'Running. Running. Trying to catch just the right moment when everything lines up. If I can't rely on the moon, what can I rely on? The demon is getting closer. This plan has to work! Closer... Closer... NOW!'
She grabbed a tree branch overhead and swung around it, letting go and flying directly towards the demon. She swung out her sword just in time and sliced the monster in half, landing next to the heap of bloody demon parts that she just created. She then casually walked away.
'its strange to see demons so large in this part of Tokyo' she thought. 'they're usually found in the woods, not led into the woods to be killed by adventurers'
The half demon then made it back to her shrine and set to work. The original land god had disappeared. She was the best, and treated Kai very well as her familiar. Kai knew that one day they would find a new one, but she wouldn't return after all that time. Kai sighed. She had been waiting.
meanwhile, somewhere in Tokyo, an average high school student had just ran into a tree on the way home. He had then backed up and fallen into a puddle of mud.
"why is it always me," he muttered, not noticing the strange symbol carved into the tree or the new marking on his forehead.
It was still the afternoon, and as soon as the boy got home he was ordered to go buy milk from the store. By the cat. "since when did you start talking?!" was his reaction.
"I'm not that strange, am I?" the cat responded, licking his paw.
"yes you are! Gahh! Reyu! No stop! This isn't happening!"
"it is happening, can't you see me atsuo? I'm right in front of you."
The boy lived alone as an orphan, and no one knew. He didn't have any friends, and so no one cared about him. Well except Reyu, the cat, who apparently talked now.
Atsuo put down his stuff and sighed. "ok, if you're going to talk then you're not allowed to boss me around," he replied to the cat, who was now trying his hardest to selfclean his back paw.
"aww, that won't be any fun at all!" the cat exclaimed. He put on a pouty face but atsuo had won and the cat grumbled to himself.
Atsuo did end up going shopping, and Reyu followed him. He didn't get very far when a huge demon appeared out of no where right in front of him.
"gahh! What is that thing?!" he exclaimed, obviously shocked. Just then Kai pulled him into the woods, and Reyu was left wondering where he went.
"shh!" said Kai. "that demon will tear you to shreds if you make so much noise!" she whisper shouted.
"but what is that thing?!" replied atsuo.
Kai was about to answer when she noticed the mark on his forehead. "you have the mark!" she exclaimed.
"what mark?" atsuo asked.
"the mark of the land god!" she was about to explain when the demon came running right towards them, having heard Kai's exclamation and was very hungry.
"stand back," she told atsuo.
She jumped on a tree branch, and kept jumping until she reached the height of the demon. Then she took out her sword and jumped at the demon, slicing it to bits and landing next to it perfectly.
Thats when atsuo noticed the fox ears and tail.