A/N: Written for the Diversity Writing Challenge, Section B prompt #009 – drabble collection with 10 times 100 word drabbles.
Ten in Tokyo That Night
2. Oshira-sama
A nine-tailed fox who is the leader of the demons. It possesses the last child who wins the game of "Otokoyo", and wears a fox mask that changes into an oni mask that the person who is "it" wears. In the beginning of the film, it possessed Sorincha (who apparently won the game before Hikora), and in the end, it possessed Hikora after he won the game. – Wikipedia
Of course, not even the winner can escape. The illusion of winning is a grand one though, for whatever reason. And it is entertaining to watch them all play out the last moments of their lives, deciding whose will to win is greater, who will take on his mask.
Sometimes, he knows the moment they walk in, like this time. He knows it will be the boy called Hikora: the boy searching so desperately for the sister this demon had already won. But it would be an entertaining dance, wearing her body and his mask and catching the other boy…