**Black Rock Shooter - Client World 576143290-B**

'Incoming'...?

Black Rock Shooter looked up in time for a human-shaped blur to collide directly with her. Sand was tossed up around her a the impact tossed her to the side, sending her end over end, rolling across the sand for a few meters. Her pale body shook for a moment from the strike that had come out of no-where, and for a few moments she could not do much else but lie still. However... she did not feel any injury. Black Rock Shooter swiftly sat up. The attack had come so swiftly! Blue light materialized around her left arm as she pushed off the ground with her right, and the immense dark shape of Rock Cannon incarnated itself, ready to fire as she swung it up and-...

... It was... a little girl. In a hat? Black Rock Shooter paused. Indeed... it was a girl. In a hat. Who appeared... perhaps a few years younger than Mato's age, and her own, physical age. The otherself stared in silent confusion for a moment, before lowering her Rock Cannon. She cocked her head to the side, and worldlessly questioned what she had seen.

"...?"

She simply didn't understand. But no sooner then she had begun to attempt to discern what had happened then a voice called from further into the ruins. Black Rock Shooter turned, and in the distance saw a man, in some form of armor.

It was certainly not Dead Master, nor did it appear to be the one who had taken her. As such, she simply turned back to face the hat-girl who had fallen on her, kneeling down.

"..."

Black Rock Shooter outstretched her free hand. She should help her up...

Of course, anyone who was not so distracted may possibly have noticed the shimmering in one of the abandoned ruins, through a fractured window.