"This is bad! We're going to be discovered!"
As the foxes drew closer step by step, the girl looked at Fu Hua and Princess Kaguya with some concern, though she did not seem particularly afraid.
As for Cang Xiaoxuan beside them, the girl could not see her at all.
Just as the girl made some sort of decision, the approaching foxes suddenly gave up, turned around, and returned to the procession, continuing forward according to the wedding ritual.
"Phew, that was close. We were just a little bit away from being discovered!" Only after the wedding procession had left did the girl finally let out a sigh of relief.
"...Perhaps we've already been discovered."
Fu Hua looked at the wedding procession ahead. That fox bride... was turning back, as though she were smiling at them...
She had already noticed them, but for some reason, she had not turned hostile.
"You're overthinking it. They left right away. If we'd been discovered, they wouldn't have just left like this." Hearing Fu Hua's words, the girl waved her hand and directly refuted her. Because of her nature, she had seen fox wedding processions several times before. If they had been discovered, how could it possibly be this simple?
"You should know that last time, a warrior accidentally saw a fox wedding procession and committed seppuku to atone with his life."
Thinking of what she had discovered last time, seeing a fox wedding procession would bring misfortune not only upon oneself... but also upon one's family. That warrior had chosen not to implicate his family.
It was also because of that previous incident that, when she had just discovered Fu Hua and Kaguya standing in the path of the fox wedding procession, she had hurried over to stop them...
Although they had still been