Soga Yura's Q-version chibi, its miserable little head, slammed against the back of the seat in front.
After midnight, the [Develop] icon on Soga Yura's Q-version chibi's head lit up again.
Su Yuzu hesitated, looking at Soga Yura's pitiful appearance.
Two rows behind her, Yura, who had nearly slammed head-first into the seat back, stared wide-eyed, her crimson gaze hollow.
Her right hand was pressed tightly over her mouth.
She had never, ever imagined...
that Lady Fate would deal her such a Heavy Blow at this moment.
Tears gradually welled in Yura's eyes as she bit her lips, her consciousness nearing a blank slate.
Just this morning, her most doting Yuzu had pushed her away with the most brilliant smile.
Although... she had accepted it.
She even felt a sorrowful sense of accomplishment, as if her ultimate goal had been achieved.
But that didn't stop her from crying her heart out because Yuzu had snubbed her.
In the afternoon, she had found herself inexplicably embarrassed at every turn.
If she hadn't already returned to her dorm by then... she simply didn't know how she would have gotten through that situation.
As a result... before she could even catch her breath,
she learned from Sakura Mai that Yuzu had reordered two movie tickets.
Yura, who found even moving her feet difficult, had forced herself to drink two large bottles of emergency stamina potions, and only then, trembling, set off to stake out the cinema entrance.
Although emergency stamina potions could temporarily restore a large amount of stamina,
Yura's physique was inherently frail, her stamina limit was fixed, and having cried so miserably all morning and afternoon, her stamina limit was bound to be somewhat depleted.
Yura felt her consciousness was about to evaporate from Lady Fate's Heavy Blow.
At this moment... a "Blessing" descended?
Sakura Mai's investigation results were indeed correct.
The girls around Yuzu... could receive a "Blessing" from Lady Fate at any time.
Her right hand remained pressed tightly over her mouth.
Yura dared not make a sound at all.
Yuzu was very sensitive to her voice.
When she was little... she was awakened by a terrifying thunderstorm during a stormy night, shaking with fear.
She wanted to cry and go find Yuzu, but the corridor was too deep and dark, and she didn't even have the courage to step out of her room.
She could only wrap herself in her bedding, curled up in the corner of the bed, trembling.
When the light of the thunderstorm lit up the night, the shadow of every object in the room seemed to turn into a terrifying monster.
It was at this moment that Yuzu, wearing a thin nightgown, suddenly appeared.
Her crimson eyes in the darkness did not appear terrifying; on the contrary... they were as magnificent as the brightest jewels in the world.
Yura even felt... that the moment the terrifying ghost appeared on the movie screen just now, her trembling voice might have already caught Yuzu's attention.
Then she suddenly became self-pitying again.
Even if Yuzu heard it, what did it matter... Yuzu's eyes were no longer as they once were.
where only she existed, where she was her whole world.
On the contrary—
The current Yuzu... didn't even have a single spot for her in her gaze anymore.
The current Yuzu had been divided up by those bad women.
Just thinking about it made Yura's nose sting, and even Kujou Katora taking Yuzu to watch the horror movie she feared most became an original sin.
That's right—
Even if she didn't have [Operator Development], if she hadn't noticed that Yura's background in [Operator Development] was too similar to Kujou Katora's and her own, Yuzu might never have realized.
Yura, who found even moving her feet difficult, would actually follow her to watch a horror movie.
Yura still couldn't help but grumble, pushing all the blame onto Kujou Katora.
Her Yuzu was so well-behaved... she would never be so mean as to take her to watch a horror movie.
"Sigh..."
Her thoughts immediately strayed elsewhere again.
Actually, watching a horror movie with Yuzu was fine too.
When she was scared, she could just bury herself in Yuzu's arms.
But like this, while watching what she feared most, she also had to watch her Yuzu being exploited by those awful women.
"Wuwu..."
"Yuzu..."
"That's my Yuzu..." Yura's Q-version chibi cried, tilting its little head back, tears splashing onto the floor.
That Kujou Katora must have had ulterior motives.
Slowly supporting herself with her left hand on the back of the seat in front, Yura slowly tried to push herself up.
Although Lady Fate's sudden Heavy Blow was extremely lethal to the frail Yura.
But... it was, after all, a "Blessing."
It was a purely positive effect.
It was just that the effect was too strong, and Yura, weak as she was, found it difficult to digest all at once.
Moreover... Yura was, after all, a genuine peak Third Sequence Esper.
A Level 39 - Mind Control User.
Every time she crossed a major Sequence threshold, her physique would be strengthened somewhat.
Compared to the little rabbit who hadn't even entered the First Sequence, Yura's physique was still a tiny bit stronger.
Although... comparing the peak Third Sequence Yura to the apprentice Saotome Yukina was already an insult to her.
Her consciousness slowly returned to her body.
Yura struggled to slowly push herself up.
"I..."
"I'm fine..."
"I endured it."
She almost embarrassed herself in public behind Yuzu.
Fainting from a "Blessing," no matter how you looked at it, would be a shameful act that would earn her notoriety.
She was truly unlucky today.
Yura simply didn't know how she could get any unluckier.
But... sometimes that's just how fate is.
Lady Fate's wicked personality always surprises people.
Before Yura could even fully stand up, she felt Lady Fate's Heavy Blow descend once more.
The light of the "Blessing" shone.
Yura's consciousness seemed to become hazy in an instant.
Her vision couldn't even be described as out of focus; rather... she was so dizzy she saw intense white light.
Her slender little hands stretched open and tensed, trembling as if cramping.
"Blessings"... could they even descend consecutively?
Yura, who had already been crying all day, could no longer control herself, and her body tilted, about to fall to the ground.
Then... she only felt as if she had fallen into a soft embrace.
Yura buried her head.
She smelled a familiar, rich citrus fruit fragrance.
Thump-thump—'Cardiopulmonary arrest.'"Yu...zu..."
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