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At sunset, when the devil meets.

The dim sunlight is like a candle flame that is about to be extinguished, and the part where the branches and leaves of the dense forest meet the sky presents a scorched texture, while there are branches that have been cut off and blown down in the windless mountains.

Natsume was walking in the forest with the cat teacher in his arms, making a rustling sound on the fallen leaves.A black cat on the forest canopy overlooked the scene condescendingly. It tapped its toes lightly, and an invisible wall blocked the way of one person and one cat.Natsume was caught off guard and was blocked. He didn't control his balance well and fell down under the rebound of the force.

"Who?" Teacher Cat jumped out of Natsume's arms vigilantly, and stood in front of Natsume as a guardian.

"Mr. Cat, what's the matter?" Natsume rubbed his forehead and stood up by himself. At this moment, Nana descended from the sky, holding her head high and observing the humans in front of her with indifferent eyes unique to cats.

"You have very strong spiritual power." Nana sniffed lightly twice, looked at Natsume seriously and said, "You were the ones who appeared here last night. But I remember seeing a heroic big monster, and It's not the cat bun in front of you."

"Hey, that heroic big monster is my uncle, are you frightened by my strength, little cat~" Teacher Cat looked at Nana triumphantly, and said in a very embarrassing tone.

Natsume looked at Nana with a little surprise, not because it spit out human words, but because it showed its identity so casually: "Are you... the cat demon who is following Yukimura-kun?"

Teacher Cat turned around and glared at Natsume: "What cat monster! This guy doesn't have any monster aura, we were deceived."

"But Mr. Kitty, didn't you say last night that you could feel another powerful force nearby to drive away the monsters approaching here with malicious intentions?" Natsume responded innocently, pointing at Nana and said, " When we met for the first time, just tell me that you think the cat Yukimura-kun is carrying has the aura of a monster stronger than you."

Teacher Cat turned his face away, his shoulders trembled, and he muttered, "Even if I'm wrong, what's the matter! Natsume, you guys, don't go too far. I was telling the truth when I said that I felt the powerful demon power." The teacher suddenly thought of something, and looked at Nana with bright eyes, "It's really strange to say that, when I saw it for the first time, it did have a very powerful aura, but now it's gone."

Natsume rubbed his nose and said without thinking, "Maybe it's not the big monster from last night? Anyway, it doesn't seem hostile."

"That's hard to say, how can a cat demon with a demonic aura on his body appear and disappear? It's not normal!" Said Teacher Cat launched an attack on Nana in the prototype state, but it unexpectedly found that its own power was not working.And Nana jumped up at the moment of being attacked, turned into a shield in the air, and lit up the magic circle to return to a slender and huge prototype. The fluffy tail was elongated to form a foxtail-like shape. and split in two at the end.This form reminded Natsume of the Neko Mata that often appears in Japanese monster stories.

At this time, Nana closed her blood-red eyes, and a circle of ice crystal-like magic crystals formed a circle behind it, but it seemed that she had no clear intention to attack.

Looking at Nana's vigorous figure, Natsume couldn't help showing admiration and admiration: "Could this be the legendary big monster cat, it looks so good!"

"At this time, do you still have the heart to admire the enemy's appearance, not to mention how good-looking this guy is, his body is covered with patterns in the shape of rings, he looks like a funny clown, how handsome is the prototype of my uncle!" Teacher Kitty's fur exploded, and he turned into the form of a big youkai Madara in a domineering manner. With a pair of yellow-green eyes with vertical pupils, he bumped into Natsume and received him at the moment the other party rose into the air. on the back.

"Mr. Kitty, don't provoke the other party, I don't think it has any malicious intentions..." Natsume opened his mouth and said loudly, and the next second, he was blown into a mouthful of cold wind, because Madara had already taken off into the air to fight the other party.

Nana did not have any malicious intentions. Last night, she sensed a lot of strange auras around her, so she guarded outside the hostel all night. Sure enough, many monsters with fierce faces appeared on the way. They were insane and in a state of madness.Nana directly opened the gate of time and space to recycle these weak monsters according to the garbage recycling method taught by Culolido.

At the same time, Nana felt the shock of the same powerful force on the other side. The other party seemed to be repairing these uninvited guests just like it. However, when the monsters dispersed at dawn, it instantly lost the trace of the other party.

As an existence that can feel part of the world's source power, Nana finally found Natsume and Madara.However, the negotiations failed, and the two sides fought when they disagreed.

When Yukimura rushed to the scene after hearing the sound, the two majestic forces had already left the scene of the collision.

Fortunately, his sense of presence was too strong, almost at the same time as he appeared, Madara sensed something was wrong and stopped his movements: "Strange, the humans below..."

Nana quickly returned to Yukimura's side.

Yukimura looked at it with some concern: "Are you injured?" Nana shook her head, only then did Yukimura notice the strange creature with a dangerous aura and red spots on its head beside Natsume. "Is this the so-called monster?"

Natsume couldn't help but be surprised when he heard the words. He originally thought that Yukimura knew Nana's real body and had strong spiritual power, so he must be someone of the same kind who could see something. "Kun Yukimura, can't you see?"

Hearing Natsume's slightly hesitant question, Yukimura shook his head: "I'm just an ordinary person."

Madara snorted coldly: "Ordinary people with powerful spiritual power and demon power? I thought it was this human with spiritual power and this cat monster with demon power, but in fact both spiritual power and demon power are in this human being." You have to be careful with him, Natsume."

Natsume patted Madara lightly, comforting the irritable cat teacher, "I don't think they have any malicious intentions. There were so many monsters approaching here last night, and they obviously came here for some existence in the hotel." He said Looking at Yukimura, he asked seriously, "Kun Yukimura, are you in any trouble?"

Yukimura opened his mouth slightly. In fact, he was completely unaware of what happened outside last night. He looked down at Nana who had returned to his original form and asked, "What happened last night?"

"A lot of monsters have been attracted here, but I thought they were targeting Natsume-kun at first. I came out to prevent you monsters from accidentally hurting you." Nana obviously didn't understand what happened.

After listening to Nana's words, Mr. Cat felt that there was something wrong with it. He changed into the shape of a beckoning cat and jumped onto Natsume's shoulder: "These two are stupid, they don't even know that they are causing trouble."

Natsume patted the cat teacher, and patiently explained to it: "Xingmura-kun may be someone like me who has never realized his own power before." Natsume turned to look at Yukimura and asked the question directly: "Xingmura-kun, are you Isn't it possible to see... some unusual existences?"

Yukimura thought that he could indeed see some weird labels, as if he could see the words "Lord of the Book of Friends" on Natsume's head now, but he didn't know whether he should tell the whole story, he hesitated for a while and just said it ambiguously nod.It seems that the world they live in does have some mysterious power beyond science. According to what Nana said just now, there seem to be many "monsters" here.So is Natsume-kun a human or a demon?Yukimura couldn't judge, but his intuition told him that Natsume was a good person, and he seemed to help him without knowing it.

Seeing Yukimura's embarrassing performance, Natsume didn't delve into it, but smiled gently: "Don't worry, it's not abnormal. I, like you, can see those things, and I'm accompanied by monsters."

Yukimura showed a subtle smile, he felt that Natsume seemed to have misunderstood something, so he looked down at Nana to test its meaning.

Nana pondered for a moment. It thought that Natsume was a good person, and knew better than them about "parts" of the situation in front of him, mainly the endless monster attacks last night, so it decided to say part of the matter: "I'm not a monster."

"You see, I'm not wrong, this guy is really not a monster." The cat teacher jumped up with all his teeth and claws, hugged Natsume's ear and shouted.

"How come?" Natsume looked puzzled, "But you are not an ordinary cat at first glance."

Amused by Natsume's innocent reaction, Yukimura explained, "It's not really a cat, it's actually a magical creature."

"Ma...fa?" Natsume felt his head getting bigger when he heard the new term beyond the scope of understanding.

Before Natsume could digest it, Yukimura asked the question he was most interested in: "Perhaps Natsume-kun can explain why you think we are the ones who caused the trouble."

Natsume thought about how to explain it: "Because Yukimura-kun's spiritual power is the target that all monsters want to snatch..." Mr. Cat narrowed his eyes and stared at Nana, and suddenly interrupted Natsume as if he understood something: "Natsume, That demon power and spiritual power belong to this human being."

"What?" Natsume was taken aback, Teacher Cat shook his head and took a few steps forward, approaching Yukimura and took a deep breath: "Yes, it is indeed him..."

At this moment, several translucent spirit bodies approached Yukimura unexpectedly from behind, and were crushed by the sharp claws of Nana. Teacher Kitty's hair was blown up, and he was shocked: "How can there be dead souls here? insect?"

"What is a dead soul worm?" Yukimura was puzzled.

Teacher Cat looked at him hesitantly: "Hey, did you take something that shouldn't be taken? Dead souls are afraid of pure spiritual power. It's unreasonable for you to attract dead souls. These things are used to collect dead spirits. Yes, it is said that they have disappeared for hundreds of years and now it is a legend, and they appear so inexplicably, they are obviously aimed at you."

Yukimura immediately thought of the beads hanging around his neck after hearing Mr. Kitty's words. He untied his collar and took out the beads and looked at Mr. Kitty: "Is it because of this thing?"

Seeing this bead, Mr. Cat's fur stood on end, its body arched in an attacking posture, its eyes became cloudy, and it said hoarsely, "Why is this thing in your hand?"

"It was given to me by a witch." Yukimura instantly understood from Mr. Cat's reaction that the bead in his hand might be the source of the disaster, but what he didn't understand was how an ordinary bead could have such a large size. power. "what is it?"

Teacher Cat tried hard to calm down his reaction, and only then did he understand why so many irrational monsters were attracted here. This thing is fatally attractive to monsters who survive only on instinct.

"This is the Jade of the Four Souls." Mr. Cat said every word, and then turned to look at Natsume, "It seems that we need reinforcements, Natsume."