“Your [Father] only had a daughter, and that is you. Besides he never married [Ea].” Jenna pointed out immediately after what Elizabeth had said. She was doing her best to mask it, but Elizabeth could perceive it. The gnawing doubt at the back of Jenna’s eyes.

  “Did you see something like that with your [Skill]?” Elizabeth asked, unsure of the limits of that [Skill].

  “....I was never able to peek too far into your [Father], some peek at nearby [Realities]? Easy. But something that far ged? No. And after the [Advent] I haven’t been able to find him in any of the [Realities] I look into.” Jenna answered with a sad tone. “As for [Ea]? All her [Echoes] are [Shadows]. Trying to look into that mess I never find anything, the woman is too paranoid.”

  “A you could see into me? We both have [Shadow] aligned powers.” Elizabeth pointed, “What is the difference? Are you saying that my power is weaker?”

  “Of course it is.” Jenna answered back immediately, again. “You are what? Seventeeeen?”

  “Seventeen….sadly.” Rossie pointed from the side in a downcast tone. Even while depressed the girl was cute.

  “Right, [Ea] has been around sihe sed world war. She is a true [Monster], don’t let her appearance deceive you, she was one of the very few [S-Tier] Vilins around. The true [S-Tier] not the ohe people believe they are S-Tier.” Jenna brought a notebook and ope on a page with information about [Ea]. “Eleanore Windsor, first seen during the recruitment force for persoo repce the lost members during [The Stygian Ba…”

  The dots told the story of a young woman enlisting in an attempt to get some kind of closure after the death of her family. A sad story about a young woman with nothing to lose.

  She dedicated all her life to work, had the best work ethic possible, she sought only to be the best at what she was doing. The woman wao leave a long-standing mark on the world…

  On a world that feared another cataclysm-level event and was just rec from the shock of a new superviliroying a city and killing almost all their heroes…

  “If not for your [Father] she would have never mao climb within the army after what [Ethan] did.” Jenna said as she turhe page to the one. “She mao showcase a mastery over [Shadows] that far eclipsed what [The ShadowCaster] ever showed, and her [Skill] unlike him. Thrived within the [Fears] of others, she was going to be an integral part of the [Twelve].”

  “...till they found about [The Taint].” Elizabeth guessed.

  “Yes, when they found she was among the first to voluo being [Sealed], all so no more would suffer what she did…” Jenna turhe page again and now the notes showed a grainy picture of what seemed to be a younger Ea walking into a jail cell. “And you are tellihat in some [Reality], she still mao Marry [Your Father]?”

  That was…a very good point.

  “Chloe…The reality in which Papa married Ea the [Stygian Bane] wasn’t borhan didn’t go crazy. In that reality [The Tainted] did, the [Twelve] didn’t have [The Ameri Crusader].” Elizabeth said as she fished among the memories that Alice had left for her, “In that reality Ethan tinued w as a member of the [Twelve] till he retired because his [Skill] faded away.”

  That had been an iing part to find out, “He moved to bee president of the Ameri Federation, Papa became an honorary member of the UN, Ea became the Speaker of the UN…”

  “....what kind of nutjob world is that?” Jenna said astonished, it seemed that she couldn’t see [Ea] as a paper pusher?

  “And in that world, it was her destiny to kickstart the [Advent] and asd, instead of having [Framework] and [Odyssey]. That reality only had a single [Goddess].” Elizabeth still didn’t know why anyone would asd willingly like that, to be isoted from the world to work for all eternity? No thanks, “[The Shadow Weaver].”

  “...should I pray to you?” Jenna joked, while Elizabeth would ignore how both Rena, Rossie ariodded her heads.

  She would also not turn to look within her [Shadow Haven], for she didn’t want to find more dragons nodding along.

  “If you want, but I only listen to cute and hot girls. And I don’t answer prayers uhey are done in the bed by pink-haired hot girls or red-haired cute girls.” Elizabeth smirked at her own smart-ass answer.

  Yes, she was leaving the bimbo realm!

  “...right. So that is fun and all, but what was she doing in this [Reality] if this Chloe girl was supposed to be born in another reality?” Jenna asked ign her obvious flirt with her girlfriends. B.

  “Yeah about that…In this Zaanam…Chloe Ashcroft was the daughter of Ea and…Holy I have no idea who Chloe’s father was, she old me.” Elizabeth said finding that she was missing a very important part of the puzzle.

  Chloe herself never said anything about a father to the st minute, she only asked her about Ea.

  “You know her whole life in an alternate reality, but don’t know anything about the reality that should matter to us?” Jenna asked fused, “You really do live up to your image huh.”

  ….Rude.

  “I got the information of the alternate reality from the alternate reality me from there.” Elizabeth defended herself, “Alice gave me that information, but Chloe didn’t leave anything for me besides her [Skill].”

  “....Elizabeth? How many….girls….have you eaten?” Jenna asked as she narrowed her eyes, “I knew about Alid…no wait just a goddamned sed, how many Chloes are there? Wasn’t this Chloe the one I met as Elzbeth?”

  “Oh that? No, Elzbeth was an awkward name, and besides she didn’t have ohat one didn’t have a ill I gave her the name of Chloe to honor the memory of Chloe Ashcroft.” Elizabeth answered summoning a proje of the inal Chloe Ashcroft. “This is Chloe Ashcroft, also known as [The Thunder Queen].”

  There she was, the bck-haired, red-eyed girl…and her blonde Hero Persona at the side.

  “...That is Alid you dressed in fancy blue clothes.” Jenna pointed out, “No wait, [The Thunder Queen]? Wasn’t she a traih high hopes of making it to A-Tier?”

  Jenna said aloud while going over her notebook, “Yes, here it is. She was scheduled for an internship with [The Elementalist] and [The Tio practice her [Thunder] skill….But disappeared during the [Advent] and was deemed KIA.” So they didn’t lose the memory of Chloe? That is unfair.

  “Well, that is Chloe. The inal one anyway.” Elizabeth nodded, “She was my other half.”

  “How many girlfriends do you even have? Are you three-timing?” Jenna asked as she sat just a little farther away from Elizabeth.

  Once again, rude.

  “She wasn’t my girlfriend! I didn’t even knew I liked girls at that time!” Elizabeth defended herself turning to look at Chloe’s photo. “I mean, I did think that she was cute, and that I would love to look at her while she was ging into her Hero persona…And that I would love to take a shower with her….”

  Elizabeth tinued rambling while staring at the picture before catg herself, “Oh god…I was into girls before Rossie? Nah, it robably the same phenomena Chloe described.” Yes, Elizabeth vinced herself of that.

  “Phenomena?” Jenna asked at that, thankfully not pointing out the fw ihinking.

  “Yes, Chloe told me that she felt a… call, as if she o reuh me. That she thirsted for my body.” Elizabeth reted what the vestige of Chloe had told her, “That she didn’t know why she felt pelled to taste me.”

  “....you attract weirdos huh.” Jenna eurning to look at Rossie, who smiled at the blue-haired girl.

  Suanners! Good Rossie! She deserved a smoochie.

  “It wasn’t like that, you see…I…didn’t have the most normal of births.” Elizabeth ighe weird look she got from Jenna at that statement, “As you may know my Papa WAS one of the most powerful [Powered] in the world.”

  “Yes, no one ever lived to his name or power. The [S-Tier] solely exists for him.” Jenna the statement, “The only other person that ever came close to him in [Ma] was your Mother.”

  Heh, Elizabeth khat her parents were awesome.

  “Well, Mother had a hard time ceiving because of that. They both had just too much [Mana], so it was hard for life to form within her womb. For [Humans] aren’t meant to be born within a [Mana Maelstrom].” Elizabeth had found this after the fact, so much more after the fact, and only because some of the [Data] that had bee behind within her [Spire].

  Like the procedure her [Mother] went through.

  “...A here you are.” Jenna said pointing the obvious.

  “That is because Mother was a very resourceful person. And because she went and made a deal with a monster.” Elizabeth the ahead and expined how that had gone, as well as the deal her parents made with the Saintsworths. And how the asshole had hitched a ride and maintained her [Soulscape]. “And so I was born, the most beautiful of all.”

  “And cute,” Rossie added at the side.

  “And mighty.” Rena of course also added.

  “And also humble! Really, you have everything Elizabeth!” And Jenna joioo! Even if she spoke with sarcasm.

  Elizabeth would still take the pliments.

  “Problem is…I wasn’t supposed to be born like that, my [Soul] was called upon by Papa’s [Seed] grao him by the world.” Elizabeth still wasn’t sure how that had worked, but worked with what she knew. “The [Vessel], that was being nurtured by…who was supposed to be my [Mother].”

  And she had done a perfect job, the [Vessel] she nurtured matched her powers perfectly, and even after so many ges, the [Vessel] still matched and acclimated to her like a glove.

  “So your [Soul] rovided by [Your Father]? By [The Ameri Crusader].” Jenna brought a [Picture] (Sigion) of [The Ameri Cusader]. “While your [Vessel] rovided by [The Mother of Monsters]?”

  At the side of that picture one of [Ea] ced, and under both of them a third picture of Alice.

  “But I wasn’t born like that.” Elizabeth stated.

  “You instead got born by the union of [The Ameri Crusader] and [The Stardust Explorer].” Jenna then pulled another photo of her papa (Also signed) and one of [The Stardust Explorer]. “So…who is the father of this girl then?”

  “Don’t know, shouldn’t you have access to that data?” Elizabeth asked also w about that. If [Ea] was supposed to give birth to her, then she should have roughly around the same mana amount as her papa at that time.

  And to be able to match him…her mana should also be votile and hostile to life. So who could withstand that and be able to create life within Ea?

  Who could bed [The Mother of Monsters] and survive?

  “Who is…” Elizabeth started the phrase.

  “No one, Ea doesn’t have a partner.” Only to be interrupted by Jenna. “She never married.”

  What?

  “So she is a siher?” Elizabeth asked. From what Alice had told her, Ea was more of a stickler for the rules and propriety. How had that e to be?

  “She only had a son as far as we knew. Now you are telling me she had two?” Jenna asked.

  “What? She had two, Alice had a brother. Max something something.” Elizabeth said, Chloe did imply the presence of a brother at least…That or was she gettira info from somewhere?

  “Maximilian Windsor, her son is around 20-22 years. Currently a Hero MIA, at least officialy.” Jenna said with a sigh.

  “And unofficially? Where is he? we speak with him? I would like to pass o message from Chloe if possible.” Elizabeth said, at least that way she wouldn’t have to worry about speaking with the woman.

  She didn’t want any awkward retionship t, she felt bad about how Chloe had ended of course, but…she would not repce her Mother.

  So she couldn’t give Ea anything even if she wanted.

  “Alid Elzbeth already met him actually.” Jenna said grimag, turning to look at the distant city they had e from. “He was known before as [Shadow Pact], but tely he goes as [The Shadow Tide]. Kidnaping [Shadow Users] and doing god knows what to them.”

  ….[Shadow Pact]?

  “Alid Elzbeth cimed to have woken up one day in a dark basement with him raving about Chloe, before running away. “ Jenna turowards Elizabeth, “I didn’t knew why, but now I guess we have a clue…any idea about how this went around?”

  ….dang it.

  “[Shadow Pact] may have beehe [Advent]....” Elizabeth said aloud.

  “He was, when you were possessed by [Ethan], he was getting trashed by your [Father] for attag your body. I don’t know how that ended since I was forced to leave, but I know he was he point zero of the [Advent].” Jenna answered her question before Elizabeth finished formuting it.

  “So perhaps he mao keep some memories? Mother separated my [Soul] from my [Body] and tucked me into Chloe’s body. Perhaps he noticed how I invaded Chloe’s body?” Elizabeth wondered aloud.

  “YOU WHAT?!?!?” Jenna said surprised while standing, “HOW?!? WHY?!? WHEN?!?!?”

  “...At the [Advent], Mother did it. And we spoke about it with Chloe, she decided to give me her body. She lived a crappy life where Ea never spoke with her or cared for her.” Elizabeth said, venom dripping in her voice, “That woman didn’t deserve her daughter. Chloe wanted a happy life so much that she decided that giving away her body and me having a hope at having a happy life was better.”

  Elizabeth still got mad at that from time to time.

  “...right.” Jenna said turning to look at Rossie and Rena.

  “I already knew.” Rossie said shrugging, “Who Elizabeth is, and whose body she uses doesn’t matter to me. So long Elizabeth is there, she could be using a man’s body, an animal’s body…she could even use yours. It doesn’t matter to me.”

  Rossie licked her lips at the st part as if ttheatement, this was true love. Knowing that even if she was to bee a worm, her girlfriend would still love her.

  “I didn’t know.” Rena said after, “But it doesn't matter to me either, Elizabeth was willing to take me in, to kiss me, to embrace me, even when I hated myself, my body and my weakness.”

  Rena’s eyes shone in red light as if a fire burned in them, “When I hated my body because I thought I was dirty, she still kissed me, she still wanted me.” Rena’s eyes turo Elizabeth, “So it matters not if Elizabeth was to kill someone and take their body, I would still want to be with her. To me, this world may burn. All that matters to me is that Elizabeth is okay.”

  “....that ’t be healthy.” Jenna sighed, “Real retionships usually don’t include genocide or destroying worlds.”

  “Real retionships are b,” Elizabeth pointed, “And now you will tell me that real retionships are usually limited to two people.”

  “Sorry, Elizabeth, but some people are into multiple people. They are called polygamy. You aren’t that special in this case.” Jenna sighed, “Not the point, so? Now you know. I know you probably wao speak with [The Shadow Man] or something. But he may be a victim.”

  “....nope, he is the bad guy.” Elizabeth said while nodding, “He scared the living hell of a cute girl, stalked her across the try and even attacked her.”

  Elizabeth had decided how to deal with [The Shadow Man], as Alice had referred to him. She…was somewhat flicted about his identity, of course. That her childhood crush was the [Vilin].

  “...So? [The Elementalist] was chasing him, how do you know he isn’t captured?” Jenna asked pointing that o.

  “Easy, no [Shadow User] is easy to capture, and no son of [Ea] would fall so easily. If I were to guess, he probably has a version of telep skills.” Elizabeth didn’t knew for sure of course, Alice hadn’t been trained under Ea. But…if she was to take a guess…. “Spread out far and wide! Fihis [Shadow Tide]!”

  Elizabeth eled her shadows, and from them, all her army flew out. Looking at it, merely 70 weren’t that many. So Elizabeth picked the nearby 30 shadon eggs ready and made them join her armada. They would be the base for now and would evolve ter.

  “Mistress, shall we have a cup of Tea while we wait? The cook has a few slices of cake ready.” Beatrice materialized again with her maid outfit a cup of Tea.

  The little girl had disappeared at some point while Elizabeth was distracted.

  “Sure,” Elizabeth said accepting the cup of Tea. “Anything else that we o discuss while we wait for the location of this lost useless brother of Chloe?”

  What else was to discuss?

  Elizabeth hoped that Jenna didn’t want anything eous, such as Elizabeth having only one girlfriend. How was a girl supposed to survive without two girlfriends?!?!?

  Besides, she had already given both of them e rings, it was too te to stop her!