Natsume was surprised by the youkai and replied, "Good friend, can that person see the youkai?"

The youkai began to tell the story between her and the human, "That was a long time ago, I used to talk to that person when I was younger, and we were together for a while, but one day, he suddenly couldn't see me, and he never saw me again. ”

Natsume was a little surprised by the ending of this story, "Can't you see it, can it be like this?"

The youkai lifted the mask from his face and took a sip of the wine in the glass, explaining to Natsume, "It is said that some people will slowly lose that strength when they reach adulthood. ”

"That's it!" Natsume looked down as if thinking about something.

The monster looked at the wine bottle in his hand and said slowly, "I heard that the man is getting married recently, so I want to see what he looks like when he gets married." After speaking, he looked at the cat teacher who was licking the wine and continued: "Our relationship was the same as you before. ”

Suddenly, the cat teacher who was mentioned stopped licking the wine, and his eyes narrowed into a slit: "We're not friends. Then the next sentence and Natsume said in unison: "It's the owner and the pet!!" It's just that the identity of the owner and the pet in the mouths of the two people are different people.

The youkai was shocked by Natsume and the cat teacher's answer in unison, and his body shook involuntarily and then said with some embarrassment: "This, that's it." ”

"What's your name," Natsume asked the youkai.

The monster didn't give a clear answer: "You guess." ”

Natsume sat opposite the youkai with his hands on his chest, and after a moment of serious contemplation, he gave the answer, "Mask?" The youkai was speechless, and Natsume guessed again, "Long hair?" Seeing that the youkai still didn't react, Natsume suddenly replied with certainty: "I know, it's a swamp girl." ”

The youkai sighed and gave up his intention to let Natsume continue to guess and said, "I'm an inferior youkai who doesn't have a name in the first place. ”

Hearing this, Natsume said, "Since that's the case, don't tease me!"

At this time, the cat teacher jumped out excitedly from the side, "Then I'll give you a name!" Natsume and the monster stared at the cat teacher speechlessly, and the cat teacher asked, "How is it?"

The youkai here has already changed the topic, ignoring the cat teacher and Natsume talking, "I didn't expect me to be able to talk to humans, this is fate! ”

The cat teacher is still persistently asking, "Hey! The monster ignored him, and the cat teacher turned his target to Natsume, "Roll noodles?" However, Natsume ignored him, and the cat teacher finally went out of his temper and pointed at the monster loudly and asked, "I asked you what you think!! what do you think of the roll noodles!!"

As a result, the cat teacher was violently suppressed by Natsume in an instant, "It's noisy! ”

Before the cat teacher fell unconscious, he persistently shouted, "Roll noodles!"

In the middle of the night, Natsume was suddenly awakened by a light, and with difficulty opened his heavy eyelids to look at the birthplace of the light, turned over and whispered to the youkai who emitted a bright green light: "It's so dazzling." ”

The glowing youkai turned around and asked Natsume, "Hey, are you asleep already?" and was bored!" Reached out and stroked Natsume's hair, "Hey, are you listening to me?"

Natsume's only impression after waking up was "That night I dreamed that someone was calling me, Hotaru... Firefly... Hotaru..."

Then it was Aunt Tako's voice the next morning, "Takashi, I'm going to be late!" Natsume, who was woken up by Aunt Tako, struggled to half-lift himself and looked at the two heavy objects pressed on his quilt, "Get up, get out." Wake up the two who were still asleep, and the monster woke up all of a sudden, but the cat teacher continued to snore.

"Do you think 'Hotaru' is good?" Natsume, who was getting dressed, suddenly asked the youkai without a clue, "Name, it's Hotaru, okay?"

The youkai tilted his head and replied, "Whatever you want." ”

Natsume, who heard the youkai's answer, turned around and continued to get dressed, and couldn't help but fall into his own thoughts again: "I suddenly can't see a youkai, can it be like this?"

In the evening, Natsume and the cat teacher were walking on the way to the lake again, and the cat teacher was telling Natsume the legend of this land: "Once upon a time there lived a mountain god in this forest, and she fell in love with a human girl, and they often secretly dated in the middle of the night, when in the deep night, the fireflies in the swamp lit the mountain path for them. In return, the mountain god turned the short-lived fireflies into youkai, and the fireflies were so happy that many of them left the swamp, and it is said that the fireflies here are the descendants of the fireflies that remained. Of course, this is nothing more than a legend. ”

When he arrived at the lake, Natsume was surprised to find that yesterday's uncle was still here today, "Look at that!" A flutter of the cat teacher turned Natsume's attention to the youkai in the middle of the lake, and the monster with a huge head was covered with seaweed-like hair, and slowly approached the uncle on the shore from the water.

Seeing this scene, Natsume hurriedly shook off the cat teacher and pounced towards the "danger", but what he didn't expect was that the youkai turned around and swam away from the side when he approached the shore.

The uncle was vigorously pounced on by Natsume, "Pain, pain, pain" Natsume climbed up with a grass clip crying out in pain. The uncle here also recognized Natsume after getting up, "You are, yesterday..."

Natsume hurriedly apologized, "I'm sorry, I accidentally fell." ”

The uncle smiled and reached out to help Natsume stroke the grass clippings off the top of his head, "You are so lively!" Natsume had to smile in return.

After greeting each other, Natsume asked, "Well, is there anything in this lake?"

"What is it?" the uncle was a little puzzled by Natsume's question.

"Yes. ”

The uncle looked at the lake and said, "I don't know, except for fireflies, it may be crucian carp!"

Hearing this answer, Natsume bowed goodbye to his uncle again, and on the way back, the cat teacher said, "That monster won't attack people." ”

"That's it!" Natsume's mind was clearly not on this, "I can't ask, "Can you see youkai too?" "Such a question", and looked back at the uncle who was still standing by the lake.

Teacher Cat seemed to understand Natsume's thoughts and said, "Even if he sees someone who can see youkai now, but rehashing the old things now will only add to his troubles." ”

Natsume stopped and looked at the youkai "Hotaru" who stood up from the bushes