Ash was feeling downcast, sighing softly, "What exactly should I use to repay your feelings?"
"What about the Sword Maiden?" Diya said, "She's not like me, prioritizing your feelings first. In her heart, her own feelings are just as important as yours."
"I don't know," Ash murmured, "but if she can't accept me no matter what, then I'm ready to make a clean break with her. We'll become teammates who are most familiar yet strangers—"
Boom!
The moment Ash drew his sword, Diya had activated the Miracle "Empress's Gaze," and threads burst out from Ash's body, each thread accompanied by a force enough to pierce through the Holy Domain Comet's Rapid Stream, and in an instant reduced Ash to bubbles.
"Ash could never give up the Sword Maiden," Diya said softly, "because that would hurt the Sword Maiden the most."
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