I'm a thankful fox in Tokyo

Chapter 99: I will go, dragging my tail in the mud

call!
At this time, a strong wind blew, and a ball of mist that looked like a fox flew across the sky.

In just a blink of an eye, the entire alley became hazy, and the street lights were filled with a warm yellow glow.

After the strange white mist settled, it transformed into a white fox with two tails.

Its appearance is not ferocious and is no different from an ordinary white fox, except that it looks a little more beautiful.

But for some reason, it makes people feel scared and subconsciously want to escape.

"Monster, monster!"

When the two men who were fighting with Iori Tadamichi saw this, they first took a few steps back, were stunned for several seconds, then showed a look of horror, turned around and wanted to run.

call!
Several orange-red fireballs appeared around the white fox. These fireballs fell to the ground around the two people and then spread rapidly.

The fire grew with the wind, and eventually formed a flame wave several meters high, surrounding the two fleeing people as if it had intelligence.

The flames shone on the injured Iori Tadamichi's face. He breathed a sigh of relief and leaned against the wall.

He took a look at the white fox that suddenly appeared with a complicated expression. This was the first time in all these years that he could see the appearance of a monster clearly.

Apart from having an extra tail, it seems to be no different from an ordinary fox.

But that pigeon looks like it’s almost as big as a falcon, right?

Iori Tadamichi then turned his gaze to Owari Saburo, and remembering how he had just hurt Miko, he suddenly became furious, and was ready to rush over with the sword in his hand tightly grasped.

Seeing this, Xiuji flew over quickly, landed on the ground and shook his head: "You shouldn't have killed him. If you go to jail, who will take care of Miss Iori?"

Iori Tadamichi was stunned for a second, "You know Miko?"

"You mortal, you have no vision!" Xiuji replied proudly: "I am Xiuji Zaemon, and my master is the lord of Dongye Castle, Dongye Yu."

It turns out to be Higashino-kun’s shikigami?
Iori Tadamichi suddenly realized and was completely relieved. He then looked at the two-tailed white fox with fireballs floating around it.

"And what is it?"

Xiuji coughed and said, "It is also the lord's shikigami."

While the man and the demon were talking, Owari Satake on the other side had a gloomy face and looked a little helpless.

All this happened so suddenly that even a mentally strong habitual murderer like him was a little confused.

He didn't know what to do for a moment, so he had to hold the boning knife tightly in his hand and face the white fox. Only the knife in his hand could give him a sense of security.

Higashino Yu ignored the knife-wielding fugitive behind him and squatted in front of Iori Miko. He first moved closer to check on the girl who was holding a dead stray cat in a daze.

Her hair was a little messy, one of her ceramic fox hairpins was missing, and her face was stained with blood and tears, looking a little dirty. Her smart eyes stared blankly at Dong Yeyu.

"Hello, Fox-kun." She said softly with tears in her eyes.

"Hello, Yuko." Higashino Yu answered in his heart.

When he found that she was not seriously hurt, Dongye Yu breathed a sigh of relief and placed his slightly illusory claws on her head as a comfort.

This damn monster. Owari Satake felt that he could not just sit there and wait for death, staring at Higashino Yu's fox neck, and wanted to clench the boning knife in his hand and chop it several times.

He could imagine the feeling of the sharp knife cutting through flesh and breaking bones, just like he had killed the weasel before, and he was going to kill the fox in front of him.

But the strange thing was that even though it was now defenseless with its back facing him, Owarisabume still couldn't swing his sword.

He felt as if a huge rock was pressing on his chest. Just breathing took all his strength. His body was shaking uncontrollably and he couldn't even run away.

All of this fell into Xiuji's eyes.

It stood on the awning of the pub with its head held high, looking down from above, glancing proudly, sneering in its heart: "Ridiculous mortals, they have already found a way to die."

Higashino Yu turned his head and looked indifferently at Owari Saburo and the two people trapped in the fire circle with his fox eyes.

Then he looked at Xiuji.

Xiuji immediately understood and coughed twice while standing on the awning in his old, shrill voice.

"My master wants to ask you something. I ask, you answer. Whoever answers more and more truthfully will be let go, and only one person will survive."

It seemed strange for a pigeon to talk, but in this situation, it seemed perfectly normal—it was better than a fox talking.

Xiuji said, giving them a few seconds to prepare, then asked.

"Who are you? What do you want to do?"

The two people trapped in the circle of fire were still a little slow to react, and Owari Saburo spoke first.

"I'm Owari Satake, from Hokkaido, and we want to kidnap her."

"why?"

The two people trapped by the flames reacted and rushed to answer: "Yes, someone hired us and said that they would give me 5 million yen if I finished this job."

"Who hired you?" Xiuji continued to ask.

They all rushed to answer the subsequent questions. It was very confusing, but the general answer could be summarized.

The employer hid behind the scenes and even used an overseas phone number. He only told them to call him after the kidnapping was successful to get the next instructions.

The two people standing in the fire circle were roasted until their faces were red, they were sweating all over, their hair became dry and curly, and they shouted at Xiuji in pain.

"We answered, please let us out, we are about to catch fire, we are about to be set on fire, hurry, ahhhhhhh——"

call!
The flames of the fire circle seemed to lick the corners of their clothes, and the dry clothes instantly began to burn.

They let out shrill screams and rolled on the ground with flames all over their bodies. Soon the smell of burnt barbecued meat filled the air.

Soon, the screams gradually died down, and the flames on them occasionally made crackling sounds.

Two translucent ignorant souls stood up from the burning corpse and looked around in confusion.

Higashino Yu, who was squatting next to Iori Miko, looked at them coldly.

The two dead people seemed to have seen something horrible and fled in panic, but before they had run far, a faint blue flame rose up as if spontaneously igniting.

Screams that were a hundred times more miserable than before were heard. In the end, they tried to crawl out with their mouths open, but they could no longer make any sound. Their expressions were as painful as the souls fallen in the scroll of hell.

Owari Satake looked at the miserable state of the two people, cold sweat dripped down his forehead, this fox demon seemed different from the weasel he had encountered before.
The pigeon standing on the awning said again: "Call him and tell him that you succeeded. Ask for the location. Don't leave any loopholes."

Owarisatake took out his phone tremblingly, took a few deep breaths, managed to calm down, and dialed the number.

"Hey, we caught her, where to go now?"

"Drive to Mount Takao. I'll send the exact location to your cell phone later. There will be someone there to pick you up."

"it is good."

After he hung up the phone, he told Xiuji and Higashino Yu the location of Mt. Takao.

In fact, when he heard that they were hired, Higashino Yu had already guessed who was the mastermind behind the scenes, but he was not sure yet.

But at this point, it doesn’t matter whether there is evidence or not. As long as anyone is related to this matter, I will not let them go.

Xiuji said disdainfully: "Go away, you rat."

Owari Satake looked at the two monsters in disbelief. He didn't expect that they would actually let him go.

"Thank you, thank you."

He swallowed, turned around and ran, but after he took a few steps, orange-red sparks flew under his feet.

Owari Satake fell silent and looked back at the white fox squatting not far away and the pigeon accompanying it.

call!
Flames shot up into the sky, and the world before one's eyes was suddenly filled with orange-red flames. The flames licked the skin all over the body, and the intense pain made people scream.

Owari Saburo had heard such screams of death many times, and he was a little dazed at the moment, and then he realized that this time it came from his own mouth.

Dong Yeyu watched with his own eyes as Owari Satake struggled, rolled on the ground, and finally gradually lost his movement. After waiting for a while, the confused soul rose from the corpse, and the aura of the underworld messenger began to appear in the surrounding streets.

I don’t know if it was because there were too many people whose souls were scattered, but the messenger from the underworld came very quickly.

Higashino Yu squinted his eyes, stood up and leaped forward, transforming into a fox demon bigger than a tiger, and bit towards Owari Satake's soul with his big mouth full of sharp teeth.

Owari Satake was awakened from his confused state by the breath.

Seeing the fox coming towards him, he rolled and screamed as he ran away, "You said you would let me go, but you didn't keep your word!"

Even murderers who disregard life are afraid of the punishment of having their souls torn apart.

After all, they are indifferent to other people's lives.

Xiu Ji laughed and said, "We are monsters. How can monsters have credibility?"

After a few ups and downs, Owari Satake was caught up by Higashino Yu, and his sharp teeth pierced into his back and passed through his chest like a hook in a slaughterhouse.

"Ah ah ah ah ah--"

Higashino Yu bit his spirit and picked him up. Owari Satake struggled in the fox's mouth, his limbs moving around and his expression was extremely painful.

Dong Ye Yu lowered his head and stared at the spirit in his mouth. The murderous intent in his heart remained unabated. His eyes were full of anger. He bit down hard, like a gate knife.

click!
Like the sound of breaking glass, the struggling spirit was bitten to pieces.

Dong Ye Yu opened his mouth and spit the filthy spirit onto the ground, and a dark blue flame immediately ignited.

Owari Satake, who had been broken into several pieces, couldn't even run away. He could only stare with frightened eyes. The pain of his soul being burned made him unable to think. He just instinctively let out the most miserable scream he had ever heard in his life.

In the past, he often wondered curiously what the people who died under his knife were thinking, and now he finally knew the answer to this question.

In extreme pain, people think of nothing but fear.

After a short while, the screams disappeared, and the dark blue flame lost its fuel and gradually died out.

Only the orange-red flames on the three bodies were still burning, occasionally making firecracker-like sounds, and the alley was filled with a disgusting smell of meat.

Xiuji said to the stunned Iori Tadamichi, "Let's go, Iori Palace Master. When we came here, the lord asked us to escort you back to the shrine."

"We have to go back to the shrine."

Iori Tadamichi swallowed and came back to his senses.

Three people were killed by monsters in front of the old man, their souls were burned to death, and their bodies became barbecued human flesh. Anyone who saw this scene would have their brains shut down.

If he didn't have some knowledge about monsters, and if these two monsters were not Higashino Yu's Shikigami, no matter how strong Iori Tadamichi was mentally, he would be scared to death.

He picked up the crutch stained with cat blood, walked to Iori Miko, smiled with difficulty, and touched the girl's head.

"It's alright, Miko."

"Grandpa, Meow Ji and the others"

Iori Miko's lips pursed slightly, and her glass-like eyes couldn't help but be filled with tears again.

She held the dead calico cat in her arms, not caring that the blood had stained her white dress deep red.

Looking around, I found that most of the cats who were protecting themselves were motionless, and a few were lying in the corners, breathing rapidly and looking like they were about to die.

Only a few seemed to be fine and were licking their wounds.

Iori Miko sobbed, wiped her tears and begged, "Let's take them back to the shrine, Grandpa."

"The stream at Ayase-zaka is very cool in the summer, and the red maples in the fall are very beautiful. The festival is very lively, with fireworks shows, and tourists will bring delicious food, and Haruhara will always protect them."

"Grandpa, will Meow-hime and the others be happy sleeping in the shrine?"

Iori Tadamichi looked at the cats in silence.

"Of course I will. I will report this to the God Inari, and the God will bless them."

Higashino Yu recognized these cats. Several of them had appeared in Cat Town before, and he didn't know why they came here.

As a result, there will be fewer cats in Cat Town. Mrs. Sakurada will be sad when she finds out.

Dong Ye Yu remained silent. Even though a prompt indicating that he had successfully repaid the favor appeared in his field of vision, he did not rush to look at the reward. He squatted quietly beside the girl.

Iori Miko looked up at the big fox beside her, watching its long, white fur, like a piece of heavenly clothing, fluttering in the wind.

Although she didn't know him, he gave her a special feeling of familiarity.

Afterwards, Iori Tadamichi spent some time transferring the cats to those people's cars and drove Iori Miko back to the shrine.

He planned to send Miko back to the shrine first, and then take the surviving cats to the pet hospital. These cats saved his and Miko's lives, and they had to be cured no matter how much it cost.

Higashino Yu and Xiuji escorted them all the way to the torii gate of Inari Shrine, and watched the grandfather and grandson slowly walk up the stairs leading to the shrine until they disappeared at the end of the stairs.

"Xiuji, let's go and kill someone."

Dong Ye Yu called out and was about to turn into mist and leave.

Just then, a woman appeared next to the stone sculpture of a fox in front of the torii.

She was wearing a witch's costume, the cleavage on her chest could not be concealed even by the wide sleeves of her robe, and she was holding an exquisite pipe.

This time her face was no longer blurred, but she was wearing a white fox mask with her features drawn in painted lines.

"Have you really thought about it?"

She looked down at Dong Yeyu, and her slightly seductive voice sounded particularly lazy.

"Those three people's crimes are unforgivable. Killing them won't affect anything, but it's different for the others."

"If you kill it, your blood will pollute your body and you will fall into the evil ways of demons. No matter how much you practice, you will only be despised by the gods and called a wild fox demon. You will not be able to be on the stage and there will be no possibility of becoming a messenger of the gods."

"No god would be willing to let a demon tainted with blood be his messenger. Whether it's a demon slayer or a god, if they meet you, they will probably hunt you down."

"Perhaps you will only be able to keep the company of demons in the future."

"But if you stop here, you will have a chance to become Gozen Inari within a hundred years."

The miko paused here and said, "Lord Inari is very optimistic about you."

Is this considered recruiting? After hearing this, Dong Yeyu fell silent and looked into the distance.

The night sky was like a black swan blanket, with stars like broken diamonds hanging in the air. The brilliance of the moonlight seemed to have condensed into a river of thick fog, dripping down to the earth from an infinite height. The bustling lights of Tokyo became hazy in the moonlight, just like the road ahead for oneself.

Seven times have I despised my own soul.

The third time between right and easy it chose easy.

It is difficult for ordinary people to choose between right and easy, and Higashino Yu is no exception.

He was in a complicated mood at the moment, with a lot to say, and he was even struggling and hesitating in his heart.

The easy path is too damn easy. If you use it to test cadres, which cadre can withstand such a test?
Dong Ye Yu recited the Pure Tranquility Sutra for a while and found that it was no longer effective.

So I was a little annoyed and too lazy to think about all these things, letting the chaotic thoughts come and go in my mind.

Finally he found that there was only one thought left in his mind.

kill.

It was as if all the shackles on his body were removed. Dong Ye Yu breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that his ancestors were simple people with clear thoughts.

Higashino Yu looked at the witch wearing a fox mask and said it with a smile as if a burden had been lifted off his shoulders.

"I will go, dragging my tail in the mud."

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