Another clash. As their weapons crossed, their eyes met at close range, and QM Rita suddenly asked, "Has your nightmare changed?"
An intriguing question.
Rita flashed the first smile that could truly be called radiant since her awakening. Only the other her noticed this question. Only the other her realized that something was wrong.
Even with her memory lost, she still retained the sharpness and suspicion she had always possessed.
Deceitful Bloom had wrongly assumed she had so many vulnerabilities, so much sincerity. Even after 140,000 cycles, it couldn't be changed.
She countered with another question to herself, the one person in this world who might truly understand her: "What do you think?"
QM Rita replaced the answer with a new question: "How did you do it?"
