"So we are truly comrades from now on."
The ponytailed girl grinned at Ronan as she extended her hand, saying, "Let me introduce myself formally, my name is Jo..."
Ronan was about to extend his hand in response when the girl under the sunlight, who had just begun introducing herself, was suddenly interrupted...
"Puff—"
The sound of something piercing through flesh, Ronan experienced for the second time the sensation of warm blood splashing onto his face from such close range.
And shattered organs...
His already extended right hand froze in mid-air, his gaze intently fixed on a bizarre object that abruptly "grew" from the chest of the ponytailed girl—a spiky, dark green thing resembling a giant python or some kind of tentacle.
The ponytailed girl, similarly in shock, looked at her own chest as blood gushed from her mouth in bursts. Disbelief and incredulity marred her not-so-pretty face, which rapidly paled at a visibly fast rate...
"Whoosh—"