The monsters kept hunting her. Every once in a while one of them made a break trying to get closer to her, but all in all they seemed to have settled for a new tactic now: to wait until she fainted by herself.

Back at the tree something hit the ground. A dark shadow rose from the ground just to toss itself into the nearby shrubbery right away, the rustling of it coming nearer as the new threat honed in on Nanami as well.