Ten minutes later.
"Wow, so these are Dying Will Flames? This feels so good. My whole body feels so much lighter."
A lively, excited voice came from outside the window.
"Takina, how do you feel?"
"Mm, amazing. My mind is unusually calm. When I concentrate, it feels like time is slowing down."
"These aren't Mist-type Dying Will Flames, are they?"
This time, it was a calm female voice. Was that Miss Takina, who had sat beside her at dinner on Friday night?
"Yes, that's right. Chisato has the Flame of Sun. Its ability is 'Activation.' By activating cells, she can strengthen or heal herself."
"Takina has the Flame of Rain. Its ability is 'Immobilization.' It can bring moving molecules to a standstill, extinguish other people's Dying Will Flames, and cause paralysis."
Hearing that last male voice, Yukinoshita Yukino finally regained consciousness bit by bit.
She finally remembered what had happened earlier.
As she recalled herself manically cleaning the room with a broom and dustpan like a lunatic, the light seemed to drain from Yukinoshita Yukino's eyes.
"This has to be a joke..."
"This must be a hallucination. I'm probably still asleep in my bed at home. Yes, that must be it. No, I must have fallen asleep in my sister's car."
"Honestly, why hasn't my sister woken me up? What if I'm late?"
While Yukinoshita Yukino muttered to herself with vacant eyes-
There was a creak.
The door was pushed open.
Luo Shu walked in, looked around the mostly cleaned room, and nodded in satisfaction.
"Not bad."
With that, he turned toward Yukinoshita Yukino, who was crouching in a corner.
Yukinoshita Yukino wore a face mask, a filthy headscarf, and an apron covered in dust. She looked quite bedraggled.
Seeing Yukinoshita Yukino looking as if she had been "broken," Luo