[Drifting in darkness, you faintly sense that you are moving.]
['Hmm? I didn't die? It hurts a bit.']
[Opening your eyes, you feel pain throughout your body as if it's breaking apart. It seems your body is crying out in agony… having reached some limit, you apparently didn't die this time.]
["You're awake?"]
[Noticing her 'prey' had awakened, the girl with an astonishingly divine countenance looked at you.]
["You are... a Spirit?"]
[Stunned by the girl's breathtaking beauty, you realize your injuries are severe, so severe that you are weaker than an ordinary person. It seems devouring the ley line energy capable of destroying the Earth has seriously wounded you, the still 'young' Earth King.]
["You're awake? But your body... I think you still need to sleep a bit more."]
[The girl with silver-white eyes, seeing you awake, indicated you needed to continue sleeping.]
["I..."]
[As intense drowsiness washed over you, you fell unconscious again.]
Two months later, Hebei City at the desert's edge, Upper District.
"Ryu, lunch is ready. It's omelet rice, your favorite today."
Silver hair so long it reached her ankles fluttered in the wind, and her starlike eyes sparkled brightly.
The girl, who exuded absolute beauty, said this and then brought the container holding the lunch to Ryuya.
Sighing at the girl's intensely delighted demeanor, Ryuya helplessly accepted the omelet rice, calling out the girl's name, "Mio, are you sure this is my favorite, and not yours?"
"It's my favorite, and it's Ryu's favorite too!"
Her smile, warm like a spring flower, spread across her face as the Spirit of Origin named Takami Mio spoke thus. (T/N: She's using Ryuya's Surname, Takami.)
"Yes, yes, what Mio likes most is what I like most."
[After sealing the Spacequake that threatened to annihilate Earth and sleeping for half a month, you finally awoke to find the silver-haired Spirit carrying you aimlessly forward. You realized this girl was the Spirit of Origin known as Takamiya Mio in the original work.]
[But in this world, she seemingly hadn't encountered Takamiya Shinji or Takamiya Mana. Starting a conversation with her, you discovered she seemed to have no concrete concept of the world itself.]
["My name? I don't know. I just know you should know me."]
["Hey, can you tell me who I am?"]
[Looking at you expectantly, the Spirit of Origin, born from the world yet never knowing her own meaning, said she sensed a familiar scent from you and wanted to understand her own identity.]
["You... you are a Spirit. To be precise, you are the representative born from the convergence of the spiritual energy of the entire Milky Way Galaxy."]
[As the Earth King, if you were Earth's representative, and Crimson Moon was the Moon's representative, then the Spirit girl before you was the representative of your entire star system.]
[Sensing the power of the entire galaxy within the Spirit, you found the Spirit of Origin's power far exceeded your imagination. If she wished, destroying the entire Earth would truly be the blink of an eye for her.]
["I'm the representative of the Milky Way? Then what should I do?"]
["Hmm... I think enjoying life is enough, isn't it?"]
["Then, will you take me to enjoy life?"]
[Holding your hand, the first thing the Spirit of Origin wanted was a name.]
["A name? Mio. Representing the beginning of all things, your name shall be Mio."]
["Mio? Not bad. I like this name."]
[Gladly accepting the name you bestowed, Mio then took your severely injured self to a city at the edge of the desert over the following days.]
[Her learning ability was incredibly strong. As expected of the galaxy's representative, she could master all the language systems on the entire planet in just one day. Moreover, she grasped knowledge in other areas just as quickly.]
[But contrary to her decided talent, while her intelligence was high, her emotional intelligence was very low. Her experience with interpersonal interactions and such was like a child's. In her eyes, you noticed a startling phenomenon.]
[Namely, Mio never regarded any other living being as her equal, except for you.]
[To give a simple example, in Mio's eyes, humans, animals, even the planet itself held the same significance as stones seen by the roadside. The life and death of all things meant nothing to her, and the only existence in her eyes was you.]
[Perhaps it was the innate arrogance of being a galactic representative, Mio could only see you, the Earth King. It seemed that in her life, you were the only one.]
[Under this premise, you lived together. You taught Mio about the human world and also showed her the goodness in humanity.]
["It's unnecessary, Ryu. In my view, having you is enough."]
[Shaking her head, Mio, who indicated she could understand humans but couldn't accept them, stubbornly believed that you were the meaning of her existence. Holding this attitude, the Spirit of Origin named Takami Mio was born.]
["What's wrong? Ryu, aren't you going to eat?"]
["I'll eat. If Mio made it, I'll eat it. Om nom!"]
[Smiling and ruffling Mio's hair, you gradually found yourself drawn to this innocent, lively girl during your life together. In her, you saw the beauty of all creation and the naive kindness named Mio. With the successful birth of the Spirit of Origin, you had completed the ultimate task of this life simulation.]
[That was the birth of the Spirit of Origin.]
[After finishing teaching Mio the basic common sense of the world, a countdown for the end of the life simulation appeared before you.]
[During this time, you had also tried to contact Westcott and the other three, but you found they seemed to have abandoned all previous phone numbers and such. Not knowing what your four disciples were doing, and due to the major changes in history, you weren't even sure if future elements like Itsuka Shido or DEM would be born.]
[Because of your physical injuries, with strength roughly equivalent to an ordinary person's, you couldn't sense Westcott and the others' locations. In contrast, while Mio had the power, she completely didn't understand who Westcott and the others were.]
[Unable to contact Westcott and the others, you finally wrote letters for them and told Mio that if she ever saw these four people, she should give them the letters you wrote.]
[After that, watching the Spirit of Origin who made omelet rice to eat every day, you knew it was because the first meal you made for Mio was omelet rice.]
[Although reluctant, as the mission completion countdown drew nearer, finally, on the last day before your departure, you called Mio over, preparing to tell her that you were leaving.]