I Owe a Thousand Lives at the Beginning, and the Person Keeping the Accounts Is a Cat

He died many times. Every time I'm close to death, a "meow" sounds in my mind. He didn't know where the cat came from, why it only appeared at that moment, or why it never spoke. All he knew was that every time he opened his eyes, he would wake up in another version of himself. No one remembers the previous line, no one remembers the people he saved. Only this deaf cat remembers for him every life: what he owes and how much he owes. The ledger has reached a thousand entries. He had to let the cat see the last page of the ledger turned.