Half of Gilgamesh's body had already been blasted away. He stood in the void, panting heavily and drawing great ragged breaths.
As expected, the uncharged Flood Sword was no match for Ea. More importantly, there had been no time to charge it back then...
And as a king's pride dictated, even if Gilgamesh died, he would die standing.
He roared at Mio Takamiya:
"You won, woman! You may end this king now. The king grants you that right!"
Gilgamesh wore an expression of relief as he pointed his thumb at himself.
But Mio Takamiya paid no attention to his words. Instead, she was thinking of a way to salvage everything.
Mio Takamiya took out Kurumi Tokisaki's Zafkiel...
A massive clock appeared behind Mio Takamiya.
Gilgamesh, who possessed clairvoyance capable of seeing a thousand miles into the future, instantly understood what Mio Takamiya intended to do. He flew into a rage.
"Are you insulting me, woman?!!!!"
To Gilgamesh, being defeated yet not finished off was the greatest humiliation possible!
Mio Takamiya did not care about any of that. She had to make up for the losses...
Mio Takamiya used Zafkiel's Twelfth Bullet and fired it into her own temple.
The next instant!
Mio Takamiya directly turned time back to when she had first met Gilgamesh, just after Kurumi Tokisaki had left and before they had started fighting.
This was not like Kurumi Tokisaki sending her consciousness into the past.
This was time reversal in the truest sense.
In other words, time was being rewound.
Gilgamesh was just about to open countless gates containing Noble Phantasms and fire them at Mio Takamiya.
He was still sitting upon his royal throne, Vimana, propping his face up with one hand, his attitude incomparably arrogant. But he would not be arrogant for much longer...
Because