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Startled, Ash reacted in an unexpected way.
After hurriedly parting from Dark Precure, Ash released the shrunken people. Without even having time to explain anything to them, he immediately broke into a run.
I have to make it in time.
Though he had never actually visited, Ash remembered the way to Yuri's home.
I have to make it in time!
The familiar streets, the familiar wind, and the unfamiliar yet somehow familiar people stirred Ash's memories with her.
I have to make it in tiiiime!!!
Everything flashed past the sprinting Ash like a blur.
"Whew—"
He had not made a habit of entering through windows in a long time, but the situation was urgent. Ash crouched slightly, tensed his thighs, then straightened like a grasshopper leaping between blades of grass. Like a gymnast vaulting through a ring, he jumped through the curtained window!
"Yuri—!"
Rei, who had called him, sat by the bed with her face covered, crying her eyes out. Meanwhile, Tsukikage Yuri, whom he had been so worried about, lay on the bed with her eyes tightly shut.
How could this be...
Ash could not describe the feeling in his heart, as though Tyrant had taken a vicious bite out of it.
"I..."
I don't know what happened. I just...
Did I fail to make it in time?
"Why—"
Hanasaki Rei abruptly shot to her feet beside him and grabbed the wrist of the ice-cold man. As though suppressing something, she tearfully scolded him, "Why did you only come now?!"
As if he had lost the ability to react, Ash could only let Rei keep gripping and shaking his hand.
"If you'd come any later—"
Did I mess it up again?
Was everything my fault again?
"Cough, cough!"
As two soft coughs came from the pale beauty