Having made up her mind, Haibara Ai took a deep breath, suddenly rose to her feet, rummaged through the room for a while, found a Stun Gun in a drawer, and slipped it into her pocket.
Then she haphazardly gathered a few things she could use to hit someone.
Only then did she walk to the front door, push it open, and cautiously peer outside.
Thick mist blanketed the street. The Street Lamps were like hazy orbs of light, linked together as they stretched into the distance.
There was no one else on the street. Various houses stood amid the mist like sinister haunted mansions.
Haibara Ai watched in silence for a while before finally making up her mind.
She stepped outside and headed toward the Signpost at the street corner. At the same time, she secretly thought, If I run into any obstacles or danger, I can always flee straight back—exploring at night seems to be an indispensable part of this. After all, if "night" were useless, we'd probably just close our eyes and open them to find it was daytime. But there's no sign of time fast-forwarding yet, which means I have to do something.
Although Haibara Ai was only an eighteen-year-old girl in the bloom of youth, she had spent quite some time in the Black Organization. At present, she feared only the Men in Black, not the dark, and had far more courage than most people her age.
Yet when she reached the street corner and looked at the Signpost shrouded in mist, she suddenly froze.
"..." The "pole" supporting the Signpost was not an ordinary iron pole at all, but a human figure! That "person" stood quietly in the dense fog, their body occasionally warped by the shifting mist, like a Monster with a