Natsume Yuujin Chou 17

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Natsume Yuujinchou 17

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N- Natsume
Ni- Nishimura
Ki- Kishimoto
T- Touko-san
U- Unknown
Ta- Taki
C- Chobihige

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Chapter 17

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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
Ni- So yeah
Ni- There’s this really cute chick in class 5
Ni- But she’s kinda weird…
Ni- …Oi, Natsume
Ni- Natsume
N- Huh? Oh…
N- You listening to me?
N- Ah sorry, that ‘zush’ noise is so loud
h/w above N’s head- zush
Ni- What? I can’t hear anything…
N- Huh?
N- …Oh sorry, must be my imagination…
h/w- …zush
h/w- zush

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h/w- zush
h/w- zush
h/w- zush
N- Eeep
h/w in corner of next bubble- Ha
Ni- Natsume’s leering at me!?
Ki- Don’t be hasty Natsume, summer’s just beginning!!

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N- Honestly of those who can’t see them
N- I’m a little jealous
T- Welcome home Takashi-kun
T- Dinner’s almost ready, so can you fetch the kitty?
N- Eh
T- He should be somewhere around the empty land behind the house
N-Sensei –
N- Nyanko-sensei –
N- Geez, how long do you intend to take a stroll?
N- Where are you?
M- Is that you Natsume? Over here
N- Let’s go home sensei
h/w above n’s mouth- sigh
sfx bubble- psst
psst
N- …hm?

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SFX scattered around top frame - psst
U- Oi, what is this? There’s something strange here
N- That voice… an ayakashi?
U- I saw something like this near the riverbed
U- Is it a curse or something?
U- We should get out of here
U- Sounds like a good plan…
N- What do you mean ‘weird’?
U- Gyaah, a human’s child!
N- Tiny…
N- ‘We should get out of here’ you said… is there something here?
U- Eeeeeek
N- Ah
h/w in bubble- They ran…

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N- Is there something over here?
N- Graffiti?
N- There’s some kind of pattern drawn in the dirt…
Sfx bubble above m’s head- rustle
M- What’s up Natsume?
N- Woah…
N- Nyanko-sensei
M- Look Natsume, I caught dragonflies
N- Are you gonna eat them?
M- Fool, I’ll release them and demand a favour
M- …Mu?
M- What’s this? I’ve never seen that pattern before…
h/w in bottom of bubble- Ha

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M- Don’t tell me it’s a crop circle for communicating with aliens!?
N- Uwah, how unscientific
N- Hey, what are you doing?
Ta- Natsume-kun…?
N- A girl…
N- …Do I know you?

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Ta- Crap I…
Ta- Did I say your name just now?
N- Huh? Yeah… is something wrong?
Ta- …Yes…
Ta- What should I do? …Crap…
N- …Oi?
Ta- I’m sorry…
h/w- sigh…
Ta- I’m sorry Natsume-kun
Ta- I’ll defiantly win!
Ta- I defiantly, have to win!
N- Ah, hey…

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N- …What was that about?
N- …An ayakashi?
M- Nope, that was a human girl
N- …Did she draw this?
N- What does she mean ‘win’?
N- Her eyes were so serious; it’s stuck on my mind
U- So you saw me, human
U- Haha, I’ll put a curse on you
U- You have 360 days
U- If you can’t… by then

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U- You lose, I’ll eat you
N- …Huh? What a weird dream…
N- Could it have something to do with yesterday…?
h/w by n's head- yawn
On his chest – right ‘Natsume’ left ‘One’
N- Hm?
N- Huh? Nothing’s there…

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N- …Just now, reflected in the mirror for just a second…
N- I thought I saw ‘Natsume’ and ‘One’ on my chest…
T- Takashi-kun, I’m going shopping…
h/w- Dear, what’s wrong? Checking yourself out <3 At that age are you?
N- Gyaah Touko-san!
h/w- It’s a misunderstanding!!
N- What was that?
N- Sensei –
N- Nyanko-sensei –
N- Sensei – are you there?
C- Hello

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N- Uwah!?
h/w- Chobihige!? (h/w- Lit. small moustache)
N- An ayakashi! How’d you get in here!?
C- A puny barrier is pointless against an ayakashi such as myself
M- Hey Natsume what’re you yell…
M- Uwah!? What’s with that Chobihige!?
h/w- How’d he get in here?
C- A puny guardian is also pointless
M- Puny!?
N- …So what does such a big shot want?
C- I wanted to ask a human to do something about what a human is causing
C- So I came to you, Natsume-dono
N- What a human is causing?
C- A few days ago, I was passing by the river bed when an old human woman saw me and screamed
h/w- Eeek, Chobihige!?

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C- When I looked at my feet there was a peculiar pattern there
h/w- Ha
N- …Pattern? What do you mean…
C- To me that pattern was ominous. I looked into it and it seems a human girl has been walking around drawing them
C- Natsume-dono, please stop her
N- What!?
C- Come now, it’s this way
N- Waah Sensei!
M- Wait you catfish bastard!!
C- There she is, it’s her
N- Yesterday’s…

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N- That mark appearing on my chest and this pattern
N- They might have some kind of connection
N- Hey, I need to talk to you
Ta- Kyaa
Ta- Natsume-ku…
h/w- ha
Ta- Crap I said his name again…
N- Ah, wait…
Ta- Ah
N- Sensei…
Ta- Ugh…
h/w- ha

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Ta- …Cu…
Ta- Cute!! I found a cute kitty!!
N- Whaaaaaaat!!?
Ta- Ooooh, he’s all fluffy~
M- Ugh
N- Ah please stop, sensei’s not used to being praised
h/w- Ha
Ta- Sorry, when I see cute things I lose myself
M- Did you hear that Natsume, huh!?
N- Yes, shutup Nyanko-sensei

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Ta- I’m Taki Tooru from class five
N- …The same school…!? So that’s why you knew my name
Ta- Yes… well there’s that too but…
Ta- Please!! Lend me a hand
Ta- A life is at stake!
N- What...
Ta- Yours!
N- Whaaaat!?
Ta- …Hey
Ta- Natsume-kun, you

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Ta- Can see youkai, can’t you
N- …What…
Ta- That’s what I heard
N- …From who…
Ta- The youkai
Ta- I cannot see ayakashi…

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Ta- But the ayakashi who enter this circle…
Ta- In that instant, I can see them
Ta- I use this pattern to see ayakashi
Ta- My grandfather left this paper behind when he died
Ta- It’s a weird shape so I used to draw it in the garden sometimes
Ta- And then one day

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Ta- I saw a small tengu inside the circle
Ta- I thought it was my eyes playing tricks on me, but then I saw those strange things a few more times
Ta- And I realised ah, they must be ‘ayakashi’
Ta- Seems my ancestors were something akin to onmyouji (T/N: Onmyouji are specialists in magic and divination)
Ta- My grandfather was always saying he wanted to see ayakashi, and I admired him…

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Ta- I was so happy, and sometimes I’d play around like this drawing the pattern
Ta- And then one day
Ta- A huge, terrifying ayakashi passed through the pattern, and I saw it
Ta- That evil looking ayakashi noticed me and said this
U- ‘So you saw me, human’
U- ‘I’ll curse you, you upstart’
U- ‘But let’s have some fun first’
U- You have 360 days
U- If you can catch me by then you win, I’ll let you go

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N- ! Those words…
N- So that dream was this girl’s memory…
Ta- ‘If you can’t do it, you lose; I’ll eat you’
Ta- ‘Then I’ll go through your memories’
Ta- ‘And eat the last 13 humans whose names you called’
N- Th, thirteen…!?
M- …A merciless number
Ta- I don’t know if that ayakashi is serious or not but I’ve been trying my best not to talk…

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Ta- But there might be people whose names I have said without realising it
Ta- That’s why I have to win
Ta- …I’m sorry for saying your name
Ta- But please, I want you to lend me a hand
N- …I never realised… there was a girl like this in the same school as me…
N- So the people whose names she says will be cursed along with her, huh…
N- …So that ‘One’ was the order in which we’ll be eaten huh…
M- What?
N- …Taki
N- Can you see this one here?

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T- No
N- So
N- If we do this, then you can see him?

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T- A Chobihige with a giant face!?
N- …Correct
N- She can see them too
N- Like me…
N- The ayakashi…
M- The deadline is approaching, so she’s started drawing that pattern and searching without rest huh…
h/w in bubble- mwahaha
M- So your days are numbered then, Natsume
h/w- Mwahaha
M- …But it’d be a shame if something I worked so hard to raise got eaten by some other dude
N- I don’t remember being raised by you
T- Takashi-kun – dinner –
N- Woah, what a feast
T- Haha, there was a sale
h/w- Shigeru-san will be late so let’s go ahead and eat

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T- Guess what Takashi-kun, today
N- This girl named Taki
N- For almost a year now she’s tried not to talk
N- So she wouldn’t say anyone’s name
N- She seems to like talking
N- She’s a normal girl
T- Hm? What’s wrong, Takashi-kun?
N- Nothing
N- Even me, without any relatives

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N- I don’t want to throw my life away
N- We’ll win
N- Why must we be cursed simply for seeing?
N- There’s no way…
N- We’ll lose to an ayakashi’s absurd curse
Ta- Because of your genes huh… It seems like some spiritual power is piled up inside the patterns I draw
Ta- And people who have an aptitude for seeing ayakashi sometimes see them when they’re inside my pattern

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Ta- So I asked among the few ayakashi I saw for information on witnesses, but I couldn’t find a single clue
Ta- But a small ayakashi told me ‘Natsume-sama’ can see ayakashi
Ta- That’s how I knew
Ta- I wanted to talk to you but
Ta- I didn’t know whether it was true or not
Ta- To get… to get you involved in such a thing…

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Ta- Haha, it’s been so long since I’ve talked with someone like this
Ta- I’m sorry
Ta- Sorry…
N- Let’s do it
Ta- Yeah
N- And so
N- Taki and I’s ayakashi hunt to break the curse began
h/w- Let’s do our best kitty
M- Gyah

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h/w- Do you know this guy?
N- So I say but…
h/w beside picture- portrait
N- …It’s scary, I’ll give her that but… the only thing we can use as a reference is the scar on the forehead
M- Taki’s at the riverbed right?
N- Yeah, we’re going to check out this pond up ahead
h/w in bubble- sigh
N- There’s only a month left
M- One month then the book of friends will be mine~
N- Frolicking around with legs as short as yours is dangerous sensei
M- Gyah
N- Pfft
N- Ahaha, you okay sensei?

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h/w- Ha
M- …Mu? Natsume?
M- ! Where’d you go!?
M- Natsume!?