Come to think of it, Seiji had been acting strange lately too... Could it be because he had also become a Pretty Cure?!
"Well, mainly..." The blonde girl lowered her head, rubbing her palms together between her knees with embarrassment. "Because..."
"Because what? Is it something you can't tell us?"
"No!" Yuko abruptly raised her head, her cheeks already flushed red as she met Megumi's gaze. "Because—if I told Megumi and Kohime that I was a Pretty Cure..."
I didn't know why, but—
"It was, it was just too embarrassing!"
That inexplicable embarrassment was like telling your best friend the color of your underwear, and it had kept her from confessing to the two of them until now.
"What?!" Upon learning the reason, the listening fairy Ribbon was utterly stunned, her face practically screaming Σ(っ °Д °;)っ. "But you just said that you even told that Ash person about your Precure identity!"
Letting others know a Pretty Cure's true identity was dangerous, let alone telling someone as dangerous as Ash, who was practically an "enemy" himself!
If she was too embarrassed even to tell us, why had she told him?!
"I think Ash-sensei probably isn't a bad person."
He was a little strange, and sometimes careless with details to the point of being rude... but that was what I thought.
"But!" For some reason, Megumi felt a competitive urge rising within her. Somewhat indignantly, she "questioned" Yuko, "Why did you tell him before telling me?!"
"Because." Yuko explained as though it were only natural. "Megumi is a close friend I know well, so saying it was embarrassingly difficult."
"Ash was a stranger I'd only just met, so it was easier to be around him and tell him."
"What kind of reason is that..." Pouting, the girl did not pursue the