At the end of the day, he still needed to understand things thoroughly. It didn't have to reach one hundred percent, but surely he needed at least ten percent, right?
Never mind that. Since there was nothing to do right now anyway, how about taking a stroll around Akihabara? Kaguya had discussed it with him some time ago—if there was nothing going on, she wanted him to take her around Haruhi's world... This place seemed to be exactly where she had wanted to go.
Yet along the way, Jiu Ming discovered that someone had been watching him the entire time. And aside from people, there were also those exceptionally high-end-looking ghosts.
But what exactly were those things? They looked like ghosts, but not entirely. They seemed to be artificially controlled. Just walking around casually, he could see those "ghosts" moving along the power lines all over the city. It was as though the entire city lay beneath their surveillance.
He had no idea who controlled these things.
He really wanted... to catch one and take a look!
Leaning against a utility pole, Jiu Ming cast a sidelong glance at a "ghost" passing overhead. When it passed above him, it adorably paused for a moment, extending part of itself downward as though lowering its head to inspect Jiu Ming. Finding nothing, it returned to normal and continued traveling along the wire.
You're the one!!
A sharp glint flashed through Jiu Ming's eyes. He sprang up and grabbed—before the "ghost" attached to the wire even had a chance to struggle, it was snatched into the Gap, where it was subjected to the intense onlooking of the Hairball army.
Then Jiu Ming waved the Hairballs aside. "Shoo, shoo. Go play somewhere else. This isn't for you to eat."
Jiu Ming pushed aside several