Alice continued trying to push herself up, but found doing so with her left arm not advisable. It hurt. A lot. The force with which she had landed... Something could have been broken, and she could not legitimately remember the last time she had felt anything that hurt this much, physically. But she heard Heart fighting, shouting...

Just as she pushed herself up using her right arm, she saw the pink Cure about to be overwhelmed...

And then came the ice. Before she even heard anything, Alice knew what that must be. Her head jerked around as she called their names, and tears started to fall anew.

"Rikka-chan..."

She was alive. She had come for them. She had tried to convince herself the entire past week this was how it would be, but seeing her... On the one hand, fear and remembrance of all the terrible things Alice had done immediately flooded her mind. Fear of facing Rikka again was now suddenly e very real thing. Yet, she was coming for them. Fighting for them. In spite of everything, or to be more precise, probably because of everything. So on the other hand, in that moment, Cure Diamond was one of the most wonderful and beautiful sights she had ever seen in her life.

"RIKKA-CHAN!"