A huge white fox was galloping across the sea.
　The fox's tail is divided into nine parts.

　It is said that once the fox is released into the human world, it is the disaster that will destroy many nations - the nine-tailed fox.

　That nine-tailed fox is moving eastward over the ocean at super speed.

　The destination is the Far East island nation of Phonost.

　It is the home of the highest ranking demon race, the nine-tailed fox, Yoko.

　Each of Halt's wives has scattered to different places looking for hints of alter ego magic.

　Yoko is on her way to a certain mountain in Phonost, where she was born and raised.

　It is the place where she was born and raised.


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It's been a long time since I've been here.

　Yoko muttered to herself as she landed on Mt.
　She walked without hesitation to her destination.

　Once the land of Phonost was in sight, Yohko flew above the clouds to get here.

　The nine-tailed fox, which had absorbed an enormous amount of magical power and become perfect, could stand on top of the water and fly through the sky.

　Flying through the sky is faster, but it consumes more magic power, so it has been running over the sea until the middle of the journey.

　Yoko had a reason for wanting to conserve as much magic power as possible.

　The nine-tailed fox has a habit of absorbing magic power from its surroundings and accumulating it on its tail, regardless of its own will.

　If the accumulated magic power contains a lot of anger and malice, the nine-tailed fox will go out of control and turn into a disaster when it becomes complete.

　Currently, Yohko's tail was filled with the magic power of Sage Halt and the divine beast White.

　Filled with less malicious magic power and divine magic power, Yohko was able to keep from running out of control even though she was a full-bodied nine-tailed fox.

　Nevertheless, the magic power decreases if you use it.

　Normally, the reduced magic power would be quickly filled just by being near Hurt, who spreads an unbelievably huge amount of magic power.

　If you spend a night with him, you can easily replenish your magic power by a tail.

　But today, Hurt is not by my side.
　Furthermore, this spiritual mountain was full of evil magic.

"When I lived here, I didn't realize that the evil spirit was this thick...

　It was unlikely that Yoko, who was already in her perfect body, would run amok.

　However, she didn't like the idea of magic power that didn't belong to Haruto or Shiro entering her.

　While shaking off the evil magic that clung to her, which contained feelings of resentment and fear, Yohko walked on.

　For almost two hundred years of her life in this world, Yohko spent her time here.

　This mausoleum has become one of the most dangerous areas of Phonost, crowded with B-rank and above demons.

　Yohko walks gracefully through such a place.

　Rather than being attacked by demons, Yoko didn't even see any demons.

　The intelligence of a demon goes up as its defeat rank goes up.

　The B-ranked demons understand the difference in strength between themselves and their opponents, and if they are not ordered by a higher-ranked being, they will not attack without a fight.

　Although Yoko had turned into a human being, she did not hide her magical power.

　The high-ranking demons that usually made the adventurers afraid and wouldn't even allow them to get close to this spiritual mountain had sensed Yohko's strength by instinct and had escaped from the route she was taking.


　In the end, Yoko was able to reach her destination without having to fight a single demon.

　It was in front of a large cave in a part of the cliff.

　This is the place where Yohko once lived with her mother.

I'm home!

　Yoko held her hand in front of her and a translucent membrane appeared in the empty space.

　The membrane covered the area around the entrance to the cave.

　It was a ward that Yohko had put up to keep the demons from entering her dwelling.

　When she touched the warding, it shattered and disappeared.

　Once inside the cave, Yoko re-erected the warding at its entrance and proceeded to the back of the cave.


''Mother (haha), I'm home!''

　Yohko speaks to the ice pillar placed at the far end of the cave.

　Inside the ice pillar, a beautiful woman is trapped.

　It's Kikuyo, Yoko's mother.

　Kikyou is already dead.
　She died about 190 years ago, when Yoko was only about ten years old.

　For some reason, Yoko doesn't remember the cause of Kikyou's death.

　All she remembered was crying and using ice sealing magic to preserve her mother's still beautiful corpse from rotting away after her death.

'My mother is as beautiful as ever,'

　Yoko looked at her own mother.

　Yoko, who had been staring at Kikyou for a while, opened her mouth as she remembered.

Mother. I have made a pact with a human.

　I will tell my mother that I married Halt.

A man named Halt, he is incredibly strong. Maybe he's even stronger than my mother.

　He explained to Kikiou that although he was a human being, Harut easily slaughtered demons and demons, and had made a contract with the Spirit King of each attribute.

We originally made a master-slave agreement, but he has broken my agreement with him. And I'm the one who doesn't understand that the effect of the contract remains on me. He's a very unusual fellow.

　He was speaking ill of Hurt, and Yohko seemed somewhat pleased to hear him say it.

When I'm around him, crazy things happen one after another, it never gets old.

　He talks about Halt's magic and how he met the God of Creation in the Holy City. And I tell him about the blessing I received from the God of Creation.

I'm a demon, but I've been given a blessing from the God of Creation, and now I'm officially the Lord's wife!　Oh, by the way, you have eleven wives, Lord. And...

　Yoko lamented to her mother that she missed the nights she couldn't sleep with Hurt.

　Then she explained to Kikyou that she was working in collusion with the other wives who agreed with her, and that she was working to create that magic first in order to get Harto to use his alter ego magic.

'If only I had as much beauty as my mother...'

　If she was as beautiful as Kikyou, she might be able to cage Haruto and keep him to herself.

　While thinking about that, Yoko touched her mother's seal.

''──?''

　Suddenly, a terrible headache hits Yohko.

"This, this is...

　It was the sensation of having my brain, my memories, played with by others.

　Yoko's sealed memories come back.

　A bloody Kikyou.
　The figure of the adventurer looming in the background.

　Yoko remembered.

　When she was a young girl, Kikiou had gone outside the wards he had put up and the human adventurer had captured Yoko.

　When Kikiou tried to save Yoko, the adventurer attacked him.

　The adventurers managed to fight off the adventurers, but the weapons they were using had strong anti-evil properties and...

　The wounds she received at that time killed Kikyou.
　At the moment of her death, she deprived Yoko of her memories.

　She didn't want Yoko to regret that it was her fault that Kikyou died.

　She didn't want Yoko to hold a grudge against the human race.


　The memories that were stolen by Kikyou have returned to Yoko.

　The sage and the divine beast──Youko, who had absorbed their refined and pure magical power, had become a powerful individual among the nine-tailed foxes of the perfect body.

　The current Yoko had surpassed the power of her mother, Kikyou.

　Touching the seal that protected Kikyou's body had triggered her to regain the memories that had been taken away from her.

　A black emotion grew within Yoko.

　She hates the people who killed her mother.
　I will destroy them all.

　She sees a hateful face on the icicle that seals her mother's body.