Not all kitsune have happy endings, either.

[He says that with a laugh. He's dead back home, filled full of arrows and finished off with a sword! We'll say the scars are juust out of sight or are too hard to make out in the overcast weather.]

That sounds great to me! I fought a tentacled beast myself, you know. I dove right into the water and tore off his fin. Pretty amazing, right?