It's a nice spring day in Azabu-Juuban, though there's an aura of anxiety on the walk home between T.A. Academy for Girls and Hikawa Shrine, given the recent disappearances - many of them girls from Ran's own school, though there's been some random people going missing, usually last seen getting on the Sendai Hill bus late in the afternoon, especially at the stop across the street from her shrine. Nobody seems to know who to trust, and most girls have started walking home in tight groups, though enough rumors are swirling around about Hikawa Shrine and Ran's strange powers that many girls are unusually reluctant to include her. There's an ominous spiritual aura overlaying the area - but nothing and nowhere specific.