Time rewound to sunrise. Just as Griseo, Hana, and Yulia raised their phones to record the dawn, Miko Yotsuya was about to take out her own phone for a picture when... that strange sound from yesterday rang in her ears again.
That was definitely not a sound a human could make. It was bizarre and eerie.
As a result, Miko stopped paying attention to the sunrise and instinctively turned to look around. Then, not far behind her, she saw the veiled girl who had appeared when they first arrived.
Though a gauze veil covered her mouth and nose, her eyes alone made it clear that she was beautiful.
For some reason, Miko did not feel afraid at all. Instead, she could not help walking toward her.
She wanted to know who the girl was, why that strange voice kept sounding in her ears, as if it wanted to tell her something—yet she could not understand a word of the language.
As Miko approached the veiled girl, she found that the girl had appeared farther ahead again. And after that... it kept happening. Whenever Miko drew close, the girl would silently appear ahead of her.
It was as though the veiled girl were nothing but an illusion, a mirage.
By the time Miko Yotsuya came back to her senses, she found herself in an unfamiliar place. Griseo and the others were nowhere beside her.
"How did I end up following her all this way...?"
Patting her cheeks, Miko thought back carefully. The more she thought about it, the more wrong it felt.
Why had she blindly chased after that eerie veiled girl without even saying a word to Griseo and the others? It was as if all she wanted was to find out who that girl really was.
Something had been