Are you kidding? [ He points back towards the route she'd just followed. ] I was watchin' you come up that way. You're not gonna hold me back! If anything, I...

[ But then he blinks, and she's a youkai woman again, blond and beautiful, smiling shyly up at him, her posture and expression again perfectly matching Alex's. This time, though, the light is wrong -- her hair is red-gold, like it's evening. Gocchan, she murmurs, and Gojyo's heart lurches. Is this for...?

Blink again, and Alex is back. Gojyo's face, meanwhile, has gone chalk white. ]

How did you do that?