Neko matsuri (high resolution) (Pixiv Fanbox)

I have a secret crush on a girl.

We've been miraculously in the same class whenever we've been shuffled.

So lately, I'm starting to feel like I'm doomed.

One day, she said me that she had something to discuss that only I could do.

Her grandmother's village was severely depopulated, and there were no young people to perform the rituals required for the once-every-decade festival,so she asked if I could help them.

She told me that we would be staying over for quite a while, but I didn't have any plans for that period anyway. I replied with all the coolness I could muster.

So far, so good...

When we arrived at her grandmother's house. I was suddenly stripped naked, painted all over my body and made to dress up as a cat.

When I asked what was going on, I was told that the village had been saved by a female cat, a messenger of the gods, a long time ago, and as a thank you, they would dress one healthy boy up as a cat and go to the cat shrines around the village to perform a "thanksgiving ceremony".

But maybe it was because they hadn't done this ritual for the past half century.... so this village is becoming more and more desolate.

okay okay, I don't care about that, am I the only one naked!?

Moreover, it's embarrassing to look like this!!

and her grandma tald me the boy who become a cat must not behave humanly during this many-day festival.

Does that mean I have to be like this for a while!?

Boy "I'm going to walk fast now and get this over...ugh!? her face like she's thinking of something bad...I'm gonna have damn trouble..."

Girl "This green foxtail will guide you!(hehehe...I'm gonna take a little detour...)"