The Soulscape again.

  Now that she knew about the powered wing, the blonde girl started walking towards the other wing. The Library.

  As she walked into the library she was immediately struck by how big it was, it had decorations that spoke of a grandeur. Walls lined with bookshelves that wao strike the heavens made of dark wood.

  Shelves were filled with dusty tomes and a scrolls aween the bookshelves, torches were used as a medium of illumination.

  Among the walls were desks of aged wood with old globes and a fes made of leather skin on the walls.

  But as she went further into the library something started to ge. Sooorches were less and less on and they made way fhtbulbs. The a scrolls and dusty tomes were no longer seen and soon enough more modern books were on the shelves. In the desks, there were no longer old globes but puters.

  There were some boots with eleic readers and some other devices of a more normal library.

  It was an iing ge if nothing else, but soon those started to ge too, the wooden shelves turned into metal and crystal. Giving a more teological look. Instead of books now there was a s with a touch s and a QR code to s for information.

  There were even terminals here and there to ect headsets and dive into Virtual reality.

  And a few robots came a from here to there, the blonde girl wondered why those were designed after ants and spiders, but it robably a quirk of the librarian of this pce.

  Uhis was more shenanigans about her soul not fetting her past or something.

  Either way, by the time she made it to the deepest parts of the library there weren't any shelves anymore. Only floating ss and a blotle girl dressed in a white dress.

  "Took you long enough Eli-Eli!" excimed the little girl after throwing a floating s to a robotit that quickly came for it a away with it.

  "Are you the [Librarian]?" was the more important question the blonde girl could ask right now.

  She had plenty of pints about her skills and her problems with the allocation of information she currently had.

  But the little girl just made a face as if someone had insulted her whole genealogical tree.

  "Me? The [Librarian]?" And somehow she could feel as if the weight of the world was ing down on her.

  It was several times heavier thahing the teacher had done before.

  "Never, ever, mistake me for that...[Thing]." Said with finality the little girl.

  At this point, the blonde was stu the floor and was fighting to stay scious.

  "huh?...Did...I use too much force? "She was starting to lose sce.

  "Aa gotta call brother...She 't lose ce...Will she be ejected?" At least the little girl anig, so the blonde girl could go to dreamnd with a smirk on her face.

  ...Why couldn't her soulscape be normal?

  She woke up feelied in a fy bed, it was a good mattress and the light of the m hit just right from the window.

  There were a few problems if nothing else, in the first pce this wasn't her room. The decoration was too...Childish.

  The bed was too small for her too since her feet were dangling in the air right now.

  She remembered being knocked out by the sheer pressure of that monster in the guise of a little girl.

  So...Where was she?

  Expl the house she found out it was a little cozy house, the front dave way to a flower meadow with a shining sun in the sky. The sky looked somewhat...Fake?

  The clouds weren't right and the sky if you looked closer it was like a montage of the sky repeating itself indefinitely.

  So either it was a very advanced proje or the sky was weird. Was she even still in her soulscape even?

  She doesn't remember a flower meadow with a cozy house in the middle.

  "YOU ARE AWAKE AT LAST!" came the scream from behind her.

  She quickly turo prepare for a fight. But what she saw was something she wasn't ready for.

  It was...

  Well, she ought to know what it was. But it still surprised her.

  It was a little girl flying throw the sky in her general dire. What should be one's respoo a little girl flying in their general dire with open arms?

  *thud*

  Elizabeth Starbright, 15 years old. Was tackled into the floor by a little girl since she couldn't decide how to deal with this situation.

  On that he dirt also felt weird, it was like only the upper yer was dirt, and below was a hard floor.

  "Brother said that you were fine and that it was my fault for releasing too much bloodlust weaved with magick. And that you lost sce because you were too weak...But still!" Beg you pardon?

  Weak?

  I mean, yeah. But still!

  Rude!

  "But it isn't my fault! How could you think Alex was that dumb [Librarian] ! " said the little girl with a huff.

  "Also, that isn't even a good [Name] for that thing, but sihat's the only ohat brother could [Use] with you he made a mess of this situation!" ...This little girl's brother was the blonde asshole?

  Wait..." Why I hear your not your brother's?" asked the blonde girl still on the floor.

  What a girl say, the dirt and grass were fy.

  "Of course, you hear my name! Who couldn't hear the name of the most beautiful girl in all worlds! It would be a sacr..sacr..." It was indeed a little girl even if it was oh too much ego on her little head.

  "Sacrilege?" said helpfully the blonde and more mature girl of the two.

  "That!" and as such it answered the little girl.

  "Anway, let's go back to the library we o get your stuff in order." And with that, the little girl stood up and started walking to a big metallic door that showed from nowhere.

  As soon as it opehe library was once again in view.

  And just like that they both returned from the meadow into the library again.

  The door closed behind both girls and soon it dissipated as if it never was there to begin with.

  "Ahemm," cleared her throat the little girl, "My name is Alexa and I'm the provisional librarian for this wing. My job is to make it easier for you to work the kinks of this soulscape and facilitate your iion into the soulscape." Said the little girl with a gravitas that just didn't match her appearance.

  "...Should we call your brother to help you expin this?" asked Elizabeth to the little girl.

  To which, she only gave her a stinky eye and tinued as if she had said nothing.

  "As such, here, this book will help you with the instrus about the [Shift] skill, tell you how to personalize it and it es with a few slots for predetermined forms." And so she threw a holo s her way that melted into her body.

  "This one will give you the basic [Manipution] skills for mana and attune you to your [in Mana]..." and another holo s flew her way.

  "And here, this one will give you the basic [Spells]...If you want to save spells in the slots you gotta write the whole magic theory in one of the desks and debug them." After sending the st holos to her the Little girl poio one of the desks with a chair and several ss.

  That looked more like programming...

  "And the same is for saving magic circles. I suggest you only use those [Slots] for opposite magicks, in your case either [Light Attuned] or [Holy Attuned] spells. But that's for you to decide." And with that and a smile the little girl moved on.

  "And that's all! " To absolutely nothing else.

  Elizabeth prepared herself to be obliterated by a spell rand magick. Even for a meteor shower, but nothing came.

  "You...Aren't gonna kill me or attack me like your brother?" asked the blonde girl.

  To which the little girl just giggled and said "Nope. Brother is melodramatic like that, he just wao get a quie over the [Librarian] and fix something that was b him on your [Status]. " and with a flick of her hand a blue s simir to her [Status] showed up.

  "He wao take away your ces to use by act that weird garbled skill, mind you. You still i if you are feeling suicidal. And allow you to personalize how it shows. Like this." said the little girl and with a flick of her hand several ss showed in her field of view.

  Notice:Skill [Mana Manipution] learned.Notice:Skill [Shadow Shift] learned.

  Current ammount of armor equal to level.

  Personalization possible.

  Notice:Skill [Shadoution] learhese somehow didn't look like her normal status ss...But a quick check...ht [Identify] doesn't work in here.

  "They are real skills, since your entry to this wing your [Powered] and [Magick in] are melding and interweaving themselves. So you might get away with easier casting, good for you!" Yeah, that sounds like a problem.

  And why do I have three currently locked in the [Shift] skill?

  Wasn't she supposed to design them here?

  ...Why is this one locked in and equipped already?

  "By the way. I locked in the [Shadowy] cool one since your in is all about [Shadows]. I suggest you don't actually tell them you know what your [in] is sihe people in your world 't identify them. And sihe new mama is a prodigy they will believe your dark theme is because we got a ic or star thematic. " I feel like this brat said an important thing here but somehow there is a magick ciry feet that is looking kinda dangerous.

  "Oh look, time's up. It seems the teacher doesn't want to give you much time in here, probably doesn't want to risk you ing with a fully formed [Shift] already..." Why is this little girl smirking...

  Yeah, they are brother and sister those two.

  "Either way, have fun Eli-Eli. Give my regards to Mama & Papa ?~" and with a wave of her little hand the world shifted.

  And soon enough I was ba the real world.

  It looked normal enough okay.

  A quick look at my watch said I only spehan a minute inside.

  But in that one minute, nothing much had ged.

  Rosie was still frowning her face fog inwards, blue-haired smartass was closing his eyes meditating.

  And the teacher was looking at me with her mouth open and hanging.

  Most of my cssmates were with their eyes closed too, no one had noticed the ge yet.

  Now...How do I turn this off?

  What do you ask?

  Well...My clothing...

  I was now wearing a form-fitting tight sailor uniform without sleeves, a very short skirt, and for some reason, I had a magid too...

  This clothing was closer to a bodysuit than to a uniform, especially if the spects were to be believed. But enough of that, let's go from the top to the bottom.

  At the top of my head was a , why? God knows what that little girl thought a [Magical Girl] needed, but if she knew of Mother then she should have giveiara instead of a !

  It was one overly sized one, and it was closer to half of a jester's hat than a formal , but you could see the design of a in there. She was taking that away and turning it into a tiara.

  She now had earrings too, purple ones, and well...It got well enough with the dark theme she had going so nothing to pin about there.

  Her top had a yellow gem on the middle of her chest and it looked kinda cute, leaving aside the form-fitting aspect that didn't leave much to the imagination of her size.

  Did I mention that this was a sleeveless design?

  Yes, no sleeves.

  It came with bck gloves so that was something?

  Her boots were knee-high and made of a matte bck material, with sharp heels that would probably cli the ground as she walks.

  The boots had silver buckles and straps that criss-cross up her calves. That was a nice design...If she decided to keep this one maybe she would think of adding some red to those. For reasons.

  At least it didn't have a cape, god she hated capes.

  Mother tried using one o she pined about weeks of the thing si kept being used as ara grabbing point for her enemies.

  So she did away with that soon enough.

  Now...art of her clothes was her teacher pining about in her mind?

  Probably the tight-fitting part?

  Or she didn't want a [Magical Girl] to use dark themes?

  She didn't have much time to think about that since soon enough a pink co enveloped her friend...

  Did one of those also surfa her transformation?

  That was...probably what her teacher was thinking about.

  Oh...Another one?

  Tch...Blue-haired asshole was also in a blue co.

  Agatha POV

  No one ever triggered the [Shift] in this css. If someone ever did it would probably be Catherine, but she was a [Magical Girl] already by the time the [Schools] program started so she doesn't t.

  And now here we have several [Shifts] in progress.

  We don't ence public use of [Shifts] because half of the alumni here will turn to [Viliny] so having them know who is who is a problem.

  Especially this early in the program.

  "Goddammit Catherine and your bloodline." Was all I could mumble when that girl finished her shift.

  And lo and behold, a [Space Theme] of course the daughter of the [Stardust Explorer] would have spa her stupid outfit.

  At least this firmed that Catherine should use darker themes instead of the bright ones she likes to parade around.

  Her friend also finished her [Shift] and that one was more normal. Pink with hearts theme.

  Probably [Affinity] for [Healing] or some stupid crap about [Friendship]. Please don't be more [Friendship is magick] crap.

  And smartass?

  Blue?

  And the [Shift] turned into an arch wizard robe?

  That...What the heck is that elemental affinity?

  [Robe Affinity]?

  [Smartass Affinity]?

  Move on Agatha, ig, and move on.

  "[Sleep]" First deal with the immediate problem, students finishing their first exploration of the soulscape.

  They 't see these three little monsters.

  "First of all, gratutions on being above average." Don't tell them how much above average they are.

  I didn't even manage a full [Shift] till I was a D-Tier.....

  "Sed of all, don't ever do the [Shift] unless you trust the people around you or deal with the sequences. Heroes don't ge in public for that reason." At least two of the three look like friends.

  That pink girl is stig too close to Elizabeth, maybe childhood friends?

  "And third...Now that you have mahe [Shift] your soulscape should have a few extra additions, finish the [Shift] and go and explore it again at a ter date. Try to get a feel for your [Affinity] and build spells to use. " Not gonna help any of them on that~

  Not because I'm being jealous of the sed ing of probably the greatest magic users in this geion.

  But because it's pointless...

  Try to teaething to a genius and they will learn five different things and then correct you in what you tried to teach them.

  It's pointless.

  "You all are excused, and not required to attend my csses, go self-study or something. I will send you three dates for the exams, and you see the broad themes we will speak about on your holopads. Just study at your pace. Most of the stuff I will teach is about how to access the soulscape and how to build spells. Two of you already do that...Miss Singh have Starbright teach you how to cast your first spell if you don't manage how to find it trashing around in your soulscape." Who am I kidding, that pink girl probably has already a few [Healing] or [Beam] spells already.

  Stupid genius and their stupid high [Affinity] from birth...