It happened so suddenly. Xiao Gao first bumped into Li Mazi

 and made him fall to the ground

.

 T

hen, he snatched the fox statue and rushed out of the storage. 

We didn’t linger

 and bolted 

out to chase after him. Urashima yelled

for help.  Several 

m

ikos and 

priests tried to

block

him, but

 Xiao Gao was 

the same as that woman 

in the 

social

 club. He was

 too

 strong. He used his shoulders to send some 

priests

 to the ground

 before rushing 

toward the yard. 

I called Chuyi to help me 

block

 Xiao Gao. Xiao Gao’s arms were protecting the fox statue. His eyes had turned red 

as

 he bared his fangs furiously at us. 

I wielded the Sirius Whip

 and lashed 

forward. Xiao Gao was running between the stone lanterns. There were many times 

where

 I almost 

had

 him. Unfortunately, my whip hit 

a

 stone lantern

, so t

he man slither

ed away

 like an eel. Moreover, the yard had 

many stones

 and trees that 

blocked our path. 

We couldn’t grab him. 

Suddenly, 

Chiba 

came over and screamed

, “

There’s n

o need to chase him. The real fox statue has been taken out of the shrine!” 

“What did you say?” 

I turned to look at Xiao Gao. He was hiding behind a 

stone

, waiting for us to chase him. 

I bit the tip of my tongue

, and t

he pain woke me up. 

The item

 in Xiao Gao

’s hands 

wasn’t the fox statue. It was just a rock! 

He had taken the real fox statue from Urashima. 

However,

 when he went to the door, someone had helped him. They swapped the rock and the fox statue. We were chasing after Xiao Gao

 and thus gave 

the other person time to run away with the real fox statue. 

I 

looked at 

Chuyi

 and

 hurried

ly 

descended the mountain. 

We saw a minibus parked by the road. The bald uncle we 

saw 

in the 

social

 club in Osaka craned his neck out of the window

. He gave 

us an evil smirk before they drove away. 

I rolled my eyes

 in disbelief.

They had stolen the fox statue in

 broad daylight under our watch

!

Chiba rushed to where we were standing

 and 

saw the minibus 

leave

. She was so worried

 that she lost her temper.

 “Are you two fools or what? You let them go! What should we do now?”

She squatted

 and clutched 

her head worriedly. 

I suddenly recognized

 that t

he way she spoke was different from Chiba. Moreover, Chiba’s Chinese wasn’t 

that good

. 

Chuyi also 

realized

this

. He drew his eight-face

d

 Han sword

 and pointed it 

at her throat

. He said 

coldly

, 

“Who are you?” 

Chiba was frightened. She 

raised

 her hands and a fluffy tail abruptly appeared behind her. 

At this

 moment, the real Chiba and Yin Xinyue arrived from the mountain path. They were shocked 

to see

 the scene. The fake Chiba slowly trans

formed and turned 

into the little fox that had 

messed

 with us yesterday. 

“Tell me everything you know. 

N

ow!” ordered Chuyi. 

The little

 fox

’s 

ears folded forward dispiritedly. “All right

.

” 

When we returned to the shrine

,

 Xiao Gao 

had been

 captured. A few men from the shrine were holding him down.

Xiao Gao had foam 

at the corner of

 his mout

h and w

as trying to bite the

m

. I took out a 

talisman and stuck 

it on his forehead. 

He finally

 stopped wiggling. 

Chuyi checked Xiao Gao’s water bottle. He took a sniff and found that the water had something in it. It was the same fox’s saliva that the hostess in th

e

 pub 

drank.

This

 stuff 

had

caused

 Xiao Gao to los

e his mind

. 

He was likely

 ambushed before we 

reached the

 shrine. 

“What is the relationship between you and the boy in white?” Chuyi asked the little fox. 

The little fox scanned the surroundings. She looked scared 

and

 didn’t want to talk. 

I turned to Chiba. “Could we get a quiet room to interrogate her?” 

Chiba nodded. “Yes, let me take you there.” 

We then escorted the little fox to an empty room. Urashima stayed to take care of Xiao Gao.

When

 we 

were in 

the room, the little girl stomped her feet

. She pouted and yelled, 

“My goodwill is 

really wasted

! I’ve tried to help you continuously and you 

treat me like this

!” 

“Helped us? Like yesterday?” I snapped back. 

The little girl crossed her arms in front of her chest. “

I just

 wanted to test your capacity. I didn’t hurt you.” 

“Little fox, yo

u’re bold 

to say that. 

I almost

went crazy

 yesterday!” Li Mazi felt his blood boil when the girl reminded 

us

 of the situation last night. 

Ru Xue opened her eyes wide

 and muttered 

to me

,

 “Brother-in-law, is she a real monster?” 

When the little girl heard that, she bared her sharp fangs. Ru Xue was scared

 and hugged 

Li Mazi’s arm.

The little girl introduced herself. “I’m Jade Tail. 

The

 boy 

in

 white is Jade Fang. We are the guards of 

Tamamo no 

Mae-sama.” 

“So you are very, very old, right?” asked Yin Xinyue. 

“No

… 

We were dormant most of the time.” 

What Jade Tail told us 

was

 shocking. This little girl and the boy were

monsters that Tamamo

no

Mae 

created from her 

soul. They were like 

her

 clones. However, they didn’t have 

great power

. They only knew how to tempt people and create illusions. 

A

fter killing Tamamo

no

Mae back then, Abe no Seimei sealed the two little foxes inside two crystal balls

. They 

later became the eyes of the Silver Fox Guardian. Although people said that they were enshrined in this temple, the 

truth

 was that they were sealed here

! 

As time 

passed

, the power of the seal wor

e

 out

. T

he two fox spirits were finally able to escape. Jade Fang thought that there was no more powerful Onmyoji like Abe no

 Seimei

 in this era, so he decided to revive Tamamo no Mae. He cooperated with a businessman named Tanaka. Tanaka sent his people to 

ruin

 the 

geomancy

 of this shrine. Of course, he 

also

 had a hand in the robbery of the Silver Fox Guardian. 

Compared to Jade Fang, Jade Tail was much kinder. She understood that 

because

 Tamamo no Mae 

had been 

sealed for more than one thousand years, her resentful aura 

had to

 be extremely high. 

If

 she was released, no one could imagine the consequences

.

 However, she alone couldn’t stop Jade Fang. Later, 

s

he 

accidentally

learned

 that we could draw this sort of 

talisman, so she

 decided to usher us from the hotel to the shrine. 

After telling us the story, Jade Tail got on her knees

 and begged 

us. “I can help you stop Jade Fang. 

However,

 I have a request. Please don’t hurt him.” 

I pondered. “Is there 

a

 relationship between the Silver Fox Guardian statue and the seal that imprisoned Tamamo no Mae?”  

“No, there

’s 

nothing.” Jade Tail shook her head. 

“Then why did he want

to steal that statue?” I was puzzled. 

Chiba explained, “Silver Fox Guardian-sama is the treasure that guards this shrine. Once people know that the statue is missing, it will 

have a very

 bad effect 

on us

. Mr. Urashima will have to 

ask for forgiveness

 and resign. 

Furthermore, this shrine’s management could change

.” 

“

The management

?” 

“The shrine 

belongs to the

 government. But 

i

f business isn’t good, they 

might let

 someone else manage it,” Chiba answered. 

It seemed the bald

 uncle 

was a

 possible buyer.

I asked Jade Tail, “Still, 

w

hy 

would

 Tanaka want this shrine?”  

“Maybe Jade Fang told him that there’s a gold mine or a treasure underneath the shrine. Tanaka is a 

corrupt

 businessman, after all

,”

 Jade Tail answered. 

“How 

can you know so much

?” 

“Because 

i

f I were him, I would trick the 

man

 in the same fashion. We are foxes

. W

e often deceive people like that!” The little 

fox

 laughed

 and showed 

her fangs.

Jade Fang and her were like twins

; t

hey grew up together. Of course, their thinking 

was

 the same, so they couldn’t fool each other. 

“You can still wear that proud face?” Li Mazi fumed. 

Jade Tail made a face 

at

 him. 

“But what’s here?

Is Tamamo no Mae sealed here?” I asked

. 

Jade Tail nodded. “Tamamo no Mae-sama is sealed on the mountain behind this shrine!”