episode_0219

Tamamo.

A little fox who lost her beloved village and took upon herself the role of a vengeful spirit to honor the souls of the villagers who died in vain.

A nine-tailed fox who once brought all of Japan to the brink of destruction, but was caught by the chains of karma and fell to the ground at the moment he was about to ascend to the sky.

The strongest enemy who had been defeated with all possible means during his last trip to Japan, but who had driven Do Yu-jin to the brink of death with only his unconsciousness.

At the same time… …Yumi’s original personality.

Hiccup-!

When that name came out of Do Yu-jin’s mouth, Yu-mi hiccupped without realizing it.

But that was only for a moment.

“Ugh!”

Yumi covered her mouth with a surprised expression.

Yumi was doing her best to somehow get through this situation without any problems, but it was contrary to her intentions.

‘I threw it out just in case, but it seems it was real.’

Yumi’s reaction only added more confidence to Do Yujin.

‘What should I do… … ‘

In fact, there is no physical evidence, but with this level of evidence, it is safe to say that the game is already over.

But this cautious little fox, unable to give up hope even in this situation, continued to watch this side closely.

‘Denial of reality… … That’s a typical reaction.’

In Do Yu-jin’s mind, an image of a little boy hiding a zero-point test paper between the pages of a book and pretending not to know anything appeared.

Glance-

In fact, the way to get them to open their mouths in this situation was simple.

‘If I just grab something that looks like a whip and swing it around a bit, I’ll probably tell you what happened. But that’s a bit… ‘

Do Yu-jin thought about it for a moment and then decided to try a method she had used in the past.

“Yuna, do you remember when you had your first class with Yumi?”

By the way, that was a way to torment the mind instead of the body.

“Huh?”

Yuna tilted her head when her name was suddenly called, but soon nodded in agreement.

By the way, at that time, Yumi couldn’t say anything and was just watching Do Yujin’s expression while sweating profusely.

‘I think it’ll explode sometime tomorrow.’

Do Yu-jin quietly opened his mouth while looking at Yu-mi, who was trembling as if she would burst at any moment.

“Honestly, I was quite worried when I sent you off back then.”

“Huh? Our sloppy dad was worried about us? Why?”

“At that time, I wasn’t sure if you guys would be able to properly adapt to the daily life here.”

Shrug-

“Well, looking at the results, I guess it was a needless worry.”

By the way, Do Yu-jin still didn’t know that the two people were still beating up the teachers and extracting the knowledge they needed from him.

“And among them, I was especially worried about Yumi.”

“Heh heh~ I guess so! I’m such a genius that worrying seems like foolish!”

Do Yu-jin heard Yu-na’s words and snickered and patted her head.

“There was a reason for that, but in fact, the bigger reason was that Yumi was learning a technique that not many people knew about, like sorcery, rather than a universal technique like martial arts or magic.”

Martial arts can be learned somehow by observing the opponent’s movements in real combat, and magic has a wide range of teaching materials that have been accumulated by countless magicians over a long period of time.

What about witchcraft on the other hand?

There was nothing like that.

“Even what Yumi is learning is a special kind of magic called fox magic?”

Fox Jutsu is a system of jutsu that Tamamo has evolved independently over a long period of time, a system that suits her best and is exclusively for her.

In other words, it was safe to say that Yumi had virtually no teachings to gain from the circle.

“Well, it would have been possible to learn and use a few common spells as a stopgap measure, but it would have been a bit awkward.”

“Hmm, I think it was a bit like that on the first day… … ”

Yuna said, recalling the way Yumi had acted during their first day of training.

‘I felt like I barely won after rolling around like a bean worm.’

Yuna thought of Yumi like that and asked with a puzzled look.

“But it was pretty good the next day?”

Shudder-!

Yumi’s shoulders shook violently once.

“Yeah, I know that because I heard it from you guys.”

Do Yu-jin answered while recalling how she had been caught by the two people in the past and had been told all sorts of trivial things until she went to sleep.

“Honestly, I didn’t think it was particularly strange when I heard that. I just thought that he was quickly absorbing Tamamo’s memories that he had previously absorbed in real combat.”

“Huh? Then that wasn’t it?”

“Well?”

Do Yu-jin trailed off and turned his gaze towards Yu-mi.

“Huh?”

Yuna, who was talking with Do Yu-jin, also naturally turned her head in that direction.

“?”

Erio, who was absentmindedly checking his condition by touching various parts of his body, also looked at Yumi absentmindedly as if he was in the mood.

A situation where everyone’s eyes are focused on one person.

“Uuuu… … Don’t look at me with those eyes!”

Yumi, who was already feeling uneasy under the three men’s persistent gazes, let out a scream.

“Even if everything Abi has said so far is true! Doesn’t that mean that this body has learned fox magic by conversing with the main body?”

“Well, that’s true.”

Do Yu-jin quietly suppressed her desire to question whether that was a confession to having talked to Tamamo.

‘Since we’ve already started, should we just keep going? I’m also a little curious about when I’ll be able to be honest.’

Do Yu-jin, who had decided to proceed like that, continued speaking.

“Actually, I also just let it go until then. I thought that Yumi could grow so much in such a short period of time.”

“Ugh, umm… … Father really has a talent for making the obvious seem new.”

Yumi said with a mixture of emotions of joy at being trusted and a pang of conscience.

Yumi, who was confused between two emotions, slightly raised her head and said.

“But then, where on earth did you get that feeling?”

Huh-!

“Mu, of course this body didn’t do such a thing… … ”

Yuna and Erio looked at Yumi with eyes that were more pitiful than anything else.

And Do Yu-jin pointed at the two people and said.

“That’s because of how it looks now.”

“Huh?”

When Yumi opened her eyes wide as if she didn’t understand what it meant, Do Yu-jin snickered and said.

“Yumi, you learned conversation based on Tamamo’s memories, so you speak like an old, outdated person… … ”

“What, what is it?”

“But when I just watched him act quietly, he had a pure and lively, yet somewhat immature feeling like a child who had just come into the world.”

Do Yu-jin continued speaking, ignoring Yu-mi, who was gaping as if to ask if that was true.

“But not recently.”

The innocent eyes that look at the world have not changed.

But sometimes Yumi would show strangely outstanding insight.

‘And that peaked just a little while ago.’

The moment Yumi explained about the color ball a little while ago, the sight she showed was not something that could be simply described as a flash of insight.

Because it was clearly an action that revealed the wisdom gained through knowledge and various experiences accumulated over a long period of time.

Of course, Yumi wasn’t really a child, so if she met a good person and had a deep conversation, it wouldn’t be surprising if such a change occurred.

But Do Yu-jin knew.

‘Except for the cosplay club members, Yuna and Yumi don’t have any friends.’

His two daughters are… no, they have limited connections.

So there is only one possible answer.

‘I don’t know how things went wrong, but Tamamo, who somehow managed to preserve his consciousness, spoke to Yumi, and Yumi responded to the conversation.’

Let Do Yu-jin solve her mystery and tell it to you.

“That, that’s… … ”

Yumi fidgeted with her hands with a restless expression.

It was a complete contrast to how he had confidently expressed his thoughts to Do Yu-jin a little while ago.

When she was like that, whining while holding onto her own tail.

Hwaaat-!

As if to save her from a corner, a sphere containing both white and black colors suddenly appeared above Yumi’s head.

“Ah, indeed.”

Do Yu-jin, who had gained some insight after seeing that sight, muttered with a small exclamation.

“I was wondering how you managed to survive in that situation without disappearing, but it turns out you survived by using the fox bead.”

-Hmm, I guess it’s not appropriate to say I survived.

The fox bead calmly answered Do Yu-jin’s words while floating in the air.