Listening to Jia Baili's insincere perfunctory safety, Natsume couldn't help but cry and laugh, but after thinking about it, she still put away the toy sword she brought, although it was ironic, but this equipment still has a very powerful lethality in a sense.

After all, if a person is beeped in an instant, even if the willpower of a strong person is estimated to be very hurt.

After all, there are some hurts that can't be ignored.

Just when Natsume was about to talk to Kabairi about something, the black cat walking in front seemed to have reached some agreement with Kagura, and then Kagura walked triumphantly at the beginning of the road and kept playing with a few people in the Wanshiya, and the black cat slowly fell behind.

"Natsume, aren't you going to go ahead and play with them?" Looking at Natsume, who was still with that gentle expression at the end of the day, the black cat couldn't help but stand beside him and asked.

"No, let's go to the end and be cleaner, after all, I'm very nervous at this time. Anyway, I'm an ordinary high school student. After hearing the black cat's words, Natsume couldn't help but smile and shook his head.

Because he saw Jiabaili shaking his head towards him, he followed Jiabaili's instructions, and Natsume didn't tell the black cat that Jiabaili was around them at this time.

"Are you nervous too? I thought you were calm all along. After hearing Natsume's words, the black cat's expression couldn't help but become a little calmer.

"Why, although we are endowed with great power in this world, this is the first time I have done such a thing to fight with people." Looking at the black cat, whose expression was a little abnormal at this time, Natsume said with a chuckle.

"Black cat, but you're right, in fact, compared to you, I do seem a little calm." Looking at the black cat whose nervousness had been revealed on his face at this time, Natsume couldn't help but smile and shook his head.

"Why, it's clear that everyone is only a year apart, why does Natsume always seem so mature." This sentence is not all the doubts of the black cat.

What the black cat actually wants to ask is, Natsume's smile.

Natsume had been smiling since she first saw him, but sometimes the smile was genuine, and sometimes the smile was fake.

Although they are all the same gentleness, but I don't know why, occasionally she can feel that Natsume will unconsciously show a different smile when facing different people.

But even though he would show a false smile a lot of the time, Natsume was not the kind of person who wore a mask and constantly disguised himself, but seemed to carry a mask called gentleness himself, or rather, he wore that mask full of smiles for a long time.

One day, he didn't need to protect himself with a smile, and when one day he really became such a person, that mask had become a habitual thing.

So even though he is gentle at heart, the smile he shows to different people is different. Only before few people did Natsume's smile come completely from his own heart, and in front of many people, his smile seemed to be a habitual action.

After all, people don't smile all the time, but Natsume always puts a gentle smile on his lips.

I don't know why, the black cat is inexplicably a little distressed in his heart, this figure who has been taking care of his brother.

The black cat was the eldest daughter in the family, and only two younger sisters needed to be cared for by herself, and she had never felt this kind of brotherly care before, or at least felt it, but it was short, so short that in her life it seemed that it was only seen by herself.

So she enjoyed the care so much that she couldn't help but want to help him do something.

But I don't know why, she can feel that when she encounters something, Natsume always pursues to solve it alone, and never thinks of relying on others, which makes her feel warm in her heart but also becomes a little angry, but she is a little helpless.

After all, the black cat understands that it is indeed useless in many cases...

"Is it mature... I never imagined that I would one day be said that. Natsume's words interrupted the black cat's musings, and the voice was still so calm and gentle, but for some reason, the black cat had an urge to interrupt him.

"In my world, most people don't believe in, or don't perceive the existence of youkai, and I'm an anomaly." Looking at the black cat's expression at this time, Natsume couldn't help but smile and looked at the figures of several people in front of him and said to the black cat.

"The so-called outlier is different from ordinary people, when everyone can't see the monster, I can see it, and I can see it clearly from childhood to adulthood, so all the facts I say have become lies in the eyes of others, and everything I do is nonsense in their eyes." Natsume said with some nostalgia. Sometimes Natsume thinks about what her future would be like if she hadn't met them.

Maybe you'll become a demon slayer like Mr. Xiang's field?

"My parents died very early, so they have been tossing and turning in various relatives' homes, at first they were very nice to me, but because of my "lies" and "nonsense", they soon began to get tired of me, and at the same time, many people in the school were also estranged from me because of this, so I have always been alone, maybe this will give you a more mature feeling. Natsume said with a smile at the black cat.

Just as he was about to continue, the black cat interrupted him: "Why? ”

"Huh?" After hearing the black cat's words, Natsume couldn't help but look at the black cat with a somewhat strange expression at this time.

"Why why, why are you still smiling when you have suffered so many sad things, why are you still so gentle when you are treated like this?" The black cat's mood suddenly became a little excited.

Natsume slowly put down the black cat's hand that was holding her tightly with some confusion, and then said with a smile: "A smile and a gentle personality can sometimes become a way to protect yourself, and I have always thought of it this way before. ”

"And now?" Looking at Natsume's appearance at this time, the black cat couldn't help asking.

"I want to be a gentle person because I have been treated like that by gentle people, and I know what it feels like to be treated gently." Natsume said with a smile, his smile at this time was so beautiful in the eyes of the black cat, so warm, that feeling seemed to...

The black cat couldn't think of how she should describe Natsume's smile, but she knew that the brother-like person who made her feel distressed didn't seem to need to feel distressed.

That's good—

He met someone who could be gentle with him.