Nanami stopped moving entirely, focused on the space before her.
“I’m not hiding,” she called out, “Come out and show yourself.”
For a while there was no response – but at length, a man stepped from behind a tree.
A short man with cropped hair.
“How’d you notice I was here?” he asked Nanami. “Could have sworn I was perfectly still.”
“It’s been a long time since I’ve heard that one.”
Heard it over and over.
As a kid – before they came to the island, or she was even seven years old.
Could have sworn I was perfectly still?
She’d heard that pompous line again and again.
“I’m the one who should be asking you – so long as you’re alive, what makes you think you could ever be perfectly still? If you’re standing there, you’re standing there.”
“Hah. So you won’t enlighten me.”
Interpreting her remark in a way that was completely at odds with how she had intended it (although Nanami, unprepared to explain herself, was probably relieved to have been misunderstood), the man dropped the point, and instead assumed position and gave his name.
“I am Chocho Maniwa, one of the Twelve Bosses of the Maniwa Clan – here to carry you away.”

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