Chapter 21: Ulterior motives
"Right...... I'm sorry, Yan'er, I'm ...... I didn't mean to. Jin Hotaru stammered and hurriedly explained.
"Well, I'm full," Yan'er wiped her mouth and burped, it didn't listen to Jin Ying's words at all, dropped a sentence, and flew away as it spoke, and before leaving, she didn't forget to step on the head of Ji Ao, who was laughing wildly, "I'm going out to play! ”
"Hahaha......" Yan'er couldn't stop Ji Ao's laughter, he rolled around on the sofa with his stomach in his hand, and the more he laughed, the more he laughed, the more powerful he became, "Your performance, your performance...... Hahaha...... Exactly like human parents...... Hahaha...... I can't...... I'm going to laugh to death......"
Jin Hotaru glared at him in embarrassment, neither standing nor sitting.
"I'm just afraid it's going out into trouble. Jin Ying hurriedly made excuses to explain.
"It's getting into trouble every day anyway, hahahaha......"
"Don't laugh. Jin Ying finally couldn't help but be angry, grabbed the soup pot and threw it at his head.
"So, what kind of friends did it make?" Ji Ao finally couldn't hold back a laugh.
"Fox, a little nine-tailed fox. ”
"It's such a coincidence, it shouldn't be the one I saved, right?" Ji Ao muttered, "It's strange that I can't find them living in this city." But that nephew has been staying in the city honestly, and there is no big move except for eating people once. ”
He has been looking for the whereabouts of this fox for the past few days, but he has never found where they have landed, and he began to think that they were just passing by here, maybe they had already left, but he didn't expect Yan'er to have something to do with them.
"You seem to care about the nine-tailed fox?" Jin Hotaru looked at Ji Ao, he had never seen him care so much about other youkai.
"I owe that race a favor, and I always want to find a chance to pay it back. Ji Ao admitted, and he shouted, "Hey, take me to meet Yan'er's friend, okay?"
"Let's ask Yan'er first. "Jin Ying doesn't want to do anything disrespectful to Yan'er anymore.
"Okay, then we'll ask it now, okay?"
“…… You know it's with the little fox right now. ”
"How do I know so much. Let's go, let's go, let's go ask Yan'er right away and see if we can meet its friends. Jin Ying shook his head, he really couldn't do anything about Ji Ao.
Because Hotaru had always insisted on living a human life and not casting spells in an emergency, they had to walk to the park. Ji Ao opened his arms and learned from Ruth, the heroine of the movie "Titanic", to fly, standing on the stone on the curb and jumping forward, but Jin Ying's eyes fell on a person on the side of the road.
"It's not long-eyed!"
The traffic on the road was busy, Zhang Yulan walked forward with a sluggish expression, Jin Ying's hands were fast, and she pulled her back in time, and a large truck drove past where she was standing just now, and the driver dropped a sentence.
Zhang Yulan was there, in a trance for a while before she recognized the person in front of her, and she muttered: "Mr. Jin......"
"It's too dangerous for you to walk like this," Ji Ao interjected with a grin, as long as it was related to women, he would have to say a few words anyway, build a stubble or something, "Be careful in the future." ”
"Xiao Lei, he has cancer...... Zhang Yulan finally met someone she was familiar with.
"My poor child, my poor child......" she cried out.
Jin Hotaru frowned and sighed, he had known that the child had an incurable disease, he had seen him twice in succession, and found that his soul had begun to disappear from his body, and finally his mother got the diagnosis from the human doctor.
"I must cure his illness, even if I sell blood and organs, I will save him!" Zhang Yulan was not so much talking to Jin Ying, but rather strengthening her confidence.
When she cheered up and walked back as steadily as possible, the two monsters behind her looked at her sympathetically, and they could only sympathize, because they couldn't do anything, and once the human soul drifted away, monsters like Jin Hotaru and Ji Ao couldn't be cured at all.
When Zhang Yulan walked away, Jin Ying and Ji Ao had already left this matter behind, in the human city, such an unfortunate story is staged every day, every minute, every second, if you pay too much sympathy because of this, even the monsters will not be able to stand it, and the monsters also have their own problems to solve.
Flame and the little fox are playing a simple game: the little fox is jumping around and dodging, and Flame is grabbing its tail. The little fox has nine tails, but Flame only has one paw, which seems fair to say, so they play with it tirelessly.
After the two hid aside and watched for a while, Ji Ao nodded in affirmation: "It's really the one I saw." ”
Jin Hotaru looked at Yan'er, who was playing, it didn't matter to him who this nine-tailed fox was, seeing Yan'er get a good friend was the most important thing.
"It stands to reason that the nine-tailed fox's tutoring should be very strict, how can it be possible to let the child play outside all day?" Ji Ao muttered suspiciously, he couldn't help frowning and thinking, "I haven't found his family at all, where is its home......"
"I've been following Yan'er and the little nine-tailed fox these days. Ji Ao simply admitted.
"Why are you doing this!" Jin Hotaru jumped up at the first moment.
"You'll know after you hear me," Ji Ao rarely spoke so seriously, "First of all, there is no Nine-Tailed Fox family in this city at all, and it is only that little child who comes to us. ”
Jin Ying couldn't figure out what Ji Ao meant by this for a while.
Ji Ao told the situation of following the little fox in the past few days: "Whenever Yan'er and the little fox come home after playing a game, I follow it to observe, wanting to see where the little fox lives. only to find that after it went around in a circle, it quietly followed behind Yan'er. And then there was a nephew, the one I said, and they followed the little fox, and they followed one after the other, all the way downstairs where you live. ”
Ji Ao looked at Jin Ying's gloomy face and continued: "Yan'er returned home, the nine-tailed fox was hiding in the camphor bushes downstairs, and the nephew stood guard not far away until Yan'er came out again, and they repeated the above behavior again. When they were about to reach the park, the nine-tailed fox ran inside first, pretending to be waiting for the flames, and the nephew couldn't find a chance to make a move and left. ”
"These days, it's like this, and even a few times, the little fox and Yan'er don't follow closely enough, and the nephew immediately rushes up to attack it, and he has to kill it. The little fox was very clever and could escape every time in a pinch. After Ji Ao finished speaking, he grabbed his chin and fell into deep thought.
"Why is this happening......" Jin Hotaru muttered to herself, puzzled.
He thought that this little nine-tailed fox was just a child of a monster family. It runs out to play with Yan'er, as innocent as human children make friends with each other. What is the relationship between it and its nephew, and why did it deliberately approach Yan'er?
"It's not that simple, is it?" Ji Aoming knew what Jin Ying was thinking, and deliberately asked again.
Jin Hotaru's mind is not always so simple, at least when it comes to Yan'er, his mind will become very sharp: "What does it want Yan'er to do for it!"
"I can't see it now, but I'm sure that Yan'er is now serving as a talisman for the little fox, and without Yan'er's protection, the little fox won't be able to survive a day. ”
"That nephew and the little fox are enemies, right?" Jin Ying guessed that the little fox deliberately approached Yan'er, just because Suzaku could deal with Yan'er, and Jin Hotaru never worried that Yan'er couldn't deal with this nephew, but the little fox befriended Yan'er to use it, and this behavior made him very disgusted.
"I'm going to talk to that nine-tailed fox. This is Yan'er's first friend, and Jin Hotaru doesn't want it to be used, so Jin Hotaru stands up anxiously, "If possible, keep it away from Yan'er." ”