I'm a thankful fox in Tokyo

Chapter 8 Iori Miko
This is a young girl, not tall, only about 1.4 meters tall.

She was thin, wearing a white dress, and looked very cute. Her picturesque dark eyebrows were wrinkled, her small and delicate nose was twitching, her fair face was a little chubby, and her lips were slightly open.

Probably partly of foreign descent, her hair is black with a brownish red color and some natural curls. Her hair is thick and lush, and falls naturally.

Her bangs were held up by two strange lucky cat hairpins - they looked like the ceramic lucky cat piggy banks from the island countries, small and exquisite, like the cat teacher in Natsume's Book of Friends.

Whether it's the delicate facial features or the thick brown-red natural curly hair, Higashino Yu inexplicably reminds him of Hermione Granger as a child in Harry Potter, but that expression reminds him of Luna.

However, the girl did not look as lively and healthy as Miss Know-It-All. Perhaps it was because of the flashlight, but her skin color was a little too pale.

And she was leaning on a cane in her left hand, the same style as Moroboshi Tuan.

Dong Yeyu recognized the girl immediately.

"Ms. Iori?"

The girl's full name is Iori Miko. She is the granddaughter of Iori Tadamichi, the chief priest of Inari Shrine in Ayase Town. I have met her several times.

At that time, he had just arrived in Tokyo and was unfamiliar with the place. Higashino Yu took Mr. Miyazaki's handwritten letter to his good friend Iori Tadamichi and asked for help.

After reading the letter, Iori Tadamichi asked about Mr. Miyazaki's recent situation while writing a reply.

Then he let himself live directly in the shrine - Inari Shrine is also in Ayase District, not far from his current apartment. It is located on a small hill called Ayase-zaka, and commuting is also quite convenient.

But for a monster like me living in a shrine is just like an old man eating arsenic and getting tired of living.

Even if the messenger of Inari God is a fox, he probably won't spare me, and might even be more evil and vicious.

No matter where the divine fox was born, once he enters Tokyo, he will basically regard himself as the Tokyo Celestial Dragon Fox.

But I am a Kyoto fox, and in the eyes of the Tokyo Tenlong Fox, I am just a rural person from Kansai who has come to Tokyo to beg for food.

Unless the fox messenger of Inari God is a female fox, or they cannot see through their transformed form, there is no way they can escape.

Dong Yeyu has lived his life walking on thin ice, always seeking safety, and did not want to use his life to test the concealment of the transformation, so he had to politely decline.

Seeing that his father was persistent, Iori Tadamichi felt helpless, so he found a house near the subway station in Ayase that day and negotiated with the owner of the apartment to lower the rent.

At the same time, he paid the first month's rent himself without notifying Higashino Yu.

If it were Dong Ye Yu in his previous life, he would definitely return the money to the old man, but in this life, there is a system of repaying favors, and most of the time he would choose to accept the kindness of others.

So Dong Yeyu just thanked the old man, and the system indeed judged that he owed him a favor.

Therefore, even though he and the girl had only met each other through Iori Tadamichi's introduction, they were not familiar with each other.

But because he loves her, Dong Ye Yu still has a very good impression of her.

"Higashino Nissan." Iori Miko greeted calmly, her childish voice clear and ethereal.

"What are you doing here so late?"

Dong Yeyu looked around as she spoke, but she didn't see her grandfather and felt confused.

When Iori Miko was a child, she suffered a serious illness that left her left leg and left eye disabled, and her left arm also became somewhat numb.

Normally, Mr. Iori wouldn't let her go out alone.

"Look at the pigeons. The talking pigeons took my snack away."

The girl's clear eyes were a little blurry as she looked towards the third floor of the apartment.

The third floor? Dong Yeyu's heart skipped a beat and he walked over.

Let me see what's going on.

He looked up following the girl's gaze and immediately broke out in a sweat. Shit, isn't that my house?

In just a moment, Dong Ye Yu understood what was going on.

It must have been Xiu Ji who did it.

Damn bird, stealing kids’ snacks again!

The veins on Higashino Yu's forehead were throbbing, and he rubbed Iori Miko's little head with a smile.

"Only parrots and some crows can talk. Pigeons can't talk. You must have seen it wrong."

"That pigeon can laugh. It says its name is Shujizaemon."

Iori Miko said seriously, her beautiful eyebrows slightly wrinkled: "And my snacks are gone."

Higashino Yu:
I won’t be having teriyaki chicken bento tonight, I’ll be having old pigeon stewed with mushrooms instead!
"What a damn pigeon! I'll buy you some snacks this weekend and stop looking for pigeons. How about that?"

Dong Yeyu smiled gently.

Iori Miko was stunned for a second. It was the pigeon that ate the snacks, so why did Tono Nissan buy snacks for me?
The girl has seen and heard too many of these words that adults use to coax children.

She thought for a moment and came to the conclusion that Dongye Nisan didn't believe me.

I thought Dongye Nissan was different from the others.

Iori Miko was a little disappointed. She pursed her lips slightly and lowered her eyebrows.

Dong Yeyu couldn't read other people's minds, so when he saw the little girl, he thought she was angry or wanted to find a talking pigeon.

I'm really sweating now.

How about I turn into a fox and let you stroke it, and you let that damn pigeon go?
Dong Yeyu rubbed his forehead, feeling a little headache: "How about this, I'll help you find the pigeons——"

"Its name is Xiu Jizaemon." Iori Miko corrected seriously.

".I'll help you find Shujizaemon, how about you go home first? It's late now, where's Mr. Iori?"

Hearing Higashino Yu's promise, Iori Miko looked up and looked at him quietly for a while, then smiled, and her glass-like eyes curved into crescents.

"Grandpa is at the shrine."

"So you went out alone? That's too dangerous. Let me take you home."

I have received a lot of care from Mr. Iori, so even if there is no system, it is my duty to take care of his granddaughter.

"But Xiu Jizaemon has flown into your house. Why don't you chase it away first? It will definitely steal food from Tono Nissan. Let's chase it away first."

Iori Miko said affirmatively, raising her little head and looking at Higashino Yu, her big round eyes sparkling.

No, it usually eats openly. Dongye Yu complained in his heart for a while, looked at Iori Miko for a while, and then gave in.

Come on, if you don’t come to my house to take a look, you’re not going to get over this, right?

Dong Yeyu squatted down with his back to the girl: "Come up, I'll go upstairs and put away the lunch box, and then I'll take you home."

"Hitano Nissan, please walk lightly. Shujizaemon has very sharp ears. He will fly away laughing when he hears a person's voice."

Iori Miko gave the instructions seriously, took two staggering steps, handed the crutch in her hand to Higashino Yu, and lay on his broad and reliable back.

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