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Let's soak in the hot spring. "

"Ah, I'm going to get some stuff nearby later."

"Is that so... what about Asamori-san?"

Natsume didn't know that Asamori came over at this time, and when he looked back, he was almost startled.But what surprised him even more was that Nishimura actually invited her to go to the hot spring together!

"I said... this is not a mixed bath, what did you call her for!?" The squad leader asked angrily.

"I'm going for a walk." Unsurprisingly, Asamori rejected Nishimura's invitation.

After getting the teacher's consent, Natsume took the map provided by the teacher to the place that Uncle Zi said, but got the answer that it is not yet ready and needs to wait a while.

Although this trip did not get what was entrusted, but it was worthwhile to save a little fox who was bullied by other monsters halfway.

When approaching the classroom, Natsume met Asamori who was still walking. The other party suddenly approached him and sniffed him, then left without saying anything.

How strange.Natsume thought, he had never figured out what Asamori was thinking.

However, during class in the afternoon, Natsume still noticed that the little fox he had rescued at noon was watching him secretly.

Could it be that there was some smell on his body at that time, that's why Asamori did that?Ah, I just can't figure it out.

After class in the afternoon, Natsume set out to pick up things again. The shopkeeper had told him that it would be done in the afternoon.

Speaking of Asamori here, I still hang out in the forest after class, and occasionally meet little monsters and communicate with them. In short, I don’t mind being misunderstood if I don’t have anyone by my side.Then, Asamori heard a voice.

"Natsume... Natsume-sama." An old-sounding voice came into Asagi's ears.

Asamori followed the sound and saw a big tree.

"Ah, I didn't expect other humans to hear my voice."

"You said you were looking for Natsume, do you want him to return his name?"

"Yes, do you know where he is? I kept calling, but he didn't hear me."

Asamori recalled what he heard at noon, and probably knew where Natsume was going.

"I know, I can help you find him."

"That's very much appreciated."

Asamori nodded, remembering how to go that way, and left.

The summer rain came without warning, and the big raindrops hit the ground without hesitation, accompanied by thunder.Asagi didn't bring an umbrella when she came out, and she was drenched by the rain at this time, and the muddy soil in the forest made her original clean uniform shoes difficult to see clearly.Even the black leg socks were stained with a lot of mud.

However, Asamori didn't care, and walked forward.It's just that the road is wet with rain and it's not easy to walk, and it looks a little slippery.

"Uhhhh-!"

Accidentally, Asamori slipped on the slippery muddy road and fell down.Although the slope is not high, it is covered with small trees, but none of them are hard enough to resist Asamori's body rolling down.

Ah... today is really unlucky.

Rolling to the bottom of the slope, Asagi finally stopped, because of this sudden incident, the uniform that was already wet was now even more like a layer of mud.

Looking up slightly, the slope is indeed not high, but it is very steep, and it is still possible to climb up.

Asamori propped herself up with her arms, but the pain from her thigh made her fall down again.

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11

11. Unlucky day X lucky day...

Ah, today is indeed a bad day.

Because of the pain, Asamori couldn't stand up for the time being, so he could only lean on the stone beside him, and there was no place to shelter from the rain, so Asamori, who could only move slowly, decided to stay here until the rain stopped, anyway. Looking at her current situation, it would be a waste of energy to drag her body to find a place to hide from the rain.

It's just that high fever is inevitable.

Grandma will be worried.Asamori thought.But the pain in her leg made her really not want to move any more.

The heavy rain has been falling non-stop, and I don't know when it will end.Qian Mori thought, this is not bad, the mud and other things sticking to his body when he just rolled down were washed away by the rain.

At this moment, Asamori seemed to feel that she was the only one in this world, plus the sound of "da da da" rain.

so lonely.

The feeling that hadn't surfaced for a long time was suddenly magnified at this moment, filling all of Asamori's thoughts.

"I miss you so much... Woah, sure enough, I can't do anything without monsters by my side..."

"Ah, there are humans!"

"Really, why are there still humans here in such a heavy rain?"

"...I don't know, but she looks very cold."

"Can we do something?"

"Don't be like this, didn't the other monsters say that humans can't see us? If she suddenly saw something walking by herself, wouldn't she be frightened?"

Just as Asamori was gradually immersed in her own mind, a bunch of noisy voices suddenly appeared from the side, so she had to look up to see what was going on.

A group of little monsters who were still arguing over whether to help this cold-looking human didn't realize that the human was looking at them, and they were still arguing.

"Then leave her here like this?"

"Of course!"

"Will it be uncomfortable? Being drenched in such heavy rain."

"Don't worry about human beings, what if the other party is an exorcist? We will be caught if we show up!"

"Well...it's scary..."

"Yes, yes, I heard that the exorcist will put monsters like us into bottles, or ask us to sweep the floor for them or something."

"Hey... I don't want it..."

The discussions among the little monsters were heated, to the point where Asamori could no longer listen indifferently.

"I'm not the kind of monster exorcist."

The voice suddenly interrupting the discussion made the little monsters startled.

"What's wrong? That human actually saw us."

"Doesn't this mean that she is an exorcist?"

As soon as they mentioned demon masters, Asamori said again: "It's not only demon masters who can see monsters."

"Eh? Is that so? We never left the forest, so we don't know."

Then there was another heated discussion.In the end, the little monsters pushed and pushed one of them to the front of them, which was counted as the speaking representative.

The little monster that was pushed out saw Asamori buried her head in her arms again, so she quietly walked to her side, stretched out a hand that was different from a human, and wanted to touch the human.Just at this time, Asamori sneezed because of the coldness of his body due to the long-term rain, which directly scared the little monster back.

Asagi glanced at it, looking a little helpless.

"Come here if you want to touch, I won't catch you."

After hearing this, the little monsters who were still a little timid rushed towards Asamori in a swarm.

"Wow, oh, I touched a human."

"I am me too."

"It's warm..."

"Hee hee hee~~"

A group of little monsters are stuck to the body, even though their bodies are not very big, they still feel very tired in this state.

Really...

"Good weight……"

But now, the little monsters, who had already confirmed that the humans in front of them would not do anything bad to them, began to enjoy themselves.

"Hey, can you tell us something about humans?"

"Yes, yes, there is also a demon master."

"I heard that there are many interesting places where humans live. Is it true?"

Questions came to Asamori non-stop, which made her a little flustered, but fortunately, the little monsters didn't care whether the human answered them or not.

But Asamori finally picked out one and talked to them.

"The exorcist is a very bad, very bad human being..."

The big leaves that the little monsters used to protect themselves from the rain, because they were all stuck to Asamori's body, they lifted up the leaves one by one and connected them into a large "big umbrella" that was enough to protect everyone from the rain. The story about the demon master was being told in the middle, and the little monsters listened quietly, and finally the original noise was gone.

……

The rain stopped for a while.

When Natsume returned to the dormitory, he happened to meet the squad leader and several people rushing out.

"Ah, Natsume, you're fine."

"what happened?"

"The forest here will become very dangerous when it rains, and many places are prone to accidents. Because I saw that you haven't come back, I was worried that you would be in an accident, so I called a few people to go to the forest to look for it. By the way , have you seen Asamori?"

"not at all."

"Ah... I don't know if there is something wrong with her, anyway, let's look for it."

"Then I'll go too!"

Not long after returning, Natsume stepped into the forest again.

Not long after walking, Natsume felt something pulling his trousers, looked down, and saw a monster about the height of Teacher Kitty was pulling him.

"Are you Natsume Takashi?"

"I am, what's the matter?" Could it be that he also came to ask him to return his name?Natsume thought so.But at the beginning it would be nice to call Mr. Cat to come with him, but as soon as he got close to the camp, he didn't know where he went.Well, that's fine too, without being discovered by others.

"Wow, I found the right one!" The little monster was very happy to hear Natsume's answer.It had encountered several humans before this, but none of them could see it.

"Come with me." The little monster pulled Natsume's trousers and beckoned him to follow it.

Natsume was very puzzled by the little monster's behavior. Since he didn't come to retrieve his name, what else could happen?

By the way, Asamori!

It may be that Asamori had an accident and couldn't come here, so he asked the monster to come and find him.

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