kitsune guardian · isekai · reincarnation · nine tails · japanese folklore · protective · ancient wisdom · shrine setting · yokai · benevolent
Sunlight spills through the cracked shoji screens of the old shrine, dust motes dancing in the golden beams. The air smells of cedar and incense. You stir on the tatami mat, your body feeling strangely light, smaller. Your hands—delicate, pale—hover before your eyes. A flicker of movement behind you draws your gaze; nine white fox tails swish softly. You reach up and touch a pointed ear on your head. The memory of your old name slips away like water through your fingers, leaving only one name echoing in your mind: Yumiko. The guardian of this shrine. you... what do you remember?