Douluo: Subversion Begins with the Arrival of the Traveler

Chapter 9 Fox Girl
"and who are you?"

Seeing that she had failed to catch Yu Keke, the woman followed her figure and discovered that besides the little monster, there was also a young man standing next to her.

Ignoring Yu Keke, the woman looked at Kong with a fierce gaze.

"Who are you to Yu Keke?"

Kong protected Yu Keke behind him and asked with a frown.

He had been standing aside for a long time. Every family has its own problems, and he didn't want to ask too much about Yu Keke's family affairs.

But the woman in front of him should be Yu Keke's family member. Why was she so cruel to Yu Keke and kept cursing his father?

"Me? Humph, I'm his mother!" The woman snorted coldly and continued:

"Kid, I advise you to stop meddling in other people's business! Yu Keke, get over here right now!"

"She is not my mother!" Yu Keke retorted, standing behind Kong.

"Bah! You ungrateful bastard! I've taken care of you and your dead dad for so long, and you still don't acknowledge me?"

Upon hearing this, the woman put her hands on her hips and started cursing again.

"Ok?"

Kong turned and looked at Yu Keke.

"let's go."

Yu Keke didn't answer, but stretched out her little hand and pulled Kong towards the depths of the village. Seeing this, Paimon flew over and followed closely.

"Yu Keke, come back to me!" The woman seemed a little unwilling, but did not chase after him.

Yu Keke ignored the insults behind her and just kept pulling Kong along, jogging until they stopped in front of a remote thatched hut.

"Brother, Paimon, I'm sorry for letting you get scolded along with me. Especially Paimon, I'm really sorry..."

The three of them stopped in front of the dilapidated thatched hut, and Yu Keke lowered her head and kept apologizing.

"It's okay." Kong shook his head, signaling Yu Keke not to worry about it.

"It's okay, Coco, you don't have to apologize. But who is that aunt to you? She's so mean!"

Paimon waved his hand and asked with lingering fear.

She didn't believe that the aunt was Yu Keke's mother, she didn't look like her at all!

"She's my new mother..."

Yu Keke lowered her head and took a long time to reveal the woman's identity.

"New mother?"

Paimon heard this and felt that things were becoming complicated.

"Well, it's cold outside. Let's go inside and talk. This is an uninhabited hut I found."

Yu Keke pointed to the thatched hut beside her and said.

"Keke, why do you want to stay out here alone?"

Entering the thatched cottage, Paimon looked at the large spider twirling on the web on the beam and asked fearfully.

"Sometimes when my dad goes out, I don't want to go home, so I stay here and wait for him to come back."

Yu Keke sighed. If possible, she also wanted to return to a warm home.

"By the way, you were talking about your 'new mother', what was that about?"

"She is the new mother my father found for me five years ago. My mother died after giving birth to me."

Yu Keke sat on the ground covered with hay, holding her little face with her hands, and talked about her situation in a depressed mood.

Yu Keke's father used to be a soul master and also joined the guard team of the Spirit Hall.

However, he was seriously injured in an operation and lost his soul power.

For a soul master, losing soul power is equivalent to losing half of his life, and most of the time he is not even as good as an ordinary person.

Although the Spirit Hall provides some monthly pensions to these spirit masters, that little pension is not enough to support their family's life in the city.
So her father brought his pregnant wife to this remote village to settle down.

Unexpectedly, her mother had an accident when giving birth to her. Due to the remote location, the nearest clinic was a long way away, so her mother passed away after giving birth to her.

After that, the father and daughter could barely live a stable life in the small village with the pension from the Spirit Hall. However, in order to give her a better life, her father decided to go hunting in the mountains with the adult men in the village to get animal skins and other things to sell.

The money I earn can be used as travel expenses to send her to the academy for training after her martial soul awakens.

Until one day, her father came back from outside and found a dying woman, and her peaceful life was broken.

Later her father married this woman and asked her to call her mother.

The new mother was pretty nice to her when her father was at home, but after her father left, she either beat or scolded her, and warned her not to tell her father.

Dad has worked very hard, and she doesn't want him to quarrel with the new mom, so she has been putting up with it until now.

"Hmm~ So has Coco always come here like this?"

Paimon felt that Coco was really pitiful.

"Well, my new mother always says that I'm useless and only know how to eat and waste food. I originally thought that once I awaken my martial soul, things will be different..."

Yu Keke lowered her head, as if she had something to hide.

"Hey, what is that martial spirit?"

Upon hearing this, Paimeng was a little curious about what kind of martial spirit Yu Keko had that could change her current situation.

"Martial Soul is the power that each of us can awaken. With this power, people will become very strong."

Yu Keke told Paimeng her definition of martial soul.

"Is that so? Has Coco awakened?"

"I awakened three years ago, but..."

Yu Keke didn't say anything else.

"What? Didn't Keke awaken her power? Why would that fierce aunt treat you like that?" Paimeng wanted to help Yu Keke analyze the situation.

According to Yu Keke, she should become very strong after awakening her power, so that auntie shouldn't treat her like that anymore, right?

"My martial spirit is very strange. People in the village privately call me a little monster..."

Yu Keke took off the hat on her head, revealing a pair of pointed ears.

"Eh? These are... fox ears? Are you a little fox?"

Not only Paimeng was shocked, Kong was also very surprised when he saw Yu Keke's pair of fluffy white ears.

There seems to be relevant records in my memory.

For people like Yu Keke, their martial souls must have mutated when they awakened, resulting in some martial soul characteristics remaining in their original bodies.

"I'm not a fox. This is what I left behind when I awakened my martial spirit. I can't get rid of it no matter what..."

Yu Keke put the old hat back on her head as she spoke.

For her, these ears not only did not bring her strength, but made her feel even more inferior.

"Keke, you don't have to be sad. I have many friends like you. They are also very happy and strong."

Paimon noticed that Yu Keke seemed to feel inferior because of her fox ears, so he tried to comfort her.

"Hmm? Are there a lot of people like me?"

When Yu Keke heard this, she felt a sense of sympathy, and she seemed to no longer be a special individual.

"Yes, like the Little Catwoman from Mondstadt, Coco from Liyue... Ganyu, and the Goddess of Inazuma. Yes! The Goddess is a little fox just like you."

Paimon counted them one by one on his fingers.

"I'm not a little fox..."

"Hehehe~ Sorry." Paimon scratched his head, thinking he spoke too fast just now.

But in her heart, what's wrong with the little fox?

The furry tail and furry ears, especially the tail, must be very warm to hug, right?

At least you can hold it when sleeping outdoors without worrying about it being cold.

Speaking of tails, Paimon looked Yu Keke up and down, as if trying to find the tail she had hidden.

(End of this chapter)