Camelot, the capital of Britania. The try of old magic, a pce that studied and embraced magic faster than anyone else. Sed in their use of magily to Izanami, but they use other types of magic.

  Britania focuses on what we know as traditional magic, while Izanami follows what we know as ritual magic. As such this pce has a deep meaning to magi a [Magical Girl] if you want to study the true depths of magid 't afford schooling in one of the schools. You tend to travel to Britania ale around to try a a glimpse of the in of Magical Girls.

  Before Advent, everyone khat [The Stardust Explorer] nded here in Camelot, where she started spreading the credo of [Magical Girls] around, she did move out whewelve] got started after [The Ameri Crusader] got appointed.

  After Advent... Well, they took the history as if [Odyssey] had blessed Camelot as a holy city fic or something, she wasn't quite sure of what was the actual history at the moment. She would bet that at least ohedral of magic was in Camelot. Probably at some spot of relevao her Mother.

  She just hoped they didn't pie of those spots she harassed [Magical Girls]... They wouldn't...right?

  Oh god, she feared the moment she found out if there were [Saintsess of Odyssey] or something, surely no one had a job like that...Right? Surely no one was mad enough to have an [Apostle of Odyssey] job or something...

  She wouldn't use [Appraisal] in anyone she was aware was in any kind of retionship with that church or with her Mother. Lest she see something she didn't want.

  Why was all of this important? Well, because one o know everything about the stage you were about to fight on. Her Papa always said that information was key and that she should alrioritize getting all the information she could befoing to bat.

  It was quite a funny trast, her papa who was known as a muscle head was the one who always got all the information possible before every single fight. And her Mother who was aowledged as the developer of magic was the ohat always brute-forced any situation as much as possible.

  "And this is our Mansion here in Camelot," Rossie said at her side as they stood in front of a pace, she had seen mansions before, and her Mother took a few photo shots in the mayor's mansion at Avalon.

  This wasn't what she was standing in front of, this was at least twice as big as the mayor's house. This ace. So now that she was standing here she couldn't help but remember the joke Rossie used to tell her at the MPI.

  That she was the daughter of a Queen.

  Then looking at the mansion in front of her, and looked back at her home in the suburbs of Avalon. Yeah, she felt more like a pauper at the moment, actually. Wasn't she one? All her money was in her iht now, and most of her possessions were doubtful if she could get them back, she wouldn't know till they went to her house at Avalon.

  If the cozy house still existed and hadn't been repced by a random cathedral...Or had turned into a crater...

  "Is something the matter Elizabeth?" Rena asked at her side, she was holding a duffel bag in her right while making sure the backpack stayed ih her left hand.

  The girl had been too nervous when they walked around with empty hands, so Elizabeth gave her the dummy luggage to calm her down.

  "No, everything it's okay...Let's go." Elizabeth said mostly to herself, motioning Rossie towards the way too-scary door at the side of the fence.

  They even had guards manning the entry. What kind of family was Rossie part of?

  She hadn't taken too muotice of it.

  "Wele back Lady Rossaline." One of them even saluted at Rossie!

  I mean, it was normal to salute Rossie, some students also did it...Mostly those pink-haired students/maids she seemed to have. But it was weird seeing a grown-ass muscle man dressed in body armor do the same!

  "Are my parents at home?" Rossie asked the man while motioning with her hand for her to stand at the side.

  "You know we aren't supposed to give that information with...Civilians around Lady Rossalihe guard said while eyeing Elizabeth and Rena critically.

  He seemed to examine more Rena than her. Was he evaluating them? Rude!

  Granted Rena had more assets than her, but still, Rude!

  "She is my girlfriend Elizabeth Starbright, and you will treat her with respect." Rossie said while gring at the man, then with a dismissive tone she also added, "Also our...Friend who will stay with us, introduce yourself."

  Rena took a step forward and said, "Watanabe Rena. While I won't mind the disrespect, I would advise you to take sideration of how you speak about Elizabeth, lest you find your head removed from your body." And as if nothiook a step bad stood at the side, oep to the right and one back.

  From her.

  ...RENA!?!?!? I mean, it was kinda cute how she defended her honor and all of that, but still!

  The man had an assault rifle strapped to his baot that it would wainst Rena...Or Elizabeth...Or Rossie...Actually, if he poihat thing to Rossie, then Elizabeth would cut him in very small pieces and burn his [Soul] in the fmes of her [Shadow Haven] for a thousand years.

  "Noted." The guardsmen said then turowards Elizabeth, "Apologies Lady Starbright."

  ...What?

  "As per your previous question, Lord and Lady Singh are waiting for your return, but we had been informed that there were problems with the teleportation station and your arrival would be deyed by at least a week." The guardsman turo the other who nodded ao the guard station, and after a few minutes, he returned with an official form from the MPI, "Yes, here it is. Teleportation was Deyed because of internal security reasons. Did they solve it before expected?"

  ...The bastards didn't intend for them to leave?

  "As if, we got help from...An old friend." Rossie answered as such, aww... Her Rossie was growing so much, she thought of Michael as an old friend!

  "Noted, do we o che about your friend?" The guardsman asked back, so he was nice?

  No wait...

  "Yes, I will pass the information to the head butler ter on. But if you see a blue-haired mage take notice." Rossie added while passing the rough description of Michael, the guardsmen nodding and passing that information through his radio to...god knows where.

  ...Was Rossie pg a notice for them to cheichael? Or was she setting up a search party to monitor Michael? She...didn't want to think too much about it, but it robably a way to keep in check Michael.

  ...She missed being a bimbo at times like these, she had felt happy for the character development of Rossie, only for reality to crash as she noticed that her seemed to be thinking of the wellbeing of the blue-haired mage.

  "Let's go Eli-Eli. The nice guardsmeo tinue w." Rossie said as she smiled and grabbed her hand to pull her towards the door that opened on its own.

  Yeah...they o return to work, probably doing a sweep around the pake sure Michael wasn't stalking or something. Rena didn't seem too bothered by this, and walked behind them, not even aowledgiher guard.

  They got sed by some magic embedded in the ard at the same time, they walked by a metal detector.

  "[Mistress, there are very RUDE people trying to sneak past into your mana circuits to take a sample. Shall we make an example of them?]" Beatrice spoke into her mind.

  "Are they attempting the same with Rossie or Rena?" Elizabeth asked back.

  "[Lady Rossaline isn't being sed above superficial levels, Miss Rena's defenses are pitiful and she has no actual trol over her Mana so they didn't eveo send a probe for her mana.]" Aura answered back her question.

  So only she was being probed for a mana sample?

  "Refute the probes, if they attempt an active ohealiate at the same level as what they do," Elizabeth answered to her [Minions].

  The effect was immediate as she felt her shadow ripple, she also felt one of the [Assassin] type minions under her and dart from her shadow. No oed to that, so she ig too, and tinued walking.

  At least till one maid with green hair walked from the side and whispered something to Rossie, her girlfriend's eyes narrowed then turowards Elizabeth, "Eli-Eli, is something b you?" She asked her.

  Was something b her?

  "No...? Is something the matter?" Elizabeth asked back, was something happening?

  Rossie narrowed her eyes then turhem towards her shadow, and she felt a pulse of mana from the [Lock] within her [Soulscape], and another pulse came from her shadow, this time towards Rossie. Was she speaking with someone inside her [Shadow Haven]?

  "I see, please tell my Father that if he doesn't want his [Toys] to be broken, he o act his age. And leave my [Girlfriend] alone." Rossie said to the maid, she them and walked back towards one of the side paths. "Let's go, my Father is waiting for us at the audience chamber."

  The what now?

  Couldn't they wait for them at the...Living room? Guest rooms? Recreation room? Whatever kind of fans could a pace have?

  "Sure Rossie, let's go to the audience chamber..." Elizabeth said as they tinued walking, the way there was he garden was very had an incredible amount of flowers and bushes in iing forms.

  Hell, there was even a statue of what looked to be a small girl with a face simir to Rossie with water flowing from her hands even...

  "Yeah, they made that one as my birthday present for my sixth birthday, to reassure me that they did love me," Rossie said as she stood at the base of the statue, where a pque was.

  "To my Daughter, proof that even if you weren't born in this house you will always have a p our hearts." Elizabeth read the pque, it was a oud proof of love.

  Rena stood at her side while Rossie only eyed the thing with a calg glint in her eyes, "Have they decided where they will pce my sister's statue yet?" She asked to the air.

  A woman walked out from a ripple in the air a few seds after, another Maid, this oh silver hair, "There was a discussion about it as they o schedule the artist, but they decided to wait for your input Lady Rossalihey don't want you to feel left aside."

  ...That was goht? It meant that Rossie's parents still loved her even if they would get a biological daughter...

  "...Sure they do," Rossie answered, the maid took that as a dismissal as she walked once more away disappearing as she walked some type of threshold as the air ripped apart.

  What was with this pce maids?!?!

  "[Mistress, the Assassied that he dealt with the interloper as appropriate.]" Aura reported in her mind with a muffled ugh, "[That one will have a harsh time sleeping for a month...Or sitting down.]"

  ...She didn't want to know.

  "Rossie? How did you know there was someohere?" Elizabeth decided to direct her train of thought elsewhere, like to the phantom maids that popped from nowhere. Was this how people felt when she summoned random shadons from the shadows?

  Rossie turo her as if looking at something weird, "Eli-Eli...Don't you have [Minions] spread everywhere? No wait, where are your [Scouts]?" Rossie said as she started looking around the shadows.

  Just at that moment, her [Assassin] was on the way back when it suddenly stood very still as a deer being eyed by a predator. "Only one? And the rest?" Rossie asked as her eyes narrowed at her.

  So she even noticed the ohat was supposed to be very stealthy? "They are searg for clues...About Akira." Elizabeth answered, that she hadn't recalled her scouts, if anything she expanded her operations ahem through the teleportation station to expand around the world.

  She had feared about them being that far away from her, but it proved to be a pointless fear. Her [Minions] worked indepely from her, and only required her input when they ran out of mana from wounds, and even then, if she allowed them to dissipate they returo her [Shadow Haven]. So long they weren't hit by [Soul Magic] there wouldn't be a problem.

  "..." Rossie however had a more iiion to that revetion than she expected, as the pink-haired girl turned her attention towards Rena who was looking around as if at a tourist spot, "Any opinion on that?"

  "Nothing much, if they do find him I just ask for a ce to duel against him. But I uand if either you or Elizabeth want to have a go first at dismembering him. I only ask for a ce to castrate him with a spoon." Rena answered while smelling one of the roses nearby.

  How could someone say something like that and look like an adorable puppy?!?!?

  This was cheating!

  "Fair enough." Rossie answered Rena, then turo Elizabeth, "As for how...You only o expand your mana sense ahe disruption their skills do in [The World]. They i with the ambient mana and distort your ability to perceive them, like Silvia. She is using wind mana to distort the light around her and pretend to be invisible, your shadow minions do something simir, even if they are cheeky little things that also distort not only the five senses but also the mana sense."

  Her minions did what?

  Then could she do the same too?

  More iing things to che ter, but for now! Focus!

  "So I start by feeling the mana around...?" Elizabeth said as she tried to feel said mana, tely she ainfully aware of how her mana moved around within her body, and in her shadows. She knew where Rossie or Reoo at all times and how they were doing. But the ambient mana?

  Not so much, so first she cast her mana outwards as if it were a rying to get a feeling about how it was.

  "Stop." Rena suddenly said making her open her eyes, "Don't use the [Shadows] even if that makes it easier on you."

  That made Elizabeth look around and sure enough, the shadows had started moving as if following her instrus, "Follow your [Instincts] cast only the mana without altering it into something else, not your [Shadows]. Not here, in this pce we have too much light and greenery, a shadow moving around will be noticed."

  ...Right, the correct element for the correviro. Hadn't she wao be aal-type magical girl? She khat.

  "Thank you, Rena," Elizabeth said as she closed her eyes. Not seeing the red-haired girl lightly blush at the pliment, nor see how Rossie gred at Rena for that.

  Elizabeth was too busy fog, Rena had the right to it. Using [Shadows] too much could end up being a crutch, she had access to many more things besides Shadows, even if they were what came easier to her.

  But what to use?

  As of now she had an innate [Affinity] to three things.

  -Shadows

  -Lighting

  -Fire

  The first was too showy and what most would expect from her to use, then the sed? But sending lightning bolts around wasn't particurly sneaky was it now? Not like burning everything on her way would make it more sneaky either...

  Unless...

  What is [Lighting]? The thunder? Chloe and Alexanders both used [Lighting] but they didn't fight lobbing thu people, did they? They preteo do such a thing though.

  She didn't che the fights of Chloe as [The Thunder Queen], but she had seen one of her attacks, the [Railgun]. That wasn't a [Lighting] attaot entirely. The on from where the attack came was a magi, it porized the muzzle of the gun and shot a projectile at Mach-level speeds. It was smokeless and hard to detect si was basically throwing a pieetal at your enemies very fast.

  But it wasn't [Lighting], it was made out of magism...

  So why couldn't she do the same? Not the [Throw things very fast at your problem], but using the [Magism].

  She tapped deep within her [Lighting], seeing the marvel of the live current that was her mana when it attuo the element, she felt shivers run through her body as the [Lighting] coursed her body.

  "[Expand]," Elizabeth said as she opened her eyes and her mana attuo the [Lighting] element, a wave of magic waves shot outwards from her and sure enough her mind suddenly was aware of here within the mansion.

  "...Eli-Eli, that is a couple steps above of what I was thinking," Rossie said as she brought her phone from within their [Iory] and took a picture of her. "But I should have expected this, you have always been smarter than you give yourself credit for."

  Her girlfriend seemed proud for some reason as she pocketed the cell phohat seemed like a weird rea to have.

  "I assume you aren't using [Shadows] for this, but what element is this? It doesn't look like [Fire],[Wind],[Earth] or [Water]." Rena said as she also seemed to hide something behind her back.

  A Cell phone if her new senses were to be believed, "The golden eyes seem to imply either [Divine], [Holy] or [Light]. But my [Instincts] says you aren't using those elements." Rena tinued while thinking hard about it.

  Elizabeth for her part took her cell pho and took a selfie (Pose included) to check herself. Her eyes were shining with golden light, the same one Alexanders seemed to have on his eyes when he was going full throttle with his mana.

  Her hair seemed to be moving as if the wind was more strong than it should, she looked positively [Divine]... NO, BAD ELIZABETH, DON'T LET THE DRAIC EGO WIN!

  Even if it is right...

  Then she [Felt] the silver-haired maid sigh hidden from sight (Or from her normal sight anyway) and walk towards them, as she weaved the mana into a rift in the air and she walked from a ripple in the air. "Lady Starbright, the lord asks if you wish to join him for Tea or if you rather join him in the audience chamber. He asks because he-" Was saying the maid before being interrupted by Rossie.

  "He got annoyed because one of his employees implied that Eli-Eli found all his precious hidden assets with her [Skill]. And sihey 't identify the element they aren't sure how to guard against it." Rossie said smirking at the side, "Tell him we will join him at the audience chamber, it's better for him too since he has all those fancy dete artifacts too."

  '...Rossie? Please don't antagoher-in-w before he accepts me?' Was one of the thoughts that were going in Elizabeth's head, followed by 'Pretty please?'

  And while she liked the look... "[Mistress, we have assimited and automatized the new sensory input, you dial dowput for a passive more stealthy approach.]" Beatrice reported from within the [Shadow Haven].

  So Elizabeth did as asked and reduced the output of [Lighting Mana], she felt her eyes return from their golden color to her usual blue one, followed by her hair settling down.

  At least her hair didn't end up with frilled hair or anything simir from the high charge of [Lighting Mana] that had coursed through her body, she would o che what other things she could do with those other [Affinities] she had earned herself.

  [Lighting] and [Fire] surely had more uses... And while she hadn't checked too often, she did have [Eyes] that could examine [ins], maybe it was time to cheto her own [in]?

  She also o check the gains from the fight against Akira...

  Was she looking for things to do instead of thinking about the meeting with Rossie's parents that was about to happen? Yes, yes she was.

  What? A girl couldn't get cold feet before meeting her In-Laws? This was something she could die doing! (Not really)

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