When I woke again, I was lying on a soft, unfamiliar bed. I was still wearing my combat suit, yet a blanket had been placed over its temperature-regulating surface?
"Awake?"
Miss Terra sat on the sofa beside the bed, sighing.
"Next time, don't charge in recklessly."
"Mm, where am I?" I asked.
My head hurt. It felt as though I'd been struck by a club.
Since it was a little hard to breathe, I retracted the helmet of my combat suit and inhaled air properly for the first time in a while.
"A guest room in the Lunar Palace. Mi Xue cleared out a private room for you that isn't contaminated by darkness. She also told you to leave as soon as you woke up. Anyone can come here except you..."
I cut her off.
"Wait, Mi Xue? Where is she?"
"Uh, she didn't come to see you..."
Terra seemed somewhat evasive.
"Then I need to see her. Don't forget why I came here in the first place."
Not only had I failed to teach Mi Xue a lesson, I'd collapsed first.
Good thing that girl hadn't planned to kill me...
Terra sighed as well. "You really never learn your lesson."
"I've come this far. How could I just give up? You know why I came here, and you know how important Ceruno is to me."
"You two shouldn't meet directly. Let me go ask her for you."
"Fine..." The imbalance between light and darkness was troublesome. Without Ceruno's support, the Radiance I possessed was far too limited in scale to contend with the Great Will's darkness.
"Then I'll be right back."
Terra rose as she spoke and left the bedroom, finally giving me a chance to look around.
The guest room wasn't very large, but its decorations were as