Sitting in the muddy water, he slowly raised his right hand to point at her.

“Die.”

Asaka had, up until that moment, completely forgotten that he was supposed to be a monster that could kill people with a thought. The fact that she could be dead at any moment had completely slipped her mind.

Wait, am I going to die?!

From what she had been told, there was no way she could avoid her fate. Asaka waited for that final moment to come, struck by a sudden, stinging fear. But nothing happened.

Then she heard a thud on the ground behind her.

“What...?”

Asaka turned around. Something was lying there on the earth. It was shaped like a person, stretching out from her own shadow. She would never have believed something like it could exist, but it continued to slide out of her shadow right before her eyes.

“It’s probably been hiding in your shadow this whole time.”

“What is it?”

“No idea. It looks like it had trouble with the charms, so maybe it’s a demon or something? Sometimes they come here and try to kill me.”

-Volume 1 pages 280 and 281