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Title : The Mysterious Person at the Eight Fields (Jap: "Yatsuhara no Kaijin" (八ツ原の怪人))
Air Time : July, 21 2008
Name Released : One youkai who ask for her name in the midnight
Feels like a long way to go, but here it is, episode 3
Episode 3 starts with a flashback where Natsume met with someone who claimed that she can she those things too. However, in the later part, it turned out that she was an ayakashi who tried to console him (or just tease him). Natsume had an extreme hate to youkai and ayakashi when he was a child.
The flashback was somehow related to the theme of this episode, "Natsume would meet someone with spiritual power just like him", but not exactly the same power that Natsume had. In the school, during his slumber, he was woken up his friend who told him that a guest is looking for him. But the guest was soon disappeared. The guest name is Tanuma, who recently move to a temple (The temple was his house). 
Later, Natsume got a visit from two youkais wearing hakama. They asked Natsume to exterminate the human who was able to exterminate youkai (Uh oh someone who more or less similar to him, Natsume thought).
Natsume refused at first, but the two were the persistent type, nagging Natsume all the way until he agreed.
See those two at the end of the bridge?
And so, he unwillingly investigate the matter though he suspected that it was Tanuma's doing. Arriving at the targeted spot, Natsume was swarmed by a flock of lesser youkai. Well, it did not matter.
Amongst the hectic situation, a flash of light suddenly appeared, purifying the whole place, leaving no youkai behind.
Natsume probably thought that this was rather serious problem and the next day he went to check the situation again. It seemed that the place had been purified again.
A greater youkai called Misuzu came to seek his name back. Hearing that Natsume was about to exterminate a human and feeling dull for not being of used since his name was taken, he agreed to help Natsume to exterminate the human.
A horse-faced youkai. The size was about the same as Madara
Without saying any further words, he rushed to find the human. Natsume who knew the target was a human tried to stop Misuzu. And so in the last few seconds, after Madara told him so, he commanded Misuzu to stop. And so he bumped into the exterminator. And who the exterminator was....
Here he was... a Buddhist priest from nearby temple who had just move there.
He explained that the purification was just him reading sutra to soothe the monster on the area. In fact, he was Tanuma's father. In the end of this episode, Natsume made acquiantance with Tanuma and knew that there's a little power inside Tanuma that he can sense vaguely the presence of youkai. And, Misuzu who sought his name back would have to wait another episode.
That's it for the third one. The plot is getting more complicated.
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