It’s a damn shame, it’s very surprising given how hard she was pushing back against the narrative that being older she had a shorter career life expectancy.

I can’t help but assume this wasn’t a known intention behind the scenes when they had a new entrance music made for Free WiFi and gave them the belts (which they were ostensibly supposed to win from MagiRabi if Yuka had been healthy), and I really wonder how much whatever is going on with Noa impacted this.

Either way, the Hikari Noa tag partner curse persists.