Itsuka Kotori: What Plot Did I Miss? (Part 2)

The outstretched hand was slapped away.

The girl who had always been so gentle now showed rare, intense hostility in her eyes.

"No, I don't want to go with you!!!"

"Absolutely not!!"

Mio Takamiya: "..."

She stared blankly at the girl.

The girl seemed to reject her deeply.

No, rejection was no longer enough to describe it.

It was absolute hostility.

Should she be angry?

Mio Takamiya wondered.

She had done so much for her, yet the girl treated her like this.

But was everything she had done for her truly what the girl wanted?

Looking at that face, so strikingly similar to the one in her memories, she sighed inwardly.

She had never done what the girl wanted.

She had merely used her to make up for the regrets of the past.

"I'll go prepare the ritual."

"I'll leave convincing her to accept the power to you."

She looked at the wizard as she spoke.

Then, she vanished without a trace.

As though she had never existed at all.

With her departure, the black-and-white scenery that resembled another world completely shattered.

The pitch-black evil tree also retreated into the shadows.

Everything around them lost its supernatural appearance, returning to the appearance of Rattatoskr's operating room.

Itsori: "..."

She looked at the familiar surroundings in silence, her eyes slightly reddened.

The grieving Princess in the meteor crater, the Hermit hunted down in tears, the Nightmare who seemed to have gone mad and become a demon...

She had sworn to save those pitiful girls.

But now, it seemed as though everything had changed.

They were tragedies created by her mother, experimental materials in her mother's hands.

If nothing unexpected had happened...

Then the gift in her body that sealed spirit power had likely been designed by her as well.

She searched