So, in the real world, this little guy is just a normal cat. Nobody can understand him unless they've been to the world made up of humanity's combined thoughts, the Metaverse.

Inside the Metaverse, he's a mascot character who can talk plainly, summon a Persona, and also turn into a catbus--because My Neighbor Totoro references for some inexplicable reason cats turning into buses is a concept embedded in pop culture. How would all that work?