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Chapter 40: Hello Mother, how are you doing?
It seemed that most believed her to be the blonde girl that threw that soda can at Akira.
Even Akira thought the same...
Just because she was a blonde they all thought the blonde girl was her?
Talk about profiling someone.
Either way, she just returned the comments with the usual 'I will not confirm nor deny'.
The only one that got a worse treatment was a poor girl with a knight-themed hoodie, she was the same girl she had seen before.
Now she decided to not [Identify] them since she was still working on if her skill would bring the right information or not.
And so, she just greeted the poor girl that was being harassed by everyone.
"Hey, don't remember if we talked before but I'm Elizabeth." And so she presented herself.
For her part, the poor girl took the lifeline that Elizabeth was giving her and answered in kind.
"Yeah..." And took several extra seconds to continue talking. "I'm Chloe...Ashcroft..."
For her part, the blonde girl kept her kind smile and waited for further elaboration.
And waiting.
And waiting...
Since she didn't move from her spot the rest of the students that were pestering them started leaving the area.
Of course, Akira didn't read the room and came to say his part too. "I will not admit defeat, next time we will settle this...[Villain]." And left without saying a thing.
At least Rena was more...Normal.
"...I will find who you pose as and defeat you in the arena." And walked away.
At least she didn't though the poor girl was her [Shadow Empress] persona.
So that was a win for the poor girl.
"Sorry about them, don't mind them nor everyone else. They also think my powered suit is someone else only because I'm blonde, can you believe that?" Said the blonde girl trying to redirect the conversation.
The hooded knight girl just tried to hide in her hoodie. Oh right, she was also being mistaken for someone else...For her...
The blonde girl could only hope she didn't plan to be a [Hero] too much... Because she was probably going to be hounded by the students who wanted to be more...Vicious in their endeavors.
"Anyway...If they keep pestering you call me." Said the blonde girl while bringing her smartphone and getting her contact info into it.
"Here, we should swap numbers too." Added the blonde girl.
At this point, the knight-hoodied girl finally came from under her hoodie, and she could finally see why they insisted so much that she was her powered persona.
Not only had she black hair, but she also had red eyes...
The face was different, since she was on the cuter side, and her powered persona looked more... Vicious.
But still, talk about bad luck.
She...really had terrible luck, using the knight-themed hoodie with those looks?
Yeah, she would also think she was her powered persona.
But yeah...Overall, she was kinda cute.
Especially how she was all flustered searching for her phone, a black one with a [Shadow Pact] hard case...
The same one Mother & father didn't allow her to buy...
They were jealous of him and even started their own phone case stuff...
She still had a few of those in her room...Maybe she could see if Chloe would like to trade...
"...Here..." Came the shy voice of the girl in front of her.
A contact info swap later and she had saved her new contact in the phone.
She even made sure to tag her as a priority contact with Mother, Father, and Rossie...
Wait...Why was Rossie a priority contact?
Well, that was useful since she was her roomie, but still...When did that happen?
Heh, probably nothing important.
"Okay, do call me if they harass you again. I will deal with Akira & Rena." Said the blonde girl. "See you later, gotta take a rest. These matches were too tiring." And on that note, she left the arena reception area.
Chloe didn't say anything even if the mouthed some words that she didn't quite understand. But she had more pressing matters to attend to.
So she went back to her apartment. Rossie was in the living room reading some grimoires on healing magick already.
"ELI-ELI!!!" Said the pink-haired girl who rushed to hug her.
"Rossie. I'm sweaty, let me take a shower first." Answered the blonde girl while trying to free herself from the vicious grip of the pink-haired girl.
To no success...
She wondered if her friend had made some success since the last time she used [Identify] on her.
She kinda felt that she should have a higher level than her...
But she was still somewhat leery of her skills not working so she refrained from using the [Identify] on her.
If she was one of those [Fate] blessed as Alexanders had hinted... Yeah, she might be of a higher level than her.
She had to deal with Mother and get her to explain how those weird words worked.
"Rossie...Are you sniffing me?" Asked the blonde girl after noticing her friend had his face pressed against her.
"W...What? No...Of course not silly...That would be weird...hahaha" Laughed the pink-haired girl awkwardly...
Weird, she only intended that as a joke...
But since it worked she didn't mind.
"I'll take a shower, and rest for the day...Can you give me a perk me up?" Asked the blonde girl to her friend.
It would be a good way to evaluate if she had made more progress or not since stamina regeneration spells were of a higher order.
"Of course! " Said with great vigor the pink-haired girl. " Mwah ❤️ !" And so she proceeded to kiss her.
"I meant as a stamina regeneration or stamina buff spell Rossie..." Answered back the blonde girl while massaging her temples.
Granted, a kiss on the forehead was nice and all.
But that wasn't what she wanted.
At least her friend looked somewhat embarrassed at her fumble.
"Oh...Right...A spell..." And also somewhat downcasted.
Was she rude in her answer?
Perhaps she had a close-lit family before and it was a tradition?
"[Stamina Regen]." Said the pink-haired girl while intoning a spell while embracing a pendant in the form of a heart.
Oh, she even got a [Relic] to enhance her spellcasting already?
Damn if the [Fate's chosen] have an easy life... She still didn't even have a gem for her scepter in magical girl form!
"Thank you, Rossie." Said with a smile Elizabeth. "Even though I think the kiss had a better effect...I will go to sleep after taking my shower. See you tomorrow Rossie ♪~" And on that note she moved to her room.
She of course as a good friend pretended that the happy shriek the pink-haired girl did after she left the room didn't happen.
It was hard to accommodate the family traditions of other people. But so long her friend was happy she would be happy. Gotta keep those [Fate's Chosen] happy...
Especially now that she had pissed off two of the possible four.
Wait...there were only four...right?
Uggh...She was going to have nightmares if more popped up.
It was the dawn of a new day, the birds were cheerfully singing, and the sun was coming out on the horizon.
Everything was fine with the world...
Only with the world, because something was annoying the blonde girl that was laying on her bed.
“Good morning, Eli-Eli!” an annoyingly cheerful voice sounded right on top of her. “Morning, morning, MORNING!!!”
"...Morning Mama." Said the blonde girl opening her eyes and looking up to see the face of her mother smiling brightly at the top of her.
And in the back of her room, by the door, she could almost make the face of Rossie, her eyes were once again leaking mana and you could see the heart motif on them.
Did Mother do something to her?
She was mumbling something but she couldn't make up what it was...
But when Rossie noticed she was discovered she came in awkwardly.
"Eli-Eli... I have some things to do, so I will be outside till the afternoon. The breakfast is ready and served..." Said while trying her best to not look at her mother...
Did Mother scare her or something?
"Ooooh thank you!" Said her mother with the overly sweet tone she liked to use when scamming people.
And at that, her friend just blushed "N...No problem...I'll...go that way now..." And then she ran away.
Yeah, Mother probably scammed her out of something.
Her mother didn't say anything till they heard the sound of the door closing and the sound of a girl screaming in the distance.
"Hmm..." Said her mother while standing up from the bed in one jump. "Would prefer if you didn't mess around with her type...But since she seems like a good enough girl I will allow it." Finished saying with a sagely nod.
"Thank you for allowing me to keep living with someone the school assigned me to." Answered the blonde girl while walking to the common room to eat.
No point in changing out of her pajamas if only her mother would be around.
The only reason she had started changing into her uniform in the mornings was because Rossie would be around after all.
With only mother here? Yeah, she could laze around more comfortably.
"You coming? Rossie cooks really well." Said Elizabeth to her mother who only smiled and walked after her.
And wasn't that the truth?
That girl somehow always cooked her favorite food. And in the weird time she cooked something she didn't like...She would not do it again, even though Elizabeth had never complained.
Perhaps she shared the same taste as her?
"Yep, classical female heroine..." Mumbled her mother while looking at the food on the table.
So she noticed Rossie was one of those toyed by [Fate]?
Mother as always was good at that type of thing.
"So...Anything fun happened around, or why did you call me to the school?" Asked her mother while serving herself a cup of coffee.
"I didn't call for you." Answered the blonde girl, then she remembered the blonde asshole.
Should she...No, Mother had told her to not speak about her soulscape even to her.
"What is with the words you all use sometimes?" For now, get the important thing first.
"Did they use a word you don't know Eli-Eli? So big and you don't know your words ★ ♪?" Intoned her Mother in that annoying tone she liked to use while bullying her.
"I mean [t]he[se] kin[d] o[f] thing[s]." Said the blonde girl.
And at that, her mother dropped her spoon in the breakfast (Eggs benedict and some salmon on the side).
"Eli-Eli...Did you make a contract with...something?" Asked her mother in a serious tone.
Her usually silly mood gone...She had seen something like this recently, right?
Was this what the crazy instructor asked of Akira?
She didn't have much time to think about that since a magical circle manifested in front of her face and shoved itself into her head.
"What?" Was all she could say before more circles started manifesting.
Her mother never intoned anything nor made any motion. How was she doing that?
"The integral structure is stable...Alex didn't raise any alarms...The matrix is fine...The soulscape doesn't have any cracks...Huh?" And then finally her mother stopped mumbling and looked at her.
"Amm...Eli-Eli...Didn't you have an electrical attuned power?" She asked.
For her part since she knew her mother would ignore her while mumbling like that. So she kept eating.
"Huh? Of course not. My power is shadow manipulation." Answered the blonde girl while conjuring a shadow blob that picked up the spoon her mother had dropped.
Said blob awkwardly walked to the kitchen and returned with a clean one. Only instead of a spoon it was a fork...
"Amm...Still working in these things..." Said awkwardly the blonde girl while the blonde woman picked up the fork.
"Ah..." She said while having the face of someone that was aligning the dots. "You...You were that armored girl?" And so she summoned a picture of her powered form.
"Yep. Also no... I didn't sign any contract with elder gods or eldritch beings...Same for lesser things. Or not yet anyway." Said the blonde girl while getting a shadow tendril to bring her a notebook.
"And if I do intend to do that, I will use one of these." And so she showed the contents of the notebook to her mother.
It was a list of clauses to use in contracts to scam demons in contracts. Courtesy of her mother's travels of course.
"So long you know. Anyway...[This]... How did you manage to butcher the [Idea]?" Asked her mother.
The what?
It was the second time she heard that word. "What is this Idea you say?" Asked the girl.
"How to explain it... And it isn't Idea, but [Idea]. It's...The intent...You focus your thoughts, cover them with [Mana] and so you impose your will into [The World]." Finished saying her mother.
The what?
"Most of the time one doesn't just start butchering [Idea] though...How did you manage that?" Asked her mother.
"I mean...They are just words." Shruged the girl. "Been hearing them since little when heroes on TV used their attacks, or magical girls intoned spells." Finished saying the girl while summoning more shadow blobs, they were starting to shape into an animalistic form.
Now they looked more like elongated worms though. Perhaps add wings and legs later?
"Yeah...Usually powered focus their [Idea] to power up their skills... Or subset skills..." Nodded her mother. "And Magical Girl shape the [Mana] to focus into [Idea] and summon the [Spell Nodes] from their [Soulscape]." Finished saying her mother.
Then with a weird sign formed in her hand, the rest of the tableware got teleported into the kitchen.
"[But most, don't hear the words, but the meaning gets translated into their head. How can you hear the words?]" Asked her mother.
"The hell if I know." It was the time for the blonde girl to say back.
She was supposed to get an explanation of how that worked from her mother...At least Alexanders had implied her Mother would know the answer.
"hmm...Maybe that asshole sneaked something in..." Mumbled her mother.
So she did know Alexanders...How does that work?
"So mama, how do you..." Was going to ask the blonde girl when something happened.
For one second she saw her mother thinking something and when she turned to look at her...
Her face reflected...worry?
And why was the world turning gray?
Huh?
'What....was I going to say...?' Was all she could think before her consciousness faded.
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