The moment he turned into a cat, the cat teacher heard a surprised exclamation from the opposite Hongfeng, the cat teacher raised his head suspiciously, but saw that the opposite Hongfeng was twitching the corners of his mouth, his left eye widened and looked at the cat teacher with a strange expression, and then there was a scream from Hongfeng in the woods, "Ah! Madara-sama shrunk. ”

When the three of them walked on the way to the monster banquet, Hongfeng's emotions had not calmed down, and he said in a desolate tone: "It's really sad! ”

Teacher Cat ignored Hongfeng, who sighed on the side, and asked Natsume to himself, "Is the wine here?" ”

"We're not going to drink!" Natsume said helplessly to the cat teacher.

Hongfeng, who finally accepted the reality, returned to his previous capable state, and arranged to Natsume and the cat teacher, "In short, Young Master Natsume has to wear makeup or a mask, and Madara-sama can't appear as a beast." ”

"Why?" Natsume asked puzzled.

"No way, Reiko Natsume is very famous, and everyone is spreading it! It is said that it is a young man who looks like Reiko with a beast and inherits a friend's account. Hongfeng explained to Natsume as he walked.

Hearing this word, Natsume's expression couldn't help but be a little gloomy, and in a place that everyone didn't see, there was a black cat that seemed to be integrated with the surrounding environment with Natsume's lost friend tent in its mouth, and quietly listened to the words of the three of them.

Thinking back to his friend's account, Natsume couldn't help but fall into his memories of his friend's account, when he was still young, and he was fostered in various relatives' homes.

"Hey, how long are you going to take that kid in?"

"There's no way, the eldest brother's family doesn't want to..."Natsume, who stood at the door after returning from school and accidentally heard the discussion of relatives.

Suddenly, the relatives opened the door and saw Natsume standing at the door, "You're back, Natsume-kun..."

Then he hurriedly changed the subject, "You came back just in time, we found Reiko's relics." ”

At that time, Natsume didn't know who Reiko was, "Reiko?" ”

The man explained, "She's your grandmother." ”

After speaking, he opened the relics of the so-called Grandma Reiko, and looked at the words that he didn't understand at all, and was surprised: "What is this?" Doodle book? said that she didn't expect to blame this one. Then he handed the green notebook he was holding in his hand to Natsume, "It's okay if you can throw it, Kishi-kun, it's useless to hold it anyway." This was the first time Natsume and his friend tent met.

"Friend's account, that's Reiko, a grandmother who was born with strong spiritual power, and let the monster who was subjugated by her write his name into the master-servant contract, at that time, I was not familiar with either the friend's account or Reiko."

Gently, standing next to Hongfeng, who knelt behind Natsume and tied a cloth mask for Natsume, transformed into Reiko, with the same painted cat face cloth mask, the cat teacher seemed to see Natsume's absent-mindedness, "What's wrong with you, Natsume." ”

Pulled Natsume back to reality from his distraction, "No, it's nothing. ”

Hongfeng looked at the cat's teacher's dress and asked his own question: "Madara-sama, do you use this look?" ”

Teacher Cat put his hands on his waist and asked, "Is there anything wrong?" ”

"No," Hongfeng lowered his head and stood up, "Then, let's go!" ”

At the meeting of the monsters, the monsters with various personalities gather together, and the fox flames floating around the trees illuminate the depths of the woods, whether it is a big monster or a small monster, an intermediate monster or a low-level monster is holding a large bowl and drinking sake, eating the mountain specialties in the woods, and even shaking the dice to gamble.

At this time, a monster with reddish-brown skin and a horse's mouth held a wine gourd, looked obviously drunk, and crooked his tongue and said to the belated Hongfeng: "Ah! Hongfeng, you're so slow! What did you do? ”

Hongfeng didn't answer the monster's question head-on, but replied wittily: "It's really incomprehensible, of course it's makeup." ”

At this time, Natsume and the cat teacher behind Hongfeng, who were found by the youkai sitting next to him drinking together, spoke: "Oops, raw face! ”

Hongfeng turned sideways and let go of the cat, revealing Mr. Cat and Natsume, "Ah, I brought it." ”

Natsume stepped forward and said with a smile, "Everyone seems to be having a good time!" Can we also participate? ”

The youkai said without suspicion of hospitality, "Yes! Come, drink, drink! ”

Natsume walked to the group of monsters and sat down calmly, at this time, the monsters on the side shook their noses and suddenly said something that made Natsume's cat teacher and Hongfeng instantly nervous: "You have a human touch." ”

At this time, another low-level monster that was not out of the animal form at all, like a weasel, lay on Natsume's body and sniffed carefully, and Natsume had to secretly release a trace of his own heavenly fox's breath.

However, the words of the low-level youkai made Natsume feel at ease, "Really, it reminds me of my master." ”

So the thinking of the surrounding monsters was finally deviated, and there was no human thing in Natsume, "Ah~ The master is indeed always human." ”

On the contrary, it was these words that aroused Natsume's curiosity: "Master? ”

The youkai on the side took over the conversation and explained to Natsume: "He always speaks good things about humans, he is the leader of this forest, he fell into the trap of fox hunting when he turned into a human and entered the village, and after being rescued by the hunters, he often went to see him, and happily said that he had made friends with humans!" ”

In addition, the monster and monster then added: "Although he is an old man with strong ability, his brain is not very good!" I actually became friends with humans. ”

On the side, a youkai dressed like a monk but with an extra eye on his forehead closed his eyes and nodded in agreement: "Yes! I also tried to compete with that Natsume Reiko. ”

"Huh?" Natsume suddenly realized that he seemed to have received some important information from the mouths of these youkai.

But before Natsume could think about it, the enthusiastic youkai came to Natsume with wine and said, "Drink!" Drink it! ”

"Ah, thank you!" Natsume hurriedly picked up the wine glass and touched it with the youkai, then looked at the youkai who was pouring wine on the opposite side and asked, "Excuse me, did anyone see a self-black cat around here?" ”

Before anyone could answer, a loud voice came from the audience that drew everyone's attention: "Everyone, let's talk about what happened last time!" "A huge, red-faced, round-eyed, fleshy-faced, but white youkai with lush eyebrows and beard stood out in the crowd." We've heard where the hateful humans have sealed their masters, and now it's time for revenge! The master is to give the demon power to our great benefactor so that our inferior demons can survive in this forest."