episode_0209

“I came back from school ~ !”

When I returned home after a rewarding day at school, the maids came out in droves to welcome me.

[Oh, Miss, you’re here? How was school?]

[Are things going well with him? Hehe, judging from your happy expression, it seems like your love life is going smoothly.]

[Please give me your bag! Will you be having dinner later as usual?]

My older sisters, who chatter nonstop and show me love no less than my parents.

I answered each of my sisters’ questions one by one and asked about my mom and dad’s whereabouts.

“Mom and Dad, you didn’t come out today?”

Are you doing something like that in the living room again? I don’t see your aunt or grandmother either.

As I was about to head to the bedroom, wondering if they had gone out to do some work, the maids blocked my path with frightened expressions on their faces.

[It would be better for you not to go now. It’s been a while since you two have had a fight.]

“Are you two fighting? Mom and Dad?”

I can’t believe it!

The two of you, who used to prove your love for each other every day by exchanging flirtatious words without warning, are having a fight?

Curiosity peeks its head out.

I wonder how the two of them will fight?

Will you grumble softly, or will you strike me fiercely like you did when you saved me?

As a child, I shouldn’t be thinking like that, but I’m still curious.

I tried to head to the living room to take a quick look.

“Well, I actually want to go there even more… But I guess I can’t?”

[Yes… The atmosphere is not ordinary. If I go now, it will just be a waste of time, so why don’t I go to my room and rest for a bit?]

The maids strongly discouraged me from doing that and made it so that I wouldn’t even look towards the bedroom.

Seeing everyone reacting so strongly, it seems like the situation is serious.

Since I had never failed by listening to my sisters’ advice, I gave up watching the fight and started walking straight towards my room.

As expected.

Swish –

I felt a creepy, murderous aura coming from the living room, and I sighed in relief as I closed the door.

Curiosity killed the fox.

If I had ignored my sisters’ words and gone to the bedroom because I couldn’t control my curiosity, I would have probably ended up in a fox bath by now.

“As expected, there’s no benefit to ignoring what your sisters say.”

After chuckling, I released my disguise and threw myself onto the bed.

Fluffy.

As I lay down on my bed as soft as my mother’s tail, memories of school began to come to mind one by one.

Jaeseok patted my head as if he was thankful.

And Jaeseok enjoyed eating the lunchbox I made with all my heart from early in the morning.

Lastly, Jaeseok lovingly wiped the seasoning off my mouth.

Thinking back on it again, I laughed heartily at the actions that made my heart race, and hugged the thick, fluffy tail.

“Hehehe… Heheheehe…”

I managed to get one step closer.

I would have been more than happy if I had succeeded in feeding them, but I wasn’t too disappointed since I had achieved most of my goals.

Since we’re almost there anyway, it’s only a matter of time before we’re able to feed them.

“Now, just come a little closer. Before the college entrance exam is over, I will confess and make you completely mine.”

The work is almost done.

Since I was little, I told Jaeseok’s aunt and uncle several times that I would marry Jaeseok, so now I am treated as a daughter-in-law in that house.

At school, I declared Jaeseok as mine so that no one would have their eyes on him.

Is that all?

He succeeded in breaking down Jaeseok’s heart, which was full of caution, by thinking of him as a ‘friend’, and through various unconscious actions, he was able to shake the perspective of seeing him only as a ‘friend’ to some extent.

What’s left is that Jaeseok now sees me as a ‘woman’ and not a ‘friend’.

I rolled over and screamed in happiness.

“Gyaaa – !”

How would you feel if that blunt, emotionless guy came to you with a face full of love and confessed his love?

If Jaeseok confesses, what kind of expression should I have when I accept his confession?

“…I feel like I’ll pounce on you right away after you confess to me… Yeah, I think I’ll pounce on you and bite and suck you and do everything.”

Wouldn’t it be strange not to do it?

If the person you had a crush on suddenly confesses that he or she likes you, who in the world would be able to resist being pounced on?

I was lost in my thoughts for a while, but I was finally able to come to my senses when I heard footsteps outside.

Step by step.

Judging by the light noise and leisurely gait, it’s Mom coming to my room right now.

I mentally prepared myself, thinking that she might come to vent her frustrations, but contrary to my expectations, when she opened the door and came in, her face looked very comfortable.

“My dear daughter, I came to see you because I have something to tell you. Is your time okay?”

Didn’t you say that you and your spouse had a fight?

If you watch dramas or novels, you’ll see that after a couple fights, their expressions look really bad. Are novels and reality really different?

“Yes! Of course!”

When I greeted her by wagging my tail, my mother smiled bitterly and quietly opened her mouth.

“Jinha? I have some bad news, and some worse news. What do you want to hear first?”

“Huh?”

“That’s exactly what it says. Mom came to tell you the news. I thought it would be better for you to know the current situation rather than not know it.”

I keep tilting my head at my mother’s words, which I cannot understand.

What if it’s bad news? Did I make a mistake recently?

No matter how much I think about it, I didn’t make a mistake.

I planned it out considering every possible scenario, so how could there be any mistakes?

I said to my mother with a hardened face.

“Let me start with the bad news. Bad news… right?”

“Yeah, coincidentally it’s bad news only for you. What a shame… our daughter.”

“What the hell is going on? Tell me quickly!”

As my mother, with a bitter smile on her face, shook her body in anxiety and urged me on, she delivered the bad news in a low voice.

“First of all, your father saw you waking up early in the morning and cooking.”

“…Huh?”

“I was really pissed. If he broke the rules between a couple and followed you, you know how pissed he was. ”

“Oh, that’s why you fought… Wait, Dad was following me? ”

“Yeah, since it’s related to that, I’ll tell you some more bad news while I’m at it.”

My mother stroked my head with her soft hands and whispered the cruel truth in my ear.

“Your dad even saw you and Jaeseok flirting.”

I couldn’t help but slap my forehead at the sudden change in difficulty.

—–

The next day, after finishing school, I sat at my desk and sighed, forgetting to even go see Jaeseok.

“Oh my…”

A sigh that I can’t tell how many times it’s been.

As I laid my head on the desk with a gloomy expression, Jihye, who was sitting next to me, comforted me with a worried look on her face.

“What’s wrong? Your sighs are going to cause the classroom floor to collapse.”

“Oh, sorry. Something really bothered me. I couldn’t sleep at all last night because I was thinking about it.”

“Did you have something to worry about? That’s strange, I thought you were always smiling and living without worries.”

Tsk tsk.

Jihye asked me with a puzzled look on her face, messing up my hair.

“By the way, aren’t you going to see your husband today? It’s 3rd period and you still haven’t gone to see him?”

“I decided to visit you only five times a day. Chew, I thought you’d come to me on your own at least once, but you never came.”

“You know that kid’s personality is dirty. Phew, I really don’t understand why you like that kind of person.”

“Don’t understand. It’s already hard to get rid of competitors, but it’ll be even harder if you join in.”

“…What should I say to you?”

Jihye turned her gaze away from me with a tired expression on her face, and I waited for the third period to end while trying to find a way to resolve the situation.

The third period ended like that. As soon as the bell rang and the teacher left, I quickly ran straight to the next class.

It had been over 12 hours since I last saw him and I was starting to feel tired, so I ran over and hugged Jaeseok.

“Jaeseok! I missed you!!!”

“Huh?!”

Jaeseok, who was drooling as he hugged her head and covered her in his scent.

In the meantime, his hands were busy moving and he was quickly hiding what he was holding, so I questioned Jaeseok in a sinister voice.

“Hoohoohoo, what the hell were you looking at that you had to hide it so hastily?”

“…An ordinary magic book. Nothing strange.”

“Well~? If it was really just a normal magic book, I guess I would have just opened it up? No one would know anyway.”

There are more than one or two suspicious points.

A voice that trembles as its composure is broken.

My heart is pounding like crazy.

And the actions to somehow protect the book.

It might have been better if he had just shown an indifferent reaction without doing anything, but these things tend to pique other people’s curiosity.

“Eight!”

Eventually, unable to control my curiosity, I succeeded in grabbing the book Jaeseok had hidden with my fox-like agility.

What I was holding in my hand was not a magic book, but a thin light novel.

I glanced at the title, which was unusual in itself, and started teasing Jaeseok with a mocking smile.

“Jaeseok? Since when did magic books become light novels?”

“…Fuck.”

Jaeseok was cursing in shame, and his reaction was so funny that I teased him even harder while opening the light novel in my hand.

“Phew, you like this kind of stuff? It’s okay, I don’t care what you like. But it’s kind of funny. A kid who always weighs things has a hobby of reading this kind of stuff…”

I slowly read the book in my hands while mocking my childhood friend who was groaning in pain with his head on the desk, and I was able to realize something very shocking.

That’s right – all the characters in the light novel are huge.

I hardened my face as I looked at the characters holding objects that were so big they could be compared to my mother.

“You… so that’s what your taste is.”

For the first time in 19 years as a nine-tailed fox, I felt a terrible sense of defeat.

To none other than a light novel character.