She could still restrain her hatred from running wild when she thought Ash was dead, but faced with this choice, Tsukikage Yuri could no longer suppress her feelings. What should she do? Who should she save? Could someone please tell her?
No one could give her an answer. Right now, she was merely acting on instinct.
"Why did he from another world have to die for Earth?!"
Only then did Yuri realize just how similar she was to the Dark Precure from before.
Sacrificing one's life for the world was certainly understandable. It was incomparably noble.
But did sacrificing the world for a life make someone absolutely wrong?
"Right now, I want to believe this person I absolutely shouldn't believe. Even if it's one percent, maybe there's a one percent chance! Because—I—I can't worry about all that anymore..."
"I want him—I want him to come back—!"
The agitated Rei grabbed Yuri in front of her, tears spraying from the corners of her tightly shut eyes in glittering droplets.
"Please don't say something so pathetic!"
Rei's rebuke interrupted Yuri's dreamlike words.
'Rei, never trust an enemy's words so easily.' During their Christmas Eve date, Ash had suddenly said that to her on a whim. 'Because you're too kind. Compared to others, you're far more easily fooled by enemies, so I'm telling you this specifically.'
'But wasn't Ash our enemy too? Does that mean I shouldn't believe this warning from Ash either?'
'Hahaha, that's a good rebuttal, Rei!' Ash had smiled brilliantly back then, continuing to smile like that. 'When that time comes, ask your own heart.'
"After all, your heart is far more accurate than my tests."
If Yuri wanted to believe, even in that one percent possibility.
Then Rei, whose heart had sensed something, did not believe even that one