"This guy here is a true successor of the venerable Abe family." "A descendant of Abe no Seimei." "Tail" "Having seen it, there's nothing you can do but accept it." "This kid here is a werefox." "You're here to exterminate Shunta-kun?" "I came here simply to search for a person called Amemiya Satsuki." "I knew that she worked at Kitsunebi." "That Satsuki person's mortuary tablet is in our house." "So Satsuki-san died?" "That Amemiya-san person, who is she?" "Someone I owed that rescued me a long time ago." "Why were you searching for that person?" "Satsuki-san must have been carrying something important belonging to the Abe family." "That person stole something from your house?" "No." "Satsuki-san was not that kind of person." "That important thing is?" "Rather than that are you okay?" "If you don't hurry school is starting." "Oh crap." "Uhm..." "I will ask you about that more after school okay!" "Leave it alone already, Sensei." "Ah wait!" "[Abe]" "It will be the Great Exorcism soon, Shuuichirou-san." "We will have to make a decision properly before it." "Youkou is actually a spirit that has existed pretty much normally since a long time ago." "It's called a spirit, but they are not all bad." "Good foxes who are called "zenkou" like me also exist." "There is a legend that says "Kuzunoha, Abe no Seimei's mother, was a youkou"" "How is it?" "You're getting it?" "Could it be, Shunta-kun's ears being good, nose being good..." "Probably, because I'm a fox." "I can't believe it." "Scientifically...no no, unthinkable in terms of common sense of the human race." "But, I am a fox." "Really..." "Anyway this matter is a total secret okay." "You'd be the target of attention of scientists from the whole world." "Shunta-kun, you'd face all kinds of hell." "But, how in the world ears grow from there, huh?" "By the way, Sensei wants to research me right?" "No way" "Shutting yourself again in this place." "You have it good, Yoshiaki" "Not tied down by the Abe family traditions." "Fox town, eh" "What's wrong, Fox-kun?" "Oh Shoumei" "There's a very suspicious guy there." "Excuse me, do you have any business with Onmyouya?" "You are Abe no Shoumei-san the Onmyouji?" "Yes, that is me." "In any case let's go inside." "What?" "Ouch!" "What are you up to suddenly, Mister." "I'm sorry" "I need something, a consult with Shoumei-san." "Consult?" "Uh, uh that..." "What is it, just spell it out" "But where should I start..." "From the conclusion is fine." "Uhm, I-I..." "Please make me an official husband." "Do you mean you want to marry Shoumei?" "That's not it." "Not that kind of thing." "I'd like to get my father-in-law to recognize me as my wife's husband." "I don't really get what you mean." "Could you please explain things in order?" "Fox-kun, tea inside." "Yeah" "I married my wife 25 years ago." "It was that so-called shotgun marriage though." "I was still a student then, my wife's father wouldn't approve of me." "So, you want that father-in-law to properly acknowledge the marriage?" "Yes, so I'm asking Shoumei-san." "Aah...unfortunately, it's not something that can be done through fortune-telling or exorcism." "Please take this over somewhere else." "No, wait." "My wife's father is someone you know well." "You know." "Genjirou-san?" "Onmyouya-san, continuing this morning's talk..." "Dad!" "Sundry Fortune-Telling Store WELCOME TO ONMYOUYA 10" "My name is Tadano Hirokazu." "This is my wife, Teruko and this is my daughter Michiko." "Uh, you do know, eh" "[A Letter from 16 Years Ago] Uh, you do know, eh" "[A Letter from 16 Years Ago]" "Why did you come?" "That's of course" "I want father-in-law to approve the marriage." "First up is having Mom and Grandpa make up, from there right, where you come in?" "Jeez... do you know how much hardship I've been through?" "Convincing Grandpa little by little taking the time, if Dad suddenly show up, it will all be ruined right?" "Sorry" "But why 25 years after the wedding you only came here now?" "Because of this" "This is the weird letter from that time?" "Weird letter?" "It came when I was in elementary school, addressed to my Mom." ""Genjirou Kitoku"?" "But Mom was stubborn, so she insistently said she would not go and meet him." "Dad was detested by Grandpa too so" "I came to think "what should I do?" Then I" "Okay then I will go." "And then Genjirou-san did what?" "He was unrelenting." "Said that letter was a lie." "Who would write that?" "I don't know." "Well, anyway because of that" "I got along with Grandpa, I came here often after that." "I completely forgot about it but" "I found recently that my wife kept this in a drawer." "And then, I thought, the matter with Father-in-law nags her mind, after all." "So she still had this." "Besides, I heard from Michiko that Shoumei-san resolves many troubles." "An extremely dependable person, so I heard." "If there's someone like that, now is the time, right..." "Stop it!" "I didn't say it like that did I?" "The writing is quite disorderly, huh" "The postmark..." "December 16 years ago." "Ouji Post Office, eh" "I wonder if he did that on purpose to hide the handwriting?" "This smells like pansies." "Pansy?" "Yeah" "I love this smell since I was little, for some reason." "I see, is that what it is." "Oh, Mom?" "Saw my text?" "Yeah" "Dad on his own" "Yeah got it." "I'll make him come home soon." "Yes." "Bye." "Come home immediately, she said." "Uh, please!" "Would you please come with me?" "My wife knows about Shoumei-san from Michiko." "As long as you come," "I think my wife's anger will be tempered down." "What are you saying Dad!" "You're not a kid!" "Besides, this guy hates troublesome things, jobs that don't make money..." "I understand!" "Let me visit" "For the sake of restoring the relationship between Genjirou-san and Teruko-san, let me do my utmost best." "Really?" "Thank you very much!" "What's up Shoumei?" "For Grandpa's sake you say?" "It's fine, it's fine." "It's our problem." "However I just want to find a resolution." "Well then let's go, Hirokazu-san." "Yes!" "Here eh" "Well well, come on come on." "Please watch your step" "Come on" "I'm home" "Welcome back" "Teru-chan, this person is Shoumei-san that Michiko talked about." "Pleased you meet you, my name is Abe no Shoumei." "Huh?" "Oh no" "Good evening." "Come in come in" "It's messy though." "Please please" "Seems like Michiko is always getting helped by him, so he said he'd like to meet Teru-chan too." "If you're bringing a guest along call me ahead." "[Certificate" " Gunjou Newcomer Award" " Tadano Hirokazu - "Ayumi no Ippou" - 1988]" "If you'd like, please have a seat." "Sorry for troubling you." "Seems like my husband said ridiculous things." "No" "We only have these" "Please have some." "Thank you." "Thank you" "Go ahead." "Thanks for the food" "It's delicious!" "This is daikon leaves and minnow saute." "This is carrot skin saute." "This is toast crust with garlic butter..." "Enough already!" "Putting out these poor people's stuff." "Embarrassing." "Hirokazu-san made all this?" "Uhm yes" "Going to Dad's place to pay respects in this way, no wonder you're failed and ignored." "He was way different before." "Different?" "Yes." "This man was aiming to be a novelist when we got married." "He happened to have won a newcomer award at a small publisher." "Then he got full of himself, when he went to Dad to talk about marriage, he talked big." ""I will definitely become a first rate novelist," "I will make Teruko-san and the child inside her happy!"" "Both of us were so confident and kept on dreaming." "You two, what do you think marriage is?" "This way, how could you possibly raise the child inside properly?" "What an old-fashioned thing to say" "Well, the order is a bit wrong but it's all right." "Oh, got it" "Hirokazu-san is intelligent and talented, you envy him, right?" "What?" "Teru-chan" "At any rate" "I don't approve of this marriage" "Please wait a minute, I will definitely make you daughter happy" "Teruko, you really don't have an eye for men huh?" "Let me say this clearly" "Even if you stay together like this, you absolutely will not be happy." "What the heck" "Is that what you say to your daughter who's about to get married?" "Fine." "Even if Dad doesn't approve,I am getting married." "Do whatever you want." "However" "Don't cross the threshold of this house ever again." "You have that much determination don't you?" "You don't have to tell me," "I won't ever come home to this house!" "I don't know Dad anymore!" "Well at that time I thought I'd show him us being successful soon." "But this man was totally hopeless after that." "The talent wasn't that big of a deal I guess." "Ever since Michiko was born there wasn't time for a novel." "Working, feeding the family, I was barely managing." "I was supposed to be the wife of a best-selling author living a luxurious life, but in the end I started working in insurance sales not long after, both of us had jobs." "Now the wife ends up earning more," "I do household chores and work part time." "I'm writing a novel little by little, but it's no good after all." "Now that I think about it, it all went as father-in-law said." "Truly pathetic." "25 years like that." "Well, this situation is embarrassing," "I don't have the face to meet Dad." "So, why did this man go to Ouji now just made me annoyed." "Sorry" "Ho ho ho" "Actually, crap!" "Oh, pardon me" "It is more awful than I thought so I just blurted that out." "Awful?" "I've felt it ever since I got here but, yeah before anything, it's dark!" "You two's story, the atmosphere of this house too, how miserly." "Miser...." "ly?" "However, that is not the fault of you two." "It's all because of the curse of the Dokuujin." "Dokuujin is like a spirit of the land." "If you dig up land where Dokuujin resides, it will generate curses and cause disasters." "Seems like under this house is precisely where he lives." "When this house was build the land was dug up, and this plight happened." "Wait, what?" "Out of nowhere" "Furthermore, even worse, that curse of Dokuujin is not on this house," "Hirokazu-san, the curse engulfs you." "That's why you can't write a novel, the house is made dark, even your cooking is miserly." "As long as Teruko-san is together with Hirokazu-san, happiness will not befall upon you." "No no even you tell us that" "But there is one way to save you." "What, it was Makki's misunderstanding?" "Sorry!" "But as a result it was great." "Yoshiaki wasn't thinking of exterminating Shunta-kun." "Anyway, is Shunta-kun really a werefox in the first place?" "Shush" "They told me to never say that to anybody." "Can I ask you something?" "My name is Norikura, a freelance journalist." "Could I ask you in detail about the talk just now?" "What is it, out of nowhere" "Actually it's a hot topic on the internet now, that there is a werefox kid in Ouji." "Well, a fake though." "I thought it was interesting and I'm interviewing people." "Well, I don't really know anything." "Right?" "Yeah" "Okay then, that's it for us." "Come on" "Shunta-kun eh?" "Can I ask you something?" "What?" "Formally..." "Uhm, that mortuary tablet there what is the relationship between that Amemiya Satsuki and Grandpa?" "Did Onmyouya tell you to ask me?" "No, that's not it..." "That Amemiya Satsuki was someone that Onmyouya-san is indebted to." "He's been looking for Amemiya-san forever, he said." "I see" "This is Satsuki" "This person 16 years ago she came to the shopping street out of nowhere, asking if there's a job, it looked like she had some circumstances so I took her as a live-in part time worker." "But that winter, her health deteriorated, and just like that..." "She didn't have relatives or such?" "I asked but Satsuki didn't answer." "Then, she would have become a deceased with no one praying for her so I claimed her." "I wonder if she fought with her family or something." "Like, that must have been lonely." "Grandpa too, are you okay with things being this way?" "What?" "About Mom" "Just cut it out already and make up with her?" "I've forgotten that person already." "Move it" "Man, why are you that obstinate?" "Hey already 25 years have passed." "Enough right?" "It's a problem that ends if Grandpa forgives the marriage right?" "That's not the problem" "Excuse me..." "What's wrong?" "Nothing" "I'll go take a walk" "Why did you come back Dad?" "As per Shoumei-san's recommendation, he's letting me stay here for a while." "What do you mean?" "For purification" "Purification?" "Purification is one defense to protect oneself from curses or jinxes that has been conducted since the Heian era." "For a period of time, one recluses himself to a room and withstands calamities." "Hirokazu-san is completely entrenched by the curse of Dokuujin." "But if he's here then there is absolutely no reason to worry." "After being here for a while, the curse that engulfs his body will be exorcised." "Again with the unlikely lie." "I leave it up to you whether you want to believe me or not." "However in order to get Genjirou-san to approve of the marriage, there is no other way but this." "Haa?" "If the curse is gone you think he will approve of the marriage?" "How could that be?" "Once Hirokazu-san writes a novel here, then we ask for Genjirou-san's approval." "I will make a submission." "The deadline is next week." "How could you possibly write now?" "Hirokazu-san simply had a writer's block because of the curse." "Here, you can bring out your true strength." "Believe in yourself." "No way that's going to work, is there?" "No, Michiko." "I want to believe." "For the last time, I want to seriously try once more." "If even so I can't write," "I will accept that I don't have any real talent." "Dad" "If Hirokazu-san becomes a full-fledged novelist," "Genjirou-san should approve of the marriage." "Please write holding nothing back, unleash that 25 years of talent." "Somehow, I feel like I can write it." "Aah, Santa-san, give me a lover!" "How is it going with Michiko-sensei's dad?" "He's freeloading at Onmyouya right?" "Eh, why do you know?" "It's become a gossip in the shopping street, said my dad." "Well, the parent-child problem of Genjirou-san, is one of our shopping street's greatest problem." "Huh, why did Sensei's dad come?" "It'll be long if we talk about it..." "Mitsui-san" "Oh by the way there is a weird old man asking around, "Do you know a kid named Shunta-kun?"" "Huh?" "What the hell is that" "Excuse me!" "Excuse me, excuse me!" "Do you know a kid called Shunta-kun living around here?" "[ONMYOUYA" " We are closed]" "Dad I brought some food..." "Hey sorry for making you wait." "Okay, special ramen." "Eat it while it's hot okay." "Oh, thanks." "Good luck!" "You'd better rework this once more from the protagonist's feelings plot." "Oh, okay." "First up, this title is not good." "Is that so?" "Sensei?" "Like more..." "Why did it end up like this?" "Everyone is cheering for Hirokazu-san." "Sorry" "Ha!" "Michiko-sensei, we heard." "Leave your dad to us." "The problem with Genjirou-san's daughter is the greatest problem of this shopping streets in many years." "Hirokazu-san, everything depends on your novel okay." "Thank you very much, everyone!" "Hmm?" "Where's Onmyouya-san?" "He went sensei's parents' house." "To do exorcism, he said." "He went again?" "Yeah" "That guy is weirdly eager this time." "What exactly is he planning" "It is done." "Thank you very much." "However, a curse that has entrenched something for a long time cannot exactly be completely dispelled." "Is that so?" "Here, let us perform a sangu." "Sangu?" "A ritual from the ancient times to scatter offerings." "Upon scattering food or money, we deliver offerings to spiritual beings, carrying out that is an act of exorcising." "In the case of building a new house, scattering mochi (rice cakes) or money at the topping out ceremony, even in the present times it is carried out everywhere." "Haa." "Then, what should I do?" "Loosen the string of your purse, being a little extravagant does it." "That will exorcise the miserly curse." "The most effective method." "But what should I spend it on?" "Rewards for yourself." "You have gone through a lot of hardship up until now." "Teruko-san has the right to do so." "Now that you mention it, since I got married" "I've never rewarded myself with anything." "This is also for Hirokazu-san's sake you know." "Anyhow, you being happy is the first step towards making Genjirou-san approve of your marriage." "Everyone thinks they're being sneaky, but this is what it has comes to?" "Fa...father!" "I..it...it has been a while!" "Forgive me!" "25 years ago I said I would be a novelist and make my family happy." "But in the end I couldn't become a novelist, living like a housewife day after day." "I, like you said, cannot do anything for my family." "I am a useless man." "But, for the last time, could you please give me one more chance?" "Right now, after some time, I'm writing a novel." "When this is done, let us pay our respects once more." "Please!" "That is not the problem, ya know." "The pansies bloom too this year." "Yeah, they're so strong, blooming in winter every year." "When I sniff the smell of this flower," "I feel very nostalgic, for some reason." "Oh, really?" "Is there something wrong?" "No, just not really used to this kind of place." "When you married Hirokazu-san in the first place, you dreamed of every day being like this right?" "Uh, yes." "Let get it back, that dream." "But like, something is..." "What are you talking about" "Teruko-san conceals a marvelous radiance." "By nature, you're someone who is supposed to lead this kind of lifestyle." "That's..." "How about this?" "It's bold." "It's okay it's okay." "Wow, the dress is as if it's made for Teruko-san." "Onmyouya-san, good afternoon." "I'd like to get fortune-told again..." "[Novel Prize deadline]" "Date with Mom!" "?" "Onmyouya-san did something like that?" "Yeah." "He was constantly on dates with Teruko-san apparently." "Today she's taking her to the host club where he worked." "Ho...host club!" "?" "What the hell is he doing" "Hey, I'm going out for a bit okay" "That Onmyouya..." "What is he plotting?" "Cheers to Teruko-san who got her dream back." "Is there something wrong?" "Looking glum." "Oh, no, not really" "Polishing yourself beautifully, living each day glamorously, isn't that a wonderful thing?" "This was what you wished for right?" "Yes." "Don't worry." "If Hirokazu-san can make a comeback as a novelist, days like this will continue on forever." "Mom!" "?" "Michiko, what happened?" "That is my line." "Dressed like that, what are you doing?" "Sangu, it's sangu." "Leaving behind the miserly life." "Dad is working hard desperately and what are you doing?" "What's wrong with this?" "I play around too sometimes." "I have worked for Dad's contribution as well." "In place of that man I have worked hard all along." "Once in a while I want to experience luxury and play too." "Good evening" "Huh?" "You're done already?" "That Michiko, did something happen?" "When she came home, she went upstairs without saying a thing." "Tomorrow is Hirokazu-san's novel deadline." "You've noticed, right, that Hirokazu-san is downstairs." "Tomorrow Teruko-san will come." "Will you come too Genjirou-san?" "What you're doing this time, is quite a troublesome meddling don't you think?" "I don't know what you're aiming for but, however good you are I'm not relenting, you know." "Of course, it is impossible for me to move Genjirou-san's heart." "But, I am requesting you for the sake of these people." "Mom" "Good afternoon" "Hello" "What happened?" "Dad's new work in 25 years." "I am the most rightful person to have a look right?" "Dad" "Everyone is gathered here, right" "Hirokazu-san, Genjirou-san and Teruko-san have both come." "Go ahead and break the purification, and announce your wonderful new piece." "Dad..." "Dear?" "I'm sorry!" "In the end I could not write it..." "Dad" "This is just beyond hope eh, not able to write in this condition." "Wait a minute!" "Dad worked his best, don't say..." "Teruko-san, I'm sorry to inform you it would seem that your husband is not the person that you think." "As Genjirou-san said, you had better break up with him." "Sorry, Teru-chan." "As expected I am a good for nothing person that is beyond salvation." "25 years ago you declared defiantly in front of Father so you worked hard to somewhat build a happy life, right?" "For not meeting your expectations and causing you hardships, I'm sorry." "For staying with this me up until now, really, thank you." "Like Shoumei-san said it's enough." "Dad..." "What the..." "In the end it ended up like what I said?" "It was all on me." "I apologize." "Like I thought you don't have an eye for men, Teruko." "That's not true." "This man, Hirokazu-san has been a very admirable husband." "It's true that he couldn't even finish one novel but," "I have here his very best work." "25 years worth of household bookkeeping, Hirokazu-san kept track of everything." "[Michiko had high fever at night." "Will go to the pediatrician and have her looked at]" "Hirokazu-san gave up on the dream of being a novelist." "[Michiko had high fever at night." "Will go to the pediatrician and have her looked at]" "Hirokazu-san gave up on the dream of being a novelist." "[Teruko worked overtime until late tonight." "I'm worried she might get sick] Hirokazu-san gave up on the dream of being a novelist." "He supported the family finances with his all." "For my sake too, he helped with house chores and raising our child." "[I want her to go to college." "Gotta add more job] For my sake too, he helped with house chores and raising our child." "[Tomorrow is central exam, let's make passing bento with all Michiko's favorites] For my sake too, he helped with house chores and raising our child." "[Teruko got promoted." "I was so happy I ironed her suit carefully] For my sake too, he helped with house chores and raising our child." "Even now he thinks about our family more than anyone else." "[Teruko got promoted." "I was so happy I ironed her suit carefully]" "Even now he thinks about our family more than anyone else." "Even if Dad doesn't approve, I don't mind." "Whatever anyone say, to me this man is the greatest husband." "These 25 years, I have been truly happy." "Teruko, you do have an eye for men, don't ya" "I knew from listening to Michiko, you know." "Your husband sweat his ass off for his family's sake." "What's regrettable is because your husband couldn't be a novelist, you got embarrassed, and did not try to meet me." "I was just waiting for you to introduce your husband to me with pride." "Dad" "For protecting my daughter and granddaughter for 25 years, thank you." "No..." "From now on too," "I leave my daughter in your hands." "Yes" "Thank you very much" "I didn't do anything." "It was thanks to Genjirou-san." "But why did you drag Dad to Onmyouya and make him write a novel?" "If those two are separated," "I thought Teruko-san would notice Hirokazu-san's real appeal." "Dad's real appeal?" "A father that his family can respect, what kind of person do you think that is?" "Mm...." "Not a first-rate novelist nor someone with great riches." "Thinking about his family more that anyone else, that alone is enough." "You're right." "Ah, but how did you manage to take Grandpa along?" "Even though he was that stubborn." "I gave him that dishonest letter from 16 years ago." "The letter that Satsuki-san wrote." "So that letter was written by Satsuki-san?" "Why did she tell such a lie?" "After she was gone, she was worried that Genjirou-san would be all by himself again." "That's why, just before she died, Satsuki-san, with a trembling hand, tried very hard and wrote that letter." "She thought that if she did that, Teruko-san the daughter would contact Genjirou-san." "In actuality, because of that letter, you came to visit Genjirou-san's place, and became a link between father and daughter." "Genjirou-san picked up on that sentiment from Satsuki-san, and came to Onmyouya." "Oh, could it be that Onmyouya-san too worked very hard so that Satsuki-san's sentiment can be achieved?" "Look, this" "[Bill" " Ms. Tadano Michiko" " Consulation Fee]" "Consultation fee for this matter." "Expenses, transportation costs, and other miscellaneous included 100,000 yen." "[Bill" " Ms. Tadano Michiko" " Consulation Fee]" "Consultation fee for this matter." "Expenses, transportation costs, and other miscellaneous included 100,000 yen." "Me?" "I made host club fee complimentary." "Be a filial daughter." "Eh wait" "Looks delicious!" "Getting to eat Dad's red rice, it really has been a while." "(a celebratory dish/for special occasions)" "And this too" "Again this poor man's stuff" "Well this in its way works." "You know, this time I feel like I can write a novel." "I found a great subject." "Saying that stuff again." "What, the subject?" "A fraud Onmyouji solving people's mysteries of the heart." "What do you thing?" "Sounds interesting?" "Here you go" "Looks great" "Thanks for the food" "Yuuumm" "Oh right, here" "Later, could you place this as an offering?" "A flower that Satsuki-san loved." "Because the smell of it lingered I figured out the sender of that letter." "I'm sure for Genjirou-san," "Satsuki-san's figure overlapped with Teruko-san, right" "That's why you made her work as a live-in worker?" "Why would they overlap?" "Because Satsuki-san, just like Teruko-san who left, was pregnant." "You how did you know that Satsuki was pregnant?" "When she left after fighting with my grandfather," "Satsuki-san was pregnant." "she was my aunt." "Then..." "I left the Abe family to search for Satsuki-san and the child that was inside her." "Satsuki-san's child is Shunta, am I right?" "That's a werefox huh" "Hideyuki-san, would you guide me?" "To where Yoshiaki is." "There is not much time left."