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Ren shrugged. “Because losing feels the same as winning.”

But the game had a secret. The fox, whose name was Tamamo-no-Mae, was not an AI. She was a real, ancient kitsune trapped centuries ago by a shaman’s curse inside a pearl. That pearl had been stolen, sold, and eventually digitized into the game’s server core. Now, she played her own game: every time a player entered the labyrinth, she fed on a sliver of their attention, their fear, their longing. And she was growing stronger. nine tailed fox game

“I’ll stay in the game. Not as a player. As a warden. You teach me what you are, and I’ll remind you what you could be.” He met her gaze. “That’s my wish.” Ren shrugged