Rita opens her mouth to protest Yuya claiming he can carry her back (she seems to recall messing up his shoulder pretty badly when she was a beast...), but suddenly there's a giant pink lion coming out of nowhere, and that shuts her up.

At first, she just stares between Steven and the lion... then, seemingly deciding there's no point in arguing with the absurdity of her observable reality, she shifts around, trying to get Yuya's jacket properly on herself. It's tricky, with a mostly-immobile arm and her wings getting in the way, but in the end, it's technically covering her, and that's all she can really ask for.

When she's done, she reaches to Yuya with a nod, apparently consenting to this plan and asking to be helped up.