The orchard? Kouyuki wonders briefly if these sorts of threats converging around their school will be recurring. Perhaps it's selfish, but he hopes that isn't the case. This place is where so many of his happiest memories were made. It's beyond important to him, and to see it tainted this way is terrible.

"So we're a little better off this time." A little, but not much. He's not fool enough to think otherwise. With so many people here that are unprepared, even those who know what to expect won't have an easy time of things. Their attention will be divided between combat and protecting people like him...if they can't protect themselves. He doesn't want to be someone who needs protecting, who winds up getting someone else hurt because he isn't strong enough himself. So he asks, "What exactly are we fighting? I...I know it isn't human, but what is it?"

And how do they even fight it?