#but in the case of canon i ship kairi/umika to the grave

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Note: This isn’t the review I mentioned before. It’s just me...being me, squealing over the last five minutes of the special because I got something I’ve been longing for, considering the latest events in canon.

The Ultimate Weird Combination was really hilarious, displayed another case of Kairi and Keiichiro pulling off amazing teamwork, and concluded with Sakuya getting told off for his perverted moment. But I was more delighted over the small Kairi/Umika I managed to pluck with my delusional eyes, at least the special knew to feed my feels for this couple

Since this took place in between episode 25~26 (and cementing how quite a bit of time elapses between each episode, barring the interconnected ones), obviously their identities are still safe and Umika expressed that with the cutest wink ever. Kairi smirking/smiling in response made it better for me haha

Kairi’s smile when Umika delivered comeuppance on Sakuya on her own dfdkdjdjd - I would’ve made a GIF of it but the file I downloaded for this special was too large to compress on a GIF-making site, so I had to compromise by trying to take dozens of screenshots. In the end, I settled on getting four screenshots of that smile and they’re all so nice

I never noticed that Kairi wears a ring on his right pinkie - maybe it was an accessory for that outfit only? Either way, I like it!

Canonically Kairi/Umika have had interactions from the teasing (though Kairi doesn’t tease Umika as much as he used to nowadays) to being goofy friends (episode 16 was so hilarious) to Kairi being soft on her, and their chemistry is so nice too - I just need more moments like this??? Especially ones where Kairi isn’t being a troll to Umika because 1) I’m a shipper and 2) it shows that in spite of what Kairi may think of himself, he is a nice guy like Umika’s dad thinks. Guess after I write a couple more C&C things, I’ll be writing drabbles/fics inspired by meta photos of Asahi Itou and Haruka Kudo