episode_0203

When all the negative emotions are exhausted and there is nothing left to throw away but positive emotions.

The fox began to get worried.

What kind of emotions should I leave behind to live as colorfully as possible?

Even if we live a monotonous life, wouldn’t it be worth it to live as colorfully as possible after enduring hundreds of years?

The fox, who had been thinking for a long time, found the one emotion that he thought would be the most colorful and hid it deep in his heart.

It was a feeling the fox had never experienced before, and it seemed like it would be the most exciting one when he did.

It was an emotion called ‘love’.

Was that fox’s choice the right one?

The fox, who had abandoned most of his emotions and become the god of abundance, began to regain the emotions he had lost one by one through the emotion called ‘love’.

Of course, as a god, only a very small amount of the love he had for his followers was returned.

Of course, what do you think? The colorless world is starting to become more interesting as it regains color.

The feeling of something being lost coming back.

The fox goddess, addicted to that thrilling pleasure, struggled to feel it just a little more, and because of that, she ended up making a huge mistake.

That’s right.

“I have loved you for a long time. God, please accept my love!”

“Wow… That looks fun, I’ll take it.”

Accepting love that shouldn’t be received, and loving someone that shouldn’t be loved.

In order to experience more colorful emotions, she accepted the love of a lowly man who admired her, and since then, the fox goddess has completely changed without even realizing it.

Initially, no problems were apparent.

The humble man took the god of abundance as his lover and gained wealth and power.

Out of gratitude, the man loved only the fox goddess, and through the man’s love, the fox goddess regained many things she had lost.

Happiness, joy, pleasure, etc.

The fox goddess was so happy every day she spent with the man, and she was truly happy that she was able to enjoy the colorful life she had been aiming for.

It feels like all the hard work of the past 800 years has been rewarded.

The fox god thought.

I wish these days could continue for the rest of my life.

But, unfortunately, contrary to her wishes, the happiness did not last long.

If it’s natural, then it’s natural.

How can the love of a being who has abandoned everything, even his own greed, and ascended to the throne be the same as that of a mean human being who is consumed by greed?

Unlike the fox god who only wanted to gain small happiness through pure love, the love of the lowly one was too calculated.

He wanted to escape his meanness through love.

Love was seen as nothing more than a means to power and wealth.

Because he used her love to seek more power and wealth.

He had nothing to fear, having the glory of the god he served behind him, but having tasted the sweetness of power, he quickly began to decline.

You’ve probably heard the saying that if you do a favor over and over again, you think it’s a right.

He did the same.

After he took power, unlike at first when he thought it was excessive, he thought that God’s love was his right.

Oh, poor thing.

If I had kept my innocent original intentions, I would have preserved my existence, but why couldn’t I even keep my original intentions?

He foolishly made a mistake he should never have made.

How would you describe it?

Yeah, it would be easier to understand if you said you cheated.

He had relationships with pretty women who approached him without the fox god’s knowledge, and naturally, the fox god heard about it.

The innocent fox goddess didn’t believe those words at first.

No matter how intoxicated he was with power, he visited the fox goddess every single day and whispered words of love to her.

Doubt is poison to love.

The fox god punished the person who brought the news, calling him a ‘discordant’, and forgot about those words.

It is said that the followers of the fox goddess felt pity for their god, while resenting her, because she protected the lowly ones instead of punishing them.

Ah, pure God.

Poor god, blinded by love and unable to see the truth before your eyes.

Please restore me to my former intelligence and generosity.

At the same time, the believers felt pity for even the most foolish and lowly person.

You foolish man who cannot come to your senses even when faced with destruction.

You throw yourself into an endless abyss without knowing where to stop.

They prophesied that the words of the lowly would be their ruin, and then they fled out of sight.

And their prophecy came true.

He was anxious about what punishment the fox god would impose on him, but when she did not take any action, he became even more arrogant.

So I thought.

We’ve already caught all the fish, so is there any need to worry about it any more?

It was a really stupid idea, but he had already made up his mind that the fox goddess’s love was his right, so he turned his attention elsewhere.

I even reduced the frequency of my daily visits to the bedroom, using the excuse that I was busy.

When whispering words of love becomes a pretense rather than sincerity.

It is said that a seed called ‘doubt’ began to take root in the heart of the fox god.

Is it really true that he is busy?

What if what he said was true? No, it couldn’t be true. He swore that he would love only me.

Even though she believed in her lover until the end, she rose from the throne for just one day.

To erase the doubt that has taken root in my heart.

She came down to the summer world wearing such shabby clothes, and only then was she able to face reality.

A gentleman who was ruined by his lover.

Believers who are so corrupted that they don’t even seek God.

And even the women in promiscuous attire laughing out loud in the pious temples.

Thanks to them, she regained her emotion called ‘anger’, but like a god who has ascended to the throne through long training, she suppressed her anger and went to where her lover was.

The fox god asked for directions and finally arrived in front of his room.

She opened the door without knocking, and the moment she saw him having sex with another woman.

She says she regained all the negative emotions she had lost.

The fox god asked with tears streaming down her face.

Why do you love someone else and leave me? Was the love I gave you not enough?

To those words, the man, unable to grasp the situation, replied with a bitter laugh.

God, your love is not insufficient, but what your love can give me is too limited to satisfy my greed.

The mean man continued his lovemaking in front of her mockingly, and the fox goddess watched the ridiculous situation until the end.

“I will punish you.”

He shed tears of blood and destroyed the entire shrine.

Others were easily annihilated, but the words of the lowly one say that it was never easy.

He let out a desperate scream as he felt his soul being torn apart.

I was wrong, my God.

I will never do that again. I promise to love only you.

Please save me.

But of course, the fox god did not listen to that.

You swore the same thing when you became my lover. Was the weight of that oath so light to you?

The fox god became even more angry and sadder, and destroyed the man in the most painful way possible.

When the man was completely destroyed, the fox god sat down in an empty lot and stared blankly at the sky.

The result of regaining what was lost is this catastrophe.

If I had known this would happen, I would have erased the feeling of love from the beginning.

She began to laugh regretfully and hollowly, and her laughter gradually became more and more mad.

After practicing for 800 years to become a god, what a tragedy it is to be a little greedy and end up like this.

Even I think it’s too much.

“I curse you. I will curse the very feeling of love. Where love exists, I will never bring abundance.”

She cursed the world and began her journey, hiding her identity as a god.

To reap the abundance of where the emotion called love exists.

The pure love that he could not achieve. In other words, to bring destruction where there is purity.

It is said that the fox god destroyed several countries as he traveled. And, due to that karma, he gradually became an evil god.

But she said she didn’t care at all about becoming a demon.

It was so much fun doing evil rather than doing good.

Meanwhile, humans were about to die.

They had no involvement in the fox god’s work, so why should they be held jointly responsible?

Unable to bear it any longer, they prayed earnestly to other gods.

Stop that crazy demon right now. If we keep going like this, we’re all going to die.

The gods, responding to the fervent prayers of humans, sent a hero to the underworld to subdue the evil god.

The hero, who came down to the underworld with the protection of the gods, is said to have succeeded in sealing her in a stone called the ‘Salsengseok’ after a fierce battle with the evil god.

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“…Is this really the end?”

“Do you think it’s over?”

“No, right? That fox god is just too pitiful.”

“Phew, do you really think so? But of all the stories I know, it’s the one with the happiest ending.”

As I spoke with a big smile, Jin-ha looked at me with tears in his eyes.

“Hey, Auntie! Tell me the next story quickly. It can’t end like this!”

“Oh, don’t rush me too much. I was going to tell you anyway.”

Big.

I cleared my throat and began talking again.