“Sheesh! Just when I’d finally escaped to this planet in the middle of nowhere!” Iris cursed as she looked behind her.

There were two shadows following her, jumping from rooftop to rooftop like Superman.

The pursuers were from her home planet, Finerita. They wore sunglasses and tuxedos, and at a glance, looked similar to the natives of this planet— Earthlings, they were called. But they had horse-like tails poking out from their behinds, which showed that they weren’t actually from this planet at all.

Of course, Iris had a similar tail of her own. She was an alien, too. Not only was she an alien, she was the heir to the rulership of Finerita. But now she was running away from home.

The reason was simple: she didn’t like the man her father had asked her to marry. More specifically, it hadn’t been a request. She was being sold off to the ruler of a much larger nation. Her own desires didn’t matter at all.

She’d told her father that there was no way she was going through with it. She’d done a random warp in her own personal spaceship, and finally escaped all the way out here to this distant planet. But the pursuers were right behind her. Her father had seemingly known exactly where she was going to go.

But that didn’t mean she was going to let them catch her. Iris ran. She ran desperately. But finally, she landed hard on the roof of an old building, and plunged through a rotted plank.

“Eeyaaaah!” When she landed, a huge cloud of dirt and dust flew up, blinding both her and her pursuers. She cursed again as the dust clung to her body.

And then she saw a boy. “This way! Let’s get out of here!”

“Huh?” Inside a cloud of dust that wouldn’t let her see more than ten centimeters in front of her face, he grabbed her hand and ran.

It was so sudden, she didn’t know how to react. Still, she let him lead her out of the building.

He was an Earthling, she gathered. And it seemed that he’d saved her, too.

Wh-What’s going on? Wait, his hand... Even if he was an alien, he was a boy, and this was her first time touching a boy’s hand. As he led her away, she could feel her cheeks flush and her heart beat faster.

The boy led her away for a while... and finally, he stopped and began to pant for breath. It seemed that Earthlings were much weaker than Fineritans, but she had no intention of leaving him to flee further away.

“H-Hey... What’s your name?” For some reason, her voice was cold and brusque. He was still holding her hand, and she was feeling very embarrassed.

The boy said that his name was Rekka Namidare.