The account of friends has changed

When Natsume came home, he didn't forget to pack Mr. Cat's favorite bean paste buns.

After pushing open the door, I heard the scream of a kitten.

"what happened?"

It was too late to change shoes, and hurriedly walked towards the place where the cry came.

Natsume walked into the living room and saw two cats, one fat and one thin, sitting on the farthest ends of the sofa.

The fat cat turned its head with disdain, and the thin cat licked its paws and pretended to be innocent.

In fact, the two cats had just finished fighting, and they both looked almost embarrassed.

——Fortunately, Natsume bought an anti-cat scratch sofa.

"Uncle, why are you here!"

Natsume looked at the thin cat at the end of the sofa in surprise.

It may be that the same sex repels each other, Natsume Soseki and Mr. Kitty are at odds with each other.

Especially on the issue of Natsume's education, the two elders would not give in to each other. Every time they met, they would fight each other first.

It is rare for a person and a monster to show a naive look.

Simply every fight is a normal joke, and Natsume let them go after getting used to it.

It's just that this time it's a little different, the two cats fight very persistently.

Natsume managed to pull away the two fighting cats, and quickly brought up a topic to attract their attention: "What's the matter with uncle's visit this time?"

When I was young, I moved to many relatives' homes. When I first arrived in Yokohama, Natsume was very afraid of causing trouble to my uncle.

Natsume Soseki seldom took the initiative to meet Natsume after seeing it, but silently subsidized his living expenses and protected his safety.

Intimately giving Natsume a buffer time, Natsume gradually dispelled the idea of ​​"I am a burden".

Although Natsume has let go of the knot for a long time now, the two still maintain the habit of not seeing each other unless necessary.

Teacher Cat swallowed the red bean paste bun in his mouth, and said vaguely: "Natsume, this stinky cat actually chooses for you on its own!"

Natsume Soseki took a sip of the cooled tea, pushed Mr. Cat's paw but did not retort: ​​"Takashi, although I'm sorry, but this is a responsibility that you can't refuse after reappearing from the account of friends."

Natsume was confused when he heard that before he had time to ask anything, suddenly Natsume Soseki changed back to human form and apologized to him.

Natsume was frightened by his uncle's solemnity, and his face was full of confusion: "What's going on?"

Natsume Soseki stared at a small piece of tea suspended in the teacup floating on the water, and slowly talked about the past.

"This matter has to start with your grandmother..."

The Natsume family is a doomed noble family left over from the previous era.

After the decline of the family, the performance of each generation of descendants is mediocre.

Until the birth of Natsume Reiko with powerful spiritual power, many secrets passed down in the family were no longer known.

The Natsume family is full of hope for the talented Natsume Reiko.

It's just that Xia Mu Lingzi not only did not do business when she grew up, but also made such an outrageous act as unmarried pregnancy, and then drove her out of the house.

After that, he didn't see Natsume Reiko again until Natsume Soseki became an adult.

"Soseki, have you found your purpose in life? If you haven't found it, would you like me to give you some advice?"

The young man who had just arrived in Yokohama was stopped by Natsume Reiko on the street.

Natsume Reiko held the friend account in one hand and a small wooden box in the other, and entrusted both things to Natsume Soseki.

Before Natsume Soseki could respond, she calmly said, "I'm dying."

"If you find a kind child with strong spiritual power in the future, give these two things to him."

"It's going to be a relationship between me and that kid."

For so many years, Natsume Soseki mentioned his grandmother to Natsume for the first time.

He took a sip of tea to calm Natsume for a while, and then said, "It's just that I didn't expect you to be the one who meets these two conditions."

"Guizhi, the book of friends is probably the fate between you and your grandmother."

Mr. Cat grasped the point and said sharply, "The wooden box Reiko gave you is not a good thing."

Natsume Soseki nodded and shook his head slightly.

"Yes and no." After a pause, Natsume Soseki thought about how to explain: "The energy stored in this wooden box is a double-edged sword for Natsume."

Few people know that Natsume Reiko is also a powerful Nojiko conjurer, and the wooden box stores the power of different curses collected during her travels in various places.

After Reiko set the restriction of "opening the wooden box, the book of friends will become the book of curse spirits", these two relics came into the hands of Natsume Soseki.

Going around, I just didn't expect that the 15-year-old Natsume accidentally discovered the account of friends.

Teacher Cat added the news that Natsume Soseki said: "Different from the Book of Friends, which is more playful, the Book of Curse Spirits is Reiko's unfinished responsibilities. After opening the wooden box, these become the responsibilities you have to take on her behalf. .”

"What responsibility?"

"Replacing Reiko's responsibility to change the unbalanced status quo in the magic world, that is, "reform". "

Teacher Mao shook her head: "Why is there such a responsibility? We don't know the specifics. Reiko seldom tells others about herself."

Natsume Soseki continued: "I know a little more than Madara. If the wooden box is not opened, and the book of friends does not become the book of curses, Guizhi may suffer unforeseen consequences."

Natsume was puzzled: "The Curse Spirit Tent... What is the Curse Spirit?"

Natsume Soseki pointed out the window: "Look carefully, the curse spirit is everywhere."

He drew back the curtains, and the moon hung high above the window.

"Hi?"

……

……

The moment Natsume Soseki opened the curtain, he looked at Osamu Dazai who was hanging upside down outside.

"Dazai? Didn't you just say yesterday that you would exclude jumping from a building as a method of suicide?"

Natsume quickly fished the man in.

"It's not suicide." Osamu Dazai took out the curse tent, "Because of this thing, I was chased and killed by that ugly thing all the way."

As soon as he finished speaking, Natsume saw that his window was deformed by something invisible, and a dangerous breath came over him.

Teacher Cat jumped away with Natsume in an instant.

"Bam—"

The table was smashed by unknown objects.

Natsume Soseki threw him the magic curtain and said, "Takashi, focus on your eyes."

Natsume found that except him, everyone present and the demon could see the attacking unknown object.

He kept dodging along with Mr. Cat, concentrating his spiritual energy on his eyes.

Turn around and look up.

——A two-meter-tall multi-handed monster was chasing after him, and layers of sharp teeth could still be seen in the wide open mouth.

"what is this!"

It looks even more ghostly than a monster.

The curse spirit is now full of curse spirit tents, and it is closely chasing Natsume.

Osamu Dazai sat on the sofa to rest and watch: "This is a second-level curse spirit, please get rid of him, Natsume."

"It's up to you, after all, supernatural beings can't get rid of the curse spirit." After finishing speaking, he picked up another clean fried shrimp and ate it.

"In fact, people with spiritual power can't get rid of the curse spirit, but people with spiritual power who have the curse spirit tent should be able to."

Osamu Dazai did not say a word: These are all my guesses.

"how should I do?"

Natsume Soseki turned back into a cat at some point, and he nimbly jumped to Natsume's side: "Curse spirits are similar to monsters, but your physique is different. You must not fight him in close combat. Try using spiritual power to attack from a distance."

"it is good!"

The house Natsume rented was located on the top floor of the apartment, and there were people living next to it and downstairs. In order to avoid hurting the innocent, he opened the door and rushed to the rooftop, trying to lure the curse spirit to a place where no one was there.

When fighting monsters before, Natsume relied on his spiritual strength to fight monsters hand to hand.

He is really not used to suddenly changing from a melee to a long-range now.

As soon as he ran up to the rooftop, Natsume accidentally tripped over his foot, and the curse spirit seized the opportunity to smash him to the ground.

Seeing this, Mr. Cat was about to lift the seal, but was stopped by Natsume Soseki: "Trust Natsume, it's not time yet!"

Teacher Cat gritted his teeth, seeing Natsume dodging the attack immediately, he resisted the urge to help.

Natsume's physical strength was no different from that of ordinary people, and the ten minutes of jumping up and down and exhausting his spiritual energy made him a little out of breath.

However, years of love and killing with monsters still made it easier for Natsume to avoid the attack of the curse spirit.

It's just that his attack is a little weak, and it can't hurt the curse spirit at all.

Natsume Soseki continued to teach him in this actual battle: "The Curse Spirit Tent is a special man-made curse object, Kishi, you inject spiritual power into it and learn to use it."

"The Curse Book is different from the Book of Friends. It is a powerful weapon in itself. Learn to use it!"

Natsume poured spiritual power into the magic book in his hand, but the book didn't change at all.

"No, no response!"

Natsume turned around to avoid another attack from the curse spirit.

"Feel carefully, spell spirits and monsters are different."

In fact, Natsume Soseki was also very entangled in the matter of the Curse Spirit Tent.

Strictly speaking, the righteousness of the magic world has nothing to do with him, and he is also reluctant to let his nephew go into the muddy waters of the magic world.

If Natsume's spiritual power is exhausted and he does not exorcise the curse spirit, then he will not be allowed to contact the magic world.

Let the Curse Spirit Book be handed over to the people from the Tokyo Conjuration Academy.

As for the possible bad consequences of not inheriting the Curse Book, Natsume Soseki was also prepared to bear it himself.

He couldn't even protect his nephew.

While Natsume Soseki made his decision, Natsume also thought of what Dazai Osamu said.

Everyone present, except him, no one can destroy the monster in front of him.

—If I fail to destroy it, others are in danger.

Natsume gritted his teeth, and forced himself to inject spiritual power into the Curse Spirit Tent several times.

Still no success.

The multi-handed spell spirit always almost got the spell tent. Its patience has been exhausted, and it bursts out with stronger spell power after getting angry.

The mantra disappeared suddenly, and unexpectedly, a hand reached out from Natsume's feet and grabbed his ankle.

Natsume didn't have any experience in fighting against curse spirits, but he reacted extremely quickly after being caught. He used his spiritual power to quickly condense into a blade at his fingertips, and slashed downward.

be cheated.

The moment Natsume bowed his head, the real body of the curse spirit jumped down from a high place, and the open mouth was aimed at Natsume's head.

"Natsume!

Suddenly looked up.

Natsume could already smell the stench from the curse spirit's mouth.

Are you going to die?

Are you willing?

At this moment, Natsume's mind was filled with only the answers to these two questions.

【Live. 】

All the spiritual power left in Natsume's body is automatically injected into the account book.

A strong wind blew up on the roof, and the ledger had a strong light. After being activated, the magic book changed from an ordinary ledger to a black ledger with a delicately patterned cover.

Before the multi-handed curse spirit touched Natsume, it turned into a plume of black smoke and was sucked into the curse spirit tent.

With the apartment roof as the center and within a radius of 50 kilometers, all curses are instantly absorbed into the curse tent.

It was the first time that the monitoring window of the magic world detected such a strange phenomenon in Japan.

"Cursed Empty Space"

After expelling the curse spirit, Natsume's spiritual power was drained, and he fell straight down after losing consciousness.

In the next second, Dazai Osamu caught him in front of Mr. Cat.

Then Osamu Dazai's head was smashed into a big bag by Mr. Mao's fist.

"Perverted suicidal man, stay away from my students."

The Curse Spirit Tent exerted a stronger ability in Natsume's hands, and Natsume Soseki quietly left the rooftop.

He breathed a sigh of relief, thinking maybe this was the best arrangement.

Teacher Cat jumped across from Osamu Dazai, revealing the terrifying aura of the big demon, as if the air had become sticky and distorted.

"You've been staying here watching the show and you still want to take Natsume away?"

He saw Dazai Osamu's thoughts.

Under pressure, Osamu Dazai looked at Mr. Cat without fear, and his shoulders collapsed before he was serious for a few seconds.

"Go, go, I won't be able to hold you anymore."

Mr. Cat jumped on Osamu Dazai's shoulder and gave him another gravity blow: "Let's go."

Osamu Dazai disgusted: "Fat cat, don't you know how much you weigh, come down quickly!"

But he didn't shake his shoulders to shake off Mr. Cat.

Teacher Cat showed a sly smirk: "Be content, it's an honor for you humans to be able to carry Master Madara for a walk."

Osamu Dazai was going to throw this proud fat cat into the trash can in a while.

Suddenly thought of something, Osamu Dazai asked, "Is it night?"

Teacher Cat rolled his eyes: "What kind of mental retardation is this... let's go."

One person and one monster all understand that Yokohama at night is under the control of the port mafia.

There was such a big commotion on the rooftop just now, it was easy to attract some madmen from the port maifa to come over.

It's not that I'm afraid, it's just that those people are difficult to deal with.

Osamu Dazai shuttled back and forth between the buildings, not at all like what he said just now that he was about to lose Natsume.

Suddenly, a large number of young black ferns appeared on the ground, blocking Osamu Dazai's progress.

Osamu Dazai stopped, and all the young ferns entangled him disappeared.

"Fat cat, it seems that we were unlucky, and actually attracted a really mad dog."

Not far ahead, a black-haired man came out of the shadows.

"I'm lucky that all the big fish are caught here."

Akutagawa Ryunosuke's eyes were fierce, he glanced at Natsume in Dazai Osamu's arms, and then stared at Dazai Osamu.

"The movement just now was indeed caused by Natsume and the monsters. I guessed that you would be there."

Rashomon kept changing behind Akutagawa, and he revealed a strong murderous look: "Today I will kill you, a traitor."