Tokyo.

Arakawa District.

Manami Mizuhara sat on the window side of the classroom in Shizudai School Park, holding her cheeks and looking at the flowing clouds outside the window.

It is said that at the time of the turmoil in Katsushika Ward, middle-class citizens from several nearby wards left Tokyo in droves or on the railroad that night, resulting in a crowd of cars on the way out of the capital, and most of the tickets for the lines leaving Tokyo were sold out.

However, more than a month later, the state of uneasy tension that filled the city from the beginning of the city has gradually returned to its former calm, and many citizens who have left Tokyo have returned to Joraku.

Human beings are forgetful social creatures, and in the face of sudden and overwhelming crises, they will respond quickly and quickly with various methods, either fighting or fleeing; But when that crisis is diluted by the calm of the present and transformed into an ambiguous threat of a future that hangs like a cloud over the distant sky, human inertia rises and continues to settle for ordinary life.

And now, that's it.

But Manami Mizuhara definitely doesn't belong to these people.

She is the one who has confronted Mio Ito and seen her turn those bad girls into a part of her body, and she is also on Mt. Arana, and she was given a red crystal by the deity before the god before Yukimaki, and she has extraordinary potential.

So she couldn't know that those events were undoubtedly the result of a transcendent power that transcended the mundane and was enough to break any normal course.

But......

When she returned to Tokyo nervously, she thought that Mio Ito-senpai would set off a bigger bloody storm, but she didn't expect that there would be no movement for more than a month.

She had already made up her mind that if there was no way, she would crush the crystal and become a transcendent when faced with the choice that had to stop Mio Ito, but the calm in Tokyo helped her suppress the fearful anticipation, and also made her clutch the red crystal, but she didn't break it.

Manami Mizuhara herself doesn't know what she's afraid of.

…… Perhaps, I was afraid that after becoming a transcendent person, I would stand in the position where Mio-senpai was standing and see the scenery in her eyes, so I would make the same choice.

And she also received a summons from a state agency, accepted a summons in the police station, and met with the man named Fang Shican.

Although he told him that he didn't find anything on Mt. Arana, he just came back confused; And she couldn't remember the name or appearance of the manager of the Sugo Bookstore—the former was false and the latter true, but she didn't know if she could hide her words from the sharp-eyed man.

However, at least after that summons, Manami Mizuhara was never called over...... Probably, maybe, probably...... Explain that you are not suspected?

"Alas......"

Minami Mizuhara sighed.

However, the store manager didn't have a name in the first place, so she didn't have a problem saying it.

Didn't the man sitting behind the "Suyu Bookstore" always seem to be immersed in the shadows, and no one can see through the expression on his face?

Thinking quietly about these things, Manami's ears heard the laughter and slapstick of girls of the same age.

Out of the corner of her eye, it was Ryoko Okuyama, or rather Lucia messing with her friends.

Like Ryoko, those friends also have dyed their hair in other colors, and in addition to this class, there are many people who come from other classes.

Although it was the end of class, the voices of Ryoko and her friends were so noisy that the other students in the classroom looked at them a few times, but they didn't dare to speak.

The bias of the students in this class is moderate, and it is mainly composed of ordinary students who are neither outstanding good students nor bad students who are not crane tails. It can be said that it is a standard student corps.

Because of this, the classmates did not have the courage to stand up and rebuke them, nor did they have the means to force violent evictions.

Ryoko and his friends are like doves that have taken over the classroom, and the students who originally belonged to this class seem to be excluded by the atmosphere they have created.

Manami looked away, and Ryoko Okuyama, who was laughing with her friends in the last row of the classroom, met their eyes.

Maybe because he was still thinking about some other questions just now, Manami's eyes looked a little dull.

But this sluggishness fell into the eyes of Okuyama Ryoko, but it became a kind of frightening sinister, she shivered, quickly looked away, and said to her friends with a dry smile:

"That...... Let's go out! ”

Calm returned to the classroom, and the other students looked at Manami's position with some respect, but no one spoke to her.

Until the end of class has passed, the next class has started, and even until all classes are finished today, when the time for school comes.

Manami was always alone.

On the way out of school, Manami walked alone.

- This is also a matter of course, she was originally the unapproachable existence in the class, who loved the supernatural occult phenomenon at the beginning.

And when Ryoko Okuyama is also thoroughly taught, there will never be any character like a friend around her.

But it doesn't matter, for this, Manami has long been used to it.

She was walking on the way home, stepping on the long shadow of the setting sun alone.

At this moment, a black official car stopped next to it, and several men in official uniforms got out of it.

When the passers-by next to him saw this scene, they all looked sideways, but Manami looked at the prosecutor's card they brought with a commonplace look.

“…… Do you still have to collect information today? Why didn't I get Mr. Fang Shi's notice in advance? ”

One of the prosecutors in charge looked at Manami and smiled.

"No, you're mistaken. Although we are also members of the national government, we are not part of the same system as the Ministry of Defense and the police system behind Mr. Fang Kuishi...... However, today is also a summons after legal approval, so please get in the car. ”

Manami nodded, stepped into the black official car, and just as she entered the car, she raised her head and asked the person next to her-

“…… Who are you? ”

"The contemptible person is Tachibana Assuke, deputy director of the Special Investigation Department of the Tokyo District Prosecutor's Office."

The man replied with a smile.

— and then the black sedan was slammed shut.

But not long after the car drove away, a moment later, several men who were also wearing police uniforms arrived, sweating profusely, picked up their mobile phones and replied to Shang Feng:

"Mr. Fang Shi...... Something went wrong - the target was taken away by the Special Search Department. ”

(End of chapter)