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Mamori stopped and peered into the alley she had just seen the black-haired stranger walk into. When she didn't see him, she frowned and looked around.

The alley was a dead-end and there were buildings on both sides, so how could he have just disappeared like that?

People did not just vanish into thin air, it wasn't possible…she frowned at the end of the alley, for some reason it looked…distorted, as if there was something there, but when she ran her hand just above the wall it was perfectly straight, without any reason for the distortion that she saw.

She frowned and backed out of the alley, dismissing it from her mind as nothing but a figment of her imagination, though that didn't explain why she felt like she was being watched by someone who found her actions amusing.