Butterfly Flying Toward the Azure Sky

"...What the hell are you talking about?" Unable to stand upright, Shinichi Kudo looked up at Joker's head and tugged at the corner of his mouth. "If I'm Cinderella, then what are you? The fairy godmother?"

Looking down at his face, now completely drenched in sweat, Tangze knew that the scene of steam rising from him—the one he had seen once before—was about to happen again.

"No, I'm the White Rabbit who took Alice through the rabbit hole. You may not last two minutes. Just answer me: do you want it, or not?"

Though he still spoke in Joker's usual laid-back, chuunibyou style at an unhurried pace, Tangze had silently placed his hand on his phone.

No matter how Shinichi Kudo answered, Tangze had already made up his mind to give him this push.

It would be great if he agreed, but he would have to agree even if he did not.

Otherwise, wouldn't all of Tangze's effort have been for nothing?

rank up! Rank 2

Learned ability "Empathy lv1" (temporarily transfers a designated teammate's buff to yourself)

If flaws and confusion in one's choices, weaknesses and wavering in one's character, were merely detours unavoidable for people who were too young, then you believed that nothing was beyond changing.

Thus, the girl who had hesitated at the crossroads heard the butterfly whispering beside her ear. She raised her head and, for the first time, looked not at the receding silhouette, but at the boundless azure sky.

She should not stop here. She should stride forward and catch up to that shadow.

After wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes, Ran Mouri sorted through her chaotic emotions. Realizing that she had suffered an emotional breakdown by the roadside late at night, she could not help