An Unidentified Ghost and the Next-World Task Force – Part 08

When Hikaru learned that Rinko had been awake for three straight days, a chill ran down his spine. Normally, a person’s brain would have hit its limit by then, to the point where holding a conversation would become difficult. As a matter of fact, while Rinko still answered questions, she had lost the ability to explain things coherently.

To shake off the people tailing her, Hikaru had dragged her all over the place with instructions like, “Get on the train pulling into the platform,” “Switch to the train waiting on the opposite side at the next station,” and “Take Exit 8.” But he never imagined she had been awake for three days straight. She’d been moving so crisply for him to worry about anything.

Hikaru never assumed they were free of surveillance, either. He operated under the assumption that, even after everything he said, they would still be watched.