Nakitai Watashi wa Neko wo Kaburu

Miyo Sasaki hides unhappiness at home behind an exaggeratedly cheerful manner at school. Her efforts to get closer to classmate Kento Hinode usually go badly, but a mysterious mask offers another way: it transforms her into a white cat. As the cat he calls Taro, she receives the affection and trust he cannot yet offer her human self.

The escape grows harder to resist, even as Miyo learns about Kento's own worries and realizes how little she can do for him without revealing who she is. When the mask's bargain begins threatening her humanity, she must confront the relationships she has tried to flee and decide what it means to be truly understood.