It's another day, the summer sun continues to fill the world, the weather is getting hotter and hotter every day, the cicadas are singing louder than ever, it's been a night since last night's test of courage, and Natsume is walking the path home in the woods as usual. The lush trees on both sides did not block the pervasive sunlight, which reflected a brilliant golden glow on Natsume's hair.

"Natsume-san!" came the voice of the class president, Jun Sasada, behind him.

Natsume stopped and looked behind him, "Sasada?"

Jun Sassada caught up from behind Natsume and stood beside Natsume and said, "Natsume-san, that, last night I..."

Natsume smiled lightly and hooked the corners of his mouth, "What the hell is going on? Everyone is actually asleep on the roof." ”

"Huh?" Jun Sassada opened his mouth in surprise and looked at Natsume with a puzzled look, looking a little surprised by Natsume's answer. Surprised, his stiff shoulders seemed to relax, "That's right, yes." With that, he walked forward alone.

Natsume was still standing in place, and said silently in his heart, "Sasada, at that moment, I saw Shi Yu touch you! I saw that his heart wanted to contact you, and you should have felt something." ’

When Natsume came back to his senses and continued to walk forward, Natsume saw a familiar scene again, only to see a 'corpse' in the middle of the road again, a green kappa was lying in the middle of the road, exuding bursts of water vapor evaporated by the high temperature, Natsume had very reason to believe that it would not be long before there would be a 'dry corpse' here.

Silently sighing and worried about the kappa's lack of memory, he resigned himself to his wallet and bought a bottle of water from a nearby vending machine, unscrewed the cap, crouched down and poured the water on the dish poured over the kappa's head as he had done last time.

Summer is coming day by day, and it is a leisurely afternoon, Natsume is sitting cross-legged in his room sorting out the relics left by Reiko's grandmother in the rattan box, while the cat teacher is eating the good watermelon in the summer, sprinkled with a trace of salt, the sweetness of the watermelon is infinitely amplified in the taste under the stimulation of the light salty taste, and the breath is refreshing and sweet. The watermelon in the cat's mouth was only a piece of melon skin in a minute, and the watermelon seeds were rubbed everywhere by him.

The cat teacher who stopped eating looked at Natsume who was carefully tidying up in front of him, "Why are you digging through Reiko's relics?

"No, it's not like you're looking for anything, by the way. Natsume didn't stop tidying up, answering the cat teacher's questions while tidying up.

"By the way, I really don't understand you," the cat teacher said he didn't understand your behavior as a fish-lipped human at all.

"Got it. Natsume suddenly said something completely out of his mind.

"Huh?" The cat teacher didn't react, lazily lying on the edge of the rattan box with his eyes closed, but the watermelon seed hanging on the side of the cat teacher's mouth made the image of the cat teacher look very funny, and the cat teacher's usual powerful and domineering image was lost (although it never was).

"Watermelon seeds, right next to your mouth, there are two"

"It doesn't matter, by the way".

Natsume said that he didn't understand the brain circuit of the cat teacher at all, and lowered his head and sighed, "I don't know what to do." ”

Every time I return my name to the youkai, the memories of Reiko turn into 'missing' and flood into my mind, and I become more and more aware of this person named 'Reiko'. Putting down the toy called the sword ball in his hand, he picked up a book and opened it to see the library card inserted on the last page of the book.

"I borrowed it from the library, but I guess I forgot to return it. Teacher Cat explained to Natsume.

Natsume rummaged left and right for the book, and found a yellowed ticket, "Ticket?" This ticket seems to be very old, full of traces of the passage of time, this is a ticket from Moriguchi to Kirinuma, I don't know why Natsume always cares about this ticket.

Even when I went to school in the next few days, I took out this ticket and studied it carefully during recess.

"Natsume..."Satoru Nishimura and Benedictine Kita, who were far away, shouted at Natsume, but Natsume was immersed in his own thoughts and had never heard of it, "Natsume!" This time Satoru Nishimura and Kita Benedictine came to the seats in front of Natsume and shouted loudly, waking Natsume from his world.

"Listen to me, Natsume," and when Natsume came back to his senses, Satoru Nishimura spoke eagerly.

Then there is the Northern Benedictine history: "Whose fault do you think it is?" ”

"Huh?"

Satoru Nishimura and Benedict Kita seemed to be arguing about something, but this time it was Satoru Nishimura who spoke first, "This guy actually eats the fox inside when he eats the clear soup noodles!!" (The fox refers to fried tofu, and RB tradition believes that foxes like to eat fried tofu.) However, Natsume wants to say that as long as it is fried tofu, he likes to eat it. ）

North Benedictine stood up and clasped his hands in front of his chest and retorted: "Of course I want to eat foxes!"

This time, Nishimura Satoru also stood up and stood on Kitamoto's right and denied, "What are you talking nonsense, foxes have to be soaked in soup to be delicious" and then suddenly slammed in front of Natsume and asked Natsume's opinion, "Yes, Natsume." ”

Not to be outdone, Benedict came up at this time, "No, the fox has to eat it directly to be delicious, right?" Natsume. ”

Natsume calmly said to the two excited humans, "I think it's okay to do both! ”

As a result, the two excitedly retorted loudly, "No." ”

Then he continued to argue in front of Natsume about the issue "the fox wants to eat later", "the fox wants to eat first".

Natsume touched his head to show his helplessness, "Let's not talk about this first, that shouldn't be called a fox, right?"

The question of "hey" made both of them stunned for a moment, and then broke out "This is an inconsequential !!"

Natsume hurriedly apologized, "I'm sorry", and then the two grabbed each other's collars again and argued, "You have to eat first...", "Eat later!"

Natsume had no choice but to persuade on the side: "Stop, you guys." "But it didn't work.

"We're going to break up," Satoru Nishimura threatened, raising his right hand toward Kitamoto.

Northern Benedictine did not eat his set of "just what I wanted".

After snorting, the two of them walked away in different directions violently, Natsume kept stopping him but no one paid attention to him.

"What a boring quarrel!" Jun Sassada stood beside Natsume, looked at the naïve two and let out a sigh, "You dropped this, right?"