"You saw what happened back then. That Clown's strike destroyed her energy core outright and damaged her internal structure as well. But if it were only physical damage, it wouldn't count as a truly fatal wound for a doll."
Madam Doll fell silent for a moment, looking at her daughter with dimmed eyes.
"But the devastating damage to her soul and will was what truly made it fatal. And the power that Clown used was extremely strange. A large part of her soul was almost annihilated on the spot. Although you... you used that strange rule on her, still..."
Her condition was terrible.
And very strange.
Lynn's eyes reflected the familiar doll girl suspended within the Magic Array.
He sensed the change in her condition. Her body, like that of a sleeping beauty, began to change little by little, as though repeating her death from over a month ago. The structure of her chest slowly faded away, revealing that horrifying hole once more. The material making up her body peeled away bit by bit, while only her face retained that faint trace of sorrow, like transparent crystal.
Slowly.
She returned once more to the appearance and condition she had been in when she was gravely wounded over a month ago.
The sight sent a fierce stab of pain through Lynn's heart.
But soon.
After her body cycled back to its condition at that point in time, it began to restore and heal itself again. The great hole in her chest closed little by little, and her body and clothing slowly returned to their original, undamaged state. In less than fifteen minutes, she had once again become that flawless doll.
Madam Doll looked at her daughter and said softly:
"This is the state she's been in every day, from a month