Judging from the scene depicted in the painting within a painting, Mebius is indeed a very gentle and approachable older sister when she is with Gretchen.
However, despite Mebius's perpetually youthful appearance, Gretchen always referred to her as "Auntie" because of her working relationship with Blanca.
In particular, every time Mebius corrected Gretchen, Blanca seemed to secretly teach Gretchen to continue using the term "Auntie".
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Mebius and Mei, encased in the light screen, quietly observed the painting within a painting. Even after the past of Mebius and Gretchen's mother was exposed, nothing terrible happened, and they slowly relaxed their guard...
"It seems this light screen was only there to clear your name..."
Mei thought that Mebius, who looked fierce at the light screen, probably misunderstood it. Then, watching the interaction between Mebius and Blanca in the painting within a painting, she felt that she had rarely seen a human-like side of Mebius.
"You've been really good to Gretchen and the Blanca family."
"Hmph, of course. As my former assistants, they even introduced Klein to me, so of course I won't mistreat them."
"But little Greta hadn't had the surgery yet at that time?"
While Mebius was smugly humming, Mei, the straight woman, once again brought up a heavy topic.
In the painting within a painting, the four-year-old Gretchen still hasn't become a super-transformer warrior.
However, Gretchen in the Golden Garden was only a twelve-year-old child.
That is to say...
"It's a pity that life is unpredictable. A disaster took away little Gretsch's parents, and Gretsch herself was seriously injured and on the verge of death."
Faced with Mei's question, Möbius remained silent for a moment before bringing up that painful past:
"The super-transformation surgery is the only chance for Gretsch to survive."
"Compared to other warriors who had the choice to accept or flee, five-year-old Gretchen had no way out; she had to join this gamble."
Fortunately, I won my bet.
Although Möbius spoke casually, as if recounting a trivial past, the memory was shocking and unsettling.
After all, it was a five-year-old child who lost his parents in the collapse and then had to undergo a life-or-death surgery...
Just hearing about it is heartbreaking, let alone Möbius, who was on good terms with the Blanca family at the time.
It's unimaginable how sad and heartbroken Mebius must have been when he performed the super-transformation surgery on Gretchen.
However, Mebius's face remained expressionless, as if he only cherished the fact that "Gresh is alive" now.
"Now the result is that Gretchen succeeded, and the paintbrush gained power as a result."
That's enough.
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Outside the light screen, everyone at St. Freya Academy fell silent as they watched the reason why Gretsch became a super-transformer warrior revealed in the painting within a painting.
This is the cruelty of the Honkai; even a child as young as Gretchen cannot escape it. She lost her parents at the age of five and had to undergo super-transformation surgery to survive...
This explains why Mebius, who seems so cruel and dangerous, was so tolerant of Gretchen, and why he didn't do anything substantial even when Gretchen was called "auntie."
If it were anyone else calling her "Aunt Möbius," Möbius would probably have exposed them long ago.
But what was unexpected was...
Mebius, lost amidst the calls of "Auntie"
A world has been born where only Möbius is called "Auntie".
The scene of Mei and Möbius talking on the light screen, along with the painting within a painting, disappeared, replaced by an image of little Gretchen sitting barefoot like a duck in front of a drawing board.
The light screen seemed to have edited together every scene of this adorable little girl calling out "Aunt Möbius," and thus it could be seen on the screen—
That adorable, innocent-looking little girl with blue hair, her delicate pink lips uttering shocking and incredibly hurtful words:
"Hello, Aunt Möbius; goodbye, Aunt Möbius."
"Aunt Mebius gave me lots of delicious food."
"It's Aunt Möbius, who rarely leaves her home~"
"Aunt Möbius..."
Admittedly, there are some very heartwarming moments in Gretchen's interactions with Aunt Möbius, such as Gretchen genuinely remembering that Möbius had given her a lot of candy...
Of course, there are also things that are just ridiculous. For example, in Gretchen's memory, Aunt Mebius is portrayed as a reclusive woman who never leaves her house, just like Aponia's mother who appeared before.
Among the countless Aunt Möbius, there was even a woman from St. Freya Academy who was not familiar to everyone, but seemed to be Möbius's colleague and also knew Aunt Möbius—
"How can you blame me? You clearly didn't tell me that!"
The woman in the picture, with short, dark brown hair and covered in technological inventions, who seems to have cat ears but is actually just hair upon closer inspection, appears to be arguing with Möbius on the beach.
During the argument, the older woman, who clearly resembled the mature Mebius, insisted on shouting at the petite, loli-like Mebius—
"Auntie Mebius"
Those deliberately drawn-out syllables were clearly meant to annoy Aunt Mebius!
After another scene change, the screen displays a conversation between Sakura and Möbius.
"Gresh...she just called me 'sister' again."
"Such a cute little girl, every time she calls me 'sister,' it reminds me of my own sister..."
Sakura clenched her fists as she mentioned her younger sister. Although the topic was very heavy, Mebius, standing in front of her, fell silent for a different reason.
Am I the only one who gets called "Auntie"?
From Mebius's silence, one could even sense a hint of existential doubt!
It's hard to imagine that this is the voice of the terrifying Mebius, the pinnacle of human intelligence!
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In the Golden Garden, when everyone witnessed the re-revealing of little Gretchen's past, they fell silent or clenched their fists.
Because the heroes' fight against the Honkai always ends in utter defeat, which can hardly be called a victory, it leads to situations where even young children like Gretsch get caught up in the Honkai.
Although in the end Gretchen survived and even saw her grown-up self in the light screen, which brought everyone great comfort...
But the humiliation of failing to protect what they cherished remained etched in the hearts of these heroes.
Then, Gretchen's adorable cries of "Aunt Mebius!" from the light screen broke the almost frozen silence.
Watching Gretchen on the screen constantly calling out "Aunt Möbius," and seeing Möbius beside them, her face twitching with anger and unable to maintain her usual mischievous smile, everyone wore self-deprecating yet incredibly cherished smiles.
It was as if I had been redeemed by Gretchen's repeated calls of "Auntie".
At least Gretchen survived into the future, at least she grew up...
Everyone's gaze, filled with vows to cherish this rare opportunity for Gretchen, fell upon Gretchen, who still looked utterly bewildered.
The adorable little girl didn't understand what was happening, but on her drawing board...
A beautiful yet dangerous older sister with long, serpentine green hair revealed the gentlest and warmest smile.
Beside Mebius stood Blanca, the mother who gave Greta her beautiful face; her face also radiated the happiness and pride of showing off her child.
The older sister and mother's warm, happy gazes were focused on the innocent little girl Blanca was holding in her arms.
This is the bond between Möbius and Blanca, a testament to the deep friendship between their two families.
Because Gretchen was just a child, her memories of her Aunt Mebius were fragmented and the rest were forgotten. Gretchen could only recall these past events with the help of the light screen...
And, in order to prevent this precious memory from being forgotten, Gretchen's paintbrush moved involuntarily.
She didn't understand why she felt this way, but she had only one thought in her mind: to preserve this painting, a painting she would treasure...
Greta's big, innocent eyes even welled up with tears. Lost in her bewildered, confused state, the little pearl snapped and slipped from its string—
"Oh, little Gretchen, Mébius really likes this painting!"
Before Gretchen's little pearl fell to the ground, Möbius, without her noticing, approached her and gently wiped away her tears.
She smiled and pinched Gretchen's cute cheek, stopping the bewildered Gretchen from crying.
On Möbius's face appeared a gentle smile, just like the one on the canvas.
Seeing Möbius being so unusually gentle, everyone's expressions softened as well.
How could this heartwarming scene of the older sister and younger sister getting along so harmoniously not touch one's heart?
However, light screens are the worst thing ever.
Or rather, this thing was created for persecution.
Just as the friendly atmosphere between Möbius and Gretchen was heating up, this thing suddenly reappeared before everyone.
On the screen, Gretchen addressed Möbius by the same name as always, a name that had practically become so familiar to Möbius that it made his eyes twitch.
However, this time, another person's name came out of Gretchen's mouth in the light screen.
Only that person, only that person's address was different, which especially enraged Mebius!
Within the light screen, little Gretchen seemed to see Mebius and Alicia appear together. After making a few small sounds, she very politely called out:
"Aunt Mebius... and little sister Alicia."
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Just moments ago, Möbius's expression was incredibly gentle, as if she had transformed into a kind older sister next door, but suddenly her smile froze on her face.
"...?"
This time, Möbius truly showed an expression of existential doubt, as if he were discovering for the first time that he was actually deaf, or that he was actually mentally ill.
Otherwise, how could Mebius have heard Gretsch utter the shocking words "Alicia, my sister"?
Möbius stiffly rubbed his ears to make sure his hearing was fine, then mentally reviewed some advanced scientific theories to make sure his brain was working properly.
Then, Möbius looked at Gretchen with an expression of utter disgust, as if he had swallowed a fly:
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