Mr. Natsume's special mantra

The long but hopeless wait turned out to be such a tormenting thing. ——Takashi Natsume

Before meeting Natsume Takashi, the monster who shattered the classroom glass was pinned down by Gojo Satoru.

"It's so weak, how did it come in, it's strange." Nagasaki Yaqiangwei squatted in front of the monster, looking at the strange cursed spirit wrapped in black hair with a puzzled face.

"Yeah." Yuzu Yujin also squatted down, "But it looks much better than those curse spirits I met before."

There are no extra eyes, no extra arms, and no fat lumps all over the body. After looking at it for a long time, it looks a little ugly.

Knotabagi Youroto trembled with fright at the thoughts in his heart.

"... na... れい..."

Knotazaki Yuhito turned his head to look at Nagasaki Wild Rose next to him: "Kagazaki, did you hear any strange noises?"

"Strange sound?" Nagasaki Ye Qiangwei listened carefully: "In this way, there is indeed, it seems to be from..."

Nagasaki Wild Rose's voice gradually decreased, and the two of them looked down at the curse spirit stiffly.

It is not uncommon for the mantra to say some words, but...

This curse spirit must be talking about its name.

"Teacher!" Knotabagi Yujin looked up at Gojo Satoru.

"I don't know~" Gojo Satoru shrugged and said, "But you can ask Natsume, he should know."

"Eh?!" Yuzu Yuuhito and Rose Kizaki were shocked, and even Megumi Fukuro, who was expressionless, cast a glance at Takashi Natsume who was standing there without any movement.

Sensing everyone's gaze, Natsume Takashi nodded.

"Her situation should be the same as Teacher Cat."

"Are they all monsters?"

"Well, I can feel her faint aura that is different from the curse spirit." Takashi Natsume walked to the side of Yuzu Yujin, just about to squat down, but froze in place the next second.

This monster... called Natsume Reiko...

"Hey—why are you sitting facing that way?"

The banshee sitting on the cherry blossom tree lowered her head and saw the female high school student waving at her under her skirt, pointing at herself with her slender white fingers, "Are you calling me?"

The girl with brown hair crossed her hips and smiled brightly: "Who else could it be if it wasn't you, there is no one else in this poor place."

"Can you see me?" the banshee asked in surprise.

"Ah... I can see it, it's not a rare thing." The girl complained, looking at the thick cherry tree trunk in front of her, the girl asked again: "Can I climb up and sit with you?"

The banshee, who didn't know why, nodded.

Although this tree is her body, she doesn't mind being sat on it.

The girl's mobility is very strong, and in the blink of an eye, the banshee felt a warm breath around her.

"By the way, you haven't answered my question yet, why do you keep sitting facing this direction?"

"Why should I answer a human's question." The banshee replied softly.

The girl swung her legs and looked up at the sky: "That's right."

After a long time, the girl jumped down from the tree trunk, waved her back to the banshee and said, "It's getting late, I'm going back."

"You..." the banshee hesitated.

The girl turned around and asked doubtfully, "What's wrong?"

"Will you come tomorrow?"

The girl nodded her lips, "I don't know, I don't know if I'm free tomorrow."

"Then..." The banshee struggled for a while, and then made a promise: "If you come over tomorrow, I will tell you the answer to that question."

The girl was stunned for a moment, then bent over with a smile: "Hahahahahaha, you've already said that, I don't want to say it!"

"It's a deal." The banshee entrusted, looking at the girl's back.

"It's a deal." The girl's voice dissipated in the wind.

The banshee raised the corners of her lips, her eyes full of anticipation for tomorrow.

the next day.

"Yo—I'm coming—"

Hearing the familiar voice, the banshee looked down in surprise.

"You are here."

This time, before the girl climbed up the tree trunk by herself, the banshee floated down by herself and hugged the girl to the tree trunk.

"Ah, thank you, I can actually climb up by myself." The girl looked at the banshee a little embarrassed.

The banshee smiled, but didn't answer.

"You are really quiet." The girl sighed, her long brown hair was warmer than the sun under the afterglow.

The banshee sat behind the girl, and used her hands to style the girl's hair again and again.

The warm touch keeps passing across the palm of my hand. Is this... a human being?

so warm...

Waves of joy surged in the banshee's heart.

Looking at the setting sun in the distance, she said softly, "Child of humans, what do you see?"

"Setting sun, is this why you have been sitting in this direction?"

"No..." The banshee shook her head slowly. She hugged the girl's head and made her look down: "Did you see it?"

An unusually luxuriant peach blossom tree was reflected in the girl's brown pupils.

"Are you watching it?"

"Well, it's pretty." The banshee let go of the girl's hair, straightened her dress and sat beside the girl, "That peach blossom tree should not have a birth spirit, unlike me, if I want, I can keep the cherry blossoms blooming forever. "

"You haven't touched on the point yet." The girl said sharply.

The banshee smiled, and in her cherry-colored pupils was the expectation for the new life: "I keep looking at it, because I always feel that the peach blossom is about to have a spirit."

"Surely a pretty boy like you."

"Are you kidding me?" The girl circle hugged her legs and said with downcast eyes: "Since it is a flower demon, it must be a child who is much prettier than me."

"No..." the banshee retorted, "In my eyes, you are a very beautiful child."

"It's just that you have a filter for me..." The girl's voice became low.

Looking at the peach blossom tree in the distance, the girl suddenly stood up: "By the way, since I'm looking forward to her birth so much, have you prepared the most important birth gift yet?"

"Birth gift?" The banshee suddenly realized, "That's right, I need to prepare a gift for that child."

"What should I prepare?" the banshee looked at the gorgeous peach blossom tree in the distance and fell into deep thought.

"How about it." The girl turned around, took out a thin piece of paper from her body and said, "I will help you prepare a gift for that child. In exchange, you will leave your name on it."

The banshee froze for a moment, then laughed, "Okay."

The banshee heard herself replying like this.

After preparing a gift for that child, prepare a gift for this child, the banshee thought.

In the next few days, the girl came to look for the banshee under the cherry tree after school.

They tacitly did not ask each other's name.

Tell me when the child wants to tell me, the banshee thought.

They went around all the places where the banshee could go, asked the little monsters passing by, and finally decided to prepare a pair of hairpins with peach blossom elements for the peach blossom demon who was about to be born.

"It's finally done!" The girl stretched, and handed the peach blossom hairpin in her hand to the banshee, "How is it?!"

The banshee aimed the hairpin at the sun, and the peach blossom petals carved by pink shells shone brightly in the sun. She sighed sincerely: "It's so beautiful, your hands are so skillful."

The girl didn't answer, she was silent for a while, took out a pen and paper, and said with a smile: "Hey, I'm Reiko Natsume, as agreed, write down your name."

Without hesitation, the banshee took the pen and paper, and wrote down her name -- "Hatsu Sakura" stroke by stroke.

"Hatsu Sakura..." Natsume Reiko murmured, "Does it mean the cherry blossoms in early spring?"

Chu Ying nodded and explained: "The cherry blossoms usually bloom during spring and summer, but I am a monster."

"I love early spring, so I want to bloom around that time."

Chu Ying stroked the trunk and asked, "Want to see it?"

Just as Natsume Reiko was about to shake her head, she saw the cherry blossoms blooming above her head at an unstoppable speed.

When the wind blows, scattered cherry blossom petals surround the girl and the monster and fall at their feet.

"It's so beautiful..." Reiko Natsume suddenly said as if she suddenly remembered something, "Since it's done, do you need me to help you take it over? You probably won't be able to reach the boundary of that peach blossom tree."

The dryad is a kind of existence similar to the earth-bound spirit, which can only move within a certain range, and the range where the peach blossom tree is located is just outside the range of activities of the first cherry.

Chu Ying shook her head, pushed her shoulder and said: "Don't bother Reiko, although it is about to be born, but it will take at least a few decades, I will keep this gift for her, and wait until she is born , my demon power should also be able to support me to go there."

"You go back first." Chu Ying said warmly: "I remember, you are under house arrest, aren't you?"

"I don't want Reiko to be scolded because of me."

Besides, we can still meet tomorrow, Hatsu Sakura thought.

"Then I'll go back!" Natsume Reiko waved to Hatsune Sakura, and ran all the way in the direction she came from.

It wasn't until the girl's back was no longer visible in the distance that Hatsaku returned to sit on the tree trunk, took out the half-finished butterfly shell she had hidden, and carved it clumsily like a cherry blossom.

"Yeah... hiss—" Chu Ying was accidentally scratched by a blunt knife, and red blood dripped out along the wound bit by bit.

Her beautiful eyebrows drooped, she clearly saw Reiko doing it so easily, how could it be her turn... A petal has not been ground out after so long.

First Sakura sighed, praying in her heart that when Reiko came tomorrow, she would be able to give her the cherry blossom card in her hand.

Reiko is so beautiful, she will definitely become even more beautiful when she wears the hairpin.

She had never seen a human being more beautiful than Reiko.

However, the next day, the familiar girl did not come at the familiar time.

It's okay, Chu Ying comforted herself in her heart, Reiko might be caught up in things, human beings are always so busy, besides, she hasn't finished issuing the card she wants to send to Reiko yet.

On the third day, no.

On the fourth day, no.

Day [-]...

……

Day after day, year after year.

Under the protection of the first cherry blossoms, the cherry blossom hairpins that have already been made in the hand are still shining with their original luster.

Withered and yellow leaves fell onto Hatsakura's arms.

"It's already autumn, today... can't wait again?"

She raised her head and looked at the Peach Blossom Demon that had already faintly turned into a shape, and the corners of her mouth raised tiredly: "Go and see that child."

By the way, give her a present celebrating her birth.

During the day's journey, Hatsaku walked for a long time.

She wanted to find traces of Natsume Reiko's existence, but she had no choice but to find out that the girl had already left the land where she was.

Half a month later, Chu Ying came to the peach blossom tree.

"Peach Blossom." Chu Ying's voice was full of exhaustion.

The new Peach Blossom Demon landed in front of Chu Ying, stretched out his hand to caress the corners of her eyes, and asked doubtfully, "Sakura, why are you crying? Is there anything unhappy about it?"

Chu Ying shook her head, and handed her the peach blossom hairpin in her hand: "No, I'm just too happy, hey, I gave you a birth gift, a human child made it with me."

"A human child?" Tao Hua said in surprise, "Then I have to cherish this gift. It's rare to see us having a friendly human child."

"Hmm..." Hatsu Sakura's voice was soft, "That's a very good child."

Chuying didn't stay with Taohua for a long time, she went back when the sky was dark.

Because there was no longer any need to look for Reiko's traces, when the sky was slightly bright the next day, Hatsakura returned to the cherry tree.

But when she sat on the tree trunk, the peach blossoms she had been watching disappeared.

The peach blossoms were removed because a road needed to be built there. The peach blossoms blocked the road and needed to be transplanted to other places. This is the news Chuying found.

But in fact, Peach Blossom died.

The newly born spirit couldn't withstand such a big toss, and disappeared from this world before even getting a name.

Sakura is crazy.

Loneliness and despair overwhelmed her.

The originally elegant, gentle and demure cherry blossom demon has become the strange curse spirit in front of Natsume Takashi.

"Reiko... Reiko..." Hatsune's voice gradually became clear when Gojo Satoru pressed her down on the ground.

Looking at the boy with a stiff body, Katsuhiro Yuhito asked worriedly, "Natsume, what's wrong with you just now."

Natsume Takashi came back to his senses, looked at the slightly worried people around him, and replied warmly in his heart: "It's nothing, I just thought of something."

He squatted down, and gently stroked the black hair in front of Chu Ying's face behind his ears.

Hatsuzakura's delicate and picturesque face was revealed.

Nagasaki Wild Rose was surprised: "Are all the cursed spirits that have fallen from monsters so beautiful?"

As soon as this remark came out, the surrounding knotweed Yuren and Fu Heihui nodded in agreement.

Thinking of the strange group of curse spirits they met before, Hatsue Sakura's appearance almost beat them up.

But in the next second, Hatsu Sakura who saw Natsume Takashi began to struggle violently.

She firmly held Natsume Takashi in front of her, and she couldn't stop pulling forward with her hands, trying to escape Gojo Satoru's shackles, but she was weak enough to leave bloodstains on the ground.

"Reiko! Reiko!"

Chu Ying's shout made everyone look away from Chu Ying's face, and once again fell on Natsume Takashi.

Natsume Takashi gently patted Hatsaku Sakura on the head, and explained: "Sorry, I'm not Reiko, you misidentified the person"

"No...impossible..." Chu Ying denied, tears fell from the sockets of her eyes and hit the ground, "You are Reiko...the smell is the same..."

"Don't you know it very well yourself?" Gojo Satoru bent down and said, "The name Reiko should belong to a girl, but the person standing in front of you is a male through and through."

"Uwah——" Hatsune Sakura cried even louder after the bloody truth was revealed, "Reiko... Reiko..."

Natsume Takashi looked at Gojo Satoru with a look of helplessness: "Teacher Gojo, can you let her go first?"

Gojo Satoru lowered his head and thought for a while, then nodded, and let go of the foot that had been suppressing Hatsune Sakura.

"Thank you Gojo-sensei." After finishing speaking, Natsume Takashi sat cross-legged in front of Hatsaku Sakura, staring directly at the banshee in front of him, "Hello, I am Natsume Takashi, the grandson of Natsume Reiko."

"Reiko, she..." Hatsue Sakura's voice was still crying, but the crying gradually subsided.

"Grandma has passed away." Natsume Takashi replied, "Although you have been eroded by the curse, you should be in control now, can we talk?"

"Yeah." Sakura nodded.

"you……"

Before Natsume could say anything, Hatsu Sakura answered as if she knew what he wanted to ask: "I'm here to kill people."

As soon as the words fell, everyone except Natsume Takashi looked at Hatsune Sakura sharply.

Chu Ying continued to say as if she couldn't feel the pressure on her body: "I felt Reiko's breath, so I ran over."

"Are you going to kill Reiko?"

"..." Hatsune fell silent.

Natsume Takashi smiled: "Actually, you don't want to kill her, do you?"

Chu Ying retorted fiercely: "No, I'm going to kill her, that liar! I hate her!"

"Really?" Natsume Takashi's voice was light and light, but it hit Hatsue Sakura's heart heavily.

Sakura whimpered softly again.

This time, Natsume Takashi did not continue to speak.

Accompanied by the cry of Hatsune Sakura, the boy was also thinking about whether to expose his secret to this group of people who had just met for a short time.

He looked up, circled around and then stared down at the ground.

Actually...the answer is already there, isn't it?

The boy's hands kept stroking Mr. Cat's fur.

There will be a long time to come, and it is impossible for him to hide every detail from them, there will always be mistakes.

He wanted to believe them once.

Moreover, he also wants to treat his friends sincerely once.

Sorry, teacher, I am self-willed again.

Natsume Takashi's chin rubbed against Mr. Cat, and his brown eyes looked at the teachers and classmates surrounding him, showing a relieved smile: "Sorry everyone, I need you to help me keep something a secret, and I will explain it later .”

"It seems like a big deal~" Gojo Satoru's mouth curled up.

"Ah... yes." Natsume Takashi nodded with a smile, "I've been thinking about it for a long time."

"Don't worry!" Knotaba Yuhito put his arms around Natsume Takashi's neck, "We definitely won't say anything, right, Fukuro, Kugasaki?"

Fu Heihui: "Ang."

Nagasaki Wild Rose rolled his eyes at him, "We don't need you to tell us."

"Since all my students have asked me, as a teacher, I must obediently keep it a secret."