The Tale Of Kitsuna

Chapter 5:

The next morning Stacy came and woke me up. To my surprise, when my head hit the pillow, I instantly fell asleep. I thought I would struggle to sleep with the amount of food I ate beforehand and that I have slept for a month already.

“Did you sleep well, Kitsuna,” Stacy asks?

“Yes, to my surprise, I slept like a log. I thought I would have nightmares or wouldn’t even be able to sleep with the amount of food I ate.”

“Well, you did eat like three tables of food last night. I ask Rebeca to prepare lots of food again for breakfast. So, eat to your heart’s content.”

“I will do that. My stomach is already waking up with the smell of the food.”

“You can already smell the food?” Stacy asked with a questionable look.

“Un.” I nodded.

“That nice.” She smiled.

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“I will say it is more a curse than a positive thing. If I concentrate, I can smell the lavender flowers outside that the gardener is watering at the moment. And don’t you think he is too old he is like 70 years old and still working for you? His back is going to give one of these days.” Stacy was stun at what I said. Running towards the window to see the gardener holding a hose pipe in one hand, and in his other hand, was on his back that was hunched over.

“Wow, I didn’t know. I will talk to Rebeca about that.”

“Don’t just dismiss him. There is most likely a reason why he is still working. Find out why then work on that. He might have a big family he needs to take care of.” After looking for a while, we started walking again.

“Kitsuna, just a question? How are you so casual after 5 years of experiments.” I was stun for a moment by what she asked.

“Huh!? Where did that come from?” I tried to play it off, but Stacy might give an airhead vibe, but she is brilliant. I found that out last night. I might have tried to get some information about things, and she just said I should ask her straight instead of the roundabout way. And my lying might be one of the worst there is.

“Your behaver. Is Like you have never been tortured for 5 years. Yes, you have mental trauma, but it is just small triggers, which are way too small for what you have been through. It’s like you have been through something like this before. Have you been threw something like this in your past life?” Looking at her, I knew she was worried. I just wasn’t ready to talk about it with her and didn’t trust her enough.

“I don’t want to talk about it. It is also in the past no use talking about things that happened in another universe.” I started walking faster towards the dining hall.

“I see. When you are ready, talk to me, okay. I will also need to train you how to lie.” She chuckled at me.

“Sigh… well shit. Well, I never tried to lie in my previous life. I just diverted the subject. But thanks. I will do that if I am ready.” The last part was only a whisper only she could hear.

“You can call mommy anytime, Hunny bun.” Stacy smiled at me.

“I am not calling you, mom.” I gave her a deadpan look.

“Tsk.”

When we walked into the dining hall, I could see that the table was again stacked with food, and there was a lot of meat. My mouth started to water uncontrollably. “Thanks for the food!?” I shouted and started to dig in again without waiting for Stacy.

“We really need to work on your table manners, Kitsuna,” Stacy said with an amused smile.

“Will try next time,” I said between bites.

After breakfast was over, Stacy and I were still at the table talking to each other.

“I can’t believe you don’t like bread. From all the things you ate, the bread is the only thing that survived.”

“Yeah, it just doesn’t go for me. The rest of the food was great, though.”

“I can see that. There is nothing left except bread on the table. Where do you even store all that food? We will need to hunt more for food if you are going to keep eating like this.”

“I can go and help hunting if needed.”

“You are not going to do that until you are fully healed, and I have trained you for a year at least.”

“Fine. So, what will we be doing today? I am interested in how you are going to make me call you mother.” I gave her a grin.

“Haha, we are going shopping. Shopping is the best way to make bonds.” My face dropped at her statement. She was giving me a knowing smile. “Let us go.”

2 hours later, Stacy and I were sitting in a carriage on the way towards the city. For some reason, we live inside the dead forest or something like that. I asked why, and she answers me that it is the border between our kingdom and the federation. So, because we are the house of Marquis Draig, we need to stay close to the border, and they picked to stay inside the forest instead of the city. I don’t really care about that. The problem is that that forest is one of the most dangerous places in the world. That is why it was made a border it not easily crossed. There is only one way to cross the forest. So, it makes it hard to invade our kingdom from the forest.

“What are we going to go shopping for.” I was hoping she said something other than clothes.

“Clothes, we don’t really have stuff for you. We can’t have you keep wearing those clothes you have on at the moment. Oh, let me guess you don’t like dresses.” She smiled at me.

“Yes, hate them.” At the moment I was wearing jeans with a normal black t-shirt. They are a bit too big for me, though. Rebeca just gave me some clothes to choose from, and I picked the closest clothes to a guy’s clothes. My arms were also bandaged close to hide the fact that I have a curse on my arms. Luckily, my curse mark started from my wrists until my chest, so it was easily hidden behind the bandages.

“We will go to the shop. I mostly used to get that sort of clothes. Unfortunate for you, we will still need to get you a dress or 2 for formal events.” I frown at her because of what she said. At the moment she was wearing a blue one-piece dress. “I know I am wearing a dress, but I do like one-piece dresses on my off day. That changes if I need to work. I get into the same clothes that you are wearing now. I still can’t believe you almost fit in my clothes.”

“Huh!? These are your clothes? I thought these were old clothes or something. I knew you were small but not this small.”

“Hey! I will let you know I am average in length. For my kind. You are just way too tall for your age.” She pointed at me.

“If you say so.” I shrugged.

“You will see when we get into the city. Hmph.” I laughed at her childlike behavior. I guess she has a thing about her body size.

“So, how long before we are in the city? I haven’t seen one in years.” Just as I asked, we heard shouts coming from outside. “What’s going on?”

“Don’t know we might be under attack?” Standing up, she opened the window to see what is going on. “Nope, we just arrived at the city.”

“Airhead. Why are they so loud? All I can hear is people shouting at each other. Is there someone shouting match going on?”

“Don’t know.” Just when she was about to take another look outside, the carriage door opened, revealing a knight. “What is going on?” Stacy turned and looked at the knight.

“My apologies, ma’am, but we just need to make certain who is coming into the city.” He looked at Stacy.

“Why do you need to open the carriage, though? Isn’t the house emblem on the carriage?” I asked, looking at him. When the knight looked at me. Our eyes met; he became instantly afraid of me. I could see him tremble. “Tch. And you call yourself a soldier. Being so afraid of a 10-year-old.”

“Derik, what are you doing? Complete the inspection.” Another knight called out to the one in front of us. I could hear him coming closer to the door to join the other knight. “Hey, are you okay? You are shaking.”

“Captain… don’t… come,” Derik said with a shaky voice.

“What did you say?” The captain didn’t hear him and walked even closer and stood next to him. He saw him staring at something inside the carriage. Following his gaze, our eyes met the same as the last knight. He started trembling. “Fuck this. I am out!?” He shouted while running away. The other knight joined him after that.

“Hahaha. I just can’t. That just too funny. Trained knights ran away just from your eyes. Hahaha.” Stacy could hold herself in anymore and started rolling in laughter. After a while, the carriage started moving again.

“Why are they so afraid of me, though. Do I really look that scary that trained knights run away from me?” I looked at Stacy that was still laughing.

“Your eyes have a passive skill that intimidates people. It’s a passive skill so that it won’t be on your skill list.” She said, straining herself from laughing again.

“How do I see my skill list even?” I questioned her and received a baffled face from her. “What? I have never been told these things.” I shrugged

“Right. Normally you need to go to the church to check your status, but you have a self-analysis. Just Think or say status, then it will pop up.”

‘Status,’ I thought. I saw a screen pop up in front of me.

Name: Kitsuna Draig (Shiro Adachi)

Age: 10

Race: Demon-Fox (9 Tail demon fox primordial)

Gender: Female

Level: 1

Class: Noble

Hp: 620/620

MP: 2000/2000

Str: 70

Vit: 310

Def: 100

Int: 1000

End: 75

Agt: 140

Skills: Dimensional storage, Fox Fire, Fox Lighting, Fox Ice, Self-Analysis, Super Regen.