Natsume Yuujin Chou 34

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Natsume Yuujinchou 34 – The Tale of the Easten Forest, Part 1

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N- Natsume
M- Nyanko-sensei
Ki- Kitamoto
Ni- Nishimura
U- Unknown
TT- Taki
K- Tanuma
MZ- Misuzu
MT- Matoba

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N- Ever since I was small I have sometimes seen strange things
N- As others cannot see them, they are most likely
N- What you would call youkai
Ki- Hey Natsume, do you wanna go to the festival next Saturday?
N- Eh…
Ni- Let’s go, you might find her
Ni- Your soul mate
N- What?
Ni- The more the merrier so you can invite some other people too
Ni- Like Tanuma

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Ni- Or Taki-san!
Ki- …Exactly what are you aiming at with this festival
h/w- You pervert
h/w- Make sure you come alright?
h/w- Seeya
N- Ayakashi become more active on summer nights
N- A little while ago I wouldn’t have wanted to go anywhere near a summer festival
N- Will Tanuma or Taki
N- Be okay?
N- Shigeru-san and Touko-san like corn
N- So I’d like to go and buy them some…
N- …Alright
N- I’ll bribe Nyanko-sensei with some fried squid and bring him along
U- Natsume-sama
U- Are you Natsume-sama?
N- Ayakashi…?
N- And you are?

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U- Natsume-sama, please help us
U- My friend’s foot is stuck beneath a rock and he cannot move
N- What?
U- Please come with me
N- Wha…
N- Sorry, but that’s…
U- Please, please help my friend
U- If you don’t hurry, his foot will be…
N- I don’t hate seeing them as much as I used to
N- But as usual
N- My days are filled with troublesome ventures
N- …Oi, just how far is it?
N- Oi
U- …On the other side of those bushes
N- Here?

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N- Ah
N- Ugh
U- Its out!
N- Good
U- Th…thankyou very much, Natsume-sama…
U- Na, Natsume-sama, you must hurry…
U- Hurry up and escape
N- …What
U- Goodbye
N- !? Oi
N- What’s wrong…

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U- So you are Natsume
U- The Natsume of the Book of Friends
N- Crap…

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N- I won’t allow you to escape boy
N- …Who are these guys…?
U- Ho, is this really the rumoured Natsume?
U- He looks quite weak
U- That’s fine, just means we can finish him off quickly
U- Now boy
U- Hand over the rumoured Book of Friends
h/w- Giggle

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N- Nyanko-sensei
M- I thought I’d come get you, but you’re such a pain
M- Stop getting involved
M- Come on, we’re going home
M- Tsk

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N- …Thanks, you saved me Sensei
M- Honestly, just when I finally get tipsy you ruin it
N- …What’s a guardian doing consuming alcohol while it’s still broad daylight
M- …Who were they? After the Book of Friends I suppose?
N- …Probably
N- But for them to come in such an organised group like that
N- The Book of Friends being targeted is nothing new
N- But that just now
N- Made my blood run cold
M- I haven’t seen them around here before
N- I guess I should give the festival a miss after all
h/w- sigh…
M- What!? A festival!?
M- When!? Where!?

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M- I’ll protect you with everything I’ve got so by me some squid!!
h/w- Goodnight Takashi-kun
h/w- Goodnight
N- …So those guys
N- Threatened some weaklings and lured you out
N- …Yeah
N- I felt something really sneaky about them I don’t really get from most ayakashi, it was really unpleasant
U- ‘Hand over the rumoured Book of Friends’
N- I want to return as many of the names from this book
N- As I can whilst I am still alive

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N- Until then
N- There’s no way I will hand it over to any weirdos
TT- A festival?
N- Yeah, next Saturday
K- Cool, I wanna go
N- Me too
N- …But will the two of you be okay?
N- Sensei is coming along to eat squid so at the very least the small ones won’t come near us

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TT- Sensei is coming!?
K- I’m really looking forward to it now, I haven’t really gone to festivals much before
N- Me too, I want to try walking around properly at least once
N/TT/K- Doing this… and that…
N- Ah, but I’m really sorry
N- I might not be able to go, so if that happens can I leave Nishimura and that to you?
K- Eh? …Is it something to do with ayakashi again?
N- Yeah, there’s just something that concerns me a bit
Ni- Natsume – time to change classrooms
N- Ah
N- Seeya
h/w- You were with Taki-san again!
TT- …I wish he’d rely on us a little more
K- Yeah…
K- Actually once before
TT- What?

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K- I asked Natsume
K- Why he doesn’t talk to the Fujiwaras about what he sees
TT- …That’s blunt
K- Because I always saw him as kind of obstinate
K- …He said he doesn’t because he likes to see them smile
K- I didn’t really get it back then
K- But lately
K- I’ve been dreaming about Natsume being eaten by ayakashi
K- And I thought
K- ‘Ah, so this is what he meant’
K- When Natsume is late, Nishimura and that
K- Just laugh and say ‘He must have overslept’ and wait for him
K- But I get really worried

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K- Touko-san, who, laughing, brushes the dirt from his clothes
K- And says ‘You’re so unruly!’
K- Would probably start to turn pale whenever his clothes were dirty
K- For Natsume, that is probably
K- The thing that scares him the most
Ni- Fwa – it’s over –
Ni- Let’s go home Natsume
Ni- Wanna get a drink somewhere on the way?
N- Yeah, something cold…

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U- There he is
Ni- …Natsume? What’s wrong?
U- Be a good boy and come with us, boy
U- Where is the Book of Friends?
Ni- …Are you okay? Natsume…?
U- There he is

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U- There he is
U- It’s Natsume
N- Not here…
Ni- Oi Natsu…
N- Hey, Natsume!?
N- Sorry Nishimura!
N- I’m going on ahead!
Ni- Ah, hey…
N- Haa
N- Haa
N- I have to get away from here
N- Quickly…

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N- Uwah…
MZ- …Hmm
MZ- A band of ayakashi in monkey masks?
M- Yeah, some guys I haven’t seen around here before
M- It seems they heard rumours about the Book of Friends and came here… do you know anything?
MZ- Hoho
MZ- So the name of the Book of Friends has begun to spread amongst ayakashi
M- …I sensed
M- That they are quite powerful
MZ- I have heard of a band like that that governs a forest on the eastern mountains
M- The eastern mountains huh…
MZ- …Ah, that reminds me
MZ- There is a forest in those mountains where the boundary between the human and ayakashi worlds is weak… it is best to stay away from there
M- Why?

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MZ- Something unpleasant lurks there
M- …Unpleasant?
N- Ugh
N- …Where are we?
U- This is our forest
U- A human’s child cannot simply walk out of here
U- Now, you can no longer run. If you do not wish to feel real pain, then hurry up and hand over the Book of Friends
U- Where is it?

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U- With the Book of Friends, you can command many ayakashi can you not?
U- Now, hand it over, our leader is a suitable candidate for possession of such a thing
U- Yes, yes
U- We shall take it and offer it to the leader of our pack
U- A mere human such as you
U- Trying to command ayakashi, know your place
N- …I have no intention of commanding anyone
N- I won’t give it to anyone who intends to use it that way
U- …Hmph, how spirited
U- Boy, prepare yourself
U- Oh, I wonder what is inside this bag?
N- Stop it!

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U- Where do you intend to go?
U- No matter where you go, a human’s child cannot escape from this forest
N- …Huh?
N- It looks like there are talismans
N- Stuck all over this forest…

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N- Uwa…
M- Shh
M- Be quiet
N- Nyanko-sensei
M- …Honestly
M- I take my eyes off you for one second and you get taken to a place like this
M- What Misuzu said concerned me, and when I came back to check on you…
N- Sorry…
N- But this forest is kind of weird
N- There are talismans everywhere
N- …And it’s kind of…
N- …What is this feeling…
M- …Yes
M- It appears there are traps all around it

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N- …Traps…?
N- To stop me from escaping?
M- …No, this is…
M- At any rate, let’s get away from here… don’t you recognise it?
M- The presence you feel in this forest…
U- Did you find him?
U- No
U- When it comes to hiding, it appears he is quite crafty
U- Tsk, keep looking…
U- Hm? Hey, what’s that?
U- Something is coming this way…

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U- Oh no, everybody run!
U- It’s him
U- He’s coming!
U- He’s…

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U- Gyah
U- Damn it
U- We’ll pull back for now
U- Run
N- …what was that?
N- Just now…
N- One of them was captured?

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MT- …Now then
MT- I wonder if I can use this one a bit?
N- …That’s…
U- Matoba

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U- How did it go?
MT- Yes… I caught one
U- Does it seem like we can use it?
MT- Shh
MT- …There is something
MT- In those bushes…

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MT- …Oh, it seems it was just my imagination
N- Ha
N- Ha
N- Crap
N- That was Matoba-san
N- The head of one of the major exorcise clans, the Matoba
N- In order to hunt them, he shows ayakashi, and sometimes even humans, no mercy

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N- It would be a disaster if he was to come to know of the existence of the Book of Friends
N- I don’t want him to see me
M- Tsk, he’s probably the one who set all those traps
M- Be careful
M- They could also be traps that work on humans…
M- Damn it, if I changed to my original form I could escape with one bound, but we would be discovered by him…
N- …Yeah, for the time being let’s find somewhere to hide
M- …Tsk, seems like what Misuzu said is true
N- What?
M- We shouldn’t have come –

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N- Sensei!?
N- Nyanko-sensei!?
N- Where are you?
N- Sensei…
N- An abandoned house…?

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Sign- Matoba
N- This is…
N- Uwaaah!