(Ceruno)
Mi Xue still vanished from the crook of my arm.
To be precise, she used the Morning Star Crystal's magic to instantly rewind herself to the time before she absorbed Mom and Dad. But Black Rabbit's soul had already been released, so it was effectively an exchange of her own existence for the Proxy...
The process was completed in an instant, at least from our perspective.
Miluno called it "suicide," but Mi Xue had been all smiles right up until she did it. She hadn't looked at all like someone who would do such a thing.
"She went through with it after all."
Miluno didn't seem surprised, only frustrated.
"I knew she'd act sooner or later, but I didn't expect her to be this impatient... It's my fault. I should have forced her to hand over the Morning Star Crystal... That girl was stubborn as hell."
Miluno looked deeply saddened. After all, half of her was Mi Xue's mother.
Her daughter's suicide couldn't possibly leave her unaffected.
"Don't panic. At least she left this behind. There's still a chance to undo it..."
I tried to comfort her.
For some reason, the Morning Star Crystal, the key to manipulating time, had fallen to the ground instead of going back into the past with Mi Xue.
"If she rewound herself, can't we just wind her forward again?"
Even after I said that, Miluno shook her head.
"The Morning Star Crystal's power doesn't include fast-forwarding into the future... The future is uncertain. Once you've rewound, there's no way to wind forward again."
As Miluno spoke, a lively radiance still flickered in her eyes, but her brows were tightly knitted.
Becoming the Great Will's dominant consciousness meant receiving all kinds of information and emotions constantly flooding in from around the world, then making