Black Cat gets up from his cannonball position and starts running before Ayame can blink. She rethinks her opinions; the boy had potential, if he really wanted to become a ninja - he had the speed and guts.
She quickly chases after the plaid shorts that seem to glow in the moonlight. When Ayame looks again, they are glowing; there is fire right beside the boy's shorts, somehow running alongside him.
Not long after Ayame notices this, a fireball shoots towards her head. She quickly ducks, but the fireball manages to char the tips of her hair. Before Ayame can regain proper balance, a fireball shoots towards her feet - and she hops over it, performing a little somersault in the air. She's persistent to catch up to the Black Cat before she loses track of him.
The fireballs keep coming, and Ayame realizes they come from the same direction: Black Cat's palm.
She briefly wonders if Black Cat is really an Amanto, and if it was he who caused the firewall. What if he's really hiding his face behind a mask because he's one of the last of a dying Amanto race, and showing his face guarantees immediate death?