[They won't have to look very far. She's... pretty much been expecting them, the way they've become gradually less stable over the last week. And so she's standing right out on the beach of Green Breeze Island, waiting for them out in the open, Raquel floating next to her head.

Just because she expected it doesn't make it any easier to seem them coming toward her like an execution squad, and it's a huge effort not to start shaking. Or running, for that matter. But as they approach, she takes a defiant stance against them.]

I guess it's going to come to this after all. I was hoping... I wouldn't have to stand against you. But there's nothing for it now. [She holds out a hand sideways to her partner.] Raquel... it's time.

[The plushie obediently turns into a Lovely Commune, and Rikka starts the motion she knows like the back of her hand.] Precure... Love Link! [A flash of icy blue issues, and when it clears, she's transformed. Not that anyone expected anything different. And she takes the pose the other girls are more than used to seeing by now.]

The light of wisdom... Cure Diamond! [And after she finishes that, she brings her hands up in front of her, forming... wait, that's not her announce...] It seems you've lost your love, Mana... Alice. [She brings them up into a heart, sliding it aside her, fighting to not cry at them. It'll be a problem in about five seconds if she does.] I, Cure Diamond... will get your heart-throbbing excitement back!

[...Nope, those are definitely tears in her eyes, and her voice definitely cracked. Oops.]