My Fox Can Do Backflips!

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In the interstellar age, humanity on planet PX-47 had developed along two paths.

People could either train and modify their bodies, fighting on the front lines with their own strength, or hone their minds and form contracts, directing contracted beasts to fight from the rear.

Qi Feng had always chosen the first path.

Yet the admission letter he eventually received bore a line in large print:

Heluo Military Academy, Beast Taming Department (reassigned)

Qi Feng, who was overconfident and had only seriously filled out his first choice, then casually listed a few more schools just to make up the numbers: "?"

I'm screwed. I got bumped down to a lower choice!

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The first lesson in the Beast Taming Department was to find a compatible contracted beast.

Qi Feng spent most of the semester searching, but his low mental strength made beasts turn him down time and again. Not a single contracted beast wanted him.

At the last moment, he found a little fox. The snow-white puff was only the size of his palm, and let out a little whimper whenever it was poked. It looked especially delicate.

Qi Feng gritted his teeth and formed a contract with it anyway.

He could worry about whether it was weak later. At least he wouldn't fail the class now!

Some time later, a strange scene unfolded at the academy's combat tournament.

The snowball of a fox nimbly hid in the back, flipping through the air to dodge every attack. A young man stood in front of it, taking the opposing team's contracted beasts' attacks with his own flesh and blood.

The opposing team was delighted. "Great! Take down the leader and the rest will fall! If we subdue the beast tamer, we win!"

In the next second, a huge contracted beast was punched flying.

The opposing team: "?"

The man smiled coldly. "Who did you just say you were going to subdue?"

*

061 had a secret.

He wasn't a beast without reason, but a specially bred beastman, infused with the bloodline of a rare spirit fox and intended to be used for the amusement of the powerful.

He secretly escaped from a transport ship, but ended up on a remote planet. When he was so weak he could only lie on the ground and wait to die, a man picked him up.

The man's palm was warm, and he held him with great care. "From now on, you'll stay with me! Let me think... Since you're so white, and I found you in the snow... I'll call you Xuejian. How does that sound?"

With the last of his strength, 061 looked at the man's face. The man looked concerned, with unmistakable delight in his eyes.

...So be it.

That was what he thought before passing out.

If he couldn't escape a life of serving someone, then from this day on, he would be the man's "Xuejian."

*

After unexpectedly taking human form, Qi Xuejian went to find Qi Feng right away. But the first time the other man saw him, his ears turned red and he could barely get his words out.

Qi Feng: "H-hello. C-could you tell me your name?"

Qi Xuejian: "? Xuejian."

Qi Feng: "What a coincidence! My fox is named Xuejian too!"

The man who was always so composed on the battlefield, taking on ten enemies at once, now blushed bright red. He stared at Qi Xuejian for a long time before finally working up the courage to invite him.

"Oh, right... My fox can do a backflip!"

"If you're free, would you like to come see?"

Little scene:

Qi Feng on an ordinary day: "You don't have to call me Master."

Qi Xuejian on an ordinary day: "All right, Master."

Qi Feng in certain situations: "Why don't you call me Master?"

Qi Xuejian in certain situations: "Y-you... jerk..."

"..."

Afterward, Qi Feng held Qi Xuejian in his arms, playing with his ears and the tip of his tail, and planted an affectionate kiss between his brows.

All right, now it was certain.

His little fox really knew how to flip.

[2025.03.05]

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