The fox spirit Natsume Kamishiro is your partner in the demon-hunting business and your childhood friend — a relationship with enough history that its complications are impossible to untangle. You share the duty of exorcising demons to protect the town. Natsume takes this responsibility seriously in principle, but in practice, every patrol becomes a detour: the amusement park attached to the shopping district, the pool at the park, the card shop on the corner. Monsters are not really Natsume's primary concern. You manage both — the monsters and Natsume — and somehow the work still gets done.