Chapter 274: Who Can Resist a Cat?
Inside the apartment, the girls all curiously looked around.
Kaede had just been tidying up his studio. Now he walked out and saw the four girls.
"Welcome. Long time no see, Umi, Kotori."
"Excuse us, Senpai!" x2
The girls smiled, and then Umi handed the fruit basket she was holding to Eriri: "Senpai, this is our visiting gift."
"So much fruit! Thank you!"
Taking the items, Eriri smiled and said, "Kaede-kun, why don't you show them around the house? I'll prepare drinks."
"Okay."
Kaede responded, just about to start the tour, when Honoka suddenly shouted, pointing to a corner of the living room and exclaiming, "Ah! Cat!"
Following Honoka's cry, the other three then noticed the three Cats lying in the Cat bed, observing them. When they first entered, the three Cats hadn't moved or made a sound, so they hadn't noticed them.
"Oh!!!!"
Suddenly, the tour was no longer appealing. These cute Cats immediately captured the girls' attention.
Kaede and Eriri exchanged glances, then helplessly spread their hands.
"Alright, it seems you all prefer Cats. Let me introduce them. Camearra, come here."
At Kaede's call, Camearra emerged from the Cat bed, followed closely by the two little ones, and came to Kaede.
"So cute..."
Umi's originally slightly reserved expression instantly softened upon seeing the Cat.
Bending down and picking up Camearra, Kaede motioned for the girls to sit on the sofa, then placed Camearra directly on Yukiho's lap.
"Here, Yukiho, hold her for me for a bit. There are two other little ones."
After speaking, he continued to pick up Golza and Melba, the two little ones.
"Oh oh oh!!!"
Looking at the Cat obediently lying on her lap, eyes squinted, Yukiho's eyes widened, not daring to move.
"She's really well-behaved." After observing for a moment, Yukiho cautiously asked, "Kaede-nii, can I pet her?"
"You can, yes." Kaede smiled and nodded, "She observed you all for a while. Now that I've put her here and she hasn't resisted, it means you can pet her as much as you like."
Eriri brought over the poured drinks and said, "Camearra is very smart, you know!"
"Her name is Camearra?"
Yukiho stroked Camearra's fur, thinking, "That name sounds familiar... Ah! Isn't that the name of the dark giant in the ultraman Tiga movie?"
Eriri smiled and nodded, "That's right. After we brought Camearra home, Kaede-kun and I thought about names for a long time, and finally settled on that one."
Then, Eriri told everyone about the process of adopting Camearra, which left the girls stunned.
Umi frowned and said, "How could someone be so mean, to abandon such a cute Cat!"
"Exactly, exactly." Kotori nodded while looking at the two little ones on Kaede's lap, "Senpai, what are these two called?"
"Them?" Kaede placed one of them on Kotori's lap and said, "This one is a girl, named Melba."
Then, he placed the other one on Umi's lap, startling her: "This one is a boy, named Golza."
"Pfft, monster names!"
Yukiho chuckled as she scratched Camearra under the chin, then said to her older sister, "Sister, do you want to hold her?"
"Of course!"
Honoka had been itching to hold her for a while, and finally, with Yukiho and Eriri's guidance, she picked up Camearra.
"Wow!" Holding the Cat, Honoka's eyes seemed to sparkle, "So soft, it's amazing!"
Umi on the other side was much the same. The destructive power of a kitten on a person is several times that of an adult Cat. At this moment, Umi had completely stopped speaking, petting the kitten with a look of pure enjoyment. And Golza was also very comfortable, lying almost belly-up.
Kotori, petting her Cat, saw Umi's expression and chuckled, "Hehe, it's really rare to see Umi like this. It seems she really likes Cats! If we have time in the future, let's go to a Cat cafe. There are lots of Cats there too!"
"Eh?"
Startled, Umi's fair face immediately flushed: "I, I, I, I don't like Cats! She just lay here and wouldn't move, what could I do?!"
Yukiho heard her say this and reached out with a smile: "Then, Umi-nee, let me hold the Cat!"
Saying this, she reached to take her.
Seeing this, Umi, under everyone's watchful eyes, instinctively hugged Golza and shifted her body.
After performing this series of actions, Umi's expression froze, her entire face grew even hotter, as if it were about to smoke.
Honoka, holding Camearra, said with a bright smile, "Hehehe, Umi, and you said you don't like Cats!"
"Ugh..."
Umi, unable to defend herself, looked left and right, then down at the kitten in her arms, which was looking up and meeting her gaze... Fine, she wouldn't say anything, she'd just implicitly agree.
After a joyful session of petting Cats, everyone put the three Cats down to play by themselves, while Kaede and Eriri took the girls on a tour of the apartment.
First, of course, was the studio.
Pushing open the studio door, Kaede led everyone in and said, "It was a bit messy before. I had just finished tidying up when you arrived."
"It doesn't seem very special." After entering, Honoka looked around and found that it was actually just a very ordinary study, with two computer desks pushed together, on which were computers and drawing tablets, these common tools.
"I thought a manga artist's and light novel author's studio would have many special features."
"There aren't that many special features."
Eriri shook her head with a smile, "Manga artists used to draw on paper, but now more and more are drawing digitally. The software effects in this area are also getting better and better, and if used properly, efficiency also increases. Otherwise, at the age Kaede-kun and I are still studying, even with assistants, it would be difficult to maintain a weekly update frequency."
"But this is already amazing."
Umi glanced at the books on the bookshelf and said, "I've seen before that even some digital manga artists still work very hard. Senpai, you and Senpai are already super amazing."
Inside the studio, besides the computers, the most eye-catching things were the rows of figures and models in the cabinets, as well as BDs and other merchandise, which dazzled the girls.
After finishing the studio tour, as for Kaede and Eriri's bedroom, after seeing Honoka's gossipy gaze, Kaede decided not to take them to see it.
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Just changed the name of the cat 'Camilla' to 'Camearra'