Natsume Yuujin Chou 32

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Natsume Yuujinchou 32

Code
N- Natsume
M- Nyanko-sensei
U- Unknown
T- Touko-san
Sh- Shigeru
Ni- Nishimura
Ki- Kishimoto
I- Iinchou
Te- Teacher
A- Amasa
CA- Chuukyuu A
CB- Chuukyuu B
H- Hinoe

01
-On the other side of the light, strange things lurk
Strange tales of ayakashi contracts
Natsume Yuujinchou
Midorikawa Yuki
The Tale of the Little Things, Part 1

02
N- Ever since I was small I have sometimes
N- Seen strange things
N- As others cannot see them, they are most likely
N- What you would call youkai
N- ‘Amasa’
N- I’m returning it to you, please accept it
N- My grandmother’s heirloom, the ‘Book of Friends’
N- It holds the names of many ayakashi
N- And ever since I inherited it

03
N- I’ve been returning the names to visiting ayakashi
N- I’m exhausted
M- Wake up Natsume, I’m going to buy a watermelon
M- Come with me
N- …oi
N- Its hot, Nyanko-sensei
M- Suck it up
M- Do you want my cute little body to get burnt on the asphalt?
M- Come on, walk in the shade!
N- Shouldn’t you go on a diet now it’s almost summer?
M- What!?
U- Gyah

03
U- Gyah
U- Gyah
N- Crows…
U- Gyah
N- Those crows are attacking a kitten!!
N- Oi, what’re you doing?
M- ! Natsume!?
N- …oi
N- Its bleeding
N- Hey, move… are you dead…?
N- Oi…
N- Huh?
N- What is this?
N- This kitten…

04
N- …Has no head…
N- No, it has no legs either
N- This is
N- Not a kitten…
N- Gyaaaah!?
N- The ball of fur moved!!?
N- This must be
N- An ayakashi!
T- Welcome home Takashi-kun, kitty…

05
T- Are you okay? Why are you in such a rush?
N- It’s nothing, Touko-san
N- Just like this, my days
N- Are filled with seeing ayakashi
M- Geez
M- You’re always getting involved with ayakashi
N- I thought it was a kitten
N- And it was being attacked
M- Honestly
M- But a furball ayakashi, quite strange
M- There are strange ayakashi about too I suppose
N- You’re something like a furball yourself aren’t you sensei?
M- What!?
N- …huh?
N- …Nyanko-sensei… something seems strange about you…?
M- Mu?

06
N- Uwaaah!?
H/w- Your tail’s kinda fabulous!?
N- Somehow
N- The furball followed us home
M- Shoo
M- Shoo
M- Go away
N- Waaaah!?
N- …Huh? It’s kinda cute
M- What!?

07
M- Are you saying anything is cute as long as it’s fluffy?
M- You’re being fooled by the outward appearance of a creature that doesn’t have a neck!
N- If it’s a neck then neither do you sensei…
N Waaah!?
M- Look, I told you so…
M- Oof
N- Hey, don’t flail about…
M- Hey, quit it furball!!
N- Blood…
N- Stop it, you’ll agitate your wound!

08
N- Hey
N- Stop moving!
N- Ow…
N- Ah…
N- Let go Natsume!
N- Its bristling hair is stabbing me…
N- I’m not trying to hurt you
N- Its okay, so calm down!

09
M- Good, now get rid of it
N- I suppose so…
N- Its medicine for ayakashi left over from the stuff Hinoe gave me before so I don’t know if it still works…
N- Sorry, but there are other people living here besides me
N- You can rest here one night, then go home okay?

10
N- It really is
N- Just from one trouble onto the next
N- …ugh…
M- Does your hand hurt?
N- …mm
M- Idiot
M- Ayakashi possess a lot of things that aren’t good for humans
M- That shaggy thing is poisonous
M- It followed us so it could absorb your power and recover
M- If you keep letting your guard down like this, someday you’ll get really hurt

11
N- I don’t have nearly enough knowledge or ability to protect myself
N- To justify all the meddling I do
N- But ever since I came to this house
T- Good morning Takashi-kun…
T- Oh, what’s wrong? Didn’t you sleep well?
T- You’re a bit pale, are you feeling okay?
T- Do you have a fever?
N- I, I’m fine
Sh- Haha, hurry up and wash your face

12
N- After being touched by this kindness
N- I decided I wanted to be kind too
N- Just like how I am being soothed
N- I wonder if I can’t help others too…
N- …It was somewhere around here, where this guy was yesterday
N- Alright, the bleeding has stopped right?
N- Don’t get bullied by those crows again alright?
N- Seeya

13
N- Oh
N- Seeya
N- And so we returned the furball
N- Safely to the forest
N- It was kind of creepy at first
N- …but it was pretty cute
Ni- What!? Who is!?
Ki- Eh
I- What, what happened?
Ni- Guess what
Ni- The adjective ‘cute’ just came out the mouth of Natsume, who has never shown any interest in girls

14
I- For real Natsume?
Ni- Who is it!? What kind of girl!? I’ll help you out
N- You’ve got it wrong!!
N- More importantly what’s with that weird image of me!?
Ki- I see Natsume, so you’ve got love in your sights
N- You’re wrong!
h/w- Come on, class is starting
Te- So next
Te- You substitute this…

15
N- F, furball!?
N- He followed me again!?
N- This isn’t good, all the way to school…
N- Oh my god, they multiplied!?
Te- Oh Natsume, you’re certainly full of energy today
Te- Come solve this one up the front
N- Wha
N- What’s going on!?
N- …About here, under that window
N- Hey furball, you there?
N- Furball

16
N- There
N- Hey furball!
M- Gyah!
N- Oh, it’s just Nyanko-sensei’s tail
M- What’re you doing idiot!?
N- That’s my line, what’re you doing here sensei?
M- …Don’t speak to your guardian like that
N- Was that your tail I saw in class too sensei?
M- Hm? What do you mean?
M- …the furballs multiplied?
M- You were probably just half asleep
N- …maybe
N- I thought there were two but they were gone a second later…
N- Nn…

17
N- Huh?
M- Oh?
M- Oh hoh?
M- Gyah!?
N- Ah
N- Fu, furball!?
M- Don’t you know you owe me?
M- How dare you stab me!?
N- There really were two… which one’s the furball from yesterday?
N- Ah

18
N- Hey, furball…
N- I knew it, they’re increasing!!!
h/w- I’m home –
N- I don’t know what to do, they don’t seem bad
N- But they are poisonous to humans
N- And it would be a problem if they keep increasing around the school

19
N- …I should do some asking around about them tomorrow…
N- What!?
N- A thief…?
N- …No, the first floor was fine
N- Was it an ayakashi after the Book of Friends?
N- It’s a good thing I keep it with me

20
A- …Where is it
A- …is it
A- ...ri…
A- Ring…
A- I…
N- …Ring?
A- Give it back…
N- Ah
N- I returned its name yesterday …I think her name was Amasa…
A- Return it, thief
N- Uwah!

21
M- Mu!?
M- Natsume
M- Gyah!
N- Sensei!
A- Give it back thief, where is my ring?
N- Ring!? What’re you talking about?
A- …When I visited here yesterday
A- I dropped a very important ring
A- I came to look for it but I cannot find it
A- Did you steal it boy?
A- Shall I burn this house down?
A- …No, that isn’t enough
A- I will burn all this land, including the mountains behind it

22
N- Wait
N- I really don’t know
N- Are you sure this is where you dropped it!?
A- I had it until I came here
N- Ugh
M- Natsume
N- ! Crap, I have to protect him - !!
N- I’m sorry that you lost it
N- But that’s your mistake
N- Selfishly searching someone’s house and calling them a thief?
N- Rudeness has its limits!
N- I’ll look for it so come back later!!

23
A- Yes…
A- Yes… I suppose
A- Then let us make it three days
A- It is a ring with a red stone
A- If you cannot return it by then, then I will burn it all
A- That ring cannot burn
A- So it will surely become easy to find
N- Th, that was terrifying…
M- H, how humiliating
M- Natsume, hurry up and take this off
N- …A ring…

24
N- Where could it be…
N- And so
N- I searched the house, and didn’t find anything that looked like that ring
N- And on top of that
M- Owowowow
M- Owowowow
M- Stop it, you’ll pull out my fur
N- its no use, it won’t come off…
N- Oh no, what if it won’t come off until we return the ring…?
M- What!?
N- I’m at a loss
N- Where exactly should I look for it…?
M- …Natsume
M- Could it have been back then?
N- What? Back then?
M- When the furball...
M- Furball? …

25
Magnified
N- Ah - !!
N- It might have gotten caught in the furball’s fur when it was flying round the room
M- I’m fairly certain I saw something shiny stuck to it
M- I thought it was rather fancy for such a pipsqueak…
N- Then all we have to do is look for the furball and…
A- Oh, a furball ayakashi?
N- Yeah, something like this

26
CA- …You’re looking for this? …
h/w- Pfft
N- …Just let me say this has nothing to do with my artistic ability, it really looks like this
N- If I don’t find the ring that’s stuck to this ayakashi within three days
N- My house and all the area around it, including the mountains, will be burned
CA- Oh… That is certainly unfortunate
CB- Then why don’t you come to Yatsuhara? It’s dangerous to be in a place like that
N- What?
CA- Yes
CA- I have always thought that the human world seemed difficult for you to live in, Natsume-sama
CA- If that’s the case, why don’t you come and live a strange interesting life with us in Yatsuhara?

27
N- Haha
N- Thanks
N- But
N- It can’t be helped, because I treasure the life I have now
N- Even if there are a lot of troublesome things
N- The things I can’t let go of keep increasing
N- People, and ayakashi too
N- I’m probably wallowing in luxury
N- Someday, just like Natori-san said
N- A day where I have to choose one or the other may come
N- Until then
CA- …I have ayakashi friends in that area

28
CA- It seems interesting
CA- I shall help you out Natsume-sama
N- For real!? Thanks!
CA- Well then
CA- We shall search the forest over there
N- I’m counting on you
N- O-i, furball –
N- Furball - ?
N- Furball –
N- That’s weird, there were so many of them around yesterday
M- But are you intending to tell that one apart from all the others?

29
N- I guess I’ll have to catch them one by one
N- And check if the ring is stuck to them or not
N- I wish
N- They’d come out when I call though
N- Guess it didn’t grow that fond of me…
M- Hmph…
M- But seriously where on earth are they?
H- Pfft, what the hell is that?
CA- Hinoe-dono, are you familiar with this thing?
CA- Natsume-sama is searching for it
H- Natsume is? Pitiful as always I see

30
H- …Oh?
H- This is…
H- This ayakashi is
H- ‘Karu’ right?
CA- …’Karu’?
H- It is said to be an elusive ayakashi that travels like a migratory bird…
H- …This isn’t goof
H- Karu move in a pack
H- It is rumoured they are very greedy, and travel around eating ayakashi
CA- What horror! How terrifying…
H- Natsume might be in danger too
H- If a group of Karu come across a human’s child travelling alone…

31
N- …There
N- Thank goodness
N- Sorry, could I check to see if you have a ring stuck to you?