It felt…weird.

  Elizabeth wasn’t quite sure what it was, but something was…Off.

  Was it because she had been ing only to the half of the blonde asshole? She didn’t think it would be that, but her [Soulscape] somehow felt…Closer to her. She was feeling the e to the shadows more strongly than before. It was almost as if the shadow energy ermeating more strongly into her [Soul].

  She was sorely tempted to try and use her [Identify] backed up by her [Idea] to try and search for the reason behind this weird feeling she was having. But a quick look into her mana still h just above the 1% of mana stopped her.

  After her father left her with the weird sports drink to keep drinking, she just y on her bed once again while drinking it. She decided to go and rex on her soulscape while asking Alexa a few questions on the magic side.

  But soon enough after ing here, she got this weird feeling, her only pn was to see if she could rex in the meadow of the little girl… But now she was curious.

  Her father had said to not use her [Skills] sihat could put a strain on her [Soul]. But her e with the shadows was still there in the background. If anything the weird e to the other skills felt... Strained.

  She couldn’t evehem to [Identify] her hands, and she tried it…With father present ready to shove more of the weird sport’s drink into her mouth if needed.

  So instead she was here, and she felt at peace. Almost as if the shadows were embrag her, as such she didn’t notice when she arrived at the library.

  Sure enough, the little girl was running from here and there jumping all over the pce, so while trying her hardest to not stare too muto the weird shadow energy leaking all over the pce she called for the attention of the little girl.

  “Hello…?” Said the blonde girl, getting the response in the form of a hugging tackle from the little girl. As always this little girl was overactive.

  Befetting to what she was ing here she…Took a sip from her sports drink?

  Wait.

  “How did I bring this here?… Granted my clothes e with me but weren’t they a physical maion of the image I have of myself?”

  Thought the blonde girl while taking another sip from the drink.

  And sure enough, her ma going up. The only weird thing was that the weird e she felt with the shadow energy imosphere was getting weaker.

  Perhaps she was imagining things after all.

  If anythiress meter stopped going down after she started taking sips of the drink inside her soulscape. What was that about?

  The e to the shadows stopped getting stronger, her stress meter stopped going down. But her mana started going up and her e to her other skills started returning slowly.

  “Yeah…I o work on some spells, so I will just use one of the terminals if you don’t mind.” Said the blonde girl while walking towards one of the stations in the library.

  She took an obvious route to where she had felt one of the shadow rifts that was leaking shadow energy. Ign the weird wihe little girl did.

  “Oh sorry about the mess, we had a leak.” Said the little girl while running towards one of the buttons in a wall and started spamming said button.

  She was quite aggressive with the poor button.

  “The what?” Asked the blonde girl while standing on top of where she had felt the rift before. Yep, sure enough, her stress meter started going down once again. And she felt the e with the shadows getting stronger once again too.

  “Oh…Nothing, don’t mind me!” Said cutely the little girl, right...She was going to ighat.

  Could…Could the little girl perceive these cracks that she could see when she focused her shadow energy in her eyes? Either way, she just took another sip from her drink a walking towards the station. She would go outside her [Soulscape] where she arrived the first time and see if she could feel the e strohere.

  If it helped her stress meter go down it would be a rade-off. For now, she would focus on spells!

  She needed more, and while she hadn’t studied that much extra after the first time, she had gotten inspiration heless.

  “Say Alexa…Any way to get schematics fher tier stuff?” Asked the blonde girl while navigating the repertoire of pre-made spells she had. A few healing spells here and there got her attention. But if she was going to work with Rossie…Yeah, no way those would be useful with a dedicated healer on site.

  “Hmm….I mean…You got past the first threshold…So it should be fine…?” Said the little girl while dropping a rag that was somehow dripping something, but she couldn’t quite focus on what it was…

  It was like something was f her to not think about what it was, a few sips ter she found herself seeing how it was normal…water? It was water?

  Sure enough, there were a few puddles here and there, right…Alexa said there was a leak before…

  Most of those puddles were somehow a few timeters away from where she had felt the shadow energy leaking in though. Weird.

  Either way, the little girl gave the bucket and the rag to one of the meical is and came towards the station where she was.

  “How did brother say it was…” Mumbled the little girl while trying to work iation, for her part the blonde girl was uhe stati to not look weird while one of her feet tried to stand in one of the smaller cracks where she could feel shadow energy leaking.

  “TEI!” Said cutely the little girl while grabbing one of the nearby meical ants and using it as a bat to hit the PC…

  “Amm…I think we should call your brother…” Said the blonde girl while looking warily at the PC, after freezing aing she was w if she would need aation to work in. This was the only oh a crader it so she didn’t want to leave it.

  “No, it's okay. Brother said that if I was having trouble to do this to reset it, he said that it was a sure aed methermania.” Came the answer of the little girl who uffing her chest with pride.

  She was about to say that her brother had lied, but after resetting the pc was w as if nothing. And sure enough, she now could see more categories…

  “Motherf…” Mumbled the Elizabeth while the little girl smiled auro direct the meical is in their holy crusade to deal with the puddles.

  Not all of them had the smell of shadow essehough…

  “I Wonder if Alexa would look at me weirdly if I ask for one of the buckets with essehought the blonde girl while scrolling through the new catalog.

  She could see a few iing spells too.

  “Hey Alexa, this summoning spell…I thought they taught it in sed grade only, why is it here?” Asked the blonde girl while pointing at the spell iion. There were even a few warnings about using it.

  “Oh yeah…Why is it there?” Asked back the little girl, after which, she frowned and started fog really hard on something for half a minute only to open her eyes and point directly behind her.

  “YOU CHEATED!” Screamed the little girl at something behind her.

  “YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO E FROM THIS SIDE!” And tinued arguing with something behind her.

  “What?” Was all the blonde girl could say.

  “Huh? Eli-Eli called you? That shouldn’t…” Started mumbling the little girl while writing something quite furiously oablet and then threw said tablet into the face of a poor meical spider that was nearby.

  “Eli-Eli…Did you sign a tract with a demon?” Asked suddenly the little girl.

  Was this a trend? Why has everyone asked that nowadays?

  “Of course not, mama was quite adamant that I didn’t try that without her around.” Answered the blonde girl w what the little girl was going on about.

  “Then why is that sig on your shadow?” Asked the little girl pointing at her feet.

  Elizabeth looked down and sure enough, she could see a couple of eyes looking back at her.

  “Nyx?” Asked the blonde girl and thetle dragon came out from her shadow.

  Would you look at that…

  “This? He came from a subset skill I got after tweaking around and giving form to one of my shadows…” Said the blonde girl, was this thing supposed to e from a summoning spell?

  Didn’t the skill say that the [Minions] weren’t alive?

  “Aren’t summons alive? My skill said it wasn’t alive.” Asked the blonde girl. For her part, the little girl kept gring at the poon while answering

  “The summons are alive…Only by the measure that they take some of the [Mana] of the caster to be alive while summoned. If you make a tract with a [Dweller] then that ges things. They are [Things] that live outside our pne. And usually most refer to them as [Demons] ods].“

  That was iing, so one could summon things alive or summon things that were only alive in the broad sense of the word.

  “That thing was supposed to e from the summoning spell!” She said while pointing at poor Nyx.

  “But I got him anyway so no problem…?” Elizabeth tried to pcate the little girl.

  For his part, Nyx was just flying around the library being smug about something.

  “I mean…yeah…But now god knows what [Restraints] [The World] stuto him! WE HAD THIS WHOLE PLAN” Said the little girl while grabbing a pillod knows where and started screaming into it.

  After which she ran away into a metallic door that Elizabeth was quite sure wasn’t there before, and since said door disappeared after she stopped looking at it. She wasn’t sure where or how that little girl had disappeared.

  “You aren’t going to give me trouble are you Nyx?” Asked the blonde girl towards her shadowy dragon.

  The little dragon for his part just looked at her as if she was asking something incredibly stupid. And in a way he was right.

  “Right…Dragon’s made of shadow energy ’t talk…” Said the blonde girl while returning to work at the station.

  She had plenty of space left!

  Like 18 spots left for spell nodes and 10 spots fical circles.

  The question was… Did she want to disguise her other skills or not… The world thought she ace-attributed magic girl disguising herself as aalist. So perhaps she could sneak by a few space-reted spells?

  And use them as a ‘Triumph card’ for emergencies…

  She didn’t think they would be that powerful… Well…Her spell-casting power should be feeding into her intelligend wisdom stats if the status her mother had were something to go by.

  So perhaps since she had quite a bump into them si time they would be more powerful?

  For now, she would add those and work into what else would be useful. She was getting quite giddy at the idea of all the hings she would be able to add now that her catalog of spells was bigger.

  She just o make sure to stay away from the summoning category. If Alexa was intending to direct her first summon toward Nyx…Perhaps there was something she didn’t wao summon. So it was better to leave that alone for now.

  Also, she would have a harder time expining how she was doing something that they hadn’t taught them yet…

  If for some reason Akira found out about that…She could feel the headache already. No.

  She was getting enough attention on the powered side as it is. She would wait till the ‘Genius’ on the magical side to do their summoning and then summon with the lesser students.

  Wonder what Rossie would summon… Probably a fairy…. The blue-haired smart-ass was going to end with a water sprite or a Nymp…Perhaps an undine?

  Not that she would be too ied in that, her only was him not being a creep with the spirit. She had heard Mother rant about high-ranking mages being creeps when they mao summon high-grade spirits… Especially sihe branding of the summoning circle included that obedienand.

  She got shivers from thinking about that.

  So she got int her new spell list to distract herself from that. In the end…The little girl didn’t return. So Elizabeth spent the rest of her time sipping from her sports drinks to restore her mana and a few hours floating by in her soulscape.

  She found that quite funny, since she turned herself into an asteroid orbiting her soulscape. Just hugging Nyx while being soothed by the shadow energy permeating her [Soul]. She could feel how the shadow energy ermeating her soulscape. Looking for ways to get ihat was a somewhat funny sight since her soulscape only allowed it in a few spaces. Most were on the powered side managed by Alexanders.

  But she was w if the shadow energy wao permeate her magical side for her [in]?

  She would add a few shadow spells before leaving pletely. But for now, she would sleep. This was a really fy pce with the soothing energy from the shadows embrag her. And Nyx…Nyx was quite a nice hugging pillow…She….would….repce….Rossie…with…him….Was….Nyx…. a…. Him?