[comprehensive] not human

"Natsume, what are you looking at?" Tanuma looked at the brown-haired boy's jacket pocket strangely, but found nothing.Natsume-kun transferred to this school a year ago. Everyone thought he was a bit strange at first, but soon found that Natsume is actually a very gentle boy. Not only girls, but even many boys are right. He has a good impression and is willing to make this new classmate.And Tanuma became Natsume's friend because of a request from a certain shrine to exterminate demons. He was one of the few people who knew that Natsume could see monsters.His own spiritual power is not strong, and he can only vaguely perceive the existence of the creatures in that world, but cannot see it with his own eyes. This is also Tanuma's regret.

"No, it's nothing." Natsume worried that Tanuma would find something, so he said quickly, while turning to avoid his sight, "Let's go to school."

Tanuma considerately did not ask, but instead mentioned the summer festival that will be held in the town soon.At that time, in addition to various small stalls, there will be a fireworks display, which is one of the rare celebrations in this small town.

"Let's join together when the time comes." Walking beside Natsume, Tanuma suggested enthusiastically, "I'm good at shooting and fishing for goldfish."

"What are you going to participate in?"

Before Natsume had time to answer Tanuma, he felt a sudden weight in his body and staggered forward, with an arm on his shoulder, and the owner of the arm unceremoniously pressed his body weight on him.

"Ah, Nishimura and Kitamoto, good morning." Tanuma smiled and greeted the two newly joined boys on Natsume's right, "Let's talk about the summer festival."

"Oh, Tanuma, do you want to be with Natsume?" Nishimura, who was hanging on Natsume, pointed to his nose, "Take me and Kitamoto! This time I will challenge your position as General Goldfish!"

"And me, I want to take away your title of shooting the little prince!" Bei Ben was also gearing up.

Natsume smiled and watched the three of them fight, but this time he didn't feel excluded because...

"Natsume, say something too. This guy is too crazy!" Kitamoto walked around behind Tanuma, wrapped his hands around the latter's neck, and greeted Natsume.

"Haha, maybe Tanuma-kun is really powerful." Natsume said with a smile.

The four of them talked and laughed and arrived at the school soon.The iron gate of the school gate was opened to both sides, and several disciplinary committee members stood at the school gate to check everyone's attire. The ground is dotted with spots, and the heat that belongs to summer begins to gradually evaporate from the ground.Finally, a gust of wind blows through, and it is also very hot. People can't help but sigh that the summer of eating watermelon and swimming has really arrived.

Yan Bai found out that Natsume was basically no different from his other classmates. During class, he sat on his seat, listening to the teacher's lecture intently, and kept taking notes. After class, a few classmates would actively gather around, Talk to him.Occasionally, a ghost floated past Natsume's head or in front of his eyes, but he didn't change his face, as if he hadn't seen it at all.Of course, these ghosts have no malicious intentions. They are just the souls of the deceased who have not yet become Buddhas or went to the underworld, wandering aimlessly, and will soon disappear.The so-called resentful spirits are not so easy to appear, and have something to do with the whole environment, including the mentality of the people at that time.

Just like in Heian-kyo in the past, even though there were many onmyojis guarding it, there were endless resentful spirits in Heian-kyo, always hiding in the dark corners under the eaves of the street and peeping at the strangers around.But here, since waking up, apart from the monster from last night, Yan Bai has not seen any monsters except him and Madara until now.

In the noisy classroom, Natsume couldn't talk to Yanbai, the latter could only lie on the edge of his pocket and look out boredly.He saw the black-haired boy named Tanuma glance over here several times in doubt, and even looked away from Yan Bai, but he didn't find anything except the increased confusion on his face, and he didn't know if he had It is found that there is a ghost of a monster here.

During the lunch break, Natsume was about to go out with Tanuma to find a place to eat with his lunch box, when he saw that the face of the little man in black who had been in his pocket all morning changed into a black snake in the blink of an eye. It jumped out of the pocket and landed on the ground, moving nimbly like a black light between tables, chairs and people's footsteps.Natsume hesitated for a moment, and the black snake rushed out of the classroom. He didn't even have time to put down the lunch box and chased after him.

Although the black snake is small in size, it moves incredibly fast.As soon as Natsume stepped out of the classroom door, it had already swam to the other end of the corridor, twisted its body, and disappeared behind the half-open door.

Natsume avoided the students in the corridor, rushed to the stairs, hesitated for three seconds before going up and down the stairs, and climbed up resolutely.In fact, he is not sure, just following a certain feeling in the center.

Fortunately, he bet right, the stairs lead up to the roof.When he pushed open the door of the roof, he saw Black Snake holding his upper body up and looking up at the sky.

Natsume took a few breaths and walked over slowly: "What's wrong?"

But Yan Bai slowly lowered his body and shook his head: "It's nothing, it should be my illusion." Just now, he seemed to feel the spiritual power of Ye Wang, and the familiar breath flashed in the sky However, when he followed to the rooftop, he found that there was nothing on it, neither was the sky.White clouds flowed above the clear sky, the sun was dazzling and hot, but there was nothing else.

Yan Bai shook his head, turned around and climbed up Natsume's trousers along with Natsume's sneakers, and returned to his pocket, revealing a small black, triangular head: "Sorry." Strenuous exercise.

The boy didn't take it seriously, showing a gentle smile: "It's okay, I'm just a little worried about you."

"Natsume, what are you doing on the rooftop?"

A voice came from behind Natsume, making his body stiff: "Tanuma-kun..."

Turning around slowly, he saw the suspicious black-haired boy.Tanuma didn't know why he looked at Natsume's chest first, and then continued to ask: "I saw you in the corridor just now, and I saw you running up when I was about to call you. Didn't we mean to go downstairs to the Yae Sakura tree?" Do you want to eat?" He shook the lunch box in his hand, "Or, did you see some of those things again?" After speaking, he looked at the pocket where Yan Bai was.

His actions were not concealed, and even Natsume couldn't help but began to wonder if his friend had discovered something.After all, Tanuma's father was the host of the shrine, so he might have inherited some of his father's talents.

Seeing that Natsume was silent, Tanuma showed such an expression as expected: "There is indeed something in your pocket." He took a step forward and pointed to the jacket pocket, "There, I felt a little strange this morning. You I know, I can't see it, but I still feel it."

Generally, only people with spiritual power can see monsters and ghosts and other creatures, and spiritual power is also divided into strengths and weaknesses. People with natural spiritual power like Natsume can easily see the world without any guidance.Some people who are slightly inferior need to be pointed out before they can see.And the worse ones, like Tanuma, can't see the monsters, they can only feel their existence, and occasionally they can be glimpsed from the corner of their eyes.Now he is trying to use this method to see what is in Natsume's pocket.After all, he is a teenage boy with strong curiosity, wanting to see what the legendary monster looks like.

Yan Bai and Xia Mu looked at each other, determined something from his eyes, and simply condensed his body to show his body. Anyway, his body is so small now, even if he uses his spiritual power, he won't lose much.

And in Tanuma's eyes, Natsume glanced at his jacket pocket, and a black snake gradually protruded from there.The little snake, as thin as a thumb, was completely black, with shiny black scales, and blood-red eyes. It looked like a poisonous snake.

Snakes are more threatening to Tanuma than monsters, let alone this kind of snake that looks venomous at first glance. He couldn't help but take a step back: "Natsume, be careful..." Being so close, if the poisonous snake Turn around and take a bite, and my friend is probably going to lie on the ground.

"It's okay." Tanuma's reaction made Natsume think of the first time he saw Shiro, and he felt almost the same fear. He couldn't help laughing, "This is Shiro, a friend of Teacher Kitty. Shiro is Tanuma Yes, mine, friend."

As soon as the last friend came out, even Natsume was a little surprised. When could this word that was unfamiliar to him before be able to say it so naturally.

When Tanuma heard that it was the fat cat's friend, he immediately felt relieved, instead of backing away, he stepped forward, bent down and looked down at the dark little snake: "Hello."

"Hello." A male voice as cold as jade came out of the little snake's mouth, a little weird.

Tanuma couldn't help raising his head, and said to Natsume with surprise on his face: "It can talk! It's really a monster!"

Yan Bai saw that his excitement was beyond words, and he didn't look scared at all, and couldn't help feeling that this era is really different from before.

He said this to Natsume when school was over in the afternoon, which aroused the latter's curiosity: "Before? When was that?" At this time they were walking on the ridge of the field, under the golden sunset, Natsume's figure stretched very long It is very long, slanting straight from the foot to the front, Aunt Tazi's red-roofed and white-walled two-story building is surrounded by low walls, looming at the end of the field ridge.

"In the era of Heian-kyo, if monsters appeared in front of ordinary people, they would definitely not receive friendly greetings," Yan Bai recalled with emotion, "They would only show scared expressions, scream in horror, and use Use whatever is at hand to drive away the goblins, malicious or not."

Natsume was stunned and stopped. He had the same experience. A monster suddenly came to him. He was also very scared at first. It was not until later that he realized that the monster just wanted to be friends with him.

Yan Bai raised his head, spat out a bright red snake letter and said to Xia Mu: "It's really great now."

"...Yeah," Natsume started walking again, his face was outlined by the golden sunlight behind him, and his eyes completed the crescent moon. Floating around the setting sun.

As soon as they got home, Aunt Tazi greeted them. At the same time, both Natsume and Yanbai saw the truck in the yard that said Rat Control Company.

Seeing the doubts on Natsume's face, Tazi said embarrassedly: "Rats appeared in the house again today, and Mr. Cat is not here. He probably went out to play, so I simply invited someone from the rodent control company. He is currently checking one by one in the room. Looking for a mouse hole."