After Natsume and Tsubame came home that evening, "Natsume-sama, thank you very much, I had a beautiful dream, I have no regrets, I am going back to Futaba Village." ”

Hearing what Swallow said, Natsume was heartbroken and proposed, "If you really like that person so much, then just stay." ”

Swallow chuckled twice: "Actually, I also thought about whether to attach myself to him, and wanted to say that he was 'really an arrogant human', but I wanted to sleep there with my brothers and sisters." ”

"That's it..."Natsume was a little disappointed.

"Natsume-sama" Swallow suddenly called Natsume, knelt down and sat down to make a kneeling bow to Natsume, and kept kneeling while saying, "Natsume-sama, thank you very much. ”

Natsume looked at Tsubame and spoke again, "But it's still some time before the village is flooded!" Hearing Natsume's words, Tsubame raised her head in surprise, and even the cat teacher, who was silent on the side, raised her head to look at Natsume.

"Earthquakes, tornadoes, fires, famines, etc.," the teacher was really lecturing, but Natsume in the classroom was in a daze while holding his head with his hand, "Although the person has been found, I always feel that her wish has not been fulfilled, do I have feelings for him?" Natsume asked himself in his heart.

Natsume didn't rush home after school, he sat in the shadow of the tree with his back against the big tree and looked at the book in his hand, and on the same tree, the swallow sat on the high branch and looked into the distance, and suddenly Natsume's surprise voice came from above Natsume's head, "It's that person!"

Looking in the direction of the swallow, the man was passing by the road under the hillside where the tree grew, and the swallow stood on the tree and waved at the man and greeted him loudly, knowing that the man could not see his swallow but still enjoying it.

Natsume just sat under the tree quietly and didn't move, his hair hanging down blocked Natsume's eyes, and he couldn't see the emotions contained in his eyes, until the sun was about to set, Natsume and Swallow, a demon, walked on the way home one after another.

Swallow suddenly stopped and said loudly: "Lord Natsume" Natsume turned around and Swallow continued: "I feel a little tired today, I want to go back and rest first." ”

"Okay, you go and rest!" Natsume replied, and then the swallow bowed and disappeared, and Natsume paused for a long time as he looked at the place where the swallow had disappeared.

Another day, Natsume sat in the same seat under the same tree, thinking about the swallow 'I don't know if it's because of the weakening of the strength, the time for the swallow to remain in human form is getting shorter and shorter' Thinking of this, Natsume looked up at the swallow sitting among the branches, the sunlight seemed to be able to penetrate her figure, and the bird also fell on her head, and the demonic power fluctuations around the swallow became weaker and weaker, and the sense of existence began to decline significantly. When I looked back at the textbook in my hand, I couldn't read it, and I didn't turn a page for a long time.

When he arrived home alone, Natsume was surprised to find that the youkai under the water was actually in front of his house, walked in and asked, "Why are you here again?"

He smiled as always, and said in his calm tone, "There will be a festival in Futaba Village tonight, and I specially brought the wine," he said, raising the flask in his hand and signaling to Natsume.

"A festival in Futaba Village?"

The face of the dripping shin carrying the sake was hidden in the shadow of the eaves, "Yes, Futaba Village is located in the vague area of the dark border, and it used to be a gathering place for youkai, and a festival is held there every four years, so it happened to be a rare dry season, so it was decided to hold this event tonight." ”

Hearing this, Natsume recalled the summer festival in the demon world that he was taken to by Inari and Amaterasu when he was a child, and the time is about to start, but it's a pity that he can't get up this year, and the festival in the former youkai gathering place in Futaba Village is somewhat similar to the one when he was a child? Natsume is immersed in memories.

Harishin is still demonstrating to Natsume, "Drinking, dancing, gambling, and running, and the winner will get a yukata, and if you wear a yukata, you will become a human for a night, and of course, everyone is very excited." ”

Suddenly, Natsume caught a word from his mouth and asked uncertainly, "What did you just say?"

"Very excited. ”

"No, what do you say that you can turn into a human yukata. ”

Tarushin approached Natsume, staring at his empty eyes, and asked, "What? Are you interested? Would you like to participate?" ”

So Natsume was pulled closer to the depths of the woods by the weeping, and among the bushes behind them, a round cat's head suddenly appeared and followed, "Natsume, where are you going?"

Natsume was a little surprised by the sudden appearance of the cat teacher, "Teacher Cat, the festival of Futaba Village." ”

"What are you talking about?" When the cat teacher suddenly appeared, Shen Shen was quietly vigilant about the cat teacher, and suddenly the cat teacher turned into a spot and blocked the front, "You're going to that festival, you're going to be eaten, Natsume." ”

Natsume was a little surprised by the cat teacher's words, and noticed Madara's block, and the hanging Shen on the side couldn't help it, and his neck began to lengthen, and instantly became about the same size as Madara, "Are you Madara? Don't get in my way." ”

Teacher Cat confronted him and said, "Do you want to take Natsume as a drink?"

Shui Shen said as a matter of course: "What's wrong with cannibalism, do you have feelings for humans? ”

"It's me who eats Natsume, and I've made an appointment with him, idiot," the cat teacher retorted.

"I didn't promise you," Natsume opened the cat teacher's table, and then asked, "But the yukata thing is not a lie, is it?"

Madara looked at Natsume's persistent look, "What did you say?" Natsume, you're going to be in trouble again?"

Even the person on the side said, "You did this for that kind of person, Natsume-sama, it won't do you any good to do that, why?"

Why is this sentence Natsume's heart shocked, and he couldn't help but torture his heart, "Why, because as my father said, to protect it! So Natsume said without thinking, "Because I have feelings for her! ”

Madara's eyes shrank, and he looked up and said, "You stupid, you big stupid" and then looked down at Natsume and said, "That's why I hate imps." ”

"Shut up. ”

After nightfall, Futaba Village under the reservoir is lit up, and the river lanterns flutter in the only remaining stream of water after the dry water, and the nearby monsters of all sizes gather together to appear full of people, talking and drinking.

In the shadows, on the cloth that served as a mask on the back of Natsume's head, "That's it, my blood is miserable in the ink, and no one will find out that you are human." ”