Miss, that was so rude it made me want to punch you.
Ash had just opened his mouth when, in the blink of an eye, nothing remained across from him but a gust of wind.
"She vanished?"
Zero-frame startup, zero-frame grab throw, Zero-frame disappearance.
There had been absolutely no warning. One second, she had been angrily berating him; the next, she was nowhere to be seen. Their meeting had begun and ended so abruptly that it almost felt like an illusion.
"But I couldn't have been mistaken."
At least, Ash had that much confidence.
Then was she an enemy sent by Bai Jie to provoke him? But if that were the case, why had she specifically said those things to him?
Rather than a provocation, it had felt more like the classic scene where a companion who could no longer stand watching scolded the confused protagonist awake.
"She asked how much longer I planned to keep playing with them. Is it really wrong to just keep going like this... ah."
No.
"Indeed, I still can't."
"Ash looks very troubled right now."
"Yes, at a time like this, shouldn't a mature and perfect big sister comfort her little brother's aching heart?"
However, somewhere Ash could not see—or rather, directly behind him—several pairs of burning eyes were fixed on his thoughtful back.
"Huh? Who exactly are you calling mature and perfect?"
Naturally, hearing someone praise herself like that was bound to provoke the girls, whose hearts were already filled with jealousy and even hostility.
"There's only room for one person beside Ash right now. Who do you think that is?"
"Of course it's me!"
Snow White, the first to recommend herself, proudly gave herself a thumbs-up with an expression that said, "I'm Super Cure Princess."
"For a Princess as naturally beautiful and