“Actually, a massive amount of spiritual energy will be generated when we return Sanae's spiritual energy, but we don't have the technology to stabilize it”
“Then you're stuck”
”No. What's impossible is trying to resolve it with just our technology”
Kiriha shook her head once more and pointed at Yurika.
“Judging from what happened before, if Yurika follows up with her magic it should become possible”
Even with the technology of the People of the Earth, they can't directly heal Sanae. But if Yurika were to make up for that problem with magic, it should be possible to save her. This was a path that had opened thanks to their trust in Yurika and her magic. That was why Kiriha had made sure to bring the unconscious Yurika with them.
“Me again!?”
Yurika pointed at her face and opened her eyes wide in surprise. She didn't expect that she would get another turn.
“Please, Yurika. What we need right now is minute control of spiritual energy”
“But, but, I'm not very confident I can do it...”
The exhausted and off guard Yurika no longer had even a trace of the impressive atmosphere from before.
Doing that thing again... Not possible, it's completely impossible!!
Yurika had returned to her pessimistic self.
“If you can't do it, Sanae will die. You will just have to do it, confidence or not”
“Please, Yurika”
“E-Even if you say that, I can't! Satomi-san, help me! It's impossible for me, right?”
Yurika was starting to tear up and turned to Koutarou for help. She wanted Koutarou to say that she couldn't do it so that she could take it easy.
“Koutarou, that's what Yurika is saying”
“Satomi-kun, can't you do something?”
Theia and Shizuka spoke to Koutarou, they believed that he would be able to do something about Yurika.
“Well...”
It wasn't like he didn't understand how Yurika must feel. She had really given it her all before. And it would be cruel to ask her to do same thing once more.
But... Yurika is probably...
After thinking for a while with his arms crossed, Koutarou spoke out to Yurika.
“Yurika”
“It's not possible for me, Satomi-san!”
Yurika was convinced that Koutarou would side with her.
“...Is it really impossible?”
Koutarou spoke while staring directly into Yurika's eyes.
“Ah...”
Yurika was swept away by Koutarou's serious stare. His eyes shone with a strong sense of trust and expectation. And the moment she saw that, Yurika could feel her timidness and anxiety vanish.
I can't betray this... my precious friend is relying on me...
Instead confidence and courage replaced the anxiety and timidness.
“I'll do it. I will show you I can”
Yurika nodded powerfully. She had returned to the magical girl she had been like before.
“Please do”
“Yes!”
Looking at Yurika who had regained her love and courage, Kiriha made a fist and raised two fingers, her index finger and middle finger, in the shape of a scissor from rock paper scissors.
“With this, that's one problem taken care of. Only one more remains”
Kiriha then lowered her middle finger leaving the index finger standing.
“There's still a problem?”
“There is. That said, this is if we succeed...”
As Kiriha said that she pointed to her own head with her raised finger.
“The problem is her memories”
“Memories? What do you mean?”
Koutarou had a bad premonition, as that was just how miserable Kiriha's face looked when she spoke.
“Sanae will almost certainly lose the memories of the time she spent as a ghost”
“Ehhh!? W-Wait a minute, what is that supposed to mean!?”
Sanae's life was in danger, fortunately there was a solution. That's why Sanae had felt a little relieved. But now all of a sudden she hears that she will lose her memories. Because she had started to relax, these words took her by great surprise. That's why even though she had left Koutarou to do the talking, she instinctively leaned forward and interrupted Kiriha.
“The memories you have now are memories you have acquired in a spiritual form. And even if your spiritual energy is poured into your real body, it won't overwrite the memories in your brain”
“I don't understand, explain it with words I can understand!”
“In other words, your memories right now are like your past life. Once Sanae wakes up, she most likely won't remember us at all”
If the ghost Sanae and the real Sanae merged, her memories would be written into her soul. But it won't overwrite the network of nerves making up her brain. That's why Sanae would have to call up the memories of her soul every time she wanted to remember Koutarou and the others. But that was incredibly difficult. The action of calling up the memories of the soul was practically the same as calling up the memories of a past life. There were extremely few people that could do that. And because of that, the chances of Sanae being able to do that was very low.