"Although it reminds you of unpleasant things, I still want to ask, why can't you see the cat teacher? Is it just a moment or did it start at a certain moment? Even if you can't see the original cat teacher, what about the cat teacher who looks like this?" Natsume Takashi pointed to the cat teacher who looked like a lucky cat in his older self's arms, "What's wrong with the cat teacher who looks like this?"
Natsume Takashi's voice was urgent, and even the cat teacher became serious. His smiling face showed his seriousness, and his usually light-hearted tone became heavy. He climbed from the older Natsume's arms to his shoulders, and his soft belly touched Natsume's face, warming up Natsume's skin that was chilled by the cold wind outside. "Natsume, what happened in the future?"
The older Natsume put his hands in his pockets. After all, he had experienced more years than the older one who was still in school. When he became serious, Natsume Takashi also held his breath and looked at him nervously.
Seeing how nervous he was, Natsume smiled at him soothingly, "Don't worry too much. I..." Natsume thought for a moment, "How should I put it? Just treat it as a possibility, a parallel world where this might happen. For you, you can think of me as your future self in that parallel world."
Natsume Takashi looked over with a confused look on his face. The doubts in his mind seemed to materialize into a big question mark floating above his head. "What possibility? Does the parallel world mean the kind in TV shows?"
"Different worlds have different developments. Unlike here, there is a place called Yokohama in my world," Natsume, who claimed to be from a parallel world, took the cat teacher down and put him on the ground, rubbing his shoulders and saying, "In that world, there are people with special abilities who have extraordinary powers that are different from ordinary people, but there are not many people with special abilities, and most of them gather in the city of Yokohama." When he saw their puzzled expressions, he added, "I already knew the situation here before I came home."
Natsume found a place to sit down and said, "Sit down and tell me. This story is a bit long."
Natsume Takashi sat opposite him, and the cat teacher lay at Natsume Takashi's feet. The three of them (?) had a strange illusion that they were secretly connecting.
Natsume: "When I was learning about this world, I accidentally saw the names of some of the great writers in history, such as Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Nakahara Chuuya, Dazai Osamu, Mori Ogai, Nakajima Atsushi, Sakaguchi Ango, etc."
He suddenly stopped talking here and looked at Natsume Takashi, who nodded blankly, "Yes, what's wrong? My textbook for this semester includes articles by Mr. Akutagawa and Mr. Dazai and poems by Mr. Nakahara."
Natsume smiled softly and continued, "In our country, there are no such great writers in history."
"Eh??? No?!" Natsume Takashi widened his eyes and shouted in surprise, "Then what about you...?"
"No, there hasn't been one in history," Natsume blinked, "but in recent years, there has been a wave of literature in the Japanese literary world. The reason for this is a novel called -"
“Rashomon.”
"It's from Mr. Akutagawa..." Natsume Takashi was shocked. "In your place, Mr. Akutagawa is still alive and still writing!"
"Hahaha, haha, don't be so shocked. If Ryunosuke knew that someone was so shocked that he was still alive, he would definitely write a few articles to express his unhappiness." Natsume laughed, looking very relaxed, and took the opportunity to tease his friend who was far away in another world.
Natsume Takashi: "Ryuunosuke???"
Wait, the me in the other world actually used such an intimate name for Mr. Akutagawa???
Natsume nodded. "Not only that, all the long-dead literary masters in history are still alive and well in my place, but..."
"But?" Natsume Takashi felt like he had been shocked since this morning. Now his brain was a little confused. That was Mr. Akutagawa! That Mr. Akutagawa!!!
Natsume Takashi had read Akutagawa Ryunosuke's articles when he was a child, and he had admired Akutagawa Ryunosuke since he was a child. He never thought that in another world, he and Akutagawa Ryunosuke could be such close friends, which made him a little dizzy.
Natsume in the other world didn't know what he was thinking, and said with a smile: "But most of them have given up literature and turned to martial arts, and only a very small number are still writing."
Natsume Takashi: ???
"Wait, what? Give up literature and take up martial arts???"
Could it be that he is moving bricks to sell his strength? ? ?
Natsume waved his hand in front of him. "What are you thinking about?" He asked in a gentle tone, as if teaching a child. "Are you thinking about something strange?"
Natsume Takashi smiled a little embarrassedly and looked at him waiting for the next step.
Natsume did not immediately explain why the great writers gave up literature and turned to martial arts, but talked about other things. "My Yokohama is equivalent to an independent city in Japan. There are three major forces in control, namely the Port Mafia, the Special Forces Division and the Armed Detective Agency. There is an interesting saying that the Special Forces Division controls Yokohama's daytime, the Port Mafia controls Yokohama's night, and the Armed Detective Agency is Yokohama's dusk. Isn't it interesting? This is a plan called the 'Three Quarters Plan'."
The cat teacher, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke up, "Use the three forces to restrain each other? If the superpowers are what I think they are, then it is indeed a good idea."
As a great monster, the cat teacher was very sensitive and noticed something from Natsume's words. After all, he had not lived in vain for so many years. Although he was not clear about the twists and turns of human beings, he knew more than Natsume Takashi after so many years, and he also understood the ideas of the person who first proposed this plan.
Natsume smiled at the cat teacher and said, "The person who proposed this plan is called Natsume Soseki. He can also be said to be the teacher who taught me how to grow up."
"Natsume Soseki?!"
Natsume Takashi even wondered if he was still dreaming, and everything he heard now was something in his dream.
"The literary masters I cited as examples belong to these three factions," Natsume said. "Nakahara Chuuya, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, and Mori Ogai belong to the Port Mafia, Nakajima Atsushi and Dazai Osamu belong to the Armed Detective Agency, and Sakaguchi Ango belongs to the Special Forces Division. That's right, most of them didn't write books, but became special-ability users and fought."
…
There was silence.
The corners of Natsume Takashi's mouth twitched, and he said with a sigh, "What kind of magical world is that..."
"Well, you haven't answered our first question yet." At some point, the cat teacher stood up and looked at Natsume and said.
Natsume: "Now I'm going to tell you. It's a very long story after all."
The mature Natsume changed his posture to make himself more comfortable. "In fact, my experience is similar to yours, except that I have a teacher named Natsume Soseki. After the cat teacher appeared, Natsume teacher once came to me and said to me this," Natsume lowered his eyes, "'If we can't be together, it will only increase loneliness.' I answered Natsume teacher at that time, 'It's only the bond that I don't want to give up.'"
"Because of Reiko's grandmother, on the way to returning my name, I temporarily cooperated with Mr. Deba because of some things and learned spiritual power from him, but the relationship between humans and monsters is really strange."
"Mr. Deba once did a fortune telling for me. He said that soon my connection with monsters would slowly fade away. I didn't understand what he meant at first. I naively thought that I wouldn't be like what he said. But Mr. Deba is Mr. Deba. I gradually stopped seeing monsters."
Natsume met Takashi Natsume's worried eyes, smiled at him soothingly, and continued, "But because of Teacher Cat's lucky cat shell, I can still see and barely hear Teacher Cat's voice. With Teacher Cat's message, I can still talk to the middle-level people."
"But during one fight, the cat teacher was desperate and forcibly broke free from the 'shell' in order to protect me. Not only was he injured, but the 'shell' was also damaged."
"I can't see him."
Natsume from another world said so.
"No matter how the teacher called me, no matter how I looked for him, I couldn't see the cat teacher. Even the formation didn't work on me, I still couldn't see him." He said, "At this time, Natsume teacher appeared again, and he said, this is the 'price'."
"As a price for change."
"I don't understand, but no matter how I asked, Mr. Natsume refused to tell me. 'This is the rule,' he answered me, 'That's why I told you not to get married at first. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have involved you.' Mr. Natsume apologized to me. At that time, I really couldn't understand it, so I found the only god I could still see. After listening to everything I said, His Highness Aragami didn't tell me what to do, but nodded at the air beside me with a complicated expression. I knew then that Mr. Neko was right beside me, but, but,"
"I can't touch or talk to him. I feel like I'm being rejected by some kind of existence. His Majesty the God of the Wilderness said to me, 'He has always been by your side and has never left.' Then, how does the cat teacher feel when he sees me doing these useless things? And how does he feel when he has always been by my side and has never left?"
"I don't know, and I don't dare to know."
Natsume Takashi opened his mouth and said, "Wait, wait, there's no need to continue..."
Natsume did not stop, but continued, "After that, I was transferred from Yokohama by Natsume teacher and returned to Yahara to be a teacher. I still couldn't see any monsters. I had spiritual power in vain, and Mr. Deba never asked me to do anything related to monsters again. I seemed to be far away from the world of monsters all of a sudden. This was my wish since I was a child, but I couldn't feel happy about it. Until more than half a year ago, Mr. Deba suddenly found me, gave me a mask, and said that I would have a short journey. Then after a while, I came here."
"That's the end of the story," Natsume tapped his knee lightly with his index finger, "Any questions?"
As if he was running away, Natsume Takashi suddenly stood up and said hurriedly, "I'll go downstairs to see Aunt Tachiko and the others first, and I'll be back soon."
It was as if there was a monster chasing him. He ran downstairs without waiting for Natsume and the cat teacher to say anything. He didn't care whether it was rude or not. He left the room in a hurry without thinking.
Natsume's gaze was on the cat teacher. With a "bang", the cat teacher who was standing in the same place suddenly disappeared from Natsume's sight. For a moment, the room seemed empty to him except for Natsume himself.
Natsume sat there without moving.
"Teacher, are you still there?"
A breeze blew by, and Natsume smiled, looking lonely and nostalgic, with the familiar gentle smile of the cat teacher on the corner of his mouth. In the empty room, he said to someone unknown, "Ah, I knew you were here, teacher."
The big monster transformed into its original form lowered its head and looked at the unconscious human in his arms. Its tail moved, causing gusts of wind to blow up the hair of the human in its arms, as if it was responding, or as if it just wanted to shake its tail.
“…”
"I am here."
It seems like something exists, so to speak.
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