"Though your little stunt makes me very unhappy, our relationship's not too bad, right? Here, you can use this backup passage for now." After pulling open a Gap behind them, Little Nine said with an annoyed pout.
Looking at the pitch-black Gap before them, its interior packed with scarlet eyes, then at Negi and Konoe Eishun approaching from behind the cover, it was not that they had noticed anything wrong. Rather, girls' voices were drawing closer from outside the bathhouse!
Which meant...
They had come looking for a place to hide too!
"Let's do it!"
Having made up her mind, Asuna was the first to rush into the Gap beside her. The instant she was enveloped by that black, eye-filled space, an inexplicable terror welled up inside her. Thankfully, it vanished very quickly. After passing through the Gap, her eyes flew wide open. Hadn't they said they would go straight outside?
Why was she in the water?!
And who had kicked her?!
Asuna, who had taken a kick to the chest, flew into a rage!
A flash of anger crossed her eyes. She grabbed the ankle of the foot that had kicked her and yanked hard. A familiar scream rang out beside her. "Huh? Negi?"
"Waaah! Asuna, why are you here?!"
"An ambush!?" Sakurazaki Setsuna, who was a step too late, decisively drew her blade and slashed horizontally at Little Nine, who was grinning smugly. The razor-sharp edge cleaved the rock in two, completely exposing this place.
The White Fox girl gave a light snort, and the water droplets on her body were instantly flung away. A suit of white furry leather rapidly formed over her naked body. Just then, the girls outside also arrived. Seeing what had happened here, they were immediately dumbfounded...
"How many sorrows does life's hardship