“If you are curious, your Yuni could gladly show you…….”
“Pass.”
A chill wind—whoosh.
Jioh cut her off like a knife. He left not a sliver of opening.
[Your Constellation, “Reader of Fate,” swaggers like a principal wife, scoffing, “Since when are you trying that obvious government trick?”]
‘I’m not about to smack her down, but……’
There wasn’t much reason to indulge her, either.
People commonly call fox yokai lewd, bewitching things. Monsters that seduce and eat humans.
If foxes who’ve lived centuries and become spirit-beings heard that, it would seriously get on their nerves.
Their ultimate aim is to become an immortal—an enlightened being—or a divine spirit.
Foxes who spend day and night nurturing their marble have no bandwidth to bother with humans.
But the “Maegu” before him…… this fox “Yun,” who washed out of the immortal trial—was the exception.
“You’re gonna throw a tantrum about showing me ghosts again, aren’t you? Get lost. Shoo.”
“Y-Your Highness……”
Maegu’s eyes welled up.
Pitiful and pure to the point of ache, but Jioh didn’t even glance at her.…