Accidentally Becoming a Great Prophet?!

In the distant and far-off past.

In an era when it wasn’t so strange for beings called yokai to freely roam the world.

There was a fox yokai born to an ordinary fox yokai clan.

Unlike her ordinary birth, she was born with tremendous talent and grew up clearly showing her extraordinary talent from birth.

However, this fox yokai was, how should I put it… quite unique. In a different sense.

“Yawn… The ways of the world…”

Because of that uniqueness, she didn’t get along with others of her clan, and even though she knew this, she didn’t care, and when she grew up a bit, she just suddenly left the clan.

And the first thing she did after leaving the world like that was… surprisingly, to immediately become a gumiho.

A gumiho is a being that can be called the pinnacle of fox yokai. It was such an amazing being that it was called a great yokai not only among fox yokai but also among ordinary yokai.

It was also a being straddling the boundary between yokai and something beyond yokai, and because it was such a mysterious and amazing being, it was not easy to reach that level.

A lofty level that can only be reached after breaking through one’s limits nine times by accumulating magic power through hundreds of years of training.

She reached that amazing level at once by wandering the world for a year, sucking up the essence and magic power of mountains and forests, turning the areas into ruins and scorching them.

And the next goal of her, who became a gumiho in the shortest time through that amazing talent, was… nothing in particular.

She didn’t have any great goals befitting her talent.

“Ah… I want to live doing nothing and just playing and eating in this world…”

The reason she became a gumiho in the first place was because her goal was just to live doing nothing while playing and eating.

She knew well that you need power to be able to live such a life.

And that mindset didn’t change even after becoming a gumiho and gaining powerful strength.

What, wanting to become human instead of a yokai??

She thought it was annoying to be obsessed with such things. If you want to live like a human, just transform and live. It wouldn’t be a difficult thing to do.

Want to become a great yokai ruling the world, the pinnacle of yokai and the fear of humans??

She had no intention of doing such troublesome things that would create grudges and enemies on their own. To begin with, she didn’t want to make efforts to become like that.

What about becoming the mastermind of the world? Or going into seclusion?

Those were out of the question too. Being a mastermind was even more troublesome, and she wanted to play, eat, and enjoy, not be stuck in a mountain cultivating.

Anyway, this quite unique yokai lived her life as she wanted after becoming a gumiho, fully enjoying and unleashing her power.

If she wanted to travel, she did, and if she didn’t want to move, she didn’t move.

If the sunlight was warm, she took a long nap, and if she went to a river, she swam or fished.

If she wanted to eat something when going to a village or city, she lightly bewitched the store owner and ate for free, and if she wanted to sleep in a house, she also bewitched the homeowner and freeloaded.

If she wanted to see something stimulating, she created love triangles or put married women and men together and made them get caught by their spouses, creating and secretly enjoying makjang dramas, and when she wanted pure love, she created love so sweet it could make your teeth fall out.

Later on, she even got tired of all that and secretly bewitched others to make them feed her, wash her, and dress her.

Without any particular goals or dreams, she just lived her own NEET-like life, eating, sleeping, and playing as the world flowed and her heart desired.

Living well like that as she wanted, one day, she happened to meet a Taoist by sheer coincidence.

It was a Taoist said to have great abilities that reached the heavens, and when this Taoist saw her, he was shocked.

It wasn’t because a tremendous yokai was hiding in the human world and living as she pleased. That Taoist wasn’t that righteous and didn’t care that deeply about the world.

The reason this Taoist was shocked was because her fate was truly tremendous.

“Oh my! To think there’s such a pitiful fate… To be slowly dismembered alive for a week in 20 years’ time and barely die, only to have even that soul captured and suffer for long ages trapped in an object made from your own body…!! This is the first time I’ve seen a fate to die so horribly!”

“What?! Me?!”

Although she wasn’t interested in how the world was going, she could feel that this Taoist was an amazing person as soon as she saw him, even if she didn’t know he was a very famous figure, so she didn’t let those words go in one ear and out the other.

“My goodness… To meet such a death despite having such great power… The ways of the world are truly mysterious!”

“No! You can’t just drop such words and leave!! Please save me!! I don’t want to die like that!!”

The gumiho grabbed the Taoist’s trouser leg and clung on as he clicked his tongue and was about to leave after just dropping those words.

Although she lived as if everything was bothersome, she didn’t want to die. There’s no reason she’d want to die so horribly while living doing everything she wanted, right?

“Ugh… This is quite a persistent woman…”

Like that, the gumiho succeeded in making the Taoist, who was trying to leave saying it was bothersome, help her by holding onto his trouser leg for two days, and the Taoist, who gave in to that tenacity, locked himself up in a cave on a spiritual mountain for a week with numerous elixirs, herbs, and precious objects.

“No, what are you doing locked up for so long! You’re not having strange thoughts, are you?!”

“Oh my! Do you think reading the heavenly secrets and looking for a way to twist that heavenly secret even a little looks like child’s play?! How dare you speak rudely just because it’s not your business…!! I’m risking my life to help you specially for free because I pity you and feel responsible for what I said, and you spout such nonsense!?”

Reading fate, and finding a way to make it even a little better is absolutely not a light matter. He knew this even better because he was a great Taoist.

The power to just lightly see fate and freely knead the heavenly secrets without any special preparation and change it as one likes? He could assert that such a thing doesn’t exist. It’s because he’s at this level that he can do even this…

If he makes even a slight mistake, he’ll become a body that can neither die nor live, and as the price for daring to challenge the incomprehensible without permission, he’ll suffer terrible pain for an eternal time.

“Huh?! I’m even losing my hair now because it’s so difficult!! It’s because I’m at this level that I can do this!! But now you’re not even grateful…!!”

“I-I’m sorry!! It was a slip of the tongue!!”

Because the Taoist himself knew this all too well, he foamed at the mouth and ranted, and the gumiho, feeling both sincerity and madness, soothed the Taoist.

Anyway, after long efforts and devotion, the method the Taoist discovered was to defer the impending fate through long endurance. Should I say push it back?

“Phew… It’s dangerous so I couldn’t look much, and I can only tell you once, so listen well. First, you must endure no matter what while making a barrier in some place with good energy. Even if you endure these 20 years, that horrible fate will grow with even more malice!”

“What?! Isn’t that worse then??”

“With my power, the limit is to tell you a way to defer it for a while… Like that, endure and endure in there… and wait for the ‘precious person’ who will come someday! A precious person with abilities that even I can’t approach, who can freely handle heavenly secrets and fate!! That’s the only way for you to live!”

“Ah, no! How can there be such a person?! How do you know when such a person will appear!!”

“…Still, isn’t it better than dying. It will be a long time, but if you endure, there will be a way to live someday… This is the limit of my power…”

Even this was amazing.

Right after that, the Taoist lightly talked with the mountain god of Jeju Island, aroused his interest and got his approval, helped create the seal and barrier for the gumiho, Yeondal-gi, and then disappeared saying he needed to recuperate for the next 3 years in a place with good water, good air, and good energy, and that’s when Yeondal-gi’s sealed seclusion life began.

Moreover, she lived well, as if she had found a life unexpectedly suited to her aptitude, even slightly using her talent and accumulated power, and even the energy of Hallasan, to copy interesting cultural items from outside into the seal, and using magic to expand her living area inside the seal.

In other words, she lived as a hikikomori NEET gumiho.

Well, it was a bit stuffy, but it would be better than dying.

So she was living like that, resigned to not going out, just to avoid dying horribly…

‘H-h-how did intruders get in here?!’

The seal and barrier that she had worked hard to create in collaboration with the Taoist were suddenly broken so easily, and intruders appeared. Even though she had always managed it well because the seal was her lifeline.

‘Could it be… that the accumulated fate finally broke through the seal?! Am I… going to die now?! Horribly?!’

Yeondal-gi trembled thinking that, as it felt more realistic than that person with ridiculous abilities. In fact, that floating orb was an amazing object too.

Even when the intruder tried to start a conversation, she didn’t respond and just trembled while hiding behind the sofa and peeking.

“What should I do…? If I resist… can I live?!”

While she was trembling like that, the intruder sighed and muttered.

“Sigh… Well, if you don’t want to talk… I’ll have to find out on my own.”

Then he started to show a truly astonishing performance.

“Let’s see… Her name is Yeondal-gi, species is gumiho as I heard… Originally an ordinary fox yokai? The method of becoming a gumiho was… sucking up the essence of mountains and forests indiscriminately and becoming one in just 1 year?! You were an amazing person… And the place of birth is Liaohe? So around Liaosi region, and oh my, you’re quite old… The date of birth is…”

He started reciting all her personal information just by briefly looking at her face half-hidden behind the sofa! Even including things that Yeondal-gi herself had forgotten!!

After briefly showing such a monstrous performance that transcended cognition, the intruder smiled and said to Yeondal-gi, who was blankly staring in shock with her mouth wide open.

“Um… Do you feel like talking now?”

And to the intruder’s words, Yeondal-gi nodded as if enchanted.