[She's pleased to see that he at least went after one of the right cats. She'll even give him the benefit of the doubt in figuring out what she was trying to do, rather than simply getting lucky. There was a brain in there somewhere.]

Good work.

[She steps over to him, apparently thoroughly apathetic to the fact that he's now on the ground holding a squirming cat youkai.]

Though, of course, those legal rights only apply to actual youkai. If this is just a regular cat, well, we can just hold it indefinitely. Or just put it down.

[She crouches in front of Akira and the restrained bakeneko, which redoubles its attempts to escape. When she speaks, it's with a cloying sweetness that's unmistakably insincere.]

Hmmmm, I don't know... it might be in its best interest to talk anyway.