Stopping in her tracks, Yoshikuni wanted to let out a sigh but stopped herself from doing so "Just because you say that I don't need to do that doesn't make it true. You have no idea if my shadow, which requires often meals, will become a regular shadow if I become a human. For all you could know, if I turn into a regular human then you will be sentencing me to death, and after a few days find only my clothes and a slowly fading shadow, which will be unable to move. As long as you do not know for a fact that won't happen, then I can't accept any offers any humans give me. You or the AST that are waiting outside." She said and then resumed walking.

After taking a turn to a staircase, she begun heading down, trying to fully figure out the situation. If she had been able to create a clone then she could escape with ease while the close is seemingly killed, But she could not create any clones, meaning she had to try and find a different way. Obviously the best chance she had was to transform back to her human form and go out with the many people that are taken out for their safety, but as long as Suichi followed her, she couldn't do that either. She stopped in the middle of the staircase down and looked up and down the stairs, seeing there are no windows there and figuring this is currently the best spot for her right now.

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A few moments of waiting and a couple of AST agents approached Chou and informed her of what their current orders are. They needed to evacuate the civilians and once that was done, they were instructed to lure Shadow out and then take her out, because they did not recieve clearance for operations within the buildings. Slightly irritated that she could not go and track the spirit down within the building again, she didn't argue but decided to do as she was told while putting on her CR-unit.

After informing the teachers in the school to help clear the buildings out, Chou decided to go and start the second part of their operations without waiting for the approval of her commander. While on her way to the last place she had seen the spirit at she heard in her earpiece that they were clear and that the operatives that were chosen have entered the building where Chou last reported the spirit was at from different directions in an attempt to make tracking her down quicker, and the first operative to track the spirit down was supposed to activate a small "Distress" signal from her CR-unit, to allow the agents outside to track her down from within the building and follow the signal, thus being ready to shoot the spirit the moment she takes a single step outside of the building.

Heading up the stairs, Chou managed to reach the corridor she last saw the spirit at but she couldn't spot the spirit there anymore. Wondering if she had gotten much further, she decided to wait a moment before continuing in the corridor and tracking Shadow down.