Ayako: --They're back
Mai: Wh-what's wrong?
Ayako: Thank goodness you're all right.
Another person's disappeared.
Mai or Bou-san: Again?!
Bou-san or Mai: Who has?
Ayako: Apparently Fukuda-san.
Bou-san: That'd be the young woman with Minami Psychic Investigators, huh?
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Bou-san: How old is she?
Ayako: Huh?!
I don't know. Twenty-five, somewhere around there maybe?
Naru: Why do you ask that?
I see...
Ayako: ......You're kidding, right?
Naru: Yasuhara-san,
Mai,
neither of you are to ever be on your own.
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Naru: Matsuzaki-san,
to what extent can we trust in your ability?
Ayako: ......What's that supposed to mean?
Naru: This isn't the time for word games.
Mai and Yasuhara-san are both needed. However, this place is dangerous.
To what extent can we rely on you?
Ayako: ......Warding spell level.
You can trust me on that much.
Naru: Understood.
In that case, Matsuzaki-san and Hara-san, the two of you are never to be apart from one another.
You can follow-up on one another, right?
Masako: ...I don't feel safe with Matsuzaki-san.
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Ayako: Hey!
Naru: Hara-san.
Basically I can't trust anyone outside this group.
We don't have many people to rely on.
If you're also even a minor psychic, you can protect yourself, right?
Masako: ...Yes.
Naru: Yasuhara-san can't protect himself whatsoever.
He needs to be protected by people we can rely on a great deal.
Masako: ...Okay...
Naru: So, Bou-san and John,
The two of you guard Yasuhara-san.
Lin: Wait a moment.
Does that mean I'm to guard Taniyama-san?
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Naru: That's right.
Lin: In that case, who's to guard you? I believe you can't use warding spells. Am I wrong?
Mai: Th-that's right. What're you gonna do?!
That's right. I'd forgotten,
but Naru's not a psychic,
he's just a paranormal researcher.
Naru: Things'll work out.
Lin: I don't think so! I'm not going to risk having something happen to you.
I will guard Naru.
Takigawa-san gets Yasuhara-san.
Brown-san, please take care of Taniyama-san.
Naru: It'd be hard for Bou-san on his own.
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Bou-san: Oy, oy, Naru-chan.
Naru: I'm not underestimating you.
It means this place has the potential of being that dangerous.
Lin: In that case, send someone home.
I can't leave you on your own.
If anything were to happen to you, how am I to apologise to the professor?
Mai: ...Professor?
By "professor"...