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Two months on, nothing seems to have changed in Yokohama.

When Natsume got off the tram, he saw the Sanhua cat squatting in the corner at a glance.

"uncle."

He hurried up with Mr. Cat.

Sanhuamao glanced at Natsume for a signal, then turned and jumped away, and Natsume followed him to the armed downstairs.

Natsume was a little confused, so the three-flowered cat pointed forward, and then jumped into the night and disappeared.

"Did uncle tell me to go to the detective agency?"

Teacher Cat was full of interest: "Let's go up, long time no see, the president should have stocked up a lot of new wine."

Your bad intentions have been exposed!

Natsume felt that it was impolite to visit empty-handed, so he went to the coffee shop downstairs first.

"Welcome... Hey, long time no see!"

The clerk's smile became even brighter after realizing that the person who came in was Natsume: "Natsume-kun, I heard that you left Yokohama to work elsewhere?"

Natsume smiled and nodded: "Well, I'm going to be a teacher, help me pack two boxes of cookies."

The store manager was making coffee elegantly, and was obviously very happy to see Natsume again: "Would you like a cup of coffee?"

He shook his head and held the cookie in his hand: "I still have something to do upstairs, come back for a drink when I go back in a few days."

"Then I wish you all the best." The store manager waved his hand indifferently: "Next time I will let you try the new coffee beans in the store."

After exchanging greetings with the store manager, Natsume went up to the fourth floor with the gift and knocked on the door of the detective agency.

"Hello everyone."

After Atsushi Nakajima came to open the door, Kunikida and Dazai, who were still arguing, stopped and walked up in random steps, took the bag in Natsume's hand, and returned to his desk while counting the desserts inside, very satisfied .

Dazai leaned directly in front of Natsume, and brought him in familiarly: "You're back, how long will you stay?"

Atsushi Nakajima touched the back of his head happily: "Mr. Natsume!"

Since Natsume hurriedly rescued him last time, the two had never met each other because of various relationships, and he was always thinking about how to repay Natsume.

Tanizaki Junichiro was led by his younger sister to the cat teacher, and put down a plate of dried fish that had been kept in the detective agency: "Long time no see, fat cat." Naomi rubbed her brother and patted the cat teacher's head twice: " Sure enough, it still feels so good~”

Teacher Cat glanced at Naomi, and was unmoved by eating the dried fish.

Natsume looked at them, smiled and said, "Well, come back and have a look."

Dazai froze for a moment, lowered his head and covered his mouth and laughed non-stop.

The reliable Kunikida pushed the inexplicable Dazai to sit down with Natsume.

Dazai was not annoyed when he was pushed away, he was in a very good mood: "Natsume really... gave me a big surprise." The curse that was still entangled with him also started to get excited, but under Dazai's gaze, it fell dormant again.

"How long have you been back this time? Is there something going on?"

Natsume told them that he came back from leave.

"I came here this time, besides visiting you, I also want to entrust you with one thing."

Everyone felt a little strange, Kunikida handed him a commission: "What do you need us to do?"

Under normal circumstances, what Natsume wants to do is discussed with youkai, and it is rarely necessary to entrust them.

Dazai took a bite of the cookie, leaned on the sofa and raised his hand: "I know~"

"It has something to do with the curse spirit."

Natsume nodded: "Dazai is right."

There is no conflict between the curse spirit and the monster. He cannot ask the monsters to help him and participate in the battle between humans and the curse spirit just because he is a human being.

"You guys are investigating the increase in Yokohama curse spirits, I need your information, please."

Dazai waved his hand: "That's simple. As for the reward, the president said that if you come to look for it, you won't be charged."

Anyway, with a large commission from Suzuki Shiro, Butei's economy will not have to worry about it for a long time.

"President?" Natsume looked at them gratefully: "What about the president?" Last time he left in a hurry, Natsume couldn't think of other candidates, and a group of port afia cats could only be entrusted to Fukuzawa Yukichi.

"I have something to go to the government/government for a meeting."

Luanbu came over with a sorted file: "Here is all the information we have obtained temporarily."

"We need to solve this matter properly. The frequency of curse incidents is so high that the detective agency is overwhelmed." Osamu Dazai lay down on the table, obviously disliking work: "There are too many things to do, and I have to work overtime. Several times it has influenced my suicide."

Natsume made a promise: "This matter will definitely be resolved together."

Open profile.

According to statistics, the time when the Yokohama curse began to grow was about the same time as the time when Port Afia got the unknown monk's spiritual weapon.

These two things are indeed inextricably linked.

According to the commission received and the information given by the Yokohama Magic Society, Ranpo deduced a conclusion.

There is a map of Yokohama in the file bag. The red lines mark the places where all the cursed events took place, and the dense red lines all connect to one place - the port of Afia.

With the real hammer, now Natsume judges that there must be a big connection between that monk and Yokohama's unusually many curses.

When Butei discovered that all the curses were spread around the headquarters of Port Afia, Fukuzawa Yukichi told them not to continue investigating this matter. He vowed, "Leave the rest to Natsume."

They have always been at odds with Port Afia, and it is inconvenient to take action in the following investigations, otherwise conflicts may arise.

Natsume clenched the information in his hand: "Okay, I will go..."

"Go to hell, you don't want to go to the port afia to discuss this matter?"

If the cat-changing incident hadn't happened, Natsume would have no problem visiting port afia, but this kind of thing happened two months ago, so Natsume's going to port afia now is a self-inflicted trap.

Organizations like the Black/Hand/Party don’t mean that they can let go after the compensation is paid off. Natsume has made them lose face. Although it’s Mao Taro who does things like turning into a cat, it’s such a big loss. With such a face, it is impossible for them to speak well when they see Natsume.

The cat teacher was angry: "What is that idiot Fukuzawa thinking, let Natsume take risks?"

Dazai stuffed a small dried fish into Mr. Kitty's mouth.

"Calm down, who said that Natsume will be involved."

Central Plains, who suppressed hostile forces far abroad, has also returned, and Natsume can go to negotiate with him.

Natsume told Mr. Kitty not to worry: "It's okay, I have a measure."

"And this matter, I have a reason to go."

In the end, the curry shop that kept Reiko's photo has moved away, and I can't find any memories related to my grandmother for the time being, so I can only deal with the matter of the shrine's spiritual artifact being swapped.

Zhong Yuanzhong, who had a rare rest, was also sleeping at home. In the middle of the night, a fat cat fell on him.

"I'm here to remind you that if you don't come with me, the days to come will be dangerous."

The moonlight casts a layer of mystery on Mr. Cat's funny figure.

Looking at Chuya who was upset, Mr. Cat said again: "Huang."

Hearing this name, Zhongya was stunned for a second, and finally lifted the quilt and got out of bed, put on his coat: "You better be really busy."

He followed Mr. Cat to the remote alley downstairs, and saw that standing in front of him was feeding snacks to a few little monsters, and the monsters also took out the plump fruits they picked.

Seeing this picture of monsters and humans living in harmony, "Natsume Takashi." The four words came out of Nakahara Chuya's mouth with such strength that it seemed to crush the person in front of him.

The monsters sensed the malice of the humans in front of them, and looked at Chuya fiercely.

Natsume waved them away.

Zhong Ye frowned: "How dare you come to me specifically?"

Everyone knows that Zhongyuan Zhongye is loyal to Port Afia, and he will never let go of such a person who makes his organization lose face.

Natsume dodged Chuya's blow, and when he quickly moved in front of Natsume to give him a kick, Natsume said, "Ara is a monster."

"Bam—"

Chuya's attack fell on Natsume's ears.

"So what?" He felt ridiculous: "I have been silently ignoring my existence for so many years, what does it mean to come back and say these words?"

Natsume shook his head and explained: "No, I also just knew about Huang's existence."

"Someone wants to attack you."

Seeing that he didn't seem to be lying, Zhong Ye calmed down: "You are looking for me, what is it?"

"I was deceived by people and ignored the existence of Huang until I went to Tokyo. By chance, the restriction was lifted. Looking back, I realized that you are Huang."

He also talked about the fact that the apology he gave to the port of Afia was swapped, and Natsume expressed his conjecture: "I suspect that someone wants to cause trouble in Yokohama, not just to trouble a certain force, but to let the spell Teachers, supernatural beings and monsters have accidents."

All kinds of things that happened, the multiple curse incidents with the port afia as the dot and Natsume's dropped spiritual weapon were enough to prove his conjecture.

Everything is about to come, forcing Natsume to go back to Yokohama to make preparations.

Zhong also listened to Natsume's words and thought for a while: "I was still outside when the headquarters was destroyed, but I heard from Akutagawa that when they were about to hunt and kill you, they received compensation and a spiritual weapon from a monk. That The monk helped you, and we all thought it was from the temple that you helped."

Thinking of something, Chuya said again: "I have seen the spiritual weapon sent over, and it is indeed different from your description."

"That spirit weapon is most likely not a spirit weapon, but a cursed object with evil abilities. It can no longer be placed in your headquarters."

Zhong also agreed: "I'll go over and show it to you later."

Natsume's ability and character are more reassuring to the locals than showing them to the conjurers for appraisal.

Natsume agreed: "By the way, what are the characteristics of the monk you mentioned?"

"Yes, and Akutagawa said it was very recognizable."

"That monk has a seam on his forehead."

The moon was covered by dark clouds, and suddenly everything was quiet, there was no noise of gangsters fighting, no chattering of monsters, even the chirping of insects and birds stopped.

Not right.

"This is the end of the chat."

A young man with an ordinary face appeared on top of Natsume and Chuya.

"Let me introduce myself first, my name is Mu." Looking at Natsume contemptuously, "I am the youkai who wants to kill you." In a blink of an eye, he said to Chuya, "It is also to release Arara from this waste container monster."