"Yes, sensei." Tsubaki will head off for class.

And Nyanko and Nanami off to hunt.

"She's a very good student," Nyanko comments as they start.

"She's soooo smart," Nanami mimes a swoon. "Just like Reiko-chan. Well, Reiko-chan was much wickeder with it. Tsubaki-chan's just a good girl."

"A smart student matches a smart teacher well."

"Very true, kitty."

So off to poke around more?

See what they can find in the realm of the dark and spooky.

Not much, but it's enough to distract them - they won't be able to immediately wait for Natsume when she leaves school.

Surely they'll catch up.

Though they should probably get moving...

Back to the lovely Tsubaki-chan! Without whose presence every moment is a tragedy.

Those tragedies will likely continue, since Tsubaki isn't there when they finally make it to the school. 

Her classmate is, though, and she looks somewhere between confused and worried. 

Wait she should be here why isn't she here?

"Natsume?!"

Tōru looks over! She starts to say something, then bites her lip and hurries over. 

This girl probably can't see Nanami. "Where's Tsubaki-chan?" she asks anyway.

Yeah, she doesn't seem to have heard - though she does pull up short and glance around.

"Helloooooo?"

"Where's Natsume?" Nyanko asks.

" - She vanished. There was a lot of wind." Probably they should go somewhere not around other students to talk?

Well that's not good.

Once they're in private: "You can't see my companion, can you?"

She shakes her head. "I'm fast at those circles now, though, so I can draw one."

"Sounds good to me."