She made it...Barely.

  She spent the previous four months running around doing things, going to get trained in a gym by a professional [Trainer], those were a thing it seems. Running in races because that helped build better trol over her [Agility], she did o either wear a limiter or participate in those other [Metahumans] joined.

  Now that anyone could be a [Metahuman] the word didn't hold as muimosity as before, since you only o break free from the [Civilian] job to get more power, and even without doing that you could [Awaken] skills with enough practice.

  And so, she did this and that, and slowly raised her status, one point at a time. She was getting some weird looks from people around as they noticed her rise in power, even if she was dumping most of it into [Intelligence] and [Wisdom]. Ohing that made her curious was how high a [Civilian] could get on life.

  Because if her math was right a [Civilian] Level 99 would have almost as many status points as her at level 14, or than a previous normal person at level 22. So, those who decided to stick to the slow life...Would be on the slow life track.

  Granted, if you only o do normal work and wao go home and live life as [Normal], then you probably didn't hose 344 points that level 99 would grant you as [Civilian].

  And as such she started ign the stares the [Bodybuilders] gave her way, they stopped looking at her weirdly wheeud her [Ag and [Str] at 30 and 20, but still was weird to have a mass of muscles look at you and grumble about how you a 'smoll little girl' had as much [STR] than the big macho guy.

  "Bme your [Fate]." Was what she wished to ahem with, and the same thing she thought every time anyone came to ask about her [Job], or if she had a variant of [BodyBuilder] and how to unlock it.

  She of course didn't have one of those, she liked muscles as much as the one, but couldn't see herself building her body like that unless Rossie wanted her abs to be hard as steel, then she could promise.

  Either way, her time at the Gym and multiple csses, courses, and activities were enough to build reition on the [Civilian] grade side of the sports, most of all because some caught on the fact that she had too much status on the physical side with no records of the first months after [Indu]. And like that, her short time on the sports se ended.

  Sihey required her to take an [Appraisal] and she wasn't ready for that level of itment, or not from a civiliay, not yet anyway. After she got accepted bato the MPI she would read the curreions, she would o know if her previous [Identities] were still valid or not, and if she would o make new ones.

  All of her previous social media ats had banished after all, well...Not all of them, she found a few posts and pictures of Chloe, but since she had no memories from her besides the vague impressions she got at the start...Yeah, she didn't feel like [Chloe] to try and take those, and sine of those was still active...Either her family was using it, or someoole it, and if it was the sed...

  Well, she would che that ter to decide what to do.

  But for now, "So are you ready Eli-Eli?" Rossie asked bringing her back from the retrospe world.

  "Yes, I arrived at level 10 and should have enough Oomph on my spells to make a good impression." Answered Elizabeth looking at her status s.

  It didn't ge much skill-wise, but status? The status had ged quite a bit.

  Status

  Name: Elizabeth Starbright

  Active Title: [Inductee]

  Passive Titles:

  [Iron-Willed] [Daughter of The Gods] [Hero]

  Level: 10

  Health: 100%

  Mana: 100%

  Stamina: 100%

  Age: Body (1), Appearance (17)

  Soul: (16-years, 9-months)

  Strength: 20

  stitution: 30

  Agility: 30

  Dexterity: 29

  Intelligence: 60

  Wisdom: 60

  Charisma: 30

  Job: Magical Hero

  Job Skills: 8

  General skills: 5

  Title Skills: 2

  She still wished to have more points in her magic status, she had more than before, that was true, but she still wished to have some extras here and there. Mostly because she was still getting used to her neool.

  And while she hadn't had enough time to practice her more familiar spells, she was fident in her [Mana Manipution], so that would do for now. And instead, she would focus on the present!

  Like, "Are you ready to return to csses?" Ask Rossie about her pns!

  "That is to be seen, if they don't accept you I will break that [tract] ahe [Penalty] just to spite them." Even if the girl kept answering like that.

  "Rossie, no." And that would turn into something like this.

  "Rossie, yes." And Rossie answered back like so.

  "I will be accepted, I had less status on the magic status when student...And was limited on what I could cast." Elizabeth tried to reason with Rossie.

  "Then you wouldn't mind my pn of breaking the [tract] if they don't accept you." But Rossie was adamant on that part.

  She wasn't sure what breaking a [tract] could do in this specific case, she wasn't even aware of them, she thought that she meant the [Geass]. But it looked as if those no longer worked as intended. So obviously Rossie meant ahing.

  Not that she was telling her what that other thing was.

  "Fineeeeee, but if you get your soul hurt again I will not cuddle you for a week." Elizabeth decided to surrender on that front.

  "... it be half a week?" Rossie answered back at that after thinking for a sed.

  Could it be?

  "...A week, unless you tell me what the deal is with those [tracts] then I be vio turn it into a work week." Elizabeth had found the Achilles heel of Rossie?

  "...Fine." Rossie's acquisition was answer enough.

  She had dohe impossible!

  And she only o sacrifice a week of cuddling!

  NO WAIT! WHAT HAD SHE DONE?!?

  HER CUDDLES!!!

  "A [tract] is how we make sure someone does what he intends to do, in this case, they will make me sign a [tract] that states that I will end my [Hero] education with them, and if I do not ply with my side of the deal I will be hit by some degree of penalty, that could go from restri to my use of [Healing] Skills to a [Status Drop]." Rossie finally answered her question.

  It kinda sounded like a [Geass] in that it enforced something, but this one seemed to be fully [System Enforced], and if it blocked the use of [Skills], "Does it block [Magic] too?" Elizabeth asked.

  It didn't sound like it did, she was able (Barely) to cast [Magic] without the use of [Skills], she had tested it, "...No. It blocks [Skills], so long they don't block my [Magic Circle] skill I should be fine, but they 't block that one sihey should be aiming for my [Healer] skills." Rossie answered after a few seds.

  She didn't sound so sure about that, so maybe she was unsure about how many skills they would block? It depended on what the school was guaranteeing on their side.

  Actually "And what will they guarantee from the [tract]?" Elizabeth wondered aloud.

  "They will give you a [Fair test]," Rossie answered.

  And that was it, she didn't say anything else besides that, "That's it?" Elizabeth asked fbbergasted, that...was a bad trade.

  "Yes, they will also do their best to make a avaible to the required entities to make yrading [Fair]." Rossie firmed, "This is more than enough to enforce that type of [trae, this will quell any doubts about your talent by admitting it is good enough to be a [Traudent]. They will disperse any thoughts about you being sub-grade or a bad student, and will help solve the problem of the other schools thinking you are bad with [Mana Manipution]."

  ...That did souing, but "Aren't our problems mostly because the MPI leaked notices about me being sub-grade?" Elizabeth brought up an important point out.

  And by the face that Rossie made, it was close enough to the truth, "Yes, but we don't have many choices here. The MPI is the only ohat accepts Traudents, and I burned plenty bridges when I didn't return to csses...So it's mostly my fault."

  "Well, nothing ges either way. I only o ace the test." Elizabeth said once more. Like really, how many times had she promised Rossie that she would ace the test?

  How hard could it be, gra should be harder tharance exam since...No wait, "I will be a [Traudent]?" Elizabeth asked.

  "Of course, they 't lump you with udents since you did go to school ao the [Mid-Terms] even if most of the recs are lost because of the [Indu]." Rossie answered back, "I mean, they know you are at least average since we came in a two-girl team. And one of them was a [Healer]."

  "So they will grade me as if I tiudying?" Elizabeth felt some degree of dread climb into her back.

  "Of course not, but the [Test] will be hard, that is why I used the goal of a [C-Tier] as a standard for oal," Rossie said, "And while I think you could probably squeeze another lever or two in those four months...It would have put you under unnecessary stress, even so getting to level 10 in four months only doing miseous things was fast enough."

  "Yeah, especially if you look back to the festival two months ago, who would have thought that would a whole level," Elizabeth said remembering the summer festival they had goo.

  It had been fun and they had spent the whole day oreets having fun, so one level for that was nice. Most of her levels had e from big events, so maybe they depended on hoeople were affected or how much weight they had behind it?

  "Nothing would have ged unless I started experimenting seriously with [Shift] to see if I could get a sed identity again, but I would he Hydra's Fang] help to get ara identity since my obsidian bracelet is a bust." And wasn't that the main problem for Elizabeth?

  She no longer held a veool to mawo identities...Or well, four. She was only [Elizabeth] now, and whatever identity she decided to stick with as her [Metahuman] persona.

  Her [Soulscape] no longer had a ve station to design her [Shift] anymore, or not ohat she had found, she would o dig into the skill and see if she could make something, but that may require using one of the [Skills] Alexanders had left behind. And those...Those felt like things too advanced for her.

  "And [Ea] hasn't been seen sihe [Indu] cured the [Taint], some people say that she died with the [Taint]. So it would be useless to try and look into that," Rossie added to make sure.

  She didn't like the idea of Elizabeth going into the slums to look for [Vilins], and so, she was barred from that approach, they would try to broach [Ea] ter as [Heroes] or [Magical Girls] but nht now, and definitely not while she was this weak.

  "Well, this time I will not be limited on my magid sihe [in] seems to only help with how much [Proficy] you gain on [System] type magic... My magic will hit as hard as everyone else..." Elizabeth smiled at herself.

  "As everyone else that also does not have the required [Skills]." Even if Rossie burst her bubble.

  "That will still hit harder than before, and I do have the required skills...I use [Shadow] and [Lighting] magice I have both [Manipution] skills!" Elizabeth grumbled once more.

  She had practiced some with spells of those types, she had even rebuilt most of the old [Spell Nodes] she had befranted she didn't o use them like that anymore... And she could probably just create a [Lighting Bolt] spell instead of using a formu of ([Lighting]+[Manipution]) + Bolt.

  But she would still use this method, she wasn't sure how much they remembered of how she fought, or if they even had something, but if they did and she suddenly ged her style...Yeah, that could be hard to expin.

  Not that they would fight her that much, she was a student that just underwent a traumatic event, so, some ges were to be expected, besides...They had wanted her to embrace her [Affinity] anyway.

  "So, who will be the teacher?" Elizabeth asked, w if it would be the crazy old man again or not.

  "It will probably be Miss Agatha, she was adamant about letting you in, so they probably will let her iest." Rossie answered while going over something on her phone, after some mumbling (CUTE!) she nodded "Yes, it will be Miss Agatha."

  "Miss Agatha? The [Witch] that did our [Awakening] test?" Elizabeth wondered if there were mathas in that school.

  "The what? She was on the admission, but they only did some lightiings about what we could do. But yes, that Miss Agatha." Rossie said while fishing for a picture on her phone.

  "Here, this is Miss Agatha." Said the pink-haired girl while showing her a picture.

  It was ihe same Agatha she remembered, if said Agatha lost twenty years and turned her skin into that of a young woman. Her forehead didn't have a perma frown and you could even see some beginnings of a smile on her.

  "...Did teacher Agatha's daughter repce her?" Elizabeth asked aghast, no way in the four pnes of hell was this the same woman.

  "No? She has always looked like this, not for nothing she got the [True Magical Girl] Title." Rossie said while browsing on her phone for something and then projeg it to the s in their living room.

  Articles upon articles of the most popur [Jobs] and [Titles] that some people had got, among them was Agatha as [True Magical Girl] aatement that while her body had received some mild ges no one remembered she was aware of them. Even if she herself wasn't able to pinpoint them, some joked that she was being humble of course, but she stood by her point.

  Stating that [Odyssey] had told her as much, but that the [Goddess of Magic] refused to eborate oopid she knew why her [Mother] refused to eborate.

  If Agatha ever found out how much she had ged... Yeah, she could see [Miss Agatha] throwing a tantrum, but how had they do? Was it a [Skill]?

  "ITS THAT STUPID SKILL!" Elizabeth excimed to the high heavens, it was the [Young Body] skill!

  That thing must have modified Agatha's body to mimic a younger body, but since she was old instead of turning her into a tee turned her into a youy, add in the [Beautiful] skill and you had [Miss Agatha] on the flesh.

  Yeah, "And she wants to make sure I get in?" Elizabeth asked, she didn't remember Agatha ever looking at her kindly.

  "Yeah, that's her thing, to make sure everyone receives education. And since most of the school 't quite remember you since you were at the epiter of the [Indu] she wants you to recover your old life. Miss Agatha is a softie like that." Rossie smiled at her while answering.

  Yeah...Did Rossie alset how Agatha treated her?

  Well, now that [Mother] was a [Goddess] maybe she had fixed the issues she had with Agatha? and that in turn made her happy?

  Either way, "Well, nothing for it. Let's go I guess?" Elizabeth would deal with that as it came.

  For now, they had a taxi to take, they were returning to the MPI.

  "Back to school, we go," Rossie said turning back to their apartment, only the barest of things remaihere, mostly things they couldn't take or wouldn't make sehey took.

  Home appliances, 55' TV s, furniture, rugs, nondescript barrels...Normal stuff.

  "I will miss this apartment," And like that they left behind the pce they had spent almost a year and some.

  They could still visit it of course, in some way her apartment within the ruined city was like this one, but it would be different. It wouldn't be the same, but as.

  They had things to do, and Elizabeth wao move forward, she was dreading already what would e after dealing with the test...

  If she...No, when she made it into the school it would be the start of a new year. And they would o deal with a sed event...

  The meeting of the staff with the guardians of the students...Aka their parents...

  Aka...Rossie's parents...

  Maybe she should fail the exam after all...

  It would be easier that way.