Chapter 4

On the first page, I felt my hand trembling.

Holder: Cháng Kǎi

Hallelujah

That means everything in the dream is real? Did I really lose my little top?

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

So where should I find this unlucky person? After all, what extent of transformation can be considered as changing one’s fate?

“Meow meow”

While I was sitting at the desk, banging my head on the table out of frustration, the orange cat… no, the orange pig, Júzi, came to bother me again.

The food and drink were already prepared, probably to make me clean the litter box?

How annoying, I want to throw it out.

No, upon careful thought, I’ve 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 creature that scoops poop?

“Meow meow”

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

When I glanced at the open notebook with beautiful girls, a terrifying idea kept growing in my mind.

I thought about Chocolate’s lively vitality and Vanilla’s serene maturity… I want a cat girl!

Why? All I want is a cat girl!

I got the notebook with beautiful girls! My house’s orange pig is still so ugly!

Is it strange for me to just want to turn it into a cute and well-behaved beautiful girl cat?

Not really! After all, this is an experiment, to test if the notebook works on animals.

Yes, this is just an experiment, necessary to complete the assessment criteria!

I pushed my square glasses, my eyes filled with the exploration impulse of a researcher, and my pencil, tightly held in my fingers, fell onto the notebook.

Third line, Júzi!

“Meow meow!!”

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

Thinking carefully, the amount of flesh needed to transform a human into a beautiful girl isn’t much different, but turning a cat into a human seems to be overly bloated.

But if I erase Júzi’s name now, wouldn’t it cause the transformation to halt, leaving it in this twisted flesh state?

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

Júzi’s bulging flesh reminded me of Edward and Al’s scene when they tried to transmute their mother.

At this moment, the twisted creature called “Júzi” suddenly leaped up from the ground, and its human-like legs kicked me hard on the forehead.

Yes, the forehead, but I’m standing! How high did it jump?

Thinking this, I was knocked unconscious by that kick.

I regret it so much, 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 tiny kittens at my doorstep, though covered with a blanket, the temperature was too low for them to survive. My dad and I brought them home and cared for them with great effort, but only one survived.

The survivor was Júzi, my dad said its life was continued by its three siblings.

This wasn’t a big story; many cats freeze to death each winter, but the loss of three young lives still saddened us.

Júzi entered our family this way. 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 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 strong, forcing me awake.

I didn’t know when I lay back on the bed. An orange-haired girl with slanted eyes sat on the edge of my bed.

She wore my T-shirt, feeling insecure, added a sports jacket over it, and wore my shorts, with a cat tail sticking out, alert and erect.

This must be Júzi, except there were no cat ears, just hair shaped like ears.

“Oh, you finally woke up! I was scared to death!”

“Júzi?” I asked tentatively.

“Yeah, I am Júzi.”

“Júzi, you’re okay!”

Ignoring why she could speak and her coarse language, I was just grateful it was alive.

The joy of regaining it made me instinctively reach for Júzi’s head, but my arm was slapped away… perhaps it resented being hastily turned into a human.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t expect animal transformations to be so painful.” Indeed, apologizing was appropriate.

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

Indeed, the process was very painful. Humans and animals are different… my actions were too hasty…

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

Júzi stretched out her hands to rub her chest, confirming the sudden boost of arousal for my little Cháng Kǎi.

So where did you come from, cat? Your actions and tone are so coarse, where’s the cute and well-behaved cat girl?

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

“But I’m not a person, so the transformation was especially painful and slow, right?”

Hearing Júzi mention the pain, my conscience was once again condemned. I wrote its name because I disliked it being ugly, how ugly!

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

“Júzi, I really need to apologize—”

“I said you don’t need to—”

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

“…I knew that. More accurately, I realized after becoming human.” Júzi didn’t use “I” anymore; her ordinary tone carried enthusiasm: “Listen, Cháng Kǎi! Whether I’m a cat or now as this girl, you’ve given me two new lives. Otherwise, I would have frozen to death in the snow before entering this house. So no matter what happens, you and dad never need to apologize to me, understand? —Although it was really painful earlier.”

Is that so? Becoming human improved intelligence and emotions, making her more understanding, another form of being well-behaved… but hearing you say that makes me feel even guiltier.

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

“But for animals, becoming human is a good thing.”

“Just because you succeeded, it’s a good outcome… Let’s talk to dad when he gets back… see if we can register you… if you don’t mind, call you my sister.” I blushed when saying “sister.”

“Haha, then I have to call you Oniichan? Onii~chan~?”

A tomcat turned into a beautiful girl who uses “I” constantly, why did she accept the sister role so quickly?

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

Though fate changed, it’s not a person, so it doesn’t count as an indicator… Anyway, later I’ll mark Júzi’s name with a marker pen.

“Old man has a phobia of women, right? After becoming human, he understands things he didn’t before. Old man can’t handle women, right? Is it okay like this?” Júzi naturally referred to my dad as “old man.”

After my mom disappeared after giving birth to me, my dad, feeling abandoned, suffered greatly and developed a psychological condition where he couldn’t act around women. He even refused to look at his son without glasses — supposedly I looked a lot like my mom.

“I think this is an opportunity to treat him. Gradually interacting can help resolve his issues.”

Dad can’t live in the shadow of being abandoned by my mom forever. At critical moments, a strong dose might be necessary.

I thought this while looking at the notebook with beautiful girls in my hand.