Chuuya grew up with a fascination toward youkai, always looking for new knowledge on the topic. He would make frequent trips to his local library and pick up any book he could find on his interest. When he grew up, he inherited a large sum of money after his father passed away. Now, with a job he's good at and has been with for a few years, he takes occasionally vacations and uses the money he's gotten to travel. His favorite places to go are new and old shrines, paying his respects to the youkai spirits residing there.

This time, he's wandering through a long forgotten village, having accidentally stumbled upon it after getting lost in the woods. Most of the buildings are in poor condition, most having fallen to the ground by now. If Chuuya would make a guess, he'd assume this village hadn't been inhabited for at least two centuries. Additionally, he can sense a very old kitsune curse lingering in the air... no doubt the cause of the village's demise. The man shivers as he walks through the village. The ground was covered in snow, and his coat, scarf, and gloves just weren't cutting it.

Chuuya eventually reaches the end of the village, finding a shrine. The shrine looked really well-kept, like someone is still taking care of it. What piques Chuuya's interest the most, however, is what's in the shrine. Cuddled up against a fox statue is a man with brown hair and eyes and was wearing a blue yukata with bandages wrapped miscellaneously around his body. There were white fox ears poking out of his hair and laid flat against his head as well as nine white fox tails that he hugged close to himself as he shivered. This was a kitsune.

The human cautiously approached the kitsune, kneeling to the ground in front of him. "Hey." Chuuya starts, "Are you cold?"