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They looked at each other while not realizing the shadow who was in Shizuka's shadow coming out slowly, "Fufufu~ You kids figured it out already, eh?"
"Wha--?!! Who in Gaia's name are YOU?!" Shizuka exclaimed in surprise, turning around and trying to get away from the shadow.
"Fufufu, you can't escape from me~ I'm attached to your shadow," it spoke again and turned into a male with smokey white hair and light grey eyes. His hair was long and wavy. He was wearing a black robe and the bottom half of his body were all black smoke-like fog.
"Hey! Get away from her...!" Orion called out for the male behind the girl, readying his knife and slashing at the shadow, but failed as the shadowy male used the girl as his shield.
"Gah!" Shizuka managed to cover her hands with light as Orion's knife made contact with them.
