There were places nearby selling food. The bored Miss Nan Three hurriedly bought a hot meal and a local newspaper from White Steel City, then quickly ran back to the car—for it had started raining.
The rain in the Outer Realm Battlefield was highly acidic, so signs reminding people to seek shelter in time were posted all over the streets.
Rain pattered against the car window, quickly blurring it. Miss Nan Three did not turn on the wipers. She simply watched the rain blur the entire world while holding a bowl of taro soup made from instant soup dumplings and sipping it in tiny mouthfuls.
She felt satisfied and safe... but also lonely.
"Come to think of it..."
Miss Nan Three suddenly muttered under her breath.
"Being without Haro suddenly makes me feel really uneasy..."
She could not help sighing. She was probably the sort who naturally lacked any sense of security... and only when she was beside Boss did she feel able to forget about danger.
"What is that..."
Beyond the water-curtain-like window, White Steel City was shrouded in gloom. An enormous phantom was slowly walking through the city.
Miss Nan Three froze. This was her first time visiting this outpost in the Outer Realm Battlefield, one of the three major strongholds of the Human Race Grand Alliance in the battlefield.
The enormous thing walking through the torrential rain looked like a giant ghost... Its entire body was gray-black, and its mask-like face bore a pair of eyes resembling black holes.
An airborne car sped through the downpour. It actually passed straight through the giant ghost's body, as though the ghost itself did not exist.
Had the driver simply failed to see it, or had she imagined it?
Miss Nan Three rubbed her eyes instinctively, but the giant ghost