After summer vacation began, Shirou started visiting Garan no Dou frequently.
He had promised Shiki and Fujino that he would teach them to control their Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, so he had to keep his word.
Shirou had personally experienced the disastrous consequences of disregarding a girl's feelings more than anyone.
After summer vacation began, not only Shirou but also Shiki and Fujino started showing up at Garan no Dou regularly.
"Have you heard that rumor? They say a girl has been flying through the air above Wutiao Building."
That day, while the three of them were drinking coffee in the lounge, Shiki suddenly brought up a supernatural topic.
There was an upscale apartment building called Wutiao Building in the commercial district.
They said that at night, something resembling a human figure could be seen above the building.
Shiki said she had seen it several times.
A white-clad girl flying beneath the moon in the night sky above the building.
Even without considering her Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, Shiki now possessed supernatural vision far beyond that of ordinary people—
In the East, it was called the "Pure Eyes," something similar yet not quite the same as the "Fae Eyes" of the Western magecraft world.
Since Shiki said she had seen it, it probably was not merely a summer supernatural rumor.
"The number of suicides seems to have risen to eight."
At that point, Touko Aozaki joined the conversation and brought up the recent suicides.
Within less than a month, eight female high school students had successively jumped to their deaths.
No matter how one looked at it, the situation was abnormal. Yet supposedly, the suicides had no connection to one another. The girls all attended different schools and did not know one another.
None of the eight had