She was in a pinch, was it because her status was way below the average?

  No, she was actually above average since most civilians refused to level beyond level 1 as far as she had found out when walking the streets of the city.

  Was it because she had a bad [Job]?

  No, she had found that most people with levels above 2-3 had actually normal variants of jobs, so she was oter side... Not that it mattered, as far as she could tell from her [Appraisal] results most had the same amount of status points.

  So what was the point of the job rarity?

  Probably something important that someone had fotten while implementing this [System], not her problem.

  Her problem was more serious, more important..."I don't know how to treat a Girlfriend." And that was a serious problem, since she had one now...Or could have one... She didn't actually ask Rossie what she wanted, did she?

  "I only assume she wants...Uuuughh...." Elizabeth sighed while walking dowreet, she had mao get permission to leave the apartment and walk around to the park and back.

  All uhe promise she would call immediately the moment she felt sick, or if someoried to hit on her, she uood the first, but the sed...She never had someory to do that to her, even though she was a looker.

  So Rossie robably w too muo wait. If Rossie wao be called if someoried to hit on her...Did that mean that she was Jealous?

  If so, then she should want to be her Girlfriend...Right?

  "But she still has that [Paramour] title...That really was for me then...." That was the biggest reason she was fident in that Rossie wao be her girlfriend.

  Unlike previous brain-addled Elizabeth, she could tie the clues to her memories pointing to Rossie having a somewhat deep crush on her, so she shouldn't be against being her girlfriend.

  But how does one go about that? She never had a girlfriend before (As stated) nor a boyfriend...Not that the boyfriend could give her experience about how to deal with a girlfriend...

  That would give her experience about being pampered..."But then I could use that experieo pamper Rossise...Goddamnit [Papa]." She was half sure her father was the reason no one ever tried to be her boyfriend.

  And while w about that something brought her out of her musings, it wasn't an epiphany with the correswer, nor was a [Deus Ex Maa] moment where the answer was delivered on her p.

  No, instead...It was another blue s.

  Hello World!Heeeellloooooo~~~~~

  This is your lovely aiful Goddess [Odyssey]!

  Are you having fun? Did you like what we did?

  I sure hope so! It was hard to parse everything right so it would show up well to everyone aultiple nguages!

  We are w on fixing that by the way, the multiple nguages thing... But this is not why we are addressing you all today! (Ahis is a global message, you ain't that special to get an individual message...)

  [Except you Eli-Eli, you are special (this part is only for your eyes ;3)]

  And what am I ylorious and geous goddess addressing you heathens about?

  Simple, after six months of the [World's System] implementatioiced some...Things.

  Not all of you wao grab [Jobs], not all of you wao level beyond a certain point...And while most [Crafter]s embraced it, they don't really use all the points and they don't get the right [Skills] sihe current version favors bat cssers more.

  So yeah, [Update] wele to patch 1.0:

  -All [Users] will be given the [Civilian] Job upon indu.

  -Civilian Job: Earns 3 status points per level, 't add them to [Wisdom],[Inteligence], or [Charisma].

  -Jobs now only allow adding status points to what they affect.

  -The amount of status points earned depends on the rarity of the job.

  -Current Status points will be recalcuted depending on your current job, naturally earatus points will remain, and you will get [One] [Status poi ticket] in case you aren't happy with the new build you end up with after the recalcution of points.

  -[Civilian] 't have more than 10 status points in any status uhey are naturally earned points.

  So yeah, get to it folks, you will wan rare jobs, and a quick peruse from my side shows that most of you will earn around 5-10 points by how it looks, the normal people at least. There are quite a few that will get at the very least 14 points and otle mohat will get 20.

  [Not you Eli-Eli. Your 21 points will not be taken, if you end up with a rarer css that grants more than 21 you will get those, but you will never get less than 21.]

  [Odyssey] out~

  Look forward to further updates~~

  And so pandemonium broke as most people stared at the invisible ss in front of themselves, she got a notification that her current job granted 12 points and she could add them to everything but [stitution] and [Wisdom].

  Then another ohat said that her title as [Daughter of the gods] allowed her to add them wherever she wanted, so for her nothing really ged. Her status didn't move and so she was quite happy overall for not being affected.

  Most of the civilians around her were the same, a few people pined here and there, but they were mostly workers that seemed to have added points to [Charisma], she khat because a few actually had their skin stop lookihy, same with their hair. So the stat really affected how one looked...

  "YOU LIED TO ME! YOU SAID THAT YOU ALWAYS LOOKED LIKE THAT!" "I COULD SAY THE SAME BACK TO YOU!!!"

  And a few discussions about looks started around in the park, mostly from people that while they didn't look quite ugly, they did look worse than before, that and the screams from one girl whose pants broke as she gained a few extra kilos.

  Yikes, she would keep up to date with her exercises, charisma stat or not.

  *ring, riiiing*

  And while enjoying the chaos around her (It was quite fun to look) she heard her cellphoone, w who wao call her while everyone was having a breakdown the call ID read [Rossie], right. She was the only ohat had her number and would call her nowadays...Or ever.

  "Eli-Eli are you okay?!? Did you lose status?!?" Was the first thing that came from her cellphohe harried voice of Rossie.

  She also heard the stant sound of wind hitting the mic of the phone, so the girl robably running, where? Probably to here.

  "Yes I'm okay, the status drop didn't hit me and I am okay. I was thinking of returning actually, since most of the people around here are getting rowdy." Elizabeth answered into the phone, she noticed how the howling wind had calmed down. So Rossie probably slowed down her running.

  "Oh...Right, yeah...Okay...I will head out and buy some things we are missing, call me if you feel bad okay?" Said Rossie before killing the line.

  She didn't even wait for her answer, was...Was she embarrassed? Or did she want to respect her boundaries?

  Rossie had probably gotten scared at the idea of her status dropping, no wait, shouldn't Rossie's status drop too?

  She had a on-css jht? Or what rarity was her [Magical Girl] variant job?

  Actually, how was the rarity decided on the jobs? Did it matter the amount of skills one earned befetting the job? The level one held? The difficulty?

  If difficulty was the way to go, then both she and Rossie were at the top of hard-to-earn jobs sihey got theirs by using both [Magic] without system assistance, and because they both could access the [Soulscape]. So they should be at the top.

  No wait, did the [Soulscape] even affect their job? The inal magical girls used it, and they both could use them, so was their variant of the [Magical Girl] job special?

  She really o get into cheg with the school, "Oh sorry there, didn't see you." Elizabeth said while apologizing to someone she ran into while walking back to their apartment.

  "Oh it's okay, it was also my fault...." Said a male voice.

  "HEY! Apologize properly when you run into someone!" Added a female voice, she seemed angry.

  She didn't want to turn around to face them, she could reize their voices, and the memories of stories her mother had told her before were tingling, she could feel it already.

  "It's okay Rena, she didn't mean anything bad, she is probably worried about losing status points and levels after the update." The bck-haired male said while smiling at her.

  She knew he was smiling at her even though she hadn't turo look back at him, how did she know? Their type always did that when speaking to a female.

  "Sorry about that," But if she kept stalling this would devolve further, so she turned bad looked at both of them.

  Akira was dressed in a school uniform, their school uniform, just like Rena. As if they were about to go to csses, this wasn't a thing, no one else around them dressed like that, no matter if they were students or not. She, for example, was dressed in a fortable sants and hoodie bo.

  Her hair was tied into a ponytail and, a stark trast with Rena who was dressed in a miniskirt and bzer from the school, as if she wao try to diminish the impact of Akira's shenanigans of wanting to dress up as if he was still attending csses...

  "Hmm...I feel like we have met before, have we?" Akira said, "I'm Akira, a third-grade student at the [Mystic Powers Institute]." He what?

  "Rena, same." The red-haired added, curt and to the point.

  "I am Elizabeth Starbright, I also used to attend that school, but had an act on the midterms and...Am not quite sure what my status is right now actually." She answered, had they fotten her?

  No wait, she gave him a trashing as [The Shadow Empress] but not as Elizabeth.

  "Don't remember you," Rena said, yikes. The girl fot someone she pointed her sword at?

  Rude.

  "We might have been in different csses, I just made it to third grade after my st power-up," Akira ented, his what?

  Did...Did he call the midterms a power-up? "That arc sucked, we just went around killing trash mobs and stockpiling exp. Imagine my surprise whehing happened not in Avalon but in Camelot."

  "It's okay Akira, from what they told us most of the fight occurred between the [ars] and a rogue [Vilin] so we wouldn't had anything to do anyway," Rena said, who would thought, she was the voice of reason.

  "I'm sure I could have helped..." Akira grumbled.

  Nope, no no no no no, she didn't want to even begin to think how everything would have been so much worse, "At the very least we could have helped Elizabeth so she didn't get in such a bad act...Missing half a year of csses... And now with the update she has lost some levels too..." Would you look at this, Akira was being...Nice?

  She didn't lose any level tho.

  "I guess...She doesn't look that strong, but any level she loses is more time she will o train." Rena added her doleoo.

  Who are they?

  They 't be the same ones. Was she under a spell skill?

  She took a deep breath and dived quickly into her [Soulscape] but didn't find any disturbances iy, she however found...Something, a small tug within her [Soul]. As if something wao [ect], following to the base she found it led to the [Building] that now housed Rossie's [Soulscape].

  But the other way leads to the outside, "There must be something we do, maybe if she joined our [Party] we could [Powerlevel] her?" Akira eaking using some weird terms here and there.

  "We tried that before with that girl from the [Inn] it doesn't work, maybe the [Skill] needs something else?" And Rena was trying to vince him from doing something else.

  She ignored both of them and focused on the feeling, the [Tug] seemed to be in the dire of Rena, as if a [e] wao form betweewo girls. She could [Feel] Rena's [Soul], a small ember that was about to burn out.

  A fragmented, cracked log of wood that was burning uhe rain, it was...[Pitiful] if that was her [Soul] it was even more damaged than what [Rossie] had on her [Soulscape].

  What had happeo her?

  While looking at her, she felt someone look at her and while following that sensation found Akira's eyes on her, "So what do you think?" He asked.

  "Oh? Sorry, sometimes I get distracted with, probably some remnants from the whole fell in a a for half a year thing." She answered, was it bad to use the a as an excuse? Probably. But she didn't mind it, not at this point at least.

  The [Soul] of Rena had aether on it besides hers, another ohat seemed to want to run away and ditch it but couldn't. Following it she found...The most hideous and slimy thing she ever perceived.

  "I was thinking about inviting you into our [Party]...uess you would uand it better if I said introup], "Akira said while she followed the tether to its in, "I could help you a you a [Healer] Build so you would be safe from danger, and you could in turn [Heal] me after a fight." The tether poiowards...Akira.

  Surprise surprise.

  She could feel the slimy tether want to tto hers, but she instead retracted it behind Rena's [Soul], and that slimy tether seemed wary of going that way as if it didn't want Rena's [Soul] to tto it. She could feel [I] from it.

  "That is very nice of you, "She answered Akira while slowly reeliether] bato herself, "But I'm more of a [Mage] than [Healer], even if my [Magic] is on the she / mid-range area."

  Rena's [Soul] seemed to give an impression of [Longing] as if she couldn't live as a [Human] without tg into someone, as if she could die without that. And Akira's Slimy tether wao ditch her, she wasn't sure how much of [Akira] was aware of that.

  "I am always open to help you, just give me a call, and we arrive to an uanding," Akira said while giving her a card, it read had his number, e-mail, and a website even.

  "We always look out for our members," Rena said while bowing in her dire, she noticed the girl had a couple extra buttons of her blouse open, the top ones. So her breasts were exposed when she bowed.

  "I will offer you anything you want if you join me," Akira said while eyeing her and then Rena.

  She of course noticed how he had leered at Rena while she bowed, "I will take it into sideration when I find out my current status with the school." She answered and saw them walk away.

  She...Remember how Rena was always stuck at Akira and how he seemed to get a this, but now? Now it was almost as if he was...Tired of the girl, she was dressing more...loosely.

  Her skirt was as short as it could get, her blouse was tight, her bzer was buttoned just till her breasts as if to make them look bigger, and she was even wearing fishights. How cliche you get?

  At the start she didn't give it any thought, but after that exge?

  Was...Was Akira trolling her? Was he using some kind of mental interference skill? That shouldn't be possible, not uhe system her [Mother] managed.

  Unless...Was this a side effect from Akira being a [Hero]?

  Could...Could she do that? Had she dohat to Rossie?

  *blergh*

  She ran as fast as her status allowed to a trash bin aied her breakfast on it, "No...I did not such thing." She said to herself while hitting speed dial on her phone, currently there was only one number on it, so it dialed it.

  She didn't eveo wait for a single ring tone "Eli-Eli? Everything okay?" And the soothing voice of Rossie asked.

  "Yes, just o hear your voice." She answered without thinking.

  "Oh you, you will not get anything out of me with sweet talk," Rossie said on the phone, and immediately Elizabeth blushed at that.

  Right, she just said what was on her head and that could be interpreted as her flirting, "N-No...I...I didn't...." And that in turn made her remember why had she called Rossie. "Rossie...am I making you like me?"

  Silence.

  Hideous, terrifying silence...

  "Elizabeth Starbright, I will get mad at you if you ever imply that again." The voice of Rossie was ral, but she could hear the uone of anger in it.

  "Sorry...It's just....I...I met Akira and Rena...." Elizabeth said while leaning against a wall aing herself fall to the floor, she sat like that and tinued saying, "...And my [Title] allowed me to see something on Rena..."

  "You saw her [Soul] and how it reacts with Akira...And are you worried mine is like that?" Rossie said, she no longer sounded angry but...Sad? "It's okay Eli-Eli, you aren't doing anything of the sort...If anything you are helping me, even right now your [Soulscape] is nurturing mine back to health, using parts of the broken city to fix mine."

  "So you knew?" Elizabeth asked, "About Rena's Soul?"

  "Yes, [Odyssey] gave me some clues when I first met her. She ripped that [Thing] from my Soul on our first meeting you know...I was able to feel the influence of the thing. And she signs on Rena...And while they aren't as pronouhey exist on Michael too. We three were affected." Rossie said oher side, and afterward, the li dead.

  She frowned and looked at her pho still had charge, so why..." And while some were affected more than others," The voice of Rossie sou her right, the girl was right beside her, "Rena got hit the hardest, from how it looked it seems that her [Soul] got tangled with Akira's." Rossie said while sitting at her side aing her head on Elizabeth's shoulder.

  "So...What do I do?" Elizabeth asked while snuggling into Rossie.

  "Whatever you want," Rossie answered instantly, "But whatever that is, you will need power. Akira is almost half his way to A Rank."

  ...." HE WHAT?!?" Elizabeth hadn't [Appraised] him, but...He wasn't that high the st time she saw him right?

  He was what? Level 10?

  "Yeah, and even after the update..." Rossie brought up her status and showed her how she hadn't lost a single level from it.

  Her more detailed status wasn't still avaible, she got the feeling from the [Tether] eg her to Rossie that if she wished for it, she could see it. But decided to not prod into it. "I didn't lose much, it seems I'm among those oter side of the deal."

  "So...get power, stay away from Akira's Slimy skill..."Elizabeth started ting her future pns, "And ask Rossie if she wants to be my girlfriend."

  "And decide what you want to do about him, either ign him or fronting him...But you will o take responsibility if you decide to go the sed route." Rossie said while she was thinking about the st part of her pn, "While Rena's case is sad...She will not be able to survive without tg unto a [Hero], not after what Akira did."

  Yeah, maybe she could ighat pair?

  Not like Rena was suffering and wanted release right? If anything the girl didn't eveo cat to the fact that Akira never once spoke in plural... Unlike her.

  ...So this is why [Mother] hated [Heroes] huh...