More LLS Hard. Next run has the same glitch happen.
The run after that, the glitch doesn't happen. I make it to Marisa with 6 spare lives. She kills me 3 times even though I normally kick her ass with one or two deaths at the most. Sure, I can use the fact that I had no bombs and the rank was probably high to excuse the first death, but the other 2 were just bad.
Stage 5 mostly went well, leaving me with one spare life for stage 6, so I'd have 2 spare lives for the final boss.
I die to the enemy that gives you a bomb in that stage when I still had bombs in stock, so I end up at Yuka with only one spare life. I'm extremely nervous so I panic bomb her first phase until I waste all the bombs. I lose my last life with bombs still in stock. Though I'm not sure how many more phases she had left.