"Even if I'm covered in wounds... I still have to escape!"
With that thought, Firefly turned and ran without a second thought!
And that was how things ended up like this.
Firefly was desperately running ahead, Oswaldo was chasing after her with a gun raised, and behind Oswaldo was Ternan, chasing after him while firing and swearing.
A classic "three-man procession."
Origami University was enormous. To give its students a vibrant campus life, its actual area was comparable to an entire moment of New Penacony.
What left Firefly somewhat despairing was that no matter how she cried for help, not a single teacher or security guard appeared, as though the entire world had forgotten her.
What Firefly found even harder to believe was that... with nothing but her own legs in flat shoes, she had actually outrun Oswaldo, a Heroic Spirit of the Lancer class?!
Though Ternan had been harassing him from behind the whole time, wasn't this speed far too unscientific?
Whenever her stamina ran dry and she was about to be caught, a familiar yet unfamiliar power would rise from deep within her, driving her to run faster and farther.
Panting heavily, Firefly wondered whether some hidden power or second form existed within her.
But Oswaldo was relentlessly biting at her heels, leaving her no time to think.
Firefly could only flee toward her sole destination—the abandoned warehouse at the edge of Origami University.
The Summoning Circle she had arranged beforehand was there!
As long as she reached it... as long as she summoned her Heroic Spirit...
Everything would be all right!
Firefly believed that with all her heart.
"Oswaldo! You bastard! Stop chasing that little girl! If you've got the guts, come at me!" Ternan cursed as he chased from behind.
"Then stop chasing me first!" Oswaldo