[Comprehensive] Lord of Arakawa

"Hey—you two—" On that day, the cat rarely took the initiative to call Arakawa and Ootengu.

"Huh? What do you need from us?" Arakawa and Ootengu were sitting on the roof drinking tea, when they saw a fat cat trying very hard to climb out of the window sill. "...Huffling...Didn't you say you wanted to watch the Fengyue Festival...Huffling...the festival is coming soon, do you want to go with me?" It is rare for a cat to invite two big monsters Arakawa and Ootengu were very puzzled, did this cat suddenly change sex?

"Don't look at me like that! The Fengyue Festival is a very important festival for monsters. Every powerful monster has the responsibility to maintain the festival. I'm just doing my duty!" The cat was puzzled by the two monsters. His scrutinizing eyes made hair furious, and he rubbed his paws on the window frame while turning his face away.

"Ah! Teacher! Don't use the window to sharpen your claws!" Then, of course, Natsume boy taught him a lesson.

"...It's really bad..." Looking at the mottled and scattered marks on the wooden window frame being scratched by the cat's paw, Natsume sighed, with a distressed look.

It would be troublesome if Aunt Tazi and the others saw it... But I don't have the materials to repair it...

"Meow~ How about this, Natsume, why don't you go to the Fengyue Festival with me." The cat put a big bag on its head and looked at the unsightly situation it made by itself, suddenly stretched out its paw and suggested.

"Every time at the festival, there will be monsters who exchange valuable and worthless gadgets. I remember that there seems to be a monster who has a very good relationship with the forest and comes to Fengyue Festival every year. Why don't you exchange free wood with him. ’ the cat suggested.

"...But I don't have anything worth giving him in exchange..." Natsume was very moved when he heard what the cat said, but he quickly became entangled again.

After all, he is only a sophomore in high school now, and he has not gone out to work. The pocket money around him is also given by his adopter, and there is nothing worth exchanging for the other's wood.

"You don't have it, but it does." Hearing what Natsume said, Arakawa bent down and poked his head in through the window, "Anyway, that stupid cat broke it, so let it find something as compensation, although It looks a bit stupid, but at least it is a monster that has been cultivated for many years, so it is impossible to have nothing to hang around." Arakawa suggested so, ignoring the cat's eyes staring at him secretly.

"Really, you just think I'm easy to bully, don't you?" Although the cat has long wanted to exchange wood for Natsume, there is still a big difference between actively saying and passively saying.

"Guizhi—come down for dinner~" Aunt Tazi's voice came from downstairs, and the boy who heard it responded hastily. "I'm coming down!" Then he signaled a few monsters to come back and talk about this topic, and then hurried downstairs.

"If I remember correctly... Fengyue Festival is a festival to sacrifice to the gods." Arakawa sat cross-legged on the roof and asked softly after watching the fat cat who jumped up and down a few times and finally successfully climbed to the roof.

"Yes, whether it is a monster or a human being, the worshiped gods are treated equally and will give the same blessings." The big tengu was the monster who presided over the Fengyue Festival in the early years, so he naturally knew everything about the festival very well. "Although Natsume participated in the sacrifice of the Chang family before, it was at best a blessing from wild gods, and it didn't work for Natsume, so you want to take him to the real Fengyue Festival, right?" Big Tengu Saying so, he cast a sideways glance at the farmer who was sitting on the roof of the cat, who had a bewildered and innocent expression of 'I don't know what you're talking about'.

"Forget it, anyway, if you don't say that we will propose it sooner or later, but we will make the purpose more clear." Arakawa looked at the cat who was still pretending to be stupid but refused to admit how good he was to Natsume, and endured I couldn't help laughing lightly.

"About... the arrogant nature of felines?"

"The moon has appeared..." Big Tengu raised his head, saw the moon that was originally hidden behind the clouds clearly revealing his figure, and said softly.

"Yes." Arakawa also raised his head, looked at the bright full moon in the sky, then lowered his head to look at the young man who was carefully climbing out of the window, and stretched out his hand.

"Why are you dawdling, hurry up, if we don't take advantage of the moonlight to open the way, we will miss the festival!" I don't know if it's because of habit, but I know that the Fujiwara couple who adopted Natsume are just ordinary humans and can't hear me Speaking, Madara, who had returned to her original form, still lowered her voice and urged softly.

"Hurry up, both of you, don't fall behind!" Madara watched Natsume climb up her back carefully, then turned her head and said to Arakawa and the others.

The big tengu had already raised its wings, and the swimming fish around Arakawa had increased from two to several, enough to bring him up.

So the strange combination of three monsters and one human flew towards the place where the Fengyue Festival was held under the moonlight.

Natsume was lying on Madara's body, the breeze blowing over her face felt very comfortable, bringing some autumnal coolness, and... the smell of ripe fruit trees.Natsume felt a little drunk when he smelled the smell, and then he looked at the moonlight shining on the back of his hand, and felt that the moonlight was different from what he usually saw at night, with some sparkling silver. "What is this?" He raised his hand, feeling the tiny light spots reflected on the back of his hand.

"...What a sensitive child..." Arakawa couldn't help but shook his head with a smile when he saw Natsume staring at the back of his hand. "This is Yuehua." He told Natsume the name of the tiny spot of light. "This is a kind of crystal unique to the moon. It is very small and does not usually fall down. Only before the start of the Fengyue Festival, the moon will drop these tiny essences to illuminate the road and lead us to the location of the Fengyue Festival. As he said, he also stretched out his hand, condensed the tiny particles with water, and then spelled out a perfect snowflake and handed it to Natsume.

"Yuehua is the guide for us to enter the Fengyue Festival, and it is also a very useful tonic for monsters." He said this, and then looked at the big tengu who was wearing Yuehua and flapping its wings. The pure black feathers were mixed. The moonlight shining with silver light interweaves into a very beautiful scene.

So beautiful...he couldn't describe it in words.

"Because Yuehua is not mixed with other powers, it is a very good training tool for many monsters. Such a piece is enough for you to exchange for some useful gadgets, Natsume." Madara looked at Arakawa easily. The quicksand-shaped moonlight condensed into the shape of snowflakes, and he sighed softly in his heart, and then continued Arakawa's topic. "I'm going to speed up, sit still!"

"What were you looking at me just now?" After Madara and Natsume sped up and left the two big monsters behind, the big tengu swayed and flapped its wings and approached Arakawa, asking wonderingly.

In order to prepare for the Fengyue Festival, he tidied himself up very formally today. He was afraid that there might be some problems. When Arakawa looked at him just now, he almost thought that there was something wrong with him.

"It's nothing," Arakawa twitched his lips when he saw Otengu's puzzled expression, and replied in a low voice, "I just remembered the past, when you presided over the Fengyue Festival."

"... Is there any difference between the appearance at that time and the present one?" Ootengu suddenly felt his heart pounding when Arakawa looked at him, he turned his face away uncomfortably and muttered.

"And, didn't you just watch it once?"

At that time, Arakawa was still a proper otaku, he was not interested in anything, even the only time he participated in Fenggetsu Festival was under the very formal letter of invitation sent by Ootengu, and even if he participated in Fenggetsu in a low-key manner Zhiji only showed his face for a short moment, so Datengu didn't have time to talk to him at all.

"...That time is enough for me to remember." Arakawa said, looking at the figure of Ootengu with his head bowed and flapping his wings tenderly.

He still clearly remembers the situation when Daitengu presided over the Fengyue Festival at that time. His appearance was beautiful, and he was different from other monsters because of his divinity. They are not in the same world.

"It's so beautiful..." Arakawa remembered feeling emotionally, and never went to see it a second time.

Because he knew that no matter how many times he went to see it, the big tengu in front of the altar would never be his.

But now this big dog who is shy, jealous, awkward, and choking on himself is truly his own existence.

"Hey, what are you two doing dawdling? If you want to talk about love, let's see the time, okay?!" By the time Arakawa and Otengu arrived at the festival before the end of the moonlight, Madara had already recovered as a beckoning cat. He patted Natsume's shoulder impatiently, completely ignoring the boy's dark face.

"It hurts, teacher!" Then they started hurting each other.

"Okay, don't make trouble, the Fengyue Festival is about to begin." The big tengu looked up at the moon, stopped the one person and one cat who were fighting, and walked towards the center of the festival very familiarly.

There, an altar made of square stones is standing there.

"... It's been a thousand years... It still hasn't improved." Da Tengu frowned when he saw the stones that had been turned into an altar, not knowing how he felt.

All in all, for using this kind of rough stone to build an altar, whether it is the self thousands of years ago or the present self, the heart actually rejects it.

On the other side, Arakawa, who was walking slowly in the footsteps of Otengu, suddenly stopped after seeing all kinds of monsters. "... These days... besides monsters and elves, even ghosts will participate in the Fengyue Festival?" He didn't miss one or two ghosts exuding ghostly aura, thinking that he didn't seem to have heard of it. What are the benefits of the festival of the full moon to the ghost clan?

"Oh, those are for the exchange market after the festival, just ignore them, just ignore them." Madara knows a lot, and I don't know when this rule started. I heard that there were only monsters and elves in the Fengyue Festival at the beginning. Wait for the creatures who need to be protected by nature to hold it. I don’t know when it started. One after another, there are also other non-human races who secretly went to the festival to exchange things. Up to now, it is even more open and direct. Doing modification directly reveals the figure.

"...Speaking of the ghost clan... suddenly I remembered an acquaintance..." I can't say it's a friend, I should just say it's a drinking friend...

As Arakawa thought about it, the figure with wine-red long hair appeared in his mind, with distinctive ghost horns on his forehead, red-gold pupils with fierce aura, and severed arms...

"Oh, it's really rare. I haven't seen you for a long time. How is your trip?" It seems that it is not the figure in the memory, because Arakawa clearly heard the other party's voice.

The red-haired ghost looked at Arakawa, then at Natsume who was beside him who hadn't made any modifications, and frowned for a while in silence.

"You..." You and the big tengu?

"Swallow!"

"Feather Blade Storm!"

The author has something to say: Da Ibaraki: Do you have it again?

Arakawa: Devour!

Big Tengu: Feather Blade Storm!

Daran smashed: hhhh every time I see Ibaraki Doji, I will come to greet you~

By the way, they will be able to go back with Ibaraki after the festival is over~ meow meow~ and then go back to their hometown to get married and get married! ! !