So not 100%, but I think ML's dad had married his Divine Beast. When she "died" she must have reverted back into her fox form? It's not fully clear, but later daddy dearest [MC's black dragon dad, who is the one we saw in chapter 25 that she felt was familiar] tries to manipulate ML's memory later on when he walked in on MC practicing to polymorph into a human form. The dad can't get the magic to work when it should unless it's another with beast kin blood. So I'm led to believe this is the reason, since the Divine Beast is still with ML's dad.
But going back a little, can't wait for the interaction of MC and her dad when he learns she is her and that she had been summoned from the safest place in the beast forest to the human world. Also to note, the reason MC's dad became the final villain was because in the OG story MC should have been killed and when the dad learns he curses the ML's family and tries everything to bring them to the brink of destruction.
So not 100%, but I think ML's dad had married his Divine Beast. When she "died" she must have reverted back into her fox form? It's not fully clear, but later daddy dearest [MC's black dragon dad, who is the one we saw in chapter 25 that she felt was familiar] tries to manipulate ML's memory later on when he walked in on MC practicing to polymorph into a human form. The dad can't get the magic to work when it should unless it's another with beast kin blood. So I'm led to believe this is the reason, since the Divine Beast is still with ML's dad.
But going back a little, can't wait for the interaction of MC and her dad when he learns she is her and that she had been summoned from the safest place in the beast forest to the human world. Also to note, the reason MC's dad became the final villain was because in the OG story MC should have been killed and when the dad learns he curses the ML's family and tries everything to bring them to the brink of destruction.