WEBVTT 00:01.750 --> 00:05.050 ORIGINAL WORK BY YUKI MIDORIKAWA 01:40.270 --> 01:41.310 Huh? 01:42.560 --> 01:44.190 What was that sound just now? 01:44.770 --> 01:46.440 Sorry. 01:46.520 --> 01:48.190 I'm really sorry. 01:48.270 --> 01:51.070 Have you seen our ball? 01:58.790 --> 02:01.700 You who would protect us, reveal his name. 02:15.840 --> 02:17.890 Thank you very much. 02:17.970 --> 02:19.720 Thank you for giving me back my name. 02:20.680 --> 02:23.230 Please accept this as a token of my appreciation. 02:24.770 --> 02:28.270 These are ashes from a 300-year-old cherry blossom tree that once stood on 02:28.360 --> 02:31.610 the sacred Mount Senba, and which was struck by lightning. 02:31.690 --> 02:34.200 If you use this in pottery, 02:34.280 --> 02:37.700 your tea utensils and sake cups will take on the scent of cherry blossoms. 02:37.780 --> 02:38.620 What? 02:38.700 --> 02:41.490 If you make it into a vase, 02:41.580 --> 02:44.500 the flowers in it will live for 30 days. 02:45.210 --> 02:47.170 I'm grateful but I can't accept… 02:47.250 --> 02:49.920 I must be off. Please take care of yourself. 02:54.760 --> 02:56.380 Wait! 02:56.470 --> 02:57.800 What about this? 02:59.720 --> 03:02.810 I have seen strange things from time to time, ever since I was a child. 03:03.930 --> 03:07.690 I think that these things that others cannot see 03:07.770 --> 03:09.980 are a type of so-called yokai. 03:16.950 --> 03:20.070 Ashes as a token of gratitude? That sounds like a fairy tale. 03:20.990 --> 03:23.200 So there are polite ayakashi out there too. 03:23.290 --> 03:24.660 You are right. 03:25.160 --> 03:28.080 All I did was return something to him that was his. 03:30.040 --> 03:31.040 And it feels a bit weird 03:31.130 --> 03:34.340 to needlessly receive a gift from an ayakashi. 03:36.550 --> 03:39.220 Oh, I just remembered, Natsume. I have something for you. 03:41.140 --> 03:42.600 What the heck is this? 03:43.100 --> 03:44.720 It's clay for pottery. 03:45.600 --> 03:47.890 Tanuma's dad had some left over 03:47.980 --> 03:50.480 from an event. So he gave it to me. 03:50.560 --> 03:52.520 You're going to make some sake cups or a decanter? 03:52.610 --> 03:56.740 No way. But I thought I could pull off a small vase. 03:57.650 --> 04:00.990 I guess I'll practice shaping it without the ashes first. 04:01.070 --> 04:03.120 Damn it! 04:03.200 --> 04:06.870 If only I didn't have these cute paws! 04:08.370 --> 04:10.080 A sake decanter, a sake decanter. 04:11.960 --> 04:13.880 I might be no good at this. 04:13.960 --> 04:17.880 Give it to me. I'll make a sake bottle. 04:18.470 --> 04:19.510 Be my guest. 04:21.260 --> 04:23.470 Only if I had a sample to look at. 04:25.220 --> 04:28.140 Ugh, It's no use. These nails… 04:30.230 --> 04:33.650 I can't do it. 04:33.730 --> 04:36.360 How do you make a sake bottle out of pottery? 04:36.440 --> 04:38.400 -I did it! -What? 04:42.280 --> 04:43.830 What the heck is this? 04:44.530 --> 04:45.910 It's you, Master Kitty Cat. 04:45.990 --> 04:48.000 You idiot! 04:48.080 --> 04:51.420 -This isn't a game! -I'm sorry. 04:51.500 --> 04:54.210 We're here! 04:54.290 --> 04:56.300 Way, hey, hey. 04:57.260 --> 04:59.170 No….! 05:00.010 --> 05:02.680 The ashes have scattered everywhere! 05:02.760 --> 05:05.930 Is there anything here? 05:06.010 --> 05:08.060 No, I can't see. 05:09.520 --> 05:11.310 There's no way we can collect that. 05:11.390 --> 05:14.310 I'm so sorry, Lord Natsume. 05:14.400 --> 05:17.070 We started drinking in the afternoon in the warmth of the mild spring 05:17.150 --> 05:20.320 weather and ended up making a rambunctious entrance. Apologies. 05:20.400 --> 05:22.360 Don't worry about it. 05:22.450 --> 05:26.330 I was never going to use it in any case. 05:26.410 --> 05:28.750 My most sincere thanks. 05:28.830 --> 05:30.460 As expected of Lord Natsume. 05:30.540 --> 05:32.830 -You are so very magnanimous! -And I'm an ignoramus. 05:32.920 --> 05:36.840 Damn it! I'll never get to drink that cherry blossom flavored sake now. 05:36.920 --> 05:39.050 No need to fret Madara. 05:39.130 --> 05:41.050 How about a small cup of sake as an apology? 05:41.130 --> 05:43.470 Cheers, big ears! 05:44.180 --> 05:45.390 -Hey… -Maybe just one cup. 05:45.470 --> 05:47.350 …it's almost time for dinner, Master. 05:47.970 --> 05:50.020 -I guess there's nothing I can do. -Hey, hey, hey. 05:50.100 --> 05:53.600 Tomorrow, I'll buy you some of Nanatsujiya's new dumplings. 05:53.690 --> 05:57.360 What? That's enough from you all. Go home. 05:57.440 --> 05:59.980 Oh, you're a testy one. 06:00.070 --> 06:02.400 Be fair, my hairy friend. 06:02.490 --> 06:05.870 Just have one cup. 06:05.950 --> 06:07.490 Go on, scram. I'm going to go 06:07.580 --> 06:09.370 eat new dumplings! 06:09.450 --> 06:11.370 NANATSUJIYA 06:12.960 --> 06:13.870 …So that's why 06:14.460 --> 06:16.040 I couldn't make anything with the ashes. 06:16.540 --> 06:19.300 I'm sorry to have wasted the clay. 06:19.800 --> 06:20.760 Don't worry about it. 06:21.460 --> 06:25.840 Those yokai don't leave you alone, huh? 06:25.930 --> 06:29.510 Was it the same for your grandmother who said she could see them too? 06:29.600 --> 06:31.430 I'm not sure. 06:32.270 --> 06:34.600 I think she had a lot of interactions with the yokai. 06:36.770 --> 06:39.520 My grandmother Reiko was said to have great magical powers. 06:40.110 --> 06:42.070 She sought out many monsters, challenging them to fights 06:42.150 --> 06:43.150 and defeating them. 06:43.860 --> 06:47.320 As proof of her victory she had them write their names on paper, collecting them 06:48.370 --> 06:52.790 in the Book of Friends, a collection of contracts binding the listed to the owner. 06:53.750 --> 06:57.460 After inheriting the book, 06:57.540 --> 07:01.340 yokai now visit sometimes and I return their names to them. 07:03.590 --> 07:06.340 -I'm home. -Welcome back. 07:06.430 --> 07:08.470 I'm here too. 07:08.550 --> 07:11.970 Is that you, Tanuma? Come in, come in. 07:15.810 --> 07:16.730 Ms. Touko, 07:17.560 --> 07:19.020 what's wrong? 07:19.980 --> 07:23.110 A 500 yen coin rolled under the cabinet. 07:24.280 --> 07:28.200 Maybe you can fish it out with a ruler? 07:28.700 --> 07:31.280 You're right, could I leave it to you? 07:36.080 --> 07:40.250 Oh, there it is. Maybe it was stuck behind something. 07:43.550 --> 07:44.510 What do you make 07:44.590 --> 07:46.920 of what happened with the 500 yen coin? 07:48.430 --> 07:50.550 Something may have found its way into the house. 07:52.350 --> 07:55.640 Hey, Master Kitty Cat, you're supposed to ward off such things, right? 07:55.730 --> 07:57.390 But I am a free-spirit. 07:58.730 --> 08:00.900 Huh? I just felt something prickly. 08:01.980 --> 08:03.190 It's a drawing pin. 08:04.820 --> 08:05.650 A drawing pin?! 08:05.740 --> 08:09.280 -Is your cushion okay, Tanuma? -What about you, Natsume? 08:09.360 --> 08:12.030 Hey, why aren't you worried about me too? 08:12.780 --> 08:14.660 There's nothing under our cushions. 08:16.500 --> 08:21.040 I wonder if someone is out to get you, Master. 08:21.130 --> 08:22.420 With a drawing pin? 08:23.380 --> 08:25.300 Look at this, Natsume! 08:26.380 --> 08:28.800 That's weird. I was sure I put them away. 08:33.050 --> 08:34.010 Earlier, 08:34.640 --> 08:38.100 I felt like I saw someone push the coin out from behind the cabinet. 08:43.520 --> 08:45.270 I just saw something looking at me! 08:51.910 --> 08:52.740 There's nothing there. 08:53.240 --> 08:56.580 But our eyes met. Maybe it was a mouse or something? 08:57.250 --> 09:00.210 Yeah, that must be it. I guess it isn't a yokai. 09:00.830 --> 09:01.960 Huh? 09:02.880 --> 09:05.040 The little version of Master Kitty Cat that I made is gone. 09:06.590 --> 09:09.130 I wonder if the mouse rolled it away somewhere? 09:09.220 --> 09:10.380 Maybe it did. 09:10.930 --> 09:14.350 That's a little unfortunate. I wanted to see it. 09:18.930 --> 09:21.940 I actually kind of liked that mini model of Master. 09:24.770 --> 09:27.190 I had a weird dream that night. 09:29.440 --> 09:32.570 Despite lying down, my body felt strangely light. 09:33.320 --> 09:35.580 And it felt like my legs and arms didn't belong to me. 09:36.240 --> 09:39.950 Then, before I knew it, a man with a really sad look on his face 09:40.040 --> 09:41.960 was staring at me. 09:43.710 --> 09:45.330 I was incredibly surprised. 09:46.460 --> 09:48.880 I didn't care about how I looked 09:49.380 --> 09:51.510 and I wasn't even a bit sad. 09:52.170 --> 09:54.260 I wanted to let the man know that. 09:58.180 --> 10:01.560 But I couldn't open my mouth to do it. 10:06.190 --> 10:07.270 I guess it was a dream. 10:15.570 --> 10:17.830 Good morning, Master Kitty Cat. 10:26.250 --> 10:27.500 Woah, so tiny! 10:31.010 --> 10:32.010 Wait! 10:35.590 --> 10:36.930 What happened just now? 10:38.180 --> 10:40.930 It couldn't be the clay model I made… could it? 10:46.310 --> 10:48.690 I presume it had some of the ashes on it when you made it. 10:49.520 --> 10:51.690 Something may have possessed that doll 10:51.780 --> 10:54.200 when it ceased to be part of this world. 10:54.280 --> 10:55.200 Possessed? 10:55.280 --> 10:57.110 It must be a yorishiro. 10:57.620 --> 11:01.290 It's the same way as how I occupied this lucky cat vessel, 11:01.370 --> 11:04.830 and now everyone can see me. 11:04.910 --> 11:07.500 Can that really happen? 11:07.580 --> 11:09.630 It was just a clay doll. 11:09.710 --> 11:13.300 I think that your strong magical powers must have had some effect. 11:13.380 --> 11:15.840 Just like Reiko, you involuntarily 11:15.930 --> 11:17.680 cause things to happen. 11:18.260 --> 11:19.350 andlrm;Yorishiro… 11:21.350 --> 11:23.770 I wonder what could have possessed 11:23.850 --> 11:25.730 the mini version of Master. 11:35.070 --> 11:36.360 H… Hey, wait! 11:38.450 --> 11:40.700 After that, I started to see 11:40.780 --> 11:43.870 the Mini-Master in our house from time to time. 11:45.000 --> 11:46.370 Such as inside a drawer, 11:48.830 --> 11:49.960 or sitting on top of the beams. 11:51.210 --> 11:53.300 He would also sit on the edge of Master's cushion. 11:55.380 --> 11:57.590 I thought that I should probably try to catch him, 12:01.970 --> 12:03.930 but I started to find him cute. 12:05.470 --> 12:07.890 That's called a pendulum clock you know. 12:15.150 --> 12:17.070 It looks like he nodded just now. 12:22.530 --> 12:25.490 -Good mornin-- -Oh my… 12:27.160 --> 12:28.910 What happened? 12:31.290 --> 12:34.340 Oh, good morning, Takashi. Well, you see, 12:34.420 --> 12:36.920 I thought that I saw a mouse. 12:38.920 --> 12:40.720 Did it do something bad? 12:40.800 --> 12:42.720 No, nothing at all. 12:42.800 --> 12:45.600 So maybe I am just imagining things. 12:46.270 --> 12:48.180 Oh, wait, I just remembered something. 12:48.850 --> 12:51.650 One of my wooden tea cups went missing yesterday. 12:52.310 --> 12:54.520 I don't use it so I was actually 12:54.610 --> 12:56.690 thinking about putting it in storage. 12:59.280 --> 13:01.450 Well, if Tanuma can see it 13:01.530 --> 13:03.320 then it makes sense that Touko can see it too. 13:03.410 --> 13:05.330 But maybe… 13:05.410 --> 13:08.750 it's about time to start hunting for mice. 13:09.250 --> 13:11.420 Don't go too hard on him now, Master. 13:18.670 --> 13:20.590 Huh? There it is! 13:25.180 --> 13:27.100 M… Mini-Master? 13:29.270 --> 13:30.430 Wait, be quiet. 13:34.310 --> 13:36.360 He is thanking you for the hospitality. 13:37.110 --> 13:39.240 You know what he is saying, Master? 13:39.990 --> 13:42.110 He's communicating with me through thoughts. 13:42.200 --> 13:44.870 He's really something. 13:45.660 --> 13:48.910 He says he's terribly sorry to impose but he would like you to give him 13:48.990 --> 13:51.250 this vessel and one of your wooden tea cups. 13:52.540 --> 13:54.750 I don't mind about the clay vessel but the cup is a bit much. 13:55.500 --> 13:58.460 I am in your debt. I must be going now. 14:00.340 --> 14:01.760 Wait! 14:02.300 --> 14:03.430 Hey! 14:09.680 --> 14:10.520 There he is! 14:13.100 --> 14:16.020 What does he plan to use the tea cup for? 14:21.990 --> 14:23.610 How far is he going? 14:31.290 --> 14:32.160 Master… 14:32.790 --> 14:34.040 Yes, 14:34.120 --> 14:36.920 I get a bad feeling from this place. 14:37.500 --> 14:39.500 -Keep your guard up. -Got it. 14:40.170 --> 14:41.920 What's more, we've lost sight of Mini-Master. 14:42.510 --> 14:46.470 Being so small and made out of clay, he'd be toast if something attacked him. 14:49.470 --> 14:50.640 Something's coming! 15:02.740 --> 15:05.030 Beware of my prey. 15:10.990 --> 15:12.660 Mi-mini…? 15:15.750 --> 15:16.790 Huh? 15:20.710 --> 15:23.260 Master Kitty Cat and Mini-Master! 15:25.470 --> 15:28.180 What are you, Mini? 15:29.430 --> 15:32.430 My name is Jozan Souhou. 15:32.510 --> 15:34.770 Originally, I was a fragment from a statue of a Buddha 15:34.850 --> 15:37.190 on the upper stream of the Akaishi River. 15:37.270 --> 15:39.480 But I became mixed in with the soil, got carried away 15:39.560 --> 15:41.690 and ended up becoming a piece of pottery. 15:41.770 --> 15:43.570 You're a part of a Buddha statue? 15:44.400 --> 15:47.700 By chance, I was placed in a small shrine 15:47.780 --> 15:50.200 but my form broke in a small accident. 15:50.280 --> 15:53.700 As a result, I couldn't return to my vessel. 15:54.290 --> 15:57.410 I didn't have the power to merge back into my original form. 15:57.500 --> 16:00.710 I floated around aimlessly for a while as a soul, 16:01.460 --> 16:03.960 but then I flew past a window by chance 16:04.050 --> 16:06.670 where I saw an odd object inside that I thought 16:06.760 --> 16:08.470 I could occupy for a while. 16:08.550 --> 16:11.680 This was that vessel. 16:11.760 --> 16:13.850 After I possessed it, I noticed I could do many things. 16:13.930 --> 16:16.390 Once I got used to it, I was able to move about. 16:16.480 --> 16:19.480 I thought that in this vessel I could return to where my original form lies. 16:20.520 --> 16:21.980 That's what he is saying. 16:23.610 --> 16:25.480 What was that yokai from before? 16:25.570 --> 16:28.450 It seems that the shrine where his original form was placed 16:28.530 --> 16:30.410 is located nearby. 16:30.490 --> 16:33.490 There is an evil and mysterious presence in the area 16:33.580 --> 16:36.330 so before leaving this place for a time, 16:36.410 --> 16:39.080 he came here in order to get rid of that presence. 16:39.160 --> 16:40.000 So that was his idea. 16:40.830 --> 16:44.380 He wanted this place to be peaceful after he left. 16:46.550 --> 16:48.010 He has a crack in his arm. 16:50.430 --> 16:51.340 Mini-Master! 16:52.340 --> 16:54.930 It seems as though there is another one. 16:55.760 --> 16:57.930 Wait, Mini-Master. 16:58.020 --> 16:59.810 Hey, Natsume. 17:00.850 --> 17:02.560 He can't do anything with his arm the way it is. 17:05.690 --> 17:08.280 A shrine? Is that where his true form is? 17:09.150 --> 17:10.030 There he is. 17:11.320 --> 17:13.370 Wait, Mini-Master! 17:14.990 --> 17:16.540 You have a crack in your right arm. 17:17.370 --> 17:19.500 If we don't patch it up, you will break. 17:29.340 --> 17:31.180 This is tougher than I thought. 17:31.260 --> 17:33.930 What did you expect? You're working on something very small. 17:39.140 --> 17:42.480 There was a pendulum clock in the shrine's chief priest's home too. 17:45.150 --> 17:49.230 I used to love watching it go tick-tock. 17:49.320 --> 17:51.700 But then it broke and it stopped moving. 17:52.450 --> 17:54.360 But the chief priest didn't throw it away. 17:54.450 --> 17:56.700 Instead he hung it on a pillar. 17:57.280 --> 17:59.450 He really is a strange fellow. 18:00.660 --> 18:03.330 What kind of vessel did you used to occupy Mini-Master? 18:07.420 --> 18:09.800 -A bird. -Oh. 18:09.880 --> 18:13.180 A small white bird with beautiful wings. 18:13.800 --> 18:17.100 Because I was an ornament I wasn't able to fly, 18:17.180 --> 18:20.930 but I also thought there were benefits to not being able to move too. 18:21.520 --> 18:24.190 But if I really was a bird, 18:24.270 --> 18:27.940 I guess I would have been able to avoid disaster. 18:28.650 --> 18:29.860 And in that case… 18:30.440 --> 18:31.940 In that case… 18:37.530 --> 18:38.620 It's close! 18:39.200 --> 18:42.120 But where? Where will it come from? 18:50.460 --> 18:51.630 Mini-Master! 18:54.800 --> 18:56.640 I'm going to break this. 18:57.550 --> 19:00.220 I must destroy it! 19:00.310 --> 19:02.640 Let go of Mini-Master! 19:10.440 --> 19:13.030 Natsume, be careful. He's tough! 19:18.370 --> 19:19.910 It's no use. Mini-Master! 19:32.750 --> 19:34.590 When the clay vessel breaks, 19:35.090 --> 19:37.090 where will Mini-Master go? 19:37.800 --> 19:39.890 Even though he could go back to where he's from, 19:40.850 --> 19:41.680 where will he go? 19:45.770 --> 19:47.810 We're sorry. 19:47.900 --> 19:51.820 We hit the bird that we know you really cared about. 19:51.900 --> 19:53.190 We're really sorry. 19:53.980 --> 19:56.700 Thank you for being honest. 19:57.320 --> 19:59.450 It's fine. It's fine. 19:59.530 --> 20:01.910 All things have a natural life. 20:01.990 --> 20:05.200 We don't know when it will end, but it happened to be today. 20:11.250 --> 20:12.290 I'm sorry. 20:12.880 --> 20:15.710 It's my fault for putting it on the windowsill. 20:21.430 --> 20:23.220 I'm so sorry. 20:25.600 --> 20:26.730 Even though he said it himself, 20:28.730 --> 20:30.980 that objects have a natural life. 20:31.810 --> 20:33.980 If he was a real bird, 20:35.070 --> 20:37.530 I wonder if he would've been able to avoid disaster? 20:38.490 --> 20:39.700 If he had, 20:40.320 --> 20:42.870 maybe he would've escaped without causing anyone to be sad. 20:49.870 --> 20:52.540 Apparently, you're a weakling. 20:57.460 --> 21:01.010 I saw a pendulum clock working for the first time in a while. 21:01.800 --> 21:04.640 Although I enjoyed it, I realized that 21:04.720 --> 21:08.600 I liked the look of that stopped clock. 21:09.600 --> 21:12.730 I miss things that don't move. 21:12.810 --> 21:16.020 Are humans having an impact on me? 21:16.610 --> 21:18.610 What a pain. 21:23.370 --> 21:25.160 I tried to patch it up. 21:25.830 --> 21:29.710 He just needs this vessel until he gets to his original form. 21:29.790 --> 21:31.250 I'm sure it will be fine. 21:32.870 --> 21:34.420 This teacup is a parting gift. 21:35.090 --> 21:37.420 I will apologize to Touko on your behalf. 21:39.720 --> 21:42.680 It was just a simple clay piece I made as a joke. 21:43.390 --> 21:44.430 And yet even still, 21:45.680 --> 21:48.060 the wooden tea cup that we placed Mini-Master into 21:48.140 --> 21:50.270 mysteriously travelled upstream. 21:51.890 --> 21:53.650 I'm sure that Mini-Master 21:53.730 --> 21:56.230 will safely return to where he needs to get to. 21:59.860 --> 22:00.690 What's gotten into you? 22:01.780 --> 22:02.990 It's nothing, nothing at all. 23:36.000 --> 23:37.170 NEXT TIME ON NATSUME'S BOOK OF FRIENDS 23:37.250 --> 23:38.540 I'm so excited. 23:38.630 --> 23:40.840 Takashi is going to make us a flower bed. 23:40.920 --> 23:43.670 It felt like I'd seen it before. It took me back. 23:43.760 --> 23:46.260 That's no way to treat a cat! 23:46.340 --> 23:48.050 It's time to celebrate. 23:48.140 --> 23:50.430 We should celebrate ourselves. The house and garden too. 23:50.510 --> 23:51.850 Subtitle translation by: Shane Forde