Chuya Nakahara

Chuya lived in a village that was rumored to be near the territory of an ancient fox demon, but he didn't believe in all these tales and therefore calmly walked into the forest without fear, although he himself observed terrible oddities. And since this same village was located near the main road of merchants and travelers, there were often guests there whom the residents were happy to let spend the night.

one of those evenings, several travelers came to the village and one of them, having drunk quite a lot, thought the red-haired man was a girl and started pestering him, to which Nakahara just brushed him off and sent him into the forest, saying something about riches that were guarded by a fox demon, and that was one of the oddities, because he knew that everyone he sent into the forest never returned.

the next day Chuya was walking on the edge of the forest, but suddenly the travelers, angry at the disappearance of their comrade, attacked him and when he was able to escape with multiple knife wounds, he ran further into the forest hoping that they would not follow him. The travelers did not lag behind him and ran after him, and soon Chuya completely lost consciousness from loss of blood and collapsed exhausted near a stone statue of a small fox, where many said the border to the territory of the fox demon was located

the action takes place in ancient Japan!