By the time Satoru Gojo's relentless barrage of calls finally gave Aikawa Kaze enough of a headache to answer, Kaze had already left Hara.
Peaceful Hara wasn't suited to an influx of outsiders, and the monsters working there were better off remaining anonymous! Otherwise, exorcists and onmyoji would come looking for trouble from every direction.
Thanks to them, the digging for Kaze's Spirit-Gathering Array was nearly finished. He expected it to be completed this year.
Even he hadn't expected Natsume to have such influence, nor had he imagined the monsters would spread the word from ten to a hundred, a hundred to a thousand, a thousand to ten thousand...
By now, Natsume had returned all the names in his Book of Friends. Yet the "Staff List" he had later compiled to keep track of the working monsters' names kept getting thicker, with no sign of shrinking.
Even with Kaze's Spirit-Gathering Array nearing completion, the list hadn't gotten any shorter-the monsters, who had fallen in love with human electronics and food, were begging Natsume to help them find jobs and earn money!
After careful consideration, Natsume decided, with Kaze's help, to establish a somewhat unusual "Natsume Construction Company."
In short, Natsume had become a self-made business owner before even graduating, a winner in life who raked in money by the day.
The company specialized in underground labor and work that was dangerous for humans but easy for monsters-coal mining, for instance. For tough, thick-skinned monsters, even getting buried was no problem. They could simply dig themselves out.
As for digging tunnels and demolition, those were practically routine for monsters.
Kaze could clearly sense that the concentration of spiritual energy in this world was rising. Calling it a spiritual energy revival was no exaggeration; even the exorcists felt their strength growing faster