"Hey, Miyuki, you make it sound like I have some weird fetish!"
"Hmph!"
Miyuki, cradling her little sister's head in her arms, huffed back without backing down at all.
"But isn't that exactly what you're doing?"
You obviously liked Yayoi too, yet because of some incomprehensible pride and self-esteem, you couldn't express it honestly. You could only bully the person you liked... Even I wouldn't use such a childish method!
"Um..."
For a moment, Ash felt the awkwardness of having been caught red-handed for no apparent reason.
She was usually so airheaded, yet at crucial moments she always said things that somehow struck right at the heart of the matter. Sometimes, even Ash had no idea how she allocated her intelligence.
"Alright, Yayoi. If you have something to say, say it boldly!"
"Okay! Um... Ash is about to head to the next world, right?"
Yayoi suddenly brought up the matter at hand, pulling the atmosphere back from where it had wandered too far astray.
"Of course we'll do our part to save the world, but no one knows what we might encounter afterward."
After all, when everyone had come here aboard the Ressha, they had thought it would be a reunion story with a Happy End. Who could have expected Primum to appear in the middle of it all?
"But one thing we can be sure of is that the time Ash can spend with us may become less and less!"
"I don't deny that."
Although everything had gone smoothly so far, this was neither a picnic nor an outdoor barbecue. Ash openly acknowledged her point.
"Then let's slowly enjoy our time together after everything is over."
Personally, I'm the type who likes to save the tastiest thing for last.
"And..."
The point of saying all this wasn't to make