In the dark forest where it was raining "Natsume", there was a sudden echo of Natsume's name.

Natsume turned his head in confusion and pondered, "Did I hear it wrong?" and then when he was listening carefully to the movement around him, suddenly there was a sound of "rustling" leaves in front of him, Natsume followed the sound and looked over, and suddenly there was a large leaf in front of him, Natsume and the cat teacher stood in place and looked at the leaf that suddenly appeared, and then saw the leaf fly up and fall to Natsume's feet.

Natsume looked at the leaves that flew in front of him a little speechlessly, and then looked in the direction where the leaves came, just in time to see that the little fox was slowly squatting back into the low bushes with a large leaf of the same species.

Seeing this scene, Natsume sighed helplessly, thinking to himself, "This 'trouble' seems to be taken over, so if it can't be done, throw him back to Takamagahara, let him stay there as an envoy or wait for a while, and after his vacation, he will take him to his shrine to practice, and he can't let him live alone as a small fox." (Actually, if Natsume were to change back to his original form, he wouldn't be much older than him.) ）

The little fox who had just escaped from the new, frowned and looked a little sad and a little uneasy, and then behind a burst of footsteps, a figure appeared in front of him, Natsume hit the leaves that the little fox gave him, walked to the little fox and half-squatted down and said, "Thank you." Hearing this, the little fox smiled brightly.

In the evening of the same day, the little fox did as usual, and began to tell the story of what happened to him today, "Mother, I can help others too!" He said thank you to me, you are not useless, are you! Tomorrow I will pick mushrooms, I will pick a lot, and then give them to Natsume. ”

The little fox said his plan excitedly, but he didn't expect to be ruined by a malicious and vicious voice again, "Oh, little fox, you're good here, it's really a hard-working guy, didn't you tell you to fuck off?" It turned out to be the two monsters who bullied the little fox yesterday and were beaten by Natsume.

The little fox hurriedly turned around and looked up at these two monsters with a huge body in stark contrast to himself, and then the red-faced monster took out a paper folding fan and hit Natsume's head fiercely, "You little bastard fox, you don't need useless guys in this forest." ”

But this time the little fox did not succumb to the coercion of the two monsters, and resisted: "No, I'm not a useless guy!" and then aimed at the thigh of the monster, originally I didn't want to bite on the thigh, but who taught the little fox to be only that tall.

Under the blow, the youkai exhaled in pain, "Pain, pain, you little bastard." As he spoke, he threw the little fox out and fell to the ground.

After being injured, the monster became angry, and raised his big hand to fight down, "You little ghost, I can't spare you." ”

However, the hand did not wave smoothly, and was stopped by Natsume who arrived in a hurry, Natsume held the little fox in his arms, and his tone was full of anger: "You stop me!"

Seeing that someone came to his own good deeds, of course the tone couldn't be too good, "You bastard...", but before he finished speaking, the painful words from Natsume's hand that he squeezed hard were speechless, Natsume let go of his hand that had been slightly punished, and looked up at these two monsters who were bullying the weak and afraid of the hard.

"You were from yesterday...", the youkai who withdrew his hand found that this person was the culprit who beat the two of them yesterday.

Natsume's expression was serious, his eyes were full of murder, and his tone was no longer as gentle as before: "Isn't fist alone enough enjoyable?

"Lord Natsume~~" Natsume's voice suddenly echoed in the forest, which Natsume thought was an illusion yesterday, diverting Natsume's attention from the two little monsters in front of him, "Who is it!"

The voice of the yokai echoed throughout the forest, "Have you forgotten?Lord Natsume, didn't you say that you would give me back your name when spring arrived?"

Natsume and the cat teacher were running towards the source of the sound, and the cat teacher expressed his extreme dissatisfaction with Natsume Reiko while running, "Reiko, that guy, is really going to find trouble." ”

Natsume also felt that Reiko's grandmother's unreliability had broken through the boundary, "Spring, these are the first springs!!"

Finally, Natsume and the cat teacher rushed to a towering ancient tree out of breath, this is the dryad, the main part of the trunk still has a pair of facial features, Natsume stood below and asked, "Is it you? Are you calling me?" and then handed the bowl to the cat teacher for safekeeping, "Teacher, the bowl please." ”

There were three peeping monsters in the bushes behind him, quietly watching Natsume's movements, and the little fox saw Natsume take out the 'friend's account' from his waist bag, tear off one of the pieces of paper, and skillfully return the name, "Take it, morning fern, this is your name."

Seeing the monsters in front of them, the two monsters said in surprise: "This is called Natsume, is it the owner of the friend's account?"

"I received the name," the tree thanked him and disappeared in place, leaving an empty field of land.

The little fox looked at the situation in front of him and muttered the words he heard from the mouths of the two monsters: "Friend's account, I have heard that as long as you write the name of the monster on it, it is equivalent to signing a contract with the master." ”

The two youkai on the side were scared, "The name will be taken away, run away!! and then run away in panic.

Natsume was speechless at the actions of the two youkai, "What are those guys talking about?"

The cat teacher was also speechless about the nonsense of the two demons, and was worried about the IQ of the two monsters, "How can the person who returns the name rob them of their name? ”

A leaf was handed to Natsume, Natsume turned to face the little fox standing in front of him holding a leaf, the little fox held up a leaf with ink and said with a red face and firmly: "I wrote my name on it, please let me be your subordinate! (I also think the little fox is very useful, ( ̄) ̄) & amp; amp; amp; It can be used to pet cats! ）

Natsume returned to her previous gentleness and said with a smile, "No need"

When the little fox heard this, he was so excited that the leaves in his hands fell, and he asked with a crying voice, "Is it because I'm weak?" or because I'm useless?"