She was already so weak that if she had played the piano, the shallot's life might have ended. Natsume couldn't help but feel a little sad, this sadness was not the physical discomfort before, but the sadness from the bottom of my heart, sad to feel the death of a monster, dissipated in time.

"It's okay, I'm really sorry, it's all because of me" The shallot's increasingly weak voice reached Natsume's ears.

Well, I haven't confirmed it yet. Natsume spoke to shallots in his heart.

"What?"

"Do you want to play the piano too?" Natsume asks for shallot's opinion.

"If, if there's a chance, I—" shallot's tone was visibly excited.

"My hands are not lucky, and my fingers are stiff, so I may not be able to play well, but is that okay?" Natsume didn't want Ashalion to play the piano.

Shallot smiled and nodded, Natsume understood Ashalion's choice, and decided that he still wanted to help Shallot fulfill this last wish, Natsume relaxed his body and let Shallot pay, and said to her in his heart at that moment: "Shallot, do you know? Serpent's eyes he has been, always been, like you. ”

The snake eye on the branch of the moon held a newly made piano and said excitedly to Natsume: "It's done, Natsume, get up for me" Natsume raised his head, "Great, it's still too late, let's go." ”

The snake eye pulled Natsume and ran wildly, and the shallow onion in Natsume's body suddenly woke up, "Copper, what's wrong, what's wrong." ”

"Shallot, now that the road to Isotsuki is still open, let's hurry up, and then let Mibu-sama..."

The youkai that appeared around Natsume during the day, at this time, suddenly found and pounced on Natsume, "Found it, we said okay, I'll come and get your intestines." ”

"That youkai at that time" youkai attacked towards Natsume, and Mr. Snakeme, who had been running in front, suddenly switched positions with Natsume to block in front of Natsume, and drew his sword to attack the tentacles stretched out by the youkai, and blood splashed 'copper' in front of Natsume.

After being cut off by the copper tentacles condensed with demonic power, the monster was forced to retreat strategically, and after sliding backwards for a distance, he stretched out his tongue and attacked the copper again quickly, and the copper quickly dodged the attack but then shouted loudly: "Oh no", and the piano behind him was knocked down.

Natsume, who reacted, also saw Koto's koto flying in the air... Light shallots.. The purpose of the snake... The very important piano involuntarily jumped out and pounced on the piano, but the place where the piano fell was a cliff.

The snake eyes in the battle watched as Koto and Natsume fell off the cliff together, "Natsume!! Natsume, who was falling, scooped up the piano that was wrapped in a cloth, and used one hand to protect the piano under his body to prevent the falling gravel from damaging him, and the other hand quickly reached out and grabbed the vine on the side, "Hmph" Natsume snorted, the sweat on his forehead came out, and his face became white in an instant, and the speed of the fall plus his weight were applied to his arm, and he was dislocated in an instant.

Natsume endured the severe pain and grabbed the vine and didn't dare to send it away, "Natsume, Natsume" The snake on the top of the cliff solved the monster as quickly as possible, lying on the top of the cliff and shouting at Natsume: "Natsume, how are you, are you okay?" ”

Natsume Ninja spoke in severe pain, "If you don't take me up, I won't be able to hold on." ”

After a while, the snake rescued Natsume, Natsume fell to the ground, Natsume held his other soft arm with one hand, and made a "silky" inhalation sound. Snake mere knelt beside Natsume's injured hand, and was dislocated Natsume's arm for him, "I drove that guy away." ”

Natsume looked at the piano on the side and asked, "How is the koto?" ”

"It's okay, thanks to your protection." As he spoke, he connected Natsume's arm with force, "Ah! Natsume couldn't help but sting.

"That's it! That's great, but I'm afraid I won't be able to play the piano for you, my arm is now out of force and I can't move at all. Natsume said as he moved his attached arm.

"Let's not talk about that, the most important thing for us now is to rush to the Isoyue Forest, if we hurry up, we can still catch up." Snake said eagerly.

Natsume looked at the bloody wound of the snake eye and said worriedly, "But the snake eye, your injury doesn't matter?" ”

Sergeme didn't answer, "Let's go, Natsume." Natsume closed his eyes, and seeing that Natsume didn't move, he said eagerly, "Let's go!" ”

However, when Natsume opened his eyes again, the resolute figure reflected in the eyes of the snake was shallot, "If it can be realized, even once, I want to play the piano again." I've always, all along, just for him, and now I can't go back to the Isoyue Forest, so if I can play the piano again, I want to play for my gentle good friend, for you, copper, can you listen to me play? Asa Shallot forcibly broke away from Natsume's body, took the piano and looked at the snake with a smile, and began to pluck the strings with his left hand, which was fine.

Natsume, who came to his senses, stretched out his hand to stop the action of the shallot, "The shallots are not good, you are still too weak now, in this kind of place that does not belong to the demon world, the demon power is not abundant, as long as you move the strings, it will be broken and dissipated in the air." ”

Snake eyes hugged the shallots and took the piano away from shallots, "No, shallots, this is not good, let's go back to Isoyue, go back, you can play the piano for me again, okay, let's go to Lord Mizuku, there are so many capable people in the Isoyue Forest, you can always find someone who can heal you." ”

Shallot looked at the moon in mid-air, which was already westerly, and reached out to stroke the tears that slipped down his cheeks, "Don't cry, snakes, you can't go back, the sun is about to rise, the passage back to the moon has been closed, and my body can't hold out for the next full moon." ”

Hearing their words, Natsume suddenly spoke, "Maybe I can find a way." ”

Natsume, who thought of a way, returned home with a snake holding a shallow onion, and from his room on the second floor, he turned over the suitcase he brought from Takamagahara, countless scrolls flew in the air, spilling the entire room, and one of the scrolls smashed straight towards the sleeping cat teacher like eyes, "Oops" The cat teacher woke up from his sleep and opened his eyes, but he saw a room full of scrolls, "Where did this come from." ”

"Hah, I found it," Natsume changed into a black kimono embroidered with dark rice ears, draped in Haori, held the scroll with intricate seals in one hand, picked up the cat teacher in the other, and jumped out of the window, meeting the snake who was anxiously waiting.

"How about Natsume, did you find it?" Snake eyes asked anxiously as he hugged the shallow onion whose body was becoming more and more transparent.