My lady, don't be angry. I'm letting you touch my big tail.

Inugami ran up the hill with the girl and finally managed to grab her hand, at which point the girl stopped running.

She smiled and said, "Brother Inugami, I thought you went back by yourself and left me alone."

"How could I not care about you!"

Inugami exhaled.

But the next moment, he froze and immediately covered his head with one hand.

"This……"

"what happened?"

"The air here is thick with the stench of blood, and the yin and yang energies are mixed together, making it extremely dense."

The girl didn't seem to feel anything; in fact, she took a few deep breaths.

"I'm fine, I have no problems. Why are you so sure, Inugami-nii-san?"

"because……"

Inugami blushed and lowered his head.

"Because... my ears and tail have come out. Even if the spirits here aren't Taotie, they're still very powerful. I only reveal my true form when I'm within the range of the aura emitted by spirits of a higher level than me."

The girl clapped her hands together firmly. "Ah, I know! Once when Sister Joy was sick, the fox wasn't as gentle as usual. He was in a low mood all day, and your ears and tail only appeared once~"

Unfortunately, at that time, Inugami hid inside the house and didn't see the girl.

The girl wanted to touch it, but she couldn't reach it no matter what she did.

Now that there's nowhere to hide, she can touch him whenever she wants.

"Hehe~ Inugami-nii-san, don't cover it up, let me touch it~"

"Get away from me! Don't look!"

"why?"

"No reason!"

The girl pouted, but she wasn't discouraged. Could he really do whatever he wanted here?

"Ahem~ Brother Inugami, alright, I won't look anymore, let's keep going~"

The dog god doesn't believe the girl.

The girl walked forward on her own, and as she walked, she suddenly cried out "Ouch!" and squatted down.

The dog rushed over and asked with concern, "What's wrong? Where does it hurt? Where does it feel uncomfortable?"

"Brother Inugami, my stomach hurts... it feels like I have a stitch..."

The dog god quickly made her sit down, saying he would take a look at her.

As soon as he let go, the girl grabbed his tail.

Black and fluffy~

"Wow, it feels so good, Inugami-nii-san! Your dog tail feels just as good as Hanazono's fox tail. Although it's not as fluffy as his, it feels so soft and cute!"

"you!"

In his haste, the dog's ears popped out.

A dark ring of outer hair encloses a pink ear canal.

One was propped up, and the other was drooping.

The girl couldn't help but cover her mouth.

"Ahhh! So cute, Inugami-nii-san, you're so cute!"

She reached out to touch the dog god's ears, and the dog god not only trembled, but its ears also twitched.

This undoubtedly made the young girl's heart flutter even more.

"Brother Inugami, you're so cute, why don't you show it in front of me? And...and..."

The girl stroked the dog god's head, feeling a sense of familiarity.

She muttered softly, "It feels so familiar~ Brother Inugami, have I ever petted you like this before?"

The dog god, who had been blushing, immediately woke up.

A very curt denial.

"No no!"

He then stood up and looked at the girl with a cold expression.

"Since you don't have stomach pain, stand up and get going!"

"Tch, Inugami-nii-san, you're so boring! You'd be much more beautiful if you were a spirit with a soul as lovely as a flower~"

“He’s a fox and I’m a dog. I can’t imitate his sly manner.”

The girl chuckled, noticing that Inugami's cheeks were still flushed.

I thought to myself, he wasn't really angry, he must be happy inside.

So the girl went over and took Inugami's hand, saying, "Brother Inugami, let's go together. I'm a little scared to go alone. This mountain is dark and gloomy, and there's not a sound of birds or beasts at all. It's kind of creepy."

The dog god rolled its eyes at the girl.

"Now you're scared? Who was it that was so eager to try and come up here?"

The girl stared intently at the dog god once again.

She found that she was actually quite happy to be lectured by her dog-god brother.

What she disliked was being lectured in front of everyone.

The dog god muttered a few words, then turned around and saw the girl's eyes burning with passion, and his heart skipped a beat again.

Even the girl's hand was shaken off.

"Don't hold my hand, just hold my sleeve."

"Huh? What's wrong with you all of a sudden?"

"I……"

Inugami actually has many things that are troubling him.

He naturally liked his sister, but he also hoped that she would understand the true meaning of love between men and women after meeting many people, rather than liking him simply because they had been together since childhood.

But he couldn't possibly let his sister go.

He couldn't even let his sister off the hook when she experienced some strange phenomenon.

He simply made a girl who was still a child learn magic, and then... she did nothing under his very nose.

This is a very contradictory idea.

Qiao Yi and Hua Ran both tried to persuade him.

Since the Taoist nun has been reincarnated and returned to the side of the dog god.

The dog god should look forward, not live in the past.

This is not good for either of them.

Inugami simply lowered his head and said nothing.

Before her death, my sister was always exorcising strange phenomena. In the end, she entered Shiqiao Village and never came out again.

He was afraid that his sister would suffer the same fate, so he forbade the girl from exorcising the strange phenomena.

But now... the girl seems to be losing control.

"It's nothing, I just want to free up my hands so that I can form hand seals and cast spells to protect myself and you if we encounter enemies."

"Oh~ Brother Inugami, have you noticed that we can't get out?"

Inugami was taken aback and immediately looked around.

They just walked through this place!

If they had continued forward, they should have been heading down the mountain, but instead they ended up back where they started.

The girl got excited, "Hey, Inugami-nii-san, is this what Sister Joey was talking about, being trapped in a maze?"

Inugami nodded.

"So you must never leave my side."

The girl clenched her fist at her chest, looking very happy.

"This is the first time I've ever experienced being trapped in a maze! Just hearing about it from Sister Qiao Yi didn't feel real, but now... we can't get out! Yay!"

Inugami facepalmed. What a joke!

Inugami raised his hand, bringing his two fingers together, and used his own yang energy to try and break the spell.

Unexpectedly, the moment his fingertips gathered yang energy, it was like being electrocuted. With a "snap," he was unable to use his own yang energy, thus failing to break through the ghost wall spell.

"It's... not wanting me to leave..."

Suddenly, Inugami reverted to its original form.

The large, all-black dog was the size of a tiger.

This was the form that Inugami transformed into after suppressing himself; otherwise, although his true form was not even half the size of Hanazono, it would still be enough to frighten the girl.

"Sister, hop on, I'll take you for a ride."

"Ride it? Me, ride such an adorable, talking little dog?"

"...Will you ride it or not?"

"ride!"

The girl flipped over, thinking she was going to pet the dog properly!