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As the massive form of Moebius X dissolved into a storm of purple particles, Mio’s rage and adrenaline faded away into exhaustion and pain, Lots and lots of pain. X’s scythe had cut deep into Mio’s sides and the only reason she didn’t have a deep gash in her stomach was her blade outfit being more armored than she had thought.
She didn’t remember when she summoned her blade outfit but It’s a good thing it was more covering than her mum’s, as even with it Mio could tell she was bleeding pretty bad, it was significantly worse than that time Miyabi got attacked by a quadwing.
Ino stood some distance off to her left, and was saying something Mio just couldn’t seem to hear, come to think of it she felt kind of… lopsided.
Furthermore, her head hurt, a lot, in multiple ways. She had a pulsing headache from the revelation of her sister’s (hopefully temporary) death, as well as the exhaustion of the super cancer trick she had just pulled. But her focus was on the trickle of blood that had passed her left eye, and the searing pain atop her head. Mio reaches for the source of the blood, and
Her left ear is gone, with a grievous wound in it’s place, when her hand touches the wound, she whimpers in pain.
Mio focused, trying to use ether to heal , but there was no ether left in range, and the backlash made her vision fuzzy with exhaustion
The thought raced through her mind: “I guess this is the end, It’s up to Ouroboros now…”
She remembered the origin shard she was there to get and tried to stagger over to it, but the blood loss and ether depletion got to her
The last thing that went through her mind before she collapsed was how much she just wanted to go home.
when Mio came to, she was in an unfamiliar, yet very comfy bed, and wearing, not her blade outfit but some sort of pajamas,
She felt her head, and sure enough there was bandage around it, as well, with her right ear poking out the top of it
She opened her eyes, and saw her mother Nia, in the process of using ether to heal her wounds
Mio stammers “Mum, W-what happened, wh-where am I?, Did I die?, it hurt so much…”
“We’re still in Aionios, Just take it easy Mimi, you’ll just tire yourself out more if you try to get up”
Mio whimpers “M-my ear, is it gone forever?”
Nia pulls her exhausted daughter into a hug and whispers “It’s scarred over, so I couldn’t heal it, but when Origin resets, you’ll get your ear back.”
Nia notices Mio’s eyes growing heavy, and tucks the little kit into her mound of blankets so she can fall asleep.