Natsume looked at Natori Monday, "Is that what you said about slaying demons?" Don't dare to ignore their specific situation and just do it directly, you hurt them so much too much. ”

Natori didn't have any expression on his face, "You've been tormented by youkai, you should understand." ”

"But I really can't agree with this approach." Natsume was very unhappy with Natori's indifferent attitude on Monday.

"If you think so, you'll suffer one day!" Natori said to Natsume with a bitter look.

Natsume's hand tightly grabbed Natori's clothes and said firmly, "Even so, I'd rather be like this!" Thank you for saving me, but next time I won't leave it alone. After saying that, he turned around and left, and this time Natori was not stopping him on Monday.

Looking at the background of Natsume's departure, Natori Monday was full of thoughts, and finally met someone who could see the same thing as himself, was it so difficult to understand each other with him? We should all have gone through the same pain.

Natsume, who was also a little stimulated, walked on the road with the cat teacher, and the cat teacher spoke, "The moment I was touched by him, I felt his hatred for the youkai, and no matter what, he must have suffered from the youkai!" ”

Natsume said to himself in a depressed mood, "Could it be that this is why people who can see youkai hate youkai so much?" Is the relationship between humans and youkai like this? They're just a bunch of simple guys. ”

In this way, a man and a cat crossed the street, and saw a rope at the corner that stretched into the distance, "This rope?" "Squatted down and picked it up, first to the left and then to the other side, trying to tell where the end of the rope was.

A female voice rang out, "Don't pull it, boy!" ”

Natsume was stunned for a moment, stopped the movement in his hand, turned to look at the person who sent the voice, and said embarrassedly, "I'm sorry." Then he naturally talked to this monster who had met twice and was tied to a rope.

Standing in front of a house with some history, "Who tied this rope?" ”

The monster replied, "You have the breath of that child." ”

"The kid?" Natsume was a little confused by the monster's answer, and looked at the monster, but the monster didn't answer, and the atmosphere fell into embarrassment, and Natsume spoke again: "I'm a little concerned about that, can you let me help you re-bandage?" It's okay if you ignore me after the bandage. ”

Natsume carefully rewound the bandages on the monster's hands and sent a beautiful bow at the end, and the monster suddenly spoke, "Before..."

"Huh?" Natsume, who was serious about dealing with bandages, didn't react for a while.

"I don't know where the praying master tied me to this rope, I used to be a youkai who guarded the mountain, but they captured me and tied me here, and ordered me to guard this family and this warehouse."

"So you've always been like this?" Natsume asked with some heartache.

"Someone recently opened the warehouse, and if I don't do my duty, the rope will tighten and screw my head off." The monster spoke indifferently.

Natsume remembered the scarred hand he saw under the youkai bandage, and couldn't help asking, "And what are your nails?" ”

Watching the end of the rope being nailed to the gate with kunai "I once thought about escaping, but in the end I gave up and sat here in a daze, unconsciously for many years. ”

As the youkai told one sentence after another, Natsume seemed to be brought into her memories. 'Hey, what's wrong with you?' What a strange mask, your hands are bleeding. ’

"He's a human child, he can see me just as much as you do, the monster raised her bandaged hand, it was the kid who helped me put it on it, and when the warehouse opened, I wanted to give up my mission altogether, even if I was strangled to death, I didn't have any nostalgia."

"But fate is really interesting, that child is back in this city as a demon slayer, if it is that child, I would gladly die at his hands." Natsume's pupils dilated as he looked at the youkai in front of him who already had the intention to die.

Yokai continued, "It's really inconvenient to be a youkai, and I can't even return the gift with a bandage. ”

In the evening, Natsume, who had finished dinner, walked into his room, took the Mijin knife that was placed on the knife holder of the bookcase, pulled out the blade with his backhand, took the brush and the polished ink that had been prepared on the side, and began to write some inscriptions on the blade.

"What are you writing about?" The cat teacher, who was watching from the sidelines, asked.

"An inscription for breaking the formation." Natsume replied.

"How do you know these things?" Teacher Cat asked puzzled.

"I still have a lot of things.,The one I was adopted into is a shrine family.,I've been watching this kind of thing since I was a child.,There's always a little bit of it.。 Natsume explained.

The cat teacher didn't ask again, his eyes narrowed into a slit, and he just muttered in his heart, "I'm afraid it's not an ordinary shrine family, ordinary shrines don't have these, it seems that Natsume has a lot of secrets!" Let me take a closer look. ’

Soon Natsume finished drawing the inscription on the blade, took the blade back into its scabbard after drying, and put it back on the knife holder and waited for tomorrow to come.

The next day, Natsume stood in front of Natori Monday, who was drawing the formation, looked at the young man Natori Monday and said, "I thought you wouldn't come." ”

Then he stretched out his hand and pointed to the stack of papers next to the formation and said, "Help me tear up the paper and cover the rune array drawn on the ground." ”

After hearing Natori's words, Natsume didn't move, but stood in place and said to him, "Mr. Natori, do you know the youkai you want to get rid of today?" ”

Natori was completely unresponsive on Monday, tearing the paper and saying, "Well, it seems to be a youkai with a rope around its neck and can't move freely, so it should be removed" Holding a large handful of torn pieces of paper in his hand, he threw it upwards as he spoke, as if the life of that youkai could be dropped as casually as shredded paper in his hand.

Listening to Natori Monday's words, Natsume's heart rose with sadness, "Sure enough, Natori Monday doesn't remember anymore, I have to stop her from coming here." Then he turned around and ran outside the door.

Suddenly, a few long strands of black hair shot out of the courtyard and dragged Natsume, who was already outside the door, back and tied them to a tree, and it was Shikigami who took the hand to Natori Monday, she leaned next to Natsume and grabbed Natsume with her hand and said in an unkind tone: "Where do you want to go?" I don't want you to get in our way, so just stay here for me! ”

Natsume struggled with the situation of being tied, and with a "bang" of demonic power in his body, he broke the hair around his body and regained his freedom, and then faced Shikijin who was about to attack him again, that is, with a blow of the old fist, the youkai immediately entered a state of vertigo.