While Oshima Masao was still staring in a daze, Chen Miao walked over, took the activated talisman from his hand, and stuck it onto the stray dog lying on the ground, which seemed unable to move.
Seeing this, Miyuki Yamazaki hurriedly offered her own talisman, but Chen Miao refused it.
"Yours hasn't been activated. Keep it for next time."
Only then did Miyuki Yamazaki realize that, in her panic, she had forgotten to activate the talisman.
After a moment of embarrassment, she felt relieved that Chen Miao had spotted the stray dog.
But then another question arose in her mind.
How did Chen Miao know Koji Hosokawa had turned into a dog?
Miyuki Yamazaki asked him outright.
Oshima Masao and Takumi Suzuki came back to their senses at her question and looked at Chen Miao.
Chen Miao pointed at the streetlight overhead.
"The shadow."
"When I got closer, I noticed something strange about Koji's shadow."
"Once I was sure, I decided to test it. Even if I was wrong, there wouldn't have been anything to lose. I didn't expect it to actually work."
Chen Miao made it sound simple, but after thinking it over, the three of them felt something was off.
With their protective charms bursting into flames, he had still had the presence of mind to study the shadows on the ground?
Was he really that unflappable?
But when they recalled how Chen Miao had behaved during their previous club activities, it seemed fairly reasonable.
"What do we do now?"
Miyuki Yamazaki walked behind Chen Miao and looked at the stray dog on the ground.
"What else? We take this thing back, of course."
Despite saying that, Oshima Masao did not dare touch it.
At that moment, however, Chen Miao raised another question.
"What about Koji? This dog