"You're saying there are eight more monsters designated 'Tailed Beasts' like this one, besides the red ape in Yellowstone National Park?"
That evening, in a brightly lit conference room, the blond president stared blankly at the officers and scientists before him, disbelief covering his face as he asked for confirmation again and again:
"This really isn't fake news?!"
After receiving the same answer once more, the president looked at the satellite images of Yellowstone Volcano erupting spectacularly. His mouth went dry, and he picked up his favorite ice-cold Coca-Cola and gulped down half the can.
"We lost a battle-hardened agent and an expert hired from Japan! Only after all that did we finally bring back information about the Nine Tailed Beasts from the Age of Gods ruins on Turtle Island!"
The middle-aged officer's face was stern and unsmiling as he pronounced each word:
"This giant red ape with four tails is one of the nine great monsters in the murals. It matches exactly, down to the last detail."
The senior political figures attending the meeting all wore grim expressions.
"Has a monster this terrifying really been lying dormant inside Yellowstone Volcano for thousands, even tens of thousands of years?"
"You've got to be kidding. No matter how you look at it, a monster like this couldn't possibly be a species Earth produced! It's an alien life-form!"
Whether it was the island-sized giant turtle carrying mountain ranges on its back or Four-Tails stirring up havoc in a lava lake, anyone with even a little scientific knowledge would never believe such superorganisms could exist in Earth's ecosystem.
"You old fossil! We're already in the age of the supernatural, and you're still clinging to the same stale old ideas!"
"Even if it's a mythical creature, never mind indigenous Native American mythology-we can't find