Long Live The Glutton

Gon is a hell fox, who was a complete failure right from the start. He failed when it came to competing for food with his siblings when he was a normal fox, he failed at school once he became a kitsune, he failed at job hunting, he failed at saving money, he failed at getting a family and a house of his own, while all the other foxes around him got all of that and more.

At some point he was taken in by the nine tailed fox Dakki. He started to help out with Dakki's brothel/restaurant in Shugo Hell, as well as does any other odd-jobs that she tells him to do, such as carry the girls' purchases, running stands at festivals, performing to their guests as a musician, and several other things. He also cooks for Dakki when he's told to.

His life in Japanese Hell is generally uneventful. He at some point befriended the nekomata Koban, who is a journalist, and he borrows money from Koban, and from a whole lot of other people. He knows a lot of important people who comes to visit the brothel, as well as a lot of important female demons and their husbands or other relations, through Dakki, since she's a greater demon.

He's known the kitsune Miki, and her brothers, since they were little, and he used to play and babysit them. Though it pissed Dakki off because he's her possession. In the past someone he owed money to beat him up and strung him over a monster-fish infested river in the Freezing Hell and he was left there for ca 10 days or so.

One of Gon's jobs is to try to get more people to enter Dakki's establishments, and one of the guys that he tried to invite was a person who scared Koban into trying to run away. Turns out that that person is Hoozuki, the chief of staff of King Enma, the most important Kings of Hell. He closes up shop when he when the Karasu Tengu Police comes to bust a rip-off brothel that's right opposite of Dakki's shop. He may or may not have lent Hoozuki his disguise, because Hoozuki infiltrated that shop - which was where Koban's former owner Ooban worked - to get evidence of the shop ripping people off. Dakki's shop has rip-off prices too, but they do it better since they have been around for a while, while Ooban's shop had been around for a few months at most.

One day Dakki makes him the manager of one of her host clubs, but it's not going very well and he's afraid she'll turn him into snake food if she finds out how bad it's going. When he spots Hoozuki, who is known to be a sadist (though Hoozuki seems to be oblivious to this), he asks him to have a look at his hosts and to train them in the art of sadism - as they're currently selling them as the popular S type - and Hoozuki ends up scaring the hosts and somehow doesn't scare Gon. Probably because Gon's sense of self preservation is only connected to Dakki. Either way, Hoozuki gives him another suggestion on how he can keep up with the times and it ends up turning from a host club into a kitsune cafe with a host club flair.

Sometimes people stay outside of the brothel to talk to Gon, including Hoozuki who never comes inside the brothel (though he's a regular at the kitsune cafe), and they can have a wide range of conversation, though if the Chinese lucky beast Hakutaku is nearby, things can quickly go south, like the time when Gon, Hoozuki, and Koban were talking about gossip and gossip mags (Koban works for one) and Hoozuki ended up trying to throw an entire building on Hakutaku. Since they know that trying to stop him is just stupid, both Gon and Koban hid under the bench they had been sitting on.

When Koban tried to get Gon to repay the money he owes him, Gon tried to pay with a leaf. Without even using his fox magic to make it look like money. Hoozuki suggests Gon should go work as a low-ranking minion tormenting devil, since he overheard Gon telling Koban that he doesn't even own 10 yen at the time. Apparently they're always hiring more fox minions, and Hoozuki pretty much runs Japanese Hell for King Enma so he knows those stuff. Hoozuki recommends Avici Hell; they're in the greatest need at that time. It's not exactly up Gon's sleeve though. Besides, he's pretty much Dakki's emergency food pet yakan. Somehow that leads to explaining the complicated kitsune hierarchy to Koban and Koban saying that Gon is more like a tanuki than a fox. That is apparently an insult to a kitsune and when he comments on that a kettle tanuki suddenly starts to yell at him because tanuki find it to be insulting to be compared to kitsune, too. Then a dog called Shiro, who knows Hoozuki as well, shows up and gets involved in the argument (which basically consists of the tanuki yelling at Gon). All three of them instantly tells Koban to not get involved, when Koban tells them to get along since all three are canines. Cats shouldn't get involved in canine arguments. When the tanuki hating rabbit Karashi shows up and beats up the tanuki (she goes berserk at as much as a mention of tanuki) the ultimate animal idol is declared to be the rabbit.

Koban often goes to ask Gon if he has any juicy gossip. After all, Gon works for a high-class demon/prostitute. "Do you have any juicy stuff?" is one of Koban's common greetings. Sometimes he does have a funny story. Sometimes on Hakutaku's expense. It's a little bit Gon's fault that Koban went to harass Hoozuki to arrange an interview with the Soutaiou (King Songdi), since Gon mentioned him and Koban recalled that there are not very much info on that one of the 10 judges of Hell.

The main hosts at the kitsune cafe Gon runs are the older brothers to the idol Miki. When she comes to visit, while in disguise and acting out of character, Gon comments on that character her agency has made her act as. A fox ending their sentences with "nyan" is pretty funny, see. Her sudden switch to acting in-character and her anger scares the shit out of him and Koban; she hates the character she pretends to be. She's clearly stressed that time so Gon brings her to see the new style of the shop, since she's not seen it as a kitsune cafe yet. Plus it's pretty fun to embarrass the boys in front of their sister. He did not expect to find Hoozuki at a table when he showed her around; while Hoozuki is a regular, Gon hadn't noticed him entering the shop. Plus he has some strange hand puppet with him. Gon gets Miki to participate in cafe activities and to accompany Hoozuki, and then Hoozuki shows them why he has a puppet. Because he was visiting a kindergarten. The act he shows them pisses Gon off a bit, how does that character get any popularity with the kids? Hoozuki also insults Gon by saying that Gon's daily routine includes eating horse shit manju. What the hell, dude. Gon is also a witness to Hoozuki roping Miki into talking to the kids as the character from a Chinese magical girls show she plays in live shows. Her brothers are pulled into it, too.

The kitsune cafe sometimes gets visits from Nurarihyon, the so-called supreme commander of youkai. The thing is that Nurarihyon is the type of youkai who goes more or less completely unnoticed, and he goes unnoticed in the shop, too. And somebody has recently been doing some dine-and-dashing, which has gotten Gon in big trouble with Dakki, and that causes him some stress. Nurarihyon is wandering around trying to talk to Gon outside the brothel, and Hoozuki finds him and brings him over. Nurarihyon's voice isn't very loud and he's small, so Gon and Koban didn't hear or see him. He wanted to talk to Gon, but besides being "hard to grasp" as a youkai, he's very shy. Nurarihyon tells him that he was the one who, at the cafe, didn't pay their bill. Gon gets angry because Dakki had threatened to eat him over the exact same thing, aka the mentioned dine-and-dashing cases. Apparently nobody at the register noticed Nurarihyon, when he was trying to pay. Nurarihyon explains that he left money each time, though. They try to get Nurarihyon to get a little more confidence and Hoozuki starts to shout that Nurarihyon is here! and point at him. Then they try to give him a good makeover but it's not really working out very well. When Gon and Hoozuki talk about Dakki and her threats, Nurarihyon suddenly disappears and runs away. At least Nurarihyon left money every time and Gon had an explanation to offer up to Dakki, so he's not a goner yet. He even could offer up Hoozuki and Koban as witnesses. Hoozuki is especially credible, as second in command.

Sometimes the amount of money in the register and the amount it should be according to the books doesn't add up, when Gon counts before he goes to Dakki with the recent earnings. That's because some specific kitsune are bad at math and he probably shouldn't let them handle the register. The particular kitsune happens to be one of Miki's older brothers. He's been thinking that the brothers needs some math classes, and Miki tells him that she's been trying to teach her coworker Peach Maki the same. The two of them ask Hoozuki to teach the brothers and Maki, because with him as a teacher they at least won't dare to openly slack off and doodle instead of studying. Though they do try to get out of studying in various ways, they are unable to and has to keep studying.

Gon randomly remembered that the rabbit from earlier, who had beaten up the kettle tanuki, was the Kachi Kachi Yama rabbit. That is, the rabbit from an old story where a tanuki killed a granny and cooked her and served her to her husband, and a rabbit, that rabbit, Karashi, killed the tanuki as punishment. Because he mentioned it to Koban, Koban decided to go interview Karashi the rabbit. Koban relayed the story of how Karashi ended up at Kachi Kachi Yama to Gon. Apparently, Karashi once studied medicine under Hakutaku, but she always got irritated with his flirting with the female visitors, so she left. Koban also told him that he understood that if he turned Karashi's past into a story in the magazine, Karashi would kill him too.

Hoozuki and Ushiwakamaru (Minamoto no Yoshitsune), a high ranking member of the Karasu Tengu Police, need help to find Takiyashahime, aka the Waterfall Demon Princess who once tried to conquer Japan with an army of youkai. So Hoozuki goes to talk to Gon and Koban, since they are likely to know where to find here as they hear a lot of gossip. Koban tries to get Hoozuki to give him a scoop in return, but that doesn't go that well. Gon tells him which general direction to go in, but he'd rather not tell her exact location, because she's hard to deal with and he doesn't want to deal with her if he can avoid it. In the end Gon does show Hoozuki and Ushiwakamarau and Benkei (also a member of the Karasu Tengu Police) the way to her place. Then he leaves because seriously, he does not want to get involved. Some time after he returned from Takiyashahime's place it gets pretty loud, and Gon and Okou, a demon who works in the same Hell as Gon, goes to investigate, and they find the Karasu Tengu Police Hoozuki and Takiyashahime's subordinates are in the middle of a very loud argument. Over what? They have no idea. But Koban sure loves it. From what they gather, Takiyashahime likes Ushiwakamaru('s face) and Ushiwakamaru said no to dating her, and Hoozuki met her in the past. The details are a mystery, because they missed that part.

Miki is a terrible cook. Not the worst around, but terrible. While her brothers hesitate to eat her stew, Gon, the "King of Gluttons" as she refers to him in her mind, would eat it because he'd eat pretty much anything. Not that finds it tasty, but at least he lies and says that it is, even if his face is dead.

One of Koban's common greetings to Gon is "Return my money", and Gon often says some random thing to distract Koban from it. Konban definitely regrets listening to Gon sometimes, like when Koban got the idea to act like a normal cat for a while when he had some sort of identity crisis (even if he is a cat he's an old man) and gets slobbered on by Shiro the dog.

One day Dakki suddenly tells Gon that she wants to eat snakes. To be specific, she wanted to eat a big snake that's eaten a whole person. Her former husband, a Chinese emperor, used to treat her to that back in the day. At the same time she points out that recently he's been showing some unsatisfying results. And then continues talking about how delicious a snake that's eaten a whole person is. Gon is definitely freaked out because it's a thinly veiled threat. So he is sent to find a snake for her to eat, and he goes to beg a person who supposedly keeps snakes (probably illegally) and the guy tells him to go get eaten. Hoozuki shows up because he heard the ruckus from nearby, and Gon tells him his problem. Rather than simply wanting Gon to get a snake though, Hoozuki understands that Dakki actually told Gon that if he didn't raise the sales, she would have a snake eat him. Which Gon knows well already, thank you very much. But he also knows that her subtext said that he should get her a snake as an apology. Just this once, Hoozuki agrees to help him get one and points out a dead snake...though eating it might be unsafe? They talk a little about the life cycles of snakes, and about what different snakes taste like, and serving Medusa might be a bit weird... Don't suggest that Gon should transform into a snake and let her eat him, Hoozuki, he's trying to avoid getting eaten here. And he can't trick Satan into turning into a snake either. He turns into his real form for a while and talks to some dead people but Hoozuki throws his iron club at him, because he is acting like a con-man. Later he gets punched by Hoozuki because he's gambling with another dead person. Honestly, he can't do things seriously, it's against his very nature. Hoozuki lets him know that Dakki is there and tells her that it's doubtful that Gon will be able to catch any snake. She turns into her real form which is such a huge fox that she can easily take Gon's entire head in her mouth, which is what she does. He is saved when Hoozuki gives her that dead snake. She seems pleased enough, at least. And Gon is a capable cook, even if he sucks at everything else besides playing a few traditional instruments. He's wondering if Dakki keeps him around only to clear hear mind and restore her peace. Basically she just takes out her frustration on him.

Okou saw a cockroach in her bathroom, and doesn't want to go back home. She really hates them. She, together with Hoozuki and a minion called Karauri, ends up at Gon's kitsune cafe, and he can sympathize. Cockroaches are yuck. And sure some foxes eat them but he doesn't. But Miki's brothers do, they're idiots who think they're dango. If they don't think it's dango they'll still happily chase the roaches. Koban doesn't eat them, either, and Gon knows this well because he also dislikes cockroaches and has tried to get Koban to them before. The suggestion that Okou could let the snake she wears as an obi eat the cockroach is mentioned but she doesn't know if it would eat them. Then Hoozuki suggests that they ask a bug about a bug...and calls the high ranking demon Beelzebub. Belzebub hung up, but Gon thinks that that was Hoozuki's fault because the way he asked was just so wrong. The idea that Okou just move to Freezing Hell or just turn the thermostat to 0 to get the cockroach to leave or die, doesn't go down well either, because Okou keeps snakes. In the end, Okou buys a ton of plants that eats bugs.

Sometimes Gon sells things, outside Dakki's brothel. For example he sells giftbags at a very high prize to guys who are Dakki's fans. He says that the bags contains "Dakki's pa" and that he can't finish the sentence, and the guys buys the bags thinking that they contain her panties. In reality, they contain puzzles (pazuru) with Dakki on them. He never lied, though. At least as a result, Hoozuki's childhood friend gave Hoozuki's adoptive daughters a puzzle to play with.

Despite the fact that he's not very fond of Takiyashahime, Gon plays mahjong with her sometimes. Not only with her, with other people as well. But she sure is a bad loser. Sometimes when he wins money he treats his friends, like Miki and her brothers. When he's out for udon with them, a tanuki gang that he has borrowed money from shows up to force him to repay that money. He uses illusions from the smoke of his kiseru to obscure the tanuki's vision and runs off with the other four kitsune. If you fall for the illusion, it can actually hurt you. Apparently those tanuki, which are part of a pretty big gang, wants to run the foxes out of Mortal Hell. Returning the money that he owes them is more a prefix to be able to stir up trouble for the foxes. Because the tanuki causes a lot of ruckus, Okou goes to get Hoozuki, though technically she should have gone to the Karasu Tengu Police. Beyond tanuki and kitsune having a natural dislike for each other, apparently the tanuki are angry about the kitsune doing the best business in the district, and over the current beauty standards. Kitsune has caused Japanese Hell to have a (long) slender boom, while tanuki favors pudginess. They blame Dakki for it, and Gon works directly under her. When the snow oni Haruichi butts into the conversation things gets even more complicated. At least he calms down once he's told to put his clothes back on, because he was walking around in only underwear.

To solve the fight between the tanuki and the kitsune, Hoozuki suggests a shapeshifting battle, since that's something both of those type of youkai does. Both the tanuki boss and Dakki agrees to this and an event is arranged for it, to make it formal. Hoozuki even MCs it. Dakki represents the kitsune, and the tanuki boss' daughter, Shigaraki Daiyuu, represents the tanuki. Hoozuki makes it sound like a wrestling match. Gon was worried that the boss himself would do it - apparently he's seen the boss turn into a humanoid woman, and it's terrible and amazing. The tanuki hands out manju to the audience, to earn the audience's favor. The wrappings to the manju contains a LINE ID to be able to talk to Shigaraki for an hour. For the competition, they take requests from the audience. Hoozuki completely ignores Hakutaku who is desperate to make a request. Hakutaku eventually gets to ask his request; that they turn into high school girls, though he has to throw away his pride for it. But because Hakutaku is forced to bow all the time he can't see them, even Gon thinks he's an idiot for falling for that. Dakki wins that one. The next is a police woman, and that is won by the tanuki. Next is crossdressing, which is won by Dakki looking like a takarazuka actress. It continues on until they both have 5 points each, so they're looking to do one more to see who wins. Haruichi ends up getting to request, and his is "ugly", which Dakki ends up not doing and she starts to cry. She admits defeat but somehow it ends up a drinking party where the tanuki boss buys everyone drinks. Though Gon wasn't supposed to be included in the group, according to the boss. Gon includes himself though.

One day Hakutaku gets scammed, when a otter and a nekomata transform into children and use leaves transformed into money to buy medicines etc; though they stole alcohol when they were busted.After their theft they go playing shogi with Gon at a tanuki-run gambling den. They get angry at him because he keeps winning, and thinks he's suspicious; honestly though, they're just terrible at the game, he doesn't have to cheat. Shigraki shows up to see what the noise is about and they try to get Gon in trouble with him, but it doesn't work out--though Shigaraki gets pissed at Gon either way because he hasn't paid back the debt he owes. Shigaraki sends to Enma to get jobs as minionss. Later they come screaming about a nopperabou/faceless person and Gon makes his face disappear and scare them; he thinks it's hilarious that they pass out.

Gon, Koban, Miki, and Miki's brothers are playing video games. Koban is definitely losing and pissed at losing. The brothers comment that while Gon is strangely good at games like MomoTetsu and Fortune Street, in real life he's not that good, and they wonder if he's possessed by King Bonbi. Even Gon can get pissed at people that matters, don't understimate him like that. While Miki scolds them about not betting money just like that, a visitor shows up; it's Inaridaimyoujin, a friend of Dakki's. She's there to see Dakki and after a while they go out. Once Dakki is done with Hakutaku, Gon has to clean that up (meaning, wake him up etc). Once lunch is over he asks Miki to sign an autograph board that he gives to Dakki when she returns so she can give it to Inari-no-Dakini. Then it's off to make Dakki supper.