MPBAGS Chapter 5

I've been chosen by a leopard-patterned cheese cat with three eyes.

What's with this other-world quality...? Why is even the cat extraordinary?

I don't know where it came from, but when I woke up, it was lying in bed with me. Is it a cat raised by the Count's family? I should ask the maid who came to attend to me.

But it's a different person from last time. Well, they must be busy so they'd rotate shifts.

"Are there many cats in the Count's house?"

"Cats? We killed them all long ago."

Killed them all?

The maid gave additional explanation that it was because cats caused an epidemic. It seems something like the Black Death was popular here too.

Meow.

"...Don't you hear a cat meowing?"

"I don't hear anything."

"Strange... I can hear it so close by."

I desperately pretended not to know.

Of course it sounds close! No! Baby, don't cry! If you cry, we'll get caught! We'll die!

Fortunately, the maid went back without searching the room.

Wow, I thought my heart was going to drop. I used to be on the side opposing adopting pets without family permission...

I hated those content updates like 'Our dad who opposed cats is now...' telling about current situations! But what can I do? I've become someone who brought home a cat without family consent!

But they said they'd die! They said they killed them all because of epidemics, so his family probably died already too. Can't I get him properly examined by a priest and doctor and raise him? They wouldn't kill the Count's daughter's pet cat.

First I need to get permission from the Count.

Did they say he's in his office? Fortunately I remember roughly where the rooms are. I went downstairs to his floor. When I knocked on the door, the butler came out.

"I'd like to see the Count."

"I'll ask for a moment."

The butler came back out right away.

"I'm sorry, Miss. The Count says he's busy right now and cannot see you."

"Really?"

Wow. The villainess father is really too much.

His daughter died and came back to life but he doesn't come visit, and I could tell from before when we never ate a meal together. He turns me away at the door even when I come looking for him?

This is why the daughter became a villainess. Saying he's too busy to see me is just an excuse, isn't it?

"If you have something to tell him, you can tell me."

The butler bowed his head. What kind of kid was Evangeline that she receives a ninety-degree bow from an old man?

I put my hand on his shoulder telling him to get up, and the butler was startled.

Ah, I'm not hitting you!

"I want to raise a cat."

"A cat...?"

"Is that not allowed?"

"No..."

Yes! I got permission!

I returned with light, cheerful steps.

"Your name is Pudding!"

"Meow?"

Pudding meowed cutely. I want to bite him! So what if he has three eyes? He's just this cute.

I had to give up in my previous life due to circumstances, but I never thought I'd raise a cat here.

I was going to have him examined separately, but the butler brought holy water and said just having him drink this would be enough.

What, is this a worldview where all infectious diseases are cured with one holy water? Then why did they kill the cats? What's wrong with animal ethics in this other world?

When I poured holy water into a water bowl, Pudding lapped it up deliciously with his tongue. But why does he keep one eye closed? Because of the fur, he looked like he just had two eyes.

Come to think of it, he only opens all his eyes in front of me. Ah, so normally two is the default and the third eye only opens occasionally.

The butler confirmed that Pudding drank all the holy water and returned. Is it done now? Hooray!

"You drink water well too, how good."

I put Pudding on my lap and gave him butt pats.