"Ooh? It's nighttime here?" Haruhi tilted her head back to gaze at the red moon in the sky. "Look, there's a bunch of weirdos standing in the air! They're wearing skirts and still daring to stand that high up!"
"...Don't make a fuss. They're just standing on some kind of sturdy thread." Jiu Ming looked up at the sky. The moon in this world was huge at night.
"Then why are you looking up too?! Get your head down, now!" Haruhi abruptly leaped up, grabbing his lengthened, exceptionally easy-to-grasp hair with both hands and yanking downward like a koala. "What color are they?!"
"Pink-purple, and black stockings..." Jiu Ming muttered. He directly scooped Haruhi up in his arms and jumped back a step. A string of small craters was blasted into the ground by a barrage of light bullets. "Hey! Isn't this way too unreasonable? You're the ones standing right over our heads!"
"Hm? Guards here? Let's just take them out!" The pink twin-tailed girl holding a strange gun clicked it around, aiming at Jiu Ming on the ground. That would have been one thing, but she actually fired without the slightest hesitation!!!
The wide-area sweep of golden light bullets did not merely put Jiu Ming within its range—it even caught the black-haired girl named Sayo. Jiu Ming swiftly glanced her way. Her movements were unexpectedly good; she lightly stepped back several paces, evading the bullets' range. "You vicious woman, you actually opened fire just like that!!" Haruhi, slung over Jiu Ming's shoulder, waved her fist and shouted at the gun-toting girl in the sky. This leader had come all the way here out of kindness to save someone, and they had been attacked with guns without a word!?
They were practically courting death!!
"Hm... pure energy impact. Oh? It