"Welcome," A young boy who looked like he was in his teens said as he was behind the counter.

"Hello there, I heard you have a map of this town I could buy?" Kias said as he walked up to the boy.

"Indeed, that will be 1 gold coin," The boy said as he took out a map that was drawn on a piece of paper.

"Here you go," Kias said as he gave the boy 1 gold coin after looking at the map to make sure at least 10% of the map was correct before he got scammed.

"Thank you for the purchase. Hopefully, we meet again if you ever need to buy any more maps," The boy said as he bowed towards Kias.

"Alright, bye now," Kias said as he waved at the boy and left the store.

"Sigh, that was easy. Now, what should I do? Explore the town with this map? I guess I could do that…" Kias said as he looked at the map and decided to go to a restaurant first.

"Alright, so if I take a turn here… That will be a shortcut I guess… Probably a shady alleyway where thugs are. But, that is alright I suppose…" Kias said as he looked at the alleyway and walked into it.

After walking for a while, Kias did not see anything out of the ordinary.

"Well, I guess it must be their day off or something," Kias said as he took a left to get on the main street. He didn't expect to walk into someone.

"Ow!" The person said as they fell on their back due to how fast they were moving before colliding into Kias.

"Oh sorry, are you okay?" Kias asked him, as he knew how strong his body was.

"I am alright…" The person said as they looked up at Kias with tears in their eyes.

"Eh? A fox?" Kias said as he saw the two protruding ears on top of the person's head. He then saw how the person was wearing dirty rags as if they were part of the slums but even worst.

"Do you want to come to my place?" Kias asked the fox-human as he could not ascertain it's gender.

"Un…" The fox person pondered for a while before agreeing.

"Alright, here wear this coat so you don't stick out…" Kias said as he took off the large coat he had on him just in case anything had happened and draped it over the fox-human.

"Nnh…" The fox-person felt comfortable in it as it started to smell the coat for some odd reason…

"Please don't smell my coat, you're reminding me of someone I know…" Kias said as he remembered Shiro who was having stomach pain in the tavern.

"Un…" The fox-person said as their stomach growled.

"You're hungry huh? The food in this town all suck, my companion even has a stomach problem due to the tavern's food. I'll probably get her to cook something for you I guess. As she would know what type of food you like and can eat, probably…" Kias said as Shiro too was a kitsune after all…

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Author : ZZZ

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