Natsume Yuujin Chou 11

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N- Natsume
M- Nyanko-sensei
T- Touko-san
Ni- Nishimura
Ki- Kishimoto
S- Shuuichi
D- Doll
K- Random Kid
G- Random Girl
B- Random Boy

01
-Natsume Yuujinchou
-Chapter Eleven

02
N-Ever since I was small I have sometimes seen strange things
N- As it seems other people cannot see them they are most likely
N- What you would call ayakashi

03
G- Natsume-kun, you dropped this
N- Thankyou very much
G- B…bye
Ki- Did you see that? That girl’s face was bright red
Ki- Criminals, you pretty types are
N-…Pretty type? No one ever said that at my old school
Ni/Ki- Liar!!!
h/w- rage
N- What
N- Seriously?
Ni- Shit, I’m defiantly getting a girlfriend before you
H/w- Just wash your nostrils and wait (T/N: Sorry, if this is an idiom I don’t know it)
Ki- Just what school did you go too?
N- It’s not that…
N- I didn’t really talk to anyone at my old school…
Ki- Hm~?
Ki- Ah, if I remember correctly no one really approached you right after you moved here

04
Ki- Lately your eyes have become a bit kinder, Natsume
H/w- See ya
N- It probably looks like that because I’ve been with kind people
N- The ones who took me in because I had no relatives and was passed around
N- Were the kind hearted Fujiwara couple
N- I… wonder if I can become an existence who can do something for others
N- I feel like I’ve done nothing but take since I came
N- It seems my now deceased grandmother Reiko could also see ayakashi
N- She, who was seen as creepy by others and was always alone, began to get angry with ayakashi
N- Using her strong spiritual powers she forced the ayakashi she beat into submission to write their names on paper so they would become her underlings and collected these paper contracts into a book called ‘The Book of Friends’
N- Ever since I inherited it, my days of being targeted by ayakashi…
M- Your back is wide open Natsume
h/w- sigh

05
M- Geez, do you understand your position?
N- Wah, Pig-cat!
N- I thought but it’s just Nyanko-sensei
N- Being able to see ayakashi isn’t useful to anyone
M- What are you sulking about
M- to be your bodyguard it doesnt matter how many lives i have it still wont be enough. I'll need to recieve something of appropirate value
N- Nyanko-sensei is my self appointed guardian
N- When he takes on his yorishiro form other people can see him (T/N: Yorishiro is an object that can act as a container for a spirit or god)
N- So he is living with me as a pet cat
P- Flutter
N- A butterfly?
N- What’s with this butterfly it’s flying me strangely
h/w- Fwip

06
N-…A paper doll…?
D- Hello
N-…What is this…
N- Hot!
M- Someone cast a jutsu on that paper doll to make it fly
N- Jutsu!?
S- Hello

07
S- Hey
S- Long time no see Natsume
N-…Na
N- Natori-san
S- You have strong spiritual power as always, I thought I’d look for you so I sent a paper doll flying to you but
S- It was just meant to wave but it got fried because of your spiritual power
N- Huh
N- The one who sent this thing flying was you was it
N- Even without looking for me a school student would be at school on a weekday
N- And don’t you know where my house is too?
S- Ahaha that’s right
N- Natori-san who I recently met can also see ayakashi
N- What’s more he runs some shady exorcism business on the side

08
N-…Do you need something?
S- Yes, why did I come to this place
N- And on the surface he
S- May I intrude upon your household?
N- It seems he’s Natori Shuuichi, an up and coming actor
N- To tell you the truth I’m not very good with him
N- Alright?
N- The fact I can see ayakashi is a secret
S- Rodger
N- Does he really understand…?
N- I’m ho…

09
N-What!?
S-…Blood?
N- Touko-san!?
N- Did something happen!?
T- Ah
T- Welcome home Takashi-kun
N- To, Touko-san…
T- What’s wrong? Your face is pale…
T- Oh a guest?
N- …She can’t see this blood…?
S-…I’m Takashi-kun’s friend Natori
T- Oh do come in
T- I’ll bring you some tea
S- Please don’t trouble yourself
S- Sorry for intruding
M- This is
M- The blood of an ayakashi
M- It’s going towards your room
N- What is it

10
S- It’s best you don’t let your guard down
S- Just having a nameplate on your gatepost puts up a number of barriers against those who are not members of the household
S- Being able to enter means it’s either a small harmless one, a quick that took advantage of an opening, or a powerful one
S- Why is that kitty here
h/w- Letting something like that in…
N- Please, say more
M- Idiot, I’m haunting him
M- Protecting the household is an amateur’s job
S- Now listen up Tama-chan (T/N- common cat name in Japan) Maneki Neko
S- Don’t just mean you beckon good luck, they’ve carved a name for themselves as noble creatures by combining this with protecting the household
M- Don’t be fooled by my pretty exterior, didn’t I say I’m not really a kitty!!
N- Woah, it really does lead to my room

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N- …In the closet…
S- There’s am old story about opening a sliding door and finding a giant face that takes up the whole frame
N-… Please stop that
N- …I’m opening it
h/w- ha
N- Wah!?
N- It ran…
S- … He…
N- What the heck was that?
N- Looks like he was trying to eat something here but…

13
N-Uh
S- One of it’s wings got eaten. …Nameplate barriers don’t work on crows
S- It looked like it would be eaten so it tried to escape by running in here but it seems his opponent was a pretty big guy too
N-…Why into my room
S- You might be pretty famous amongst ayakashi
S- He may have come here seeking to be saved by you who sides with youkai

14
S- …You’re amazing
S- The reason I came to this town was actually because I was looking for that monster just now. So I could exterminate it
S- When I sent my shiki to look for it, it said it was around here so I came to see if you knew anything
S- The ayakashi would be drawn to the ever interesting you
S- That’s right, on this occasion won’t you work with me on this extermination Natsume?
S- That monster has been eating the ayakashi around here, and lately it seems to have started attacking livestock
S- Can you leave it be? You have power
S- There are people who need your help, they need you
S- I won’t say do it for free
S- There has been prize money offered for the extermination of that monster

15
N- P... Prize money!!?
N-Wh, what do you mean!?
N- How much!? How much is it!?
S- Haha, are you interested? Alright, lets go to the meeting together
N- Meeting?
S- Right
S- The Jujutsushi’s meeting (T/N: Jujutsushi is a person who uses jujutsu, basically like a mage or a spellcaster)
S- If you want to know come here tomorrow evening
P- Master, it is time
P- The Ichihara assembly members are waiting
S- Alright then, I’m going back. I don’t say this unreasonably but
S- In this land where there are many ayakashi, it wouldn’t be unusual for users of spiritual power to gather here from time to time
S- People who can only sense them and people who can actually see them
N- Wh
N- What!!?
N- That kind of thing is possible!?

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N- Being able to see them I can’t help but have doubts
N- People who can’t see them looking at me with curious eyes might be a given
M- That’s the way that people are
M- That’s why Reiko hated them – humans and ayakashi both
N- Reiko-san, who was always alone…
N- A meeting huh…
N- If I go there might be people there like me
N- Perhaps
N- If I am among those people
N- I might be able to find something I can do
N- I’m sure it was meant to be around here
M- Is it this way, the drinking party
N- It’s a meeting
H/w- You’re in a good mood sensei
h/w- Because it seems that worldly priests are quite the delicacy
?- Welcome and come on in guest

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?- The entrance is this way
M- I see, making an ayakashi guide the way ensures people who can’t see don’t show up
M- This place has changed too, although in the past large ayakashi ruled they were mostly hunted down by humans
N- Hunted down…
G- Oh, boy what business do you have in this forest?
G- Could it be you are heading to the meeting? So are we
G- Come now this way, let’s go together
N- Um, ah…
S- Don’t touch him

18
S- If you touch that boy that kitty will eat you
S- Ginji Aikawa
N- Natori-san
h/w- gyah
G- Oh it’s the young master Natori! I wasn’t thinking of eating him or anything
S- The fact you two are here means Motoba-san came doesn’t it
G- Yes, he wants to see the new shiki you caught
G- Well now we’ll take our leave
S- Dear dear as I thought bringing you along was a bad idea
N- What was that just now… ‘a new shiki’?
S- He means Hiiragi
S- The one you saved before

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N- Hi there
N- Hiiragi is
N- An ayakashi Natori-san tried to exterminate but I interrupted him
N- At the moment she’s employed by him
N- Even though I actually wanted her to be free
N- My power is always one step short
N- No greeting huh, do you hate me?
H-…Are you going to the meeting too?
N- Yes
H- …Strip
N- Hm?
H- Hurry up and strip
N- Ahh!
Sfx- smack
N- Hah, sorry Hiiragi it was a reflex
H- …Then put out your arm
N- …What

20
H- It’s a charm symbol, it’s really supposed to go above your heart
H- Now if you’re eaten… well your left arm will remain
N- …Oh
N- I see, I’m sorry
N- Thankyou
M- Just like Houichi the Earless had his ears eaten, you’ll have everything but your arm eaten (T/N: Houichi the Earless is a famous legend in Japan)
N- I won’t be eaten, because you are here right

21
N-…So many
N- Everyone here is really…?
S- Haha, that’s because you’re seeing mostly ayakashi
N- Oh
N- I can’t tell the difference…
h/w- Right, the monk from the eight fields is really something, I noticed
h/w- The long necked guy in front of Shichizuka was…
h/w- I wonder if he’ll turn up
?-…Oi
?- …What’s with that kid, I haven’t seen him before
?- …Oh?
?- Isn’t that Reiko? Natsume Reiko
N- Who was that just now?
N- An ayakashi’s voice?
N- Or was it a human…?
S- Natsume-kun
S- Do you want to wear this? Everyone here wants imformation and is collecting it but
S- There are people who don’t want their backgrounds known too
S- You’re free to use a false name too
N- …How about you Natori-san? You’re not hiding your background
N- It’s not something I could hide even if I tried, these sparkles
M- Couldn’t it be you’re being thought of as someone who looks like an actor?

22
S- Actually the Natori family made a living as exorcists in the past so it’s quite famous
S- At some point one of the family heads disliked it and gave up the practice but there’s various materials left over
S- At the moment I’m making use of them…
S- So
S- You came
N- I want to
N- Find something I can do myself
S- …I see
N- An ayakashi lives
N- On Natori-san’s skin

23
N- A lizard mark that people can’t see
N- Moves all around his body
M- A creepy mark as usual, aren’t you afraid?
N- Sensei!
S- Haha
S- He does no harm and just moves around so I’ve gotten used to it
S- He never goes to my left leg
S- That’s creepy
N- …Left leg?
N- Why would that be…?

24
S- That’s
G- Natori
G- People were saying you got a new shiki so I came to see
G- The usefulness of my shiki has also disappeared
G- I must go and catch a strong one somewhere
S- Nanase-san
G- Earlier my shiki were rude to me, but you can always discard the small ones
N- What is this woman
S- You’re the same always. …Is Matoba-san here also?
G- Haha, the president looked all around the meeting place
G- He said he saw something interesting and has already gone home

25
S- Something… interesting?
N- …Natori-san?
S- Ah… Matoba-san is a very famous exorcist
S- Nanase-san is his secretary
S- Nanase-san
S- This is my friend Natsume-kun
S- And that’s one of mine, Hiiragi
G- …Natsume…?
G-…Could you, possibly…
G- Do you know Natsume Reiko?
N- …eh

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N- …Do you know my grandmother…?
G- …Grandmother? Then you’re her grandson…?
N-…No, I’m afraid I didn’t know her well
G- I just sometimes heard the talk that had built up among the ayakashi
G- That she was beautiful and had great strength…
N- …I see…
G- Is she still in good health?
N- …No… She passed when she was still young
G- Passed…
G- From illness? An accident? Or

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G- Did an ayakashi…?
N- …eh
N- No…
N- That’s not…
G- How did she die?
G- You’re her relative aren’t you, don’t you know?
N- …I don’t know the details
N- When I was little, I only heard she passed away under a tree somewhere…
G- …Don’t you want to know?
N- …I’m not in a position
N- Where I can ask that
N-…Never…
N- Have I had anyone

28
N- There was never a human who has asked about my grandmother like this
G- …I see
G- I’m sorry
G- But she’s not fighting alone anymore
N- Is it really…?
N- Is it really okay
N- For me to trust people…?
G- Well then, take things slow
G- I heard Natori, you’re aiming for the prize money?
S- Yes well the money’s part of it
G- Haha

29
G- It seems a lot of shiki were eaten by that thing so that’s probably why there’s prize money
G- I don’t think you’re at the level where you could exterminate it
S- Yes well exterminating it might be impossible but I can at least seal it
G- …I see. It may be possible with your power
G- I’ll give you this magic seal pot
G- Don’t put on airs of being desperate, Natori
S- Thanks
S- …The Matoba clan are rather disagreeable aren’t they…
S- Is this alright
G- Ah, yes… they were just astonished by everything
S- …Your grandmother was also
S- A person who could see ayakashi?
N- Yes…
h/w- ha

30
N- Huh!?
N- Now I think of it I haven’t talked with Natori-san about my grandmother or the Book of Friends
N- Perhaps I really should tell him? About the Book of Friends
N- …No, it’s only ayakashi who are making a fuss of it
N- Perhaps if humans knew about the Book of Friends
N- I might be targeted by them too
S- …Natsume? What’s wrong?
S- …You kind of look like you just came under a lot of pressure…

31
N- For the meantime
N- She can stay here until her injuries are healed but she won’t be able to fly anymore with only one wing Sensei
S- That’s true. Perhaps there’s the name of a healer ayakashi in the Book of Friends but
S- You won’t be able to call if without knowing their face
N- …I see… I suppose you’re right
N- After all the Book of Friends is Reiko’s
N- I can’t do anything
N- I think the big ones eating the small ones is inevitable but
N- Is it okay for me to leave someone who came seeking my help?
N- Shouldn’t I at least research the current whereabouts of that monster…?
N- Natori-san
S- Hm?

32
N- That paper doll you sent flying to find me that time
N- Could you make it find the monster?
S- No, I don’t know it’s name so that’s most likely impossible
S- …Ah, wait?
S-This place is overflowing with energy, perhaps if I had your power
S- I could send one flying
N- Please do!
Sign- Waiting Room
S- Put your hand above that formation
S- Draw a picture in your head of the creature after closing your eyes
S- While ordering it to search

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N- Go
P- Pew
N- Ah the glass!!
S- Sorry I forgot to open the window
N- Eh
S- But for your first time to be successful
S- Truthfully sending it off is good but that speed was
S-…Hm?
N- ! It came back!?
N- Did it fail
S- …No…

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M- People with strong spiritual power are a delicacy so it might have come to eat them
N- Inside this building…
N- Hiiragi
H- I’m going ahead
N- How is it
N- Where did it go
N- I have to protect…
K- Liar
K- Liar
N-I’ll protect them
N- The people here who know the same pain that I do
N- If it’s that
N- I should surely be able to do it
M- Shit, there’s too many ayakashi presences here

35
?- Oh, Natori what’s up
?- Is that kid a new shiki?
S- …Natsume?
N- Be quiet
N- The paper doll is on the ceiling…
h/w- Ha

36
N- Blood!?
B- Fou
B- Fuu
?- Uwah, what’s that
S- It appeared

37
N- That is…
N- Hiiragi’s long sword…
?- Uwah
N- I’ll protect them
N- Stop!
B- Wha…
N- Y…
N- You!!

38
B- Gyah
B- Gyah
?- I… it ran away
?- Oi are you okay?
M- Sensei!!
M- …Tsk
M- I’m following it, idiot

39
?- What’s that!?
?- A huge shiki like that…
?- Natori, who in the world is that child…
?- To drive a way that huge monster with a single fist…!!
?- ! Natori, boy
?- Don’t follow, you’ll be eaten!!
S- Is your arm okay?
N- Yes
N- Thanks to Hiiragi’s symbol… I wonder if she’s okay
S- She’s not as reckless as you

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S- Alright the formation is done
S- The tools are improvised too but…
S- I’ll teach you how now so relax
N- Okay…
N- It’s coming!
N- Sensei is driving it this way
N- Come forth, I command you

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N- Capture
N- Protectors of darkness
B- Gyah

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S- The
S- The lid!
N- Ye
N- Yes!
Sfx- gyuu
S- I… it’s over
S- I can’t believed we succeeded…
M- You fools what would you have done if I got sucked in too

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N- And with that our plan to capture the monster ended
S- …I’m sorry Natsume
S- I thought you’d understand you weren’t alone if you came here so I brought you
S- It might be better if the faces and names of people with power like yours remain unknown
N- Natori-san…
S- …Natsume, I don’t know what you’re hassled by but
S- Human’s aren’t strong by being reckless
S- Know about yourself first
N- …Myself…
N- …Okay

45
N- The pot flew away…!?
G- Oh good work
G- Sorry but I’ll be taking this
S- Nanase-san!?
G- I said it didn’t I, I want a strong shiki
G- This ayakashi has caught my eye
G- I thought I’d use that useless crow as bait to catch it but it escaped
G- I thought I’d have to give up
N- !? Crow…? Could she mean that…

46
N- Do you mean you used an ayakashi… a bird who was your shiki as bait!?
N- How could you… give back that pot!!
G- What will you do if I return it? If you take it back to the meeting it will be exterminated
G- It’s inevitable that a monster who tries to harm humans will be exterminated
G- I’ll try and use it for human’s sakes
G- Natori, Motoba will pay the sum of the prize money, come to the mansion later
G- Farewell then
N- Once

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N- I thought if I met a person who can see ayakashi
N- It would be a wonderful thing
N- But, perhaps… now
N- People who can see ayakashi are really opponents who I cannot allow to find out about the Book of Friends…
N- Humans who are afraid
N- And greedy
N- Immediately look at those opposite them with contempt
K- Liar
N- I know… that’s the case
K- Liar
N- People are…
M- Natsume!
M- Let’s go home

48
N- Alright, let’s go
N- I was always running from ayakashi
N- And probably from humans too
N- I might have needed to know
N- Fppr example, about myself
M- Hm
M- That woman can’t use it anyway
S- …What?

49
N- And about Reiko…
M- The seal you created won’t be broken that easily
H- Master
S- Hiiragi good work
H- I apologise, I have failed
N- I’m glad you’re okay
N- I want to become strong, I thought
N- So I could have many meetings, and discover many things I want to protect