Natsume Yuujin Chou 15

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Natsume Yuujinchou 15

Code
N- Natsume
T- Touko-san
M- Nyanko-sensei
U- Unknown
Mi- Miya
Y- Yasaka
H- Haru Jizou

01
Natsume Yuujinchou
Chapter 15

02
N- Ever since I was little I would sometimes see strange things
N- As it seems other people can’t see them they are most likely
N- What you would call ayakashi
Sign- The twelfth ever Flea Market
T- Takashi-kun
T- They’re opening a flea market in Nanatsuji Park
T- I want some small gratin dishes
N- Could you run this errand for me?
N- So we’re having gratin tonight then
M- Oi Natsume
Sign under maneki-neko- 300 yen
Sign on cabinet- 3000 yen

03
N- Woah, Nyanko-sensei
M- Where’re you going?
N- Nyanko-sensei is
N- A youkai who is living with me as my self appointed guardian, in the house of the kind-hearted Fujiwara couple
N- I came to buy some gratin dishes, three for me and the couple
M- Hmm
M- So you’re not buying me one!?
N- Ugh
M- I’ll have you buy one more dish for me
M- Now stand up, stand up Natsume!!
N- Geez
h/w- You can’t just be calm can you?
N- It seems like my now deceased grandmother Reiko could also see ayakashi
N- From that connection or something, I spend my days being abused by ayakashi
U- Four gratin dishes? Thankyou ~
N- Alright, lets head back sensei
Sign- Handmade accessories

04
N- What a pretty hair clip…
h/w- Natsume buy this woollen cushion
N- I think it would suit Touko-san
U- its pretty isn’t it?
U- Would you like it for a gift?
h/w- ha
N- What
h/w- blush
N- N, no I’m fine
N- Sorry…
Right to left signs- 2000 yen, 500 yen, 1000 yen, 900 yen
N- What was that just now?
N- I sensed a strange presence
N- Was it around here?
U- Do you like that painting?

05
N-What?
U- I’m closing my shop now but it’s still here
U- Could you take it off my hands?
N- What
U- Wait, I’ll wrap it up for you <3
N- Ah, wait, um…
T- Welcome home Takashi-kun
T- This is just the size I wanted
T- Thankyou
N- I should have bought that hair clip after all
N- If she’s so happy just from this one errand
M- You gonna hang it up?
M- its all just branches, what a boring painting
N- Really? I think it’s quite pretty
N- …but you’re right I guess

06
N- It would have been nice if it had blooming flowers
N- Like that hair clip
N- A gentle coloured flower…
N- …Hm?
N- Wha –

07
N- What is this?
N- ...Flowers?
N- They must have flown in from somewhere
N- Mysteriously
N- Uwah!! Again!?
N- The next morning
N- And the morning after that too
N- Gyah, today too?
N- Flowers fell onto my pillow
N- You sure you didn’t pick them up while you were wandering around drunk somewhere sensei?
M- How rude, I have no interest in crap like flowers!

08
N- It started the day I hung this painting up
N- It couldn’t be while I slept the flowers bloomed on the branches… no way that’s too much like a fairytale
N- Alright tonight I’m pulling an all nighter and figuring out the cause
N- If it’s the doing of an ayakashi
N- I have to stop them quickly
N- I’ll repel anything evil that comes into this house…
M- …Sneak
M- Sneak
N- Woah
N- Don’t just come in here sensei
N- Why do you have a net?
M- It might be the doing of a fairy
h/w- I’ll catch it
above fairy’s head- Lovely
above left wing- giggle
underneath- example
N- There’s nothing so unscientific like that
M- To begin with it’s the doing of ‘something’
Sfx- clatter…
Sfx- …clatter
Sfx- clatter clatter

09
N- There’s someone
N- Above the ceiling…

10
N- Uh…
N- Uwaaah
M- Bang
Mi- Gyah
M- What a disagreeable one, infringing upon my territory
N-Waaah
N- …It’s you? Why the flowers?

11
Mi- It has nothing to do with you, thief
Mi- Those flowers are an offering for him
N- Thief? What are you saying I stole?
M- Insolent aren’t you, I’ll eat you!
Mi- Gyah
N- Woah!
N- Quit it sensei!!
M- Huh!?
M-…Wh, why…
M- I was finally doing something guardian like…
N- And? Why am I a thief?
N- And sensei and I are the only ones here, who’s ‘he’?
Mi- What are you talking about, he’s right here

12
Mi- There
Mi- Behind you
N- Behind me…
N- Uwaah!?
N- There’s a tiny person between the trees…
h/w- creepy!!
Mi- Quit yelling, you’ll scare Yasaka-sama

13
N- Yasaka-sama? You mean this person?
Mi- Yes, he lives in this painting
Mi- I’ll have you return it to me, it’s mine. I dropped it and a human picked it up and sold it
Mi- To this shabby house… Mu? (h/w- clatter)
Mi- You, you’re taking it down!?
N- What!? Hey, why won’t it come off!?
Mi- Did you stick it on with nails!?
N- You probably just did something weird to it didn’t you!?
Mi- What
Mi- Tsk, it’s no use, I’ll keep coming back till it comes off
N- Whaaaat!?
Mi- I am Miya
Mi- I will come again tomorrow
N- Ah, wait!
N- Don’t leave these creepy things here!
N- And like that, abruptly –

14
N- Miya came the next day too
Mi- Excuse me
Mi- Put your hand out boy
N- Hm?
Mi- As thanks for caring for Yasaka-sama
N- Waaah! Th, thanks but don’t set them free in my room!
Mi- Ahaha, aren’t they pretty
Mi- Yasaka-sama was originally a human
Mi- He loved to look at flowers and butterflies
N- He was human?

15
Mi- Many springs ago, I was sitting in one of the sakura trees, viewing the flowers
Mi- When I noticed him, the human’s child was sitting beneath the tree reading a book
Mi- The blooming flowers give me my power, and merry as I was I hid behind the flowers and spoke to him
Mi- He was called Yasaka, and although his body was weak, he was to be the successor of his family
Mi- And he had very little time to be free, so he told me
Mi- I had planned to show him this terrifying face and frighten him
Mi- But he was talking so happily and I lost the opportunity
Mi- And mysteriously…
Mi- He came the next day too
Mi- Never realising I was an ayakashi, he came every day and talked
Mi- I

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Mi- Became afraid of being found out
Mi- So I hid myself and didn’t come to those trees unless the sakura where blooming
Mi- We
Mi- Became friends who only talked in the flower season
Y- ‘Miya, if one day I become free I’d like to try journeying coltishly’
Y- ‘I’m sure it would be splendid go around and see the beautiful flowering plants of other countries’
Y- ‘Ah, I wonder why’
Y- ‘I wonder why I have so many things I want you to hear’
Mi- …When a number of those springs had passed
Mi- One spring he never came
Mi- I waited and waited
Mi- For next spring
Mi- And the next

17
Mi- I searched all around for him
Mi- Not knowing where I should look, I searched
Mi- And finally I found something
Mi- I heard an ayakashi famous for being a artist had painted that row of trees in winter, and I when went to look
Mi- Yasaka-sama was inside that painting
Mi- The human world probably became so unpleasant that he fled inside this painting
Mi- So I took that painting and to grant him solace I started a journey, taking it along
Mi- If one day I can soothe his heart, I’m sure he’ll come out for me
Mi- And we can start talking again

18
M- Certainly I can feel spiritual power from this painting, and it is something an ayakashi of magnitude drew
M- But this is just a painting
M- No matter how long she waits he won’t come out
M- This is just
M- Something that depicts the row of trees in winter, and the man called Yasaka who stood there
M- That man is most likely already –
N- Even so –
N- I was visited everyday by Miya, bringing flowers
h/w- Flower blizzard
h/w- Stop it, you’ll make a mess of my room
N- Everyday
h/w- Yasaka-sama, today I caught you a frog
h/w- F-frog!?
h/w- Let it go right now and go home! Frogs are dangerous
N- Everyday…
h/w- cough cough
M- That’s a strange cough…
M- Mu

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M- Look Natsume, a field of lotus
N- …Woah…
N- Hey sensei don’t wreck them
N- I wonder if I should bring some back for Miya
N- I guess, like this
N- Miya was always travelling
N- Follow the beautiful scenery without a care in the world

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N- Alone, carrying only a painting
H- I see it
N- Woah!
M- Mu, that’s Spring Jizou (T/N - Jizou is the Japanese word used for Ksitigarbha, one of the Buddhist Bodhisattvas. In Japan he is believed to protect stillborn children in the afterlife)
M- It’s an ayakashi that comes out before spring and in the pursuit of knowledge goes around telling fortunes
H- You are possessed by an unlucky shadow
H- I see a tree growing from your corpse
N- Ah, wait, what’s that supposed to mean!?
N- My corpse…
T- Takashi-kun?

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T- What’s wrong? I thought I saw you standing here along shouting…
N- Waah!
N- T-Touko-san!?
N- Um…
N- It…
N- It’s…
N- It’s nothing

22
T- Really?
N- Really. It was just your imagination
N- …Did you go shopping?
T- Yes
T- Let’s go home together
N- Okay
N- ‘I’
N- ‘Became afraid of being found out’ huh…
N- I’m home
N- …Even so
N- I wonder what they meant, that spring Jizou’s words…
M- …Wait Natsume, I sense a strange presence

23
N- Wha, What in the world!?
N- …The trees inside the painting are growing their branches…?
M- …Mu…? This is…
M- I see, so this is… it’s absorbing your strength, Natsume
M- I will not forgive a mere painting attempting to steal my prey
N- Sensei…
M- The shadow the spring Jizou was talking about was this painting

24
M- I will destroy it immediately
N- Sensei!!
N- Sto…
N- This painting is Miya’s…
N- Ugh

25
Mi- Natsume, thankyou for yesterday
Mi- Today I brought some early sa…
M- Gyah, Natsume you fool!
M- What are you doing!?
Mi- Gyah!? Natsume!?
Mi- Are you okay!? What on earth…

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Y- ‘Miya’
Y- ‘Miya, if one day I become free
Y- I’d like to try journeying coltishly’
Y- ‘But I’m sure it would be dull if I were alone’
Y- ‘When the time comes, will you come with me?’
Y- Hello Miya
Y- You came to visit me this year too huh

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Y- What shall we talk about today?
N- …Sensei
N- Miya…
Mi- I’m sorry, Natsume
Mi- It seems this painting has attained some spiritual power from being carried around by an ayakashi for so long
Mi- And
Mi- It seems like it’s started to grow by absorbing your strong powers

28
Mi- It has put roots into the wall and it won’t come off anymore
Mi- At this rate you will lose your life
Mi- So
Mi- I think I will use my spiritual power and burn this painting
N- No, this painting is important to you isn’t it?
N- its Yaska-sama’s…
Mi- It’s fine Natsume, truthfully I knew
Mi- That person…
Mi- Yasaka-sama, in the spring that he didn’t visit, he was most likely…
Mi- Already gone
Mi- He wasn’t a strong person

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Mi- But when I travelled with this painting
Mi- It was like travelling with him, and it was fun
Mi- On rainy days
Mi- And windy days too
Mi- I felt like I wasn’t alone
Mi- But no
Mi- No
Mi- More
Mi- Without caring that I’m grotesque
Mi- Just one time I wanted our eyes to meet
Mi- It was just because of my desire to look him in the eye and talk to him
Mi- That I couldn’t throw this painting away
N- Miya…

30
N- Wait Miya, I’m still fine
N- Let’s just try a bit longer, a bit longer to find a way to take it down
Mi- …But
N- It’s your treasured painting isn’t it?
N- I like it too
N- …Sensei, I’m sorry
M- ..Hmph, fools
N- Miya and I are a lot alike

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N- We are afraid
N- Of telling the truth to the people we are about
N- We’re sad
N- So I’m sorry Sensei
N- I want Miya to keep this painting
N- The person depicted in this painting is definitely Yasaka-sama
N- Yasaka-sama, who even in winter when he knew Miya wouldn’t come
N- Came to these trees and searched, wanting to see her

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h/w- cough cough
h/w- Are you okay Natsume? You look pale
h/w- Do you know anything about it?
h/w- I’m exhausted…
h/w- Ugh!
N- And like that, I wondered if there was a way
N- I made no progress
h/w- cough cough
sfx bubble- snuggle snuggle
M- Fool…
N- Sensei…
Sfx bubble- Knock knock
Mi- Natsume, could you help me?

33
N- …With what?
Mi- I’ve made up my mind, I’m going to burn this painting
N- Miya!
Mi- It’s okay, I’ve already decided. But before that
Mi- Could you help me paint the sakura in full bloom?
Mi- Like the time when I met him
N- …Okay
N- I might be scolded by Touko-san though

34
Mi- Haha
N- We…
N- We did it
Mi- Natsume
N- Isn’t it beautiful
N- Miya
N- Miya
N- Yasaka-sama, he…

35
Mi- Thankyou, Natsume
Mi- Sleep tight
Mi- Sleep tight
N- …Huh?
N- A dream…?
N- I wonder where I am
N- Full bloom…
N- Ah, I drew these sakura

36-37
N- Over here are Miya’s…
N- And these are sensei’s…
N- I see, this must be inside that painting

38
N- When I woke up
N- The branches that had grown out, and the sakura we painted on them
N- Had all faded away
N- When I peered inside the painting
N- I could no longer see Yasaka-sama
N- He left
N- Since then, Miya hasn’t come to visit

39
N- That person’s heart may have resided
N- Inside this picture that Miya felt so strongly about
N- This picture absorbed my power and grew its branches
N- Perhaps he wanted to see you again by making the sakura bloom
N- I wonder if those two are still surrounded by sakura
N- Or perhaps he was released from the painting
N- And they’re happily journeying together
N- …Miya wanted to tell him the truth
N- That’s still impossible for me but…
M- What, did you say something Natsume?
N- Nah, it’s nothing
N- Farewell

40
N- Farewell, Miya
N- My friend, who I met in the season when the flowers bloom…
N- I want to go to the flea market again
M- What? Didn’t you learn anything from this!?
N- Haha, there’s something I want
N- A softly coloured flower hairpin