(へ╬) It was all Little Bear's fault!
Just like that, the strange guy in a striped patient's outfit appeared with his hair hanging loose, standing in the middle of the road up ahead and staring ominously at Annie. He even looked downright vicious. Anyone who didn't know better might have thought Annie owed him money or something!
"..."
(||￢▽￢)
After the two of them had faced off for a while, Annie was finally the first to lose patience.
After all, there was no way she was going to waste time here with such a "lunatic" of an eerie creature. She still had to go explore this abandoned ghost city.
So she asked in her cute little voice:
"Go on!"
(ω)
"What exactly do you want?"
("ヘ)"
Well, Annie knew that these eerie creatures weren't exactly bright. Some could communicate, but even then, their intelligence was limited. Still, she was in a hurry, so she asked anyway.
"..."
As expected, the other party still didn't say anything. He just stood there in the middle of the dark, dilapidated street, and she had no idea what he was trying to do.
"..."
"Ugh!"
(ˉ▽￣~)~~
Seeing that he was just putting on airs, Annie couldn't be bothered to say anything else. She simply started walking forward.
But...
"Huh?!"
"That's..."
(*--)
She had barely taken two steps when she noticed something strange and had to stop again.
Because she'd noticed that when she looked away just now, the other party seemed to have moved two steps closer—and in an instant, at that.
Annie was sure the distance between them hadn't shortened because she'd walked two steps toward him. Instead, it had suddenly decreased while she wasn't looking at him.
She also noticed that he didn't seem to exist on the plane of this material