[ This mystery is enough to cause her brain to go into overdrive. The more they attempt to make sense of this, the deeper the rabbit hole goes. Yoimiya stays silent for a few good seconds, needing a short moment to process everything Ajax lays out. She's flattered to hear that also experienced the same passionate need to protect her but as sweet as it is, that just leaves her with more questions than answers.

The top one being... why? Why do they suddenly act like royalty?

Yoimiya taps her chin in deep thought but try as she might, no concrete answers come to mind. She's never been the type of woman to analyze every little detail, so you know it's bad when she can't conjure up anything that would make logical sense. She sighs and mentally throws in the towel, resigning to the fact that this mystery will not be solved anytime soon. But Ajax does bring up a good point, maybe if they tried to enter that strange state of royalty, there's a good chance they'll be able to summon their powers.

There is one problem. ]

Me either. Aside from y'know... [ She vaguely gestures ] everything that's going on, I actually feel normal for once, that strange royal thing hasn't entered my mind at all today. I haven't thought about you as my king not even once. Along with that, I haven't had that insatiable appetite to have sex with you either.

[ Which is a good thing in hindsight. As amazing as the sex is, they will not get to the bottom of this case if they keep fucking all day. However, it is strange given the weird baby fevor they kept experiencing. ]

But more importantly, how are you feeling? I was really worried about you after we had that battle, you were silent and sweating an awful lot. It also looked like you conjured up a new type of power... there was weird fog coming out of your armored arm.