“In other news, the amount of kidnaped [Shadow Aligned] users has skyrocketed this week, we have hat the [ars] are deploying members to deal with the u in Germania…” The newscaster eaking while a series of graphics showed the amount of kidnapped people behihere were photos mothers, wives, and sisters in memorials.

  And while this was indeed a sad problem, Elizabeth was focused on something else, “...Here we have video of the test enter with the [SuperVilin] that seems to be g responsibility, we have identified him as [The Shadow Tide] and here he is stopped by the new shining duo [Magical Girl - Law Bringer Sentinel] and [Magical Girl - Lunar Shade] plus two not reported young heroines.”

  The video feed ged from the newscaster to a grainy video of four three girls fighting off the shadow attacks from the [Vilin], Elizabeth could see the gun-wielding blue magical girl shooting beans of light and how the gothic magical girl used her own shadows to tie dowacks.

  That was an iing way to suppress other shadow-attuned users, testing the shadows with her own magic to stop the progression, probably a strategy that was born from fighting other [Tainted] before the advent.

  The third one, however, was the one Elizabeth was more ied in, “Do we have anything ohird one? Reports? Gossip? Anything?” Elizabeth said as the video only showed brief moments of the blonde hair and magic as the third girl moved around the fight, slinging magid spells as if it was no one’s business.

  She reized the struct of the spells even if the way the girl was using them was a novel approach, unlike her who just made them and used them on the spot, this girl was weaving the magid letting it settle before casting it. If she summoned a [Mana Bolt], half the time she used it as an impromptu booster or a way to make a smokes.

  Elizabeth oher hand…she used it for what it was…and nothing else. This girl however was wielding her magic as if it was her pything, from using a [Fire Bolt] to ram it into one of the [Icicle Bullets] that [Law Bringer Sentinel] had used to make an steam bomb, to cast a modified [Light] spell and turn it into a fshbang. The girl was doing everything while ughing like a kid who was having the day of her life while pying in the pyground.

  And then…All ged.

  “s ora nor maet about the suspect…Heroine and Magical Girl.” Beatrice reported as the video showed [The Shadow Tide] attack a building.

  At this point, the blonde girl turned her face towards the building, and the one rec it zoomed into it. To everyone else they would see a face that they wouldn’t match with anyone else, but to Elizabeth and Rossie?

  “That is your shift isn’t it?” Rossie said as the face of the blonde girl morphed into an anguished scream as she rushed to the building.

  Only to stop for a sed as a bck silhouette darted from within the rubble, a bck-haired girl whose body was covered in shadows as they coalesced into a firm bck armor. She darted from pce to pce dodging the rubble and shadow tentacles that seemed to want to get hold of her, all the while wielding a pair of obsidian daggers.

  Elizabeth could see the chest pte of the girl and how on it was something that…she hadn’t put there, it was the emblem of an azure dragon caught in a web. As the girl tio move around from pce to pce, she got to a point where there weren’t more spots to move around. But instead of telep, of using shadows to pull herself, the girl also did something that Elizabeth had hought of doing.

  She made wings of shadows from her bad used them to glide around, as she weaved through the attacks she tio destroy the tentacles using the daggers. Elizabeth had hought about using small ons.

  Part of it was that Papa didn’t like using ons, and when he used them. He always went f lugs of trees or parts of a building, the other was that her Mother also liked big explosions, so the very few times [The Stardust Explorer] had used a on, she favored bazookas renade unchers. There was also that time she was going around using [Physical Magic], aka, using a big greatsword to bonk people.

  Part of the reason she had made her [Shadow Empress] persona to use a cymore was that.

  But here was…her [Shadow Empress], Alice. Using daggers, it was iing.

  “She knows how to wield ons. Didn’t knew you had been trained in on use Elizabeth, but daggers do indeed suit you better.” Rena said as she analyzed the movements of her [Shift].

  “But she doesn’t move like Eli-Eli.” Rossie said at the side. “She moves weirdly, that isn’t Eli-Eli.”

  That wasn’t her? But that was [Alice], and that was her [Shift]...Oh…”That is the [Echo] of my life as a daughter to [Ea] and Papa….” Elizabeth said as she turned her attention back to the video feed.

  The video turo [Elemental Weaver] speaking with [The Shadow Empress], then to [Lunar Shade] and [Law Bringer Sentinel] joining around as [The Shadow Tide] tio build his attack. They looked so carefree…

  And as if making an statement the video’s quality skyrocketed as it turs focus into a newer, “[The Elementalist], one of the remaining [ars].” Elizabeth said as the image of a man dressed in garbs simir to the ones Aura used showed up. He teleported the three magical girls and one Heroine away, then the video showed him wrestling with [The Shadow Tide] as the deranged man fought back.

  But Elizabeth didn’t care about that anymore, she was focused on what they had seen. Her [Shifts] were okay and moving along in [Germania]. They were…[Alive] and quite well if what she was seeing was to be believed, and acc to what her [Grandmother] told her, they had started using her [Mana].

  A….Elizabeth couldn’t feel anything.

  “Any ces that you track the teleportation that [The Elementalist] did?” Elizabeth said while turning to Aura, the maid had been standing there at the back looking at the same se.

  “No, it looks like a variation of magical teleportation. But I am not sure about it, maybe if I had been on the same ti…But as is, by the time we arrive it will be too te. Even if we use the [Shadons] to accelerate the travel time.” Aura answered, so if the event happened on the same ti Aura could have tracked it?

  The girl was eous as one could expect, was this another one of her attributes as a [Maiden of Space]? Elizabeth o che that.

  “Well, then our step is obvious. We will have the rest of our vacations in Germania.” Elizabeth said as she made a wave of shadows traverse her home.

  Her minions quick at work started making sure everything was in order and cheg the wards her Mother had left for her, her [Royal Mages] had been hard at work studying them to make sure everything was in order.

  They could give mainteo the wards and make sure they worked, and leaving a couple of [Shadon - Civilians] to work ahe house in one piece was easy enough. She delegated those works to the family of the shadon that had sacrificed himself during the are. Even if those [Souls] had no sce at the moment, she wao honor the loss of those who worked for her.

  “I will book a phen.” Rossie said as she brought her phone, “Do you have any preferences for flying? I think we get a cheap one if you don’t mind the wait, but for fast travel, we will o fly using Executive seats.”

  What? Why did they o use a pne?

  “’t we use the teleportation station?” Elizabeth asked fused, did Rossie want to travel slowly or something? Granted she didn’t get the feeling that her [Shifts] were at risk…but she still wao finish this early if possible.

  “Germania doesn’t have access to the teleportation station. They don’t want to get easy access to their try. Same with Zarevia really.” Aura was the oo answer. “They like to keep their secrets, the only reason Avalon has one is because it was the only way to access this pce.”

  So it roblem with the try? Why?

  “Fine, book tickets, the faster the better. We will burn some of the money from renting the new properties I guess.” Elizabeth said while she started setting up the problem at rge that was her new properties.

  She would leave a couple of scouts to rotate around her properties to make sure everything was okay, and some extra shadons of the civilian variety to give mainteo the buildings, she could leave the renting tracts to some third party and add into them that the maintenance of the building would be done by [Summons].

  That surely could add some degree of exotic feeling to her properties and perhaps increase the revenue. Of course, the shadons would remain hidden away fr eyes. She couldn’t use them in her life as a [Heroine], [Vilin], or [Magical Girl] if they li back to her after all.

  Not that they were that special or unique, but paparazzi were a thing that she didn’t want to deal with.

  “The tickets have been bought, we depart tomorrow. Anything else we o prepare Eli-Eli?” Rossie said, that had been quicker than she expected.

  “Are people not going to Germania in this season? Is it that bad of a pce?” Elizabeth asked, usually when scheduling you o wait more, that art of why she had asked to get the tickets as soon as she firmed that her [Shift] was there.

  “Not really? We are getting preferential tickets since I am using the Singh fame to get them, they think this is a busiravel. Also, we are using one of their private jets, the time wait is mostly to prepare the crew and give mainteo the pne.” Rossie said as she stood and stretched. “Really, if we want to travel there faster besides this then our only option would be to sneak into a phat is already going there. But if we are using our [Shift] then we o have evidence of going there the normal way. Germania is very…paranoid.”

  So they would o lodge their [Shift] there too?

  “Do I ister all my [Shifts]?” Elizabeth asked, unsure if she should eveer her current rogue [Shifts].

  “They will ask for your [Shift], singur. People don’t have multiple of them most of the time, so if you only register [Stardust Weaver] it will be okay.” Rossie smiled at her, such a cute smile!

  “Do I ister my ons too?” Rena asked at the side, the red-headed girl hadn’t spoken that much, she was just happy to stay near Elizabeth. If anything the girl seemed to open to Elizabeth slowly, but every time she spoke to Elizabeth, one could see happiness in her eyes.

  “Your ons e from a [Skill] right? Just register a on summoner. You will be tasked to show the thing, but they ’t do anything about it si’s mostly mana made. They may try to get you to use a [Mana Limiter] to prevent the summoning…” Rossie said turning to Rena.

  “But that will not work, my [Sword] ’t be stopped by those,” Rena said after the pink-haired girl.

  “That sounds like a them problem, we are doing our part by rep it.” Rossie smiled deviously at the red-haired, they stared at each other with sly smiles on their mouth.

  Elizabeth could imagihem both a sed away from kissing…

  “Good, then should we prepare for departure?” A Rossie turo look at Elizabeth breaking the reverie that the blonde had found herself while staring at her girlfriend staring at her irlfriend. “Elizabeth?”

  “Oh, yes. I have sent the [Minions] to put our stuff into the [Garage].” Elizabeth answered summoning a blue s with the tent of her [Garage]. The list was divided into three rows with their clothes and ies.

  “Yeah, we will least oravel case for each. Germania will probably also try to get a [Limiter] on yarage].” Rossie said eyeing the iory aing things that she deemed necessary to have on travel cases.

  “And that will also not work…” Elizabeth said as she started anizing the items her girlfrieed, setting them apart for ter when they got the suitcases. “...Aura?”

  “I will send a ruo get them, we test the new credit cards and how the [Humans] react to a [Minion] buying things. And if needed we just trahe money after stealing them.” Aura said as she snapped her fingers and Elizabeth felt one of her minions darting towards the mall.

  It was iing how after the [Minio her immediate area of perception the feeling got vague, the farther it traveled the more vague it became and after a point, Elizabeth could no longer feel the [Minion], unless she focused on that particur minion that is.

  But she already knew how that one mana’s felt, so while she could get her perception to focus on it, since she wasn’t quite sure how the mana of [Shadow Empress] and [Elemental Weaver] felt, then she wasn’t able to pinpoint them.

  Also, she wasn’t sure if they would eveer as a [Minion] at all!

  So far any [Doppelganger] she summoned were closer to a [Summon] than a [Minion], and while she could sces with them, they felt like her own mana. Besides, after a certain distanless a [Minion] took trol of them, the things disappeared on their own.

  How was it even possible for her two shifts to even move on their own? Did they really have a [Snapshot] of her? Or had…someone else hijacked them?

  That articur fear that Elizabeth didn’t want to think too much about, she herself had dealt with not having a body. And while she mao get better, the idea that someone piloting her body…or a mana copy of her body was the stuff of nightmares.

  If it was Chloe thehing would be okay, she wouldn’t even mind it, she would do her best to aodate the girl, if she wanted a pce to stay. Her identity, hell, she wouldn’t even mind trying to give her back the body!

  “It was dohe cashier seemed somewhat fused, but the transa was dohe Shadon iion is sending the suitcases into the [Garage] now Mistress, please check.” Aura said turnitention towards the skill iion.

  Sure enough, Elizabeth felt the pull into her mana as a new series of objects fell ihree suitcases of different designs and colors. One blue, one pink, and ohe three had different motifs on them. Obviously oh dragons, oh hearts, and the st oh a sword.

  Elizabeth had the feeling that her shadons had modified the suitcase, no evide also no doubts about it.

  “Thank you Aura, you return to doing your own thing, we will fill them as needed,” Elizabeth said summoning the suitcases and leaving them on the dining table.

  Aura did a small curtsy and sank into the shadows after, leaving Elizabeth aloh Rossie and Rena…And a couple of dozen shadons lurking around. But most of those didn’t have that advahought process, and to be ho. Elizabeth had started to ighe presence of the shadons as of retly.

  “Well, ’t stay I missed pag my backpack….” Rossie said as she looked at her own suitcase, even if cute the thi…obsolete. “Care to summon our things Elizabeth?”

  “Sure thing,” Elizabeth said and with a flick of her will she summohe things iion. Three piles of clothes materialized beside each suitcase.

  Travel clothes, shoes, purses, small bags filled with etics, some towels…and underwear, tons and tons of underwear.

  It was quite an amusing spectacle, her girl had the same ratio of things, Rena having the less amount of variety in underwear pared to Rossie whose suitcase was half underwear. But Rena had more variety in street clothes, mainly pants and shirts.

  pared to the two girls, Elizabeth had more sleeping wear a stark trast with fortable clothing. And then it was Rossie, who had the biggest amount of underwear and loose clothes of the three, each pair of underwear more lewd than the previous one.

  And the girl was nontly folding them to ly fit into her suitcase as if nothing. Both Rena and Elizabeth weren’t sure where to look, or if some of those pieces could even hide something.

  Granted Rossie was the oh fewer things to hide of the three girls…but still! THAT ONE WAS JUST A STRING! HOW WAS SHE SUPPOSED TO HIDE ANYTHING IF THE WHOLE THING WAS A SIRING!?!?

  “I show you how it looks if you want? Sih of you seem to be focused on these.” Rossie said with a smile as she pyed with the pair of underwear iion.

  “...I’m fihank you,” Rena said in aone, as if she had rehearsed those words a thousand times. From time to time Rena spoke like that, mostly to circumstahat seemed to fluster her.

  “...Later Rossie, if you put that on we will arrive te to catch our pne,” Elizabeth said while using all her [Will] to think of happy things. Like what she could do tirlfriend whe those on…

  IN A DATE THAT WASN’T THIS ONE, BECAUSE SHE DID O FOCUS OHINGS THAT O BE DOODAY! NOT IN THE AMOUNT OF FUN SHE COULD HAVE WITH HER GIRLFRIEND!

  Yes, that.

  …that stupid pne couldn’t e sooner.

  “Let’s just finish pag our things and go to sleep, we will go to the other side of the world, so the time zone will ge, and we will o adjust,” Elizabeth said while fog her hands on pag her clothes and not in the RIDICOULSLY AMOUNT OF LEWD UNDERWEAR HER ROSSIE KEPT PARADING IN FRONT OF HER!

  WHY HAD THIS GIRL THIS MANY LEWD UNDERWEAR? WHEN DID SHE GET THEM?

  RENA? RENA STOP LOOKING LIKE A STARVED GIRL AT ROSSIE!

  FOCUS GIRL!

  DIDN’T YOU LOVE ME MORE?!?

  ARE YOU CHEATING ON ME RIGHT NOW?!?!?!?!?