Chapter 21 - Shiro Neko

From that day onwards both Serfall and Grayfia often came to his resturant. At first they were surprised that the restaurant belonged to him but later shrugged it off as his food was too good. They had also met Miyuki and Kurumi and Miyuki during one of their visits and Miyuki was very wary of them at first and thought that they had come to take Tatsuya away from them but after Tatsuya explained the situation she started to loosen up around them.

Both Serfall and Miyuki got along very well as both of them liked to talk about magical girls and Serfall treated her just like Sona. Serfall even ranted her problem that how cold her sister was to her and how she didn't like magical girls. Both of them had to calm her down by letting her hugging them till she felt asleep.

At one time Grayfia and Serfall brought Millicas along with them. Tatsuya who saw him was neither the less happy meeting him and treated him like his little brother. Millicas too had a lot of fun with them and started treating Tatsuya as his older brother.

Tatsuya also got some information from the strongest queen. One day Serfall forced Grayfia to drink along with her and Grayfia though being reluctant still drank some alcohol and immediately became light headed. She started spouting random things and because of that Tatsuya had to take her to the guest room along with Serfall who was already passed out. The information that Tatsuya got was that in this world Grayfia was not Serzechs's wife and was only his 'Queen' and that Serzechs married some other member of her clan who died after giving birth to Millicas.

Once both of them woke up Tatsuya started scolding both of them was the actions that they caused in his restaurant and how much it disturbed the customers. During the whole time Tatsuya was scolding them they were in seiza position with their heads down, Serfall also got a head chop when she tried to refute Tatsuya. She even tried to ask Miyuki to take her side and fight against him to which Miyuki easily ignored and took Tatsuya's side. Serfall got shocked that how easily Miyuki left her alone and ran out of the room while saying things like both of them were being mean. Grayfia once again apologised for the problems that she caused and left.

The rest of the things were going on peacefully. Miyuki was steadly getting stronger and stronger and Tatsuya was very satisfied with her progress. Tatsuya's restaurant has also gotten very famous and he was planning on opening a branch in Kyoto with Yasaka's help.

Right now Tatsuya was going home after buying some groceries for his home and the ingredients for his restaurant. While he was crossing a bridge his eyes shifted a bit and he stoppedfor a bit to watch the sunset. He leaned against the railings of the bridge and watched the sunset. While he was watching he noticed something from the corner of his eyes.

He looked towards the river and saw something floating in the river. He looked more closely and saw an injured white cat lying unconscious on a plank of wood.

Tatsuya first looked around to check if someone was there or not. Feeling that no one was around Tatsuya jumped in the river but rather than swimming he walked on the water using chakra. He went towards the cat and picked it up and as soon as he picked the cat he felt a faint presence of magic in the cat. The cat might be someone's familiar or a nekometa, though the cat had hidden it's presence quite well but for someone as strong as Tatsuya could easily tell that it was not a normal cat.

Tatsuya went back and placed the cat inside his hoodie and started to use pyrokinesis on it so that the cat do not catch cold.

After reaching his home he directly went towards his room not disturbing Miyuki and Kurumi who were watching T.V. He went towards a cupboard and took out a first aid box from it and started treating the cat, though he still used some magic to heal her and enhance her recovery as well he didn't used it too much as it would have caused the cat to be suspicious of him.

After completing the treatment he placed her on a cushion and covered her with a small blanket and started stroking her ears. After touching her ears Tatsuya was unable to hold himself back and just like he did in Kyoto he gave in to his pleasure and started stroking her ears though not very fiercely as he may frighten the cat.

After sometime, while he was playing with her, the cat woke up and gave a yawn. Seeing that she had woken up Tatsuya wanted to stop himself but was not able to. The cat felt comforted and started purring.but soon she realised that she was in an unknown location and immediately jumped back. As soon as she landed on the ground a jolt of pain emerged in her body and gave a painful 'meow'.

Seeing her jump back Tatsuya wanted to stop her but he was too late and when he heard her painful 'meow' Tatsuya sighed. He picked the cat up and started to stroke her gently while infusing some magic to ease her pain. After a while he said, "you should be careful your wounds have still not healed yet. I will not harm you so you should not be afraid of me."

The cat was still wary of the human but didn't do anything as his carresing was making her feel better. Once Tatsuya thought that she was fine he brought her near his face. They both looked at each other for a while. Tatsuya noticed that the cat had bright pink eyes, He stared for a bit and then started rubbing his cheeks with her's and was enjoying the blissfull softness of her fur.

The cat was dumbfounded by Tatsuya. To her he looked expressionless and cold but here he was affectionately rubbing his face with her's. Though the cat was annoyed by this she let it be as he was the one who saved her.

Tatsuya stopped doing that and looked again at her and asked, "Do you want to eat something?" Hearing his question the cat nodded her head unconsciously but then she suddenly realised what she had done she started meowing. Tatsuya who saw her nod her head thought, 'Though she is trying to lay low she doesn't know how to act like a cat very well and nodded her head which is not like a cat. She is definitely a Youkai'

Tatsuya didn't said anything, put her back in his hoodie such that her head was popping out and then went to the kitchen and started making food. Once the food was prepared the aroma coming out of it made the cat's mouth flooding with saliva. Tatsuya chuckled on seeing this and served the food in two dishes and went to eat along with her.