Normally its impossible. I was told thousands to tens of thousands of souls were needed to make one Jewel of Life. While soul eaters are quite the gluttons, they dont have much power. There are only a very small number able to create a Jewel of Life. Spells like reviving the dead are essentially forbidden. However, there are a lot of humans and ayakashi who wish to be reborn or to revive someone from death who fall for their sweet talk. Although extremely rare, there are soul eaters with immense power. Since they can turn into any of their victims, they are pretty difficult to catch. They are cats, foxes, raccoonstheyre not just one breed. The feature they all have in common is that they eat their victims soulsin short, anyone who eats the souls of humans or ayakashi are called soul eaters.

Somehow it seemed to become a rather disturbing conversation.

Your ears have folded down.

Kiri pointed out as Touya trembled.

I heard from Mimizuku that you were reading a Youkai Dictionary, but you wanted to know about soul eaters, huh.

When I heard they take on the forms of their victimssince I dont know what I amand cant take on the form of a cat. I thought, what if.

Talking about his doubts disgusted him. However, he had the feeling he was something a little different from Mimizuku and the children. At any rate, Touya was still unable to change into even a cat, nor could he see Mimizuku and the others true cat forms while they were in their human forms. The only thing he could say when he woke up was meow, he didnt even know about the taste of sweets, and felt off having his level of vision so high the first time he walked outside. Even so, those cat-like sensations were fading day by day

Theres no way. If you were a soul eater, I would know right away, so itll be all right. You were worried about that sort of thing? Well, you may also bea sort of special case.

Huh?

He asked back, but Kiri merely smiled at him without answering.

Anyway, soul eaters wouldnt be mentioned in a human world Youkai Dictionary. Humans and ayakashi see things differently after all.

Mimizuku said the same thing. But, I wanted to know even just a little more about this world

You said earlier that you wanted to stay the way you are now. What if you were able to return to your previous self?

That question had a curious sound to it. If his memories returnedwould he want to go back to being a his original self, a normal cat, not an ayakashi cat? Wouldnt that be easier for him?

Even though he knew only that vague scene, he must have been attached to him. Wasnt it possible he was worried about his pet cat?

Stillthere was an indescribable sense of loss remaining in the depths of his heart. As if that scene he saw before he awoke was already missing somethingas if he had been alone