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  "The darkness of gyatt falls around my soul ?" The arm started bsting at full bst.

  It ur song that had gotten arouly, a cover of a popur video game sung by some random purple girl oer. It was quite good even if she didn't know what the so.

  "The Nerizzler within loses trol ?" She mostly used it as an arm because the high-pitched tone of the girl singing it was high enough to wake her up.

  "Bau Bau it out, Bau Bau it out ?" The arm was about to start going nuts, so I really o move.

  Today was an important day, it was the first day I would attend the MPI, it wasn't the first day of the school season, but the first day I would go.

  This was important, the first day had beeerday, but I wasn't supposed to join at that time, since my schorship was...special, to say the least.

  I was told who I would be sharing a room and what would be required of me, this was a mission that required me to train most of my early life to master the gift of Magic.

  I was given access to training and magic artifacts beyond what most would have, why? Because I was to share a room with the daughter of [The Ameri Crusader] and [The Stardust Explorer].

  So the wo most powerful magic caster in the world used her magic to find who would share a room with the daughter of those two and gave her a choice.

  Either bend the knee aheir spy, et repced.

  Of course, my parents bent the knee, whealians e knog you listen, what could we do? Really, nothing.

  [The Ameri Crusader] rarely ever left [Avalon] i decade, and it was easier to get the [Juggernaut] to speak than to speak with [The Stardust Explorer].

  So I studied uhe watch of [The Prophet] and [The Warlock], became as good as a space mage as I could, and pledged to be as loyal as possible without making a [Geass] tract.

  It seemed that trying to make one was too close to risking everythihe presence of the daughter of the top one and two heroes, not even the [Warlock] and [Prophet] dared to go that far.

  Of course, they still kidnapped my parents and didn't let me see them six months before the first day of csses, that wasn't beyond what they would do.

  I wasn't under any false impression that I would ever see them, the Italians didn't do halfsies, and if they were alive then ces were that they had already sold me. If they didn't sell me...well they were probably dead, or in a mine in an unmarked location.

  Was it callous? Yes, but that was life in Zephyiria, we knew where we lived and what would happen to us if we caught the attention of the true bosses around.

  And mother didn't raise a dumb girl, I Aurelia Vitellius wasn't a dumb girl. No, I kly why I wasn't killed or brainwashed, everyone khe Stardust Explorer] had a beef against mind tampering, she was the successor of the mother of magical girls, and so they all had the same standards.

  So I couldn't be promised, that was my only option really, to try ahe friendship of her daughter and hope they would take me uheir wing. The Italians knew I would do this of course, but that was why they taught me as best as they could, just so that I would want to be uheir tutege.

  The spells and artifacts they used to measure my [Affinity] gave them the full name of my [Soulscape] too, so they had some advantage over me already.

  My [Affinity] was [The One Who Traveled Towards The Shadows], ominous? Perhaps, I feared that I would be [Tainted] when they said its name, but it seemed that it ace] and [Travel] affinity.

  Closer to the ohe Stardust Traveler] had, or what [The Prophet] thought she should have, no one was sure what her [Affinity] was beyond ohat allowed her to travel all around the world without limit.

  So yes, I was trained by the best space affinity magical girls the money could buy, and all I had to do was be te, bee the best friend avaible to a rich girl, and make sure [The Stardust Explorer] wao save me from the evil clutches from the Italians.

  Easy.

  Or so that was my pn, at the end of the day...A pn never survives the first enter with enemies.

  "Aurelia Vitellius?" A pink-haired girl asked as soon as I arrived at the MPI.

  Weird, as far as the Ihe Italians gave me, no member of the student cil looked like her.

  "Yes?" But here she was, outside the reception area for udents.

  "Please follow me, we o gh some paperwork to justify your te arrival." And like that, the pink-haired girl started walking toward the park at the back of the MPI.

  I k was in that dire since part of my previous preparation was knowing the full map of the MPI, so this girl was guidiowards an isoted part of the MPI, had the Italians prepared something st minute?

  "Sure, do you need my ID or something?" This was of course a trick question, if she worked for the Italians she wouldn't . If she worked for the student cil she would .

  "No need, you [are] Aurelia Vitellius after all, that is all I need." Answered in aohe girl.

  "I don't think I got your name, but you already know mine." Even if she was w for the Italians she was too creepy, also her at wasn't the right one, had they trained her into a different oo make sure no one could track her bato us?

  "I'm Rossalina Singh, now stop talking, we are almost there." The pink-haired girl said as she turo look at me and then tinued moving forward.

  That was the look of an assassin, of a murderer, the same look someone would give to an ant or a vagrant, not even [The Prophet] gave me that look, was this really one w for the Italians?

  But that was the only possible answer, no one else among [The Twelve] would dare to do something like this, no one was crazy enough to do something like this, and [The Prophet] had iigated all the 36 students in this group.

  It was weird that we had 39 students instead of 40 already, but she had said that it sometimes happened, someone wouldn't e or they would quit at the st sed.

  "Finally, just to firm, I o see your ID for a sed to make sure you are indeed in room#346E." The pink-haired girl said.

  She o firm the room I was in?

  Not my identity, not who I was, but the room?

  "Sure, here." I said passing the ID, this was getting weirder by the sed.

  I wasn't sure what gave it away, was it the look in the pink-haired girl?

  The way her lips curled into a smile?

  The feeling of mana being weaved?

  The insatiable bloodlust?

  It robably the st, but no matter what it was, "[Quick escape]! [Expand Domain]! [Labyrinth]!" I quickly casted the spells from the spell nodes within my soulscape.

  The first spell propelled me in a preset dire away from my current spot, the speed reset at the maximum speed my body would tolerate, the downside was that it would tell my body too mud didn't cover that much space.

  The sed spell would expand the area where I could affect the world more easily, it was usually something staple fh-ranking magical girls, but the artifact allowed me to cast it.

  The st one would materialize a byrinth to tain an enemy and allow me some time to rest and prepare, it was a double-edged sword since I was also trapped here.

  But it would prevent the other side from attag me, it couldn't hold my enemy inside sihat was stuff fher-ranking magical girls, but it would mean my enemy had fewer ways to attack me, so long I stayed inside she couldn't kill me in one go.

  And she had tried to kill me, there was no doubt of that.

  "Any reason you tried to cast [Killer Bdes]?" I asked the irl, that was a dangerous brutish spell, it was mostly [Affinity]-less, it didn't have a stuck to it, and it was just crude mana shaped into a bde, but it worked quite well, even if you o cast it several times to kill someone,, but it would not leave any evidence.

  "What gave me away?" Asked the irl, her tone was even, as if speaking of the weather instead of murdering someone.

  "Too much bloodlust, also while your spell is well hidden, you still leak some of your emotions of annoya me." The irl was still looking around her with those dead eyes.

  Didn't she feel anything at all?

  "So, why do you want to kill me? Did someone piss off the Italians?" I o escape, maybe I could buy some time till someoiced my absence?

  "I just o make sure you don't cim the room, I have a o use it, it was good that you arrived te, otherwise it would be harder to get you." The pink-haired girl said.

  She only wahe room? She didn't work for the Italians or anyone?

  "You expect me to believe you decided to antagohe Italians for only that reason? To believe you don't know whose daughter is that girl?" She was nuts.

  "I have o know who is Elizabeth's parents." The irl said, "And really, I only o make sure you don't cim that room, I have o know any other thing than that."

  And like that the girl left the byrinth, I could still feel her though, she was oside of the byrinth, was she going to wait there?

  It wasn't a smart choice, someone would notice the mana leakage...dang it.

  "[Hide Pressence], [Hide Mana], [Hide I], [Hide aura], [Hide Evidence]-" That girl was nuts, she was casting all kinds of warding around the area, and soon enough no one would even notice it was here uhey purposely walked here.

  And sino one would ever walk through here without meaning it...She was stuck here with the psycho.

  "We make a deal-" I started saying only for her to turtention towards the opening into the byrinth.

  "[Acid Spray], [Acid Deluge], [Toxic Fumes]."

  She started casting the spells ahose into the byrinth opening, she would never fill the pce like that, it was impossible, my space [Affinity] granted me extra spato the spell.

  This pce was expanded as far as possible and there was no way she would be able to fill it unless she had the correct [Affinity], and the power behind those wasn't the right one.

  "[Gust]." She cast creating a current of wind that pushed the fumes and liquid into the byrinth.

  Was she trying to...suffocate me?

  That...That...crap.

  "Nothing personal, but I do need you to go away," The psychopath girl said, still no sign of remorse in her as she fed mana into the spells that would suffocate me.

  The acid would never make it to where I was, and the fumes wouldher, but if I couldn't guide new O2 into this pce...It would be just a matter of time till I got suffocated by the Carbon Dioxide.

  My spell was desigo create the byrinth into the earth as that was more secure, that also meant that the opening was above the ground level while this pce was below the ground level.

  "Why?" I couldn't help but ask, why would she go that far? To kill someone in the MPI? She was mad, no way she could get away with this!

  There were spells that made sure everyone's fate was ated for!

  The [Prophet] used them to make sure everything would work! No way she could do this and go scot-free!

  "I o room with Elizabeth, it will be somewhat annoying to have only 43 students instead of 44, but we will survive." The pink-haired girl said, what?

  43? If she was killihen that meant that they were inally 44?

  But I was the number 39 student! From where had the other four e from?!?

  Had...had the prophet failed? Impossible!

  No one could escape from [Fate] sg! The only oo ever be able to escape something like this would be [The Stardust Explorer] or [The Ameri Crusader]!

  Not even [The Prophet] was free from [Fate's] Shackles!

  And this girl nontly implied there were four extra students?

  "You are lying," I said as my spell informed me of dangerous substances as I redirected more away from my spot. "My css only has 39 students ting me on it."

  "Our css had 44 students ting you. Here." The pink-haired girl said throwing a paper into the dimensional opening.

  I didn't touch it nor teleported near me, instead ed it as far away from me as possible, I could read it thanks to the sg I had anyway, and sure enough, the list had 44 names.

  On it, I reized 39 names and four were fn, names I never had read or heard about.

  Suzuki Akira, Watanabe Rena, Michael Shepherd, and Rossalina Singh.

  The first tree was unknown, but the fourth...It was the he pink-haired girl had given.

  "Why do you need my room? How did you cheat [Fate]?" I stopped paying attention to that piece of paper and focused ory.

  In there, the pink-haired girl kept her bnk stare, "Because Elizabeth Starbright showed me a possibility, the possibility of finding [Color] in this gray world." She answered.

  What? Was she mad? Color? THIS B#TCH WAS KILLING ME FOR MERE COLOR?!? WHAT DID THAT EVEN MEAN?

  “As for [Fate]? I don't know what you speak of, there is no such a thing called [Fate] in this world." The pink-haired girl said, she was defying [Fate] and didn't know about it? "Also, you may want to pay attention to what I gave you."

  What? But the piece of paper was as far away from me as possible, it mattered not if that was a trap or not, it would not affect me.

  "[Burst]." The pink-haired girl said and then a wave of mana burst ihe byrinth, the byrinth trembled for a few seds, that should be impossible, and then the e with it....frayed.

  That...shouldn't be possible, the byrinth was tied to my [Soulscape], nothing could affect it, only [Soul] spells could, but that was something only those at the higher end of [Healing] could ever touch.

  It didn't matter if someone was talented or not, to touch upon that domain one o study and at some point even mutite souls to uand them, it was that or having your own soul mutited.

  I had been giveion to study it of course, but it was deemed too dangerous (And painful) so I didn't.

  And this girl could do that?

  She truly sychopath, "You will regret doing this." I said as I felt the e to my spell dissipate, now it would stay semi-permaly till my soul left.

  "I will not...But if I do I will wele that feeling," The psychopath girl said, "I will wele the [Feel] ret if that is something new."

  Well, that was ominous as hell, I would o use one of the trumps here?

  The e to the outside was broken, I could close it, but that would expose me to the girl, I couldn't trol where what she threw inside would go, so even if she left the entrance would be full of dangerous material.

  "[Uhis day, uhis night...I pledge upoars...May my Soul remain, may my magic stay strong, prevery upon this pce to the ohat caused my demise...Wele only the ohat bring justice upon my demise...Allow the Ior to my will to make tact with me...May the wish of my soul e true.]" This was a [Wish] made using my [Soulscape] as a mediator, would it do something?

  Hard to tell, but at the very least whatever that girl wao achieve would harder with the idea of my corpse on the school grounds and her not being able to dispose of me.

  Heh, at least the Italians wouldn't get anything out of it either, that would be a double win. I had evidence of their tampering with me too, and since most of my luggage was with me too. So while the MPI wouldn't have evidene logging ary, they wouldn't have evidene leaviher.

  This would have to do...

  "So you deal with this thing?" That voiy sciousness back from its slumber.

  Was I alive? Did I survive somehow?

  ...No, this wasn't me. It was the [Genie] of the [Labrynth] that [I] had made before dying.

  Then why was I awake?

  "I think....?" This sed voice was different than the first o was...alluring, like a siren's call.

  Seductive aig, as if it had something I needed, something [I] wanted, a few seds after that voice spoke, something [Peed] the byrinth, it permeated [Everything]. It saturated everything around and soon enough the feeling of something [Embrag] [Me] was all that I knew.

  I wasn't sure who or what it was, but something within [Me] called to it, it was...whatever this [Pressence] was it was seductive, like if [I] wa would look like an angel ing from heaven...

  Or If I wa would be a devil from hell, either way, something happened.

  Notice:The [Devourer] is at your door, she wants to [e] you.

  Do you wish to fight back against it?

  Y/N

  [Note: If you don't fight it, the [Devourer] will [I] everything you had, and you will be trapped withiill she either surrenders your soul to the circle of transmigration or she gives your [Soul] to another liviy.

  It is possible that she [Devours] your soul pletely erasing you.

  Care is advised.]

  That was weird, blue ss? What had happened after [I] died?

  Either way, the [Will] of [Me] was obvious enough, this girl looked like the daughter of [■■■ ■■■■■■■■ ■■■■■■■■] and [■■■ ■■■■■■■■ ■■■■■■■■] so the answer was obvious.

  Yes.

  And after that?

  The [Shadows] embraced me as [I] turned into mana and sank into [Her], it was... beautiful, her [Shadow] was a whole city, hundred upon hundreds of other [Souls] already here...or not. Were those reptiles?

  Looking down upon myself I found my body transformed into one of them, soon enough [I] no longer was [Aurelia Vitellius's Vestige], but a [Shadon] waiting for the call from her [Mistress]. The call to go into the world as a loyal subject.

  I no longer was Aurelia Vitellius, but another [Shadon] waiting for the call of the [Ior of Shadows].

  A [Shadon] waiting for the call of Elizabeth Starbright.

  And while [I] probably would wish for revehat wasn't [Me] anymore, not really.

  [I] now only wished to serve my [Mistress] as best as I could.

  Italians? Who cares

  Rossalina Singh? I only felt thankful for what she did for me, she allowed me to serve my [Mistress].

  Elizabeth Starbright? My [Loyalty] was to her, [I] may have wished for revenge against Rossalina Singh, but that no longer mattered to [Me].

  The only thing I wao know...Was how many [Souls] had my [Mistress] ed? Was every [Shadon] waiting for its turn also a [Soul]? Or was I special?

  Maybe if the [Mistress] summoned me I would know.

  A girl could only hope.