小さきもの | Chisaki Mono | Chapters 32-33
Natsume comes across a small fluffy injured youkai and befriends it, after realizing how weak it and its fellows are he decides he wants to protect them.
Tropes associated with this episode:
- Because You Were Nice to Me: The Karu that Natsume takes care of returns his kindness by giving him berries that heals Natsume's wounds and it, along with the rest of the Karu, saves him from Amana when she attacks him.
- Cuteness Proximity: Natsume finds the Karu youkai to be adorable.
- Fusion Dance: The fluffy little Karu youkai can combine to become a large white dragon.
- Long Neck: Amana, a youkai who otherwise looks like a masked human woman with her hair floating and swirling in defiance of gravity.
- Metamorphosis Monster: The tiny weak Karu youkai become a large strong dragon.
- My God, What Have I Done?: When the main Karu yokai accidentally scratches Natsume again, it runs away, upset that it hurt him again.
- Sprouting Ears: The Karu youkais' dragon form has four ears.
