Ishiki landed safely on the building and then ran towards the point where the person was shooting from.
The person was at the center with a sniper, as soon as he saw Ishiki. he abandoned his sniper and ran towards the stairs that went down.
Ishiki followed through and reached the fourth floor in time to see the far window — an empty frame, long since glassless, overlooking the building's narrower rear face. On the windowsill, for just a moment, the sole of a shoe.
He crossed the room in four strides and leaned out and saw that the person had jumped down.
Ishiki jumped behind it and then suddenly the person in front of him was no longer there and instead there was a rock.
Ishiki spun and saw that, on the far edge of the railing, crouching with one hand on the metal frame and one foot already extended over nothing, was a figure in a red hoodie.
Baggy jeans, dark sneakers worn through at the right heel. Hood up, and
