How had Kitano Runa ended up here?
It was a question not only Uesugi Tetsu wanted answered—Kitano Runa herself desperately wanted to know as well.
She had merely yawned and blinked while riding the subway, so how had all the Special Affairs Division staff around her vanished?
"This is bad. Really bad..."
she murmured under her breath.
Only a few hours had passed since the White Brahma incident, and Kitano Runa's vigilance was at an all-time high. No matter what she did, she never acted alone—even when going to the restroom, she would ask a female staff member to accompany her.
Yet even that could not prevent this bizarre, completely unannounced turn of events.
She realized that she had been dragged into an unknown Supernatural Incident.
Kitano Runa knew that screaming and crying would solve nothing. If anything, they would only make the situation spiral into something worse.
The more afraid she was, the calmer she had to remain.
She took out her phone and tried calling Shizuma Mafuyu.
"As expected, it's an invalid number..."
Without losing heart, Kitano Runa kept herself almost perfectly still while rapidly shifting her eyes to gather information about her surroundings.
—A drunk middle-aged man, a JK scrolling through her phone, a girl in the corner with her eyes closed and not saying a word, and a hooded figure seated beside a girl in white.
—Near the door, a foul-mouthed middle-aged woman and a group of chattering high school students had also entered.
So, which side looked safest?
Cold sweat trickled down Kitano Runa's temples. Years of watching anime told her that if she chose wrong, she would most likely be heading for a death ending.
Just then, the middle-aged woman bustled past Kitano Runa and plopped herself down beside the JK.
Strangely, although the