"Eh?" The moment Jiu Ming entered the SOS Brigade's clubroom, his entire body tensed. He immediately looked around, but there was nothing else strange... Yet this time, he felt the exact same sensation as before—the one that only came after being targeted by something dangerous.
Hah... Now he could be sure it wasn't someone's prank. There really was a hidden danger. Jiu Ming swiftly inspected the area around him, yet found nothing. That only made it feel more wrong. The other party dared to watch them so openly—either they were brain-dead, or they were supremely confident...
Jiu Ming couldn't find even a trace of the other party. Perhaps they were hiding somewhere beyond the range of his senses.
"This is going to be troublesome..." Jiu Ming scratched his head. "Even after I got here, whoever's lurking in the shadows hasn't reined it in. Tsk tsk, what have you all been up to lately?"
"Nothing." Kyonko lay sprawled across the desk, looking utterly drained, pondering how she ought to live the rest of her life. Should she get together with Mikuru-senpai?
Mikuru didn't seem repulsed by how she was now. If anything, she seemed even more intimate because Kyonko had become like this. Was that a good thing or a bad thing? Should she be laughing?
"Then Haruhi?"
"Ah~ Am I the kind of person who goes around stirring up trouble?" Haruhi immediately took offense at Jiu Ming's words. She shot him a fierce sidelong glare. "Aren't you supposed to be really good at fighting? Hurry up and find that whoever-it-is."
"I want to find them, but the problem is I can't." Jiu Ming shrugged helplessly. That malicious feeling of being watched remained, giving him a deeply strange sensation. How to put it? He could clearly feel that malice nearby, yet