"I've got it! The one you impersonated was... Yoshinon!"
Shido Itsuka picked Yoshino's photo up from the table, held it out, and continued explaining.
"Lin Guang said we had to observe not just the person, but the things around them, too. At first, I didn't understand what he meant."
"But when I thought back to the scene with Lin Guang and Yoshino together, although Yoshinon behaved almost exactly as usual, Yoshinon is Yoshino's hand puppet. She couldn't possibly see something Yoshino couldn't see."
"And because our attention was all on Yoshino, we didn't notice anything unusual about Yoshinon! If it weren't for Lin Guang, I wouldn't have thought of that brief look of surprise Yoshinon showed when she saw him. So Yoshinon was the one you impersonated, Natsumi!"
Natsumi Kyouno gritted her teeth in the mirror.
The next second, cracks began spreading across the mirror's surface before it finally gave off an intense green light.
The light gradually faded, and the abducted Yuzuru Yamai appeared before Shido Itsuka.
Seeing that Yuzuru Yamai was all right, Shido Itsuka finally breathed a sigh of relief and stepped forward to help her up.
After confirming that Yuzuru Yamai was unharmed, Shido Itsuka turned toward Natsumi Kyouno, who was crouching in a corner, and walked over to her.
"All right, Natsumi! Explain properly why you did this!"
At the sound of Shido Itsuka's voice, Natsumi Kyouno turned around.
When Shido Itsuka saw what Natsumi Kyouno looked like now, his pupils involuntarily contracted in shock.
Shido Itsuka had never expected Natsumi Kyouno to turn into a slender girl with a petite, childlike build like Yoshino's, her uncombed green hair fluffy and disheveled.
"Are you... Natsumi?"
At Shido Itsuka's words, Natsumi Kyouno touched her face and discovered that her Spirit Power disguise had vanished without her