This short 2021 movie is composed of two new (23 minute) standalone stories that could have been added to a season, but instead, were combined into one film. 1. Natsume searches for Madara, his missing Bodyguard, and runs into "Mitsumi", a diminutive youkai who is on a mission as the "Ishi Okoshi," the waker of "Gantetsu", a powerful water spirit. 2. Natsume's friend Tanuma who has strong spiritual power, but it only allows him to see the echoes of the past at the temple where he and his father live. Tanuma begins acting distant and his behavior has Natsume worried about a strange new friend of Tanuma, is this stranger connected to the concerning malaise affecting Tanuma?