/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>Nab a job on the outskirts of MGC
>It's a nothing-special entry-level convenience store cashier job but the store is located very close to the entrance of a popular hiking trail
>Always busy and interesting as a result. Lots of tourists but also a strong handful of diverse regulars
>It's a fun job and you learn something new every day
>One of the regulars is a nature-loving Kitsune who wears traditional clothing on her walks through the nature trail
>It isn't quite a beginner's trail and most of the goers pack pretty moderately...but not her
>Just figure it's cause magic or whatever. She always keeps her tails tightly coiled up so it was hard to tell the number, maybe that's a sign she's conscious of her age?
>One day during a short conversion you see her tails relax and loosen for the first time. Seven in all, with the seventh you've never seen coiled up in the middle as if to hide it. It was half a length shorter than the rest, as if it'd been lopped in half
>She very hurriedly wound them back up upon noticing and quickly began to leave
>It was reflex, grabbing her wrist and blurting out sincerely that you think it looks fine. Good even. Pretty.
>Long stare. Too long. But she ending it with a smile and a firm pat on your hand so it must've been good, right?
>Wasn't until later, relating the story to a coworker that you learned.
>Learn something new every day. That day you learned that high-ranking officers of the Tamamo-kai Yakuza have parts of their tails removed as means of atonement.