ヽ(〃〃)~
The phone gave a faint vibration, notifying Okiya Subaru, "Sent successfully."
Okiya Subaru waited uneasily for a reply, while also preparing himself for the possibility that this was actually some scheme of his boss's. He tried to maintain his usual pace as he walked, counting his frantic heartbeats in an effort to calm himself down.
After counting more than a hundred beats, his phone suddenly vibrated. He had received an email.
"!"
Okiya Subaru's fingers stiffened. Very quickly, he casually took out his phone and opened it for a look.
There were only two short lines on it:
[Don't worry about it. An old friend.
I'm going to say hello to him.]
"...An old friend?"
Okiya Subaru was a little puzzled. Would someone like Uzo even have friends? Much less "old" friends...
Still, no matter what, if he could be called that, then at least in terms of survival time, this friend sounded pretty tenacious. Just as Okiya Subaru had guessed earlier, he was probably someone formidable.
As his thoughts wandered, a teeth-grindingly dull thud suddenly came from more than ten meters behind him, as though something had crashed heavily onto the ground.
Okiya Subaru froze, clutching his phone.
Half a second later, he abruptly identified the source of the sound—it seemed to be the sound of a human body striking the ground, just like the sound he had heard that day at the airport, when someone falling from a building had nearly landed on him.
...Someone had fallen from a building?!
The thought had only just crossed his mind when terrified screams suddenly erupted from the crowd behind him.
That only reinforced Okiya Subaru's guess. He swiftly turned around and looked toward the source of the noise.
More than ten meters away, a tall blonde man was clutching