"Hello?"

  "Excuse me, but would you happen to be Yume Seine? The one who hanged the poster?"

  "Poster? What pos..." She thought about it for a bit, and finally decided to open and look out of the window. It was a very windy day and it all came rushing in when she opened it, leaves and trash flying everywhere. Looking down, she saw 3 people. A large man with green-looking skin, a little girl with blonde hair, and a skinny young man with blonde hair and blue eyes. He was somewhat like a prince and he was the one on the fult with her.

  He noticed her looking out the window and showed a tattered, dirty flyer. After seeing it, she remembered the several months old flyers she put everywhere advertising going on an adventure with her.

  "Haa..." she let out a large sigh. "I got school alright? I don't have time to deal with this right now."

  "Right now? May we ask when your school finishes."

  "I have like a season and a half left so it's too long for you to wait."

  "No, that time is reasonable. We don't mind waiting."

  "...You're a very straight to the point guy, could I ask why you'd want someone younger than you go on a trip?"

  "We...have a particular goal in mind. And we need the help of someone who knows more than us."

  "That includes the three behind you?" All of them instantly turned around, panicked, thinking there shouldn't have been anyone else only to see nothing.

  "What kind of pranks do a kid like you find funny?"

  "Maybe you should shut up an-" Yume immediately jumped out of the window only to have it break behind her.

  "That's..."

  "This ain't even my apartment! Fuck, he's gonna kill me...little girl, you can see him, right? I suggest you either fight or ru-" Yume dodged an attack that ended up slashing the large green-man. "GOD, LET ME FINISH A FUCKING SENTENCE!" She pulled out a switchblade and slashed what looked like the air. What fell was a scrap piece of paper.

  "You..." The person returned to normal to protect himself from getting hurt more. "How did you..."

  "The flyer Prince Charming here is holding has my unique skill embedded in it. You grazed it and I sensed something new came out of nowhere. Too bad paper sucks up shit though. You get very smelly in this type of weather and plus, a can was stuck on your leg."

  "!" He looked down and saw a can of air right next to his foot. Now filled with blood from where his hand was cut.

  "You! You're the one who was barking on the train, right?"

  "What a strange skill..."

  "Umm..."

  "Hey, you okay?" Yume hunched down to talk to the little girl while the other two stared daggers into the paper man. "He's...not your father, is he?"

  "...no."

  "Do you know where any of your parents are?"

  "mm mm."

  "I see...come, you have nowhere else to go, right?"

  "NO, the girl's coming with me!"

  "You're bleeding and not even her parent, what're you gonna do?"

  "I'm...I'm her guardian!"

  "Oh, really? What's her name?"

  "...y-you don't know that either!"

  "Why should I? I ain't her family ye-" The man, frustrated, rushed at Yume, turning his hands into paper again, making them so sharp that they were the same as metal knives.

  Yume picked the girl up and started running again. "By the way, what is your name?"

  "Umm, that's..."

  "If you ain't comfy with sharing it, say so. Just give me a nickname or something, I don't like calling you 'girl'."

  "T-then I'm Lili!"

  "Lily like the flower? That's a good name. I'm Yume, like the Setren word for dream but not using the character. Nice..." Yume started climbing a building to get away. "to meet you."