Kumiko happened to notice Claudia's sad face and directed Mika to her girlfriend.
"Claudia, what's wrong?" Mika asked.
"What? Oh, nothing. Nothing's wrong, I'm fine." Claudia said trying to put on a happy exterior.
"Claudia, really, come on, I know you." Mika sighed.
Claudia took a long exhale and knew she couldn't keep a secret from Mika for very long.
"Alright, it's just....I'm glad you have your aunt now and I'm happy you'll be able to live with a relative, but I'm just going to miss having you living at the house with us." Claudia admitted.
Mika shook her head and smiled at Claudia and gently held her hands.
"I'm not far away, I'm still going to go to school with you, and we're still together." Mika said comforting Claudia as the two hugged and gave a little kiss.
Kellie then just had a thought as she and Katie stood near the door.
"Wait, Katie, if this place was once a retirement home, but is now an injury rehab clinic, doesn't that mean you could've also changed some people here too?" Kellie asked Katie.
"No, I don't think I did....did I?" Katie asked unsure.
"Uh, excuse us a moment, we have to go check on something. You three should probably catch up with each other first." Kellie said to Kumiko, Claudia, and Mika.
Katie and Kellie went out of the room to give the three some space to see that the ring's power had indeed spread to some degree across some of the former seniors and even some of the staff. The girls could recall as they came in many of the people they had seen before now changed.
One of the first people they had seen was a woman in her early fifties who had come in to check on her father who was 77. They now saw instead the woman was 32 while her father had become her 12 year-old son who came in due to a bicycle accident. An elderly couple in their mid eighties had been regressed back to newlyweds who had been involved in a minor car accident with no serious injuries. Just a few doors down from them, they had seen a father with his 10 year-old daughter visiting his elderly mother, but now the father had been regressed to 10 years-old as well becoming her brother and his elderly mother was now young again. A female doctor who was in her early 50s had speaking to a man who was 70 years-old but was now regressed to being an 18 year-old intern and the man had transformed into a 19 year-old high school student and the two seemed to be hitting it off pretty well. There were plenty more people changed, but there were far too many for the girls to keep track of.
"Um Katie, don't you think we should...?" Katie cut Kellie off before she could go any further.
"Kellie, honey, this is an Injury rehab clinic, there are bound to be younger people here as well as some older people." Katie said.
"Yes, but don't you think we should change these people back to...." Kellie was again interrupted by Katie.
"To being old and not getting a second chance at life?" Katie rhetorically asked.
"Okay, but we should probably tell Mika and Claudia."
"And ruin their happy moment with each other?" Katie asked raising an eyebrow.
"Okay, we'll keep this to ourselves but let's never mention it to the others." Kellie said.
"Agreed, this was really unintentional on my part anyway." Katie admitted to Kellie as they waited for Mika and Claudia to finish.