Omnibus Anime: I Am Linked with the World's Top Daughters Through the Five Senses

She hurried forward, crouched down, and studied Pom-Pom carefully, then looked up at Jiang Lianqiu.

"Don't look at me." Jiang Lianqiu spread his hands. "I didn't do anything. This was all those five cards."

"However, I did figure something out because of it." Looking down at Pom-Pom, Jiang Lianqiu slowly nodded. "Himeko, feel carefully. What does Pom-Pom seem a little like right now?"

Himeko frowned at that, then began sizing Pom-Pom up again.

Only after she had stared until the Train Conductor grew embarrassed did she catch a trace of a familiar aura. "A Phantasmagoric Species!?"

"That's right, and not an ordinary Phantasmagoric Species either." Jiang Lianqiu smiled. "If my guess is correct—Pom-Pom, you should be a Phantasmagoric Species that Aha personally created back when They were still on the train, one that belongs solely to the train, and to the Trailblaze."

"As everyone knows, the Phantasmagoric Species of Dual-Phase Paradise can't leave this world, because anywhere else, they can't absorb willpower to maintain their existence."

"The reason Pom-Pom couldn't leave the train before, from the looks of it now, was also because you, Pom-Pom, are a Phantasmagoric Species that belongs to the train and to the Trailblaze, so you couldn't step off the train."

"But... why was that the case before?" New doubts rose in Himeko's heart. "Those cards... what exactly are they?"

"Let me take a look first."

Like Himeko, Jiang Lianqiu crouched beside Pom-Pom as well, reached out, and held Pom-Pom's soft, fluffy right hand.

Pom-Pom was a little shy—wait, what were you getting shy for!?

"As expected, the Pom-Pom now is the original, most complete Pom-Pom." After examining Pom-Pom's body, Jiang Lianqiu reached a conclusion. "Before the train first crashed, Pom-Pom could leave the train and move freely."

"But the Pom-Pom you met after you repaired