"Tanuki youkai are good at change. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Eryan ripped off the backpack with a big hole in it and tossed it aside, and her big fluffy and soft tail like a pillow popped out and leaned back on the back of the seat.

"Ahh......h

"In the beginning," Mizo said slowly, "there were only tanuki on Sado Island. We were born here, grew up here, and never seen the outside world. ”

"When you are thirsty, you drink the dew from the leaves, when you are hungry, you eat the fruits of the season, and when you are in danger, you become a bird and run away, and live a leisurely life. ”

"Until one day, the shadow of a white sail appeared on the surface of the sea—it was a human fleet. ”

"The specific reason why those humans crossed the sea to this uninhabited island is no longer known. Some say it's for escape, some say it's a caravan that has deviated from the route, and some say it's a foreign settler, no one has conclusive evidence, and there is no certainty in the struggle. ”

"Anyway, they came, and they settled here. These people built towns by the sea, and over the course of a few hundred years, they grew and absorbed more immigrants, eventually establishing the country of Sado. ”

"And then?" Reimu asked, "You said that the inhabitants here are tanuki, right?" but I didn't see any youkai along the way, and the streets were full of normal humans!"

"Could it be ......," Alice covered her mouth and whispered, "The tanuki who originally lived here were all ...... by humans."

"Give...... Eaten?" Marisa asked, tilting her neck.

"Don't worry, I'm talking about this!" Zozo continued with a smile, "Because of the arrival of humans, we tanuki have gradually disappeared. But it wasn't killed, it was assimilated with humans. ”

"Assimilation?"

"Yes, it's assimilation. When humans first landed, everyone just looked at the bipedal creatures with blue wisps and yellow faces and thin muscles from a distance, and they were a little curious at best. After satisfying the curiosity, it is time to do what to do, humans and tanuki do not interact with each other, and there is nothing to do. ”

"Later, we gradually discovered that those human beings were superior to us in everything in terms of food, clothing, shelter and transportation. They ate the flesh of wild beasts several times stronger than us, drank wine with strange smells, lived in warm and dry wooden huts, and we were huddled in caves to keep warm. ”

Therefore, a small number of bold tanuki changed into human appearance, mixed into human society, ate and drank spicy food, and never thought about it. These raccoon cats, who are accustomed to the life of the world, have long lost their nostalgia for the mountains and forests, but are afraid of being driven away due to the exposure of their identities, and even do not hesitate to cut off their tails and become human beings completely. ”

"You know, tail, for us tanuki, it's a battery that accumulates demonic power. ”

"Batteries, is that something like a Philosopher's Stone?" asked Marisa.

"Haha, you can understand that too. "In short, once the tanuki abandons its tail, it will lose all its demonic power, and it won't even be able to change back to its original form." Strictly speaking, a tanuki without a tail can no longer be considered a monster. ”

The other tanuki witnessed the success of the pioneers, and they flocked to the human village. Since then, there have been fewer and fewer tanuki cats that have maintained their monster bodies, and eventually they have gone extinct. And those tanuki who blended into the crowd were silent about their past, and the children born after marrying humans, although they were half-demons, were no different from ordinary humans. ”

In this way, the tanuki merged into the human race, and there were no more tanuki in the world. ”

After Eryan finished speaking, he sat upright, lifted the flask and drank it dry, and then smashed it on the countertop, wiped his mouth, and exhaled a long breath.

"Good wine!"

Her cheeks were slightly red, and her expression was slightly drunk, but those eyes were still so clear, not like the eyes of a drunken person.

"Cut, I thought it was...... Reimu pursed her lips disdainfully, "After all, aren't there no tanuki on this island?"

"There are no tanuki monsters other than the old ones and the few old ones left!" said Yuzo, leaning sideways and elbowing himself on the bar as he faced the three girls.

"Then why aren't you human?" Marisa blinked and asked, "You're no different from a human now, anyway?"

"Then do you still need to ask?" Zangzang slapped the table and said loudly, "Of course I can't bear to be the world's No. 1 tail!"

"Huh?"

Marisa froze for a moment, then looked at the tail that made it difficult to suppress the desire to pet, and said with a smile:

"Haha, if you think about it, it's true!"

"Of course, do you think any tanuki has such a big tail? It's old, but it took hundreds of years of demonic power to raise this tail so big, how could you be willing to throw it away!"

"Well, the reaction of those people...... Alice asked, holding her chin, "why do the people on the island respect you so much?

"Ah, that......" replied to Yuzang, "that's because the tanuki who had infiltrated human society earlier, thinking that Lao Yu was their leader, or the original leader, gave Lao Yu a face, and made up the name of 'Eryan Daming God', and offered it as a god in the temple, and also taught their children that when they saw me, Eryan Yizang should pay three points of respect." Gradually, this custom became more and more widespread, and it was handed down. ”

"Of course," she added, "the old man has done a lot for them!

"So you're a god!" Marisa said, "Can you become a god even though you're a tanuki?"

"When will the old man admit that he is a god? These are all names, you know, names! To put it bluntly, they are all false, and they are just used to fool people. ”

"What about you, old man?" asked Marisa, turning to the old man who owned the restaurant, "Are you also a tanuki's child?"

The old man had been listening with relish since Eryan Yuzang opened his mouth, and he didn't say a word, but now he waved his hand and denied it:

"I'm not, our whole family, all generations of pure humans, not even a little bit of tanuki blood. But the rest of the people on Sado Island are different. ”

"After all, whether it is a pure human or a pure tanuki, there are very few on this island!" Reimu sighed, "After becoming such a relationship between you and me, and I and you, it is impossible to separate!"

"No one ever wants to be separated!" said the old man with a smile, "and we are all proud of the fact that we are both the children of men and the children of tanuki." The tanuki tribe is not dead, it just continues to exist in another way. ”

"Is this the 'other' form of coexistence...... Reimu nodded, "I should write it down and maybe I'll need it later." ”

"Huh...... Ah......h

Marisa, on the other end, yawned a long time and said lazily:

"What, Zang, a place to sleep, you have arranged it too, right?"

"Of course, Lao Yu has said that the food and accommodation of your group will be taken care of by Lao Yu, so you don't have to worry about it at all!"

"That's great, let's ...... it quickly"

"Sleep when you're full, are you a pig?" Reimu sneered before Marisa could finish speaking.

"What? you earth maiden!" Marisa exploded when she heard this.

"Eat...... Eat the Earth Witch?"

"Thank you for your hospitality, thank you very much!" Alice next to her, as if the two grumpy little girls did not exist, thanked the hotel owner.

"Whereever, it's great if you can eat well, come back next time!" the old man smiled, and the wrinkles on his face were all squeezed together.

"Ah!" Alice replied with a smile, then stood up and walked towards the door.

"I'll leave you here with the money, and I'll have more wine next time." Eryan took out a few large bills from his pocket, pressed them on the table, and was about to leave. When the old man saw her like this, he hurriedly persuaded:

"Lord Eryan, this can't be helped! How dare I take your money!"

"What did you say? I didn't hear you!

So, the group left this unique restaurant in laughter.