Yotsuba Arisu shook her slightly loosened curls and opened her eyes. The first thing she saw was Ash talking to someone on the other side of a mirror.
"Then I'll leave things over there to you as always. Once everything is over, I'll take you out for a feast! I'll make up for everything I owed you before too!"
"Roar!"
After receiving the reply, Ash turned around and happened to see Arisu slowly opening her eyes.
"I am..."
"I know. You're the real Yotsuba Arisu now. There's no doubt about it."
The real could not be fake, and the fake could not be real. As the owner of those gentle eyes that had first pried open his heart, Ash would never mistake her.
"Welcome home, Miss Arisu. This time, I'm entirely at your command."
Seeing that gentle expression appear on her face again was more heartening than any good news.
"What an unfamiliar greeting... Yes, I'm back."
Still smiling, Arisu tugged at the ropes binding and suspending her body.
"But what are these supposed to be? Is this one of your preferences?"
As Arisu kept struggling, the ropes only bit deeper into her body, making her blush. How awful. What an awful way to tie someone up.
"Have you fallen from merely bullying people in the past to preferring this kind of indecent bullying?"
"Cough, cough!"
Having been called out so directly, Ash could only pretend to cough to ease the awkwardness.
"Although I made thorough preparations, no one could say for sure who would open their eyes... So when I saw that this place seemed to be set up for binding criminals, I borrowed it for the moment."
"Oh? You're right."
Arisu's smile did not fade, but the curve of her narrowed eyes became slightly dangerous.
"This really is