Chapter 3

Page Three: Cat Girl Orange Grandpa

Opening this black notebook, On the first page, I felt my hand trembling.

Holder: Cháng Kǎi

Hallelujah

That means everything in the dream is real? Have I really lost my little spinning top?

If I can’t turn one unlucky person into a beautiful girl every month to change fate, I’ll become the ultimate unlucky person myself.

So where should I find this unlucky person? After all, what degree of transformation counts as changing fate?

“Meow meow.”

As I sat at my desk, banging my head on the table in frustration, the orange cat… no, the orange pig, Júzi, came to bother me again.

The food and water were already prepared, probably telling me to clean the litter box?

How annoying, I want to throw it out.

No, upon careful reflection, I seem to have thrown it out several times before, but it just ran back.

What am I to this thing in its eyes? A walking feeder, a four-legged beast that scoops poop?

“Meow meow.”

Seeing I ignored it, it jumped onto my lap by itself… damn, it’s so heavy, aren’t cats supposed to be fluffy and light?

When I glanced at the open notebook filled with beautiful girls on the table, an incredible idea kept growing in my mind.

I thought about the lively vitality of chocolate, the serene maturity of vanilla… I want a cat girl!

Why? All I want is a cat girl!

I got the beautiful girl notebook! My home’s orange pig is still so ugly!

Just wanting to turn it into a cute, well-behaved beautiful girl cat isn’t strange, right?

Not strange at all! After all, this is also an experiment, testing if this notebook works on animals.

Yes, it’s just an experiment, necessary for completing the assessment indicators!

I pushed my square glasses up, my eyes filled with the curiosity of a researcher, and my tightly gripped pencil fell onto the notebook.

Third line, Júzi!

“Meow meow·meow!!”

Júzi immediately let out a heart-wrenching meow, and lumps of flesh started to bulge all over its body, slowly transforming into human limbs… the scene was quite bizarre… crap, won’t this cause a cat death?

Thinking carefully, becoming a beautiful girl doesn’t require much more flesh than being human, but turning a cat into a human seems a bit too much.

But if I erase Júzi’s name now, wouldn’t it interrupt its evolution and remain in this twisted fleshy state?

Oh no, even the white holy light and small stars are faint, and the speed is too slow.

The swelling flesh of Júzi reminded me of Edward and Alphonse brothers transmuting their mother.

At this moment, the distorted creature called “Júzi” suddenly leaped high, and its formed human legs kicked heavily against my forehead.

Yes, the forehead. But how high did it jump since I’m standing?

Thinking this, I was knocked unconscious by that kick.

So regretful, although Júzi is fat and ugly, I don’t wish for it to die tragically…

It was two winters ago, on a snowy morning.

Someone left a box of four kittens at my doorstep, though covered with a blanket, the temperature was not enough to help them survive. My old dad and I brought them home and cared for them with great effort, but only one survived.

That survivor was Júzi. My old dad said its life was prolonged by its three siblings.

This isn’t a big story; many cats freeze to death each winter, but the loss of those three young lives still made us feel sad.

Júzi entered our family like this. As a kitten, Júzi was very cute and well-behaved, bringing joy to our single-parent household for about six months.

…Then it ballooned.

By the time my old dad and I realized we needed to control its weight, this short-haired orange cat had turned into a pig, irreversibly obese.

Slap, slap, slap.

In a daze, I felt something hitting my face.

“Hey! Wake up!”

Slap, slap, slap.

Damn, these consecutive slaps were hard, they woke me up forcefully.

I didn’t know when I ended up back in bed, an orange-haired girl with tilted eyes sat on the edge of my bed.

She wore my T-shirt, feeling insecure, she added a sports jacket over it, and wore my shorts with a cat tail sticking out, alertly standing up.

This must be Júzi, but unfortunately, there are no cat ears, only hair shaped like ears.

“Wow, you finally woke up! I was so scared!”

“Júzi?” I asked tentatively.

“Mm-hm, I’m indeed Júzi.”

“Júzi, you’re okay!”

Before I could even mention why it could speak or the crude language, I was grateful just to see it… her alive.

The joy of regaining something lost made me habitually want to pat Júzi’s head, but my arm was slapped away… perhaps it resented my hasty transformation.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t expect such pain during the transformation.” Shouldn’t I apologize properly at this moment?

“Not because of that, if I could turn into a human, I could endure any pain. It’s just that I’ve always disliked you touching my head!”

Indeed, the process must have been very painful, humans and animals are different… my actions were too rash…

“You, do you regret turning me into a human? Don’t get carried away, I’m enjoying it now! The only thing that annoys me is why I became a woman when I’m supposed to be male?”

After saying that, Júzi rubbed her chest with both hands, yes, this unguarded, flirtatious gesture instantly charged my Xiao Chang Kai with about 40% NP.

So where did you come from, cat? Crude actions and speech, where is the cute and well-behaved cat girl?

“Because this notebook can only turn ‘humans’ into ‘beautiful girls’… according to the deity, anyone whose name is written in this notebook will become a beautiful girl and be happy.”

“Oh, but I’m not human, so the transformation was especially painful and long, right?”

Hearing Júzi say it was especially painful, my conscience was once again condemned. I wrote her name because I disliked her being ugly and annoying.

Heartache, I grabbed the girl’s shoulders, looking straight into her purple eyes.

“Júzi, I truly need to apologize—”

“Don’t need to—”

“Let me finish! I wrote your name because I disliked you being fat and ugly, and especially annoying!”

“…I knew that. More accurately, I realized it after becoming human.” Júzi didn’t use “I” anymore; her ordinary tone carried enthusiasm: “Listen, Cháng Kǎi! Whether I was a cat or now as this girl, you gave me two chances at life. Otherwise, I would have frozen to death in the snow before entering this house. So, no matter what happens, you and your father never need to apologize to me, understand? —Though, it was indeed quite painful just now.”

Is that so? Becoming human improved my intellect and emotions, making me more understanding, another form of obedience… but hearing you say that makes me feel even guiltier.

“I’ve decided, I will never write an animal’s name in this notebook again!”

“I think it’s good for animals to become human.”

“Just because you succeeded, it looks good in the end… Let’s discuss with Dad when he comes back… see if we can register you… if you don’t mind, you can be my sister.” Saying “sister,” I blushed.

“Haha, then I’d have to call you Onii-chan? Onii-chan~?”

Despite being a tomboyish girl who constantly says “I,” why did you accept the sister role so quickly?

Speaking of which, is Júzi considered someone who changed their fate?

Although fate changed, whether it counts as a metric remains… anyway, mark Júzi’s name with a marker pen later.

“Old man has a phobia of women, becoming human allows him to understand things he couldn’t before. Old man can’t handle women, right? Is this okay?” When Júzi mentioned “old man,” she naturally referred to my old dad.

After my mom disappeared after giving birth to me, my dad, feeling abandoned, suffered greatly and developed a psychological condition where he freezes up and can’t act around women. Even his son without glasses is too scary for him to look at — apparently, I look very much like my mom.

“I think this is an opportunity to treat him. Gradually interacting with him will eventually resolve his issues.”

Dad can’t live his whole life in the shadow of being abandoned by my mom. Sometimes, a strong medicine is necessary.

I looked at the beautiful girl notebook and thought this way.