And like that, she was ba the real world. She didn't find a proje of herself in the room. And a quick look into the internal feed of the room showed how she has only been away for a few minutes.

  Instead of the hours, she felt pass inside her soulscape.

  Perhaps it was all the time she wasted with that receptionist...

  Either way, she went ahead and did what she had promised herself to do.

  [Identify]...

  Iory:This skill grants the user a subspace where she store her belongings, for it to work the item iion must be hers or be grao her. It works by the user's subscious so it 't be used to steal something even if the user tries to vince herself of ownership of it. It be tweaked in its presentation and it has personalized options. It summon objects to any part of her body and be used to ge clothing. At higher levels of masteries, it be eveo wash and air dry clothes!

  The current level doesn't allow washing or air drying, sihe user must find a way for said effects to work.

  doesn't stop the time of the objeor store living beings.

  Yep, just like she thought and remembered.

  Nothing special about it.

  "Here we go..." Said the girl while amping herself...

  And in one swift motion, she poi one of the leotards(Body Suits) her father had sent for her while saying "[Iory]".

  And...Nothing happened.

  "Hmm...." That was...ing.

  "Maybe...?" Thought the blonde girl while grabbing said body suit and thinking again of her skill.

  Soon enough another blue box showed in her field of view, this time oh little boxes on it.

  She thought of st it in one and voi!

  Her body suit was ed in shadows that creeped out from her hands into the suit.

  It was... Disturbing.

  But effective sin a few seds the leotard was inside one of the little boxes.

  "...." Was all the blonde girl could say while admiring her work.

  With an idea of how it worked she iioeendrils from her shadow into all the body suits her father had sent her way.

  Soon enough they all were engulfed in shadows and stowed away into her skill.

  Navigating that particur skill was more troublesome though.

  She could see the information about the suits, materials used, and the manufacturer even.

  She could even see how she would look in them.

  But nothing else.

  She had been told her shift skill could be lio this thing though.

  "Maybe I o think really hard...?" She was struggling to make ends of how to work it.

  She could uand on a deeper level how to work the shadows, but the [Iory]... That needed a user manual.

  "Amm...How did that blonde asshole say it?... [Link Shadow Shift to Iory Slot]?" mumbled the blonde girl trying to remember the st words the blonde man had said to her before she left the soulscape.

  And lo and behold, there was a response!

  Notice:Do you wish to link specific armors to a [Shadow Shift Slot]?

  Y/N

  "That would be a Yes" Answered the blonde girl to the blue box.

  And so a new menu was brought to life!

  She now could link the specific armor to a slot in her shadow shift skill.

  So she used the sturdier and more resilient body suit for her powered persona. And one of the more normal ones for her magical persona.

  With that done she now had tister her powered suit and she would be doh this!

  So finding the terminal installed in this room she happily walked that way.

  Only to stop at her first great hurdle.

  "Please take a photo of the student wearing the powered suit and submit it with a name. Secret Identities will be protected uhe ruling #1337 of the new Crusaders Accords." Said a meical voice while the whole room shook.

  The crafting tables, fe, and even the sewing maes were moving and iing themselves into the walls. Making room and now she had ay room.

  With a few cameras popping from the ceiling, only the empty boxes of Father's gifts and her backpack were left.

  Of course, a few standard school suits were still hanging by the walls. She hadn't tested those...

  She wasn't sure the school was very thh with the washing of those.

  Still, she didn't think that she would o use it that soon.

  "Here goes nothing I guess..." Said the blonde girl trying to hype herself.

  No success there.

  "[Shadow Shift]" Said while invoking her skill, she didn't he vocal aspect to it, but it helped calm herself. "[Shadow Empress]" And on that note finished intoning the name she had chosen for herself.

  The shadows in the room then started moving, almost as if alive.

  They all coalesced into the blonde girl and soon enough her whole body was covered in shadows.

  They stuck to her body for a few seds before reg and leaving the girl with her armor standing in pce. She looked at her hands and marveled at how different they looked in the armor.

  She even touched her hair and looked at it, it was still as silky as she remembered, only now it was bck. It almost looked like it was made of a strong and dark material instead of normal hair.

  She left it to fall and one could almost see strands of shadowy smoke in the wake of her hair.

  Then walking into the middle of the room and turning into the terminal she prepared herself for the photos the school would take.

  "Start the photo shot." Said the girl only to give herself a surprise.

  Her voice sounded...Different, she hadn't ged anything with her voice.

  She had fotten pletely about ging her void only ged her eyes and hair.

  Notice, Message Embedded into skill received: Heya girl noticed you fot a few important things on your [Extra Persona]. Took the liberty of fixing it, no thanks needed.

  Just bring souvenirs ime you e around!

  I want a good drink for myself... And maybe a [Mango Cake] for Alexa.

  Enjoy the ges.

  Cheers!

  Alex

  ... She would definitely hit that guy one of these days. Wait, what extra ges? He ged something else besides her voibsp;How did he even make her sound like that? It was a feminine voice alright. But it was...Deeper, somehow it even sounded not only dark...But like some dark and primal deity? Almost like [Shadow Pact] wheuck them with that [Geass]. ...She couldn't help but smile at the idea of sounding like him. She would still hit him for not telling her. "Photo finished, please i a name for [Character] any ra photo be used for the [Powered Id]." Said the terminal. She just zily extended some shadows to write into the terminal her powered name [Shadow Empress]. And then thought to herself... Should she...Pose? "Why not." Said while a smile started showing on her fad took several poses. The cssical superhero nding one for the start with some shadows on her back as if pretending to be shadowy wings. A Super Hero Stah her chest proudly held out, her head slightly high to vey her fidend strength in that everything would be all right! A flying standing poses as if ready to fly to the skies with shadowy wings behind her. A fist pump raised into the air dispyiermination and joy in victory after vanquishing an eldritch evil. A pose with a fist thrust outside with her fist ched as if she was striking all that is evil in the world. A pose with a kick held high as if she had made a high martial kibsp;A pose with her arms crossed in front of herself as if defending herself from something. And finally a pose with her face pte in her hand smiling unto the cameras, trying to show her more human side. After finishing her posing fever she quickly went to the terminal throwing her face pte into the air where shadows engulfed it and stowed it away into her iory. Only to find something odd. I photo, her face was... Different. She couldn't help but put the terminal into selfie mode to look more closely into the refle. Her face looked almost like a copy of a grown-up Alexa. The only difference was her red eyes and dark hair, also more sharper angles all over the pbsp;She was a looker if nothing else, but in a colder beauty type instead of her normal aloof style. She liked it and it would take the worries off her face being shown. But she wondered why the blonde asshole had ged her faubsp;And firmed the thing Alexa had said about the blonde asshole being her brother. Her current looks were simir enough to that of the blonde asshole after all. You know what? She would kick him just for that. Did she only want excuses to kick him? Of course. She still had plenty of grievaer the railgun to the chest thing. So after imputing her powered name [Shadow Empress] and choosing one of the poses for her ID (Not the one where she showed her face).

  She celed her [Shift] and marveled at how she was once again in her uniform as if nothing had happened.

  "Test, Test. Owo." Said the blonde girl while toucher her throat. No disfort either.

  And her melodic voice was also as if nothing had happened.

  "Such a weird thing..." The terminal fihe needed paperwork and spat out a new ID with her face (Face pte included) with her powered name and a basic description.

  Mostly showing her as [Elemental user]. No description of the said element being shadow or anything.

  She was somewhat relieved by the ge in appearance since she couldn't excuse the use of any security node in her powered form.

  So those were absent, the blonde asshole had said that no one would detect magi the [Shift] so long she didn't stiy security o it.

  Since her system detected it as a [Skill].

  Just... Don't try to expin it, since most would think it was a subset skill.

  And that had more worries for her.

  How would she ever expin her skills?

  She hadn't seen ah more tha.

  At least in those that didn't had garbled text that is.

  And she had...Like what? Six? Seven?

  Granted [Identify] felt like a subset skill of [Status]...

  And [Mana Manipution] and [Shadow Shift] felt like something that was more of her magical side...

  [Shadow Craft/maniputio like they could be the same or one a subset of the other.

  So that left [Iory] but then again, if we follow that logic wasn't that a subset of [Shadow Shift] who then in turn would make it something of her magic side?

  She needed some ao these questions...

  But she hadn't seen Mother...

  And she didn't want to speak of this in a call...

  She had a feeling that it would be dangerous...But no reason or why.

  So for now, she wouldn't think about it!

  She would vacate her room and go to her room to sleep a few hours before there was a need for anic css!

  Perhaps she could sleep since Rossie should be in theory csses.

  She didn't envy the pink-haired girl. Those csses sounded b.

  But they were o build a correct spell ic circle.

  If she didn't have a system skill to build it for her...

  She could only shudder at the thought of all the extra csses she would need or all the books she would o study...

  God Bless the system.