"!"
Danger!
At the very last moment, Primum's own biological instinct for self-preservation saved her. Supreme Angel's feet flashed as she swept into a semicircular step, forcibly tearing herself free from the overwhelming pull of the stream of light and opening the distance between herself and her opponent!
"—!"
The purifying torrent streaked past her cheek like a meteor. Its excessively immense power of light completely repaired the shattered regional plates behind her, while also blowing away the halo that had always floated beside Primum's sleeve as decoration, leaving not even a speck of ash behind.
For the first time, she sensed from this opponent—whom she had always defeated and thus had never seriously regarded—a dangerous aura capable of harming her.
"You... really are Dark Night Angel?"
Different. Completely different from before! Whether it was her power, presence, or the changes in the red-haired girl standing opposite her, all of it made Primum unable to stop herself from asking, "Are you really the Ashu I know?"
"Who knows? I am Ashu. I am Dark Night Angel. I am a Pretty Cure who gathered the powers of every Precure and surpassed the limits of Pretty Cure."
"I am someone born for him, someone who loves him, someone who inherited everything and must stay by his side from birth until his death. I am someone who will break the chains for the Happy End everyone desires, and also..."
Pink, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple—several rays of light continuously emerged and twisted around Dark Night Angel, until they finally merged into one again around the fist clenched before her.
"I am the one who will save him!"
"How irritating."
Her fury rose, and so did her power. Amid the eruption of pure black strength, Supreme Angel aimed at Dark Night Angel opposite her