I Raised a Nine Tailed Fox Wrongly

But to do that, he had to become an adult.

Bigger, stronger. That way, Scyllia will….

Ran turned his big ears, similar to a desert fox’s ears, to the door and overheard the conversation.

 “Sheesh, I left some dried herbs at the treatment center.”

“Is it important?”

“If we don’t grind it tonight, we will run out of medicine tomorrow.”

“I will bring it.”

“What? How can I make the Leader do it? Please sit down.”

“I’m quick on my feet, you can just wait here.”

Scyllia, who reassured Shula, was heard coming out of the front door.

‘Shula is alone.’

The little fox’s heart was beating rapidly.

‘If I eat her energy, I can grow quickly.’

Ran closed his eyes and didn’t move until Scyllia was far away enough. A moment later, when she was completely gone, a pair of golden eyes, gleaming with monster energy, opened in the darkness.

Ran opened the door that Scyllia had closed and went out into the living room.

“What?”

Shula, who was sitting in the chair and twisting her hair with her finger in boredom, got up in surprise.

He didn’t want to humanize, so Ran came out in his fox form.

Seducing humans with his non-human form was a more difficult task, but it was not a big problem for Ran. 

She doesn’t have an amulet to block my seducing skill, and she doesn’t have the attack power to defeat a monster, right?

All she had was healing power.

‘It’s true that holy power gets in the way.’

A reddish monster energy, like a scarlet ink released into the water, began to heat the air. Shula’s body was excited, and her eyes dimly loosened.

But Ran still couldn’t make a move.

Shula’s holy power was pushing Ran’s monster energy away.

“Kyuu.”

Ran wept softly, waving his shiny tail.

His harmless eyes opened like a full moon. As he licked his paws in indifference, Shula’s steps moved towards him.

“Are you bored?”

Shula exhaled a hot breath and looked at Ran.

“You look really cute.”

Ran’s round eyes bent as if he was smiling.

The fox did not move and Shula could only be dragged like a magnet.

Ran stared at Shula’s hand as she approached.

Shula, impatient with the unswerving fox, muttered as if pleading.

“How is it that you are so small and cute? What about your nose, I want to bite it off because it looks like smooth chocolate.”

Shula still had her bad habit of speaking without a filter even in a semi-sane state.

“Are you upset because I’ve been so mean? It’s not just my fault. You look like you’re going to eat the Leader.” 

“Kyuu?”

“No, no. I must have misunderstood. There is no other good-natured monster like you, right?”

No.

There are no good monsters in this world.

There are only monsters that indiscriminately eat humans and monsters that can control a little bit. Even so, there is no natural temperance, so the only way to live like that is to steadily learn patience like writing letters on rocks.

But Ran gently waved his tail without making a sound.

“Just a little bit…….”

The moment Shula’s hand was about to touch Ran’s head.

“Ran.”

A voice as heavy as a mace unknowingly pressed Ran’s head.

The voice sounded like a thump as if it had fallen on his back. Ran hardened like stone.

“Gasp!”

Shula woke up in surprise.

Ran’s monster energy, which spread like pheromones, dispersed in an instant and was overwhelmed by Scyllia’s clear energy.

“What was I doing?”

Shula muttered as she touched her forehead.

Scyllia coldly looked down at Ran and opened her mouth, passing the herbs to Shula’s hand.

“Looks like you have a headache. You better go home and rest.”

“Is that okay? I haven’t looked at the fox yet.”

“It’s all right, go back and rest.” 

Shula nodded her head and went out to the front door.

Tak –

As the door closed, there was a cold silence.

Scyllia walked slowly and came to Ran’s front.

She was quite tall for a woman and although she looked thin at first glance, she had a strong body forged by years of training.

As she drew near and stood in front of the little fox, Ran, became as small as a stone on the shore of a lake.

“Ran, there’s something I didn’t tell you.”

“……”

“If you harm an innocent person, I will have to kill you.”

Ran raised his head.

Scyllia had a grim face.

Usually, when she looked at the little fox cub, he was so cute that she didn’t know what to do. Her cheeks would glow like red peaches and a shining sense of happiness could be felt…

But now, from the pale and hardened green eyes of Scyllia, emotions dyed black with despair and agony were dripping down.

Ran, who had received it raw, felt his heart plummet from the shock.

“And you will have to kill me to stop me from killing you.”

“…..”

“Die or kill, do you want our relationship to be like that?”

Scyllia who was a person of few words never spoke in vain.

She was sure to keep what she said.

Goosebumps arose, and the silver fur all over his body stood on the edge at the inescapable force.

“Shula is an excellent healer. She came to see if you are sick, how could you do that?”

“……”

“You are not an ordinary monster. You can think, you have reason, you can make choices.”

“……”

“When you were sick and hungry, you would have had little reason. But it’s not like that now, is it?”

Even more.

That’s why, even more so…

Scyllia blushed with tears in her eyes as she blurred the end of her words.

Ran felt a sense of crisis.

He moved almost instinctively, rubbing his body against Scyllia’s leg.

Scyllia seemed to understand what he meant. Unlike usual, she didn’t have any strange misunderstandings. 

She asked in a friendly tone.

“Are you apologizing?”

Ran nodded his head as he felt his heartbeat pounding with anxiety.

“Don’t do that again.”

Scyllia hugged the fox.

And Ran, to his surprise, realized that he would never be able to harm an innocent human being.

Despite the fact that he was a monster that had no natural temperance for doing so. Even now, he is hungry and his vicious impulses were raging within.

…but, like a nine-tailed fox who can’t refuse his companion’s request, he apologized.

* * *

After the incident of trying to eat Shula, the relationship between the two mysteriously grew stronger.

When Scyllia came home from work, she always played with Ran, and Ran was also happy with it.

What Ran liked the most was hunting.

It was a game where Scyllia moved her hand under a blanket, and Ran grabbed it.

There is a joke that the body of a fox is closer to that of a dog but the essence is closer to a cat, and Scyllia sympathized with that statement.

It’s because she felt like she found a feisty cat when Ran climbed up high after doing something wrong.

“Come to think of it, you didn’t eat your scheduled meal today.”

Scyllia was busy dragging a cage.

“Today is a Silkie Chicken.”

Scyllia looked at Ran with expectant eyes, but Ran had a bitter reaction.

“What’s the matter? Try it.”

Scyllia was puzzled and pushed the cage up to his nose.

Ran turned his head sharply.

“Why do you refuse to eat?”

Ran curled his body in the corner of the cage and stared at the trembling silkie. The grievances that had accumulated over time burst open through his gaze.

Scyllia tried to persuade the little fox.

“You have to take energy every day without skipping a day. You can’t eat human energy.”

“…..”

“You are at your growing phase. Why don’t you want to eat?”

Ran raised his front paws slowly toward the cage with the chicken. Scyllia cheered for Ran with a bright face.

“Okay. Come on, let’s eat…”

Tung! Woodang! Tangtang!

“……”

“……”

The cage fell sideways with a loud noise as Ran’s forepaws smashed the iron bars.

He was a little cub, but he was strong.

Scyllia’s face hardened. 

“What are you doing?”

“Kuung.”

Ran replied without losing.

Even his round, honey candy-like eyes became wild in their own way.

It was a clear objection.

“Who taught you to turn over the rice bowl?” 

“Kyuang!”

“How hard it was to catch it alive…”

“Kyeng!”

At the sound that came to her ears, Scyllia had a suspecting face. The fox cub seemed to be loudly laughing at her.

“Kyukyu….”

I wasn’t an illusion!

“Y-You…….”

Scyllia had a shocked look.

It must have sounded very funny to the fox that she had worked hard to catch that little silkie chicken. 

The look that came from the little cub was very cheeky.

“Where did you learn to do that?”

As an expression of protest, Ran pounded the cage of chickens with his front paw.

“Won’t you stop now!”

“Kyuyoyoyonon!”

I don’t like the food!!

It sounds like such a line.

She can understand Ran’s feelings, but Scyllia couldn’t ignore his rude behavior and nailed it.

“If you keep on acting rudely, there will be no food in the future.”

Ran stubbornly turned his head and lay back down.

“I won’t give you anything until you apologize.”

Scyllia thought that Ran would immediately come to her with his head bowed.

However, it didn’t happen, neither the next day nor the day after that. Ran only lay crouched in the corner and did not move.

* * *

For some reason, from their first meeting until now, nothing has progressed easily.

It was not unreasonable. 

It was a combination of a monster, who has even less patience than a dog, and a paladin, who had practiced restrain and control all her life.

Scyllia was a little saddened by the fact that she had to severely discipline Ran, so he could learn patience and restraint even as a monster.

“I can’t keep starving him… if a becomes a big problem with his body…”

Shula sneered at Scyllia as she ruffled her hair in anguish.

“Don’t worry, Leader. It won’t die from starving that much.”

“But it looks like he’s already out of energy.”

“It’s only natural since he doesn’t eat.”

“It has never happened before, so why all of a sudden?”

Shula tilted her head and said.

“Maybe it’s depressed?”

“Depressed?”

Scyllia’s face lit up at the news that came like a bolt out from the blue sky.

“It’s every day only inside the house. It must have lived in the forest in the past.”

“Shall I make a backyard? Then it will be a little better.”

Shula touched her forehead.

“The Leader is also very reckless.”

“I should extend the barrier to the outside of the house.”

“How big are you thinking of making it?”

“About as far as the backyard. Anything more than that is out of my surveillance network, so it’s dangerous.”

“Can you spare more holy energy for that?”

Scyllia bit her mouth in response to Shula’s inadvertent question.

‘Hmm?’

Shula noticed the strange silence, and she turned to Scyllia.

And the Commander was turning white.

“Leader?”