Mayumi Kurokawa's Arc

Chapter 1 of 3

Mayumi climbed the fire escape of a mid-rise building on the east edge of the commercial district. The monster had passed through here an hour ago, leaving that familiar pressure in her chest. From the rooftop, she could see four major streets and the subway entrance where the creature had stopped to feed. She tested the roof access door. Locked from the inside, which meant no one could interrupt her. The apartment building gave her clear sightlines to three hunting zones where monsters moved between the industrial sector and the waterfront. She marked the location in her phone and set up a watch rotation schedule. This rooftop was hers now. One vantage point secured meant one less blind spot in her city, one step closer to mapping every creature that crawled through Ichiban City's streets.