Just as Amamiya Natsuki was eagerly preparing to catch another Rain Child to test his theory, he suddenly heard a rush of wind behind him.
Amamiya Natsuki dodged with a roll, then turned around and saw an arrow quivering in the ground where he had just been standing.
"Human?"
Amamiya Natsuki raised an eyebrow.
Monsters didn't use bows and arrows, so... was the one who'd ambushed him human?
Amamiya Natsuki stood up, brushed the dirt from his hands, and turned to look behind him.
A short-haired girl stood in a tree by the park entrance. She had arms and legs and looked human, but the right side of her face had grown a half-mask of white bone. The eye beneath it was a strange, blood-red color.
The girl wore a cold expression and held a longbow, now fitted with another arrow, ready to fire at any moment.
"Why did you attack me?"
Amamiya Natsuki raised his hands and asked curiously.
He didn't recognize the girl. She hadn't been among the passengers on the subway. Could she have been an ordinary person who'd accidentally wandered into a Supernatural being's territory?
Or... was she a native of this world?
Either way, Amamiya Natsuki's curiosity was piqued.
The short-haired girl's expression remained cold as she aimed her bow at Amamiya Natsuki and said, "Back away and leave the raincoat."
"Hmm?"
Amamiya Natsuki paused, then quickly understood.
She'd ambushed him for the raincoat in his hands.
So she knew about its special properties, too?
Amamiya Natsuki asked curiously, "Are you a [player] too?"
The short-haired girl frowned slightly, her expression still cold. "What do you mean?"
"..."
All right, so she wasn't a player.
Amamiya Natsuki dropped the raincoat and stepped back with his hands raised. "You can have the raincoat, but could you