The momentary uselessness of her weapon combined with the boy's tactics lead to Aerona being encompassed by a full wave of the lad's mana. The only thing she could do, to help herself out in anyway was to make use of a certain defensive support skill known as Mana Skin. This would give her a bit of extra fortitude at the cost of expending a large sum of her mana to help her remain after the wave subsided. Even so, she'd be left quite exhausted, several ragged breaths escaped her as she looked at the lad across from her with something akin to disdain in her eyes. They narrowed for just a moment and then the orb she'd used as a weapon returned to her person. She held it in her right hand and stood, dusting herself off as if unfazed by anything that had taken place. 'These adventurers piss me off. All of them are just so damn high and mighty. I don't want to admit it, but he's definitely capable as a Royal Knight. Wherever he came from...' she thought. Aloud she had only one thing to say and it was directed not at Kou but at the girl acting as princess for the area. "Do what you want..." she said a scoff escaping her as her body turned invisible and she left without another word.
Miki watched this entire battle intensely taking note of the words and actions of Princess Aerona. 'Sou ka, she goes a little too hard as a tsundere. No wonder everyone was complaining about how hard it is to win her over...' Miki thought with amusement. Still, Madoka stood coming down from her throne and Miki followed atop her pillow, a Knight met her at the floor and handed her the Merchant's Pass Miki had asked for. And she prepared herself for something else, "Sou ka, that's almost a ringing endorsement from her. Congratulations..." offered the princess as she produced from within her own robes a Sigil of the Kingdom of Eonis. "Here, this marks you as a Royal Knight!" she said offering it to Kou. "It will give you the authority to act on your own good conscience within the Kingdom," she said with general authority. She was not worried about this sort of individual having such a thing. And knew that if he wanted at some point he could come back for an upgrade. Simply possessing the Sigil would do something strange for the lad, and it would be bound to his person once it took it. "Onee-san, this is your Merchant Pass. It will allow you to trade at market price across all the Kingdoms and enter regions without paying tolls. It will also get you into some really interesting places to gather materials... but... you probably both know that since you asked for this stuff, gomen...." the young woman apologized with her cheeks puffy. "Arigatou na..." Miki said in response to the lass before looking to Kou.
Miki reached over to accept her Merchant Pass and swing it casually around her finger while looking over Kou. "That was pretty cool. You took a bit of damage to make that happen though..." Miki said directly to Kou. She leaned across her Pillow with her other hand extended and drew a Rune that looked a bit like a stylized X across his chest, this was the rune, Gebo and once it settled it would offer the lad a gift, in particular it would give him reprieve from his wounds, healing them quickly in exchange for Miki's excess stamina. This would serve to revitalize him a bit, he'd retain his hunger under the circumstances. The only noticeable effect on Miki being a stifled yawn caused by the exhaustion of gifting her stamina to heal Kou.