"Even if you say that..." Koyasu Tsubame pursed her pink lips. "We've already done everything we can, haven't we? How are we supposed to step it up?"
You're saying we're done?
You haven't used a single one of the positions and techniques you learned in the Time Bubble!
Amamiya Natsuki lowered his head slightly and leaned close to Tsubame-senpai's ear, whispering something to her.
"E-Eh?!"
Koyasu Tsubame immediately took half a step back, her pretty face red as fire as she glared at him in embarrassment.
"You—you actually want me to..."
Amamiya Natsuki replied with an earnest expression, "Senpai, that strange fragment is showing signs of slowly fusing back in. You don't want your good friend to become a puppet of the strange, do you?"
Koyasu Tsubame: "..."
She turned to look at Ryuzaki Mom. The strange fragment on the girl's forehead really did seem to be showing signs of fusing back in. Koyasu Tsubame took a deep breath, bent her knees slightly, and knelt down, her pretty face flushed. Then she reached out her right hand toward Amamiya Natsuki's waist...
Amamiya Natsuki looked at Ryuzaki Mom and twisted the knife.
"See? The senpai you like has long since been molded into my shape."
"AAAAAAAH—!!"
A cry of utter fury rang out.
Under the force of her overwhelmingly intense emotions, the strange fragment on Ryuzaki Mom's forehead was finally expelled completely. It shattered and vanished into the air.
"Cough, cough..."
Tsubame-senpai gagged twice, her pretty face red as fire. She quickly turned her head and said, "Junior, hurry up and get dressed!"
After wiping her mouth, Koyasu Tsubame quickly went to Ryuzaki Mom. With the strange fragment gone, the color of Ryuzaki Mom's eyes had returned to normal, but her eyes were brimming with tears and her face was utterly