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"Last chance," W added, tail-spiral glowing brighter. "Do you trust a two-tailed cat in a world that wants to eat your memories?"

But this Kairo? He remembered.

Kairo nearly dropped the box. "You... talk?" W TAILS CAT DELUSIONWORLD 1

That was the dangerous part.

"Show me the Root," he said.

Kairo stumbled through the alley, clutching a cardboard box like a holy relic. Inside: a single kitten, no bigger than his palm, with fur the color of wet ash and that curled like question marks.

"Don't look at the signs," Kairo muttered to the kitten. "Don't read the graffiti." "Last chance," W added, tail-spiral glowing brighter

"That's new," a voice slithered from the kitten's twin tails. Not hissing— speaking . "Usually they don't notice until Level 3."