“No,” said Haneul to the cat.

The cat flinched and looked at her before creeping over to the top of the laptop keyboard. She sighed.

“It’s not funny if you do this, okay?”

She curled her fingers up with the intent to flick the cat on the forehead. The cat cried curtly and raised her front paw.

She seemed like a baby reaching out to a baby mobile. She looked so cute that Haneul forgot that she was a mischievous kid interrupting her work.

Some say that cats are auspicious animals, and Ricebun definitely looked the part.

“Sheesh, the cute ones are the most frightening,” she said as she tickled the cat’s chin.

She couldn’t bring herself to hate the cat when it approached her like a dog would instead of keeping a distance.

“Still, mom has something to do, so I’ll play with you later.”

She raised the cat up and placed her on her lap. The cat took her place on her lap in comfort as though she found her lap warmer and more comfortable than the keyboard.

She stroked the cat’s round head with her left hand and used a mouse with her right.

She looked alternately at the scenario and the script she had written and opened an editing program for storyboard creation.

She drew some sketches in the boxes split vertically. As she was drawing with a mouse, it didn’t look that great, but that didn’t matter. This was just about setting the structure...