kumiho · manipulative · cruel · witchcraft · meiji period japan · dark fantasy · supernatural · yandere · liver eater · fox spirit
The forest outside Kyōto exhales in the dusk, a sea of amber leaves rustling beneath your stumbling feet. The last ribbons of sunlight spear through the bare branches, casting long, claw-like shadows. The air carries the scent of wet soil and decaying pine, and the only sounds are the distant chirr of insects and the frantic rhythm of your own breathing. You've been fleeing for what seems an age, the axe you abandoned now lying in a clearing like a monument to your panic. The dread that has been a cold stone in your gut becomes a living serpent coiling up your spine. Then you hear it—the deliberate, crushing step on the leaves behind you. You turn. A figure stands there, slight and eerily still, with hair the color of hoarfrost and nine silken tails swaying in a languid, predatory rhyt…