat to the Forger home, where Anya and Richie welcomed them and Twilight said they needed names.
• Richie thought of calling the dog Cheese Snow Leopard and the cat King Crimson, while Anya comforted the nervous dog and urged him to learn from the relaxed cat.

Anya tried to earn Damian’s interest by telling him about Bond, but he dismissed her and criticized the dog’s name. After Anya, Yor, and Twilight left for a walk with Bond, Richie revealed to the cat that he had come from another world and could read minds.

• Anya learned that her rescue of Bond had to remain secret and decided to resume Operation Friendship by telling Damian about her dog.
• Anya told Damian that she had a dog, but he showed little interest and said she didn’t deserve one after hearing its name was Dog.
• Anya asked Becky for naming advice, considered Peanut and White, and Richie imagined an elaborate name for his cat.
• Twilight took Anya and Yor to the Dog Park with Bond while Richie stayed home with the cat.
• Richie told the cat that he was Zhang Si, a child from another world, and revealed that he could hear the cat’s thoughts.

Richie learned the cat’s real-world identity and explained the dangerous, unusual Forger family she had joined. The cat accepted her new life and agreed to be called Big Sis Six.

• Richie shared his supposed real-world name and asked the cat for hers.
• The cat said her name was Wang Liu, that she was eighteen, and that she had been transported into this world two days earlier.
• Richie named her Sneaky Six, but switched to Big Sis Six after she objected.
• The cat asked when Richie had arrived, and he said he had been in this world for a little over three months and asked her to call him Richie.
• Richie explained Operation Strix and warned Big Sis Six that Anya could read minds, Yor was an assassin, and Loid was a spy.
• Richie told Big Sis Six that Bond could foresee the future and called them a family, while she privately decided to treat her new life as a dream.

Richie confided his loneliness to Sixth Sister, and the two comforted each other before falling asleep together. The Forger family welcomed Bond and settled into a warm evening at home, ending with Twilight tucking Richie into bed.

• Richie told Sixth Sister that he felt lonely and feared losing the family and friends he had found, and she promised to keep him company.
• Richie and Sixth Sister curled up on the sofa and fell asleep, and Twilight covered them with a blanket when the family returned home.
• Anya named the big dog Bond, while Richie said he had named the cat Sixth Sister because she answered to that name.
• Richie bathed Sixth Sister and finished his homework, and Twilight praised him and dried his hair.
• Anya fell asleep beside Bond, and Twilight carried Richie from his room's floor onto his bed, checked the window, and whispered good night.

Anya and Richie waited at home with Twilight, who was worried because Yor had been coming home late. Twilight explained Eden Academy’s upcoming three-day Autumn Sports Meet, and the chapter ended when Yor arrived home for dinner.

• Anya and Richie came home to find Twilight waiting alone, and the family sat in silence as they waited for Yor.
• Richie read Twilight’s thoughts and learned that Twilight was worried something had happened to Yor.
• Richie brought up Eden Academy’s Autumn Sports Meet, and Twilight explained its team, family, and individual events and considered the family’s chances of earning stars.
• Richie remembered that the students had already started rehearsing for a class performance, which he suspected was for the opening ceremony.
• Yor arrived home, delighting Anya, who had been waiting for dinner.

Yor returned home with injured hands and hid her fear that she might lose her family, while Twilight and Richie worried about her for different reasons. At school, Richie drew Si Ang during art class, and Si Ang secretly took the finished picture after pretending to hand it in.

• Yor came home with bandaged fingers, refused dinner, and worried in her room that she might lose her family.
• Richie assumed Yor had been learning to cook after Twilight’s bout of diarrhea, while Twilight worried about her injuries and mood.
• During art class, Si Ang watched over a sleeping Richie and suppressed possessive thoughts about keeping him to himself.
• Richie woke, decided to draw Si Ang, and finished the portrait without looking up from the paper.
• Richie asked Si Ang to submit the drawing without peeking, but Si Ang secretly carried it into a hidden corner.

Si Ang secretly kept a drawing Richie had made of him, then took Richie aside to talk about a painful secret from their past. The chapter ended as Si Ang began to tell Richie what had happened at the research institute.

• Si Ang replaced Richie's drawing with one he had prepared, then quietly kept Richie's drawing of him.
• Si Ang and Richie discussed the upcoming sports meet, and Richie challenged Si Ang to a bet that he could earn a star.
• Si Ang refused to let Richie enter individual events because of his health and pretended to have stomach trouble so they could leave class together.
• Si Ang led Richie to a secluded garden spot and hesitated to bring up their time at the research institute.
• Richie tried to read Si Ang's mind, but Si Ang decided to tell him the secret and began, "Actually..."

Si Ang revealed that both he and Richie had been research institute test subjects and warned Richie that using his talents was damaging his body. Richie accepted the danger but chose to live freely and brightly, while Si Ang secretly vowed to find a cure.

• Si Ang told Richie that he was Test Subject No. 110 and explained that they had never interacted at the research institute.
• Si Ang revealed that Richie could develop every talent but suffered irreversible bodily damage whenever he used one.
• Si Ang warned Richie that his body was deteriorating and urged him to avoid using his talents or competing for a Stella.
• Richie admitted he had sensed something was wrong and said he wanted to live for himself and shine like summer flowers.
• Si Ang silently vowed to find a way to cure Richie.

Richie wandered the school grounds after Si Ang begged him to avoid the autumn sports meet, wrestling with thoughts about his failing body and uncertain future. He decided to cherish the life he had and returned to his usual playful self on the bus home with Anya.

• Richie asked Si Ang for time alone to think about whether he would participate in the autumn sports meet, while Si Ang followed him from a distance.
• Richie reflected on his possible death and his fear of losing the family, friends, and ordinary life he had found in this world.
• Anya noticed that Richie seemed distracted on the bus and worried that something was wrong with him.
• Richie decided to cherish the present, helped Anya back into her seat, and teased her about playing a new game at home.
• Anya refused, reminding Richie that she would not be tricked into playing Chinese Rings again.

Richie made a deck of playing cards and introduced Anya and Twilight to Fight the Landlord. After explaining the rules and how the landlord was chosen, Anya volunteered to be the landlord.

• Richie returned home with Anya and went to his room to make playing cards with help from Sixth Sister.
• Richie made fifty-four cards and brought them out to invite Anya and Twilight to play.
• Anya initially refused, but listened as Richie explained the cards and their suits to Twilight.
• Richie explained that Fight the Landlord was played by one landlord against two partners, and Anya asked whether the game was unfair to the landlord.
• Richie described how the landlord was chosen, and Anya declared that she wanted to be the landlord.