Tanukichi

A monster from the farthest east, just like the fox. She is clever and skilled at negotiating.

### Skills

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Spirits Blessing

### Town shop

Tanukichi maintains a shop in First Village with some basic items for you to buy. Most of the items are always there, but some items are only available about 1/3 of the time. If you want to buy one of the rarer ones, you can try repeatedly returning to the title screen and reloading your game until she has it in stock.

### Dungeon shop

Some dungeon floors have a room for Tanukichi's shop. The room is generally a rectangle, though sometimes with the corners blocked off. A smaller rectangle within the room will have carpet laid out with items for sale on top of them. What she offers for sale varies, but can include just about any item in the game. When she sells swords or shields, they do not come identified, so you can buy a sword or shield from Tanukichi, then have Appraiser Nibi identify it for additional stats.

In order to buy items, you pick them up like any other dungeon item. Tanukichi will move to block the exit to her shop if you do so. You can also use items while in her shop, which will also lead her to block the exit, expecting you to pay for whatever you used. When you talk to her, she'll tell you the price tag, and if you agree to pay it, then you own the items you picked up and can leave.

You can also sell gear that you have, such as from drops acquired earlier in the dungeon. To sell gear, lay it down on the ground in otherwise empty squares of the shop. This won't cause Tanukichi to block your exit, but if you face her and talk to her before leaving, she'll pay you for whatever gear you leave her. You have to talk to her after placing gear or else she won't pay you for it, as she is happy to keep any free gear that you forget about.

I recommend checking squares for traps before you go laying gear everywhere. Sometimes there will be a hidden mine in the shop, which can blow up and destroy other items that you intended to sell. If a mine destroys some of the items Tanukichi had laid out for sale, she'll expect you to pay for them.

If you use a Grimoire of Return while inside Tanukichi's shop, it will not return you to town. It will consume the book but have no effect.

### Armed robbery

It is also possible to rob Tanukichi, in several ways. If you pick up or destroy an item from her shop and leave her shop before paying for it, she'll conclude that you're a thief and come attack you. Ordinarily, she'll block the exit, but there are several ways around this. Eating a Teleport Fruit or reading a Grimoire of Collective Move will usually warp you out of the shop. Depending on the terrain adjacent to her shop, a Water Bracelet or Floating Bracelet may allow you to walk out. If her shop is surrounded by walls, then cutting your way into the wall, such as with a Grimoire of Explosions or a Pickax, will allow you to leave her shop, even if it doesn't necessarily let you get very far away.

Alternatively, you can pick a fight with Tanukichi directly. If you throw damaging items at her three times, she'll decide that she has to attack you to defend herself. If you're going to fight her, then this can allow you to position yourself and your friends exactly how you want it before starting the fight.

Tanukichi is much stronger than most monsters, and also stronger than many alpha monsters, so don't pick a fight with her unless you're ready for it. Befriending a Naughty, Imp, Brownie, or Gremlin requires giving her an item that you stole from Tanukichi on the same floor. It is possible to warp out of her shop, give the item to the monster to befriend her, and then finish the dungeon floor (or leave via a Grimoire of Return) before Tanukichi tracks you down and either kills you or forces you to kill her to defend yourself.

If you damage Tanukichi enough, you'll injure her, and she'll leave you alone and let you keep your stolen goods. That harms your reputation, however, and she will not appear again in that dungeon run. Instead, you may find her daughter Kotanu wandering in future floors of the dungeon, saying that she's looking for her mommy. If Tanukichi's shop would have appeared on later floors, then instead, Kotanu will be there, offering to sell Acorns and Pinecorns, which are useless.

If you injure Tanukichi, then the next time you return to town, neither she nor Kotanu will be there. That means that you can't buy anything from her shop. While you can't sell anything to her when she isn't there, you can still unload unwanted inventory by selling it to Smith Apprentice Rina. I'm not sure what the trigger for Tanukichi to return is, but she will come back eventually, so injuring her doesn't permanently break your saved game.

## Tanukichi

### Experience

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Tanukichi is back in the sequel, but no longer part of the Monster Book. She still runs a shop, both in town and in dungeons.

### Town shop

Tanukichi again maintains a shop in Hope Village, though the contents are a little different from the original game. Unlike the original game, her shop always contains the same goods.

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### Dungeon shop

Tanukichi again has a shop on random dungeon floors, just like in the original game. This mostly works the same as before, though sometimes her shop has two entrances rather than one. When it has two, she'll have a very high level part-time employee there to guard one of the entrances while she guards the other if you pick up an item to buy.

### Armed robbery

As in the original game, you can rob Tanukichi's shop, and in the same ways as before. This time around, however, she is far more prepared than before, making it far more difficult to rob her.

One difference is that Tanukichi is stronger than before, which makes it harder to defeat her in combat. That she often has a part-time employee present who is much stronger than she is makes this harder yet. Even if you warp away, having two strong opponents trying to hunt you down for robbery makes it much harder to avoid both of them than when there was only one.

If you rob Tanukichi, she will also use a Trap Increase skill that covers about half of the squares in normal rooms with traps. This can readily be countered by a Trap Remove Grimoire, but that means you have to have the book with you. If you don't, the traps will probably doom you.

Finally, Tanukichi's shop has always had something to prevent you from using a Return Grimoire while inside her shop, and that's still there. If you rob her, she extends that effect to the entire floor. Thus, you can't just warp out of her shop and then read the book to warp back to Hope Village. You have to reach the exit.

As in the original game, exactly what countermeasures Tanukichi takes will depend on the value of what you steal. If it's at least 1000 gold or so, then she'll summon many extra monsters to the floor. If it's at least 5000 gold or so, she'll also summon level 3 fog to make those monsters massively stronger and block the exit with white crystals that you'll have to destroy. Having 30 or so monsters who are about as strong as Alpha Monsters running around can make it hard to escape.

### Skills

In the Monster Book, it says that Tanukichi doesn't have any skills in the sequel. If you use a Knowledge Staff on her in a dungeon, however, it says that she has three skills: Spirit of Commerce, Licensed Staff, and one that doesn't have any text for its name.