With that, I rushed off, blowing past Hanekawa. “Yikes! Hey, Araragi, don’t run in the halls! Don’t make me tell on you!” her voice came from behind, but naturally I ignored it. I ran. I just ran. I turned the corner to reach the stairs. I was on the fourth floor. She couldn’t have gone that far yet. With a hop, step, and a jump, I skipped two, three, then four stairs at a time─and arrived on the landing. I could feel the impact in my legs. An impact commensurate to my weight. Then this impact, too─ Senjogahara had to be lacking. She weighed nothing. She had no weight. Which meant─her footing wasn’t secure. A crab. A crab, she’d said. “Not this way─this way.” She couldn’t have gone off sideways at that point. Never thinking that I’d come chasing after her, she would have proceeded straight ahead, toward the school gates. She had to be a member of the no-extracurriculars club, but even if she were affiliated with an actual something-or-other, no