Agatha's POV

  She restigious teacher at the academy.

  Perhaps she wasn't the best [Witch], but she certainly wasn't the best [Magical Girl] when active.

  But right now she was annoyed.

  The little spawn of a brat that called herself the daughter of Catherine was in her css, and if that wasn't enough of a reminder of that... Woman.

  She also was the first to mao ge intical girl outfit.

  At least she had the authority to give the prize to that kid instead of her, with her heritage she didn't he extra resources they would allot for reward anyway.

  She did o tweak the rules to prevent her or her friend from getting the reward for sed and third pce...

  At least they approved the ge sihey too deemed the advantage of that brat enough already.

  And besides, the kid had a nice prospect for an orphan, so they also thought it better use of the material.

  So she taught him and did he learned.

  He had mastered enough spells to put a third grade to shame, and several levels and styles of shield spells.

  So when the bout was deemed to advance she used the ge to pit the prodigy the school was raising against that brat.

  Her friend wasn't an option sihe school wao nurture her as a [Healer].

  The first exercise of the day was the [Shift], and her protegee did it wonderfully, he waited for the attention to shift to others. And so he cast the spell and ged well enough.

  She could feel the [Security Node] she suggested him w trying to erase and tamper her memory.

  Of course, a simple flick of her mental defenses was enough to squash that interference. Probably no one else in this arena could reize who he was.

  She would o advise him in another o edit his fad presenext.

  The problem was that cheeky brat. She not only brought attention to her [Shift], her transformation in itself was the problem.

  Her [Magical Outfit] was totally different from her [True Ohis was closer to a pastel outfit of a normal magical girl. If she tried to use the thematic as a guide she robably trying to pass as aal wielder instead of her [Space Affinity].

  That was endable in itself, and she would appud it if it was audent...In her sed or third year.

  This brat ged her outfit in a week somehow, not only the outfit, her presence was altered, and her face was somewhat more cute looking. Her hair was shorter...

  She did the work all right.

  And also the [Security Nodes], she could feel at least two at work, the ohat disrupted the [Idea] to alter the perception and the ohat ged her appearance.

  But that is the problem here.

  If she had less power she couldn't be sure that was the cheeky brat of a daughter of Catherine.

  It was the feedback from the arena and the school that gave her the answer of who that brat was.

  Her mental defenses couldn't resist it...

  And if she wasn't paying attention she would probably fet it.

  How did she mao get that level of a [Node]?

  That robably sneaked in a high-level book or nurtured her in person.

  Because of course the limits and rules of the academy were meanio that woman.

  Ugh...At least she could hope for the kid to pound her into the ground at least once.

  She did nurture him personally to that end...

  So whearted fighting she got annoyed.

  That brat ulling punches. Uhe kid that was fighting at his top shape.

  He even used plex shields and that backfired him quite greatly.

  "This is why you must analyze your oppo, she cast a plex spell with several spells pos, so the defense of the [Sage] wasn't the right one." And he indeed suffered, that disorienting feel from the different mana waves would disrupt his casting so he was limited to simpler spells.

  And look at that, the brat was already using that ce.

  "Now miss [Elemental Weaver] will use this ce to use a heavier spell even if simple to hit him undefended." And she stood in position and...

  Didn't do that, she again used an overly plex spell... Stupid prodigies with their overly plex spells.

  See?

  He used a simpler barrier spell and even stopped the atta its tracks.

  "And that's why you must never be overfident, miss [Elemental Weaver] missed her ce at an easy win." Never miss a ce to gloat. I always get told to deal with this, but how I not gloat at this?

  That brat of a girl seems to be saying something my way, but who cares?

  Probably is asking about gettira points or something like her Mother. That woman always wao get extra points for the overly plex spells that she likes to use.

  Huh?

  Then that happened...

  What?

  The kid may have gotteter by using way too many spells as an attack.

  But how did that brat end in that bad of a state?

  She is bleeding all over the pce, her clothes are even at their limit of defense...

  And if my [Analyze] spell is to be believed those clothes pack quite the defense.

  Did...Did she brave her way that barrage only using her body and seo dodge?

  Why didn't she cast a shield?

  Was... Wasn't she as talented as her mother?

  ... Oh...

  Could she...

  Could she be using the wrong type of spells?

  That couldn't be...

  Could she be not using her [Affinity] and she tried to fight using others?

  I mean...

  That would expin why she o use that overly plex and missing that pun her spells...

  Why in the nine heavens and four hells is that brat using the wrong affinity?

  I will be among the first to admit that I was having trouble parsing what just happened.

  At least the barrier detected the state of that brat of a girl and turned off the barrier.

  "BOUT END, BOTH TESTANTS STOP THE FIGHT!" And so I flew into the arena.

  On my right the brat of a cheeky girl... If you knew her mother then it wasn't impossible to not see that woman superimposed in that brat.

  That cheeky smile and those eyes that you could perceive how she was looking down on the world.

  I don't know how she mao do it, but she disguised her [Space Affinity] of her previous suit, but you could still see that affinity peaking in her eyes.

  And she even had the cheek to ask who the winner was.

  Did she think that because her oppo was on the ground it would be her victory?

  With those wounds?

  Or was this a threat?

  "... It's a tie, only because the [Sage] does not look like he stand, you are lucky girl, that wouldn't work in a seasoned [Mage]. They know better." So that was what I told her.

  Her response oher hand wasn't something I expected.

  Did she try to surrender?

  When?

  Oh...That was what she tried to tell her?

  Oops...

  Yeah...That might e to bite me ter on...

  I wonder if I send her mother a video of her daughter losing the fight...

  ...And of course, her friend isn't trying to heal the [Sage]... Yeah... 't bme her on that. He did leave her friend in a mess of wounds...

  Undisclosed location.

  She was ecstatic about the situation.

  "See see! Look at her transformation!" The blonde woman in the overly bright and overly cute outfit was shrieking while jumping in her seat.

  "The [Security Nodes] are no joke. I feel the presence of a few hidden...But I 't see them." Said another woman, this one a white-haired one, she was dressed in a white robe and you couldn't see her eyes since her hood covered half her face. Said hood was decorated with sigils and gems all over the pce.

  "Did you slip her a book or [Scroll] to your daughter Stardust?" Asked a horned man with dark blue skin and white hair. He was donning a set of overly demonic armor and you could feel mali his smile.

  "Rude!" Answered aghast the blonde woman while grabbing her chest as if terribly wounded and at the same time she was closing her chair to the bck-haired and overly muscled body tht.

  "...I tried to stop her from doing it..." That was all the muscle man said.

  "She wasn't successful." Said a man in white monk robes and a full body dark body suit. His face was covered by a mask that only had a white circle.

  "I firm it. I checked the logs and all the books Elizabeth accessed were normal ones. And no tampering was found in her room nor the room of her cssmate." Said a man with a suit, if Elizabeth could see him, she would scream 'Arthur' while pointing his fingers at him.

  "My wards are intact too, not even Stardust could pierce them without alerting me." Came the final voice of a man dressed in cssical Japanese robes with a katana at his side even.

  Of course, he wasn't a warrior but a Mage, so why did he use a katana? We will never know.

  "The security of the school wasn't breached oeology side either." Came the quiet voice of a girl she wasn't the you-looking one in this weird group, but she was amongst the you. She was dressed in an e bodysuit and had hair that was somewhat messy. Her face donned a weird mask that looked like it was a half-meid of course, she had headphones with a Fox theme.

  "Why 't I get a transformation effect like that?" Asked a little girl with blue hair while lig a giant lollipop, she was dressed in what could only be described as a riot body armor with a police-style uniform.

  "We have talked about this several times already." Said anirl with white hair, the only difference is that this one didn't hide her fad was also dressed in an army uniform. She also had a sniper rifle on the back of her chair.

  "[We already firmed that she didn't cheat, this was a meaningless versation.]" Said the st person in the room.

  The man and legend, [Shadow Pact].

  "It isn't meaningless! It's about Eli-Eli!" Said the blonde woman while pouting and crossing her arms.

  "Also we o check the new harvest either way." Came the voice of the bck-haired man to the left of Stardust Explorer.

  "She does have talent, even if her spells look somewhat... Lag." Said Arthur examining the fight as it advanced.

  They all were watg different fights iime, but for some reason, the oh Elizabeth was the only oh sound and also the only one projected on a big s.

  "Oh...That kid noticed the girl was using weaker spells." Said the little girl with blue hair.

  "Oof, that will hurt." Added the white-haired girl with the sniper rifle.

  They all were eveing snacks and drinking sodas like this was aertaining match.

  The ones who provided said snacks were the parents of Elizabeth, so they didn't piher.

  "What?" Or they were till the final stretch of that very short match arrived.

  "A rewind please?" Said the Japanese-robed man.

  "Sure." Answered Arthur while pressing a button in his seat. "And here, slow motion as a freebie." And so they watched it again i instants of the match.

  There they saw how Elizabeth weaved her spells one by one.

  "Ooooh, sneaky girl, she hid it well, but she also teless casted [Body Of Mana] to mitigate the side effects of the backssh." Said the demon-looking man.

  "Also look at that weave of mana. How did she achieve that mastery? Didn't she just awaken?" Asked the Monk.

  "That she did, she hadn't used mana before ing to school." Said the white-haired woman with the hood.

  "Well, talent 't expin that." Said Arthur. "I 't sense mana but her powered talent shouldn't help her, it felt like it was elementally attuned with a sprinkle of info gathering. Probably closer to an [Rogue]/[Thief] variation" Fihe suited man.

  "Of course, it isn't only talent, she is my little girl!" Said the blonde woman while prog with her chest puffed in pride.

  "Do you think she formed a ant with something?" Came the voice of the white-haired sniper.

  "[ies have vioted the pne in these st weeks.]" That was all [Shadow Pact] said before tinuing to watch the match.

  There Elizabeth had finished casting her self-buff and was now running iween the rain of attacks.

  She had very little spaove around.

  "Also, if she made a ant, they didn't give that good of a [Gift], no self strength, no advanced healing..." Said the little girl with blue hair.

  "She seems to have advanced izance since she move at that kind of speed without problems." Said the white-haired sniper.

  "If you think not having problems is taking that much damage then of course." Came in the voice of the other white-haired woman.

  "[Gentleman, we are going in a ta. Is she worthy of notice?]" Asked [Shadow Pact].

  "Of course she is! Look how she defeats the bad guy!" Said the blonde woman while pointing at the s where the battered form of Elizabeth stood in front of the blue-haired [Sage].

  And then in one swift motion, she kicked him in his groin.

  Most of the man grimaced at that, the only ohat looked ued was [Shadow Pact]. But then again, he is built differently.

  "So will you use your vote on her?" Asked the demonic-looking man.

  "Of course not! Eli-Eli doesn't need my help." Answered the blonde woman smiling. "My vote is for the [Sage]." Finished with a smile.

  "He left your daughter quite wounded... You sure?" Asked in firmation the Japanese robbed man.

  "Eli - Eli survive that, also she earhose wounds, if she had used her [inal Magic] then she wouldn't be like that." And on that hey carried on talking about other topics.

  Security ahreats for the world.

  New possible heroes being nurtured in the different schools.

  New possible vilins raising among the popuce.

  All important stuff they had to deal with.

  For they were the oo defend and fight the problems.

  They were [The Twelve].

  Of course, some were thinking about other things too.

  A woman thinking about if she could nab the pink-haired girl that was healing her friend with a worried face.

  Another one smiling at the idea of how her daughter had mao create suplicated spells that soon.

  A man thinking about if he could make tact with that [Sage] kid.

  A man shrouded in shadows w what was the true affinity of Elizabeth.

  And then Arthur, w why no one questioned how that girl had gotteype of [Security hat needed ralization from their work to be bypassed.