Umi? Isn't she usually with Honoka and the others? Don't tell me?!
Umi Sonoda's name was specially marked on the caller ID. Looking at the communication line Umi Sonoda had opened, Divine grew even more uneasy.
Senba Gari kept forcing himself to calm down, then had Silver Phantom open the line and let him speak with Umi Sonoda.
"Hello? What's wrong, Umi?"
Gari, this is bad! Kotori's missing!
--Whoosh!!!
Umi Sonoda had only managed to say that one short sentence before a hurricane even wilder than before suddenly whipped up around Divine. The violent gale made Spirit, Silver Phantom, and Golden Firmament stagger for a moment, unable to keep their footing.
But the hurricane did not last long. After only about three seconds, Divine, whose eyes had turned somewhat clouded and dark, suppressed it. Then Divine disengaged his armor, and Senba Gari spoke in a voice that sent a faint chill through Umi Sonoda and Honoka Kosaka, who were far away at Minami Kotori's house.
"I understand. Wait for me."
"Gari? Are you okay?"
Clearly, Umi Sonoda's communication through Silver Phantom just now had also been heard by Takai Geki after he disengaged his armor. But seeing Senba Gari's somewhat gloomy expression, Takai Geki asked uneasily for a moment.
"...I'm fine."
After a long silence, Senba Gari only said two words. Yet no one noticed that the edges of his black pupils were beginning to shift toward red, a bloodlike crimson.
--Time Skip--
"Kotori!"
"Kotori-chan!"
Hey! Kotori-chan!
Kotori!
"Excuse me, have you seen a girl, about sixteen years old, around just under one meter sixty, with long flaxen hair..."
"I don't know."
"Sorry, excuse me, have you seen a girl, about sixteen years old..."
In the brightly lit night, Senba Gari, Takai Geki, and all the members of μ's who