Chapter 6 – Episode 6 – Gumiho (2)

Fox ghost.

It is clear that it refers to a nine-tailed fox monster, a nine-tailed fox.

Foxes are cunning and smarter than other animals, so if they become spiritual creatures, they say they can talk and act like humans.

At this time, the tail grows one by one every 100 years. Accordingly, it is called Lee Mi-ho, Sammi-ho, and Sami-ho.

‘However, that ghost is here.’

I thought that I must have been extinct in the process of annihilating all the spirit creatures called spirit creatures while wandering around the central plain, but again, it seems that was not the case.

It seems that the people of the ancestral world were playing tricks. Either way, this is an opportunity.

‘If I catch and kill the spirit creature, I can get an inner altar.’

A marble that has lived for hundreds of years and has concentrated internal energy. Just by eating it, you can get a huge amount of qi in the danteon.

What if you forgot the fox youkai? The amount would be staggering.

‘Can do.’

I wondered if I could catch that spirit creature with such a weak boy’s body. In conclusion. It will be possible

‘The one in the mountain doesn’t have nine tails.’

Every time foxes grow another tail, they need the spirit of a living person. If there were gumihos, this village itself could not have been established.

Probably 4 or 5. It was self-evident that he was a poor bastard who had only lived for a few hundred years at most.

‘I can catch it at that level.’

If fearsome animals such as tigers and bears were spiritual creatures, they would run away without even looking back. If it were a fox, the story would be different.

Foxes only eat small animals like rabbits and squirrels. This shows how weak they are.

It’s exceptionally smarter than other spirit creatures, but that doesn’t mean it has a strong body. It’s absolutely not like a wild boar’s fangs get sharper just because they’ve stayed for a long time.

“Here, please do the math.”
“Yes? The food hasn’t come out yet…”
“It’s because I have to hurry. Of course I’ll pay the price. Oh, and is there an inn near here where I can stay?”
“If you follow the road and turn left, you will come across one. By the way. Customer… Stir.”

Jeom So-yi looked at the 1 hermit nyang that I held out and hesitated as if in trouble. Alas, with such a large amount of money, there is no money to bother you.

“… I’ll hurry to the nearest exchange office. Please wait.”

Feeling embarrassed, his face turned red.

*

“The guest room is here. Oh, and don’t come out tonight.”

After looking for a room to escape the cold night wind and dew, I heard a sudden noise from the innkeeper. Wanting something, she tilted her head and tilted her head before continuing.

“It is said that in this village, on the night of a big full moon, a ghost always comes out and attacks a man, eats his liver, and sucks out his soul.”

The sound I just heard from a barber at the tavern. If this is the case, I don’t have to climb the mountain.

“If it’s a ghost… I guess it has something to do with the name of this town. Is it true that a fox ghost appears?”
“Ah, are you by any chance a scholar’s ​​son… ?”

When the innkeeper saw that I was a literate and knowledgeable person, she said, startled. After all, age doesn’t matter when it comes to learning. I am very fortunate that I learned to write even belatedly.

“Ah, yes what… That’s right. That’s not what’s important More than that, I have one question. Something like that appears every time the full moon rises, so how is this village full of life?”
“Ah, that… That’s because it’s too long to say. I’ll tell you later when I get a chance. Ah! I’m just…”

Tsk, it’s quite funny how you change your attitude like that when you know that I’m the son of a family somewhere.

Hey, if you look at this face or the clothes you’re wearing, it’s understandable. On top of that, anyone would think so when they hear the sound of coins hanging in their arms.

‘By the way, it’s today.’

Shall we fight today? But decided to stop. Of course, if I were to fight, I would definitely win.

Even if you win, your body won’t heal. This is because the claws and teeth that any spirit creature must possess are suitable for tearing people apart. So, I decided to train some more.

‘If you catch about 3 hours a day (6 hours) and train like this for 7 days and nights (7 weeks), you will be able to quickly build up your stamina. I’m not familiar with my training methods.’

It is the body that once directly taught the followers of the Heavenly Demon Religion. Of course, you know better than anyone how to train to increase your stamina.

‘There is a suitable place nearby. Looking at the weather right now, it’s summer, so it’s a very suitable temperature for building up your stamina. Great. Let’s start tomorrow.’

I feel like my mind has been relieved since I have all my plans for the future. It’s refreshing as if you’ve filled a warehouse full of food for the winter.

The worries about the future that I had in my heart disappeared. As I was doing that, something made my body feel drowsy… My eyes have been closed.

‘Why am I so sleepy all of a sudden… ?’

My body, which had been brisk a moment before, felt very heavy. Did what happened yesterday work as fatigue only now and make it heavy?

I felt like I had thrown myself into a huge barrel of honey, so I was sucked into the viscous water, into a terrible sight that I couldn’t even see the bottom of.

‘Would you like to sleep for a while… The innkeeper just put a futon here.’

Although it was too clean and fluffy to be used in a shabby inn. Now there was no time to investigate the cause and effect. Repeatedly nodding heavily, the moving head thuds at any moment! Because it looked like it was going to come down.

“Ugh… I can’t stand it.”

So, I crawled into the futon. A soft and warm feeling wrapped around my body.

Still, the slight cooling sensation made it great for a nap on a summer day.

‘This place isn’t even an ice skating rink, so why is it so cold?’

Chill.

Obviously, I entered a room full of hot weather. The woman from the North Sea Ice Palace is probably not even here, so how can I feel this way?

Probably this is something. Something so horrifying that its mere presence chills the air around it.

‘I have to leave.’

I had to crawl out of this room, or preferably out of this town.

‘Yeah, but great! Suddenly Mo, the body! I’ll move!’

As if his body was being crushed by something, his body froze hard like a worm beneath his feet.

What the hell happened to me Maybe a fox? But I think she said she was coming down tonight!

‘Come. Chuck of popularity is heard from outside the door! But my body is getting tired… Wow!’

Soon, my eyelids slid down as if they were attached to something, and soon my self-consciousness disappeared into a dark river.

The last thing I could feel was the step of a woman slightly past her age, entering the room.

***

“Today’s offering will be this man.”

Inside the shabby inn room, the inn proprietress rubbed her palms together quickly and bent over in front of the tall woman.

“Hey, me! He is a man from a prestigious family, so if you ask him, he will have trouble.”
“Does not matter. Stop pouting at my decisions.”
“Yes, yes!”

The innkeeper was mad. If this bewitching woman with white fox ears on her ears and eight tails on her hips preyed on that poor stranger man, sure enough, something would happen.

It was because it was obvious that he would use the dumpster for all the later days.

But what can I do? In the meantime, I have to pay the price I received. Her master let out a deep sigh and withdrew as her fox had said.

“Hmm, your face is younger than I thought?”

The fox walked forward, wagging its eight furry tails. The man who was put to sleep by witchcraft was so defenseless that he could easily catch and eat him.

‘Now.’

I approached the little man and lifted his stomach. A very appetizing peach-colored abdomen was exposed. If you take a bite, it looks like juice will burst instead of blood.

The fox stretched out his hand. Pitching! His claws were as sharp as his knives, and they were long. It was a very suitable shape to pierce the skin and take something out of it.

‘…’

However, the fox did not dig out the man’s liver like this. Why? The reason was immediately apparent.

‘It’s a pity. It’s too much to dig out the liver and absorb all the vitality and turn it into a dry corpse…’

It was a waste. It didn’t look like this man would ever grow up. But this face and body… Although I have no conscience. It contained something that stimulated the woman’s heart.

‘Well…’

The fox left a silent voice. Certainly, this man’s liver and qi are sweeter and more delicious than anything he has ever eaten.

That’s right, because as soon as this man entered the village, the sweet smell spread throughout the area. It smells so dizzy that you can’t cut it if you don’t eat it right away…

So he did not come down on the night of the full moon, but rather earlier. It’s because if I don’t eat this man, I won’t be able to get a job.

‘Then, another way… I’ll have to catch and eat it.’

Slowly, all the fingernails except for the thumb shortened again. The fox slashed the palm of his hand with the sharp fingernails she had left, and the blood splattered all over the man’s body.

‘I’ll make them come down every three days.’

The blood that was sprinkled red moved itself and created a picture.

It was such an ugly drawing that it seemed to symbolize a human heart.

A certain shape was written on the body of such a small Heavenly Demon. No one knew what this would lead to.