She was...Happy...Yes, she was happy.

  Her heart never had felt this full before her daily life with Elizabeth started. She even started speaking with some of her cohorts in the magic csses she had when Elizabeth wasn't around.

  Even though the blonde girl was adamant about the sharing of household chores, she couldn't deceive her. She was like a cat.

  So long you allowed her a fy spot to y down she would do so, so long you didn't go over the top with the scratchs as she would allow it. And if you were lucky...She might even allow you to snuggle with her!

  So while she spent her daily days in this academy with a warm feeling growing by the day in her chest and some sleepless nights just staring at her...Friend...

  So while spending her days doing undry and ing Elizabeth's dishes and washing her own. She found herself with a drum.

  While going about her daily life one m after finishing making the breakfast someone knocked on their door. So when she went to look who it was she found...Her.

  It was a woman, she didn't look older than perhaps 25 years old... And she had quite the looks, but that wasn't the problem. No. The main problem was that she smelled like Elizabeth.

  It had that sweet under st that somehow was fresh like a m, but hers had aaste in it. It was like the st of a hundred different flowers mixed together trying to hide an uone in her, it felt...Close to her own smell.

  "Well well...Who is this one I wonder." Said the woman while smiling at her and looking her up and down.

  She could smell her mana making invisible magical circles all over herself, but tried her best to not try and follow the mana moving all over her body "I'm Rosalina Singh." She said while trying to not think too much about who that mysterious woman was.

  "Hmm...I see..." Said the woman who opehe door and walked into the living area "I'm Eli-Eli's Mother. You may call me Catherine." She said while she snapped his fingers and a magical circle materialized above their coffee table.

  "Tea or Coffee?" Asked the woman.

  She was fbbergasted by the antics of this woman, but she answered "Coffee is fine." While closing the door and walking to one of the chairs in their living area.

  The woman just her answer and the magical circle materialized a cup of coffee, she didn't smell anything wrong with the mana in the cup of coffee so she took a sip and was amazed at the taste.

  "It is one of my favorite brands. They still haven't mao produce here..." She said while sav the drink. Or at least that was what it looked like oside.

  She oher hand could smell the mana of that woman lurking all around, when she felt it going towards Elizabeth's room she couldn't trol herself and turned her head in that dire.

  "So that's where Eli-Eli is huh...You are more iing than what My Daughter said." The woman said and she [Felt it]. The mana solidifies and turns her head toward that woman.

  "Hmm..." She murmured while her body was lifted by the invisible tendrils of mana. "The body looks good enough..." Was murmuring to the woman while she was levitated off the floor.

  "The soul seems somewhat damaged though." Her what?

  She khat she wasn't normal like the irls around, but to say her [Soul] was damaged...

  "So tell me, girl. What do you think of my daughter?" Asked the woman while one of those invisible circles shot into her head. And she felt as if the world started losing color once again.

  "She is my world." Said her mouth while her brain started to run wild, she didn't want this. She didn't want to lose all the color in her world again.

  "Oh...Right, sorry...I know what that feels too. But uand me, I do o be sure." Said the woman and the world stopped losing color. The previous colors didn't return but at least it wasn't progressing once again.

  "Have you met ahat cims himself a [God] in a white room?" She asked.

  And suddenly the world arourembled, something in the very back of her mind struggled "[Gotcha]" Said the woman who suddenly was in front of her.

  At some point, she had moved faster than she could perceive and one of her hands was shoved straight into her chest. "[I have you now you piece of shit.]" Said the woman in a weird nguage. But somehow she uood every single word.

  Iioracted her arm leaviill floating in the air with a gaping wound in her chest, she wao move her mana to close the wound, to cast a healing spell on herself before her sciousness faded. But her mana wouldn't respond...

  She started feeling cold...So cold...Somehow the feeling was nostalgic too...

  The woman oher hand was holding a weird cristal with a broke in it. "Hmm...The tract was broken?" She said while turning to look at her.

  "ht...The wound, sorry about that." And then without saying a thing she pced her hand over her chest and a pink magical circle so plex that it baffled her mind materialized above the hand of the woman. "[Sacred Heal]" she said and her wound meself, the blood that ttered all over the pce shined in a gold color and flew itself inside her again.

  The feeling of dread and ess disappeared and for a sed...Florious sed... All the wained color.

  But it faded to its normal color just as soon as the spell ended and the woman said "I still have it ier all~" gratuting herself.

  She could move once again and the first thing she did was check the wound on her chest. "It's gone..." She said while looking at her ruined shirt.

  "...What?" Was all she could say while looking with dread at the woman. Now that she wasn't suspended in the air and the feeling of something invading her mind was gone she noticed how everything was looking as if she was seeing through water.

  She tried to wipe her eyes and found a crystal-clear liquid in them...Was she g? She turo one of the mirrors in the living area and sure enough. Her refle was a mess, his shirt was ripped apart showing her chest, and her bra had fallen at some point while the woman was fishing for something inside her body.

  Her makeup was a mess since her tears had rui all, and her shoulders were going up and down with her erratic breathing from her g.

  "Now that is out of the way..." Said the woman turnitention back to her. "...And since I firmed that you aren't a threat to Eli-Eli...Well, not anymore." tinued saying that woman, no apology for the treatment she had given her.

  "You are allowed to tinue living with my daughter." Said the woman while looking down on her, as if she needed permission to share a room with her!

  She had earhis fair and square!

  "I will ighe fact that the inal student that was supposed to share a room with my daughter disappeared mysteriously." Said that woman and all the pints that she wao say died.

  She found out? That was impossible! There was no evidence left!

  "And since my daughter seems to have a liking to you and you are doing a fine work as her maid you will be keeping doing so. What you do in your free time is your thing after all..." Said that woman while walking towards Elizabeth's room, stopping at the door.

  "Should Elizabeth wish more of you...I will grant you my royal blessing..." Said the woman, making her blush at the idea... She...She hought...

  She never ever sider it...

  "Do work hard at yoals... If my daughter asks for it I wouldn't mind [Healing your broken soul]" She said while smiling at her and then walked ihe room.

  She felt one by one how the multiple spells she had pced inside Elizabeth's room got destroyed...And a few of them she directly lost trol of them.

  "Leave us. I need some time with my daughter." And on that note she found herself teleported to the other side of the campus, with new clothes on her. At the very least she didn't o worry about getting new clothes.

  Before she never worried about if others saw her or not. But after living with Elizabeth she didn't want anyone else to see her like that...

  So she just walked to one of the secluded spots in her favorite park and threw herself on the floor, she had too much to think.

  First, the mother of Elizabeth was nuts.

  Sed, she had said something about her soul being broken.

  Third, she had fished something from inside her and ripped it out.

  Fourth, she felt better after she did so.

  Fifth, she spoke and acted like royalty.

  Sixth, that meant her Elizabeth rincess!

  She couldn't help but smile at that thought, she always knew her Elizabeth was too adorable to be a peasant like her!

  That made her happy... And that was something else too, the mother of Elizabeth could cast some powerful healing magic...She also had a degree of trol over mind and body type magic. But as a royal, she probably could buy off that type of magic easily enough...

  She...Didn't want to go near her if possible...The mere thought of doing so gave her shivers all over, at least she could keep living near Elizabeth...And if nothing else she was told that she could live as a maid uhem...If she got lucky and Elizabeth wanted her as something more...Then she also had gotten authorization.

  She had only o be mind and perhaps soul raped for it. She couldn't help but ugh at that.

  The first true emotion she ever felt came from Elizabeth in the form of her love for her. The sed had been from her mother...In the form of fear.

  In the end, she spent almost all day in the park, not daring to even walk in the dire of their apartment till she got a message in her phohat only read "My daughter needs her dinner."

  She interpreted it as her mother meaning that she had left, so after calling to the apartments to find out no one had visited them that day she went back. She found Elizabeth asleep in her dorm, with no evidence of her mother around.

  So after yering the most noninvasive of her spells in the room, she went to make dinner. Her Elizabeth didn't speak much about her mother, only saying that she had e around and pined about her teag methods being too brutish.

  She ughed at that while saying "What magic did she teach you?" she wao be sure that her Elizabeth hadn't been at risk.

  "Oh nothing much, just some advanced [Mana] exercises...I think?" Said the blonde while ining her head to the side thinking about a better way to expin it.

  SO ADORABLE!

  She wao jump into her arms and bind their aromas together so much that she was having a hard time keeping her mana in trol, it robably fshing in her eyes right now. But it seemed that the blonde was tired from the training since she didn't bring it up.

  And on that note ehat terrible day.

  She kept doing her work in the apartment, ing Elizabeth's dishes, washing her own...Doing the same on the undry front...She found her destroyed shirt and bra in a box when going over the undry... And decided to bury that as far aossible from their apartment.

  She knew enough ways to traeoh their belongings that she didn't want to risk burning or ripping them apart. Better to dissolve it in acid in a hole somewhere. She had experience doing that already anyway.

  So a couple of days after that one day after the annou speaking of midterms with the udent cil president she found her problem.

  A (allegedly) handsome man was standing outside their apartment. Elizabeth was in her csses and she had just returned from buying groceries.

  " I help you sir?" She said while the bck-haired man turo look at her. She fought hard and stopped breathing for a sed when his smell hit her.

  IT WAS SO DENSE!

  He smelt as if one had densed a thousand Elizabeths and shoved them in her nostrils!

  Wait? A thousand Elizabeths?

  "Oh hello, Lassy...I'm Elizabeth's Father." Said the man while nontally grabbing her grocery bags "I just o speak to her for something but fot about getting a spare key." He said while ughing at himself.

  This man was the husband of that monster?

  "You must be Rosalina? My wife spoke about you being a good girl." He said while extending one of his hands for a handshake.

  She shuddered at the mention of that woman, but the maeo not notice it and just smiled while waiting for her response.

  "I'm Rosalina Singh indeed. A pleasure." If he was something like that womaer to py it safe.

  So she opted for a more subservient role, so she opehe door for the man "We wait inside, Eli-Eli will return in a few hours." She said while inviting that man inside.

  "Oh I see, well don't mind if I do." Said the man while pg the grocery bags ihe kit and then walking towards their living area.

  She for her part grabbed the bags and started s them in their kit. " I help you with anything?" She said while rag her brains about how to win this man to her side.

  "Doubt you have Beer...So water is fine." He said while looking at their apartment.

  She was gd that she had gotten into the habit of ing after that i with that woman. "I still o go and buy some things for dinner, Sir." She said while thinking about her move.

  "So I get you some Beer and if you want something to eat while speaking with Eli-Eli I prepare it too." She said while bringing her notebook. She would win this man, even if she o be the best maid to ever walk the p!

  The man for his part just looked amused and gave her a list of dishes he enjoyed.

  So after exg herself, she scoured the stores and mao get everything. The beer was the easiest one for some reason, since half of the students had a strong enough body te the toxins it seemed as if drinking beer wasn't a problem. She did o prove that she could purge the beer from her system with magic. But that was easy enough.

  So after making the preparations she ended up speaking with the man, he was...Weird in another way.

  While the woman reeked of royalty...The man was more...simple.

  He seemed more like an old grampa that fought in the war than the appearance of a young adult he had, and while he dressed like an actor from a drama he spoke straight to the point.

  So when Elizabeth woke up and found her father iheir living area she excused herself before the man said anything. Elizabeth for her part didn't mind it either, since she was too busy snuggling at her father.

  The lucky bastard.

  So now instead of being teleported to the other side of the school she walked to the reception a instrus so they would notify her when the visitor left.

  She spent the rest of the day walking around the school thinking about that man, she didn't feel any hostility from him. If anything he was quite the good pany. With some luck, he would protect her from that woman... She didn't hold much hope in that regard though.

  After a couple of hours, she got a notification about the man leaving and so she returo the apartment. Where she found the dishes i...

  She...Wasn't sure who where from who. So she resigned herself and washed them all with gusto...These ones she wouldn't destroy, uhe ohat woman had left behind.

  So before leaving for her bed, she went to che Elizabeth as always, only to fianding in the bed with tentacles made of shadows and a dragon on her back. "Oh sorry Eli-Eli...I thought you were sleeping!" She was about to say in reflex wheiced the eyes of the blonde were closed.

  She narrowed her eyes, this was different. None of her wards had warned her against fn people here so that meant that thing was either summoned by a skill of that man (She discarded the notion since she doubted he would leave her daughter like this) or Elizabeth herself.

  But while her Elizabeth was zy, she doubted she was smart enough to instruct the lizard to ge her clothes when she fot about ging them herself.

  In the end, the dragon answered the question by writing in the air using the shadows, so she beed the words toward herself. Why?

  So she could watch her Elizabeth through the openings iter, her supple body showing through the half-open pajamas...

  Her chest going up and down with her breathing...

  Her lips while she mumbled in her sleep...

  Her hands trying to grab one of those shadowy tentacles...

  She felt her heart beating in her chest and the mana c at high speed in her body, her body while it was heating itself... Her eyes how they must be radiating the excess mana...

  And the smell...She could smell that sweet aroma from Elizabeth permeating the room... The dragon also was emitting the same smell as Elizabeth, so that meant that he was one of the blonde's skills...

  What she would do with one of those as Skill...Or as a spell...

  "I...I help...you...Undressing her ?" She said hoping the dragon wouldn't feel the duplicity in her.

  He just nodded and moved her Elizabeth so she was looking straight at her.

  So with the utmost care, she started undressing her, she had seen the goods previously obviously, and she had seen her sleeping before too (And had a rec of those events). But it was the first time she had seen her sleeping and so...Vulnerable.

  Each motion was slow and with the utmost care, each time her skin touched hers she felt as if her heart would leap from her chest. But she mao undress her in the end.

  The dragon had a ge of clothes at the ready, but she mao vince him that ging the underwear wasn't needed. She wouldn't survive the night if she o put underwear on the blonde. She was feeling her rational mind leaving her body.

  So with haste, she dressed the blonde in one silk gown, sihat would be easier, and after leaving the room she cast a noise-g spell on the room.

  She then proceeded to cast another one in the apartment so no noise would leak to the outside. Ohat was done she breathed hard in and out.

  She could see her refle in one of the mirrors in the living room, her face was flushed red, her eyes were red, she was in ragged breaths. And her eyes were shining a pii. "That's new ?" even her voice had an underlying tone she hadn't heard before.

  So she went to her room, undressed herself, and threw herself into the bed. She grabbed the pillow Elizabeth had used the night before breathed in hard and screamed into the pillow.

  She wasn't getting much sleep this night. She could already feel her hands twitg.

  Yeah, she was not getting any sleep tonight was she ??