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II: Lily of the Valley
Chapter 63: Cat and Fox
It's different between people.

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Itadori family's gray fox was picked up by Yuji at Christmas.

From late December to early March, the gray fox had been staying at Itadori's house for more than a month.

Dr. Ichimura in the hospital said that this was an ordinary pet fox, but the fur color was a bit special, so it could be kept as a pet.

On the day the fox was sent to the hospital, the gray fox's right forelimb suffered a tear fracture. Most of the fox's fur was dyed red with blood. The dried blood formed scabs on the fox's fur, covering his body. The beautiful fur became dirty and exuded a strong smell of blood. The doctor had no choice but to cut off the fur on his body and then perform operations on him to stop bleeding, set his bones and sutured the skin.

For the next period of time, the gray fox stayed in the hospital for observation.

The nurse who took care of the gray fox said that the gray fox was the most well-behaved among all pets. He did not lose temper or yell. He ate well and recovered well. The only strange thing was that the gray fox did not seem liked to be touched by human.

The nurse responsible for taking care of the gray fox told Yayoi and Yuji that the gray fox was very smart and always tried to avoid contact with humans. He was not like the corgis in the hospital. The corgis always eat when the nurse went to feed them. They came over affectionately, rubbed the nurse's legs, and barked happily. They often interacted with the nurse during feeding.

The gray fox always liked to huddled on the mat, seemingly sleeping. When the nurse wanted to take the opportunity to touch this little fox that was not close to people, the fox opened his eyes, he jumped and frightened them.

The fox's eyes were a deep purple, with tiny halos of light flowing in the pupils. Those eyes were as silent as a deep pool, with no bottom visible. They were full of human-like wisdom, which made the nurse couldn't help but shuddered.

The gray fox rolled his eyes, glanced at the nurse's hand that was frozen in mid-air, and buried his head in the fluffy tail. Before falling asleep, the gray fox raised his eyelids and silently told the little nurse.

'Do not touch me.'

The nurse had no choice but to take her hand back.

Next, when the gray fox was recuperating in the hospital, the nurse responsible for taking care of him tried to touch his fur many times, but he was silently rejected. His eyes did not conceal the alienation, exclusion and indifference were in his eyes.

While the nurse felt aggrieved and regretful, she also felt extremely sympathetic to the fox.

To be able to harbor such great alienation and rejection towards humans, this little fox was afraid that he would have been greatly harmed by humans, otherwise he would not have been sent to the pet hospital covered in bruises.

The day when Yayoi and Yuji went to pick up the gray fox and go home, the weather was very good. It snowed last night. The ebony branches outside the pet hospital were covered with crystal rime. The golden sun splashed on the white snow. There was a sound coming from outside the window. The chirping sound of birds came.

The gray fox slept on the mat. When he woke up, he saw the sunlight flowing on the white porcelain floor of the hospital. The windows cut the sunlight and the white curtains hung tightly.

The gray fox's ears twitched. He heard Yayoi's voice. He opened his eyes and raised his head from his tail. At a glance, he saw the bright and eye-catching red at the door.

"Amamiya-san, Kitsune-chan's right forelimb is recovering well. The bandage and plaster can be removed. Let's do a full body examination and be discharged today." The nurse told Yayoi.

"Thank you, Miss Nurse." Yayoi said.

Yayoi turned his head and happened to meet the gray fox's purple eyes. The other party turned his head away as if he was guilty, and avoiding Yayoi's gaze.

Yayoi tilted her head in confusion.

Yuji's head popped up from the door. He looked at the gray fox lying on the mat and then at his red-haired sister. He blinked and said, "Sister, the fox seems to be peeking at you."

"Why don't you think the fox is looking at you and the nurse?" Yayoi rolled his eyes.

"Hey, nurse, when can we take the fox home?" Yuji asked.

The boy's eyes are as clear as the sunlight splashing on the ground from the window, making people happy both physically and mentally.

"Ah, just wait a while." The nurse curled her lips, "But before that, we need to give Kitsune-chan a full body examination."

"I understand." Yuji nodded, "Except for my sister's orange cat, this is my first time raising a small animal, so I'm a little anxious."

Fortunately, cats and dogs were the pets that most pet lovers choose to keep. There were really not many people who keep foxes.

The fox was lying on his big tail, eyes half drooped, listening to a few people chatting at the door. Perhaps the winter sun was too warm, and tiredness was welling up on his brows, and he didn't notice anyone approaching.

Yayoi gently pinched the fox's big ears. Maybe it was because the fox resembled Suguru. When Yayoi saw him, she always thought of the white furball that resembled Satoru.

The fox whose ears were pinched was startled, and he reflexively wanted to wave his paws, but when he raised his eyes, he saw the red hanging down, and finally his flesh pad touched the back of Yayoi's hand, soft and light.

"Ou?" The fox opened his eyes stupidly and looked at Yayoi who was pinching his ears.

"The fur on your ears is a little thicker than the furball." Yayoi blinked, her amber eyes as clear as a child's, "Furball have more fur, but the fur on your ears is thinner."

The gray fox was stunned for a moment, then he retracted his paws, shook his ears, and pulled his ears out of Yayoi's hand.

"You really look like Geto." Yayoi added, "Gojo raised a cat that looks very similar to him, so are you the fox raised by Geto?"

The fox's ears twitched a few more times.

The nurse next to me was so happy, "That's great! Amamiya-san!"

Yayoi was confused.

"This little fox doesn't like to be in contact with people." The nurse explained hurriedly. "During the examination, people were not allowed to touch him too much. The nurse who examined him was very distressed. If you were there, would the little fox like to be more cooperative?"

#Cunning monkey!!

The fox lying on the mat froze, and then the fox was carried to the examination room by Yayoi with a confused look on his face, and was placed on a sterilized soft cloth. Yuji, who came with his sister, was watching.

The nurse knew that the little fox didn't like to be in contact with humans, so she put on rubber gloves and took out a flashlight from the drawer to check the little fox's pupils.

In a room dominated by white tones, through the transparent window, you could see labeled medicine jars, tweezers, thermometers, and disinfectant in the lockers.

The fox who was forced to lie on it thought of a certain school doctor with dark circles in a religious school far away in Tokyo. When he was young, there were two guys who often got into trouble. The few times they had too rough, they overturned and were sent to the school infirmary. There, the school doctor with dark circles who was a female student who was dealing with the aftermath of the two of them took a scalpel and tied them to the operating table. Her face was so gloomy that she seemed to want to dissect them on the spot.

The fox was immersed in his own thoughts, drifting away, letting the nurse touch him.

The nurse wearing rubber gloves turned the fox over so that his furry belly was facing up, and touched the fox's soft belly a few times.

After being caressed affectionately on his most vulnerable abdomen, the fox's tail exploded into a mallet on the spot, and a warning sound came out from its mouth.

"You'll be fine soon, Kitsune-chan." The nurse didn't understand. Fortunately, she stopped stroking him and didn't forget to comfort him, "It's okay."

"The stomach is fine." The nurse said to herself.

The gray fox took a breath and was about to turn over, but the nurse grabbed his hind legs.

Fox: ???
Fox: !!!

What do you want to do? What do you want to do?

The fox's eyes turned frightened for a moment, but it didn't help. It was difficult to resist in this position, so he could only watch as the nurse opened his legs.

"Aaaaa—" The fox was so stimulated that he flicked his tail, flailed his limbs, and let out a shrill howl, which startled the three people in the treatment room.

The three heads of the three people were crowded together, and three pairs of eyes and six eyeballs looked at the fox on the examination table. For some reason, they all saw the humanized sadness and indignation on the fox's face.

"It's a boy." The nurse stared at the fox's legs, and she knew a certain part after seeing it.

"Aaaaa—" The fox's howl became even sadder.

Let him go!!!

"Then he didn't let the nurse in the hospital touch him before because he was shy?" Yayoi suddenly said.

Fox: "Ou ou ou—"
Of course not, he hated monkeys! He didn’t even want to come into contact with monkeys!

"Maybe." Yuji stared at the fox who was forced to perform the examination in a weird posture on the examination table. "What a magical little fox."

Fox: "Ou ou ou—"
I'm magical bullsh*t!

The nurse took hold of the fox's legs and smiled kindly, "If necessary, the fox can be brought over for sterilization after its injury is completely healed."

Fox: !!!
Go away, go away, I don’t want sterilization!! I do not want it!!

As soon as the nurse finished her words, the fox struggled even harder, whining and squealing, and wagging its tail wildly.

The nurse finally closed the fox's legs. The fox, whose legs were free again, ran down the operating table, jumped on the table, and then jumped on the locker. He surrounded himself with his fluffy tail and covered himself with blood. Huddled in the wall of the locker.

#He's no longer a human being!

Well, now he's a fox.

#I’m too embarrassed to see anyone.

There is a famous saying: what had happened would happen again, what had been done would be done again, there was nothing new under the sun.

There were many similar or even the same things in this world. The same thing may happen to two completely different people. If it happened to two completely different people, there was a high probability that there would be two results, and the same thing would have two results. A large part of the reason for the two results was the people facing things. Different people often have different attitudes towards things, so the results were also different.

Things turned around, and what happened to Satoru inevitably happened to him more than ten years later.

He himself was too shameless to face such a miserable thing, yet that guy Satoru could still meow and act cute in the little red-haired girl's arms, begging for petting.

Sure enough, people were different from each other.

He couldn't say that everyone was equal if he just hit this bottom line! Do you think the average person's bottom line was the same as Satoru's?!

The bottom line of that thing was unfathomable and immeasurable!

That’s outrageous!

Satoru, who was far away in Tokyo, sneezed two super loud sneezes.

"Ouh..."

The fox huddled pitifully in the corner on the locker, curling himself up into a small ball in grievance. He was pitifully weak and innocent, and let out weak and mournful screams intermittently to commemorate his lost virginity.

The fox, who was picked up by Yuji from the locker, was so autistic that he was unwilling to touch female creatures for a while, so he tugged at the hem of the hoodie of the little tiger and refused to let go of his paws to prevent the nurse from touching him again.

"If you take off my clothes again, they will be ruined." Yuji felt distressed, and then carefully picked up the fox, "This is my favorite piece of clothing."

The wound on the fox's body had just healed. If he took good care of himself in the future, it may not cause the disease. Before going back, Dr. Ichimura advised Yuji and Yayoi not to carry him home. The fox was small and did not like to be close to people, he was injured just recently and still needed to recuperate. There were many people and cars on the road, and there were many accidents. It would be bad if he bumped into someone.

The two siblings looked at each other, then turned to look at the gray fox. The weak and pitiful fox trembled at the sight of the two siblings, and felt a chill in his hearts.

So he was stuffed into the pet cargo.

After a "click" sound, the door of the flight box was closed. The expression of the fox in the box was like a Buddha who had seen through the worldly world, with no desires and no demands.

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Brother Suguru: As expected of you, Satoru.



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