Maria notices his troubled expression. "Don't worry, Hiroshi," she tells him. "Mr Policeman doesn't think Maria did anything. And he doesn't know about Space Witch Venus. Venus said we'd have to keep her a secret, just like how Hiroshi's the Earth Prince and Maya-oneesan's the Moon Princess."

She takes out the cup ramen from her shopping bag and pours hot water from the thermos in her backpack into it, before bringing it to him.

"Once you've both woken up to your past lives you can get married," she adds.