Kitsune in Teyvat Chapter 18 (Patreon)

The city of Sumeru was burning brightly with gentle lanterns lightning up the city as the celebrations for Lesser Lord Kusanali's return seemed to have no end to them and as I took in my surroundings I wondered if I should go even further.

"You look deep in thought... Ufufu I can't call you little Kurama anymore." Lisa's voice reached me as I was leaning on a banister watching as the beautiful green-haired goddess below me was speaking to her subjects who were sitting on rugs and pillows to listen to their goddess speaking to everyone in turns.

I looked behind me and saw Lisa with her arms folded under her large chest was walking towards me with a pout that made me chuckle as she continued. "Truly its a shame, with how you are just as tall as me. I can't even call you my cutie anymore."

Shaking my head with a bemused smile I lounged against the railing with my tails spreading out around me in a halo as I spoke out. "Hmm, I was sealed away for literally five hundred years so the Gnosis burning up just caught my physical body up with my mental age... Or at least I think so, as getting stuck as a teen for a few thousand years would be awkward."

Lisa finished walking over with her high heels making nice clicking noises and I raised an eyebrow as she without any damned shame took one of my large tails into her hand and began fluffing it against her face and chest as she held it possesively. "Haa... Its pity, not I won't be able to fluff your tails so easily now with you taking on a adult form as that would be scene as improper."

'And you molesting my tails as a child is any better?' I thought wryly but I also knew that women loved cute things... And as a nine-tailed kitsune, I could proudly say I was one the cutest things in the world! As a child anyway. Now I was an adult again!

I made a noise of disagreement and then gently played at taking my tail away from Lisa's arms and her lovely green eyes looked at me in abject betrayal. "Sorry Lisa, I am saving all my tail's fluffs for when I manage to capture a wife." I teased.

Lisa's eyes tightened and I raised an eyebrow as she looked at my nine tails and she let go of my tail with her raising a hand to her chin and saying teasingly. "Ohoho, so you are going to be a little playboy and have a girl wrapped around each of your tails?"

"Hahaha Lisa don't be like that." I laughed out loud before my laughter died and my face turned kinda pale making Lisa tilt her head to the side in confusion as a memory slammed to the forefront.

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"I am literally like eight years old mother, I am not ready to be engaged!" I yelled at Ei and she only raised an imperious eyebrow at my outburst.

"Is the lady of the Kamisato clan not beautiful enough? Or do you prefer a lady of the more independent and reliable type in Kujou Sara?" My mother mused making my face twitched and then I died a little in the inside as a literal spark went off in her eyes as she came to a new 'idea'

"Ah I see my son, you are a proud man of Inazuma, a single wife isn't enough to sate your supernatural vitality, I understand Kurama... Hmm maybe a marriage between yourself, Kamisato Ayaka, the Heiress of the Watsatumi Island, and my own Kujou Sara will bring all of Inazuma together!"

I knew that Ei didn't see anything wrong in harems as that was just the norm for powerful warriors who wanted to take more and could provide for their harem... And she was so forward because her old Oni friend who was a woman, actually had a damned harem of big buff dudes that served as the core of Ei's semi-mortal army during the Archon War.

And it wasn't like I could change Ei's mind so easily. After all, without Makoto coming out of nowhere to give her ass a pep talk she could have just as easily gone back to hiding back in her mental plane of Euythemia for another couple of centuries! Ei was the literal definition of stubborn!

"I am, too young Mother." I stated bluntly.

And my mother equally bluntly replied. "I am merely thinking of your future Kurama, if it wasn't for Kujou Sara waking you up each day, and making you train you would be a layabout who just reads Miko's depraved little novels that she uses to escape from the fact that she cannot find a man to continue her race."

Without a change in expression, Ei dipped her head forward as a highspeed slipper zipped past her head as the flushed face of Yae Miko stomped out from the opposite room. "I am busy being the Guuji Yae of the Narukami Shrine thank you very much Ei." Miko said with shadows forming around her form as her dense youkai energy rose up.

Ei only gave her a look before a mental 'Uh oh.' rang out in my mind as Ei frowned and then said some trepidation. "Wait Miko... Are you trying to claim little Kurama for yourself? Is this about that weird Hikaru Genji book about raising a perfect lover?!"

Yae Miko's face became beet red and with a dull face while sitting cross-legged in front of my mother I just collapsed into my kitsune form and ran out of the palace as the sound of Yae yelling at my mother followed behind me.

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That memory of a talk about a harem with my adopted mother of all things... That gave me some PTSD especially the bit about Yae Miko who may or may not have wanted to groom me into her perfect husband that she could have done some cross-dressing in her shrines Miko outfits.

"No Lisa... I have such plans for a harem." I replied with a shake of my head before I sighed and said. "Besides I have a lot of stuff I want to do next after this trip to Sumeru."