Once again Mia found herself in her bed, wasting no time she swung her body off the side and landed on the floor, where she wobbled in place, losing her balance “W-woah.” She balanced herself with her arms, but even as she steadied herself, she felt her whole body was just…off.
Everything felt stiff and slow, she couldn’t move like she wanted, it was like her whole body could no longer keep up. And a quick check of her status revealed why, everything was gone.
“Ah, right…” she was right back to level one, and while she kept skill levels and bonus stat points, everything had reset to her base, leaving her with not much to work with.
[What are you even doing, Mia?]
“Going to call my aunt an idiot.” She declared, before feeling the full effects of the mind control slam into her, her motivation dropping “right, forgot about this…” she slapped the sides of her face, trying to shake it off.
[Uh-huh, why?]
Mia did a few stretches, pointing what she could into dex to make this go a bit smoother. “Because, if she’s like that cause she thinks she can’t evolve when the title says we can, then she’s an idiot.” She raised both her arms into the air, happily noticing the difference “or if she knows she can I want to know why we are different, and everyone thinks we can’t.”
[Ok, so you are going to march up there and ask her, when you don’t even know how to.]
“Oh no, I’m not, I know of one way that works.” Mia said, recalling the first trip “I just need that dress.” She walked over to the door, pausing as she noticed her mist was lighter, less cold, it was barely noticeable ‘effects of less int?’ she shrugged, wasn’t important. She gripped the handle and made her way to her mother’s room, stopping at the door.
[Can you, do it?]
She took a deep breath. She already had to face one of her family members today, and she didn’t want one of them to be her mother.
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She cracked the door open, peering inside, thankfully her mother was still asleep. She snuck to the wardrobe ‘remember where she put it?’
[Right, it’s…there.]
After digging through the wardrobe with Ami’s guidance, she found the outfit and some ribbon then quickly dashed out of the room. ‘ok, next.’ She put the outfit on, not knowing the importance of it but she couldn’t deny it was in some way “now…” she exited her house, hit with a wave of nostalgia upon seeing her home.
[Keep going.]
“R-right.” She dashed through the village, keeping as hidden as she could, making it to the chief’s house and hiding behind it. ‘Do I need to get the chief to do anything? Or can I just go up?’ She looked towards the unguarded path ‘last time they sent me with a letter…’
[Just save to slot 3 and go from there.]
She nodded, saving to slot 3, glad she had that extra. She then went into the forest path, heading up to the shrine.
The last few times she had tried this without the dress she was always sent back to the village by an unknown force, and getting the villager’s help to get to the shrine always took too long and caused an uproar. She hoped this was enough, if it wasn’t then… she’d have to go the long way.
She walked, and walked, and walked, noting that she had strangely been walking for a long time. She glanced around at the foggy scenery “getting further than last time…” she noted. She looked back ahead and leaped back “What is THAT?!” in front of her, cutting off her path was a head sized floating eyeball.
Mia made a pair of ice daggers, ready to defend herself but stopped, the eyeball was just floating,
“…” It just stared at her, no matter how long she waited, or what she did. “H-hello?”
“You may pass.”
“What?” Mia then watched as the eyeball shrunk into nothingness. “…ok?” she looked around, she did not remember that the last time she was here… putting the two daggers into her item box, she continued up the path.
It didn’t take much longer till she was entered the familiar clearing “made it!” she cheered, now she just had to get to her aunt and…
“Oh, that is in bad taste…”
She directed her attention to the shrine, seeing the familiar figure of her aunt hanging over the shrine’s doorway, already with a bottle in hand. “Maria…” now all she had to do was get her answers an-
“Really bad taste… Too early for this.” Maria raised a finger towards Mia, and in an instant Mia erupted in flames, not having any room to react as she was reduced to ash.
Mia loaded, back behind the chief’s house “…” she gently tapped herself over, making sure everything was still there, once everything was confirmed her legs gave out, plopping to dirty ground. She raised her hands to her face, staring at them as they shook “W-why?!” she hugged herself, that felt, way worse than drowning.