After feeling the impact, he looked up and found that the person he bumped into was Natsume, who he had been thinking about for a long time, and shouted happily, "Natsume." "I completely forgot that there was Sassada behind me with a broom.

Saseda looked at the little fox who threw himself into Natsume's arms and said in surprise, "Natsume-san! ”

Natsume held the little fox in both hands and said to Sasada, "It ran in." ”

"Well, yes." Saseda put down the broom on guard and said involuntarily with relief.

"That's right," Natsume looked at the little fox who was obediently being held by him, and turned around to leave, "Then I'll put it back in the mountains." ”

Saseda replied casually, "Well, thank you. Then he suddenly reacted that Natsume was going to slip away again, "Wait, I'll go too." With that, Saseda was about to run after him.

At this time, Tanuma's voice came out, pointing to the boiling oden that was about to overflow, and said to Sasada, "It's cooked." ”

Sasada's attention was immediately attracted by the soup that was about to overflow in the big hot pot, "Ah! Oops! It's strange, I'm obviously tuned to a simmer. Taking advantage of Sasada's hurry, Tanuma winked at Natsume, Natsume hurriedly hugged the little fox and slipped away, and after Natsume left, when the others didn't notice, he put it in the lost and found box, and the little fox's lost golden ruler bag disappeared for no reason.

On the hillside away from the warm stalls, Natsume and Little Fox officially met again, "Thank you." The little fox looked at Natsume, who had saved himself again.

Natsume was full of worry about this reckless little fox, "It's dangerous for you to run into the crowd like this." ”

The little fox looked down at his finger embarrassedly, "I'm sorry, but, because..."

"I've brought the bag," Hiiragi's voice suddenly sounded.

Hiiragi's figure suddenly flashed between Natsume and the little fox, Natsume looked at this Shikigami and said, "You..."

Hiiragi walked towards the little fox and half-squatted down to return the little fox's lost ruler bag to the little fox, and the little fox was surprised to take the lost and recovered ruler bag, and said to Hiiragi with a bright expression: "Thank you." ”

Looking at this familiar Shikigami who he saved with his own hands, "Hiiragi, are you here to say, Mr. Natori is also here?" ”

"Yes, he made an appointment with someone else, it seems that there is something that needs to be met by the Demon Slayer Alliance recently." Hiiragi said to Natsume.

"Did he ask you to do this?" Natsume couldn't help but ask, he couldn't understand what Natori was thinking, and he didn't understand whether he hated youkai or not, since he hated youkai according to his own words, then why would he let Hiiragi help the little fox?

"You're so careless, you'll be suspicious of talking to me in a crowded place." Hiiragi didn't answer Natsume's question, but instead cared about Natsume.

"It's okay," Natsume said softly, then smiled again, "Because I can see you." ”

Hiiragi was silent for a long time and commented, "What a bad person." After saying that, he didn't do anything and didn't say goodbye, and disappeared directly into the night.

After Hiiragi left, the little fox opened his lost ruler bag, took out something inside and ate it in one bite, the little fox's body changed in front of Natsume, and soon after Natsume came out of the forest, he was holding a little girl who was no different from a human in his hand, and he could vaguely see the ears hidden in the bushes.

Tanuma suddenly appeared, looking at the little girl who was suddenly pulled out of the forest in Natsume's hand, "You are... Could it be the little fox just now? ”

Seeing the stranger he didn't know appearing in front of him, the little fox retreated step by step, hiding behind Natsume's legs and holding Natsume without daring to show his face, Natsume saw the little fox's reaction and bent down to the little fox hiding behind him and said gently: "He's a good person." ”

Hearing this, the little fox turned his head to look at this small and brilliant human again, so Natsume and Tanuma took the little fox to buy takoyaki in the stall like ordinary humans, and Natsume nibbled on fragrant roasted corn, looked at the strange masks, and played with goldfish, and for the first time the little fox was playing in such a lively way like a normal human being.

However, the cat teacher who was forgotten by everyone was not so happy, and the cat teacher, who was exhausted and scarred, walked out of the narrow passage between the two stalls in a haggard body, "Finally free again, but Natsume, that guy didn't come to save me, really." Then the cat teacher suddenly raised his head and shook his nose, his eyes began to shine, looking at the grilled squid on the stall in front of him, and the cat teacher instantly became energetic, and suddenly jumped to the stall selling grilled squid.

At this time, a demonic voice sounded in the ears of the cat teacher: "You're back!!" Little fat cat. When the cat teacher heard the voice, his body became stiff instantly, and he looked up at this person, and he was definitely Sasada, who was smiling very scarily.

was Sasada's last sentence full of horror "little fat cat" regret that the cat teacher's hair couldn't help but explode, and let out a terrible scream "Ah~~~"

And Tanuma walked towards the mountain with Natsume, who was tired of playing and asleep, and it was almost time to set off fireworks, and when he arrived at his destination, Tanuma said to Natsume: "It's really a little cold around here." ”

Natsume glanced around and said, "It's okay, but it's quiet." ”

At this time, Tanuma suddenly lowered his head and asked Natsume, "Inside, Natsume, you can see the pond in the courtyard, but I can only see the water on the ceiling." Then he looked back at Natsume and said worriedly, "Does Aunt Tazi know that you can see these things?" ”

"I don't know." Natsume looked at a place and replied in a low voice.

"Don't you believe them?" Tanuma asked again.

Natsume's mood swings this time are more "No, they're very gentle, so I guess as long as I say it, they should believe it." But because they are gentle, I don't want them to worry about me, and I don't want to involve them in a world that is very far away for them, after all, this world is too far away for humans, and this world is not so safe. Although it's just wishful thinking on my part. But I don't want them to be worried and hurt, I want them to be happy and smile all the time. ”

At this time, the fireworks began to set off, and the fireworks began to rise into the sky, brilliant and beautiful, "Ah, it began" Tanuma turned his attention to the sky, and the fireworks rose into the sky one by one, and people were immersed in this fleeting beauty, "Oh, it's more decent than I imagined, it's so remote here, I thought it would be shabby." ”