[Comprehensive] Lord of Arakawa

It's just... Arakawa looked at the cub in a shirt and trousers, and had some guesses in his heart.

This time... he and the big tengu must have come to the modern world...

He is not bad, because after all, he has human memory, so it is not difficult to accept, but the big tengu...

Thinking of this, he turned his head and glanced at the big tengu that had landed beside him, who was staring at the cub in front of him at the moment... the ugly, fat raccoon cat beside him.

"My name is Natsume." The cub looked at Arakawa, then Otengu, and introduced himself.

"...Natsume," after hearing the young man's self-introduction, Daitengu looked at him and suddenly frowned, "You have a powerful demon power, but why have you never combed it?"

Arakawa stood aside and didn't interrupt, although he knew that the boy Sora in front of him had a lot of strength and didn't know how to sort it out. Maybe it's not a strange thing in the modern age a thousand years later.

Perhaps his kin was dead, or perhaps... he had never realized the great power he possessed.

Thousands of years later, the profession of onmyojis has long since declined, and those famous monsters have long since retreated from the human world, hiding in unknown corners, peacefully.No matter how powerful an existence is, it can't stand against the invasion of time, and has become an existence that only exists in ghost novels.

"...Sorry...I don't know how to comb the power in me..." Natsume apologized reflexively when he saw Daitengu frowning. "You are full of demonic power, and it is easy to attract the covetousness of monsters. If you don't have the protection of your relatives..." Daitengu seems to like Natsume very much. He lowered his head while talking, and put his hand on the cub's shoulder, " ...There is no mark of Onmyoji either."

"Onmyoji?... Are you talking about... an exorcist?" Hearing Otengu's words, Natsume froze for a moment.

"...Forget it, these two are just old antiques from some deep mountain and old forest. I don't even know that Onmyoji has long since fallen... Natsume, stay away from them. Today Tazi said that he wants to make fried shrimp. Let's hurry up. Go back, meow~" The ugly fat tabby cat who was a little impatient at the side slapped its paws and interrupted the communication between Natsume and Otengu, while standing upright humanely while pushing Natsume's calf, "Hurry up, later You won’t be able to eat fried shrimp~”

"Wait, wait... Teacher..." Natsume was pushed and staggered, and after finally standing still, he found that he had been pushed by the cat for several meters.

"...You are very wary of us..." Seeing the appearance of the cat, Arakawa, who had been silent all this time, suddenly stopped the cat. "...Different from seeing our defense and vigilance at the beginning, you are... in awe of us..." Arakawa said, looking at the cat that seemed to stiffen suddenly, and smiled, "You know us."

When the cat wanted to take two steps forward, it found that the black feathers on the big tengu's wings had quietly floated in front of him. "...Ah, I've heard of it, but it's all a legend among monsters." Seeing that his way was blocked, Fat Cat turned his head and glanced at Arakawa, and returned to his original form with a bang, without a trace Hide Natsume behind his paws.

"Teacher...your hair is covering my face..." Natsumu's voice came muffled.

"Cough... Anyway, you are the Lord of Arakawa, right..." asked the monster who changed species from a cat to a fox after becoming a prototype. After Arakawa nodded, he stepped on the grass with his paws and sighed. "...Actually, I don't know much about your deeds, but I heard about them when I was young. I heard that you all retired to the village of the floating world in the end." Fox said, and looked carefully at Arakawa and the people around him. Daitengu, "Such a powerful demonic aura... I really can't think of other monsters except for those big monsters who are said to have retired to the land of the floating world."

"...the town of the floating world..." Arakawa and Ootengu exchanged glances, "Do you know where it is?"

"How could I know? That's where the legendary monster is, even I'm not qualified to go in!" Hearing Arakawa's words, the white fox was about to explode.

"... If you don't mind, let me inquire about it for you." Seeing Arakawa frowning because of the fox's words, Natsume, who is good at observing words and expressions, hastily interjected. "Hey! Natsume, you're asking for trouble again!" The fox's tail was about to stand up.

"Heh." Arakawa looked at the boy, noncommittal, and just gave the fox a mocking look by the way. "In that case, we'll interrupt."

Ootengu seemed to really like the cub in front of him, and he even agreed without asking Arakawa's opinion when the boy said he wanted to help them.

"..." Seeing the strange behavior of his best friend, Arakawa frowned, and couldn't help expressing his doubts when he followed Natsume back to his house. "...I don't know..." Ootengu couldn't help frowning when he heard Arakawa's question, his eyes were a little dazed, "I just feel... I really want to get close to him..."

Arakawa could only sigh softly, even Ootengu didn't know why he had an above-average affection for the boy in front of them, let alone him.For the safety of his best friend, he could only inadvertently take precautions against this seemingly friendly human cub in front of him.

Natsume is a very gentle and good boy, this is Arakawa's conclusion after observing the other party for nearly a week.Of course, the boy who never seemed to know how to refuse seemed to him to be closer to the level of a bad guy.He is almost responsive to monsters who ask for help when they are in trouble, but his attitude towards humans...doesn't seem to be as natural as when getting along with monsters.

"...Natsume." One day, while Ootengu was out shaking his hair, Arakawa suddenly called out to the boy who was doing his homework. "Huh? What's the matter?" Natsume put down his pen and looked at Arakawa cautiously.

Although he was rescued by Arakawa at the beginning, Natsume still seems to be a little afraid of him... What are you afraid of?Arakawa touched his face, could it be that the expression on his face was too serious?

"...you... don't you hate humans very much?" In the Heian period, I saw this kind of human beings. When they possessed a powerful force that was incompatible with ordinary humans, these people would be rejected by the entire ordinary human group. In the end, , either take refuge in the side of monsters, or die in isolation and loneliness... Of course, there is another type of people... It is by virtue of their own extraordinary ability that they have become extraordinary existences...

For example... the Great Onmyoji who was famous in Heianjing at that time.

Arakawa belatedly remembered that according to the memories he retrieved, this great onmyoji seemed to have done quite unexpected things in the end.

"...It's not disgust..." Hearing Arakawa's words, the boy raised his head in surprise, his amber eyes filled with tenderness were wide open, and he looked like a cat whose tail had been trampled on, "It's not disgust... ...It's just..." The young man recalled his past experiences and sighed softly, "I just feel...that they and I...are not in the same world..."

Because he inherited his grandmother's powerful talent for demon power, he was born with yin and yang eyes. Since he was born, because he saw a different scene from the people around him, he was always rejected by others, even when he lost his parents when he was young. Tossing and turning to survive is because the scenery seen by those eyes is not less disgusted by blood relatives...

Such a childhood is quite a painful memory for teenagers.

"Humans are such creatures. They fear what they can't see, and reject ignorant creatures that they can't understand." Seeing the boy's performance, Arakawa also guessed what happened to the boy from the details. He snorted coldly, and his voice Has no sympathy for humans.

"But there are also differences. Some people will reject me, but some people will still treat me tenderly even if they can't see the scenery I can see." The young voice of the young man who seems to have gradually let go of the past After refuting a sentence, when Arakawa looked over with a look of disapproval, he couldn't help but bend his eyebrows. It was a kind of... a smile mixed with relief and happiness, which made Arakawa fall silent.

The young man didn't know how happy his eyebrows and eyes were curved at that moment, and he didn't know that besides happiness, there was anxiety and fear of having such happiness.

"...Are you afraid?" He walked up to the young man, looked at those extremely beautiful eyebrows and eyes, and asked softly. "...Ah, sometimes, there will be more or less...I'm afraid that everything I have now is just a dream...I'm afraid, when I wake up from the dream, there will be nothing..." The young man didn't know why Unfamiliar Arakawa confided his inner feelings...

No, maybe it's because of unfamiliarity...

He already, doesn't want to make familiar people worry about him anymore...

Seeing Natsume's expression, Arakawa sighed. He reached out and stroked the boy's soft hair, "You are a cub, you have the right to be willful."

For some reason, when Natsume heard what Arakawa said, he couldn't help his nose sore, and tears welled up in his eyes.

"……sorry, I……"

"I've said it before, you are a cub, you have the right to be willful, whether it's crying or laughing, follow your heart."

"Natsume, are you willing to become my believer?" Arakawa asked suddenly, looking at the boy whose nose and eye sockets were red after wiping his eyes. "In the name of Arakawa, I will protect you and give you the most gentle and domineering water in the world. From now on, it will be as small as streams and rivers, as large as rivers, lakes and seas. You can come and go."

"...Why?" Although he didn't realize how enviable it is to be the patron who the Lord of Arakawa voluntarily acknowledged, Natsume still felt a kind of solemnity...that cannot be described in words. ...

"Maybe...you are in a good mood?" Arakawa made a rare joke, seeing the boy staring dumbfoundedly with big red eyes, couldn't help but twitched the corners of his mouth.

Outside the window, the pure black wings flashed away.

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