Sitting in the wheelchair, she let Soga Yura push her.
Su Yuzu and Soga Yura were taking a walk inside Keigunen Private Academy.
In fact, Su Yuzu felt she had largely recovered. Looking at the reflection in the glass windows of the commercial street... seeing Soga Yura gasping for breath as she pushed the wheelchair, Su Yuzu even felt it would be more appropriate to press Soga Yura into the wheelchair and push her instead.
Unfortunately, that wasn't possible.
Soga Yura refused to let Su Yuzu do such a thing, no matter what. Facing Soga Yura, who looked like she might cry .°·(° □□ °)·°. at any moment, Su Yuzu admitted... she lost.
They stopped the wheelchair by a bridge near the river.
Tonight, the girls had agreed to have a dinner gathering at Ms. Unohana Chiyo's house, and Soga Yura was currently pushing Su Yuzu there. But... listening to the gasping sounds of the girl behind her, Su Yuzu knew Soga Yura really didn't have the strength to push her up the slope.
Since she couldn't persuade Soga Yura to switch places, then... just find an excuse to let Soga Yura rest.
Su Yuzu said... she wanted to watch the sunset.
She hadn't watched the sunset with Soga Yura for a long, long time. Or rather—except for those two movies, Su Yuzu hadn't watched anything with Soga Yura for a long, long time.
Soga Yura and Su Yuzu gazed at the other side of the city beneath their feet. As if the sky was crimson, a massive setting sun was falling. Orange sunlight cast the girls' shadows on the ground, stretching them long and slanted.
Just like a long, long time ago... when Su Yuzu and Soga Yura stood by the bridge just the same.
Soga Yura crying and asking Su Yuzu:
When will Mom come back.
When will Dad come back.
Su Yuzu couldn't answer this question. She could only say, Father might come back tomorrow, or maybe next year. But Mom... is watching over us from the sky forever.
When Su Yuzu looked to her side with a complex expression, she found the sobbing girl had already leaned on her shoulder and fallen asleep.
Su Yuzu could only support Soga Yura, waiting for the head maid to find them. Then take all the blame for running away from home.
Soga Yura held onto the armrests of the wheelchair. She could smell the fragrance in the hair of the girl in front of her, the scent belonging to Yuzu that she had personally blended.
And Su Yuzu was the same. She could feel the gasping girl, the hair by her ears hanging down, brushing gently against her forehead with the breeze. Wisps of soft fragrance drifted past her nose.
Su Yuzu gazed at the setting sun.
The matter of the "Epiphany Manufacture" laboratory had concluded perfectly. That evil... plan to artificially create Ascenders seemed to have been terminated. The gray domain was determined to be some kind of special force field.
The laboratory's storage modules and Black Box were privately sealed by Kujou Katora instead of being handed over.
Even the "Epiphany Manufacture" group itself commended Su Yuzu and all members of the Investigation Bureau's Fourth Action Division for bravely stopping the conspiracy of a subsidiary lab that violated humanity's bottom line.
The Fourth Action Division's equipment could finally be upgraded.
Su Yuzu also received a reward of ten "Medical Units".
Oh right—Miss Hayabusa didn't get her share of the bonus, in fact... she didn't even get her basic salary. As punishment for making the private decision to sacrifice herself to displace Su Yuzu and Kujou Katora back to the Tokyo metropolitan area, Kujou Katora confiscated her salary for the entire next year.
And expressionlessly... she used Hayabusa's salary to treat the Fourth Action Division and Su Yuzu... and all the girls around Su Yuzu to dinner.
And forced Miss Hayabusa to declare with a mourning face that she was completely 'voluntary'.
Su Yuzu watched the sunset disappear into the city skyline. Watching the fading sunlight vanish.
"Yuzu..." A very gentle voice suddenly came from behind.
"Hmm?"
"There are some things... I must confess to you." Soga Yura struggled to push the wheelchair up the slope. "About these past years..."
"The reasons that cannot be called reasons... for the wrong things I committed."
"About..."
"That domain, that me~" Su Yuzu finished Soga Yura's sentence. "Right?"
Soga Yura nodded. Although Su Yuzu didn't look back, she could sense Soga Yura's nodding motion from the fragrance wafting into her nose. This was the tacit understanding of twins.
"There's no need to talk about that kind of thing~"
"Let bygones be bygones." Su Yuzu felt the girl behind her exerting effort to push the wheelchair.
When the peerless authority to look down on heaven and earth and Soga Yura were placed before her at the same time, Su Yuzu already knew. Everything in this world... was simply divided into Soga Yura and others.
However~
The corners of the girl's mouth rose a bit wickedly.
Now she might have to add other girls. This was the punishment from the little devil-like girl for Soga Yura.
Your little sister is very likeable. If you don't want... there are many, many people in this world who like her.
"I wanted to protect Yuzu..."
"I wanted to conceal the power on Yuzu."
"Because that power would only attract covetous eyes."
"I wanted Yuzu to grow up safe... and happy." Recalling her original intention, Soga Yura suddenly choked with sobs.
She suddenly realized she had forgotten... forgotten her initial goal. She hoped to protect Yuzu. Not just Yuzu's safety, but also Yuzu's smiling face.
As a result... the person who destroyed Yuzu's smile in the end was herself.
Su Yuzu hugged her arms and looked ahead, sensing the tears splashing one by one onto her shoulder, and suddenly sighed deeply.
Why does she still love crying so much. How can she rest assured leaving a guy who loves crying so much behind.
She wanted to wipe Soga Yura's tears. But the [Dominator's Aegis] still guarded and blocked the space between Soga Yura and Su Yuzu.
Su Yuzu silently handed over a handkerchief.
Su Yuzu hadn't thought about asking Soga Yura to lift that protection. But... just as Soga Yura said, that protection could indeed protect Su Yuzu for Soga Yura, and... conceal the last trace of abnormal aura on Su Yuzu.
An aura akin to a catastrophe.
However... that didn't mean Su Yuzu couldn't tease Soga Yura.
Soga Yura, who was sniffling and wiping her tears, suddenly had her cheek poked. She looked down and found Su Yuzu holding a prosthetic right hand. The girl tilted her head back, revealing a brilliant smile at her.
The prosthetic right hand pinched Soga Yura's cheek.
Soga Yura instantly cried even more sadly.
"What's wrong? Did I pinch you too hard?" Su Yuzu had just started learning how to manipulate the prosthetic via the mental network, she was afraid she hurt Soga Yura.
"No... no, waa..." Soga Yura cried 'awoo awoo', getting sadder as she cried.
Clearly there were a thousand, ten thousand ways to stick with Yuzu without touching her directly. She missed out... missed out on four thousand days in an instant. She hurt Yuzu for four thousand days.
Su Yuzu didn't know whether to laugh or cry at Soga Yura's words.
She looked at the afterglow of the setting sun.
The prosthetic right hand gently cupped Soga Yura's right hand. "It's merely four thousand days..."
"There are still four thousand days in the future."
"Many, many four thousand days... if you keep crying like this, your tears will run dry."
"Really... you're more like the Dragon King than the actual Dragon King."
However... Su Yuzu also saw the ring on Soga Yura's right hand.
It was a ring with a pure white small flower. The style... was exactly the same as the other ring in Su Yuzu's hand.
Except, the ring in Su Yuzu's hand was entwined with thorns, while the ring on Soga Yura's right hand was entwined with flowering branches.
That was a Holy Relic—[Live. Guardian of the Fate Twins].
A Holy Relic that only one of the twins could use.
The sniffling Soga Yura struggled to push the wheelchair, then... hesitating, the girl suddenly lowered her head.
"Next month..."
"On the night of Yuzu and my birthday..."
"Can Yuzu come to our birthday banquet?"
"That is our coming-of-age ceremony."
Su Yuzu tilted her head back, looking at Soga Yura's eyes, crying and swollen, which were so close... as if she could kiss them just by lifting up a little bit more.
The white flower-branch-like right hand gently stroked the corner of the girl's eye.
"Are you an idiot?"
"I already said that's our coming-of-age ceremony."
"How could I possibly not come."
The girl instantly broke into a smile through her tears, "O... Okay!!!"
Almost dotingly, Su Yuzu looked at the girl who was crying and laughing at the same time.
Idiot.
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