Those days in Honmaru

Before dawn, Hirano vaguely heard some movement in the large bedroom where many brothers of the Awataguchi Sword Sect lived together, and woke up in a daze. He yawned and sat up, turned his head and saw lying beside him Maeda frowned slightly, as if disturbed by his movements.

Hirano got up carefully, and helped the twin brothers slide up the quilt around their waists, so that the other could sleep for a while, and then walked towards the direction where the voice came from.

The person who made the noise was tidying up his things in a hurry. His long black hair was scattered behind him without the master's care. He muttered and didn't know what he was talking to himself. I don't feel sorry for my silky long hair at all.

In order not to wake up the other brothers who were still sleeping, Hirano slowed down and coughed lightly behind the other party. After seeing the man who was startled but still cautiously controlled himself not to make a sound, he endured it. Can't help snickering.

"Sure enough, it's you, Cattail." Hirano walked up to Cattail, and at a glance, he could see that Cattail was obviously sleep deprived, but his energy was abnormally good, so he said, "Woke up so early, can't you sleep?"

"Of course, because the brother is finally coming back!" When talking about this, Nanwei still couldn't help raising his voice.

When Hirano thought of the excitement that Nanwei had felt after receiving the letter from Gu Gu a few days ago, he couldn't help admiring the other party's energy.

Of course, he really missed his other brother whom he hadn't seen for a long time.

"Then... what are you doing?" Hirano shifted his gaze to the pile of things at Cattail's hand. Compared with Cattail's personal belongings that had been messed up in the other party's informal lifestyle, these stacks It can be said that the box is very new and clean.

Those were gifts prepared by everyone in Honmaru for the bone scorpion who had not returned for a long time, and they were all handed over to Nanwei for his safekeeping.

"Hmm~ I want to try wrapping them up, so it's more like a gift." Catfish said while tearing open a piece of wrapping paper, which is better than studying how to make it with the box, "It's just that I don't know much Good at this..."

Hirano blinked, and was about to speak, but someone's voice came from behind him: "I'm here to help too!"

Hirano turned around and realized that as early as the two of them were chatting, the other brothers had already woken up, and Maeda also pulled Yiqi Yizhen over, and a group of people gathered together to discuss the gift box for Gu Gu. How to make it look good.

The movement of cattail's hands never stopped, and she kept smiling happily: "That's great, if brother likes it, that's fine."

"Bone Gu will definitely like it, right, little tigers~" Wu Hutui touched the little tiger who came close to him, the little tiger stretched his waist and made a coquettish sound, as if he was echoing Wu Hutui.

-

The voice of the Awataguchi family floated outside through the house, and Hasebe, who happened to pass by here, heard it, and smiled subconsciously.

It turned out that the bone ghoul who had gone out to practice for a long time was finally coming back. It seemed that this was another piece of good news worth reporting to the master.

Thinking of this, Hasebe couldn't help speeding up his pace again. Today is the day he has been waiting for for a long time. When he thinks that he can follow his master in an open and honest way all day to solve his problems, Hasebe feels that his combat power can be directly surpassed. doubled!

But of course Hasebe would not disturb Natsume's rest so early, but went to the kitchen first, wanting to prepare a delicious breakfast for Natsume first, tempting with delicious food will always be unconscious The owner of the bed.

Then, as no surprise, I saw Honmaru's culinary role in the kitchen - Candlestick Kiri.

"Oh, Hasebe also woke up very early today." Candlestick Kiri stood in front of the cooking table. His tall figure and eye patch should have given him a fierce look, but the pink apron and gentle smiling face immediately gave him The human feeling turned into a cute style.

Candlestick Kiri smiled at Hasebe, but the movements of his hands did not stop.

Hasebe glanced at him helplessly, walked to the other side to help him, and said: "You are the one who got up too early, you have been in charge of cooking during this time, obviously it is not your arrangement .”

"Hehe, it's nothing. It's also a joy to me to be able to prepare dishes that everyone likes."

"...It's up to you." Hasebe didn't say anything anymore, until Natsume's breakfast was ready, and before leaving the kitchen, he said again: "It's not impossible to take a vacation for yourself occasionally..."

After saying this, Hasebe himself felt that he didn't know how to say it, so he walked out stiffly with surprised eyes on the candlestick.

When Hasebe's figure completely disappeared from sight, Candlestick couldn't help laughing, and sighed: "This is really... the person who obviously never gives himself a holiday is Hasebe."

-

Hasebe stood outside the door of Natsume's room, calming down his stiff expression just now, and knocked on the door after checking that the time was almost up.

There was no response from the house, but Hasebe didn't find it strange. His master had been a little lethargic since he came back from the Warring States Period. The results of the inspection showed that this would not affect Natsume's body. The fusangshen, who were still a little worried, were gradually relieved.

Hasebe said to himself in his heart that waking up now is for the health of the owner, then gently opened the door, first put the breakfast away, and then walked into the bedroom, and saw that the curtains in the room were closed, completely blocking the sunlight outside Get up, but the quilt on the bed is slightly raised, not exposed at all.

Hasebe looked at it with a smile, thinking that it had been a long time since he saw such a childish appearance of the master, then restrained his smile and said to the person on the bed: "Master, it's not a good habit to stay in bed."

There is no response.

Hasebe stretched out his hand to open the curtains, and the morning sun immediately poured into the room, part of the sun directly shone on the bed, and the temperature in the room also rose slightly.

Hasebe nodded in satisfaction, looked at the unmoving quilt, and said helplessly: "If you continue to sleep, you may not be able to sleep at night. This is a vicious circle. Master, this principle was still yours at the beginning. Told me."

Still no response.

Now, Hasebe finally felt something was wrong, he stared at the quilt and stretched out his hand to lift it.

Under the quilt is another long quilt fixed by a rope, and there is a note in the rope, which is particularly conspicuous.

Hasebe tried hard to control his temper, pulled out the whole note and opened it for a look.

The handwriting on the note is obviously divided into two parts, and the one written on the top belongs to Natsume's delicate handwriting: I'm sorry Hasebe, Tsurumaru and I will go to this world to play for a few days, and we should be back soon, don't worry .

And under Natsume's handwriting, there is another flamboyant handwriting that reads: Hey, everyone, I will take the master away~

Hasebe looked at this note and was silent for a long time, and finally...

"Ahhhhhh!! That guy Tsurumaru! He took the master away again!!"

With Hasebe's roar, Honmaru's lively day also kicked off.

At the same time, some movement came from the main gate of Honmaru. The catfish tail excitedly pulled the bone to practice for a long time, and finally ran back with the bone that was returned today. The excitement was beyond words. One of the reasons why my brother dragged him away.

And the other Awataguchi knives also surrounded the two of them, reluctant to leave at all.

As always, Mikazuki Zongjin, who got up early like the old man, stayed at his usual seat, enjoying the morning tea prepared for him by Candlestick Kiri after a long time, when he heard Hasebe's voice, his hands trembled, Sanri Yuezong hurriedly put the teacup aside, thinking: We can't waste the benefits that were so hard to recover.

Another idea is: never let other people know that I encouraged Tsurumaru to run away with the lord~

-

As for Natsume and Tsurumaru who sneaked away after everyone was resting in the middle of the night, they had already come to Natsume's apartment in the present world to rest for a night. Natsume had to say that although it was not bad in Honmaru, the modern bed Much softer.

Natsume didn't mean to just leave a note and leave, but Tsurumaru told him that he planned to take him to find the members of the Nuragumi who had met before, because they are all related to monsters, Natsume always felt that if What I said to everyone, maybe those master controllers will object.

So he followed Tsurumaru's suggestion.

Early the next morning, Natsume began to regret it. He couldn't help but blush when he thought that he had left all the people in Honmaru aside and followed Tsurumaru alone.

After struggling for a while, Natsume thought that everyone in Honmaru must have discovered that he and Tsurumaru had run away at this time, and that they would be surrounded by everyone for "education" when they turned back, so he suppressed that idea , Said to Tsurumaru: "Hasebe must be angry."

Tsurumaru had already seen through his mind, but he didn't point it out, but said: "Sometimes it is more convenient to move first and then play. You also want to find them sooner."

Natsume nodded helplessly: "Of course I want to, but at least 200 years have passed since the time when we met Mr. Nura here, so the difficulty is a bit high."

"So, we have to use some other methods." Tsurumaru smiled mysteriously, as if he had thought of something, but seeing his smiling face, Natsume can guarantee that this person is mostly playing with a mentality.

Sure enough, Tsurumaru took the luggage he brought from Honmaru, took out something from it and put it in Natsume's hand, and said to him, "Do you remember how we found Hyakumonogatari back then?"

A bad premonition flashed in Natsume's heart...

-

A few days after that, a rumor spread rapidly on the Internet.

It is said that on a remote path after nightfall, someone occasionally witnesses a figure in white and obviously not modern clothing walking back and forth along the path, seemingly aimless, but seems to be looking for something.

Suspicious appearance and strange clothes, most people will subconsciously avoid it after encountering it.

A few people who got close to this figure for various reasons will find that this figure looks like a young man with a white knife on his waist. Wearing a fox mask, the eyes behind the mask are tightly closed, but this does not affect the other party's free walking at all.

Because he didn't look like a threatening person in any way, but more like a teenager who ran away from home for some reason and didn't know where to go. Finally, someone came up to the teenager one day and asked: "Who are you, what do you want?" Where to, or what are you looking for?"

The young man stopped in his tracks, and stared straight at the person who asked him as if he could see the scene with his closed eyes. A cold voice came out from behind the mask and replied, "I'm looking for an old friend I haven't seen for a long time."

As soon as the words were finished, a gust of wind from nowhere made the inquirer unable to open his eyes. When he opened his eyes again, he couldn't find the boy no matter what.

……

The brown-haired kid was lying on the ground with his head supported on his hands, his big eyes staring at the doll-sized crow monster in front of him without blinking. The other party was telling him the news that the crows had heard recently.

Yatengu finally finished telling a story, and just stopped. The child didn't hear enough, so he pestered the other party and said, "Yatengu, what's behind? Where did that boy go? Is he also a monster?"

A series of questions made Yatengu's head hurt, so he had no choice but to pick up the questions and explain: "Master Lu Sheng, I think the possibility that the boy is a monster is very high, and because of the spread of rumors, maybe it will increase him. Certain strength."

"Whether this rumor is true or not, since it happened on the territory of the Nuragumi, we all need to find out."

Then Yatengu himself recalled the story he told before, touched his chin and said to himself: "Speaking of it, why does it sound familiar..."

It was thinking about it on its own, but Xiao Lusheng didn't care whether it was familiar or not. He stood up suddenly, clenched his fist and said, "I've decided! I'm going to find that monster! Then let him join Nura group!"

Ya Tiangou's thoughts were interrupted by Xiao Lusheng, so he teased him with a smile and said, "Oh ~ why did Master Lu Sheng want him to join?"

"Hmph~ In this way, the number of members of our Nuliang team will increase!" Xiao Lusheng put his hands on his hips and raised his chest, "I want to be a big monster and become the third generation of the Nuliang team! Of course, from now on Let's start working hard!"

-

Just when Xiao Lusheng was about to set out to find the rumored boy, the person concerned was actually ready to give up such an unreliable "monster hunting notice".

In order to ensure that the rumor could spread, Natsume wandered the streets for several nights, and until someone found his trace, he quietly disappeared with a little onmyoji's tricks.

Then on this day, Natsume was once again coaxed by Tsurumaru to put on the white hunting clothes, and when he took over the fox mask prepared by the other party who didn't know when, he finally realized something was wrong. He looked at Tsurumaru with a tangled face, no He asked with certainty: "Can we really find Mr. Nuliang like this?"

Tsurumaru was helping Natsume tidy up her clothes, showing a bright smile.

Even if he didn't say anything, Natsume can be sure that he was indeed treated a little by this smiling face.

The first step after confirming the relationship is to take him "elope" and punish him?Is Tsurumaru serious?

Probably seeing Natsume's mood, Tsurumaru quickly explained: "Nowadays, the monsters are already hidden. Even if you want to find them, it will take a lot of time and effort. If we have that energy, we might as well let them come to us."

There is nothing wrong with what you said. Compared to a large youkai organization, even the people of Honmaru are not enough to see in this world.

Natsume looked down at the clothes he had already put on, sighed helplessly and said, "Let's do it one last time. If it doesn't work, I can ask Foxanosuke. It shouldn't be a problem to ask the Tokino Government for a favor."

Natsume thought of the scattered news that he occasionally heard from Fox Nosuke, and he probably guessed that he was backed by a senior figure in the Toki Government, although he still didn't know the relationship between that person and himself...

Natsume directly uttered this question. He didn't intend to get an answer, but Tsurumaru threw him a pistol.

"Hmm... don't you know?" Tsurumaru looked at Natsume firmly, confirmed that Natsume was acceptable, and said to him, "That person once told me that her name is Natsume Reiko."

Natsume's first reaction after hearing this was confusion. He obviously didn't expect the connection between the two people with the same surname, but under Tsurumaru's gaze, another character whom he had only heard of in his memory popped up.

Natsume looked at Tsurumaru in surprise, and said, "No... no way, is that the one I thought of?"

Tsurumaru spread his hands and said, "I haven't had time to check what she said, but judging by her attitude towards you, it should be like this."

Natsume's mind was still immersed in what Tsurumaru said until he was taken to the path that Tsurumaru often walked, so that his footsteps revealed a sense of heaviness.

Natsume Reiko, his grandmother? !The girl in the fox mask who helped him? ! !

I don't know which of the two messages, "My grandma has great power in the government of the time" or "Grandma is a girl who is not much different from him", is more lethal.

So when Xiao Lusheng stood in front of him, Natsume was still in a fugue.

The three-headed child ran to Natsume and looked up at him, his eyes wide open, and he clenched his two small fists, showing his excitement: "That, that! Are you Mr. Monster?"

Natsume was stunned for a moment, looking at the little boy in front of him. He looked like an ordinary kid who was attracted by rumors, and he was the type who sneaked out in the middle of the night behind his parents' back, but his cute appearance and politeness The tone of voice still added a lot of points.

Natsume was about to speak, but was interrupted by other things.

The white sword at the waist lit up by itself, Tsurumaru took the initiative to change back to human form for some reason, he only cast a glance at the little boy, then looked up for a while, then turned his gaze not far away, and Natsume followed suit.

The long scarf is still out of date, and the sunglasses are even more out of date. Apart from the appearance of the blond young man for hundreds of years, there is also a disguise that he has not improved at all.

"No one?!"

The character of Shoumu, whom I haven't seen for a long time, seems to have undergone a big change. He hurriedly took off his sunglasses and ran over, his eyes turned back and forth between Natsume and Tsurumaru, and finally stayed on Natsume: "It's not that I misunderstood someone, actually Is it really you?"

Unexpectedly, he would actually meet an acquaintance, Natsume took off the mask silently, a sense of shame flooded up, so what was he thinking at that time, why did he agree with Tsurumaru...

Tsurumaru adapted well, and greeted Shumu with a smile: "Long time no see, where is your second generation?"

But Shou Wuzhi gave them a silent response, which made Tsurumaru and Natsume have a bad feeling, while Xiao Lusheng was dissatisfied that the three people present ignored his existence, and finally heard what he understood, so he hurriedly opened his mouth Said: "Are you looking for my father? He is not at home, he has been out for a long time."

"Your father?" Natsume felt that his mind was a little confused, and subconsciously answered Xiao Lusheng's words.

Xiao Lusheng's crisp voice sounded: "That's right, my father is the second generation of the Nuliang group, and then I will become the third generation that surpasses him! Right, the first one!"

When Xiao Lusheng looked over, Shouwu immediately adjusted his expression, smiled and echoed Xiao Lusheng's words: "Of course, Master Lu Sheng will definitely become an outstanding third-generation target!"

Then he said to Natsume: "This is not a place to talk, anyway, go back with us first."

-

After Natsume and Tsurumaru followed Shumu back home, they found that the bustling monster base camp they had seen before was much deserted at this time. Tomorrow night was their most active time, but only a few little monsters could be seen in the empty yard .

After Shouwu coaxed Xiao Lusheng, who had already started to feel sleepy, to sleep, he explained to Natsume and the others. Natsume still couldn't believe his ears when he heard that Shouwu personally said that Nuliang Liban had died.

"...It happened not long ago, and now everyone is looking for the murderer outside." Shouwu explained why there are so few monsters here.

Standing in the courtyard with arms folded, Shouwu looked at the cherry blossom tree that was always in full bloom, and said in a low voice, "Master Lu Sheng was there at the time, probably because he didn't want to think about that incident, the memories of that time It seems to be closed by himself, everyone wants to take care of his emotions, but has never dared to tell the truth."

Tsurumaru didn't expect that this trip would end up with such a result: "No wonder there were so many crows around before, they were protecting that child."

"But Yatengu sent all the crows and couldn't find out what happened. The bull ghost has returned to his own territory because he couldn't get any clues for a long time, and the snow girl you knew is no longer in the group. Now The snow girl here is her daughter."

For the first time, Natsume really felt what is right and wrong. He lowered his head: "Will a monster as powerful as him die? Obviously we have an appointment to meet..."

Shouwu fell silent again, and finally he could only say: "It would be great if you came a few months earlier."

After Shouwu left, the one who replaced him was Mao Changji. This beautiful monster couldn't hide the tiredness on her face, but she still entertained the long-lost guest with a gentle tone.

"Don't blame Shouwu for his bad attitude. Everyone has been under a lot of pressure during this time." After serving tea to the two of them, Mao Changqian put the tray aside and sat down, "Honestly, I I never thought I would see you again, at that time you were just a human being no matter what you looked at.”

"Time is always very long for monsters, but very short for humans, but the second generation is sure that you will appear, and everyone has guessed a little about your abilities. After all, you can leave quietly and then all the audio There is nothing ordinary people can do.”

"Anyway, we're actually very happy to welcome you here."

Mao Changju didn't stay long either. She originally wanted to invite the two of them to stay here for one night, but Natsume was really not in the mood, so she finally refused.

-

Natsume returned to the apartment without a trace of sleepiness, and Tsurumaru easily found that Natsume's eyes fell on the time-space converter more than once.

He closed his eyes, sat beside Natsume, reached out and took the converter that looked no different from a pocket watch, and looked at Natsume.

Natsume felt that he was seen through immediately, and he said disappointedly: "I just want to see Mr. Liban..."

"Then save him?" Tsurumaru was more sensible than Natsume, he hugged Natsume and said to him softly: "I think you know the duty of being a god judge, the most important thing is not to change history. And you Wouldn’t want to try that consequence either.”

Natsume buried her face and said sullenly, "...I know."

Tsurumaru looked at Natsume whose mood had dropped to the bottom, and made a decision.

-

Natsume didn't know when he fell asleep that day, until the fragmentary voices began to come from his ears, Natsume began to wake up in a daze.

Outside the house, the voices of the knives chatting, Hasebe's irritable voice for some reason, and the faint smell of food could be heard. For a moment, Natsume thought he had returned to Honmaru.

Feeling a little itchy on the tip of his nose, Natsume stretched out his hand to rub it, then heard a low laugh from the side, opened his eyes, and saw Tsurumaru sitting on the edge of the bed with the little tiger in his arms, holding the little tiger in his hand tail, and smiled at him: "Wake up."

The little tiger struggled a bit and jumped out of Tsurumaru's arms, ran to Natsume's side, rubbed against Natsume and acted like a baby.

Natsume sat up, petted the little tiger, and said to Tsurumaru in surprise, "Why did you bring it here?"

"It's not just it, it's them." Tsurumaru said as he opened the bedroom door, and the voices blocked by the door flooded in. Wuhu Tui was the first to discover the movement here, and ran to the door to wave to Natsume .

Yiqi Yizhen also came over, first glared at Tsurumaru, and then said to Natsume with a smile: "Good morning, master."

Natsume walked out of the bedroom only to find that the apartment had been completely occupied by Fusangshin.

Okurigara stood in the kitchen wearing an apron with extremely low air pressure, holding a kitchen knife as if he was going to cut someone, and another chef Hasebe was gesticulating at him, it seemed that Okuligara Luo's temper was ignited by him.

Candlestick Kiri and Kasen Kanesada stood at the door of the kitchen and looked at each other helplessly. The two people inside said that they didn't want their help, and they didn't know when the meal would be ready.

As Odachi, Ishikirimaru and Taro Tachi kept covering their foreheads. Yaken helped them apply the ointment and complained: "Ishikirimaru, you can get rid of the swelling by yourself."

Ishikirimaru smiled awkwardly and said: "After the rituals of exorcising evil and avoiding disasters are completed, I'd better go back to Honmaru. The eaves here are too low."

Taro Tachi also nodded, the house in this world is really not friendly to their height.

Izumi Mori Kanesada is worthy of being the youngest Fusangshin in Honmaru. He became interested in the game console placed in the corner, and the first kenchu ​​Horikawa Kunihiro will naturally fulfill his wish, and has already connected the game console to the TV. , I am playing hard now.

There seemed to be other people in the room, and the apartment became very lively. Natsume heard the voices of Kami Kiyomitsu and Yamato Shou'an. He didn't know which room they were fighting with. He looked at Tsurumaru and asked Said: "Uh... what's going on?"

Tsurumaru spread his hands, and said solemnly: "I discussed with the Tokinosuke last night through Honosuke, anyway, you are still on vacation, and you are in the present world during this time, so in order to avoid the situation like last time If it happens again, it is necessary for us to be by your side at all times to ensure that our master will not be threatened."

As for what happened to the poor messenger Honosuke, Tsurumaru won't say much.

"In short, the result of the negotiation is like this. Honmaru is connected to the present world, and everyone can come and go here freely, but it has to be disguised in front of ordinary people."

Tsurumaru said a few words briefly, Natsume knew what the other party was thinking, and yesterday's bad mood did dissipate a lot because of the arrival of everyone.

He looked at Tsurumaru and said, "Thank you, Tsurumaru."

Tsurumaru held Natsume's hand and said, "Although we can't change the past, if you want, we can participate in the future, for example, to avenge Nuliang Koipan?" , It is not impossible for them to join.

"Also, didn't you say you wanted to report to Kagome and the others that you were safe, now is also a good time."

Natsume listened carefully to Tsurumaru's rare thoughts, until Tsurumaru said: "...I just want to tell you, at least we will always be by your side, and we will never leave."

Natsume finally laughed and said, "I always knew."

The author has something to say:

When I wrote this chapter, I was really hesitant, but in the end I gave a bento to the second generation

In this episode, the initial first team, which has not played for a long time, showed up

It's not that I forgot their existence, after all, there are many characters in Dao Chao~

I'm really not guilty!