The world of the nine-tailed fox and the world of humans

04 What are the roles of the fox beads, ears, and tail?

Humans who aren't foxes probably don't know what our fox beads, ears, and tails do. I'll explain it to you step by step. First, the fox beads!

The fox bead... well, it's one of the symbols of the fox, and it gives you more strength. This bead shouldn't be handled like a bracelet or necklace. If this bead breaks and disappears, I will disappear too. If you look at the environment I grew up in in episode 1, the bead disappeared and the fox's body disappeared too. It should be like this.

It's quite important to us foxes. And it's not something you carry around in a bag or anything, it's inside your body. If you try to take it out, it comes out, and it doesn't hurt or feel like anything is there, whether it's going back in or out, but it's still not good to leave it out. Let me give you an example.

-Pook

"Haha...ugh...what are you doing?!"

"There's a rumor that if you break a fox bead, the fox will die. But it's really pretty. Can I give it to you?"

"what?"

"Give it to me. Why? Because I'm afraid I'll break it."

"..."

"I won't be rude. Just a little bit of trouble for you to touch?"

"....Fuck."

If it's hit like just now, it might bounce back. It's not a good method, but... if it breaks, it'll disappear or you'll die. So, if possible, I don't take it outside. Should we go to the ears next?

If you stick out your ears, you can hear much better than humans. And while humans can't move their ears differently, if you expose your ears and fight, you can hear the sounds of your opponent with one ear and sounds behind or beside you with the other ear, so even if someone tries to stab you from behind, you can avoid them.

Sometimes, when humans find out I'm a fox, they try to touch my ears because they think I'm cute, but I really hate being touched. The sound is really loud, and it hurts a lot when they pinch me. And if they touch me wrong, I can't function properly. Foxes are creatures that listen well and are very sensitive.

If I can't do my job, it'll be too hard. It'll be hard whether I go up to the gumiho world or the human world. So don't touch it. I'll move on to the next highlight, the tail!

There are often stories about gumihos having nine lives, nine tails, and so on. The nine lives story is incorrect. Each tail has a different function, so you can't really say they have lives. Honestly, I haven't even memorized all the powers my tails have.

The first tail you receive when you're born is life. The second is strength. The third is healing. It helps wounds heal quickly. The fourth is talent. These are the basics. The rest are complicated, so I don't know much about them.

Ah, the tail can be freely extended, shortened, and moved. So when I surprise the owner of the house... no, Seungcheol oppa, I can pretend to strangle him with the tail.

Oh, that's right. Our tails are really big and thick. If it starts at the butt, then it ends like two heads above the crown of our head? It's really big. This is for when we're in human form, but when we transform into fox form, it's almost as long as our body. It's so thick and big that it almost feels like a blanket?

Ah, if you think of it as a black fox, it looks like this. If only the eyes were purple and the body was bigger, it would look similar, right? It feels a bit different. But it's just for example, haha.

If it were a white fox, it would be like this? If only its eyes were blue and it were bigger, it would be quite similar...? But it seems a little different.

Well, that's all for now! I hope you understand haha