Chapter Thirty-Six, is this really right?

  "Cough...cough..."

  The girl let out two light coughs, but her furrowed eyebrows showed no signs of relaxing. She was in so much pain, as if something heavy was pressing down on her chest, making it hard to breathe, and her back was also burning with a sharp pain, as if any movement would make her cry out in agony.

  Kojirou, who was about to fall asleep, immediately opened his eyes upon hearing the familiar voice and shouted with joy at seeing the girl showing signs of waking up, "Yuka, you're finally awake!!"

  It seems...

  Is that Kojirou's voice? Elegant furrowed his brow, and after adapting to the light, he slowly opened his eyes.

  A warm breeze gently swept across her ears, carrying an unknown fragrance and the moist scent of lake water. A smile more dazzling than sunlight broke out on her pale cheeks. She loved afternoons like this, sunny and bright. After a nap, the entire sky was pure and transparent, if one ignored the painful sensation spreading through her body at that moment.

  "Phew..." Musashi let out a quiet sigh of relief. Good thing this little imp woke up, otherwise they would have had to take care of her until late at night, and if that delayed Sakaki-sama's plan, it wouldn't be good.

  Musashi suddenly felt strange, when did they become so emotional and righteous? ????

  "Elegant elegant meow!" Meow immediately went over and hugged her, "You're finally awake!"

  It's really them!

  It wasn't easy, but she finally came to and struggled to sit up, leaning against the tree trunk with a soft laugh. "Ah, it feels like I've been reborn."

  "Elegant little demon, why is it that every time we meet, you're always in such an unglamorous state?" Musashi raised an eyebrow, his tone somewhat reproachful but laced with concern. "If we hadn't met, who knows what kind of trouble you'd have gotten into!"

  So I think it's lucky that every time you guys see me at my worst.

  "But... why are you here?" Although I knew they had been with Satoshi for many days, it's still really amazing to see them everywhere!

  "Ah, elegantly, I'm telling you, I'm telling you!!" Kotaro hurriedly leaned in, "I'm telling you! Sakaki-sama is going to give us an extremely important task, extremely, extremely important, do you know?! I feel like we're getting closer and closer to our goal! Just thinking about it makes me want to burn up!!"

  Kojirō clenched his fists and said with a full fighting spirit.

  In fact, they don't dislike Satoshi, nor do they intentionally want to oppose him. As the Rocket Gang, with their grand ambitions in mind, they must do some things to achieve their goals.

  If it weren't for the nature of these tasks being bad, Musashi and they are actually very kind and ordinary people, but some people's fate has been determined from a certain decision, and their rocket team's fate is to have an unrealistic idea of conquering the world as their goal, keep working hard.

  Her elegant eyes dimmed slightly, but she didn't know what to say.

  She couldn't bear to see the things they hoped for turn into illusions, wanted to remind them that this might be something that could never be realized, but was also afraid of disappointing them, because such an expression really didn't suit these three bright people.

  But is this really right? Knowing that it's futile and continuing would be in vain, isn't telling them the truth also wrong?