Those days in Honmaru

I just said that he was not surprised at all that I was Touken Fusangshin, how many Token Fusangshin did he know?

Doesn't it...doesn't it seem that I am not special at all.

Not reconciled.

I don't want it to end like this.

- Tsurumaru's diary

Tsurumaru's prank was discovered by Natsume early the next morning.

Natsume found out when he was about to wash up. He looked at the reflection in the water in surprise, and the fox mask on his face finally changed into what he remembered.

All the patterns are exactly the same as in the impression, but it is obviously newly painted, and of course there is only one person who can do this, that Fu Sangshen who has been in the same room with him all night.

However, in that case, this is the mask I got at the beginning?

So when did I take off this mask, and when did this mask come into the hands of the girl from the Government of Time?

It seems that more mysteries have emerged, and Natsume is very confused.

Natsume's surprised look made Tsurumaru who was watching very happy. He pointed to the mask and said, "How about it~ Your original mask is too ordinary, I added something for you."

Natsume carefully touched the pattern on the mask to make sure that the pattern was dry, then he looked at Tsurumaru, not knowing what to say to him.

Although I can't see Tsurumaru's expression now, but I can tell that the other party is looking forward to Natsume's evaluation, and finally Natsume nodded helplessly and said, "It's very beautiful, I like it very much."

"Hehe, that's good." Tsurumaru laughed, "It would be great if this color could last longer."

Natsume touched the mask, jokingly but said with certainty: "Maybe it can last for hundreds of years."

-

Because Tsurumaru has been trapped in the main hall and can't get out, he hasn't even visited the shrine. In order to satisfy his little wish of "seeing everything here before going outside", Natsume took Tsurumaru to the shrine. wandering around.

Until Tsurumaru stopped suddenly, pointed in a certain direction and said, "We haven't been there yet."

Natsume looked in the direction of Tsurumaru's finger, and suddenly felt a little reluctant to go, "Well... it's just a tree, it shouldn't be anything special."

"There's no reason why you can't go there." Tsurumaru seemed determined to go there, Natsume glanced at him, sighed and walked over there, Tsurumaru followed with a smile.

The reason why Natsume didn't want to get close to it was simple. The tree belonged to the sacred tree of this shrine.

Standing under the tree, Natsume looked at this lush tree with complicated emotions. He would never forget that he was trapped in this era because of a similar tree.

And Tsurumaru had successfully jumped onto the tree, looked down at Natsume: "Why, aren't you coming up?"

Natsume didn't answer, Tsurumaru looked at him for a while, as if he had come to his own conclusion, he jumped down from the tree again, before Natsume could react, he wrapped his arms around Natsume's waist with one hand, supported his leg with the other, and relaxed He hugged.

"Eh?!" Natsume was taken aback, the sudden change of center of gravity made him put his hand on Tsurumaru's shoulder subconsciously, and this action also made Tsurumaru laugh with satisfaction.

After Tsurumaru hugged Natsume, he said: "You are lighter than I imagined. You must be lighter than a girl. As a human boy, you have to eat well."

"How can I be so light! And I have eaten, you can see it!" As soon as he interrupted, Natsume returned to him first, and at this time, Tsurumaru had already hugged him and danced lightly To the tree, the whole process was so easy that Natsume wondered if he was really weightless.

Tsurumaru placed Natsume close to the trunk so that he could hold on to the trunk for balance, and he sat cross-legged next to Natsume, not worried about falling off.

Natsume blinked, touched the tree trunk carefully before putting his whole hand on it, and then he looked into the distance.

The location of the sacred tree is near the torii gate near the entrance of the shrine. The branches they sit on are quite high from the ground, which happens to allow them to see most of the buildings, including the main hall in the deepest part of the shrine.

"So, that place looks like this from here." Tsurumaru looked at the side quietly for a while, then sighed suddenly, then turned to look at Natsume, "I quite like this position, what do you think? ?”

"...If that incident hadn't happened, I'd like it here too."

Natsume saw that Tsurumaru was a little confused, and thought that he hadn't told Tsurumaru about coming to this era, and at this time, things about Tsurumaru who seemed to know a lot of information kept going around in his mind for some reason .

So, is there only one possibility?

All the stories were told by Tsurumaru himself.

Then Natsume thought of the diary he had been writing since yesterday, couldn't help laughing, shook his head, and laughed at himself: "Probably there is no judge who can break the rules more than me."

"Huh?" Tsurumaru looked even more confused, Natsume thought, anyway, Tsurumaru knew that those things had already happened, so he told him everything, about the fact that he traveled through time and space to get here.

Tsurumaru was silent for a long time, Natsume didn't know whether the other party couldn't understand this matter, or was doubting what he said, after a long silence, Tsurumaru suddenly said: "So, this is why you always subconsciously avoid this place? "

"What?" Natsume was obviously stunned for a moment, not knowing how the topic came back.

"You are worried that you will go to another era when you meet Misamiki again, right?" Tsurumaru put his head on his leg and looked at Natsume, "So it's not as serious as I thought Psychological shadow, I wanted to comfort you at first, but now it seems that I don’t need it anymore.”

Tsurumaru's tone sounded quite regretful, and Natsume couldn't help but smile bitterly. He touched the trunk of the tree and said softly, "I don't know what happened to Mikazuki, so everyone shouldn't embarrass him..."

"Mikazuki? Who is that?" Tsurumaru heard this name for the first time, and Natsume explained: "One of my family members who came to pick me up is Mikazuki Munekin."

"...Is he also Fusangshin of the sword?" Tsurumaru's words couldn't be heard as ups and downs.

"Yeah, speaking of it, I think you two should get along very well, and you were born in about the same age, so you should have a lot of common language?" Natsume felt a little helpless when he said this, "But he always calls himself Grandpa, I They were all taken away by him."

Tsurumaru fell silent strangely, and let out a voice: "Hmm..."

"That person is called the most beautiful existence among the five swords in the world." Natsume recalled that person's gorgeous appearance, "If you see him, you will recognize him at first sight. I really can't think of anyone who can be called the most beautiful sword Fusangshin."

"Oh~" Tsurumaru was silent for a while, and then said: "I shouldn't be bad, although I don't have a complete human form yet..."

This was said lightly, Natsume figured out what it meant, and looked at Tsurumaru blankly.

What does this mean... Could it be that you are jealous? !

Tsurumaru turned his head away, stared in another direction for a while, and said, "You should be the kind of person who is very popular."

Natsume didn't quite understand Tsurumaru's meaning, and Tsurumaru didn't explain, thinking to himself: If he knew about the existence of those little monsters, wouldn't he have less time to pay attention to himself.

-

"How about it, can you see clearly?"

"Hmm... a bit reluctant."

A few voices that sounded very immature sounded from behind the bushes, and then the thick bushes shook several times, and a few small heads came out of it, and there were still many leaves and grass on the heads.

The little girl in the middle with short white hair and a pair of rabbit ears on her head blinked red eyes, stretched out a hand and said impatiently: "Hee hee~ Let's go a little further, we can see clearly~"

As she spoke, she was about to crawl out, but the other two little girls beside her hurriedly grabbed her and dragged her back abruptly.

"Stop making trouble with Shantu, didn't you see that there is a super fierce Fu Sangshen over there!"

Shantu blinked, and suddenly realized: "Oh~ that white shadow is Fu Sangshen of that knife~ so scary, so scary~" Although she said this, there was no sign of fear in her tone.

"If you have Fu Sangshen, can't you get close to him?" The girl on Shantu's right side asked softly. Her long purple hair, which was originally delicately braided, looked messy now, and there was a purple hairpin in between. The little butterfly flapped its wings slowly.

"You don't understand, Butterfly Spirit~" Shantu said while grimacing at her, "Fu Sangshen is alright, but this is the Fusangshen of swords, knives!"

Then Shantu said to the girl on the left: "Then what to do, Yingcao, we can't see him."

Yingcao sighed like a little adult: "I can't help it, next time you meet Po Meng, ask her, maybe she has a way."

"But...it's just a shadow no matter how you look at it, it's not scary at all." Butterfly Jing was a little unconvinced, she kept staring there, to be precise, staring at Natsume, "That person's breath is so clean, That is the legendary Onmyoji, right?"

Shantu nodded, "It should be. Other monsters I know say that this type is an onmyoji."

"It's great... I really want to stay by Mr. Onmyoji's side forever."

Shantu and Yingcao nodded in unison: "Yes, I think so too!"

Butterfly looked depressedly at Tsurumaru next to Natsume: "Fu Sangshen is really annoying, it's in the way... It would be fine if there was no Fusangshen!"

The few of them were having a good chat, when they suddenly saw that white figure obviously turned his head to look at them, and all of them shrank back in fright.

Behind the haystack, the big devil frog was lying there resting, and was suddenly thrown down by three figures. The mountain rabbit quickly ran up to the devil frog's head and patted each other, saying, "Go, go, I've been found~"

The magic frog stabilized its body and quickly ran away with the little monsters.

-

On the other side of the sacred tree, Tsurumaru nodded in satisfaction when he saw the backs of the monsters fleeing in a panic, and then said to Natsume: "You will be cold if you stay here for too long, I will take you somewhere."

After losing most of his soul, Natsume became afraid of the cold. Although the weather is not too cold now, he still has to wear a heavy cloak wherever he goes.

Tsurumaru found out about this before, and now he took him to the warehouse for a while.

Finally, under Tsurumaru's instructions, Natsume found a hand warmer with an exquisite and small style. Natsume held the hand warmer in surprise, looked at Tsurumaru and said, "How do you know there is this here!"

Tsurumaru said very easily: "It seems that Fusangshen is about to be born, and I can feel its existence in the main hall."

Natsume was still holding the hand warmer properly at first, but after hearing this, his hands became stiff, and hesitantly said, "Then I use it like this...isn't it good?"

"Hahaha~" Tsurumaru laughed, and lightly tapped Natsume's chest, "Of course things like items are expected to be used by the owner, and the so-called fusangshen, it's all because of the delay If I can’t wait for the master, I have no choice but to find a way to find the master myself.”

Tsurumaru's few clicks like this, plus the intentionally accentuated "Master", made Natsume blush a little, and he looked at Tsurumaru calmly, "Then have you found your master?"

Tsurumaru smiled, and the finger on Natsume's chest slowly moved up little by little. This movement almost made Natsume stop breathing. He felt Tsurumaru's hand finally resting on the position of the eyes on the mask, Natsume He looked away a little, but he heard the man say to him, "Look at me, okay?"

Natsume involuntarily raised his eyes to look at the other party, the shadow in front of him completely overlapped with the image of Tsurumaru in his memory, and then he heard Tsurumaru say to him: "I thought I couldn't wait for my master until I could move freely. Yes. I originally thought that after I have a physical body, I can go anywhere I want, but now..."

Tsurumaru laughed again, "If I can stay by your side forever, it seems to be more important to me."

Natsume felt that Tsurumaru was oppressing him invisible, but this kind of domineering attitude did not displease him, because he could also hear the uneasiness hidden in Tsurumaru's tone.

Sure enough, Tsurumaru's voice after that was a bit hesitant, he hesitated and said: "So, I just want to say... are you willing to let me follow you from now on?"

Natsume looked at the other party, his heart seemed to be throbbing suddenly, and he responded softly: "Of course, I also hope..."