episode_0082
by fnovelpia“You shouldn’t play with Tuesday. Then, a monster will come to visit you at night?”
“Is that true, Tuesday?”
“Kang?”
“See? Tuesday is like that too. Come on, let’s go.”
A mother fox takes a little fox home to hang out with her little Tuesday. Tuesday, not knowing what that means, smiles and waves.
The Hoyo people didn’t even pay much attention to Hwa-yo and just passed by like a screen. However, there were some who approached Hwa-yo occasionally.
“Tuesday, can you go outside and lure some monsters? I think I need to go hunting.”
“Kang!”
Tuesday, who was just happy that they were talking to her and asking her favors, answered innocently.
Tuesday stops at the sound of the wind as she tries to leave the fox den. She answers without thinking, but she still seems a little scared.
I tried to ask the hunting party to go with me, but they just smiled and tilted their heads, as if they didn’t know why.
“Why are you like that? What’s wrong?”
“Kang… .”
“The sun will set soon. If we delay, more monsters will come out. We should hurry and come back before then.”
To Hwayo, who still didn’t know how to read people’s feelings from their expressions, that smile only seemed kind. Hwayo ran out of the fox hole without any doubts.
In this way, Tuesday was a convenient tool in the fox den.
It could be used to scare children into obeying commands, and sometimes as a lure for monsters.
There is no tool in the world more convenient than this, as it does not even allow you to say no or refuse.
It was that night that Tuesday, who had taken on the role of a lure, returned. By the time she returned after shaking off the monster, the sun had already set. By the time she returned to the village, the hunting party had already returned a long time ago.
Today the hunting was so good that they must have held a meat party, as the village was filled with the smell of meat.
“Oh, you’re back already.”
“Kang!”
“Okay, you worked hard. Eat this and rest a little.”
Today was Tuesday, and he was looking forward to having meat, but what the man dropped on the floor were a few potatoes that had been eaten by bugs.
Tuesday blinked as she looked at the potato rolling on the ground, but the man had already turned away.
I went back to my house without looking back. Soon after, I could hear people laughing and chatting from the house where light was streaming in.
Tuesday, sitting on the floor in a ‘wait’ position.
“Kang.”
He lowered his head and began to eat the potatoes.
Those days repeated, and Lin, who had been watching over Tuesday, let out a small sigh.
‘it’s annoying.’
I thought something special was going to happen, but it’s just a meaningless scene that keeps repeating itself over and over again. It’s not like I can intervene, though.
Even if I try to leave Baekungok, I come to my senses and return to the fox den. It’s as if I have to solve something in this fox den.
So what could be solved in this little fox hole? It wasn’t hard to guess. Lin went underground.
Finding the shrine was not difficult as we followed what the elder had done.
The shrine we arrived at was dustless. However, a fox I had never seen before, yet was familiar, was sitting on the altar.
It was quite irreverent to see them playing with the golden fox beads, throwing them around like toy balls.
But anyone who knows her won’t think it’s disrespectful, because she’s the owner of the beads.
Although she resembled Lin, her body was larger than hers in many ways. Especially her chest. She also had nine tails, four more than Lin.
Before Hongho, before Tuesday, the being called the Gumiho greeted Rin.
“Hello, kid? Did you come here because you wanted this? But what should I do~ It’s mine.”
“Do I need to call you kid? You’re Rin.”
“Don’t get me wrong. I’ve never been mean, and I’ve never craved affection. I’ve never been weak like you.”
“Then why was it sealed? Wasn’t it sealed because it was weak?”
“… … .”
A nine-tailed fox with its mouth shut.
Lin smiles with conversion.
“If it was Lin, it wouldn’t have been sealed. What a sloppy~”
“Shut up. Before I break the marble.”
“It’s so annoying.”
It would have been really difficult if that had continued, so Lindo stopped joking around there.
Lin denied that the nine-tailed fox was a different being from her, but Lin denied her denial. After all, it was their first meeting, so there was no way they could communicate this well.
It was possible to talk comfortably without any burden. It wasn’t like that at first, but she was definitely Rin.
I didn’t like it though.
“Rin, I don’t want to grow old like that.”
“If you get involved with ugly people, this is what happens.”
“Ugly things?”
“There are. Those who betrayed me and clung to the sky.”
The nine-tailed fox was looking at the wall of the shrine, but Lin could tell that her gaze was directed far into the distance.
Lin, who was trying to think about what it was, quickly gave up on the thought. What was important to Lin now was the fox bead.
“Rin’s busy. The owner is waiting outside.”
The nine-tailed fox looked at Rin as if she were looking at a slime stuck to the ground.
“Why are you looking at me like that? It makes me feel bad.
“Haa… A nine-tailed fox is a slave. No matter how much time has passed, how can this be? It’s less surprising that the world has turned upside down. Should I just take her body and kill her… … .”
Rin’s expression distorted into a grim expression at the nine-tailed fox’s muttered words.
“If you do that, you won’t be safe either.”
“I’m a ideological being right now, so I can only do self-harm, and then only you will be hurt.”
Even if I told her the truth, Lin’s expression would not lighten. Her expression was determined, as if she would even harm herself if it came down to it.
On the other hand, the gumiho twisted the corners of her mouth with a sneer at Rin’s threat. As if she was taking revenge just before, she savored Rin’s emotions like an emotional predator.
“읏차.”
The nine-tailed fox, who had enjoyed herself to the fullest, jumped down from the altar and extended her fox bead to Lin.
Lin was about to accept it even though she didn’t like it, but the gumiho threw the bead back.
“Ah!”
Lin lets out a sigh of regret as the bead disappears from her fingertips. The moment the bead falls to the floor, it lightly climbs onto the nine-tailed fox’s tail.
It plays with the marbles as if it were a ball, wagging its tail gracefully here and there.
“You…!”
“You really have so many expressions? You look like a completely different person, even though your face is the same.”
The nine-tailed fox giggled as she looked at Lin with a sharp expression. Then she held out the bead again.
“Are you kidding me again?” Lin looked at the marble and the nine-tailed fox alternately with suspicious eyes, and carefully took the marble.
Oh, you’re giving it to me more readily than I thought?
As soon as I had that thought, sunlight burst out from the fox bead just like before. At the same time, space began to distort.
“Why is it like this?”
“Going back to where you were.”
“What was the ordeal?”
“Something I like. You, you like it a little.”
The content of the ordeal is what the nine-tailed fox likes. What kind of absurd thing is this? Thanks to that, she was able to pass the ordeal easily, but for some reason, Lin felt bad.
Even that seemed to please the nine-tailed fox as she snickered.
“Let’s go back now. Let’s see the face of the master you wanted to see so badly.”
Light filled the field of vision, and soon the space became completely distorted.
***
Phew!
The light illuminating the dark temple exploded in an instant and clung to Lin’s entire body.
It was as if the entire body was covered in latex. Then the light split open and, as if it was shedding its skin, a piece fell off with a bang!
The fading light.
Lin blinked her eyes slowly a few times and came to her senses. The musty smell was bothering Suin’s sensitive sense of smell again, which meant she had returned to the real shrine.
“I guess it’s over.”
Behind him were the same Karami and Elder as when he had picked up the marble. It felt like quite some time had passed, but the illusion seemed to be an illusion and had no effect on reality.
“I think so.”
“Congratulations. It’s finally Yukmiho.”
When Lin checked her tail, she found that there were six of them. Not only that, but as the tail grew, her body grew along with it.
More than just her height, her feminine curves have become more visible even outside of her clothes. She’s become one step closer to the nine-tailed fox she just saw.
Lin checked my chest.
‘It’s bigger than it is now.’
Is that what happens when you become a gumiho?
It’s not a bad thing.
Because as a gumiho who charms people, it’s just an advantage.
If there was a powerful weapon that could seduce the master, it would be welcome.
“The fox bead is gone.”
Lin checked her hand. The fox bead she was clearly holding was gone. But Lin could tell.
“It’s for Lin.”
The bead was absorbed into Lin’s fox bead. Another energy that was not her magical power was hovering in her dantian.
A warm, sun-like aura. And a shallow shadow in an area where sunlight does not reach. A glimpse of the nine-tailed fox’s power.
-Huh. Is this guy the owner? He doesn’t look particularly attractive.
Lin flinched at the voice that suddenly rang in her head. Swish- The nine-tailed fox spirit that flowed out of Lin wrapped itself around Karami like a snake.
-The face isn’t bad, but is this the energy of the World Tree? Hmm, it’s interesting, but that’s about it. Everything else is too bad. At this rate, you won’t even be able to take care of yourself.
“Yes, why are you…?”
Lin is startled.
“Why are you here? Didn’t you disappear?”
-You took my power. Are you trying to eat it for free? In return, you borrowed my body to see the world.
“I never said that!”
-They say that when you make a contract, you have to consider every little thing, kid. If you’re not satisfied, just spit it out.
I would like to do it right away, but I have already become entangled with Lin’s magical power. It is impossible to separate them.
The nine-tailed fox knows that very well, which is why she says such things.
“What’s going on?”
“What’s going on? A nine-tailed fox has appeared!”
“The nine-tailed fox has been here all along.”
The elder who spoke like that was staring at Rin, not the gumiho. The elder’s reaction was that he could neither see nor feel the gumiho’s presence.
-You can see it because you received my power. Other people can’t see me.
“I can see it all.”
-ok?
The nine-tailed fox looked at Karami, letting out a strange sound. It was clear that the nine-tailed fox was looking at Karami, as his gaze met hers exactly.
-Why can’t you see it?
“Because I’m Lin’s master. I know everything about Lin.”
-… … I see. You look like you’re connected to the chains.
To say it’s bad is to cancel it.
He is not an ordinary man.
But I think it would have been better for me to be ordinary.
It will make you realize how foolish it was to enslave a nine-tailed fox.
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