The shipping game was strong this episode. Pierrot might bungle everything else but at LEAST they got the ships right!
Miza and Naki tiptoe to Ayato’s room.
“Ayato?” Miza calls out tentatively.
He doesn’t respond, as she expected. Naki knocks open the door anyways.
He looks up with a start. His eyes are bloodshot.
“They’re going to use her and then kill her, like she’s an object,” he growls.
“It sucks,” Miza says.
“If you ever need to rescue her, we’ll help,” Naki says. “Whether the bosses approve or not.”
Miza shoots him a glare. “Naki, calm down.”
“Do I have to lose everyone?” Ayato asks. “Everyone. My mom. My dad. Touka disapproves of me. Hinami is good as dead.”
He shivers involuntarily at the words. “I’d turn myself in if I could free her.”
Tears return to his eyes, and he brushes them away with anger. Two tickets to the latest superhero movie fall out of his pocket. He swears and holds his head in his hands, staring, staring, staring at those tickets for a future that isn’t his.
“We never even got to have our first date.”
Mercy and Magic 