The cat teacher turned his head arrogantly and complained to Natsume, "Ah! You're really in trouble!" Ignoring Natsume's angry expression, he stretched out a claw to himself.

Natsume was irritable when he heard this, and while rubbing the round head of the cat teacher with his outstretched left hand, he couldn't help but raise his voice, "What did you say?"

Hearing this, the cat teacher said perfunctorily: "I know, I know." ”

In the crowd where one person and one cat didn't pay attention, the class leader Junmasa Sasada silently watched the abnormal behavior of Natsume and the cat teacher in the crowd, and there seemed to be a sense of uncertainty in his heart.

The moon is on the branches, the night is getting thicker and thicker, and the test of courage organized by the students has officially kicked off, "The rules of the game are two people, write your name on the wall at the end of the second floor and come back here, no one will pretend to be a ghost and scary, so everyone can rest assured." ”

Standing under a dimly lit handlamp with the box in one hand, Benedictine announced the rules of the game: "The groups are determined by lot, in the order of one to twenty." After speaking, he put the lottery box in front of him and waited for the students to come forward one after another in an orderly manner, "Then let's draw lots." ”

At the edge of the lively crowd, at the junction of light and darkness, Natsume was standing there quietly, when suddenly a female voice broke the silence: "There is a legend in this old school building. After hearing the voice, Natsume turned his head sideways, "Huh?" I didn't understand what the squad leader Jun Sasada meant by what he said.

Jun Saseda continued, without explanation, "Once upon a time, there was a beloved Fortune Goddess here, and it is said that he often took the form of a child and went to play in the village. However, a certain greedy merchant put the fairy under house arrest in order to make his business more prosperous, and then the merchant made a fortune with the power of the Blessing Immortal, but the Blessing Immortal in the dim underground was very sad, and he resented the human race, and as a result, he became a monster. After the merchant's house went bankrupt, the school building was built in this unlucky place, and it is said that the Fortune Summoning Immortal is still lamenting that he has become a monster and has been wandering here. ”

Jun Sassada looked at the dilapidated and mottled school building with a calm face, and quietly explained the legend that happened to Natsume, and after listening to it, Natsume rippled in his heart, "Why are you telling me this story." "No why" After saying this, Jun Sasada got up from the wall he was leaning against and left, Natsume just opened his mouth to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything.

This is the first time Natsume has heard a story about a fallen god, and Natsume had heard Inari tell him that every year the gods of the Kamino Moon world have to go to Takamagaha to report on their work, but among these gods there are both new gods and gods who have disappeared and can no longer go.

Among these disappeared gods, there are gods who fell because of the disappearance of faith, gods who lost their positions by accident or fell directly, and there are gods who fell because of hatred, as Jun Sasada said.

"Okay, everyone's done drawing? The energetic voice of the Northern Benedictine came from ahead, pulling Natsume back from his thoughts, "One, two, three." ”

Everyone stretched out their hands and took out the paper in their hands, and suddenly found something wrong: "Hey, there's a sign missing." Someone shouted strangely.

"But there are all the signatures from one to twenty?", "That's one more person, right?" everyone said gossip, and from time to time there was a timid girl screaming after being frightened.

"Calm me down, someone must have come by themselves without saying hello. Benedictine explained, but was immediately refuted, "You made it up yourself, the executive committee, right?" "Is there no such thing?" "Did someone put both hands out?"

However, Natsume didn't think it was an accident or a prank by a classmate, and asked softly with a solemn expression, "Is something appearing?" ”

As he spoke, he jumped onto Natsume's shoulder, and Natsume helplessly touched the cat on his shoulder, which had a lot of weight, and sighed, "Is that the god Sasada said?" ”

"If it's true, it's a guy I didn't even notice, and it's getting more and more interesting. The cat teacher squinted his dangerous eyes, cracked his three-petaled mouth, and laughed in a sinister manner, and then slipped off Natsume's shoulder and disappeared into the darkness first.

When Natsume tried to stop it, it was too late, "Ah, Teacher!" Looking at the disappeared cat teacher, Natsume touched the wrapped friend account under the clothes around his waist and was a little worried, "Could it be because of the friend account?"

There was a night breeze, and the trees around the old school building were rustling in the wind, adding a bit of an eerie atmosphere to people's hearts. At the gate of the old school building, the voice of a student walking in front of me was heard, "I would rather be with girls!"

Natsume replied nonchalantly, "Hmm." ”

The two of them walked through the wooden staircase that creaked after decaying, "It's so tattered, but it's a pity to tear it down!" Satoru Nishimura sighed as he looked around and looked at Natsume.

Natsume continued to reply perfunctorily, "Hmm. ”

Walking through the hallway, Satoru Nishimura said, "Why can't you touch anyone else?"

Natsume also found out, "Really." ”

There was silence in the long, dark corridor, and only the two of them stood in it, a little overwhelmed, "Where are we going?"

Suddenly, Satoru Nishimura found in the corridor on the side.,The figure of a girl who is hidden in the dark and lonely.。

Satoru Nishimura opened his mouth and asked, "What are you doing alone?" The girl didn't answer, and Satoru Nishimura touched the back of his head a little flustered and unnaturally, "I'm wondering if something happened to you?"

The girl suddenly turned her head and revealed a man with only one eye and a big mouth, and the frightened Satoru Nishimura retreated and fell into Natsume's arms.

Natsume took a step back according to inertia, but only to have one foot in the air, and fell towards the bottom of the stairs with Satoru Nishimura.

In the hurry, Natsume instinctively used his understanding of the wind, so that he floated dangerously two centimeters away from the ground instead of falling firmly to the ground.

Natsume sat up and hurriedly asked Satoru Nishimura about the situation, "Hey, are you okay?"