"But I'm worried that I might disappear if I know that I'm seen by humans, but now I think it would be nice to answer him at the time, because Roujin-sama is always alone, and if it were me, it would be lonely and unbearable, so at least talk to him..."

At night, he turned off the light in his room and held his hands behind his head, quietly recalling the words of Granny Ah Hua during the day, 'He is always alone'.

Alone, alone, so lonely, alone, so sad, alone... It's so sad... Natsume was half-asleep and half-awake, as if she had returned to the boundless and lonely dark period of her memory.

Although he didn't stay long during that period, it was already a memory that the young Natsume could not forget, although this memory had been adopted by Inari and Amaterasu and was not binding Natsume, but once he recalled it, Natsume could still deeply experience the feeling of loneliness and helplessness.

"It's so sad, it's so heavy..."Sensing the abnormal weight on his body, Natsume opened his eyes, and he was greeted by a huge mouth of blood, stretching out five centimeters on Natsume's face and snoring.

Natsume, who came to his senses, raised his leg to the initiator and kicked it, "Ah, you're sleepy!!" When the third watch was silent in the middle of the night, he only heard the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground in the room on the second floor, and the night passed peacefully.

The next morning, the weather was very good, birds were singing outside the window, and the cat teacher with two band-aids on his head said to Natsume, "You had a nightmare last night!"

Natsume put away his futon and put it in the closet while complaining to the cat teacher, "It's the teacher who is too heavy." ”

"Because there is a gap in your heart, a weak heart will attract monsters, if you want to save your life, you can't be careless at any time, but I want you to die early, so that I can get my friend's account sooner. The cat teacher said with his tail like a penny wagged.

Natsume doesn't eat this set at all, "If you sleepwalk next time, I'll pluck the hair off your tail." ”

"You're the devil, huh?"

"Youkai are not qualified to speak of me. At this moment, the sound of Lu Shen knocking on the window interrupted the argument between the two.

Ryujin stood on the windowsill and said, "Found it, Natsume-sama." ”

Natsume and the cat teacher were running on the grass, and Natsume asked about the details of Lushen as she ran, "Is it right?"

"Well, he was on this mountain, and he ran away as soon as I called him, but he probably hadn't run far. Rushin said, standing on Natsume's shoulder.

"Teacher, let's split up. Natsume suggested.

Teacher Cat suddenly stopped and said with a serious expression, "It's here." ”

"What's wrong?"

The cat teacher replied, "There's something terrible coming." ”

"Something terrible?" Natsume only felt a youkai approaching him with a powerful demonic power.

With the chaotic wind, a voice came from the depths of the dark woods: "I'm coming" As soon as the words fell, the youkai disappeared into the gloomy forest with the wind again.

Natsume stood in place and listened carefully to the information conveyed by the wind around him, and secretly said in his heart, and when he looked up, he found that this monster with a head like a skull appeared above him, and the two black eye holes seemed to be staring at him and making people feel creepy.

The youkai said "I'm coming" again, and Natsume, who was observing him closely, suddenly saw a white note on the youkai with a big 'sen' written on it, just like the miserable picture that Lu Shen had drawn earlier.

Natsume ran wildly in the woods with the cat teacher, and Lushen shouted on Natsume's shoulder, "It's him, I didn't expect him to run out on his own." ”

Natsume complained as she ran, "It's not like your painting at all." Lu Shen quibbled: "Nonsense, it's exactly the same!" "It's obviously the same only word."

The chubby cat teacher stumbled and rolled in Natsume's footsteps "Natsume, with a mirror, with a mirror reflecting the sunlight on him." ”

"That's right. Natsume reacted, groping for the mirror that the cat teacher gave him before, but after looking for a long time and missing nothing, he didn't find anything, so he reacted and shouted to the cat teacher: "Teacher, I changed yesterday's clothes today, and the mirror was not brought in yesterday's clothes." ”

As he spoke, the youkai had already caught up from behind the sound, and with one paw bounced the cat teacher away, he pounced on Natsume, "Teacher!"

Natsume was a little worried about the cat teacher who was taken away, and he didn't hide it in a hurry, so he took out a scroll that he had put in his pants pocket in the morning, and crushed the scroll, and after the scroll was crushed, it emitted a white light An ordinary god knife appeared in front of Natsume's eyes, and he took the knife on his right hand, and then pulled the knife out of the scabbard, like a youkai that was already close at hand.

Seeing this, the youkai shouted "I'm coming" and pounced on Natsume, who held the sword in both hands, and aimed the tip of the sword in the middle of the sword at the opponent's face or throat (the so-called structure refers to the starting stance of the kendo, of which the middle section structure is one of them). The middle section advocates the symbol of "benevolence". Only cut off the enemy's wrist as the target, and do not deal a deadly blow. Even if they maintain a calm posture, they still watch the enemy's movements, and if an incident occurs, they will take the opportunity to defeat the enemy. Compared with the upper stage, which emphasizes absolute victory, the middle stage pays more attention to the interaction with the opponent and shows the same offensive and defensive actions. ）

The youkai's claws flew in mid-air, and Natsume quickly dodged the youkai's attack to the right.

Maybe Natsume's dodging action was too intense, and Lushen accidentally rolled off Natsume's shoulder and fell into the grass, looking at Natsume, who was flashing left and right in the monster attack, he shouted worriedly: "Natsume-sama!".

Natsume's right foot slammed into the youkai with the hip belt waist and then with the belt shoulder, and the huge impact hit the youkai, and the youkai was knocked to the ground by Natsume, and then Natsume used the knife in his hand to stab at a very fast speed, nailing the youkai to the ground and unable to move.

At that moment, Natsume saw the deep memories of the youkai, and at the autumn dusk, the youkai stood on the side of the road and stretched out his hands, repeating "I'm here to eat, I'm here... I'm coming..."

However, no one paid attention to him, until a girl appeared and put a handful of petals in his palm, "Inside, do you want to compete with me?" If you win, I'll give you food, eat me, my name is Reiko, what about you?"

Natsume's human pupils turned into vertical pupils, "This guy's name is..."