As long as... I'm still alive.
The boy said those words silently to himself.
"Then... give it your all. I'll be waiting for you to come back."
Ayaka whispered into the boy's ear.
The boy smiled as the light of transformation shone around him. "I'll... definitely come back! Sis!"]
(Oh no, there's no way you're surviving after saying that!)
(Stop jinxing them!!)
(Wait, if only pillar-tier demons are involved in this battle, then... how did Ayaka, Reiko, and the others get involved?)
(No idea... maybe they didn't fight this time? Look, the world needs some magical girls to stay behind and guard it, right?)
(Then does that mean Ayaka and the others will be fine in the end?)
(Xiao Qiu and the others will be fine too! Seriously, stop scaring yourselves!)
Judging by the Sky Screen's current storyline, there was no chance of Ayaka and the others joining the battle.
Even though they had all awakened their Shining Forms, they simply weren't strong enough. Fang Ming wouldn't allow them to force their way into the fight.
The magical girls of the Eastern Ocean District understood that too, so even now, none of them had any intention of heading into the sky for a fight to the death with the pillar-tier demons.
They knew that, given their current strength, rushing up there wouldn't help at all. They would only hold their seniors back.
In short, if the story continued down this path, the magical girls of the Eastern Ocean District... probably wouldn't participate in the final battle.
In that case... what did the hints in the opening mean?
Fang Ming pondered that question, and so did the magical girls.
But to find the answer, they would probably have to wait until the end of the season.
["Please let our seniors be