After that my patience was disappeared by Tanuki surprise that he literally doesn’t feel hungry, thirsty and sleepy, I try to recover all my good energies resting at living room after having a lunch where we ate my food. It’s funny to see the Tanuki reaction tasting the “strange food from a land where the Sun we don’t see him rising”. Unfortunately, where I live I just see the Sun setting behind the trees together with the air I can breathe sweat, but still is a good scene to admire. Nothing is perfectly sweet living with a crazy and fat Japanese dog that is sitting by my side, observing me resting at the couch while I check my phone if there is some new message. For a while, my father replied me with consolations and that is praying for me. I am thankful for having a wonderful father I had to take care when I never more saw my mother.

Tanuki was with his eyes fixed on my phone, a mix of confusion and curiosity. At first moment, I tried to put away from him if he intends to read my talks, but for someone that said we use metal horses – not exactly with these words – he mistrusts my instrument of communication. He literally can think that I am using a magic weapon, if I had a huge imagination to portray the scene.

– What’s up, Tanuki? – I asked looking at him. – I presume you never saw a cellphone.

– Is this a name of your weapon? – he pointed with a wish to discover about my abilities, if I have one. – And how do you handle it?

– First, it isn’t a weapon – correcting him showing my phone; – second, it serves to talk to people that are far away from me.

– Talk to anyone far away? Like to speak with spirits?

– Not so much – if would be a good idea to talk with dead people of family and friends. I haven’t mind neither courage to think on it. – For example, I am talking to my father that is living at another city.

By his face is difficult to describe if he is understanding, impressed or just lazy. I even forgot he is with a towel covering his parts.

– All this seems strange for me, Master – how surprising is his argument!

– For you is. You will learn best when I begin to teach. It’s nothing difficult.

Just this answer was the reason for him to put his hands on my shoulders and look at my face with a fascinating admiration.

– And what more can you teach me?

– Calm down, Tanuki! – I tried to push him. – It isn’t easy as you think. Also, you don’t need everything I use daily.

– Like eat rice and bitter seed every day?

– Do you mean bean? – he nods his head. – Not this kind of thing. I mean you shouldn’t learn how to use a cellphone to have a lot of apps if you won’t use half of them. Maybe just to call for me when necessary or take some photos.

– Alright, but I am not understanding where you want to arrive – “neither do I”, I thought.

– It’s simple, Tanuki. You are immortal. Don’t need to eat, drink and sleep. So why would you have necessity to have a social media, a video-game, date and learn how to prepare good foods?

Despite that this part of preparing food is useful a lot for me. He stops a little to think in all my words, if he understood all. I think I was difficult to explain how our world works with and without magic or secret. He even scratches his bag for some kind of necessity. I don’t blame him for it because I do it sometimes. Well, all men do it, until where I know.

I lifted from the couch, stretching my body up and looking at him. I think funny his face like a curious kid watching something big moving, mainly if I put my eyes on the leaf, the mark on his forehead. This mark still calls my attention.

– I will walk a little.

– Nice, Master! – he lifted with a fast jump, holding my hands strong and shaking happy. – I want too.

– No! You can’t!

My reply was direct without think twice, what made Tanuki looks at me frustrated. I felt bad with it, but I didn’t want to take him with me, even shrunken; correcting:

– Don’t think it in worst way. It’s because you still need clothes to go out from my apartment and walk with me, if you want – the part of clothes I was right. He looked at me more relieved.

– Now I understood, Master. But is there something I could do?

– For a while not. I will see if I find some clothes for you when I return – and urgent because I don’t want he uses my clothes, right now I know he didn’t take a shower for many years.

– Alright, Master! I will take care of here while you walk a little more.

He did a movement with his hand until his head, saluting to me; the towel, poor towel, fell exposing his private parts. He doesn’t feel embarrassed being naked and neither do I, but I felt a hard weight in my mind and closed my eyes to not watch this horrible scene again, ordering him to put the towel again. Also, I took a bath on him.

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After such minutes, I was walking at some streets to meet a little of city and not forgetting the way I went to not get lost. I pay attention in all reference points: restaurants I find, some bakeries and even material stores; clothes store difficult to discover. At my old city what I know of clothes stores isn’t few. Maybe I should discover some at the bazaar in some churches, house or someone donating, but I should remember Tanuki’s size. Should be big; It’s easy to find at some cloth store.

I should think after. I see such streets and ways to go that is difficult to decide. Some streets are well busy, others almost empty. I think cool that some streets have alleys that I find doors on back houses, cool graffities and a lot of bush, trees and flowers and one alley I decided to turn is big, walls fully drawn. Usually these alleys are at the final of streets; almost nobody walks to there, thinking dangerous or perfect hiding places for robbers. I am having the audacity to meet one, trying to not forget the way I came from. I don’t want to get lost and ask for help only to guide me until my apartment.

Walking around bushes of all sizes, I observe some graffities, some interesting. There are some that are pretty, others based on games, movies, HQs and so on. The variety of creativity is huge. I even find one drawing in one wall, writing – or drawing – some message, at same time I sniff something bad and disgusting. I never felt this smell before. Not a dead dog smells so bad like this. I thought it came from the drawer I am seeing at front, but he sniffs the same and looked at me while I cover my nose. I try not to look at him, disguising the eyes. I see it didn’t work. It gave the impression I left one fart, but it isn’t true. Passing by him, I look back and he keeps with the eyes fixed on me, imagining I was the guilty for this smell. Such was the distraction that an explosion happened exactly at my front, making me jump back and fall; I didn’t notice the cat moving very fast and running away, letting me alone at this alley. I thought it was just an explosion, a prank with my face, but the situation is worse than I thought. I could see one silhouette in the smoke, a big creature impossible to describe at first moment and with a horrible smell that now I can distrust where it comes from.

– Fresh flesh!

If the explosion had let me scared so these words let my heart frozen and my soul desperate. On first moment I understood nothing with this if not he wants to eat me. I could notice his face with the time that the smoke fades and this big and wild creature like an animal. The few I could notice of him is the blue strong skin, gray hair and beard, a pair of horns with a typical ring on each one and a body with big muscles, looking like an orc, mainly with these clothes. Now the face, really, is the spotlight: ugly and ugly.

I wished to lift, but I couldn’t feel my muscles alive and these yellow strong eyes looking at me with a horrible desire in mind. All I wanted is to walk in peace and right now I receive other opportunity to “meet” another crazy one. His steps make a tremor at the ground to prove that my soul is fragile and he says:

– You! I found you!

– Please! Peace! – I screamed to him, imploring for one day of calm. He stretches his clef to me.

– Shut up, descendant.

This last word gave me a knot being untied. Even the fear swallowing me deeper, I tried to clarify some things.

– Descendant? Of who?

– Don’t make yourself a liar! You have the kitsune blood and I can smell of kilometers.

– Wait wait wait!

I understand now: another one crazy thinking I am a kitsune or a master like Tanuki thinks. He keeps quiet at his position, resting the clef on his right hand and the eyes fixed on me with a sudden desire to kill a victim; I try to lift slow not intending to look at his body, mainly that his size is biggest. I would like to disguise the bad smell, but impossible.

Also, what is kitsune? Other Japanese name that I didn’t know?

– I am not a kitsune. You should be confusing me with other one. I am just a student from other city and I know nothing about your beliefs and intentions.

I just could see his face in doubt, but I explained all I know and all is true. He squats at my front, his nose very close to me and begins to sniff on my body; I wanted to know where he came from to smells so horrible like a wet dog or dead wet dog. His sniff was strong, almost pulling me for him. His big eyes with ferocity looked at me and left a word in roar:

– Descendant!

His breath was strong enough to almost break my body and turn back to run away. I could see nothing behind me and I didn’t dare to look back, but I felt something hard behind me, making a big tremor and make me stumble and fall on the grass. When I try to lift, he puts his huge hand on my, holding and pressing against the grass. I don’t have any breath or energy to scream loud.

– Please! Stop! I don’t want to die! – I was almost crying for mercy when he pressed me more against the grass.

– Now fresh flesh!

My face kissing the dirty grass, if I had reasons from the thief day to get scared and scream now I have fantastic reasons. My eyes seeing and imagining not only the scene of massacre, but all the dreams I had being crushed in blood and pain. I couldn’t believe my life would end being died or eaten by a monster I never saw in my life. Such dreams and projects I was making, the friendships I was doing, my father praying for me... All broken by a creature that hunted me like an animal with kitsune story and now broken by a leaf hitting his forehead. Both me both him looked forward and I was seeing this fat raccoon in a pose of arms crossed, thinking he is in some super hero comic.

– Get away from my Master, Oni!