It was the dawn of a new day, he was feeling quite hese days after the test ge.

  Not that he was in bad shape before. His body of 40 years old was quite well maintained after all. A life of tinued exercise and a healthy diet had that kind of effect.

  Besides his obvious geic advantage. His heritage, even with all his fws... Did a good job helping him keep a good health.

  Now this new body...Or was it older body?

  This one was around the 30-year mark? Perhaps 25 at the earliest?

  He wasn't quite sure yet. But it should be around 20-30 so he would call it 25 and be doh it.

  He wondered why the girl hadn't questioned his ge of appearance more, but he had built that trickster aura for that kind of reason. He wouldn't pi worked.

  It wouldn't do for the girl to ask too many questions about these kinds of things after all.

  So after ging into a new and set of clothes and leaving his pajamas to the worker bots...It seems today the spiders won. He left his room iree house.

  A marvel of engineering eve was built using the musing of a little girl with too much imagination and way too much power on the manipution of [Idea].

  The meadow was a ouch though.

  He didn't bother to check the pantry or the fridge for food. It was full of either mango cakes, mango slushies, or something mango fvored.

  He liked mangos like a normal person, but even he had limits. No.

  He would order food to his b and be doh that.

  And so, while searg for a restaurant that did deliveries he walked into the humongous steel doors, put in his code, aered his retina s. Pced his hand on the panel, and swept in his card.

  After all that the doors open themselves and he could walk into his boratory.

  He always liked to think that this much security was for a reason... An important one, because the things behind these doors were to be protected.

  Because the things on this side were too dangerous to leak to the outside... Because mistakes had already been made once.

  When iy...

  Alexa was a cheap stake that didn't like to lose a bet and was throwing a tantrum. Probably. That or the big boss still didn't like him. Him or the [ Boss].

  Either way, he walked into his b and couldn't help but to marvel at the transition.

  One instant he was in the yard of the meadow that served as a house for him and his sister [Alexandra]. And the he was in the half of a building that went against all the ws of physics, both normal aa-physics.

  [The Soulscape] The first time he came here it was too different that no words could describe how far they had e.

  He had literally built this pce up from broken fragments of reality. It was quite nice if he was being modest.

  If he wa about it, then he was sure no one could do a better job than him. Not even one of those [Duo], [Four heavenly kings], [Six emperors] or [Twelve] or whatever they were calling themselves nowadays.

  He quite liked how it had ended up, even if he didn't get muput on how the [Skills] of that girl tampered with the design.

  Wasn't really a fan about how the [Skills] took form in here, especially that cheeky one [Identify]. That took more space than the main one for some reason. He some days really wondered if the main one oed to allow this oo be.

  But he was only here to make sure this pce could stay afloat while the girl pced good foundations in her [Soul] to support these things that got stuck here after her camitous birth.

  And since her soul was strengthening itself nowadays he was happy with that. Especially after she got past the first threshold, gra gave him quite a surprise to find his body ge like that.

  But he expected a certain amount of ge with each foundation she mao build...

  He just hoped the st one didn't bring him too much trouble.

  So while mussing about that he found himself sitting in one of the desks in the deserted b.

  In aime and another life, this boratory would be full of people w around the clock trying to solve the mysteries of the universe. Now?

  Now he had plenty of spider bots and ant bots fighting a world war for supremacy for helpers.

  And his sister oher side of the little realm messing around with books and building castles out of them whehought no one was seeing her.

  It was quite the carefree life if he was being ho, so he didn't mind much the deal if it ended with him in this pce.

  The only problem?

  Notiing Call from : HQ

  Priority: Urgent

  [Not possible to ignore, auto-respoivated.]

  "Program Alpha, report of status." Said the voice of a blonde man in an overly luxurious bathrobe, he reeked the vibe of a cssical vilin of a cheap kids' movie.

  He was sitting in what could only be described as a presidential suit, living in ded he could make up the limbs of a...

  Woman?

  It should be a woman.

  "hmm...Quick question, are those women at least of age this time?" Said the younger man on this side of the s.

  The older one looked back to the woman with the limbs hanging from the bed and just said a low "Tch..." and made a motion with his hand.

  Soon enough another woman with a gown that could hardly be described as clothes came into the s and took away the woman that was unscious in the bed.

  "Thank you, Mary." Said the older man addressing at the stly dressed woman.

  After that, he once again addressed the younger man "And yes Alpha, they were of age. All my employees and partners are of the legal age." And so he made mog air quotes on the legal age part.

  Yeah...He somehow doubted that.

  "Not going to go and try to deny your identity this time Alpha?" Asked the older man.

  "Not that you would believe me. I like to think I would believe it if I was oher side of the s though." Said the younger man.

  They both cimed the same thing after all.

  "No, you wouldn't. I didn't after all. There is only one Alexanders Saintsworth, and that is me." Said the older man on the s.

  "If you say so [Boss]." Said the younger man.

  They had gone over that 10 years ago when they made first tact when the vilin attacked the Starbrigiht residend Elizabeth did that pseudo awakening.

  They both cimed the name and didn't get to an agreement on who was right.

  "You are the program I created Alpha, the proof is that you are stu that...Pce." Said the older man.

  "You 't even use [Idea] a cim the name of a [Saintsworth]? Our aors would disi you if they saw you." Answered in a mog tohe younger man.

  "That nonsense of power words again?" Answered back the older man.

  "Just gibberish being ushered with some low-level hypnotic effect from mana mnemonics imbued into them?" Said back the older man.

  "If you 't walk in the real world, i with the real world and your only way to unicate is a s...Then how you cim to be a real person?" And he added salt to the injury.

  This was why he didn't try to reach HQ after that event 10 years ago.

  "Whatever, what did you call for?" Asked the younger man.

  "We will not speak again." Said in a ft tohe older man.

  He nning something.

  "...What did you do?" Asked the younger man.

  Was he trying to cut the resoween his base and the [Soulscape]? He shouldn't be able to.

  Not without someone helping him with the [Idea] and he would also need a powerful [Soulsurgeon] or a high-tier [Soul Warlock].

  And those aren't on...

  THE F#G MEDICI.

  He was so going to snit them with Brighton.

  Those brothers and sisters might be well pced in the unity, but what if the father of Elizabeth found out what they were pnning?

  Yeah, they were going to get punched in the face. And if his estimations were accurate...Hehehe.

  That would be fun, wonder if I vince Elizabeth to snatch a video of that?

  "Whatever is going in that small programmed head of yours is useless." Said the older man on the s.

  He was smiling in that annoy...No wait, that was his smile... Damn, it was annoying like Alexa and her mother used to say.

  "I just talked to Catherine a few ho." Said the older man on the s.

  Huh...

  Oh...

  OOOHHH...

  Yeah, that might have caused some trouble. At least the older man wouldn't suspect him since he still thought he couldn't tact the outside world. Silly man thinking he was the smarter one in the room.

  Granted he might be in most of those rooms. But when Alexanders Saintsworth was in the same room as you?

  Yeah, good luck. Especially if you are a program thinking yourself human.

  Don't know what the old Alexanders was thinking when he made that py.

  "Yeah, either she or her daughter triggered one of the safeguards and the system shut dowhought kernel of the Starbright brat." Added the older man.

  Ooooh, yeah, that might have pissed Catherine off.

  "And sihe system brought me that alert I decided to talk to her to expin to her why she was being a dumbass." Finished saying the older man with a nod.

  Like that was the smart thing to do.

  Ahought himself the inal? Doing suicidal things like that?

  "The only reason you are alive is because Catherine doesn't want to risk her daughter." Said the younger blonde man.

  "Hah, as if her silly magic tricks could hurt a Saintsworth." Said the older man. "Granted she might have scared me when those silly light tricks showed in the bunker..." He added while looking behind himself.

  So that's why he was in an y mood?

  "So...You got scared, drugged god knows how many sluts a on a drinking binge, and now are pining to me for some reason?" Asked the younger blonde.

  "Pfft...Of course not. I don't pin. I state the obvious, which is...You are the one in trouble, not me." He said while motioning to a s behind himself.

  It read.

  Warning:tact with New Salvation HQ Lost.

  Please refer to the highest avaible Saintsworth glomerate Worker.

  Current Suggestion: Alexanders Saintsworth.

  Position: CEO

  What?

  "How...?" Started asking the younger man.

  For his part, the older man was smirking at him from the s.

  "Yeah, feared for my life...So I downloaded the main server into a tablet, moved the root installer, and gave it to Catherine." Said nontly the older man.

  "You...You..."Was saying the younger blonde.

  He couldn't believe what he was seeing.

  The older man for his part couldn't help but smile like the cat that finally mao eat the ary.

  "Yeah, that's what you get for pretending to be Me." And at that, he cut the e.

  The fool.

  He...would o deal with that.

  Best case sario?

  The older man would bug out and diverge even further from the [inal].

  He liked to think of himself as the [inal] of course. But uhat older man, he did think that he could be the programmed one.

  So he would prepare.

  First, he summohe generals of his robotic helpers.

  Soon enough a big Ant made itself known by g his mandibles t attention to itself.

  Not that it was needed sihe thing was almost as big as a house cat. o that abomination, a spider fell from the ceiling, it wasn't as big as the ant. But it certainly looked more dangerous.

  Uhe ant though, this one had razor-sharp legs, they weren't desigo grip in the ceiling no...

  These looked more desigo stab things, somehow the artificial intelligence desigo mahese things choose to make the spiders more deadly thas.

  Grahere were more ants than spiders...

  But now he was digressing.

  "So...In a few days, I might disappear." He started speaking. "I might not though." And added the crification.

  Both generals of their species didn't make a special motion at that statement. Sihey didn't have that much smart, to begin with.

  "If I do disappear, this pce might bee...Unstable." He said while motioning to the pce all around them.

  "The Ants will make sure those servers don't colpse." He said while pointing at the puters that he had shown to Elizabeth the first time she came here.

  The ones administering her [Iory],[Status], and [Identify].

  "If you have to discard one, discard [Iory]. The other two must survive no matter what." He would like to prioritize only one if possible.

  But since he wasn't sure whie was the important one for [The World] he o give this kind of instru.

  The ants started looking smug and the spiders angry so he tinued.

  "The Spiders oher hand." He said bringing the spider general to attention. "Will have to hold this space together for as long as possible."

  And so he finished speaking.

  Both with their orders they left.

  They didn't ask why would he disappear or if they would disappear with him.

  To be ho he wasn't sure if that would happen. This pce, these robots...Were built using the [Soulscape] the only fn things here. The only truly fn things...Were he and Alexa.

  And of the two only he could be the [Program].

  He still thought the older Alexanders was the program though.

  He just didn't act like an Alexanders should...Also, he didn't share the same memories, he did a che that, and his decisions were something he wouldn't do.

  And besides...He didn't remember Alexa.

  How could he be Alexanders if he didn't remember his sister?

  The m found him as usual.

  The only difference of course was that he was sleeping on his desk, or under his desk.

  He had chosen to sleep ihe boratory...For practical reasons.

  His sister's [Domain] should be outside the scope of Elizabeth's [Soulscape] but one couldn't be too sure about those kinds of things.

  So if Catherine did something dumb like destroying that tablet...

  He didn't want to put his sister at risk...

  He also didn't tell her about that risk, that cheeky brat might do something...Dangerous if she thought something was going to happen to him.

  Yeah, he wasn't going to let his sister fight with Catherine if he could help it.

  No way that was going to end well, besides...He wasn't sure if his sister could leave for the outside world...

  So instead he decided to sleep in his b for a few days and see what happened. Like right now.

  An arm was going on saying someone was ing into the [Soulscape]. He prepared his defenses and put on his brightest smile to wele them in.

  Would it be Catherine?

  Perhaps she would use the [Key] the older blonde had giveo track her way into here?

  She was very good at traversing the pnes, so if someone could sneak his way into a pce that oed iaphysical pne, she was the one.

  If it was a helper of hers...

  Well...That one wasn't going to leave this pce alive, he could think of a few uses for a body, mind, and soul that wandered into his [Domain]. Well, not his but Elizabeth's.

  In the end, it wasn't one of those two.

  But the visage of a blonde girl with a scowl on her little face.

  "It wasn't that special." She stated after pnting herself in front of him.

  "Of course, it wasn't." Shrugged the blonde man. "Most of the people that mahat are at the apex of power. Why would it be special?" He added.

  To this, the blonde girl couldn't say anything back.

  "By the way...Did your mother say something to you?" He asked, w what had been the expnation for the older Alexanders showing in front of them.

  If his math was right, that call should have happened while Catherine was with her.

  "Nothing much, she taught me how [Idea] worked, and shoved me into another pce where I turned into a [Star] but besides that...Nothing else." Answered the blonde girl.

  What?

  Did Catherine call after she left the school?

  "Well...I think Mama found a tablet at some point..." She said while messing around with her phone and showing him the er version of the tablet where the [Key] was saved.

  "A variation of this one." She said." But at some point, it disappeared from her purse, so maybe I imagi...?" Added the blonde girl.

  Yeah...

  That was the tablet alright...But why the pse in memory?

  "You okay kiddo? Maybe Catherine overstrained your [Mind]." Worried the blonde man.

  While her diagnosis hadn't shown degradation, separating her mind from her soul and body couldn't be good for her.

  Granted, it made her access her [Idea] easier. But since Elizabeth wasn't shielded by [Fate] like Catherine or one of those [MC]...

  "Yeah, it was horrible...My identity almost leaked away... But Mama brought me ba time...There was this weird s though." She said while summoning several blue s alerts.

  "Huh?" Said the blonde girl. "???????????????? ????????????????????????????A?????????????? ???????????????r???????????????????????e????????????????????????????d???????????????????????? ?????????????????o????????????????n??????????????????????e??????????????? ????????????????i????????????????????s??????????????????????? ???????????????????????m???????????????i?????????????????s??????????????s???????????????????i???????????????????????????n??????????????g???????????????????????????"????????????????????.??????????????????? ???????????????????

  "Sorry kiddo, you got [sured] there." Added the blonde man.

  For some reaso part he couldn't quite hear.

  "HAH!" Celebrated the blonde girl. "It doesn't feel right now does it!" She was quite happy at that.

  Rude.

  He wasn't s his word because he wanted.

  "Yeah yeah, [The Boss] might be ky since I shat message to your mother so she could expin [Idea] before [The World] taught it to you." Said the blonde man.

  He khe World] wao teach her that. But he didn't trust it that much to do a good job. He still wasn't sure what her [Title] meant after all.

  "Anyway, I came to ask something important." Said the blonde girl.

  So he prepared himself, would she ask him about the reason for the distribution of skills or status points?

  Would she ask him why her status looked different?

  Why the shadow skills worked better than the ohat allowed her to peek at other's status?

  Would she ask why she couldn't use [Identify] on him or Alexa?

  " I dress using [Iory]? Also who decided the name of my pet?" Said the blonde girl.

  "*sigh*" He couldn't help but defte a little.

  Kids...

  "Of course, you use [Iory] to dress. But you will o [ize] it yourself si isn't a basi." Said the blonde man while pointing at the workstation for that skill.

  "You o think it before you do it, same as [Shadow Minion] you get one slot every 10 levels for extra options." He said while somewhat defted.

  "Also, the name is assigned by you. If you don't assiger 10 mins it will be randomized. Only someoh Higher [Autorithy] could overshadow you on the choice." He finished saying.

  Then he peeked at her status.

  [Warning: Not enough Autorithy]And the same s as usual.

  Pesky red ss.

  He would hope that the girl fets to close her session again and then he would peek at that...Again.

  "Hmm....Food preservation...Or ge in clothes..." Was mumbling the girl while h at the options on her s.

  "The wardrobe skill path has undry as the sed option." He said while pointing at that portion. "Or you could follow in your mother's steps and use a [Shift Spell]" Added at the end.

  "ht, why do I have two of those?" She said while pointing at her status s oher monitor.

  VICTORY!

  "Oh, easy. The [Skill] versio dissipate unless you ran out of stamina. While the [Spell] versio dissipate unless you run out of mana." Answered the blonde man.

  "But they do the same things...?" Said the blonde girl.

  "Don't ask me, it's your [Soulscape] the ohat infringed on chts and ibalized your [Spell]. On the bright side, you will be able to use the [Skill] even under a [Mana Damper]." Shrugged the blonde man.

  "So...Anything else I should know?" Asked the blonde girl after deg to procrastinate her decision.

  "Hmm...Yeah...I might disappear for sometimes depending on some decision an idiot made in HQ." He said while pointing at the robotic helpers.

  "If that happens, those will deal with my work here., the other half...should be fine. If anything happens go aer your mother." Finished saying the blonde man.

  "Sure...I will do that garbled thing you just said to me." And on that he blonde girl winked out of the soulscape.

  "Goddammed sorship..." Was all the blonde man could say.