Natsume sent the old woman away, thinking to herself, "It's good that I can answer a little bit at this time, I hate my bad words, I am too out of place with this world, I have been derailed from this world for too long, and it seems that I still need to strengthen my training, after all, one of my training goals is to learn how to get along with people." ’

"The old lady didn't live long, because she didn't smell good. Natsume was a little silent, "Really, I smell rotten, too." ”

Looking at the small shrine made of wood in front of him, Natsume asked the cat teacher, "This is the one who shows the gods..."

"What's the matter, the expression is so strange. ”

"Lushen is not just a name, he turned out to be a real god!" There is another sentence that Natsume didn't say in his heart, I didn't feel the slightest bit of divine power in him at all, and I thought it was a little monster with low spiritual power without the appearance of a god at all!

"Oh, roar, roar" A sound of greeting woke Natsume, and when he looked at the voice, he was really waving his arm to Natsume, and they were greeting, "Natsume-sama, you're here!"

Natsume only then thought about it, oh no, I was so rude last night, and I was going to suffer, really, how did Reiko's grandmother do this kind of retribution? But why am I so afraid, with his combat power, I'm afraid it won't have any effect on me, right? And this kind of wild god who doesn't have much divine power has no effect on me, so what am I worried about? Natsume fell into a deep entanglement.

"Well, what's wrong with him?" asked Rugami, looking at Natsume with a tangled expression.

"This guy knows you're a real god, and now he's flustered. The cat teacher replied as if he knew Natsume very well.

"No," Natsume categorically rejected the conclusion of the cat teacher.

"No, no, although people call me Lushen, I'm really just a homeless youkai who lives in this ancestral hall. Lu Shen waved his hand and explained, "There was once a drought here, and a young man in the village couldn't stand it anymore, so he came to me to pray, and the next day it happened to rain again, and from then on, the people of the village worshiped the ancestral hall as Lu Shen, and the tributes continued, and as a result, I was full of energy and became decent." ”

"Decent?" This is the wild god of most of the 180,000 gods in Japan, the same as the previous monsters, by chance, there are generations of human tributes, and the incense of everyone has achieved the position of the gods, this is what Dad said before, believe in becoming a god!

"The last time I saw him, he was as big as a human. Teacher Cat said.

"Now that there are people who have come to worship, the body that has grown in size because of people's beliefs has shrunk to what it is now. ”

"So that's the case" Natsume also looked a little sad.,This is the disadvantage of believing in becoming a god that my father once mentioned.,Once the faith is reduced, the power of the god of belief will fade.,Once the last faith is gone, this god will disappear as if it never appeared.,Only after reaching a certain height like my father can I get rid of the shackles of faith on myself.。

"That's right," Natsume took out the peaches that the old woman had given him from his purse, "give you peaches to eat." ”

Lushen hugged the peach on the altar and said, "I already have the peach, look." ”

The old woman before "it turned out to be her".

"Did you meet Ah Hua?"

"Well, her name is Hana," Natsume squatted down to talk to Rujin.

"She's the only human who has come to pay her respects to me right now. Natsume looked at Rujin and thought that the situation had come to this point, but Rujin did not continue the topic, but returned to the purpose of Natsume's visit.

"I see, we want to be together!"

"Well, if you return the names that have been glued together, you don't have to forcibly tear the paper open. Natsume and the cat teacher both squeezed their faces down in front of Lushen and said, "But there's a big problem, we don't know that youkai." ”

Lushen raised his hand and said, "I know." ”

"Really?" Natsume and the cat teacher expressed their amazement and surprise at how coincidental things were, and when Natsume's cat teacher and Rujin left here to go to their house, Natsume still put the peach in his hand as a tribute on the offering table of the temple.

"I was very unwilling after losing to Reiko, and then I heard that another youkai lost, so I went to find it in order to find out the news" Lushen said while drawing with a long brush, "It's done, although I don't remember the name, but it looks like this." ”

Natsume and the cat teacher both looked at the painting drawn by Rujin with an expression of disbelief, "Is it really it?"

"Well, I'm pretty good at drawing!" said Lushen modestly, touching his head.

"Isn't it hairless?" Natsume asked with a strange expression as she looked at Rugami, and the cat teacher had already been shocked by Lugami's masterpiece.

"Hair?" Lu Shen thought, continuing to touch his head, "it doesn't seem to have grown." ”

"Didn't you grow a single one?"

"There wasn't a single one, it lived in Mitsuka at the time, because he was parasitic in the shadows, so he could only move in the shadows. Lu Shen in the commentary heard the laughter and turned back and asked, "What's wrong?"

Natsume held the drawing in his hand and shook hard with the cat teacher holding back a smile, and then couldn't help laughing.

"Hey, what are you laughing at, are you making fun of my paintings?" Looking at Lushen's paintings like abstract paintings drawn by a three-year-old child, it's hard not to laugh "Hey, you're going to get retribution one day." ”

So Natsume and the cat teacher began to look for youkai in Mitsuka, but after looking for a few days, they still couldn't find it.

Stretching his waist and walking on the forest path, "What's wrong? You're sleepy, are you tired?"

"Sort of" Then Natsume suddenly saw something and stopped, it turned out to be the old woman she met last time, this time she was worshipping in front of the ancestral hall of Lujin, but Lujin was sitting opposite her and watching him quietly.

Yes, Ah Hua can't see him, even though it's so close.

After the worship, Ah Hua saw Natsume on the side, "Ahhh

"Hello. ”

"You're here to pay homage, too. ”

"Well, sort of. ”

"It's great, it seems like I'm the only one who has been here lately, and I'm worried about whether Lord Lushen will be lonely. Natsume and Granny Hana were walking along the road, talking about the topic of Lujin.

"When did you start visiting?" asked Natsume.

"When I was young, don't laugh at me, I think I've met Lord Lushen once. Hearing this, Natsume raised his head in surprise. "On the way back from the girls' school, the weather was the same as today, I visited as usual, and when I looked up, I saw a foot behind the ancestral hall, and although I was startled, I pretended not to see it, and the man in the old man's mask said happily, 'It's a nice day!' and I almost answered him, 'Yes.' ”