After Muffin had been given to Ruby, Kevan brought back Ruby's kitten for Larissa as compensation. Objectively speaking, Ruby's kitten was quite pretty and cute too. If it was the one who came to the house first, Larissa would have loved it as if it was her own son. But this hypothesis was disproved as Larissa only had Muffin in her heart for a long time now. So, she treated this new kitten very blandly.

Of course, she would not mistreat it—but that was the extent of it. She would not take the initiative to play with it or bring it up into her lap to love on. When it came over to her, meowing with affection, she would deliberately distance herself from it to reduce any close interactions.

In contrast, Kevan loved this kitten more than he loved Muffin. It was probably because they had traded places—she became Kevan in terms of attitude, and he became her instead.

Larissa did not know what caused Kevan's sudden change—was it that this kitten once belonged to Ruby, or was it because he