ayakashi

Doumeki uses the bow and an arrow forms, which he launches into the ayakashi.

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Against one of the top ayakashi in the entire country Himari wins with a simple case of losing control.

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Also, it is interesting that the creature was called an ayakashi by Watanuki, though he did qualify that statement with not being sure it could be called one.

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Doumeki senses something outside the barrier of the shop, which Watanuki says is something akin to an ayakashi.

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She comes from a line of ayakashi that one of Yuuto's ancestor went against the grain and couldn't kill.

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The ayakashi immediately rushes through the tiny opening and attacks Watanuki.

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Pretty much opposites since Himari is the well endowed cat and Shizuku is the loli water ayakashi.

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The real Nyanko-sensei tells Natsume that the black cat is definitely an ayakashi, and gets pretty offended at Natsume's previous inability to tell the difference between them.

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But they couldn't do it so the youkai Natsume helped earlier came to return the favor and got to the ayakashi.

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But they couldn't do it so the youkai Natsume helped earlier came to return the favor and got to the ayakashi.

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There are several terms for these (yokai, ayakashi, kami), and are described in lots of different ways in different tales, sometimes like elves or brownies, sometimes more like giant invisible organisms which, like microorganisms, naturally dwell in various places and only cause problems when things go out of whack (like when the bacteria in your guts are messed up by antibiotics and make you ill, or the bacteria that live all over your body at all times get into a cut).

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