She awoke with one of the worst migraines she had ever had before, she felt sticky all over as if she had sweat all night. While trying to get up she found that her body felt tired, extremely tired. A quice at her own [Status] showcased some...Dangerous information.

  Status:Health: 50%Stamina: 20%Mana: 0%Stress: 75%

  Somehow she had lost quite the amount of health, her stamina was incredibly low, granted she khat without looking as she felt quite tired ahargic. The surprise was more on the mana and stress front.

  She wasn't sure why or how she had lost that much mana...As in...All her mana aress were once again on the rise. Hadn't she tried to sleep in the fortable feeling of the shadow essence?

  Why had her stress skyrocketed then?

  She felt once again the spike of pain in her head and raised her left hand to massage her temples, only to stop short and look at her hand "What the hell?" Said the blonde girl seeing her hand covered in a slimy liquid. Looking closely at herself she found more of that transparent and slimy liquid all over her body, she threw the sheet away and sure enough, her whole body was covered in that mysterious liquid.

  "Nyx, what the hell happened?" Asked the blonde girl while pointing with her left hand at one of the walls and making a shadow move there and create a circle. Sure enough, Nyx came flying from it and just looked her up and down.

  Then he just growled, got a her, and flew bato the shadow portal, after a few mihe little girl got thrown out of the same portal half asleep, and just looked everywhere before settling on Elizabeth.

  "[What happened Mistress?]" Started saying the girl while rubbing her eyes, as if she had just awoken too. It was only after she took a closer look at Elizabeth that she started fussing "[WHAT HAPPEO YOU MISTRESS WHO DARED TO DESECRATE YOUR HOLY BODY LIKE THIS?!?!?]" She screamed in rage while jumping from one shadow to the .

  She spent a few minutes doing so, and in the end, she just shoved her head instead of her whole body searg for something. "[WHERE ARE THE SCOUTS?!? THE GUARDS?!? THE HOUNDS?!? WHAT DO WE HAVE THEM FOR THEN!?!?]" Said the little girl while fuming about this and that.

  It seemed as if they all had been asleep, she noticed her mana was trig up once again. Albeit slowly, but whetle girl brought another shadon it trickled down once again. It never went to 0% though. She stopped the summoning when it came closer to 1%.

  "I guess you all got knocked down when my mana got to 0%?" Said the blonde while pointing at her [Status]. The little girl stopped berating the summoned dragons and turoward her status s. So the little girl could see her status?

  "[That robably the reason...We have some degree of...[Freedom] thanks to Lord Nyxfyre but you are our [Nexus] Mistress...Whatever the reason your [Mana] went to 0% it probably followed said [Nexus] and siphohe mana that made us and allows us to [Reside] in this pne...]" Mumbled the little girl. She still was berating the other dragons though.

  Something about 'Not leaving any clue even though they felt someone was draining their mana' She didn't make aion about herself also not leaving any clue...

  Nor tried to berate Nyx...Smart girl.

  For her part, the bloarted the day (Covered in this weird slimy liquid) by standing and eng herself in shadows. She would not more than the necessary amount...So she wao tain whatever this liquid was to a minimum. Her bed sheets were a lost cause, so she used her new [Iory] evolution to throw the dirty bed sheets and pillows inside and walked to the bathroom.

  She opehe door without thinking mud found...That it was quite the hroom, small and cozy...It could probably allow two to three persons to use it at the same time... Well, two using the bathtub and ohe shower...But still, it was quite an iing size...Probably wasn't built thinking of that...

  Why was she thinking about that?

  "It matters not...It seems Rossie is still asleep...Was she that tired?" Wondered aloud the blonde girl while sending her current slime-covered outfit to her [Iory] pajamas, underwear, and slippers included, and first went to the shower.

  The water was just at the right temperature, she wasn't sure if it was the refreshing feeling from the water or the fact that most of that weird slimy liquid was washing away but it felt quite nice. After almost 10 minutes uhe water, she decided two things were obvious.

  The first one, she was mostly and free from the dubious identity of that weird liquid... The sed was that Rossie was a heavy sleeper, more so than herself. She wasn't quite sure why she felt let down by the fact that she hadn't e. Was it because she wao see if she would be flustered at finding her in the shower?

  A childish revenge on her for fshing her like that when they first were living together? Maybe. But she still wasn't too sure why she had felt the o pull her little prank. So while thinking about that drenched in water and looking at her refle on the pristine walls of the bathroom.

  She decided to give it ano, so she walked to the bathtub and sat inside while letting the water flow, it always felt rexing to her to just sit ihtub with her eyes closed and just felt her whole body uhe embrace of the water.

  This one had smart temperature trol, so the water wasn't even that hot or cold, just the right temperature. This made it easier for the girl to focus inward, she was now once again inside her soulscape, not fully immersed, but just enough to get a feeling of the spaside her [Soul].

  Her [Soulscape] was as usual, but the feeling oside was...Different, she felt almost a repulsion when she wao travel to the outside of her [Soulscape] to see what was going on. A...She felt something stopping her.

  A quick look around and she found the reason, on her left arm there was a shining red bracelet, it blinked as an arm, the more she struggled to go to the outside the more it shined...

  'Iing' Was all the blonde girl could think.

  Before leaving the [Soulscape] the girl noticed an annou board that wasn't there before, and a sie.

  We o talk.

  e and see me.

  Also, stop poking and traveling outside the [Soulscape] you aren't supposed to go there, you dumb girl!

  -Alexanders Saintsworth.

  She felt annoyed while returning to the real world "[Mistress, the breakfast is ready. you wake up Mother?]" said the little girl who had entered into the bathroom at some point and who was now her a bathrobe. Elizabeth didn't mind it that much while drying her air with a simple [Lifestyle Spell - Hair Dryer]. One of the most ve spells she ever found. And simple enough that it didn't even need a spa her spell nodes ic circles!

  Whoever had studied the spell and simplified it to these levels was a genius.

  So the blonde girl used a towel to dry herself off, put ohrobe, and used ara dry towel to her hair in, even if the spell was supposed to dry her hair, care was still needed...Besides it was a nice habit to keep for those times she couldn't cast spells. She left most of the skincare and dressing in other clothes for ter.

  Her stress was still high (Even if only at 50% now) her stamina and mana were better, but even so, she was feeling tired, so before waking Rossie up she went to the the undry room in their apartment and got the slimy clothes into the washing mae using only her shadows.

  She left a shadon in charge of making sure the clothes were and delivering them to her room after they fiheir washing and drying cycle...She would o do the same with the bed sheets and pillow, but those were lower priority, since she had repts for those in the apartment, but her favorite pajamas and underwear were a totally different problem!

  And on that note, she moved from the undry room to the dining one...And then an important decision was in front of her, the dishes were served...The food was ready and the little girl maid was o be seen, a quick s with her shadow senses showed that most of the dragons were missing. Nyx erched on one of the sofas in the living room true. But the others weren't around.

  A s into her shadow showed that they weren't there either, and a quick peek at her [Soulscape] found them mostly resting in a small mansion in a er of the Laboratory half that was her powered side.

  Most sleeping or sitting here or there, the little maid was among the sitting ones, even if she was sitting on a sofa trying to stay awake, not having much success.

  She had noticed her skills were moving more slowly...But she thought it roblem with the mana drain she was experieng...As, she was getting distracted again.

  "To ge or not to ge..." Said the blonde, for that, was the drum she was under.

  On one side...Rossie never actually seemed to care about how she was dressed around her... And that must feel liberating, she had grown to mind how she looked, after all...Even if her father or mother never said anything. She was aware that as the daughter of top heroes...Some expectations o be met.

  It art of the reason she had crafted her public personas as overachievers...And why she just wao ze around if possible. So not having to really dress up in public...

  Yeah...She would try it. "You do it Elizabeth!" Said the bloo herself trying to hype up. And like that, she walked towards the room where Rossie was still asleep.

  The girl it seems was a heavy sleeper away from the pressure from School, that was almost cute...If not for the blonde wanting to also sleep like that till noon. Why was she even awake today?

  She didn't eveo do something on Sunday, most of her work would be doomorrow anyway whe with [Ea]. Her Magic work was in the air, so maybe she could do that today?

  Still, she wao fix her powered side first.

  FOCUS ELIZABETH!

  She sharpened her will, focused it into her mana...Grabbed the resulting [Idea]...And...And..."[Open the door Elizabeth, you are only waking up yirlfr....your Female Friend!]" walked into the room of Rossie. It was...very simple.

  She hadn't seen how she decored her room at the school...But at the very least the one she had here was...Bare. When she awoke in this room yesterday she didn't focus oails, for she was too pao react. But the room was simple beyond measure.

  No posters on the walls...A really simple... Her bed held ra plushies like her own room that had her favorite shark plushy... No personal pillow...ra cushion...No wait, she was using a hugging pillow...Who had a shirt on for some reason? But beyond that her bed was normal.

  Her desk only had a single pink book and a pen, no pen case ra mp, no stickers decorating the notebook, no posters on the walls...Grahey would not stay here long...But even so, she still couldn't imagihe reason why she wouldn't at least hang a poster.

  The bookcase in the room, as well as the bookshelf, were bare, only the bookshelf had a couple of pictures on it, a family picture with a small girl that resembled Rossie and some adults that...Didn't resemble her at all. Her adoptive parents? Oher side icture of her and Rossie on the first day of csses.

  It looked more like a selfie where she iently photobombed the pink-haired girl, but Rossie ositioned in a way that it looked iional, she couldn't help but smile at that, she would take a picture of that one or ask for a copy... And maybe take the pink-haired girl to take a couple of pictures iy. She needed more decorations if nothing else!

  Her wardrobe was closed so she didn't get any idea of what was inside, but if it was like hers...It robably empty with only a pair of uniforms to ge and the si of civilian clothes they were allowed t. To the right of the wardrobe was what looked like her vanity...And that was a very broad way to refer to that piece of furniture.

  For a while, it had a vanity mirror with lights...It held very little makeup, just enough to think that the owner cared about her appearance...But that was it, she hadn't noticed it before, but Rossie truly didn't use that much makeup... Granted she didn't hat much...

  Not at the grade of herself that barely used any at all besides some eyeshadow and some lipstick here and there, but it was still somewhat...Sad.

  She would pull out her knowledge about the mystic arts of makeup and teach her ter!

  It would be fun if anything else and a good way to spend time without having to leave the apartment, she didn't feel too muergy to do so today anyway.

  So after finishing that pn, she walked towards the bed, the pink-haired girl was soundly sleeping, she could see her ying there head fag the ceiling and with her eyes closed. She khat the girl was sleeping because her breathing was slow and steady, she could make up her chest going up and down very slowly. She wondered if she could snuggle on the girl while she was like this...

  While the bed didn't look fortable, the girl sleeping on it made it oig....' FOCUS ELIZABETH!' Admohe blonde girl to her more devious side.

  She was on a holy mission!

  SHE WAS HERE TO WAKE UP ROSSIE AND FEED HER!

  So very slowly she walked to the side of the bed and in a slow ahodical way, she lowered her body so that her face was he ear of the pink-haired girl.

  "Rossie, wake up~" Started saying the girl in the most soft tone she could achieve. "It's time for breakfast~" Added at the eing the tone of her void in a wavy sound.

  The pink-haired girl didn't seem to react, so she went ahead and with her right hand started very slowly ahodically gave a very slow shake on her arm. "Wakey wakey~~" Whispered the blonde girl with a smile on her face.

  The pink-haired girl was getting annoyed if the frown on her face was something to go by, but the blonde girl couldn't get the smile out of her face, SHE JUST LOOKED TOO CUTE SLEEPING!

  She wondered why she couldn't look like this while sleeping. If anything Rossie didn't have a problem waking her up in the ms... Maybe she would o wake half an hour early to e and just look at the pink-haired girl sleeping?

  That would solve the problem of not being able to enjoy teasing the pink-haired girl...'No no no, that is stalker behavior and only pink-haired girls do that!' Admonished herself the blonde girl.

  Only to think 'But...Rossie is pink-haired and she doesn't do that...Isn't this train of thought kinda...profiling?' But then again, all the evidence her mother had collected across the multiverse spoke of the same. Most stalkers that followed a [Hero] were pink-haired...

  No wait!

  An epiphany struck Elizabeth!

  'Rossie might be Pink-haired but she isn't tied to a [Hero]! So she 't be a stalker!'

  That made her rex, truly...Her friend was better with her instead of that little bast...better with her than with Akira. The thought that she had saved Rossie from going into a dark path even brought a smile to her face. And she couldn't stop herself from poking the sleepiy in her cheek.

  The gall of the girl! Who told her she could look so adorable sleeping!

  " Eliz..." Started mumbling the pink-haired girl while looking at her and blinking a few times as if she was making sure that she was seeing right. "Eli-Eli..." Said the pink-haired girl while looking at her quite weirdly.

  She wasn't looking straight at her face, but instead just a few timeters below her face...Why? She turned down to see what she was trying to see, she had to fight to stay in her position, for she was still leaning forward at an almost 90° angle... She suddenly became aware that everything that should be hidden was out in the open for the world to see...

  Or for her friend to see... So she stoically raised her torso to stand straight "Breakfast is served...I just came to wake you up..." Said the blonde girl trying to not think too much about how she had fshed her Rossie first thing in the m...

  Not that the girl hadn't seen her like that before...So it shouldn't bother her. Nope, wasn't b her at all. She wasn't blushing to escape from the situation at all. "You take a shower first or e a with me, Rossie... I will be at the dining table waiting." And on that he blonde girl left the room.

  She didn't pay any attention to the pink-haired girl, fearful for the rea she would have, while the girl had forted her the past night and she felt quite fident that their retionship was solid...She didn't want to strain her friendship with the girl more than needed...

  And who would want to stay friends with someohat would e into your bedroom almost naked!

  She would o find a way to apologize to the pink-haired girl but for now...For now, she would try not to berate herself for ing almost naked and look at her friend's sleeping face while having fun...

  IT SOUNDED S RIGHT THAT ASDASDFASFASDF

  "... It's probably the mana being so low and the stress being so high..." Mumbled the blonde girl while sitting at the table and taking small sips of her drink. She would do everything oep at a time. First, they would eat breakfast and then move to the step. Whatever it was.