"Especially now that they are hunting an evil fox spirit."
"Evil fox spirit?"
"Yes, Tamamo-no-Mae"
Tamamo-no-Mae? Who's that?
Dan looked at the burly demigod with a blank expression.
"The vile vixen?"
But he still got the same expression from Dan.
"I see..." he said as he nodded his head and stood up.
"Well, the story goes back a few thousand years ago. During the age when people knew little of the existence of the supernatural. Almost as it is now. Around that time, a fox got into the service of the empire.
"She was a beauty to behold, she was able to charm the emperor and his court. The emperor fell in love with her and decided to wed her. But then she wasn't after the empire but the emperor himself. Mystriously, the emperor got sick and was at the verge of death"