Chapter 152: Established Facts
“You’re awake. You seemed to have a bad dream just now. Can you tell me what you dreamt about?”
Kailun, studying the scrolls in Fox’s house, looked up at her.
Having been asleep the entire time, Fox obviously didn’t understand what Kailun was talking about.
She looked around, confused as to why she was back home.
“Didn’t we enter a tomb? I remember seeing Grandma, but you seemed to have knocked me unconscious.”
Fox frowned, trying to recall what had gone wrong.
She felt a little dizzy, like she had drunk some sleep-inducing tea.
“What are you talking about?” Kailun touched Fox’s forehead with a slightly surprised expression. “It’s a bit hot. You must have a fever, little Fox. Just sleep it off. It’s still early in the morning. I didn’t want to wake you up since you were sick.”
Fox felt a bit uncomfortable with Kailun’s intimate gesture. She lowered her head, avoiding his ambiguous gaze.
For some reason, Kailun didn’t seem as repulsive as before.
Feeling his sincere actions, Fox suddenly had the illusion that he was about to leave.
Her heart skipped a beat for no reason. Before she could sort out what had happened today, another wave of dizziness washed over her.
Her head was hot, as if she really was sick. Fox looked at the pajamas she was wearing, which she didn’t remember changing into, and retreated back into bed.
It must have been this bad guy who changed her clothes. He must have seen her entire body.
Fox blushed and hid under the covers.
Closing her eyes, she felt like she would fall asleep the next moment. Her body was weakening, and something important was slipping away from her mind.
“Hey, will you be leaving the town?”
Fox peeked out from under the covers, her beautiful eyes looking at Kailun.
“Of course. My home isn’t here, so I have to leave. Does the little Fox want to be bullied by me again?”
Kailun’s gaze returned to the scroll. “That’s not a good sign. You might turn into a pervert like Phils. You need to correct that, you know.”
“Oh, I understand. But can you tell me your story?”
The sick Fox looked a bit silly and cute, much more well-behaved than Fox in his memories.
“My story? If you really want to hear it, I can tell you. But you probably won’t remember it in the end.”
Kailun’s powerful mental power allowed him to multitask. Answering some simple questions wouldn’t interfere with his progress in studying the scrolls.
After discovering the anomaly in the town, Kailun had returned to the tomb and brought Fox back, changing her into pajamas along the way. He had to admit, she was quite well-endowed.
To ensure the story progressed as it had in the past, he probably had to make Fox forget some things.
This was a precautionary measure. After all, Fox didn’t recognize him when they first met in his past life.
An eighth-rank magic circle was slowly rotating under Fox’s bed. Its function was to blur or block recent memories, burying them deep in her mind.
As for when she would remember them, it was up to fate.
Although Fox would forget what had happened recently, Kailun still satisfied her curiosity.
He said that he was the son of a noble, with ordinary talent and no great use. Later, he was persecuted by another noble, his family fell into ruin, and he fled the Royal City…
Strictly speaking, this was the story of his past life, the story of that tragic Kailun.
As she listened, Fox drifted off to sleep, unable to resist the exhaustion that came from her soul.
Before falling asleep, she only had one thought: if she ever became powerful, she would definitely bully him back, just like he had bullied her.
After Fox’s soft snores could be heard, Kailun weakened the effect of the magic circle.
He tucked her in and then fully focused on studying.
His time was very limited. He needed to thoroughly understand these scrolls and make changes within a day.
There must have been many things he didn’t know about in the past ten thousand years. He didn’t know what kind of existence “fate” was, nor how many games it had set up.
At least, through Kuye Town, he could see that fate’s handiwork was definitely not something the one in the jade coffin could compare to.
A town that had almost fooled him. If the sacrifice was successfully carried out, the final winner wouldn’t be the unlucky one in the jade coffin.
Plus, Kailun had seen his own grave here. This place might even be related to some events after his death.
“I wonder what the little Fox stole. The title of ‘Fate Thief’ is quite unusual.”
Kailun remained curious about this.
……
“What do you want to do most?”
“Take revenge on the First Princess!”
“Tsk, look at your ambition. Is that all?”
“Well… train her into a pet and walk her around my backyard!”
“Vision! Vision! I’ve told you so many times to have a broader perspective. Why don’t you ever listen? Just a princess isn’t worth so much effort. If you really want her, I can secretly kidnap her and give her to you. A small kingdom without even an eighth-rank mage is just a lamb to the slaughter.”
“Can I have her now?”
“…”
The little fox fell into a dream. When she opened her eyes, she saw a man and a woman engaged in a heated discussion.
She seemed to be watching the scene from outside the world, like a spectator.
The young man in the study was very familiar to Fox. He was the bad guy Kailun who had bullied her. She wouldn’t forget him even if he turned to ashes.
But beside the young man was an incredibly beautiful and mature woman. She had fox ears and a fox tail, fluffy and looking very soft.
Her figure was even better than her current self. Her ample bosom was very prominent even under her bodice.
Strange, how did she know she was wearing a bodice?
The little fox floated around the big fox like a ghost. Looking closer, she realized that they looked somewhat similar.
But she was human, while the woman in front of her was clearly from the Abyss. So the little Fox didn’t think much of it.
Listening to their conversation, she learned about the bad guy Kailun’s true intentions.
Hmph, it seemed that he was truly wicked to the core. He actually wanted to turn the princess into a pet. Such a rebellious act would definitely be punished.
The little Fox floated in front of Kailun and made faces at him, but Kailun in the dream couldn’t see her.
“Kailun, you have to learn the magic I taught you yesterday. The technology to modify communication devices can be very useful. Otherwise, you’ll have to face my wrath.”
Just then, the little Fox heard the big fox’s resentful voice. She couldn’t help but mutter “Kailun” under her breath.
The little Fox thought Kailun was about to be bullied, so she waited for the show with wide eyes.
“Vixen, don’t be so fierce. If I ever reach the ninth rank, I’ll capture you, lock you up at home, and train you into a pet. All these days, you’ve bitten me with your mouth, kicked me with your feet, sat on me with your butt, bullied me for only having meager strength…”
Kailun immediately retorted to Fox’s words. This vixen always bullied and humiliated him, constantly teasing him with her flexible tail.
If this continued, he felt like his waist and kidneys would be ruined.
“Giggle, now you’re accusing me? Which time didn’t I make you feel like you were in heaven? Hmph, men, so hypocritical.”
Fox walked towards Kailun with alluring steps, her fluffy tail brushing against his cheek.
However, this time, Kailun seized the opportunity. He grabbed her tail and pulled.
“Ugh~”
Fox let out a soft moan. This was the feeling of being controlled.
“Let go!” Fox glared at Kailun, her beautiful fox eyes filled with desire.
“No way. Get on the table, or I’ll pull out all the fur on your tail.” Kailun resisted.
At this moment, he was like a defiant child, which looked somewhat cute in the big fox’s eyes.
Compared to the ordinary Kailun, the rebellious Kailun had more flavor. The little Fox also felt that this was the true Kailun.
“I know, I know. There’s no helping you. I’ll reluctantly fulfill your wish today. But only today. Don’t push your luck~”
Fox licked her red lips and proactively lay down on the desk in front of Kailun. Her tail, having escaped from Kailun’s grasp, playfully brushed against his waist, as if urging him on.
Just as the little Fox was curious, she suddenly saw Kailun roughly pull down the big fox’s skirt.
All she saw was a flash of white. The little fox blushed, her heart pounding. She cursed the shameless bastard while fleeing to the corner of the room.
Passing by a mirror, the little Fox suddenly stopped because she saw her own reflection.
The reflection had white fox ears, a white fox tail, and pink fox eyes, just like the vixen.
They only seemed to differ in age. The little Fox suddenly realized that the big fox might be her future self.
“Then who am I?”
The little Fox closed her eyes. When she opened them again, she was floating in the sky.
Looking down at the city below, she followed her heart and drifted south.
After an unknown amount of time, the little Fox arrived at the familiar Kuye Town.
Floating in the sky, she sensed that everything here was in chaos.
Both time and space felt strangely distorted.
Not only that, but she could also sense the chaotic threads of fate.
Looking closely, several different streams of fate converged here, some of them so complex that just a glance made her head explode.
The little Fox clearly recognized her own weakness. She descended from the sky, heading towards her small house.
As she fell, she landed smoothly in her home, right beside her bed.
Kailun was still sitting by the bed, studying the scrolls. His focused demeanor was completely different from the young man she had just seen.
If they didn’t have the same face, Fox would have thought she had mistaken him for someone else.
Confused, the little fox turned and looked at herself in bed. She didn’t have fox ears yet and looked no different from a human girl.
“So what happened?”
The little fox Felt like her head was about to explode. Hadn’t she just had a dream?
Why were such strange things happening?
She couldn’t understand. Both her grandma and this bad guy named Kailun were hiding many things from her.
“Snap!”
Just then, Fox saw Kailun snap his fingers, and the magic circle under the bed dissipated.
This bad guy had actually cast a spell on her!
No wonder she had felt inexplicably sleepy and weak today. He was the one behind it.
The little Fox bared her teeth and claws at Kailun. She wanted to strangle him with her tail.
However, as she approached, she heard Kailun muttering to himself, “She should have forgotten everything. Maybe she’ll completely forget me when she wakes up.”
The little fox tilted her head and wagged her tail. “???”
Forget?
Was that the effect of the magic circle?
Kailun put the scroll he had just finished reading aside and sat closer to Fox.
Seeing his actions, Fox thought that he was going to take advantage of her sleep and do something to her young and beautiful body. However, to her surprise, he just tucked her in.
Not only that, but he also thoughtfully brushed the hair that was stuck to her lips behind her ear, his gaze filled with sincerity and affection.
This was the first time Fox had seen such a sincere expression on Kailun’s face. He had always acted like a bad guy when interacting with her.
He would either scare her, bully her, or even lie to her, saying that everything that had happened was just a dream.
But seeing his expression now, Fox didn’t believe he would really hurt her.
This was both intuition and experience.
The little Fox sat beside Kailun, looking at him with a complex expression.
She reached out to touch his face, but her hand passed through his body.
Fox felt a sense of loss, as if something important had slipped away from her fingertips. Unease filled her heart.
“Do you really know Fox?” Blanche, who had teleported into the room, looked at Kailun with surprise.
Kailun’s expression returned to normal. “Who knows? But you seem to be in a bad state. Are you really alright?”
“Cough!”
Blanche coughed. “It’s fine. My life has reached its end. If nothing unexpected happens, tomorrow will be my limit. If I have any regrets, it’s that I deceived and used Fox. I will use her hand to sacrifice the entire town. I’m a bad person, so can you do me a favor?”
Within the framework of the magic circle she had already set up, everything within a fifty-mile radius of Kuye Town would be affected by the sacrificial magic. This was an unchangeable plan.
Blanche had spent over a thousand years building this framework. Her original plan was to sacrifice the entire Xiya Kingdom, but due to the special changes, she could only target the town.
The black curtain that sealed the town was an anomaly she couldn’t even comprehend.
Little Fox: “???”
Hearing her grandma’s words, she didn’t know what expression to make.
Learning that her grandma’s life was coming to an end, she was heartbroken. But knowing that her grandma wanted to use her hand to kill the people in the town, Fox couldn’t even cry.
She opened her mouth, her pink eyes filled with grievance.
Only today had the world revealed its true face to her. Her grandma had been so good to her, so why would she use her to kill the people she knew?
“I don’t care what you’re going to do, but I’ll be taking Fox with me afterward.” Kailun casually pinched Fox’s cheek. “So, are you really not going to say goodbye to her? After all, you raised her for over ten years. You’re an important person to her.”
Blanche sighed. “I have no face to see her. I only raised her for my plan. Because of my guilt, I didn’t even dare to tell her my name. The little Fox is kind by nature. Knowing too much wouldn’t be good for her. After tomorrow, I’ll leave quietly and sacrifice everything I have to “that one”, contributing what little I have left. I only hope that you can take good care of Fox in the future.”
Kailun nodded. “Don’t worry, my Fox is so cute. I’ll definitely take good care of her. But I have to say this beforehand, your approach is wrong. Fox will feel immense sadness and confusion because of this.”
Kailun remembered the story Fox had told him. In the story, she had blamed herself for many years, believing that she was the one who killed the residents of the town.
This was too cruel for the innocent Fox. Blanche’s “doing it for her own good” would cause her great harm.
For the sake of Fox, who had helped him out of the shadows, Kailun would definitely help her resolve the incident in the town.
“Thank you. You’re a good person. I can see your sincerity towards Fox. There’s one last magic circle that needs to be set up. Let’s meet again tomorrow.”
Leaving these words behind, Blanche left the house with an Instantaneous Movement spell.
“Sigh, this is such a troublesome matter. Doesn’t she realize that the stupid Fox can’t possibly learn such complex magic in such a short time?”
Kailun smiled and patted Fox’s head. “So, leave everything to me, both the sin of killing the residents of the town and seeing your grandma off. The only thing I can give you is an increase in strength. It’s what you deserve. You don’t need to be sad, and you don’t need to become complicated. You can leave all the troublesome matters to me. Yes, this is part of the reward I’m paying you.”
Without the vixen, there wouldn’t be the current him. Fox had taught him many things, and therefore, she held an important place in his heart.
Although the residents of the town were fate’s doing, to Fox, they were real people. Kailun didn’t intend to tell her the truth.
Looking down, he saw a sad smile on Fox’s lips. He gently rubbed her smooth cheek, forcing a smile out of her. “Don’t be sad. Your grandma’s life has reached its end. This is the path she chose. As for the residents of the town, they’re just part of some big shot’s scheme. They’re not real people. So smile. I still prefer the vixen who likes to stick her butt out.”
“You’re the vixen! You’re the one who sticks your butt out! You bastard, you pervert!”
The illusory Fox, sitting beside Kailun, wiped her tears and cursed him.
But as she cursed, she suddenly burst into laughter. Feeling his sincere emotions and concern, she felt a different kind of warmth.
This warmth was even stronger than her grandma’s.
She thought that if Kailun ever fell from grace, she would do everything in her power to save him.
Of course, she would also take revenge. She would bully Kailun relentlessly.
As this thought emerged, some things became predestined.
Fox wagged her tail and stood up from the bed. She quietly approached Kailun, closed her eyes, and kissed his forehead.
“Bad guy~”
Although there was no physical sensation, in Fox’s heart, this mysterious bad guy had already occupied an important position.
She wanted to know Kailun’s secrets, everything about him.
She felt that he might not use her like her grandma had.
For this, she was willing to gamble.
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