I'm a thankful fox in Tokyo

Chapter 3: Not a human, but a high school fox
Dong Yeyu is not a human being.

Or to be more precise, Higashino Yu is a wild fox with a human soul.

Probably it should also be called a monster.

The reason why he has fallen to this point is related to a bizarre experience many years ago.

Dong Yeyu was originally an ordinary college graduate from a flower-growing family. When he was about to go to a company for an interview, he was accidentally hit by a dump truck that ran a red light while crossing the road.

I slept for a long time in the extremely warm feeling, and when I opened my eyes again, I had become a newly born wild fox.

After understanding his situation, Dongye Yu acted very reasonably.

After twenty years of studying hard, I finally carved out a path for myself in the college entrance examination where there were so many candidates competing for the single-plank bridge. After four years of baptism in college, I am about to achieve a stage-by-stage victory in my life.

As a result, it was hit by a dump truck and turned into a newborn wild fox.

This is like playing Don't Starve for dozens of hours all night and then contentedly decorating the base and getting ready to go to bed.

The computer suddenly freezes, oops! The saved game is gone! - Of course, my situation is ten thousand times worse than this.

This feeling can be summed up in one sentence - I want to die, no need to say more.

However, people's adaptability and desire to survive always exceed one's expectations.

Higashino Yu gradually began to accept the fact that he had turned into a fox, and grew up quickly under the care of his fox parents.

At the age of three months, according to fox custom, he was driven out of the house along with his other brothers and sisters and became a stray fox.

The brothers and sisters in this life were not very smart. They ignored Dong Ye Yu's call for unity and scattered away to make a living.

From then on, Dong Ye Yu began to live a wandering life with hunger and fullness.

Fortunately, the fox parents showed him some edible wild berries and young leaves and taught him how to hunt, otherwise he would have died shortly after being reborn.

Later, in order to avoid large wild beasts and monsters and obtain food that is more palatable - as modern humans, we really can't stand that kind of life of eating raw meat and drinking blood.

Dong Ye Yu left the mountains without looking back and came to the outer forest close to the human world.

He lived a wandering life like this for several months, until Dong Ye Yu felt that he was about to turn into a real wild fox. An accidental act of repaying the little girl who had saved him triggered his gratitude system.

The external manifestation of the gratitude system is a light curtain. Close your eyes and call it silently, and the light curtain will appear in your mind.

After many attempts and a long period of exploration, Higashino Yu also figured out some of the mechanisms.

When receiving help from others, the system will determine whether it can be considered a favor.

If the system determines that it owes a favor, it will freeze the moment of owing the favor in the form of a photo.

After that, as long as you repay the favor in this way, the system will judge the quality of this repayment based on many factors.

Finally, it is represented by grades A, B, C, and D. Each grade is also divided into upper, middle, and lower grades, and corresponding rewards are given according to the grade.

The rewards for Class A and Class B are very generous, but basically the benefactor must be in a life-and-death situation.

Level C requires helping the benefactor solve a disaster that can be considered a turning point in life - it is not a life-or-death disaster, but if it cannot be solved, it will at best cause serious injuries, and at worst, ruin the family.

Level D is easy to achieve, but the rewards are basically things you can’t use, a mess of unrecognizable materials and ores, or a ball of refined spiritual energy from heaven and earth, with a very low cost-effectiveness.

It took Higashino Yu more than ten years to roughly guess some of the judging factors.

In order to achieve the highest score, the benefactor's situation must first improve significantly. The better the situation, the higher the score.

The benefactor himself and the people he cares about must not be harmed, his property must not be damaged, and finally, you must thank yourself from the bottom of your heart.

Getting recognized by your benefactor is a cost-effective way to improve your rating.

At the same time, the benefactor's danger cannot be caused intentionally by oneself, otherwise the score will be directly lowered to the lowest level. There is no reward.

This basically blocks all loopholes for Higashino Yu to maliciously cheat points.

The first time he repaid his gratitude, Dong Ye Yu was almost poisoned to death by carbon monoxide in order to save the little girl - the fox's paws could not turn the gas switch.

At that time, I didn't know the existence of the system. I felt so desperate as a fox that I thought I might as well just give up.

Perhaps because of his selfless dedication, this time his gratitude score was actually A-, and he also received a gift package for his first successful gratitude, which was an extremely generous reward.

The novice gift pack gives a spell called Transfiguration, which can allow monsters that are not skilled enough to transform into humans.

This kind of transformation is different from the illusion transformation of ordinary little demons. Instead, it is a complete transformation into a human being on a physiological level, which is no different from a thousand-year-old demon that has cultivated into a human being.

The reward for repaying a favor is a method of cultivation - the Shangqing Lingbao Dongxuan Zhenjing.

Just the name sounds amazing.

The external manifestation of this magic was a jade scroll, which within half a second turned into countless glowing runes and drilled into Dong Ye Yu's brain.

At the same time, all kinds of cultivation methods, essentials, secrets and other knowledge were deeply engraved in his mind like an imprint.

After spending twenty minutes digesting and understanding it, Dong Yeyu could understand a little bit the feeling of "If I hear the truth in the morning, I can die in the evening."

This is the pure and righteous method of Xuanmen, the golden elixir path for cultivating both the body and the soul!
Immortality alone is enough to drive people crazy!
Even though what he got was only the cultivation method of the chapter on refining essence into qi, there was no follow-up, and he didn't know how to obtain the subsequent method.

But things will work out when the time comes.

After obtaining the cultivation method, Dong Ye Yu transformed from a jade fox into a cultivation examiner that same day.

The spiritual energy of this world is thin, only slightly better than the last days in the previous life where one was not allowed to become a spirit, so the speed of cultivation is very slow.

Dong Yeyu was very patient and not in a hurry. He absorbed the moonlight every night and the purple air every morning. He practiced diligently and later encountered some opportunities.

Finally, after six years, he opened up all the spiritual orifices and meridians in his body, his essence, energy and spirit were extremely abundant, he built the foundation of Taoism, and reached the minimum standard for performing the magical power of shapeshifting.

Successfully transformed from a fox into a child of about six years old.

Probably because of the soul, his appearance after transformation is almost the same as in his previous life - except that his eyes have become more like a fox's eyes.

However, before Higashino Yu could figure out how to show his skills after becoming a human, he was discovered while stealing clothes and was taken to a social welfare institution in Kyoto.

During this period, Higashino Yu learned Japanese and further mastered the mechanism of the gratitude system, and also performed some small acts of gratitude.

However, since I work in a welfare institution, I don’t come into contact with many people, have few opportunities to repay my gratitude, and the results of my gratitude are also average.

The reward can’t be said to be generous, but it’s probably just slightly better than nothing.

At best, you can be given a small ball of pure spiritual energy from heaven and earth, or some useless talisman paper, which will not bring much benefit to your cultivation.

Fortunately, although vegetables and fruits are expensive here, there is plenty of fried chicken and pork chops.

In addition, Dong Yeyu often turned into a fox and went out to beg for food when no one was paying attention, so he had enough nutrition.

He lived like this for nearly ten years until he was recommended by Mr. Miyazaki, the director of the welfare home, to study in Tokyo.

During this period, there were families who wanted to adopt him. Dong Yeyu's outstanding appearance and intelligence made many families express their willingness to adopt him, including some with particularly good conditions.

However, these enthusiastic invitations were rejected one by one by Higashino Yu.

As an adult with mature thoughts, I am very resistant to calling any creature other than the two old men from my previous life my parents.

Anyway, it’s not like he can’t survive if he isn’t adopted. At most his quality of life will be worse. Dong Ye Yu can’t be so unable to bear this little hardship.

(End of this chapter)