Natsume Yuujin Chou 41

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Natsume Yuujinchou 41 – The Tale of the Moon Splitting Festival Part 3

TRANSLATION NOTE – I have decided to use ‘human’ instead of ‘human’s child’ (literal translation). I was reading a dictionary entry and discovered it’s listed along with other words for human. I feel it sounds less awkward, but if you think it will ruin the continuity then please email or pm me about it

Code
N- Natsume
M- Nyanko-sensei
S- Natori
H- Hiiragi
W- White Shade Brigade
B- Black Garb Brigade
F- Fuzukigami
U- Unknown
P- Priest looking ayakashi thing
C- Creature
HG- Houzukigami
T- Touko-san

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The battle that decides the fate of the land. Gather your strength, now you stand to face it.
Natsume Yuujinchou
The Tale of the Moon Splitting Festival Part 3

03
B- A human…?
B- A human you say?
B- You’re not suggesting the likes of a human has disguised itself as Houzukigami
B- And is deceiving us?
B- Wake it
B- Let us find out
N- Ugh…
h/w- Ha

04
N- Do not touch me!
N- Crap, I’m surrounded
B- …I knew it, something is strange
B- Capture it
B- Take of its mask
S- …tsume
h/w- Ha

05
B- They are escaping!
B- Chase them
B- …but wait
B- Could a human use an ayakashi like that?

06
B- Nu… then that really is Houzukigami?
B- Ah
F- What is going on?
B- Fuzuki-sama
B- Well…
N- Ugh…
S- Natsume, you’re hurt
N- I’m fine, I just grazed my shoulder
N- Get it together

07
N- …how’s Hiiragi?
S- If we let her rest somewhere for a while she’ll probably wake up
N- …good, then let’s go back to that abandoned building
N- Sensei
N- When we let Hiiragi off at the building, please go back downstream a bit
M- What?
N- When we got washed down the river, it was really faint but I sensed something
N- Houzukigami’s seal might be around there somewhere
M- Tsk
M- I’ll fly you there

08
S- Was it around here?
N- Yes… probably
S- Was it in the river?
N- …No, a little above me there was a hot light…
S- …Natsume
S- Is really amazing
M- To an exorcist he probably looks like a cash cow in the making
S- I want an unusual and brilliant assistant to help me when I’m stuck
S- So much I can barely contain myself
S- But
S- I don’t want to lose a precious friend
N- Ah

09
N- Sensei, Natori-san
N- This ravine… there’s something down there in the rocks
N- …I think it’s around that hollow
S- That huh?
S- Damn it, we can’t get down there
N- It’s fine, sensei probably can
M- What!? Why you
N- Sensei, come here and look at…

10
N- The creature is there too!!
S- Na
S- Natsume
S- Hide in those rocks for a second

11
S- …Damn
S- Even though Houzukigami might be around there
M- It was probably drawn here by your blood
M- You’re one of a kind Natsume. I have an idea
N- What?
M- I’ll eat that thing
M- And you take the head back to the festival ground
h/w- Everyone will bow before you
N- No way, we don’t need a god like that
h/w- You’re getting caught in the moment
M- Necessity knows no law right? Even I can’t point my fangs at a god without getting cursed…
M- After all, even if we find Houzukigami, if Fuzukigami catches the creature first we’ll still lose
N- Ugh…
S- …That’s true
N- Natori-san
S- I mean it might not matter what form we bring it back in

12
S- I have the spell and pot I prepared to seal Fuzukigami with
S- If you catch it and carry it there in this
S- It might be better than just the head
N- Natori-san
S- Shall we give it a try?
N- Yes

13
S- Oi, creature
S- Over here

14
S- Those without shadows that dwell in the old earth
S- To capture this creature is
S- Just
S- Reveal yourselves
C- Arp

15
S- Natsume
N- Okay
N- …ugh
h/w- Ha
S/N- ! We
S/N- We did it…!!

16
N- …Natori-san, thankyou
N- Now we can definitely
N- Do it
N- Thankyou too sensei, for lending me your power…
N- Wah, sensei
Sfx- rustle
B- What was that light?
B- I felt something ominous…
B- Over there?
N- The Black Garb Brigade
B- …What is this?
B- I knew it, I smell a human
S- Natsume
S- Take the pot and head for the festival ground
S- I’ll stop them here
N- ! Natori-san
S- I’ll look for Houzukigami

17
S- It’s alright Natsume
S- We’ve come this far, now just a little further
S- We can do it for sure
S- Go
N- Okay
B- Mu
B- Hey, didn’t something just jump out over there?

18
S- I won’t let you pass
B- ! A human
B- Why is a human in a place like this…?
B- You really are planning something after all aren’t you!?
S- …As I imagined, exorcising a god is hard
S- But I can knock you lot down
S- Come on

19
N- Gotta hurry
N- Gotta hurry…
U- Now then, who will arrive first?
U- According to the legend, if Fuzukigami wins this mountain will go barren won’t it?
U- How terrifying
U- Mu… but I’m sure it will be fine
U- Because whatever you say, Fuzukigami has never won up till now, has he?

20
U- Well, that is true…
U- Oi, something is coming
U- He’s here!
U- Which one?
U- A peony crown…
U- It’s Houzukigami
U- …He did it
U- Yes
U- It’s Houzuki-sama…

21
U- …something’s wrong with Houzuki-sama
U- Oh
U- He’s so dishevelled…
U- It’s almost as though he’s…
N- I, Houzuki, have returned first
P- Then the creature?
N- Here!

22
P- Certainly

23
P- Winner, Houzukigami
N- …We did it

24
N- We did it, now we can…
U- Ah
U- Fuzukigami…
F- You
F- Are not Houzuki, are you?
N- Ow…
U- …what…!?
U- That is… a human?
U- What!?

25
U- A human!?
U- A human has deceived us!?
F- Where is Houzuki?
F- After whimsically lifting him onto your shoulders
F- Then tossing him aside
F- You couldn’t possibly have
F- Exorcised him too now, could you?
F- What say you?

26
h/w- Ha
M- ‘Even I couldn’t point my fangs at a god…’
N- Sensei, no!
F- Beast
F- You show no respect

27
N- Nyanko-sensei…
N- ! Natori-san
S- Natsume, here
S- Sensei said you would be able to break this seal
N- The stone!!
N- Houzukigami is inside
N- Houzukigami, please wake up…

28
N- Ah…
N- Natsume…
Sfx- rustle
Sfx- rustle
Sfx- rustle

29
N- …people? It’s a festival…
N- …This is
N- Houzukigami’s memory…?
N- Maybe I’m dreaming…
N- There are less people than I thought
N- It’s a small festival…
N- …Ah, but
N- It’s warm…

30
HG- You have helped me a great deal, human
HG- Why do you make such a face?
N- …it’s nothing
HG- You are sharp
HG- It is true, I have almost no power left
HG- I could not even break a seal of that calibre
HG- Even if I were to win the festival
HG- I have long lost the power to protect the forest and the mountains

31
N- Fuzukigami
F- If that is the case
F- Then the festivals are at their end?
HG-…Yes
HG- This is the end
F- Then I no longer have reason
F- To visit this mountain
F- You may stay here and rot if you wish

32
F- But how about we go together?
W- Let us go forth, Houzuki-sama
W- We shall definitely
W- Protect you
W- Let us go forth
W- Natsume-sama

33
W- Thankyou
S- Natsume! …Thank goodness
N- Natori-san, sensei…
S- Take it easy
N- Where is Houzuki-sama and…
N- Light…?
H- Houzukigami, with his seal broken, and the White Shade Brigade, who rushed over here
H- Quelled Fuzukigami and the ayakashi’s anger
N- Hiiragi…
H- They declared that this was the last festival
H- And that they would be departing this land… see, take a look Natsume

34
N- Then this light is…
S- The Houzukigami company and Fuzukigami company
N- It’s beautiful. That’s one of the gods isn’t it?

35
N- It’s kind of mysterious isn’t it?
S- …Hm?
N- The two parties, who once opposed each other
N- Now, glowing with the same coloured light
N- Vanished into the far away sky
S- Natsume
M- Gyah
N- …Phew, we did it…
N- Thankyou, Natori-san

36
N- I’m glad that
N- You came
N- I definitely couldn’t have faced it
N- By myself
N- I never could have done it
N- Alone
S- Yeah
S- You’re right, Natsume
N- And so

37
N- The curtain fell upon the Moon Splitting Festival
N- I was exhausted, and slept for several days
N- And sensei ended up nagging me maliciously the whole time
h/w- ugh, heavy…
N- When my fever goes down
N- I should go and see Natori-san, every once in a while
N- The fact that I am puzzled by the differences in the way we think and act hasn’t changed
T- Oh Takashi-kun, are you feeling better?
N- Yes, I’m going to go for a walk
N- But because we are different

38
N- I feel like we can cover for each other’s shortcomings
H- The ayakashi of the Misumi Mountains have decided to protect Houzukigami’s shrine
H- Because Natori managed to settle the problem without exorcising a god
H- His immeasurable fame among the exorcists has risen yet again
N- Eh
M- He’s a shrewd one isn’t he? That brat
N- Are your injuries already healed, Hiiragi?
H- Yes, a plank of wood just glanced off me
H- …Your spell might have come in handy
N- …Eh?
N- Does that work on wood too?
H- …No, probably not
H- I retract my thanks

39
H- Ah, here he comes
N- …uwah…
H- If you have things you want to ask him, or tell him
H- Then just say them to him directly
N- …Yeah
N- I guess I should
The Tale of the Moon Splitting Festival/End