Natsume Yuujin Chou 36

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Natsume Yuujinchou 36

Code
N- Natsume
M- Nyanko-sensei
MT- Matoba
U- Unknown
H- Hinoe
MZ- Misuzu
L- Leader
CA- Chuukyuu A
CB- Chuukyuu B
T- Touko-san
F- Shigeru-san

01
The climax of the Matoba arc! Super Popular * Strange Tales of Ayakashi Contracts
The Tale of the Easten Forest, Part 3
Things that are stolen, things that are protected. Face to face!
Natsume Yuujinchou
Midorikawa Yuki

02
MT- I want you to tell me
MT- What kind of person Natsume Reiko was
N- …why?
MT- Because I’m an exorcist, I suppose. Strong people interest me
N- …Interest…?
MT- Yes
MT- …Oh yes, what about your mother?
MT- Your mother was quite powerful too, was she not?

03
N- No, my mother
N- They said my mother was just an ordinary, gentle and kind person…
MT- Really
MT- Well, just because Natsume Reiko was rumoured to have great strength doesn’t necessarily mean she passed it on to her daughter
MT- Humans who can see them are very valuable to me
MT- The more power they have
MT- The more valuable they are
MT- How about it?
MT- How about you join the Matoba clan?

04
N- What are you saying…
MT- Long ago, my ancestors raised their bows
MT- Against the ayakashi who came to attack the villagers, that was the beginning of the family business
MT- Now I do it for people who will pay, and for my comrades
MT- It is troublesome to be with humans who don’t understand you, is it not?
N- …I refuse
N- There is no reason for me to tell you about Reiko-san
MT- Oh… now that will be a problem
MT- …How about I make it so you want to talk, then?

05
MT- …Ah yes, that pot
MT- Was the ayakashi I sealed in there your friend?
h/w- Ha
N- No, I don’t really…
N- We just talked a little
U- That’s right, how rude
U- Who would befriend such a low class being!?
MT- …Please tell me if you start to want to talk
U- …ugh…
U- Ugh…
U- Ah, ow…

06
N- A spell…? He’s reacting to that…
N- Please
N- Please stop
N- I told you, I have nothing to do with this ayakashi
MT- If you have nothing to do with it, then there is no reason for you to care is there?
MT- I tried catching it
MT- But I don’t know if I can use it or not
MT- It has quite an attitude towards humans
MT- There are plenty more where it came from
MT- If I can’t use it for negotiations, then it is no longer
N- Please stop, I don’t know

07
N- When it comes to my grandmother, I don’t know either…
N- Even if I wanted to talk I couldn’t
N- When I asked the people who knew her…
N- It wasn’t very… favourable…
N- At any rate, please stop doing cruel things to this ayakashi
N- I really don’t know
MT- I see, people treated you and your grandmother coldly
MT- So you were enticed by ayakashi and have grown attached to them
N- That’s not true
N- It was difficult sometimes
N- But I have met many kind hearted people as well

08
N- Now I feel ayakashi are like that as well
N- Ah
MT- This is dangerous
MT- Your heart has been completely stolen away by ayakashi
MT- Wake up, Natsume Takashi, they deceive and betray humans
MT- Scrap this one
N- Scrap!? What are you going to do?
N- Give him back!
MT- You won’t understand unless you are hurt by an ayakashi?
N- Give him…

09
U- You are
U- Speaking rudely to my master, aren’t you boy!?
N- Ugh
N- The Book of Friends, sensei…
U- Hah!
MT- Good grief

10
U- Gyah!
N- It’s about time
N- You let me shut this guy up for real, Natsume
M- These types who have some half assed power
M- Are the hardest to hold back against
N- Sensei
M- We have no further business here

11
M- You just won’t give up, will you?
MT- Tsk

12
MT- He got away again
N- Thankyou, sensei
M- Honestly
M- Who on earth covers their own guardian?
N- It’s your fault for being unconscious even though you’re my guardian
M- What!?

13
N- And you were an afterthought of the Book of Friends
M- What!?
U- The names of your underlings
U- Are written in the Book of Friends, are they not?
U- I expect that for humans, ayakashi are a pale existence
U- What will come of protecting them?
N- …I couldn’t help it
N- My body just moved on its own
N- Because they are really
N- Very important to me
M- Ah, that pot
M- When did you…
M- You picked it up in all that confusion didn’t you!?
H/w- Throw it away
N- Ahaha

14
N- I suppose so, then let’s go throw it away somewhere down there
h/w- Alright then
U- Gyah –
U- You demon, you’re not human –
M- Your friends will find you here, won’t they?
M- It’s a simple seal, just get them to break it for you
U- Ooh…
h/w- Seeya
U- …Natsume
U- It may well be as you said
N- Hm?
U- …Our leader
U- If he were to
U- Command many ayakashi…
U- If we brought him the Book of Friends
U- I’m sure he would make a sad face

15
U- There he us
U- There he is
U- It’s Natsume, relinquish the Book of Friends to us
U- …Ah
U- That pot is
U- I knew it, you
U- Are a friend of that cursed Matoba aren’t you?

16
N- I’m not!
N- That’s right, however unwillingly, he brought me back from Matoba’s…
U- You
U- You cursed human
N- Ah
N- Guh…
N- Stop it, don’t be rough with it
U- You think you can order us around?
U- So imprudent, how about we shut you up
U- Stop!
U- Stop it, Natsume saved me!
U- You
U- Cursed human, disappear
U- This is all your fault
U- How much misfortune do you need to bring upon us before you are satisfied?
U- You should all just disappear

17
U- Disappear…

18
M- Yeah, we’ll disappear
M- This guy
M- And the Book of Friends too
M- We’ll go back to where we should be
M- It may not be official, but I am his guardian

19
M- The next time you try to lay a hand on him
M- Your enemy won’t be an exorcist, it’ll be me
M- Bring it on whenever you please
M- Until then

20
N- Misuzu…
U- …Ah

21
U- Leader…
L- Honestly
L- What are you lot up to
L- Acting on your own like this…
U- Le
U- Leader…
L- It seems that
L- You saved one of us
L- Please forgive their rudeness, Natsume-dono
L- It seems my lack of power has made them uneasy
U- That, that’s not true, leader

22
U- We just wanted, wanted to help you somehow, leader…
CA- Natsume-sama –
CA- Natsume-sama, are you okay!?
Sign – First class fighters
H- You Eastern monkey masked bastards; you dare lay a hand on Natsume-sama, the saviour of Yatsuhara!?
N- Hi, Hinoe, Chuukyuu
CA- Please hold on a moment, Natsume-sama
CA- I shall drink this life water and become a demon god to save you
Bottle – Sake
CB- How dare you attack him as a group!!
h/w- That’s cowardice!!
H- Bring it on! This means war!!
N- Waah, stop it
N- I’m grateful, but the trouble is over, as you can see
h/w- Burp – yum!!
L- Haha
L- Haha
L- So there are ayakashi
L- Who will move for Natsume-dono without him using the Book of Friends, are there?

23
N- Yes
N- They are my friends
U- …I cannot hear what they are talking about, but that is amazing, is it not?

24
M- Shut up you idiots, we’re leaving
N- Thankyou
N- So you told the leader did you Misuzu?
MZ- Hmph, well my master never seems to call my name
MZ- Though you should just hurry up and give the Book of Friends away
N- Sure
N- If someone else
N- Agrees to return these names instead, that is
M- Fool, you promised to give it to me
N- Oh yeah

25
M- Come on, we’re leaving

26-27
U- They’re on a different level
U- If we were to gather all of our ayakashi they may not even be able to hold a flag against them, Matoba
MT- …You may be right…
MT- But there are many ways of doing things
MT- …He was oddly concerned with his bag
MT- I wonder what was inside?
U- According to the one that looked inside
U- …There was something like a notebook there

28
MT- …A notebook…?
U- Yes, what was it…
U- The Book of something or other was written on it
N- And so we somewhat settled the Eastern Forest incident
N- A few days later, according to the monkey masked ayakashi who came to apologise to me
N- The exorcists’ mountain hunts seemed to have ceased since that day
U- There are rumours that it was thanks to the big parade you made
N- It wasn’t a parade, and I didn’t make it
h/w- It was mainly the horse and the cat
h/w- Cat!?
U- …Sorry
U- …In front of your friends in that school place
U- I made you act strangely

29
N- Ah…
N- its okay
h/w- Natsume – you okay?
h/w- I heard you had anaemia or something yesterday? You gotta eat liver dude!!
N- I wonder
N- If someday I will be able to talk about it?
MT- ‘Oh, they were splendid relatives’
MT- ‘Because they brought such a rotten seed into their family and cared for it’
T- Oh! I knew it, it suits you!
T- I’m glad I managed to fix Shigeru-san’s one in time for the festival… but
T- I wonder if it’s a little big…
N- N, no, it’s very comfortable
F- That’s right

30
F- You’ll get bigger really soon
F- It’ll be a perfect fit next year
N- …Yes
N- It’s difficult sometimes
N- But my days are so warm it makes me dizzy
M- Crap, we’re late, run Natsume!
M- What will you do if the squid runs out!?
N- I told you it’ll be fine, sensei
N- …Suddenly, I wondered what it was like for Reiko-san…
N- I should probably find out soon, unfalteringly…
U- Ng, I cannot get out
U- Nnn –
U- This is because you were frolicking about saying you wanted to see fireworks or something
N- Because I decided to protect the Book of Friends
U- Nnn –

31
U- Ah
N- Are you okay?
U- Gyah!
U- A human’s child!?
M- Natsume! Honestly, I told you not to get involved…
N- Because I decided that I would accept
N- The things I can hear
N- Ah, crap, they’ve started sensei
M- Idiot, run Natsume!
N- And the things I can see