"Could the whole world be against us? How could there be so many eyes watching us?" Haruhi eyed the passing pedestrians with some suspicion, pointing at a pockmarked young man dressed in a sleazy manner. "Like him, for instance. Look at the way he walks all crooked, that lewd grin on his face... you can feel that sleazy aura smacking you in the face from a mile away. He's suspicious, right?"
"...I want to beat him up." Kyonko stared at the young man who had looked them over and spoke in a low voice. Bastard, take those sleazy eyes off my senpai!! You even pulled out your phone! Are you trying to take pictures!?
"He really is annoying." Haruhi adjusted the sunglasses on her face. "Looks like I was overthinking it. A small fry like that couldn't possibly be the mastermind."
With a soft click, Jiu Ming's sharp ears caught it clearly—it was the sound of a phone taking a picture. But why was that guy's phone smoking? Did it malfunction...?
Raising an eyebrow at the sight, Kyonko gave a soft laugh. Sometimes, Haruhi's power really was useful.
"Ah! My phone!!" the young man shouted as he watched his phone get snatched away. The thing that had taken it was a pitch-black crow.
Well, it was quite a magical sight. But if it was Haruhi, then anything was possible. Still, the scene Jiu Ming had expected—of the crow carrying the phone high into the air before dropping it for a falling-object attack—never happened. Was it afraid of hitting someone? Also, that crow was pretty strong. It could still fly so merrily while gripping a phone, and in the blink of an eye, it vanished without a trace.
"So why did we end up finding a haunted house?" Having wandered all