Utakata

It seemed Little Nine-Tails had not gone too far, at least not to the point of exposing the fact that it could speak.

"Can you take me to where it usually sleeps?"

"When we first picked it up, we even made it a nest. But that damned fox showed no gratitude at all and tore it apart recklessly. It started ripping up the crew's costumes from then on."

"And if it didn't want to sleep, fine, it could have found somewhere else to sleep. But no, it insisted on sleeping in the bed. We couldn't chase it away. Even if it left at the time, it would come back to the bed in the middle of the night like clockwork. Wouldn't that make you angry?"

Fuhua Xiaoxue clearly held quite a grudge against that fox. She rattled on endlessly, and Little Nine-Tails really had not done anything decent.

It truly did not act like a person.

"And then?"

"What else could we do? In the end, I moved out and had to squeeze into one room with Sister Hua, while that little fox slept alone in a room. And it was my bed."

He understood. It had taken over the nest.

More accurately, Little Nine-Tails had taken over someone else's room.

"Can you take me to see it? I feel like the one you're describing might be a pet I used to raise."

"Your pet?"

Fuhua Xiaoxue clearly did not believe him. Could something that disobedient really have been raised by someone? That made no sense. It had none of the habits of a house pet and looked completely wild.

"It was a pet I used to raise. It snuck away later, and I never managed to find it. I didn't expect it to run all the way here. Don't