Minamoto Tamako stumbled a step, steadied her footing—it wasn't the time to lament yet—she had to get Mrs. Nakako upstairs, she couldn't let Ono Ken's sacrifice be in vain!
Thinking of this, she gritted her teeth and charged upstairs with all her might, pursued by the urgent sounds of chasing behind, the last flight of stairs seemed particularly long.
She swore to herself that if she survived this, she would practice long-distance and short-distance running every day!
Faster! Faster!!
As she broke through shrouding fog in that split second, the air became incredibly clear, as if surfacing from underwater, her lungs felt extraordinarily comfortable.
Immediately after, a gunshot rang out behind her, a bullet grazed past her scalp, shocking her, causing a sudden loss of balance, about to fall to the ground!
