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ED and Xion are still living together with ED still being a neet because Xion insist on taking care of her as if she was her trophy wife.

So Here the short version in spoiler if you don't want read all my wall of texts.

>! After her nata unit stopped working due to her being healty and telling HER she should get re education to regain the usage of her legs, she meet hild who saw that there was indeed nothing wrong with her body and the my be a psychological. !<

>!Hild made walking aid for ED (which is how she got her look) and then ED start taking her re-education. However, since her progression is so slow she get feed up and start having nightmare. !<

>!Turn out the reason she can't walk is because walking would mean giving up on nata. All hell break lose when her nata is taking away from inspection and she can't get it back. !<

>!She then decide to feel asleep and we get to see the full extend of her dream power as she distord reality into what s fit her (everyone getting close to the place she s sleeping is turned into nata unit). Not even xion could stop her.!<

>!At this point mute (nata) decided to show up and tell the true about how she has been reincarnated. After much talk about the nature of happiness and how accepting reality is important, ED finally decide to wake up from her dream , get on her 2 legs and accept that nata has been reincarnated in the form of the one who took nata away from her and she accept her as her best friend. THE END!<

The event begin with Xion coming back home earlier than usual due to the convenience store she s working at closing in the afternoon for restockage. Taking the rare moment of leisure to ask ED if she d like to go for a walk to enjoy her free time with her since its been a long time the two of them could be together like that.

ED gladly accepted, also wanting to spend quality time with the sister she admire which would have been great............... if it wasn't for one problem.

Her craddle stopped moving even though it was fine 1 minut ago .

Xion wonder if its because her Nata model is too old or because ED gained weight.

ED let out a flat WHAT as the suggestion for her even gaining weight and Xion apologize saying she shouldn't intrude the PRIVACY(she says that word in english like the cringelord she s ) saying she doesn't have to answer because the issue is her Nata model being montionless

ED is still offended by Xion saying she gained weight

Xion tease her a bit about it and finding the sigh of her little sis getting worked over something like that very amusing.

But soon the real answer show up. The A.I of the Nata model(oh boy,I pity people reading this without knowing what happened in season 2. Because yes, the current nata is just an A.I caretaker, not her friend that tragically died) says that ED is healthy and therefor does not need assistance from it and should go on a rehabilitation therapy including walking exercises instead.

The nata model shut off and ED exprim clear distress because of course she never experienced that and xion is also very confused at the nata stopping working just like that

Xion think rehabilitation would be a good thing after all because the nata model was so big that every time ED visited xion at the store, she had to enter from the warhouse and sometime she got stuck at the door frame and had to wait for xion to pull her out. And Xion always wanted to see ED walk.

Xion pushed the nata so ED wouldn't have to walk but of course its a challenge

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The sibling then share a nice bonding moment about remembering how xion always wanted to see ED walk, ed trying to walk in the past because xion encouraged but would fall constantly and how ed is still embarassed about her weight being brough up

They eventually make it to hild's hospital after asking ED to walking a few times, only for her to constantly fall, hild conclude that while there s no issue with her body, it seem being bedriden for so long made her forget how to walk so if she takes rehabilitation seriously, she ll be able to walk normally. She also tell her to leave her nata at the hospital

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ED is kinda nervous but hild tell her to stay positive. Xion says she ll do her best to support her but ED remind her she should focus on her job instead and also mentionning that she s also behind the schedule of her darknet novel.

Xion seems overjoyed that her sister care about her cringe hobby but ED deny it saying the master wanted a councelor on the darknet and ED just happen to take a few look at xion's activities and ED tell her to get out. Xion walk out and ask on the darknet asking if someone know about rehabilitation and look foward for a positive answer

The next day, xion came with epica, ui and aya to see ED walking with her new walking aid.

Epica boast about how the combined strenght of the sisters made it possible but xion quickly shut her down saying all she did was watching but epica insist that her cheerful song helped with the process only for Aya to confirm that all the sisters did nothing but watch hild do her job and saying that , and I quote "hot and sticky feeling from her could reach her sister". Xion get angry at aya for talking weird.

Aya seems clueless about what she means to the great despair of xion. Ed walk in and xion start being hyped about ED standing on two legs. ED almost fall and xion start treating her like a baby. The sisters said they would each take turn taking care of ED so that xion wouldn't have to bear all of the burden by herself

The first to help is aya and it didn't talk long for ED to tell her to shut up because she can't focus for OBVIOUS REASONS. But if you re curious, here what aya said "come closer to me so I can firmly support you, Everything is difficult the first time so leave everything to me and take it slowly"(and yes, she say it with the tone that make it so its hard to think she meant something else)

Anyway, next is epica(with Ui). She narrate ED s walking session as if it was a grand epic and ed decide to just let her talk

Ui is using her frog friend to support ED and everything seems to go well until she fall because the frog's skin is slippy. ED tell Ui to not worry because she s fine. After a while, ED want to give up

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Ui compare her to a worm that her frog love so much (confirming at least that Ui does not see insect as friends) and ED ask if she can't just crawl on the floor instead of walking. Her sisters tell her to not give up and improving slowly is normal and then leave.

Later xion finally got answers for the post she made earlier but ED doesn't want to hear anything that come from the darknet. Unfortunatly xion is too absorbed by the people's reply . ED yell at her telling xion that reading comment from people who were never in her situation can't help. Both sisters apologyze for being rude to each others after that.

Xion then lament that she isn't as good as her other sisters at conforting ED

The next day, ED think she s being a bother to her sisters because she can't walk properly. She then talk with hild about how she had nightmares lately. Ed wonder where her nata model is. Hild tell her it was taken for inspection. Ed is sad over the new trying to feel better by saying she planned to discard it anyway

Later ED has a nightmate about that time nata almost got destroyed by xion during their first encounter. Then she has another nightmare about that time nata sacrified itself to stop the monatium AI

ED wake up and want to get back her nata model because she has faith that NATA, her friend, may regain its memory one day

Ed manage to get to the front of the city hall but collapse, having a panic attack because she s exhaused due to not being used to walk so much.

She spend a long time crying and cursing how powerless she s at not being able to see her friend again

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Xion is in full panic mode because she can t find ED. Xion run into hild and ask for the whereabout of her sister

Xion find ED asleep in front of the city hall but when she try to wake her up, there was no answer.

The next day, aya tried to use her magic to wake her up, but it had no effect. Xion blame hild for it and hild aknowledge its her fault but xion is still very angry and lash at her. Aya get angry at xion for throwing such a tantrum and tell her to get out.

Ui propose that they get chloe to help walking up ED (since it was thanks to chloe slapping the shit out of her that she finally woke up) and aya agree especially now that xion isn't here to watch because having someone beating up her crippled unconcious sister is definitly not a good look.

Aya the call chloe (with her phone) and start asking for slapping advice. Chloe is offended and Aya said she heard it was so bad, both of ED's cheeks were bright red. (remember, when chloe did that, Aya was still in a berserk stats where her power acted on their own so of course she wouldn't have seen/remember by herself)

Chloe does not like how the way Aya talk imply that she love slapping her sisters. Chloe tell her to call later if ED still doesn't wake up and she ll try to help

ED wake up, in her dreamland and meet her inner-self telling her about how she shouldn't be harsh on herself for everything that happened and should not cling up to the past and should let go of nata's memory.

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Ed seems to not talk that last part kindly (as we here a glass-breaking sound after that)

Meanwhile, back in the real world, epica is standing next to ed and the whole building start shaking

Meanwhile again, xion is reflecting on her terrible attitude when she hear a lound noise. She head back to the hospital and sees this

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Yes, ED could no longer control her anger and unconciously turned hild and epika into NATAS while she was still alseep. Since ed's power only work when she s unconcious xion know the best solution is to shoot her so she d wake up from the pain but she can't bring herself to do and end up being attacked by the natas.

Xion then wake up in ed's dreamworld where she see ED defeated her inner-self by beating the shit out of her until she stop moving.

Epika and hild are here too and warn xion to not get closer because they can't control their body and she should find a way to wake up ED

ED wonder why those HALLUCINATIONS are talking about waking her up meaning she basically regressed to the time where she was still thinking everyone around her is merely a part of her dream

Ed then say she doesn't care if its a dream anymore, now that xion is here, they can be together forever

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As she talk about how she does not have to care about anything anymore the tone of her voice become more sinister and distorded

Xion then find herself to a wasteland and ed start showing her the first time she made contact with nata (aka outside of elias' border when nata was still looking for a purpose)

Cut out to another flashback this time to one of ED' skin global didn't get yet and she start talking the same cringy way than xion

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Xion wonder if the previous and this current space where both about the past ed went through and the future she wants

Xion tell ED to face reality but ED doesn't want to

A 3rd space forms, this time is a vision of the place nata sacrified itself to stop the monatium AI

ED become more and more delirious and is angry about her sister not accept her choice

Ed create a copy of mute to take her anger on. After all its because of this incarnation of the monatium AI that ED lost Nata. She then completly take over xion body and make her attack mute with her, epika and hild but they re defeated in 1 second. Ed try to erase her but it doesn't affect the dream mute who just keep walking to her without saying anything

Meanwhile in the real world, we get to see the concequences of ED's nightmare as people around the monatium hospital are turning into copy of natas and then we cut to mute, the real current that merged with nata from outside ed's dream wondering how she can fix this problem. Current mute then receive a call from monatium A.I mute (I ll do my best to point out who s who LMAO this is becoming confusing)

Monatium AI ask real mute to go see ED but mute says if she see her it may make her condition worse as she s in the form of the one she associate with nata's death.

After an intense debat about emotion, AI tell mute where to find Ed's nata unit and give her a choice. Help ED or do nothing and it ll destroy her herself. Mute strenght her resolve as nata and decide to save ED

Turns out the whole scene with the monatium AI was a flashback and the dream mute(nata) is the real one and she hit xion and others so they could wake up

Mute then admit to ED who still didn't know, that she s the fusion of both nata and the monatium AI. Ed take it VERY BADLY and is disgusted at the idea of her best friend and worse nightmare are one and the same. Ed attak mute and the space around them warp again.

This time, they re at the order's basement. ED admit she know everything is a dream but doesn't know how else to deal with her emotional pain and doesn't want to walk because walking would indeed mean that she has to forget about Nata

She then make it clear that she does not want to wake up

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Mute(nata) reflect on how if she didn't sacrifice herself to the monatium AI, they could have both been happy forever but didn't regret her choice because she decided to support ED to the very end by helping her face reality even if it hurt her.

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Nata doesn't give up and ask her why she says she doesn't want help if she s wearing her walking aid in her dream

ED then settle down and Mute start explained that the other mute is currently in the monatium AI and the mute she sees is the reincarnation of nata. But since she had an identity crisis, she couldn't bring herself to meet ed up to now

The two of them then share a sweet moment where ED try to tell Nata everything she has been up until now

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Nata, then tell ED that she should move foward on her own.

Ed accept reality and say goodbye to Nata (the robot) one last time. This nata has a quick flashback of all the time it was with ed and then smile before vanishing.

She then accept the new nata and call her as how she see her, mute. And accept that nata indeed became mute.

ED wake up and see her sisters (in the end chloe never came LMAO) and see mute quietly leaving, ED stand and then run after her, falling multiple times in the proccess. And then mute see her.

The event end with both of them exchanging a "good morning"