This cat is, honestly, a coward
When scared, it squeezes its eyes shut. With the helmet on, it can charge eyes-closed. Kick enough times blind and the body remembers. Every day it kicks the scariest thing in the world: dogs.
A sunset alley, one ball, one small cat against the monsters. Ten chapters that open like a grim fairy tale and close as a warm one. The road is called Churu Road.