"How do you know?" The smaller cat teacher was a little puzzled.

Caused Hinoeda to laugh loudly, "Hahahahahahaha ”

Hearing Hinoeda's ridicule, the cat teacher was very upset, "Hey, calm down, Hinoeda, Natsume was stunned." After saying that, the cat teacher who was hanging upside down finally couldn't hold it anymore and fell to the ground.

Hinoeda stopped laughing and looked at the boy who looked like Reiko, "What the hell is this fake Reiko." ”

Although she was a little dissatisfied with Hinoeda's tone, Natsume, who had a good upbringing, answered her question, "I am Natsume Takashi, the grandson of Reiko Natsume. ”

"Grandson? Where is Reiko? ”

"I've been to another world a long time ago." Teacher Cat said to Hinoshi.

Hinoeda was startled by the cat teacher's words, tears instantly filled Hinoeda's eyes, her voice became low, and she hung her head and said slowly with a crying voice: "Is it? It's so short-lived, that's why I hate humans. Tears dripped down and he stretched out his sleeve to wipe them.

Natsume reached into his pants purse, took out his handkerchief, and handed it to Hinoeda, but Hinoeda's reaction was very violent, and he took a step back sharply, "Stay away from me, you man." ”

Natsume's tone didn't change, still full of the gentleness of the past, "Please, you're crying for Reiko." ”

Hinoeda looked at the young man staring at the familiar face in front of him, and in a flash, he snatched the handkerchief in Natsume's hand at a completely indistinct speed, and put the loud awake snot on his nose, listening to Natsume's black lines all over his head, are you sure you didn't mean it.

The smoke rose in the moonlight, and Hinoeda's mood regained its calm, and she sat on a large tree that had fallen dry, and the cigarette stick in her hand emitted a thin white smoke upward, "I was so out of shape, Mishino told me that it was Natsume who was calling me." He took a puff of his cigarette and exhaled the cigarette violently towards Natsume, causing Natsume to cough repeatedly, "So I was so excited just now." ”

"Hey! What are you doing. Looking at Natsume's uncomfortable appearance, the cat teacher shouted at the bad cypress.

Hinoeda's eyes suddenly looked at Natsume's left forearm, studied it, held the cigarette stick, and said, "It's the Five Day Seal." ”

"Five-day seal?" It was the first time Natsume had heard the name of the curse.

Hinoeda began to explain the origin of this curse to Natsume in detail: "Immobile yokai will leave a mark on passers-by, and within five days, this mark will drain your spirit or allow the youkai to find and eat you, and so on, and the owner of the mark will be freed one day." ”

After listening to Hinoeda's story, Natsume took Hinoeda with him to the place where he met the youkai during the day, and walked to the big tree, "It's strange, I can't remember where I got in." Natsume looked confused at the lack of familiar woods around her.

Hearing Natsume's words, Hinoeda judged, "I'm afraid you ran into a path that humans can't pass, and met the seal lord there. ”

Natsume touched his chin and said thoughtfully, "It seems that when I ran nearby, I did have a feeling that the space was distorted. ”

Although he didn't find any clues this time, Hinoeda still said to Natsume: "Really, although it's troublesome, I'll help you investigate, you can go back today." ”

Natsume walked alone with the cat teacher on the empty street in the dim light, and suddenly the five-day mark on his hand was stinging again, Natsume couldn't help but snort in pain and stopped looking at the bandages wrapped around his hands, "This thing is really troublesome." He complained, and just as Natsume was taking another step, Natsume spotted a suspicious black humanoid creature under the streetlamp, "What is it?" ”

Teacher Cat also spoke, "It's not like a monster." ”

Natsume, who didn't find anything, continued to walk forward with the cat teacher, and couldn't help but glance sideways when he passed by, and walked a distance and looked back at the strange thing curiously again, and found that it didn't move in place.

When I got home, Aunt Tazi was sitting at the dining table, drinking tea, looking at something, "That's good!" Hearing Natsume's movement coming home, he turned his head and saw the bandage wrapped around Natsume's arm who was about to go upstairs, and exclaimed in surprise: "Hey, what's wrong with your arm?" ”

Natsume's movements froze, his mind was spinning rapidly, and he tried to prevaricate the abnormal thing on his arm for a suitable reason, "It was just scratched by a branch, and it was no big deal." The stiffness in Natsume's tone, who wasn't very good at lying, could be heard by anyone.

Aunt Tazi got up worriedly, and turned around to go to the cabinet to get the medicine box, "Oops, what should I do if it suppurates." ”

Natsume was in a hurry, where did he move his arm to try to convince Aunt Tako that he was fine, "It's no problem at all!" Look, I'm fine. After speaking, seeing that the situation was not right, Aunt Tazi had not turned around yet, and fled upstairs first.

"No, let me see." When Aunt Tazi got the medical kit and turned around, Natsume fled one step earlier.

It's another day, the sun rises over the col, and Natsume goes out, "I'm going to school." "Closing the door of his house, he looked at the mark on his arm that had become bigger again, and the bandage he tied yesterday could no longer cover it" Oh no, it really got bigger. He sighed helplessly and let go of his worries about the curse, and was about to go out, only to find that the black shadow from yesterday was standing outside his house.

Natsume approached and complained, "This shadow looks like Marie." ”

The cat teacher got out of Natsume's jacket pocket, "Marie? That's what it is. (It's like a Pokemon!!) I'd love to have a cat like this in my pocket every day. ）

"A ghost story of an inexplicable object, you get a phone call, 'I'm Mary, I'm outside your house,' and soon there's a call 'I'm Mary, I'm in the hallway of your house.'" As soon as he finished speaking, Natsume and the cat teacher opened their eyes and opened their mouths to look at the black shadow that suddenly disappeared to the entrance outside their house, and then Natsume's arm began to hurt again, and the painful Natsume couldn't help but close his left eye, Natsume guessed: "Does it have anything to do with this seal, what to do." ”

The sound of clogs sounded, Natsume looked to the side and saw the cypress eda smoking, and the cypress eda, who was smoking early in the morning, said to Natsume: "With the same face as Reiko, don't look deflated!" ”

"Hinoshi." Natsume shouted the name of the youkai in front of him.

Hinoeda continued: "I found out who the seal owner is, it has been sealed for many years, it has a strong evil aura, it hunts targets through the five-day seal, and it continues to accumulate power, it seems that as long as it eats one more person, its seal will be lifted. ”