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The gray monster fled.
It was not that Sein had intentionally let it go. He had planned to capture the creature alive to study its body structure when, all of a sudden, the girl in his arms clung to him tightly.
The gesture was instinctive—almost as though it came from the depths of her soul.
Her eyes remained shut, but the flower of death behind her head trembled softly.
Just as the gray monster had avoided harming the girl, she seemed to harbor a similar, inexplicable need to protect it.
A single drop of gray slime fell from the retreating creature and landed on the girl’s cheek.
Sein could not tell if that was its tear or blood.
When he tried to get up and give chase, the girl tightened her grip around him and whimpered, “Big Brother...”
In truth, Sein had not entirely lost track of the creature. He saw it escape into a sewer on the western edge of the fishing village.
It was a foul-smelling tunnel filled with dirty water...
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