Natsume Takashi has the ability to see spirits, which he has long kept secret. However, once he inherits a strange book that belonged to his deceased grandmother, Reiko, he discovers the reason why spirits surround him.
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Takashi encounters an old man who asks for help with getting home. The old man turns out to be a yokai who will soon disappear and he asks Takashi to help him to fulfill a promise that he had made.
Natsume meets the very first Yokai whose name was written in the Book of Friends.
Natsume meets a yokai couple whom his grandmother had met and who specialize in making sake cups, particularly sake cups that add glorious tastes to whatever is drunk from them but then turn to dust after one night.
Natsume finds out who's been stealing the youkai blood: the exorcist Matoba Seiji. He investigates with the help of Natori, but is captured by Matoba's servant youkai. Matoba is willing to sacrifice any number of youkai for his own ambitions. He tells Natsume why he's gathering blood: to release the seal on a powerful youkai. Natsume learns that there are people who treat Youkai in a totally different way than he or even Natori.
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