Professor Yamato gives a silver watch to Himiko.

“Can’t you be a bit clever? You’ll have some serious problems if some daymare finds out about it.”

Didn’t he want to expose me?

“What do I have to do with this watch?”

“Wear it when you want to see the teacher, it will hide your presence from other Daymares.”

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Daymares have some sort of connection with each other. We can sense our friends' presence in our minds whenever we are 1 kilometre away. It is just a presence, not that we know if another Daymare is in trouble or not. And there’s no specific presence for each other. We all release the same type of presence. He doesn't say anything about why he gave me the watch. Did he want me to keep Hiroshi as a secret from others?

“Himiko? Is everything okay?”

A girl with brown hair with the same height as Himiko asked.

“Oh…yeah everything is okay Sayu…”

“Really? You seem pensive, don’t you want to start the obstacles?”

“Oh, hehe…just thinking about something…here I go!”

In a big white looking hall with many drones and cameras, Himiko transforms into her fox form and starts jumping through the moving platform with water under it.

“Hya! Hya! Hya…eh…SPLASH!”

As she jumps through it all, she slips in the final platform and falls into the water and turns back to her human form.

“WF27! What are you doing? Keep focus until the end! Try from the start!” A sound from the speaker said out loud.

“Here Himiko…” Sayu gave her a hand to get out of the water.

“Ergh…thanks Sayu…”

“You really are not feeling well, don’t you? Want to rest a little bit?”

“It’s okay, hehe I’m always like this though…I’ll try again.”

There are as many as twenty Daymares in their white fox form train there beside Himiko and Sayu. All trying to pass themselves from the many obstacles for their training. In another room, a big screen is being used by some scientist-like people to see the progress of all the Daymares in that training ground.

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It looks delicious…

Hiroshi stares at a cat that licks its fur.

"Do you want to get eaten?"

Hiroshi said to the cat. The cat doesn't run away as it seems like a tame one. The cat rubbed itself around Hiroshi's leg.

Hiroshi grabbed it and glared into her eyes with a menacing stare. The cat looks uncomfortable but can't release itself due to Hiroshi's tight hold.

Is it good raw? Or grilled? Or fried?

Hiroshi takes the cat closer.

Maybe I should give it a bite...