User blog comment:Godisme/The Lost 3/@comment-5441712-20111227005136/@comment-5441712-20111227041959

I don't think she lost her power, I think she lost the boots themselves, as in they were destroyed or too damageable for use (I dunno if those were her boots she was wearing, so, technically, she lost the object she was attached to. Better than, than, oh, say, your mind -looks at Giriko-). And I think he died at the end too, because Hime doesn't remember him at all.