Tsubame was wearing a blue printed yukata and waved goodbye to Natsume, "Then I'm leaving, Natsume-sama, I'm leaving." ”

Natsume also stood in front of the house to say goodbye to him, quietly watching Yan walk into the depths of the dark road, the bright moon and other branches frightened, and the breeze chirped cicadas in the middle of the night. I'm afraid I'll never see each other again, but I don't have any regrets in my heart, whether it's me or Yan.

Sure enough, as Yan said, it rained in the second half of the night, and the water in the reservoir rose little by little in the rain, and gradually Futaba Village was submerged in the water, and Natsume sat in front of the window leaning on the windowsill and looked at the rain outside the window.

After the rain and the sunny weather, Natsume came to the reservoir again, this time there was a cat teacher squatting on the back seat of the bicycle, one person and one cat looked at the reservoir that had returned to normal water level, Natsume said: "Yan She is back in the village, right?"

Teacher Cat replied, "If you are bound by the land, it will be easy to go back, and you may have become a Buddha!"

Natsume smiled and replied, "That's good." "However, in the bottom of my heart, I still want to ask Yan, 'Have you seen that person?' sleep well, Yan, I wish you a good dream.'" ’

After that, Natsume and the cat teacher came to the big tree that she had come to with Yan many times, and sat on the branch where Yan often sat with the cat teacher, and the cat teacher was still complaining, "Really, Natsume, I am always led by your nose." ”

Natsume replied in a good mood: "But, in the end, the teacher will always be with me, right?"

Teacher Cat couldn't help but tear the topic away, "Hmm, do you mean I can eat you?"

"Maybe you'll have feelings for me one day!" Natsume was not angry at all.

"What about you?" asked the cat teacher.

"Who knows?"

Under the tree, Natsume saw Mr. Taniozaki, who Tsubame had always wanted to meet, walk under the tree and chase after him with the cat teacher. Taniozaki turned to look at the boy who stopped him suspiciously, "A child in a blue yukata with a pattern?"

"Yes, it was the festival that took place the other day. Natsume replied.

Taniozaki suddenly realized, "That child, you see, that girl in a blue yukata who doesn't like to talk." ”

Hearing this, Natsume couldn't help but tilt his head and squint his eyes and smile, "That's good, that's great." ”

Mr. Taniozaki rummaged through his briefcase, "By the way, do you want to see it? ”

Mr. Taniozaki handed the photo in his hand to Natsume "Look", Natsume took it and held it up in front of himself to look at the swallow standing next to Mr. Taniozaki in a blue printed yukata in the photo, at the moment he saw the swallow, Natsume's pupils shrank, and tears involuntarily welled up from his eyes, and the swallow in the photo was standing quietly next to Mr. Taniozaki, and the mask that he had been wearing on his face was taken off, revealing a quiet face that Natsume had never seen, and it could be seen that Tsubame was very happy at that moment.

The sound of sobbing accompanied by tears involuntarily appeared, Natsume reached out and wiped away the tears from his eyes, "Yes, I like you too, I like your gentleness, I like your warmth, I like you who are trying to live after something." ’

"It's still there, that human hat, so white, so beautiful, like snow, no one will pick it up, then come to my house!" A little fox monster in a red yukata picked it up, and the hat that humans left in the forest, and the fiery red fluffy tail of excitement swayed violently, "It's so beautiful, go show it to Mom." ”

However, remembering that only the tombstones made of stones remained, "Mother" and the little fox shook his head and threw the sad emotions out of his mind, "How can a manly man cry at every turn, I have to go down alone in the future." ”

"Then I'm leaving, Aunt Tazi. Natsume said goodbye to Aunt Tako.

"Be careful on the road and have fun. Aunt Tazi instructed.

"Okay. ”

Before going out, Mr. Shi, who had always been silent, stopped Natsume: "Kishi." ”

Hearing this, Natsume turned around and replied, "What's the matter?" ”

Mr. Zi put on a tie for himself and said, "You are going to Yanyu Hot Spring for your academic training, right?"

"Well, yes" Then he bowed and thanked him as if he remembered something: "Ah, I'm sorry, thank you for helping me pay for the training camp." ”

Mr. Zi smiled: "You don't have to take that kind of thing to heart, and your parents will call you every month for living expenses, you don't have to care." It's just that I have something I want to ask you, at the foot of the mountain near the hot spring, can you help me get the bowl back there? He handed a map to Natsume and asked, "Okay?"

Natsume took the map and order from Mr. Shizu, "Of course, Mr. Shi. ”

Natsume, who walked all the way to the meeting point, looked very excited, and then a sudden voice broke Natsume's good mood, "You laugh so creepy, Natsume." ”

Natsume looked left and right for the cat teacher who was talking, and then found that the cat teacher didn't know when he hid in his luggage, "Teacher, when are you." ”

Teacher Cat said confidently: "As a bodyguard, of course I have to follow." ”

"Even so," but this time Natsume was in a good mood and didn't bother with him.

Sitting on the bus speeding through the mountains, the cat teacher began to interrogate Natsume, "Why are you so happy?"

"I'm so happy! ”

Soon I arrived at the dormitory of Yanyu Hot Spring Ancient Inner High School, and in the spacious Japanese-style room, the teacher was teaching, and the students below were a little absent-minded, and some lazy "The prosperous will decline, like the wind blowing in the dust", but even the teacher looked at the watch in his hand, and announced that the class would not be delayed as soon as the time came, "This is the end of the morning class, and you are free to move around before eating." There was a cheer in the classroom.

Satoru Nishimura stretched his waist and said, "What are you going to do next?"

Kita Benedict immediately replied to his question, "Of course it's a hot spring!

Natsume rejected his proposal, "I'm sorry, I have a little bit of something." ”

Although there was some surprise, Kitamoto didn't say much, "Ah, that's it." ”

So Natsume kicked his friend's tent into his pocket, and walked towards the road down the mountain with the cat teacher, and from time to time took out the map given by Mr. Zi to study the route, "I think it should be around here." Then he saw a pillar of smoke rising from the forest in front of him, "That's there." Natsume instantly decided where he was going.