Hermit Mio

Hermit Mio
Kanji	ハーミット・ミオ
Rōmaji	Hāmitto Mio
Alias	Mind of Edens (エデンズの心, Edenzu no Kokoro?)
Characteristics
Race	Machine
Gender	Female
Eye Color	Blue
Hair Color	Light Blue
Professional Status
Affiliation	Edens Zero
Previous Affiliation	Müller Royal Laboratories
Occupation	Hacker Programmer
Team	Crew of Edens Demon King's Four Shining Stars
Base of Operations	Edens Zero Granbell (Formerly) Newton (Formerly)
Personal Status
Status	Alive (Universes 2, 3 and 0) Inactive (Universe 1)
Relatives	Ziggy (Creator)
Likes	Clothes, video games
Dislikes	Humans... but not anymore.
Abilities
Abilities	Master Code Battle Dress Overdrive
First Appearance
Manga Debut	Chapter 19 (Mentioned) Chapter 29 (Actual)
Anime Debut	Episode 7 (Flashback) Episode 12 (Actual)
Voice Actors
Japanese	Kanon Takao
English	Xanthe Huynh

“	I can be kind because I do know pain. That is the way of my heart.	”
—Hermit Mio, Chapter 89

Hermit Mio (ハーミット・ミオ, Hāmitto Mio^?), better known as the "Mind of Edens", is an android and a member of the Edens Zero Crew, being one of the Four Shining Stars.

Appearance

In Hermit's deleted memories, she lacked the bodysuit and headband, and wore a sailor girl school uniform.

Hermit is a female android with the appearance of a short and petite young woman with blue eyes, long light-blue hair that fades into cyan halfway down tied in pigtails, and has two short, red-colored stripes on her cheeks.

When found on Iron Hill, she wore a white bodysuit with dark-blue armor pads, violet sleeves and legs, and a mechanical headband.

While in Digitalis, Hermit is seen wearing a sleeveless black dress shirt with a fur collar and a ribbon, a pair of light-colored sleeves, a white skirt, and dress shoes.

Hermit's Full Appearance

Hermit in her Battle Dress

Hermit's Anime Appearance

Hermit's Battle Dress in the Anime

Personality

During her time under Ziggy, Hermit was shown to be a very happy and cheery android, who according to Witch always had a great smile. She had love for humans and dreamed of helping the human race as well as becoming friends with humans. She was also shown to be quite naive in nature and that ignorance was soon taken advantage of by Professor Müller for his plans for Project C7 and for him and his lab to experiment on her for two years.

After being tortured and taken advantage of, Hermit began to show signs of depression as she secluded herself on Iron Hill and logged onto Digitalis where she also secluded herself. Also because of this, Hermit developed a bias to humans and androids who serve under humans, even going as far as to believe humans have no heart.

However, despite her bias, Hermit was willing to overlook it and help Shiki and his friends defeat Spider when facing against him in Digitalis. When returned to the Edens Zero, Hermit locked herself into the Dress Factory where she refused to help save the Edens Zero from being hacked by Spider. After talking with Shiki and his friends, Hermit managed to easily defeat Spider and returned to her original personality. However, not as naive as before.

Hermit is shown to be quite intelligent as she is able to perform complex mathematical formulas, she was able to easily hack into Weisz's account and cheat in Digitalis, and hack Spider who is known to be one of the best hackers out there.

She is also shown to be a bit mischievous as she told Spider he was in range of the Edens Zero's guns and scared him to the point of wetting himself, only for the trigger to be for the fireworks function on the Edens Zero.

According to Pino's analysis, she loves fashion and has a tsundere personality.

Synopsis

History

Hermit meets Muller

She was created by the former Demon King on Planet Granbell to serve as a member of the Demon King's Four Shining Stars. After Ziggy's retirement, Hermit wanted to help him raise Shiki on Granbell, but left to the planet Newton where she was helping the scientists create an ether-powered weapon. However, once she helped complete it, they revealed their true colors and used it to destroy a planet Hook filled with robots much to her horror.

Hermit being tortured by Müller

Hermit was taken captive by Müller who tortured and experimented on her for his own sadistic amusement until she was rescued by the Interstellar Union Army who raided the Müller Royal Laboratories to arrest the psychopathic scientist and his cohorts for planetary genocide and several illegal activities they've committed. Despite that, the damage has been done for Hermit saw the negative side of humanity and lost faith in Ziggy's ideals.

At some time after this, she secluded herself from the rest of the cosmos by leaving her body at Iron Hill and logging onto Digitalis where she then secluded herself from the Players and the NPCs by sitting on top of a cliff.

Universe 0

Hermit was researching Ether Accelerators, because she never met Müller her days were peaceful, eventually she finished her research and aided the planet Hook. After this, with nothing else to do she went to Iron Hill and dived into Rogue Fantasia.

Sun Jewel arc

Witch states that there are some powerful radar waves coming from Sun Jewel but Hermit confidently reassures the crew that no radar will ever find the Edens Zero.

Hermit gives Weisz the Arsenal Suit to draw out the full potential of his Ether Gear and bring everyone safely back from Sun Jewel.

Belial Gore arc

World No. 30

Hermit stopping Fie from firing his sniper rifle

After the Edens Zero landed inside Belial Gore where the Element 4 are confronting the intruders, Hermit and her fellow Four Shining Star leave the ship to face the Element 4 themselves.

When Fie attempted to shoot down the Aqua Wing from the sky with his sniper rifle but Hermit interferes and disables his weapon into pieces with Autonomic Break-Down Program in the process, angering Fie. Daichi tries to attack Hermit but Sister punched him in the face mid-air, protecting her.

Then Hermit and her fellow Four Shining Stars changed their forms with Battle Dresses and are ready to go all out against Drakken Joe's special forces.

Facing Fie as her opponent, Hermit hacked one of Belial Gore's drones with her Master Code to attack Fie who is forced to dodge from its barrage. After Fie dodged the attacks from Hermit's hacked drone, Hermit is surprised to see Fie activate his fire-themed Ether Gear as he explained that machines are weak against heat and intends to burn her out of existence. Hermit dodged Fie's fire attack but lost control of her hacked drone and camouflage device. She is shocked to see Fie take control of the drone and attack her with it, forcing her to block them with her arms. Hermit got hit on the head by Fie throwing the drone at her, mocking her if she can feel pain before she realized he escaped through the vent.

Hermit searches for Fie's location and found him at the armory just in time when Fie fired his new sniper rifle at her. She dodges the Flame Bullet with Ballistic Simulator and Aerial Move. Hermit then used Prison Matrix on the building where Fie is inside and took control of all of his weapons that are hooked up to the network. She explains via holographic avatar to a shocked Fie that his body temperature is much higher than normal humans and that every modern machine is equipped with heat sensors and thermal imaging.

With a finishing move, Hermit tells Fie that he has no hope of ever making it as a sniper and unleashed Guns Harvest upon him. She reassures Fie in his defeat that she gave all of the bullets an Ether coating to be non-lethal. Outside the building, Hermit states she can be kind because she does know pain for that is the way of her heart.

Red Cave arc

After some of the Mother Ether from the temple turned Shiki's Aquatic Adaptation Lacrima into a compass to find other relics to lead them to Mother, Hermit and the others return to the ship and leave Red Cave.

Foresta arc

At the meeting room of the Edens Zero, Hermit finds the Aquatic Adaptation Lacrima containing Mother's Ether fascinating upon examining it with Sister and Mosco. She listens to the crew's plan to find another Relic and absorb more of its Ether that will guide them to Mother. After Laguna, Jinn and Kleene have left the room, Hermit asks Witch about their presence inside the ship, which Witch states that she have limited their guest access so it will be fine.

When Shiki discusses the Demon King title shared between him and his adoptive grandfather who turned evil, Hermit states that Ziggy isn't the Demon King anymore.

Arriving at Foresta, Hermit analyzed the Edens Zero log and learned that the Edens Zero previously under Ziggy did visit the Verdant Planet 15 years ago. While agreeing with Homura that there must be another Relic on Foresta, she also found another curious term: Xenolith who was the master of the Magimech Arts and the original founder of the Ether Gear, Satan Gravity and Foresta was his home planet. Then Hermit bluntly reveals to Shiki who wants to make friends with Xenolith that the said individual died a thousand years ago.

Powers and Abilities

Master Code (マスターコード Masutā Kōdo): As the Mind of Edens, Hermit has shown herself to be a skilled programmer, using other people's accounts to easily create and edit cheats inside Digitalis. Her hacking skills are sufficient to remotely take control of any nearby machines that are connected to a computer network.

• Autonomic Break-Down Program (自律崩壊プログラム Jiritsu Hōkai Puroguram): Hermit runs a program that causes machinery such as weapons to disassemble into their base components.
• Ballistic Simulator (弾道予測シミュレーター Dandō Yosoku Shimyurētā): Hermit runs a simulation program to detect and anticipate a firearm's ballistic trajectory.
• Aerial Move (エアリアルムーブ Eariaru Mūbu): Hermit increases her reflexes and leaps into the air, allowing her to dodge bullets.
• Prison Matrix (プリズンマトリックス Purizun Matorikkusu): Hermit hacks into an area's computer system and generates a force field around it, preventing anyone inside from escaping.
• Guns Harvest (ガンズハーベスト Ganzu Hābesuto): After hacking into an armory of firearms connected to a computer network, Hermit manipulates their physical position to aim at her target and guns them down, adding Ether coating to the bullets to make them non-lethal.

Battle Dress (バトルドレス Batoru Doresu): As one of the Four Shining Stars, Hermit possesses the ability to requip into a different outfit designed for combat purposes.

• Unnamed Battle Dress: Hermit's signature Battle Dress which gives her a pair of cybernetic rabbit-like ears.

Overdrive (オーバードライブ Ōbādoraibu): Hermit was designed to access the power of Overdrive, like her counterpart Killer. When activated, Hermit's appearance changes drastically, gaining an older looking body, her hair becomes more voluminous and longer. A pair of wing-like protrusions appear on her upper arms and a pair of rabbit ear-like extensions from her headphones.

Machine Physiology: Being a robot, Hermit has no issues of breath or communicating in space or underwater. As with all modern androids, Hermit is equipped with heat sensors and thermal imaging allowing her to easily detect high temperatures in her surroundings.

• Longevity: As a machine, Hermit is resistant to aging and can live far longer than humans.
• Skin Customization: Hermit, along with the other members of the Four Shining Stars, can customize the appearance of her skin at will, allowing her to hide her mechanical seams to appear more human or give herself an instant tan.
• Antivirus Shield: Hermit is equipped with defenses that make her resistant to being infected with viruses.

Enhanced Speed: Hermit can move quickly; being able to rush at Fie and destroy his weapon before he could react, with the speed of her sudden arrival surprising Laguna and Daichi.

Enhanced Agility: Hermit can gracefully leap into the air and twist her body in order to dodge sniper rifle fire.

Battles & Events

Battles

Belial Gore arc Hermit Mio vs. Fie: Win

Manga Appearances

Guilst arc
15. Warship of the Demon King	Absent
16. Sister	Absent
17. The Collection	Absent
18. Wind Howls on the Highway	Absent
19. Geniuses at Coming Up with Fun Ideas	Mentioned
20. Planet Guilst	Absent
21. Soul Blade	Absent
22. The Great Naked Escape	Absent
23. Million Bullets	Absent
24. Sister Ivry	Absent
25. Take Aim	Absent
26. Two Sisters	Absent
27. The Great Guilst Escape	Absent
28. New Friends	Mentioned

Digitalis arc
29. Iron Hill	Debut
30. The Super Virtual Planet	Appears
31. The People of Digitalis	Fantasy
32. Mass Murderer Jamilov	Appears
33. The Girl on the Hill	Appears
34. Survive the Night	Appears
35. The Girl and the Monster	Appears
36. The G.I.A.	Appears
37. Great Kaiju Shiki	Appears
38. 22 Hits	Appears
39. Spider the Genius Hacker	Appears
40. Operation C7	Appears
41. Fireworks	Appears
42. Pino's Dream	Appears
43. Smells Like Money	Appears

Sun Jewel arc
49. Captain Connor	Appears
50. Madame Kurenai	Flashback
51. Stones	Absent
52. Kurenai's Gauntlet	Appears
53. Wibble Wobble Ruby Bobble	Absent
54. The Truth Is in the Cube	Absent
55. Black Rock	Absent
56. Reset	Absent
57. My Mother, the Machine	Absent
58. A Silent Reunion	Absent
59. I Know You Can Keep Pressing On	Absent
60. Until the Day it Turns to Strength	Absent
61. Enter Arsenal	Absent
62. The Legend of Me	Flashback
63. Taking Up the Torch	Absent
64. Leaper	Absent
65. The Swordswoman Incapacitated	Absent
66. Gravity's Gonna Crush You	Absent
67. Someone to Love	Absent
68. Valkyrie	Appears

Belial Gore arc
69. Rebecca's Nightmare	Appears
70. Belial Gore	Appears
71. The Steel Sorceress	Appears
72. The Element 4	Appears
73. Don't Shed a Tear	Absent
74. Weisz vs. Laguna	Appears
75. A Wind Blows Through the Sakura Cosmos	Appears
76. Rebecca vs. Sylph	Appears
77. The Winds that Bind	Appears
78. No.29	Absent
79. That Which Obstructs and That Which Steals	Absent
80. 60-Day Commemorative Coin	Absent
81. Intercession	Absent
82. Scolding	Absent
83. The Shot Heard Round the Underworld	Appears
84. A World Without Shiki	Absent
85. Our Future	Appears
86. EZ-Attack!!	Appears
87. 4 on 4	Appears
88. Eye of God	Appears
89. Hermit vs. Fie	Appears
90. Sister vs. Daichi	Absent
91. Homura vs. Sylph	Absent
92. The Sword of Edens	Appears
93. The Execution Site	Absent
94. Shiki vs. Drakken	Absent
95. Kris Rutherford	Appears
96. A Young Man's Memories	Appears
97. The Time Is Now	Appears
98. Advent of the Demon King	Appears
99. The Pendant	Appears

Edens One arc
100. Edens One	Appears
101. Singularity	Appears
102. Time to Say Goodbye	Appears
103. Clash of the Cosmos	Appears
104. The Woman They Called Pirate	Appears

Red Cave arc
105. Dragonfall	Appears
106. Prayer Council	Appears
107. A Planet Where Stars Fall Like Rain	Appears
108. Nadia, Love of My Life	Absent
109. Red Cave	Appears
110. A Robot in Love	Absent
111. The Sky of Days Long Past	Absent

Foresta arc
112. When You Live Life on a Ship	Appears
113. In the Doghouse	Appears
114. Glue	Appears
115. The Battle of Foresta	Appears
116. The Sky Sweeper	Absent
117. Shiki vs. Orc	Absent
118. Star Drain	Appears
119. Homura vs. Mora	Appears
120. Rebecca vs. Britney	Absent
121. Darling Little Piece of Junk	Appears
122. Titanic Victory	Appears
123. The Light of Justice	Appears
124. Kiss & Die	Absent
125. Heart of Gravity	Appears
126. The Doctor, Armed and Dangerous	Appears
127. The Doomsday System	Appears
128. What's Important	Appears
129. So We Can Smile Brighter	Appears
130. Oceans 6	Appears
131. VR-C	Appears
132. Chrono Witch	Appears
133. Following Ziggy's Path	Appears

Sandra arc
134. Judgment Day	Appears
135. Desert Oasis	Flashback
136. Goodwin	Appears
137. Empire Dice	Absent
138. Prelude to the Aoi War	Appears

Nero 66 arc
139. White Flash	Absent
140. Into Planet Nero 66	Appears
141. A World of Ash	Appears
142. Shiki vs. Shura	Appears
143. You Didn't Do Anything to Deserve This	Appears
144. Through the Looking Glass	Appears
145. Homura vs. Mirrani	Absent
146. Before We Part	Appears
147. Rage, Fear, and Grief	Appears
148. Eye of Horus	Absent
149. Powers Lost	Absent
150. Weisz vs. Nasseh	Absent
151. Handprints	Absent
152. Lost Card	Absent
153. The False Five	Absent
154. Skymech Ninjutsu	Absent
155. The Winds of Rutherford	Flashback
156. The Beast Lord	Fantasy
157. The Red String of Destiny	Appears
158. The Madness of a Man Who Knows No Love	Absent
159. The Strings of Unbreakable Bonds	Absent
160. Scattering in the Starry Aoi Sea	Absent
161. Life Continues to Fade	Absent
162. Ziggy vs. Nero	Absent
163. Wormhole	Absent
164. Downpour of the Black Heavens	Appears
165. Fork in the Road	Appears
166. I Love You	Appears
167. Proof in Our Hearts That She Lived	Appears
168. The Sea of Stars	Appears
169. Declaration	Appears

X495 arc
170. 3 Years Later	Appears
171. Wander in Space	Appears
172. Universe 3	Appears
173. Feather Alighting	Appears
174. Mind Getting Out of the Way?	Appears
175. The Man, the Captain	Appears
176. The Planet Dahlia	Appears
177. Holy Judgement	Appears
178. Rebecca and Labilia	Absent
179. Deadend Crow	Appears
180. Operation Planet Eater	Appears

Lendard arc
181. Prelude to the Kaede War	Appears
182. Warrior Maid 95	Appears
183. Le Lendard	Appears
184. Elsie vs. Ziggy	Absent
185. Corroded Arena	Appears
186. The Subdimension Program	Appears
187. Shiki vs. Wizard	Mentioned
188. One Tenth	Flashback
189. Rebecca vs. Clown	Absent
190. The Greatest Show from Hell	Absent
191. Zombie Nurses	Absent
192. Weisz vs. Killer	Absent
193. A Good Boy	Appears
194. The Ether of All Things	Appears
195. Fictitious Story	Appears
196. The Four Shining Stars Extinguished	Appears
197. Confidence	Absent
198. Nightmare	Appears
199. Saintfire Nox	Mentioned
200. Alternative	Absent
201. Melt	Appears
202. Unmasked	Appears
203. Ziggy	Appears
204. Point Zero	Absent
205. 3173	Appears
206. Traitor	Appears
207. To Shine	Appears
208. Dead End	Appears
209. Renewed Time	Appears
210. The True Enemy	Appears
211. Tragedy	Appears
212. Möbius	Appears
213. If We Don't Have to Fight...	Appears
214. As One...	Absent
215. From the Depths of the Earth	Appears
216. Within the Fading Years	Appears
217. Father, Mother, and Daughter	Appears
218. Saintfire	Absent
219. The Final World	Appears
220. Etherion	Appears

Edens Zero Reunion arc
221. Back in the Sky Where Cherry Blossoms Dance	Absent
222. A Happy World	Absent
223. Memories and Abilities	Absent
224. The Planet Guilst (Universe Zero)	Absent
225. Moscoy Heaven	Absent
226. Sea God	Absent
227. Power and Strength	Absent
228. Gunner	Appears
229. Sniper	Absent
230. The Shape of Ether	Absent
231. What Makes a Hero	Appears
232. Sun Jewel (Universe Zero)	Appears
233. Sword Flash	Absent
234. Crimson Tears	Appears
235. Over Nu Etherion	Appears
236. 1 + 4 + 6	Appears
237. The Lost Planet	Absent
238. Encounter on the Sands	Absent
239. It's HIM!!	Absent
240. The Doctor's Deviant Disposition	Absent
241. Flight of the Valkyrie	Absent
242. Müller's Trap	Absent
243. Where Did That Cat Come From?	Absent
244. Iron Rain	Absent
245. Like the Deep Blue Sea	Absent
246. Reina and Hamrio	Appears
247. To the Field of Battle	Appears

Miltz arc
248. The Yukino Cosmos	Appears
249. Within the Stillness of Time	Absent
250. Joker	Appears
251. Escape from Planet Miltz	Absent
252. Game Start	Absent
253. Stage 1	Absent
254. Stage 2	Absent
255. An Unexplored Cosmos	Appears

Edens One War arc
256. From Eternity Long Past	Appears
257. Leonard	Appears
258. The Shape of a Planet	Absent
259. Storming the Edens One!!	Appears
260. Cosmo	Appears
261. Life / Death	Appears
262. Just One More Time	Absent
263. Luna	Absent
264. Override	Absent
265. Just Beyond This Point...	Absent
266. Soldier of Love	Absent
267. Mother and Child	Absent
268. Ziggy vs. Void	Absent
269. Swords Dance	Absent
270. The Hermit Special	Absent
271. Their Lives or the Future?	Absent
272. Mother...	Absent
273. Purification	Absent
274. Earth's Destruction	Absent
275. The Four Shining Stars Are Born	Absent
276. Shiki's Choice	Absent
278. B-Cubers	Absent
279. Super Ziggy	Absent
280. Wind Spear	Absent
281. Lady Freyja	Absent
282. The Flames of Homura	Absent
283. In the Belly of Time	Absent
284. Xenoflare	Absent
285. 0 vs. 1	Absent
286. Chrono Children	Absent
287. 1072 Joules	Appears
288. If We Could Be Friends	Appears
289. Re-creation	Appears
290. The Girl Who Ate Through Time	Appears
291. My Role	Appears
292. Friendship Never Ends	Appears
293. Friends	Appears

Trivia

Attack	☆☆
Defence	☆☆
Marksmanship	☆☆☆☆
Ether Power	☆☆☆
Intelligence	☆☆☆☆☆
Tsundere	☆☆☆☆

• According to E.M. Pino's Analysis, Hermit's stats are:
• Hermit's original name was "Hermit Milon" before being changed to "Hermit Mio", as Hiro Mashima realized that he had already used "Milon" as the name of a B-Cuber and announced he was officially changing Hermit's surname in the Volume 13 afterword.
• According to Hiro Mashima in a signing stream, Hermit's design was originally based on Wendy from Fairy Tail, but as soon he designed her, the inspiration and her role in the story changed.