If Rita stays, Yuya determines he's going to stay. He doesn't join her dramatic declaration, focusing on maintaining the shield--and then something hits it, hard, and it ripples into nothing as the resulting wind knocks them out of place, nut barely misses crushing them.

He lets out a cry of surprise and reaches for Rita as she reaches for him, latching firmly onto her arms with a tight grip to break her fall. "Rita! I've got you!"