I Found an Injured DK Cat

[Revision: September 8, 2025]

[Blurb:]

Kato Minato was born in the countryside of Akita. After graduating from university, he moved to Tokyo to make a living, leading an utterly ordinary life that followed the same two-point commute every day.

Living alone had made him a good cook. His dream was to adopt a cat for company, but his busy job had kept him from making it come true.

Then one day, as he passed through a park, he spotted an exceedingly rare white-haired boy sitting on a bench. His delicate features and deep-blue, catlike eyes were not what caught Kato Minato's attention,

though. It was the bloodstains already beginning to dry on the boy, and the vacant expression on his face.

For some reason, the boy reminded him of... a wounded British Shorthair, waiting to be adopted and showered with affection.

In the days after burying and bidding farewell to Amanai Riko, Gojo didn't immediately deal with the string of problems left behind. Instead, after one mission, he found a quiet park and let his mind go blank as he considered how to change the corrupt, decaying jujutsu world.

Before he could come up with any practical measures, however, a man who looked like an older adult hesitantly approached him.

Gojo had been too lazy to pay him any attention, but then he heard the man ask, "Are you... all right? Do you need help?"

Only then did Gojo glance sideways at him, somewhat puzzled. For some reason, the man in front of him seemed strangely familiar...

[Please note:]

1. The person on the cover is the "protagonist," Kato Minato.

2. Couple: Gojo, who is 18 from the start, × Kato Minato, who is 27. They are nine years apart, with the younger one as the pursuer. The viewpoint isn't specified because the story isn't told solely from the protagonist's perspective.

3. Contains extensive canon alterations and out-of-character scenes. Proceed with caution if that's not your thing.

4. No matter what happens along the way, the ending will definitely be a happy one.

5. The early part has a lot of groundwork about raising a child. The cat-rescue scene from the blurb happens a little later.

6. At its core, this is a daily-life story about raising cats and falling in love, while also raising a few little ones along the way.

[Completed work in the author's collection]: The Clan Head's Path for the Zenin Piggies

[New work coming soon]

Brother-Raising Log

[Blurb]

Suzuki Shota has just graduated from university and hasn't even found a proper job yet when he learns that his little sister, Meisa, a first-grader who has no one but him, suddenly collapsed during gym class for no apparent reason.

After finding out that Meisa has leukemia and needs both expensive treatment and long-term chemotherapy, Suzuki Shota, with barely over 100,000 yen in savings and nowhere left to turn, starts wondering if he should go find a black-market doctor and sell a kidney.

Just then, someone claiming to be the [All-Round Development Nurturing System] approaches him, saying that if he accepts its offer, it can easily solve his current predicament.

Suzuki Shota: "What do you need me to do?"

Nurturing System: "It's simple. Just like you raise and teach your little sister, take on the role of an ordinary passerby and handle a few 'problem children.'"

Suzuki Shota: "Huh?"

With no other choice, Suzuki Shota decides to try anything, even a desperate gamble, to save Meisa, and signs a contract with this highly suspicious System.

And so:

1. The young Six Eyes prodigy and the Heavenly Restriction with no cursed energy

2. A silver-haired hitman who has yet to join an international organization, and a middle-school detective from a certain country who loves deduction and is far too curious

3. An esper born in a classified laboratory, and a young genius who lost their parents' protection and was forced to face the real world too soon

Taking his responsibilities seriously, Suzuki Shota treats every one of these "problem children" with sincerity, whether their situations are more or less serious. He follows the System's objectives and teaches them through his own example. Once each objective is complete, he disappears without hesitation, bringing each not-so-brief caregiving relationship to a perfect close.

What he doesn't know is that the two kids he teaches in each world will grow up to be opposing, even outright hostile, forces...

#What do you do when you suddenly realize, in the middle of a fight, that you and your opponent have the same caregiver?

#Is he a zombie, or is this a case of bilocation?

[Please note]

1. A secret-identity story about raising kids, though the secret identities aren't especially secret.

2. All six develop a mix of romantic and familial feelings for the protagonist, but there are no couples in the ending.

3. So feel free to place your bets.

4. Maybe it's a [heartwarming] story about enemies becoming brothers?

Theme: Help the weak with kindness, and face adversity with strength.