Haruka wasn't listening. She hadn't been listening the entire time. After she'd greeted the two boys, she'd turned her attention back onto the school building.

She'd been already playing out in her head about what those two phenomena she'd seen in the windows were.

Maybe the shadowy figure was the ghost of a girl, spurned by her lover, who tripped down the stairs and died. Maybe there was a freak painting accident. That would explain the splatter. Heh.

She was coming up with more and more outlandish scenarios, quietly chuckling all the while, until she has brought back to reality by Suzume holding her hand.

"Eh...? Oh... right. Uh... yeah," she said, barely following along in the conversation.

"When should we get there? No one ever says anything about the time, huh. It's always 'at night' but does that mean after the sun goes down or... what?"