At that sight, Nina felt the bow she and her friends had been using was nothing but a toy compared to his.
The man pulled his arrows out of the imp corpses and rummaged through their pouches. Nina stayed quiet while he did it, then got up. He did not even ask whether she was okay. It felt as if he were simply doing his job. From what he had done so far, Nina could easily tell he was different from ordinary survivors.
She gathered all the courage she had and called out to him.
"Ex... excuse me, mister."
"Yeah?"
"I have a question. Could you give me a moment?"
"It's not hard... How long have you been living here?"
At that moment, the two boys came up behind the girl. Seeing them, Jude realized they were the high school students Irene and Marta had told him about.
"We've been here since the beginning of summer."
"We were born here too. We're locals."
If so, they would surely know something about the area, Jude thought.
