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Chapter 07

Chapter 07

Information
Release Date

August 5, 2006 (LaLa DX, Japan)

Chapter

7

Volume

2

Story Arc

Natori Introduction

Anime Episode

Season 1, Episode 9

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Chapter 07 is the third chapter of the second volume and the overall seventh chapter of the Natsume's Book of Friends manga series, written and illustrated by Yuki Midorikawa.

Summary[]

Natsume meets the exorcist Shuuichi Natori, who asks Natsume to become his assistant.

Plot[]

While taking Nyanko-Sensei out for a walk, Natsume stumbles over a man lying in a field when Nyanko-Sensei chases after a grasshopper. The man catches Natsume before he falls, apologizes and heads off as another person calls for him. Nishimura, who recognizes the stranger and lives nearby, informs Natsume that the man is the famous actor Shuuichi Natori. Natsume spots a gecko-shaped tattoo on Natori's neck.

Continuing his walk, Natsume spots a masked Youkai with a trailing rope around her neck and a loose bandage on her wrist. He offers to retie the bandage but is rejected.

While Nyanko-Sensei is out for a drink later that night, Natsume wakes up from a dream and encounters a human-sized moving sheet of paper in the hallway, which chases him into the woods. The paper envelops Natsume but he manages to tear free. A man wearing glasses and a hat appears from the nearby bushes and asks whether Natsume is alright. Natsume is surprised when the man says he can see the paper and Youkai as well. The man takes off his hat and glasses and introduces himself as Natori Shuuichi, the actor who Natsume met in the field. Natori asks whether Natsume will help out with his "other job" but gives Natsume some space and time to process events.

Natori waits for Natsume outside school the next day and follows him around, being chatty and attempting to make small talk. Natsume finally tells him to get to the point and they begin talking in a café. Natori says he wanted to make sure Natsume was a human and not a Youkai, and reveals that he is an exorcist in need of an assistant. Natsume notices that Natori's gecko tattoo is moving and is told that it suddenly appeared on Natori a long time ago, that it moves all over his body and is almost certainly some sort of Youkai. Natsume is suddenly attacked by a long-haired Youkai who addresses Natori as "Master". Natori tells them to lay off, and Nyanko-Sensei steps in to protest Natsume and shines blinding light to drive the Youkai away. Natsume hurries off and Natori asks him to meet again at a park the next day.

Natsume decides to meet Natori because he has a lot of questions. When Natori admires him as Natsume's cute familiar, Nyanko-Sensei is riled up and asserts that he is Natsume's master. Natori introduces his familiars, Sasago and Urihime (the Youkai who attacked Natsume in the café). Natori describes the case he is currently investigating, a storehouse which is supposedly cursed, likely caused by a Youkai. Natsume in unsure about helping Natori because he does not know enough about the circumstances. When Natsume smiles at the gecko which has moved to look like a bracelet on Natori's arm, Natori reacts gently, describing Natsume as a nice, normal boy.

As a Youkai lunges at Natsume from the bushes while they are walking outside, Natori violently stabs the Youkai with a stick. Natsume becomes angry because he feels empathetic towards the Youkai, while Natori advises him to stay detached. They part ways and Natsume realizes that although he finally met somebody who sees Youkai, he cannot understand people's hearts clearly.

Natsume picks up and pulls on a rope lying on the sidewalk and apologizes and lets go when he recognizes that it is bound to the masked Youkai he met before. The Youkai lets Natsume rewrap the bandage around her wrist and explains that she is forced to curse the person who opened the storehouse she is guarding or else the noose around her neck will tighten. She reminisces about a boy who wrapped her bandage a long time ago and has returned as an exorcist, welcoming being exorcised by him. Natsume realizes that she must be the Youkai involved in Natori's case and that the exorcist she is talking about is Natori.

Natsume hurries to Natori, who is preparing to exorcise the Youkai. When Natori does not seem to remember bandaging the masked Youkai and keeps explaining the exorcism ritual, Natsume tries to run away to warn the Youkai but is stopped by Urihime. The masked Youkai steps into the spell circle Natori has prepared and Natori starts the ritual despite Natsume's protests. Natsume struggles and breaks free from Urihime's grasp, and jumps into the circle with the Youkai. Natori urges Natsume to get away from the the circle, exclaiming that he cannot stop the spell. Nyanko-Sensei/Madara jumps into the circle as well to protect Natsume. Natsume falls unconscious when the spell hits and memories of young Natori's meeting with the masked Youkai, whose name is revealed to be Hiiragi, stream into his mind. As Natori explains to Natsume when he wakes up, the spell he used was intended to free Hiiragi from the rope if possible and that Hiiragi was spared from serious injuries because Natsume shielded her. Hiiragi chooses to become Natori's familiar and Natori and Natsume agree that they can be friends despite disagreeing on each other's methods of dealing with Youkai as it is natural not to have the same opinions on everything. Natsume resolves to try to understand people's feelings better.

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