Her first instinct is to save herself. Ayame quickly leaps for the lowest branch of the tree that Natsume is leaning on, and skilfully pulls herself up.
"What are you doing?" the boy asks. Ayame doesn't stop climbing branches.
"Your friends in the limousine are here," she hisses. "This is a conspiracy! The higher-ups are testing me, I—what are you doing?"
"Climbing," Black Cat says simply. He's climbing the branches on the other side, and has already caught up to her. Ayame doesn't like being beaten - no one does - especially because she's the monkey between the two of them. The monkey is supposed to be a better climber than the cat, damn it!
"Are you following me? Is it because you want to kill me?" Her voice is hysterical, she notes, but monkeys always sound hysterical and don't give a damn anyway. "You tell me your organization's secrets just to kill me, is that it?"
"No, I'm running from the academy," Natsume mutters. Ayame stops climbing and rests on a branch that's hidden from the limousine's view.
"You're from the academy, but you're running from them?" she asks.
Natsume doesn't reply; instead, he starts a forest fire.