Season 3 Episode 45: Resolution Is Bravo!
Turning to Lisa's room, Yukinari braces himself and raises his fist. "Here goes." He knocks on the black door, the sound from his knocking dispelling the silence around him. "L-Lisa?" Yukinari whispers cautiously. "Are you in there?" No response of any kind is heard from within. "Lisa, it's me... Yukinari..." he says as he starts to question why he has decided to do this. Perhaps it was a bad idea or perhaps it was time to cut ties with Lisa, something he did not wish to do since she was also another girl whom he considered important in his life. "We need to talk Lisa. Please open up." Still no response to Yukinari's concern. "Lisa, I've messed up. I never meant to mislead you... If there's anything I could do to make things right... I would..." He rests his forehead against Lisa's door and listens. There was not a sound to be heard. "What am I doing? I'm probably the last person she wants to see, next to Kirie" he thinks. He looks around hoping Hayate would appear and provide some sort of advice but finds no one in the empty hallway he was standing in. "Maybe she just needs her space and I need to steer clear! Yeah, that's it!" Yukinari ponders optimistically. "I'm sure she'll get over it and she'll come back and we'll all be friends again! It will be as if nothing ever happened" Yukinari assures himself spinning around ready to head home only to halt himself. In the back of his mind, he knew there was no going back. "Look at me... I'm about to walk away just like that. No... I came all this way" he convinces himself anew, his back to Lisa's room. "I've got to take action damn it! I'm a man!" he declares spinning back to face the black door. "Alright Lisa, we need to talk. We need to fix things here and now! We're adults" he says knocking loudly on her door. "Well, we're teens actually. She's 15 and I'm 16!" Yukinari corrects himself mentally. "Though the way she talks and acts at times, she's a pervert like her older brother... Focus Yukinari! Focus!" Yukinari says getting back to the task at hand. Suddenly, to his shock, the door in front of him opens as though it were swung open by an invisible hand. A powerful and overwhelming vacuum sucks him into the room sweeping him up off his feet and in the blink of an eye, the door slams shut behind him. All light evacuates with the slamming of the door to Lisa's room. Inside, Yukinari was sure his eyes were open but the room was pitch black. He blinks a few times and as his sight adjusted, he notices a very faint purple-blue light emanating from an unknown direction. He squints in the direction of the weak glow and makes out a kneeling figure with blonde hair who was, without a doubt, who Yukinari believed it was. "Lisa? Is that you?" Yukinari asks delicately as he watches her hands through the darkness moving over what looked like an arrangement of playing cards.
"You and I are soulmates Yukinari. Astrology says that this is so. My fortune-telling cards say that this is so. Destiny says that this is so. Madam Mabanya says that this is so" Lisa's surprisingly calm and steady voice announces. In her left hand she holds a deck of cards and withdraws one card at a time with her right. She ritualistically places the cards in front of her on a surface face-up one at a time adding to the arrangement of cards. Each card displays various images Yukinari couldn't decipher through the dark. "So why?"
"Lisa, we need to talk" Yukinari reminds her.
"Why have you chosen another girl besides me? It makes no sense. Have I not done enough? Are we not soulmates? Were the stars misaligned?"
"...Lisa, that's not it..." Yukinari begins to ask as he notices that Lisa is kneeling on the ceiling, "...Lisa, what are you doing up on the cei..."
"I'm not on the ceiling" Lisa corrects him. "You are" Lisa answers. The room is then quickly illuminated by torches set up inside the room. They reveal Lisa dressed in a black cloak, appearing as though she were in mourning, kneeling his way in front of a desk. Yukinari looks around and sees that they are both surrounded by walls lined by large book cases filled with various books on magic and witchcraft. He attempts to move his arms but soon realizes the position he was in. Looking above him, he sees that everything in the room from the desk to the cards to the torches were resting upside-down on the ceiling. Looking below him, he sees the floor completely devoid of anything save for a chandelier. He quickly realized it was as Lisa had said: he was not only on the ceiling but hanging from the ceiling. Ropes were tightly wrapped around him and binding his arms and legs firmly in place. That same rope tied around him was holding him up from the floor and hanging down from a hook on the ceiling.
"L-Lisa! What's going on!?" Yukinari asked in mild horror. "Why am I tied up!?"
"Yukinari, my love... You, you must be tried and punished... Betraying a witch's love is among the greatest violations that can be committed" Lisa says coldly.
"Breaking a witch's heart..." Yukinari contemplates Lisa's words. "L-Lisa, please! I can explain!" Yukinari in reality couldn't explain but he wanted to get out of this situation first and foremost.
"Explain what? How you've stabbed me in the back?" Lisa asks becoming impatient.
"N-no! Lisa... I..." Yukinari began to think about what to tell Lisa.
"You what?" Lisa asked becoming more irritated but managing to stay calm.
Yukinari did not answer. He could not think of what to say to fix things between them. As a matter of fact, he was not sure he ever even understood or considered what it meant to be a 'soulmate'. It being the equivalent of a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship, perhaps even more than that, made sense and now more than ever he felt guilty. Kissing her once before had surely mislead her but still, it was Lisa who forced herself on him and moved in when she learned of his joining the UFC. None of that mattered now however: what was done was done and nothing could change that. Now he was willing to accept almost any punishment Lisa felt justified in imposing.
"Lisa... I have no excuse. I've messed up and I don't know how to make things right... I don't know what to do Lisa" Yukinari admits looking away. "...Please, Lisa... I want to help you and do whatever you think will make you feel better... Whatever will make things right..."
Lisa looks at Yukinari, at first bitterly but then with pity. "Yukinari Sasaki, age 16, born March 23rd" Lisa began reciting ritualistically. "Once a simple high school boy and citizen of Mizuno who had a promising future with a blonde witch. Now, he is at the mercy of my fortune-telling cards. They shall decipher what is to become of him. Of us" Lisa says drawing cards from the deck and arranging them before her.
"Cards of what?" Yukinari questions.
"Yukinari I don't know what to do either" Lisa admits. "When I feel lost or get frustrated, when life becomes difficult, I rely on magic" Lisa says setting another card down in front of her, this time the image of a sun blocked by the moon turns up. "These cards can foretell the future and answer vexing questions too hard for a witch with a broken heart to cope with. Sir Dulhoff himself taught me of them."
"Lisa, you should decide for yourself what to do! No silly cards should decide-"
"Th-they are not silly! Silence yourself!" Lisa demands aggressively and by some sort of magic Yukinari's lips become sealed and his jaw locked. "I will do as I wish!" Lisa countered returning to her cards. "The shadow of the sun: it indicates the turning point of a love or a hate, a romance or a friendship! The cards speak of us!" Lisa announces to Yukinari's dread. What did that mean? That Lisa would now hate him and Kirie and curse them both? It was not until now that Yukinari worriedly considered what Lisa was capable of. She was capable of love and surely, she was capable of hate as well. Yukinari tries to speak but he cannot and can only watch as Lisa draws the next card and places it down before her.
"The curled serpent's nest" Lisa announces as she places another card down in front of her, this time with an image of two snakes curled up and their faces staring at each other. "The serpents twist and wind but theirs is..." Lisa stops talking and just stares down at the cards in front of her. Yukinari, still hanging upside-down from the ceiling, looks closely and is filled with a greater guilt. He notices Lisa's face growing pained before she lets out a sigh and readies the next card.
"Lisa, please stop this" Yukinari begins to plead in his mind, his mouth unable to speak.
Lisa places the next card in front of her but says nothing, her face steeled by concentration. A long, uncomfortable quiet ensues as both look at the card that has been placed down. The image of an imp-like creature falling down a pit comes up. "...Perhaps I'm to blame for some of what has happened" Lisa says looking up at Yukinari with an expression of longing. "I'm, I'm not the only girl after your affection Yukinari. Maybe if I, if I wasn't as aggressive as I was with you, you would have picked me..." Lisa takes a breath. "Maybe if I could fight like her or if I were older or, or maybe if I had met you earlier in life... Or if maybe you've never had developed your allergy... Or if that Miharu hadn't butted in!.. You would have picked me long ago."
"L-Lisa, that's not it Lisa!" Yukinari continues pleading in thought. Lisa draws another card and places it in front of her, this time revealing the image of a nurse in dark robes, similar to the dark robes Lisa was wearing, holding a corpse in her arms.
"Wh-what does that mean? Lisa, what is that card!?" Yukinari pleads again. Lisa stares long and hard at the card she had just placed down but somehow, it seemed to have calmed her.
"So, it has come down to that..."
"It has come to what Lisa!?" Yukinari would have asked had his mouth not been cursed shut. "Lisa?"
Lisa quickly, with the dilligence of a cold businesswoman, gathers all the cards and shuffles them into a single deck. She stands and proceeds to exit completely ignoring Yukinari's presence but just as she is about to take the final step out, she says "Yukinari... You shouldn't have come. Please do not seek me" and she finally leaves, the door closing behind her.
"I shouldn't have come? I shouldn't seek her?" Yukinari repeats with a guilt thicker than ever. "She might be right... So is she going to leave me here?" Yukinari ponders as the torches in the room extinguish and he's once again engulfed by darkness. "...Somehow, I feel I deserve this..." Yukinari remains there for several minutes, minutes he uses to think of what to do next. He also thinks of what Lisa could have meant by it coming 'down to that'. "What could she be planning to do? Kirie's still waiting outside! What if they confront each other!? This is bad! I've got to-" Yukinari tries to wiggle his way out of the ropes holding him tightly. As hard as he tries, his arms and legs are firmly held in place. "Damn it! What should I do now?"
"Need a hand?" Hayate's voice surfaces from the dark. Following the sound of a blade and ropes being cut, Yukinari shouts as he feels himself fall to the floor. "A little warning would have been appreciated" Yukinari says rubbing his head before the lights are turned on in the room. "Oh, I can talk! And see! Thank you Hayate" Yukinari says bowing respectfully.
"You couldn't talk before?" Hayate asks.
"I'm guessing that was Lisa's magic" Yukinari answers to an acknowledging nod from Hayate. "Hayate, I'm done here" Yukinari says hoping to get back home. "I don't think there's much else that I can do" Yukinari admits in surrender. "Please Hayate, I need to get back to Kirie."
Hayate proceeds to escort Yukinari out of the mansion through several long and lonely halls and rooms. Yukinari considers asking Hayate about the halls but he recalls a more pressing issue: Kirie and Lisa. Could they have already confronted each other? Nothing good could come from that, he was certain, and he wanted to get back to where Kirie was waiting for him at the front gates of the Fukuyama estate as soon as possible.
"Just escorting a visitor" Hayate says responding to several of the maids' suspicious stares, their hands holding their submachine guns at the ready. Yukinari gets to and exits through the front gates where, to his relief, he finds Kirie waiting patiently standing at the curb.
"Yukinari, you're back!" Kirie announces relieved. "Thank goodness. Hayate, what happened?"
"Not important: you two need to get home" Hayate notifies Yukinari and Kirie. "I'll fetch you two a ride" Hayate informs pulling out a phone.
"That would be very nice" Kirie says appreciatively.
Hayate has a short limo pull up to the street and he welcomes both Yukinari and Kirie inside.
"Hayate, please keep a close eye on Lisa" Yukinari implored before climbing in. "I think she's still very upset."
"Of course. As Kosame and I always do" Hayate assured helping to ease Yukinari's worry.
"I'm afraid she might do something-" Yukinari says before Hayate interjects.
"Do not fear. Leave her to us" Hayate reinforced.
On the drive home, Yukinari leans his head against the window and stares at the buildings that were passing by. He could not help but feel bad that he had gotten off so easily. This feeling did not improve as the drive went on and at one point, Yukinari pulled his shirt up and over his head in shame.
"What happened Yukinari? Is Lisa okay?" Kirie asks sharing the back seat with Yukinari.
"Nothing Kirie. Lisa will be fine" Yukinari lied. "I just need to think."
"S-sure" Kirie responds believing there was more that Yukinari did not wish to discuss at the moment. The rest of the drive home remained quiet and at the end of it, they were both dropped off at their homes. Kirie thanked the driver and the driver took off.
"Kirie, I feel like going for a walk. What do you say?" Yukinari directed the brunette's way not wanting to distance himself from her.
"..Sure! A walk sounds nice" Kirie answers and the two begin a stroll towards Mizuno town's shopping center.
"Kirie, you asked earlier what happened when I met up with Lisa" Yukinari recalled.
"Yeah?" Kirie responds. Yukinari sighs.
"Lisa is an odd girl" Yukinari opined.
"The Fukuyamas are a strange bunch" Kirie remarks.
"True. Lisa bound me up in some sort of magic and was reading from some fortune-telling cards."
"Sounds like her" Kirie said awaiting more details. "She's had you kidnapped before."
"I'm worried about what she might be up to" Yukinari said.
"You think she's up to something?" Kirie asked. "I'm sorry, I'm totally in the dark here: you met with her, not me."
"She read her cards and she was speaking to herself: I'm afraid she could be up to something" Yukinari said with great concern.
"What?" Kirie asked.
"That's what I want to know!" Yukinari said.
"Quite the conundrum we have found ourselves in haven't we?" Kazuharu Fukuyama's unmistakable voice questioned from behind the two and amid Mizuno crowds.
"Fukuyama!" Yukinari and Kirie both let out in unison.
"What are you doing here!?" Kirie demanded.
"I have heard your plight and I am here to offer my assistance!" Fukuyama answers.
"Were you spying on us!?" Kirie demanded again.
"Heavens no!" Fukuyama said with a smirk.
"Because if you were" Kirie said grabbing Fukuyama by the neck of his shirt, a fist at the ready.
"Wait Kirie!" Yukinari defended. "Maybe he could help!"
"Yes! That's why I'm here!" Fukuyama said.
"Okay, speak" Kirie asked as she let go of Fukuyama's shirt.
"I shall speak to my sister" Fukuyama offered as he patted his shirt. "No one knows her better than I!"
"You would do that for us?" Yukinari asked.
"It would be my pleasure!" Fukuyama almost sung.
"Why?" Yukinari questioned further.
"The last thing I ever want is for you to join the Fukuyama family. And my beloved little sister is too good a catch for you, needless to say" Fukuyama said as though it weren't an insult.
"Hey!" Yukinari protested.
"You just call your little sister a good catch?" Kirie asked creeped out.
"Of course I did!" Fukuyama boasted. "My little sister is a member of the excellent Fukuyama lineage! Of course she is beautiful!"
"Fukuyama, please speak to your sister! I'm afraid I've hurt her and I'm worried she might try something crazy!" Yukinari pleaded.
"You can count on me, Punynari!" Fukuyama assured to Yukinari's relief. "In the meantime" Fukuyama went on joining Yukinari's hand with one of Kirie's. "You two need to make sure to get to know each other better. You two are certainly on your way."
Kirie looks at her hand now holding onto Yukinari's. "H-how much do you know?"
"I know enough Kirie. You two are certainly giving off that vibe" Fukuyama responds resulting in Kirie pushing him away.
"I-I'm really close to murdering you right now but you have a job to do now so go do it!" a red-faced Kirie ordered the rich pervert.
"Right away! No need to push!" Fukuyama said as he marched off and disappeared into surrounding crowds.
"Bastard!" a red Kirie cursed short of breath. "Spoiled, conceited bastard!"
-TRANSITION-
After their run-in with Fukuyama, Yukinari and Kirie had made their way to the batting cages in Mizuno's park.
"Excellent form" Kirie praised from outside the batting cage Yukinari stood in with baseball bat ready and in position to swing at a pitch.
"I don't understand why Fukuyama would ever offer to help like that" Yukinari said before swinging at a pitch from the pitching machine.
"He explained it moments ago" Kirie said. "He really doesn't want you to get involved with Lisa. You heard him earlier surely?" Yukinari swings at another pitch sending the ball flying. "Good swing! And hit!"
"Yeah, I heard him. I don't know: blame short term memory loss" Yukinari excused. "You think he could help?"
"He's a perverted bastard but he's also a very cunning and conniving bastard too" Kirie said. "But if there's something he's definitely not keen on is you and Lisa becoming an item."
"What'd I ever do?" Yukinari protested.
"He's a controlling bastard too" Kirie condemned. "Only elite of elites are allowed into the Fukuyama family."
"I guess I'm a peasant then" Yukinari said with self-deprecating humor.
"Don't feel too bad. Fukuyama only thinks the best of himself and his royal blood, as he'd often put it" Kirie said. "Be that as it may, he should be the best to keep Lisa under control."
"I hope so. I don't want to get abducted again" Yukinari said as he swung at another pitch. As he swung, Kirie got lost in admiration of Yukinari's masculine figure for a moment. "...Wanna take some swings Kirie?"
"You done?"
"I don't wanna hog all the action" Yukinari said.
"Okay, sure" Kirie said accepting the bat and the two swap places. "You were looking very handsome swinging by the way."
"I was?" Yukinari asks, Kirie smiling his way.
"Definitely" Kirie confirms, pink ovals on her cheeks. "Your weight-lifting has been paying off."
"Th-thanks Kirie" Yukinari said flattered as Kirie readies a swing of the bat.
"Bring it!" Kirie challenges before hitting an incoming pitch. Now it was Yukinari's turn to admire Kirie's form and powerful swing. At the same time, a bothersome sensation hit the pit of his stomach: he was about to lose one of the two girls who had helped him in his training.
"Couldn't I just have them both?.. No, of course not.. Ugh, I'm starting to think like Kazuharu! But I guess that's every guy's fantasy..." Yukinari pondered what would be the best way to try to salvage the complicated relationship the three had but this only made his head hurt. "Let's face it, we're screwed" Yukinari surrendered as Kirie took another hard swing. "So who: Kirie or Lisa?" Yukinari posed this question to himself which only continued to make him feel sick. "The girl who put her own safety and happiness on the line for my sake, and chose a boy nicknamed 'Punynari' over all the other more-qualified guys who have liked her? Or the girl who without hesitation accepted my puny little self and had helped me for weeks?... Either way, it's too cruel. It's all too cruel for either of them!.. I've put them in this position, I don't feel I deserve either of them..."
Yukinari's troubled mind followed him during the walk back home despite the light conversation he was having with Kirie, Kirie leading the way with the bat over her shoulder.
"A wooden bat has the advantage of having more mass than a metal one. Metal bats are generally more hollow" Kirie instructed.
"Why the difference?" Yukinari asked.
"I think it boils down to taste, sorta. And situation" Kirie responds. "Professional baseball uses the wooden bat, always. Smaller league likes the metal bat."
"Always the wooden bat for professional baseball?"
"Always. It's tradition" Kirie says. "Thinking of pro baseball as a possible career path?"
"Not sure I could ever be good enough Kirie. You gotta be really good for the pros, I imagine" Yukinari said.
"You never know 'til you try" Kirie encouraged as the two approached their homes. As they did so, they notice a limo before Kirie's house.
"That's Fukuyama's limo" Yukinari notes and the two head straight to the Kojima residence unsure what was going on and suspecting a Fukuyama may have entered one or both houses.
"Hello you two" Fukuyama's voice once again makes itself known.
"What are you doing here?" Kirie asked spinning around as Fukuyama climbed out.
"Waiting for you two" Fukuyama declares as Lisa also climbed out of the limo making Yukinari tense up before the magical girl. "My beloved little sister and I were waiting for you two, I should say" he elaborates further pulling Lisa into a brotherly hug. Yukinari was having a hard time looking directly at Lisa but to his surprise, Lisa was looking relaxed.
"Yukinari, Kirie" Lisa begins stepping forward making Yukinari and Kirie tense up. Fukuyama grabs hold of Lisa's shoulders as if to assure and encourage her. "I simply wanted to wish you both the best of luck."
"Y-you did?" Yukinari asked.
"Yes" Lisa answers still as calm. She then bows respectfully to Yukinari, some of her long blonde hair flowing down her shoulders. "I wish you and Kirie luck and happiness in your pursuit of love. May the good spirits pay you both their company" Lisa says to Yukinari's shock.
"Lisa" Yukinari begins in disbelief, "what are you saying?"
"It means you and I are done" Lisa says as Kazuharu looked pleased.
"Lisa, are... are you serious?" Yukinari asks not sure if he has heard Lisa correctly.
"Yukinari, this is no easy choice for me but I feel there can be no other course of action" Lisa says turning back to the limo awaiting her, her back to Yukinari.
"Lisa, are you sur-"
"Very" Lisa interrupts. A moment of quiet follows. It was clear now to Yukinari that Lisa had made a decision, a difficult one at that.
"Lisa... Thank you... For everything" Yukinari says breaking the silence and he bows back.
Lisa, without a word, returns to her limo and enters.
"Good luck you two love birds" Fukuyama says trying to hide his glee before following Lisa and closing the limo door leaving Yukinari standing there on the sidewalk in front of Kirie's home. The limo takes off turning at an intersection and dropping out of Yukinari's sight. To Yukinari, it was as if Lisa had exited his life. Yukinari would have stopped her but he respected her decision and perhaps this was best for both of them.
"Yukinari" Kirie starts standing behind Yukinari, "I'm really sorry" she said weakly feeling partially responsible for what had just happened. Yukinari says nothing for a moment.
"It's not your fault" Yukinari answers. "...It must have been painful for her" he goes on remorsefully.
"Yes" Kirie agreed softly.
"And it must have hurt" Yukinari said not turning to face Kirie, "watching Miharu and I date... And Lisa and I kiss." Kirie, realizing Yukinari was speaking of her, answers.
"It wasn't an easy thing to watch... but I was happy for you. Both times..."
Lisa had made a difficult choice and now it was Yukinari's turn to follow through with the blonde witch's decision.
"Kirie" Yukinari says addressing a girl who, he was sure, was also no stranger to difficult decisions. "Are you busy tomorrow? After school?"
"What?" Kirie asks doubting what she had heard.
"Would you like to go out with me somewhere? I mean, just the two of us?"
The words "just the two of us" stood out to Kirie. Her heart sped up right then and there but she still retained some concern. "B-but Yukinari, what about Lisa? And Miharu?" Kirie asked worrying for the two other girls that had once also vied for Yukinari's affection.
Yukinari turns to face Kirie, a look of anxiety on the brunette's face. He approaches her, his eyes not straying from hers, and pulls her towards himself, his arms wrapping around her. "I want to honor Lisa's decision. And Miharu, I've already spoken to her: she's a friend, yours and mine. I'm sure she'll be happy for us."
"Yukinari" Kirie whispers. She wraps her arms around Yukinari and they both quietly stand there, Kirie resting her head on Yukinari's shoulder. Pressed up against the boy she was in love with, his arms around her and hands rubbing her back, he soothes her worries.
"Kirie" Yukinari whispers back within a long embrace.
"...So, what does this mean?" Kirie asks after the silence. He pulls back and faces her.
"It means I really like you" Yukinari answered. "I like you a lot."
"Yukinari" Kirie breathes, their arms still wrapped around each other.
"...It's been a long day Kirie... What do you say we head inside?" Yukinari suggests.
"..Yeah, good idea" Kirie agrees nodding softly and both head into Yukinari's house. Inside, Yukinari takes a seat on his couch and Kirie cuddles up right next to him. "...New episode of 'Forensic Investigators' will be on soon."
"Can't miss that" Yukinari says reaching for the remote. With TV on, Kirie leaned on Yukinari and he wrapped an arm around her, his other hand caressing her thigh which she rested atop his own affectionately. Yukinari and Kirie both stay seated much this way sharing gestures of affection as the show was getting started. "...I've got some grapes in my fridge."
"Way ahead of ya" Kirie said getting up and heading to the kitchen. "Seedless too! Awesome!" she praised from the kitchen.
-TRANSITION-
"Oh Lisa! I'm so so proud of you!" Fukuyama almost sung giving his little sister Lisa an affectionate hug.
"Are you sure of this, Mistress Lisa?" Hayate asked the blonde witch seated opposite Fukuyama in the back of the limo.
"...Yes, very" Lisa finally responded, her eyes scanning the inside of a book of witchcraft.
"I'm impressed Mistress Lisa. That was incredibly mature of you" Hayate complimented.
"What was?" Lisa asked not averting her eyes from her book.
"Your moving on from Yukinari and your hopes for a future with the boy" Hayate revealed. "I expected a greater ire from you for the violent brunette." Lisa says nothing to this for a time.
"Yes, it was very mature" Fukuyama added in praise.
"...I'm not angry at Kirie... ...And I haven't given up on my soulmate..."
"Mistress Lisa?" Hayate asked puzzled.
"You haven't given up!?" Fukuyama almost gasped releasing his hug.
"If I were ever to be as lucky as Kirie was, I would have given all of my being to my Yukinari just the same" Lisa revealed with warm affection in her voice. "And the cards have spoken: Yukinari and Kirie's love will not last. It will suffer the same fate as the one Yukinari and Miharu's had. When that happens, I shall be Yukinari's savior in dark robes when he falls into the pit of despair a second time. I've outlasted Miharu and I shall outlast Kirie too!" Lisa finished with determination.
"...I see, Mistress Lisa" Hayate answered though he was mindful of failed predictions his mistress made in the past. Despite this, he was glad to see Lisa regaining her motivated, energetic, and conniving self. He definitely preferred this Lisa over a depressed or heartbroken one. Lisa closes the book in her hand and lets out a long sigh.
"Lisa! I told you I would find you a perfect match! Punynari is not good enough for you!" Fukuyama continued to protest.
"Hayate" Lisa says.
"Grrgrrrgrrrgrrr" Kazuharu lets out before collapsing on the limo floor after Hayate stuns him with a high-powered stun gun.
"...What irks me is that Kirie's going to get to do tons of dirty things with my Yukinari" she said. "It's no fair! I should have been the one he'd lose his purity to, not her!"
"Yes, it should have been you" Hayate, feeling obligated, agrees.
"Oh well... At least I took his first kiss. And I can still give him my purity one day" Lisa observed optimistically. "Chauffeur, The Darker Corner please" Lisa commands. "Kosame, hand me volume 3 of 'A Witch's Guide to Love'" Lisa commands but Kosame does not react, her steely gaze looking out the window. "Kosame, volume 3 of 'A Witch's Guide to Love' please" which jerks Kosame out of whatever thoughts she was having instants before. Quickly, Kosame hands the book to Lisa and Lisa quickly opens it up. Hayate looks over to Kosame whose face remains steel-eyed and focused with hands tightened into fists.
"It seems as though Lisa's heart was not the only one broken today" Hayate contemplates quietly.
"I gotta make myself cuter somehow. Surely magic will show the way" Lisa urged herself thumbing through her book. "Which is cuter? Bigger or smaller boobs? Bigger or smaller butt?
"But Mistress Lisa, you're already cute" Hayate complimented. "You don't need to change yourself."
"Nonsense! You're just saying that. Surely I'm not cute enough" Lisa countered. "Correction: I gotta make myself hotter! Hotter than Kirie!" she says continuing to flip through her book.
"I wish you the best of luck, Mistress Lisa" Hayate said admiring Lisa's resilience and determination. There was no denying Lisa was the sister of the infamous and voracious lecher, Kazuharu who now lay stunned on the limo floor.