I Raised a Nine Tailed Fox Wrongly - Chapter 9

Ran, who was shaking like an aspen, bowed his head. There was a large puddle of urine underneath.

The little fox was only a little larger than the palm of her hand. The collapsing showcase must have felt like a collapsing mountain.

Scyllia didn’t say anything, and hurriedly searched the shelf near her. Then she pulled out some fabric and carefully wrapped the shocked fox’s little body around it.

The urine collected underneath it was absorbed and wiped away. So that no one could see it.

“You’re not hurt, are you?”

Scyllia, who had buried the yellow-dyed heavy cloth in her arms, asked carefully.

Ran looked up at her in a bewildered way.

Scyllia, who was rubbing Ran’s body here and there, was relieved to find out that he was okay and exhaled her breath.

“Thank God.”

Without hesitation, she went to the bathroom, embracing the damp cloth and Ran. When she unfolded it, the cloth that wrapped Ran turned out to be a wool sweater she had bought for the winter.

‘I can’t use it anymore.”

She took it off lightly and adjusted the temperature of the water.

Foam, which had swelled abundantly, had long since disappeared. His thin and skinny body was trembling, and she felt regretful.

“Is it cold?”

Scyllia started rinsing Ran’s silvery hair with lukewarm water.

His fur, which had sunk in urine, was also rinsed with water by squeezing out water with her hands. Ran hardened and did not rebel a finger.

“Good boy.”

“….”

“Here.”

Scyllia placed the toy duck in front of Ran.

Ran looked down at the duck.

While the fox stared intently at the little duck, Scyllia finished the last rinse and wrapped the fox in a fluffy towel.

“Do you like ducks?”

She put the duck in the towel Ran was wrapped in, and took a brisk walk.

“Ugh.”

At the same time, a short moan broke out.

Ran’s ears, which had been drooping beneath, stood at once.

The fox turned his head and looked at Celia.

She had closed her eyes tightly so Scyllia didn’t notice that Ran was staring at her. Cold sweat was forming on her forehead as if she felt excruciating pain.

Scyllia opened her eyes with a white face, and after she dried the seemingly anxious Ran with a towel until he was dry, she went into the bathroom to take a shower.

After a while, Scyllia came out with only her gown on, and her ankle was puffy like a pufferfish.

“Of all things, my ankle.”

Scyllia, who muttered in an annoyed tone, laid her exhausted body on the couch.

As if it was nothing. Ran sat in the middle of her living room, looking at Scyllia.

For a long time.

“What’s the matter? Are you bored?”

Until now, Ran and Scyllia have been fighting in a really messy fight.

Scyllia was a tough person that never got tired.

She consistently talked to a beast, no, monster, who couldn’t communicate and only attack her. He wondered how a person could be so consistent as a pine tree.

“What is it?”

Ran’s multicolored golden eyes returned to Scyllia.

She looked into Ran’s eyes with a squinted look.

“What’s the matter? You must have eaten the life energy of the beast today… Are you still hungry?”

Scyllia, who tilted her head, got up from her seat and limped to the kitchen.

‘If you meet the human who calls your name, treat them dearly. You have to protect them. Do you understand?’

His mother’s voice rang in his ears, that’s what she said just before she died.

‘Don’t miss it, Ran, don’t miss it……’

Ran was puzzled by that.

Why did his mother say it was a ‘human’?

The being who calls Ran’s name may not be a human being, it could be a spirit creature or a monster, right?

It was as if she knew in advance that Scyllia and Ran would meet……

“Hm…”

Ran, followed Scyllia who whinnied around. She was contemplating which of the many kinds of snacks she had kept would be good to give now.

She took out a dried beef and limped back into the living room.

Suddenly, Ran cried a short sound, as he followed her back.

Just stay put. Don’t move. That’s what he meant, but……

“I’ll give it to you soon.”

Scyllia thought it meant something else and eagerly tore the meat apart. Then she smiled, holding out a snack with a childlike face.

“Come on. Would you like to smell it? It smells sweet.”

Ran only looked into Scyllia’s eyes.

“You don’t like it? That’s weird. They said they used good meat…”

Scyllia sniffed the meat with a disappointed look on her face.

She seemed more concerned about the snack being refused than her injury. Ran’s gaze slid over Scyllia’s swollen ankle. It was an injury she got while trying to save him.

Her hands still smelled a little fishy. It was because she wiped Ran’s urine with her bare hands. without any change in expression.

The fox sniffed Scyllia’s ankle with his pointed snout and licked the swollen skin a couple of times.

Ran, the little nine-tailed fox, showed favor to Scyllia for the first time.

Small, but clear.

It was an emotional moment.

But Scyllia…

“As expected, do you find people more delicious?”

Ran stopped licking and lifted his head.

It was an absurd thing to conclude, and even Ran eyes were blank.

But the tactless Scyllia took it as an affirmation.

“Humans are a no.”

Would he have come and licked your flesh to eat you? He made a negative cry in that sense, but Scyllia became cold in her own accord.

“No. If you hurt someone, I have no choice but to lock you up.”

“Aung!”

“Are people really that tasty? Maybe it’s because you don’t have enough energy?”

Scyllia rose from her seat, shaking her head with her darkened face.

Her face grimaced at the sharp pain that climbed up to her thighs. Ran, who had been anxious hovering around her seat, raised his head and cried out.

“Keang!”

Now he was making all sorts of weird noises.

‘You must be hungry.’

Scyllia, who became even more serious, moved her steps with enthusiasm. Ran followed her like a leech and cried out something like a nagging tone with every step she took.

“Waun, wong, woong, waung.”

Sit quietly in your seat!

“Okay, okay. I’ll give you some food.”

“Waun, wong. Uuungg.”

Your ankle hurts! Rest!

“All right, I got you. Why are you rushing me?”

She tried to lift the cage in the corner of the room, as it weighed on her ankle she chewed her lower lip.

“I have to go to the clinic tomorrow.”

Ran was so frustrated that he was about to go crazy.

“Waunggg!”

“All right. Let’s eat here today.”

Scyllia removed the animal from her cage. When the chicken found the nine-tailed fox, it was startled and screamed in horror.

“Eat chicken, not people.”

“……”

At last, the brilliant monster, Ran the nine-tailed fox, finally realized.

That Scyllia common sense was beyond despair, it was around the hopeless level.

A cohabitation between a witty male, more precisely, a nine-tailed male fox monster, and a tough but senseless Paladin, was akin to a storm ready to hit.

* * *

“She got a baby nine-tailed fox.”

The man, dressed in white from head to toe in a uniform, rolled up the corners of his mouth without looking out the window.

He was a man like snow, his tie, vest, and buttons were all white. His hair was as white as his complexion, so anyone who didn’t know the man could guess that he was a high-ranking clergyman.

He continued, tapping his forearm with his white cotton gloved hand.

“Then that nine-tailed fox is truly the monster with the power of a Heavenly Beast.”

“It was the right decision not to kill him along with his mother the Heavenly Fox.”

“Yes. If Scyllia recognized him, it’s certain that it has Holy energy.”

The mysteriously shining silver eyes of the man became hazy as if recalling the past.

“Scyllia is now twenty-three.”

The man returned to his seat, sat down at his work desk that was clean and dust-free, and held up a quill.

“How can she survive for 23 years? She’s a real tough cookie.”

The man muttered with a sullen face.

“It doesn’t feel good that she preservers like this trying to live.”

“……”

“In the end, she will die, not knowing it was all in vain.”

The man beckoned to the giant full-length mirror by the window, and the mirror that had been reflecting the man reflected Scyllia.

“Look. Didn’t she even become a paladin to live? Coward, that’s why I hate her even more.”

The man’s face darkened.

“Isn’t fate too harsh?”

At that moment, Scyllia in the mirror picked the fox.

The wrinkled golden eyes of the fox, who was held in her arms, suddenly looked at the man beyond the mirror.

Jikingking. 

A golden spider web-like rupture spread across the mirror reflecting Scyllia.

The smiling man’s lips closed in straight line. The shards of the broken mirror went black for an instant, then immediately reflected his distorted figure.

“The young fox’s power is quite impressive.”

“Did he sense it?”

“What can that little thing know?”

The man calmly murmured.

“That nine-tailed fox must be killed when it becomes an adult. Scyllia will raise him well, by then he will surely become a Heavenly Beast.”

The man wrote with a quill and ordered.

“It’s going to get annoying when he grows up.”

“Yes.”

The prostrated attendant vacated his seat like the wind.

The man who had been checking the documents for a while suddenly rolled his eyes at the broken mirror.

He opened his thin lips to let out a sigh.

“Isn’t life difficult? Scyllia.”

“……”

“It’s easier for you to die. Fool.”

He whispered quietly

“Don’t hold on like a beggar and die by yourself already.”

Don’t let my hands get bloody.

Then, I’ll bury you in a sunny place and give you lilies every year. Don’t worry about leaving your holy sacrifice in writing and passing it on to the next generation.

Therefore….

“You’re going to die, Scyllia. Do you understand?”

An elegant smile hung on the man’s thin lips.