Third in this cat manga series. More repetitive recaps, sigh. Nyao muses further about why he turned into a cat, and how to get back, but still makes no progress on actually doing something about it. He’s momentarily shocked when Chika wonders if he’s human in there, because some of his behavior is decidedly un-catlike. For some reason, this impels him to suddenly get into what he thinks is a bunch of feline mischief. (I don’t know why he wanted to prove to her he was a cat, but still, it was funny). He tries to get Chika to brush his teeth, but is misunderstood. He has negative interactions what that other tabby in the neighborhood (mostly through a window). He does some more sleuthing around when Chika’s out- goes to his old school dorm, to the hospital- but finds out very little. Even though in the cat body, he can still read, and is thrilled when one day Chika’s friend is visiting, and opens his favorite manga series. But of course she just gets annoyed with him pawing at the pages. He has to get his claws trimmed which is upsetting for both Nyao and Chika, so she gets him a scratching pad- and the introduction of that is, of course, amusing. More attempts at doing human things, or communicating with Chika, but he only looks cute, with intentions awkwardly misconstrued- which Chika thinks is also cute, and so life continues. More lazy days, puzzling over how to solve his problem, while slowly becoming content with things as they are- being feline and looked after is rather pleasant, after all. Will he give up his desire to return to his old self? This volume seems to be leaning that way.
Borrowed from the public library.
