Natsume Yuujin Chou 21

Ashitaka x Taiyou/Transcendence Scans Use Only

Natsume Yuujinchou 21

Code
N- Natsume
M- Nyanko-sensei
S- Natori
K- Kai
T- Taki
U- Unknown
H- Hiiragi

01
Natsume Yuujinchou 21

02
N- That kid is…
N- Kai is an ayakashi…
N- No way
N- An ayakashi strong enough to
N- Pass as a human among humans…!?
S- Anyway, stay away from that child Natsume

03
N- Stay away from him…
N- What do you mean when you say you’re going to get rid of him?
S- Just what it implies
S- I don’t want to fight with you, do not get involved in this matter
N- Natori-san
S- Hush, I’ll discuss this with you later, there’s no time now
S- It’s coming
S- You must not speak to him about me
S- Understand Natsume? Act as though you are not aware that it is an ayakashi and let it pass
S- Don’t get close to it after this

04
S- Alright?
N- Natori-san…
S- ‘That is coming’

05
K- Oh good Natsume, you’re here
N- …Kai
K- Huh?
K- I thought I heard voices talking…
K- Was someone here?
N- …No
N- …Where are Taki and Nyanko-sensei…?
K- They’re over there
K- Let’s go Natsume

06
K- Come on…
M- Natsume
N- Waah!
T- Oh good you guys are here
N- Taki…
T- Kai you shouldn’t just run off like that
K- But…
K- I was worried about Natsume…
N- …Yeah, thanks

07
M- What!? Kai is an ayakashi!? I was fooled!!
h/w- Frustrated
N- You didn’t feel anything sensei?
M- Shut up! He must be a big one
M- I’ve gotten used to your puny smell and my nose has dulled
N- What was that kitty!? I won’t just let that puny smell remark pass!
M- That’s right, why don’t you try smelling like Matsusaka beef once in a while!?
h/w- Even though you were saying I smelled tasty before
N- …What should I tell Taki
N- I don’t have any proof that he’s an ayakashi…
N- …But why would an ayakashi…
N- …Maybe while watching humans
N- He started to want to mix in and play with them…
N- If that’s the case
N- Is that really something that needs to be eliminated…?
U- …re

08
U- …here
U- Come here
N- …Ah, Kai, wait up I’m coming
U- Come here
U- Open this up
U- Open this up
N- Waaah!!
N- …Oh, a dream
N- …But what an oddly vivid one
h/w- Good morning
h/w- Morning
N- …haa

09
N- Guess I should ask Kai directly…
N- Even so, I feel like I’ve seen the scenery from that dream somewhere before…
S- I’m planning on buying a car next
S- She’s cheap, but she’s a sturdy thing with good mileage
S- I want to let someone important to me ride inside
S- …How about we go and see the ocean sometime?
U- If it’s for the person important to you
U- Yokota Vehicles, new appearance
N- Ahahahaha Natori-san…
N- Ahahahaha he really is a celebrity isn’t he…
h/w- Ah – my stomach hurts
Kya
Pfft
Kya
S- Laughing at me, how cruel

10
S- Hey Natsume
S- I need to talk to you
S- How bout it? Wanna come see the ocean with me?
h/w right to left – eh…
Hey isn’t that…
OMG no way!!
h/w- Kyaaaa! <3
N- Hell no
S- Cold as always
N- I told you I don’t like standing out
H- You’re a selfish one aren’t you Natsume
N- Wah!

11
N- …Oh it’s you Hiiragi…
N- Hiiragi is an ayakashi under Natori’s command
N- Sometimes it seems that Natori uses ayakashi as tools and I’m kind of uneasy about it
H- Jumpy as usual, and lanky too
S- Come now Hiiragi, you’ll hurt Natsume’s feelings
N- …is it true that Kai is an ayakashi?
S- You know that better than anyone don’t you?
S- You helped him escape from the ayakashi trap I set for him
N- …I’m sorry about that…
N- But why do you have to get rid of him?
S- Why do you think that child went to that abandoned house?
N- …Eh
S- It seems that ayakashi are drawn out of the mid east to that thicket

12
S- In the past, some small demons that were causing trouble were sealed in a well there
S- Ever since the well has been hidden but there has been talk of these evil demons calling ayakashi there to open the lid
S- Well it has been all weaklings and until now none have been able to find the well
S- Until now, that is
S- But if it’s that one it might be able to find the well and open it
N- You’re saying you’ll get rid of him because of a possibility!?
N- …That method is
S- What do you mean, it’s disgusting isn’t it?
S- A non human mixing with humans

13
S- It will be too late if we wait for something to happen
S- You can only speak so easily because Kai is far away
S- That’s hypocrisy
S- If you knew that something of unknown identity
S- Was getting close to your beloved Fujiwaras, could you just let it be?
S- I won’t ask you to help me, that would be impossible for you
S- But don’t get in my way
N- …If Kai was bad then I know you couldn’t just leave him…
N- …But
N- If you’ve also seen him then you understand don’t you?
N- He is my friend, and I won’t sit quietly by while you eliminate him!

14
S- How about you hurry up and decide whether the things that are important to you are humans or ayakashi?
S- Even if you don’t get involved with ayakashi anymore, you’ve found humans who care for you have you not?
S- …You have a leaf in your…

15
S- If you’re his guardian
S- You shouldn’t let him keep sticking his neck out
M- Brat
h/w- sigh…
H- Shouldn’t you just refuse work around Natsume?
S- …Yeah

16
S- I should, but
N- On Natori-san’s skin, there is a gecko ayakashi
N- It moves all around his body
N- For Natori-san, ayakashi are a misfortune
T-…Ah… Natsume-kun?
N- Ah… Taki…
T- What’s wrong? Your face is more gloomy than usual

17
T- Kai said he’d never eaten them before so I tried making some cookies
T- He’s a bit of a strange kid isn’t he?
T- Will you come too Natsume-kun?
N- Taki, Kai is…
N- …Please stay away from Kai for a little while
N- …That’s right, until I know Kai’s motives
N- Getting close to him could be dangerous…
T- …why?

18
N- …Taki has been cursed by an ayakashi before
N- If she knew Kai was an ayakashi
N- Would she still be able to smile at him?
N- If Kai really is
N- An ayakashi without ill intentions…
N- I must find out for sure
N- Taki, have you heard of there being a well around that thicket where ayakashi supposedly gather?
T- …A well…

19
T- I get the feeling that something like that was written among my materials at home
N- Really Taki!?
N- Sorry but could I get you to do some urgent research?
T- Eh? Now? …
T- I understand, leave it to me
T- When you understand the situation, please explain it to me properly okay?
N- Thankyou
N- I will
T- If you meet Kai, please give these to him
N- Okay
N- Huh? I could have sworn that thicket was this way

20
M-If you don’t want it you find it, if you want it you can’t find it
M- That is ayakashi
N- Darn it… I feel like I’m being messed around with by something very vague so be quiet sensei
N- …I can see that abandoned house from here…
N- Just now, I saw a silhouette in the window…
N- Is someone there…?
N- Is it Natori-san…?
S- ‘Why do you think that child went to that abandoned house?’
N- …Is it Kai…?
N- Does this mean he’s searching for the well!?
N- Let’s go Sensei
M- Alright
N- Excuse me

21
N- Is anybody there?
N- …Kai
N- Isn’t here
M- Mu, looks like the floor’s gonna give way
N- More than it looking like it’ll give way, it already has in bits and pieces
N- There’s nothing here
N- What was that silhouette…?
M- Mu? I smell something good
M- This way is it?

22
M- Mu mu, what is this I can’t move…
N- What’s wrong Nyanko-sensei…
N- …What is this circle…

23
N- Natori-san’s paper doll…
N- Waaah
M- Na Natsume!?
N- Ugh…

24
N- A trap for ayakashi?
N- Crap
N- I can’t breathe
U- …Hyuu
N- My bones are gonna break…

25
N- Sensei
M- Get back Natsume, something might still be here
N- Okay

26
N- I’m gonna fall…
M- Natsume…

27
K- Are you okay Natsume?
N- …Kai…
M- …That power just now…
M- Was not that of a small child…
N- …Kai
N- Are you an ayakashi Kai?

28
K- That’s right
K- I was found out after all
K- …But Natsume, keep it a secret
K- I like living like this
K- Or Natsume
K- Do you hate ayakashi?

29
N- I like you Kai
N- Even so that was an ayakashi trap set by Natori-san…
M- A human getting caught in a trap for ayakashi, what a retard
N- …It’s because I smell like you
N- Why are you here Kai? Were you following me again?
K- Uh-uh
K- It seems like there’s a well around here with some ayakashi sealed inside
K- I was looking around hoping to let them out so they could become my friends
K- Then I saw you come in here…

30
K- I thought it would be a problem for you to get caught in that cursed exorcist’s trap
K- I’m sorry Natsume, I’m being targeted by an ayakashi exorcist
K- At first I thought it was you but I’m glad I was wrong
K- He’s sly and he put you in danger
K- Ah that cursed…
K- He really is in the way
K- I’ll find him and finish him off

31
N- Wait Kai…
S- ‘How about you hurry up and decide’
S- ‘Whether the things that are important to you’
S- ‘Are humans’
S- ‘Or ayakashi?’
N- …Kai