Elizabeth didn’t know what to make out of this… “Weren’t the Saintsworths purged from this world? Why is he then still around?” Elizabeth first asked this, this was important.

  She had got the vague feeling that they had been purged; at least, no one seemed to remember them anymore. Perhaps a few could survive? For one her own mother had survived that purge, as Elizabeth had…She didn’t like the idea of using that name, but she teically was a Saintsworths…

  Could she pass up as a…oh god…Elizabeth was a s of the Saintsworths?

  “...are you okay Eli-Eli?” Rossie asked worriedly as the blonde girl came to that realization.

  “....I think I will be sick… The horror….I… I am the st remaining Saintsworth?” Elizabeth said as the train of thought didn’t want to listen to her and tinued forward.

  “I’m sorry for your loss…? Were you close with that part of your family?” Rena asked, also worried for her. The red-haired girl didn’t know much about family bonds or such things, but she seemed genuinely worried about Elizabeth.

  “That isn’t the thing. I only saw two or three at most, four if we include [The Traveler] I guess…But I only knew Alexanders & Alexa…and of course Mother.” Elizabeth eborated.

  “Oh? And they are gone, but what is the deal with being their S? They should feel honored about having you for their S.” Rossie said at the side, not uanding the problem.

  “The S? Oh….oooooh, you don’t want to be pared with that blonde asshole?” Jenna asked going over her notebook again, this time she brought a new different page. “This one?”

  “HE IS ALIVE?!?!?!” Elizabeth screamed while jumping bad staring at the picture, only for something to cli her head and look very close, “No wait…That…isn’t him? What?”

  The photo on the page was indeed of a blonde man, and he had that asshole-ish look, but something was…wrong.

  “Hmm….He does look like a stuck-up rich guy; I would probably rip him off his money by selling him a sed-grade [Heal] as something more expensive while using him as a b rat for a [Soul Magic] spell.” Rossie said from the side while looking at the picture.

  “Yeah, I don’t know why, but he looks weak. You could probably steal his position as S of this family easily enough.” Rena chimed too with her opinion.

  “....What is his name?” Elizabeth asked at the end ign both girl’s opinions.

  “He preteo be called Alexander Saintsworths, and even tried to ge as much of his paperwork as possible, but his name was something else. He died five months after Advent from a multi-an failure. As yirlfriend stated, he was ripped off his money by several [Healers] that preteo heal him and instead only did shoddy work, but most of his power and fame had disappeared from this word with the Saintsworths.” Jenna said while flipping the page and moving on to the one, “Most of the nd the Saintsworths owed disappeared, with some of the lower members of their bloodline vanished ht, the data on him from [The Twelve] seemed to imply that he didn’t share the same bloodline, and by the fact that he survived the [Advent] while most of the others didn’t…”

  “Means he wasn’t a true [Saintsworth].” Rossie chimed at the end, “See, Eli-Eli is the true [S] now!”

  …Elizabeth was not happy about that.

  “The fact that I survived….” Elizabeth started to try to build a case.

  “Means nothing, you almost didn’t survive, the fact that most of the people fot about you is proof enough that you almost got erased too.” Jenna pointed out.

  “But the people remember her Mother….and they also remember [The Traveler] right?” Renna said as terpoint.

  “[Odyssey] asded as goddess, she doesn’t t. As for [The Traveler]...well, he isly safe is he? He o jump out of our po try to escape the backsh, and even then he hasn’t quite mao return.” Jenna shook her head at this, “Part of the reason Amelia doesn’t want to leave [The Tower] is because we think that he could use that as a bea to return with us.”

  Yikes…

  “So that means Eli-Eli is the new S, right?” Rossie of course couldn’t care less about the problems of others.

  “I guess? But why is that a problem?” Jenna asked fused.

  “Well, Alexanders Saintsworth…” Elizabeth started her expnation by summoning a picture of the asshole from her personal library, “This asshole.”

  The picture materialized in the middle of everyone for them to see, “This is the inal S of the Saintsworths, the man who built all they had. Their riches, teology, and might were built upon the back of this man’s achievements.”

  Yeah, that sounded goht? One would want that right? Wrong!

  “He is also the reason that his world was doomed, he is responsable for the death of the Saintsworth’s Homeworld, and the reasoried to sneak into Zaanam.” Elizabeth, of course, wouldn’t mention to Jenna the fact that she was also the reination of said man. “And I really, really don’t want to follow into his footsteps.”

  She had enough already with having his [Soul] and [Iahis cursed bloodline was already too much trouble for what it brought her. Granted, it allowed her great powers… Terrible powers yes, but also great ones.

  “Then don’t.” Jenna just said as such.

  “That is an irresponsible way to look at it,” Rossie said back, “Obviously Eli-Eli do better than any MALE.”

  “If Eli is the oo do it, I am sure anything she looks forward to doing will go fine. If not, We always help her achieve those things.” Rena had another opinion, even if it was the same one as Rossie's in the grand scheme of things, “We are here to support her, so if she wants to achieve something, we will help her as best as we .”

  “I mean, her problem seems to be that she doesn’t want to follow in the footsteps of this vague lookalike if he caused the death of his homeworld. Then I uand why she wouldn’t want to follow in his footsteps.” Jenna chimed back, “But really, if he is anything closely simir to the one we had here, then he probably had access to a multinational pany and money, right? For now you are at best a middle css civilian. You are far from having that level of influen the world.”

  Jenna ughed at that statement, and while Rossie and Rena seemed to want to retort, her could really say anything.

  While Rossie was the daughter of a future president(maybe president), she didn’t have the final say in her family's internal political stahat to Lizbeth and Albert Singh.

  Rena, oher hand, was more like Elizabeth. She didn’t have parents or riches to back her, so really, they had more in on than anyone else.

  But her of the three girls knew or was aowledging something fual, something that Elizabeth ainfully aware of….

  “Mistress, we are ready to spread your [Authority] over the puny humans at your and.” The first to speak was, of course. Aura.

  “The armadas are ready, Mistress. We await Mother and your and.” The sed to speak was, obviously, her daughter(?), Chief Valkyrie, and little cute maid Beatrice.

  “We are at your bed call Mistress.” And the st one was Reginald, with whom she still had plenty of things to discuss.

  “Shut it Reginald, don’t act all coy with me noill speak about you ter! For now, stand down. We don’t want to repeat the Terra Invicta fias Zaanam!” Elizabeth really didn’t want to do that; she didn’t have the whole story of how that went or what had happened. But the little tidbits of information she gleaned didn’t speak of anything good.

  And after what she lived through when her [Pride] got out of trol…She didn’t want to even imagine what had gone over there for the world to end, what the heck did he even do to make a world end like that?

  She wao know but didn’t want to rummage through the memories of a dead world. She may have them squatting in her [Soul], but even so, she didn’t feel like it was correct to try and look.

  “Let’s shelve this S shenanigan for ter please.” Elizabeth decided to cut the versation short at this, “So we know that we could probably deal with at least the three weakest members of the [ars].”

  Elizabeth said pointing at the bottom names, [The Traveler], [Prophet] and [Warlock].

  “That is not how it works.” Jenna said smirking, “Just like how you aren’t as weak as your level implies, they also aren’t as weak as you think.”

  “I mean, wasn’t [The Traveler] the tuxedo guy that came in first year? I didn’t get the impression that he was that strong.” Rena pointed back.

  “He may not be, but even so you would have an easier time hittihan hitting him.” Jenna said back, “[The Traveler] got to that spot not for his might, but for his skills. He is always in the right pce at the right time. If he ever says that he will fight you, it is because your defeat is all but secured.”

  How does that even work?

  “So if he showed up to fight you, it would mean he defeat you? Someone 44 levels stronger?” Rossie pointed out.

  “...He never did, but assuming that was the case then yes. I would thiher has a way to distract me, make me leave the fight or even seal me. He is a Saintsworths, and they are always slimy bastards….” Jenna grumbled and turo look at Elizabeth, “Some exceptions are among them of course.”

  “I wouldn’t miing slimy with Eli-Eli…” Rossie said in a low and sultry voice.

  “Amen to that.” Followed by her shy and cute Rena.

  “Focus girls, focus.” Jenna cpped her hands, bringing the three fantasying girls back to reality. “I didn’t bring this for you to get a hit list, but to prove a point. Even if you three feel powerful, fighting against the [ars] is too much. I may be able to defeat them, but that is uhe premise that I fight at full strength and…”

  “That the ti or that side of the p will end up as a wastend?” Elizabeth said as her eyes turned into her [Draic Eyes] for a sed, she turhem to look at the [Juggernaut] at the back of the [Eada] who her, “...Is that…An Echo of Papa?”

  Elizabeth had been thinking about the identity of that oer all.

  “Yes, it was formed from my impression and ideas about him. I never mao summon a real one, so the best thing I managed was an [Eade up of my delusions. So if I o use that….” Jenna said leadingly.

  “Then unless ut a dent in it, we ’t defeat [The ars].” Elizabeth admited, she…didn’t think she could defeat that o.

  Seal it? Maybe.

  Distract it? Possibly.

  Defeat? Yeah, that was too soon for her. Maybe ter? When she had grown into her power and finished colleg the [Gems] for her s?

  Actually, did she want to do that? Collect mems] of [Sin]...

  “But that doesn’t mean you ’t do anything.” Jenna said, turning their attention to her once more, “Maximilian isn’t sa the moment; he is more of a rambling mess of delusions. [The Elementalist] o tain himself and worry about the optics of his fight. Sihe Prophet] is busy trying to get the UN tnize her as a political entity.”

  “While we don’t o worry about those things, we fight without care in the world.” Rossie smiled evilly at this statement, she said.

  “We do o worry about how the world perceives us, sihat will refle Elizabeth.” Rena said at the side. “There are only so many times ull a new identity.”

  There were? Elizabeth turned her attention towards her Shift skill.

  “Exactly, so your best pn. If you really want to do this, is to find a pce to isote Max and fight him there. Not in a city where he use civilians, not in a cave or forest where he use the shadows to his favor…” Jenna brought a map of the surroundings and poio the nearby mountains and forests. “But in a pce where you see his shadows ing and fight while using your [Fly] to your advantage.”

  “ Rena fly?” Elizabeth asked as she turo look at the red-haired girl. Flying was usually more of a [Magical Girl] thing; some [Heroines] also could fly, of course, but Rena didn’t seem like the type.

  “Yes, I use your [Fly] spell using my mana,” Rena answered as her back greair of Shadow Wings, they morphed into wings made of Fire a few seds ter as if to match Rena’s hair color.

  That was so hot in many ways.

  “Good, so now you only need a way to call him to the pce you will set up this ambush.” Jenna said encirg some empty spaces in the map, a few valleys and such. “Then with that we worry about how you pn to fight him.”

  Something didn’t quite match here though.

  “You aren’t joining us?” Elizabeth asked, just to make sure.

  “No, ’t sorry. I will make sure no one else bothers you girls. And if you are about to be defeated or hurt badly I will jump to help you, but you do o deal with this. You are the ohat wants to speak with him right?” Jenna said pointing out this point, “We also leave, I get Merlin to teleport us away, et Amelia to set a bypass and teleport us too.”

  “No” “No” “No”

  The three girls answered at once.

  “[Shadow Pact] is the ohat started this, he dared to hunt a version of Eli-Eli.” Rossie said, venom dripping from her words, “Even if that was a version she wouldn’t use, or care for. He dared covet what wasn’t his. He must pay.”

  ….Rossie? I have your babies? Please?

  “He started this fight, he may be mad, either by grief or pure insanity, but as the oo be taunted, we must answer in kind.” Rena’s answer was more sedated, but even so Elizabeth could see the Fire burning in the eyes of the red-haired girl. Determination, both to prove her might and to defend Elizabeth.

  That was also o have, Elizabeth felt her heart warmth at the care she was recieving.

  “A girl could get used to this, but yeah. What they said.” Elizabeth smiled while grabbing the hands of both of her girlfriends, “ [Shadow Pact] is the ohat tormented Alid Elzbeth (Now Chloe), he may have been the sister to the inal Chloe, the one who gave her life for me. But even so…He o pay for what he did. Grief is no excuse.”

  Elizabeth was obviously ign the fact that she had pledged to destroy every person that stood in her way should harm e to Rossie or Rena, that was that, and this was this.

  “If he bared his fangs against us, he should be ready to have those fangs broken.” Elizabeth wouldn’t have any mercy, “He may have been my childhood crush, we may have been brother and sister in another life.” Elizabeth had too many of those…

  Even so, Elizabeth had decided her path, “We will fight, and if we ’t ill run away a till we defeat him!” So her path was obvious.

  “If you aren’t helping us then we o ge some things first,” Elizabeth said turning to Jenna, “How much will you cover for us?”

  “...I will make sure no member of [The ars] interrupts yht, I ’t guarahat I will be able to stop Ea or [The Traveler], but the other members? They will not be a problem.” Jenna answered while turning to look at the map she had brought. “I would suggest this o is a nice big meadow.”

  A meadow? Well, wasn’t that an iing choice?

  “Sure, Aura? you open a doorway there?” Elizabeth asked aloud.

  “We had that spot marked for possible evacuation point, the coordinates are ready, we teleport at once if that is your wish Mistress.” The purple-haired maid answered as she materialized in front of the firls. “Greetings Lady Jenna.”

  “....I will not get used to this.” Jenna said while waving at Aura, “Hello there, Jenna is enough. No need for the Lady part.”

  Aura for her part seemed to ignore Jenna’s plea as she turo look at Elizabeth, “Shall we redirect the armada?”

  Right, she had sent her armada to search for [Shadow Pact], but they had narrowed down his possible ubication…

  “Beatrice? How many more [Minions] I summon before my [Soul] iy reaches the breaking point?” Elizabeth asked to her most loyal minion (Besides Nyx).

  “Elizabeth?” Rossie turned her head and gred at Elizabeth…

  “Elizabeth? Do you think this is…a good idea?” Rena didn’t ht gre at her, but Elizabeth could see the beginnings of tears in the red-haired eyes.

  “....You may be able to summon more members to the Shadow Armada…But there is one among the Minions who has a more…thh uanding of your Soulscape situation.” Beatrice said as she teleported atop the table in full maid regalia. “You should speak tinald sooner rather than ter if you wish to know of this, he…has a deeper uanding of your [Soul] than most of us thanks to his peculiar situation.”

  …It turned back to frig Reginald…of course.

  “Fine, let’s go then. Aura, teleport the camp to the ambush point.” Elizabeth grumbled as a magical circle materialized uheir feet and teleported them (With camp) away to the meadow, “ Sorry Rossie, Rena. I know we have many things to speak about…And I o apologize (Again), but…I o deal with this first.”

  “Of course Eli-Eli, we do o speak with this…Reginald.” Rossie nodded as the pink-haired right hand darted quickly and turned into an iron vice that got hold of Elizabeth’s right hand.

  “Yes, we uand Eli.” Rena her side as the red-haired girl got hold of Elizabeth’s left hand and hugged her arm against her chest. “We better get this over. I assume the tent is ready? Aura?”

  Rena casually asked turning to Aura.

  “Of course Lady Rena, I assumed as mud prepared some tents for your use.” Aura said snapping her fingers and telep a pair of campis, oh a dragon shield of arms at the top.

  While the other had an armored figure winking.

  “Aura? There are only two tents.” Elizabeth said while her girlfriends pulled her towards the (Somewhat) bigger tent.

  “Oh? Will you be sharing a bed with Lady Jenna so soon?” Aura asked while c her mouth with one hand. "I thought you would y your slimy tentacles slower while setting up your trap, Mistress. I stand corrected. We will amend this by when you awake.”

  “NO!” “IT’S FINE AS IS!”

  Both Elizabeth and Jenna screamed simultaneously, both girls looking at each other, then at Rossie and Rena.

  It seemed that the two that should be the most against weren’t actually saying anything.

  “...I don’t mind it that much, so long it isn’t a man…” Rena whispered lowly, her face blushing red.

  “....I …tolerate new additions, so long they know their pce.” Rossie looked cute while trying to hide her jealousy.

  “...I would rather not bang my childhood friend, who I am teically her adopted sister…if possible.” Jenna said, trying to keep a mature visage, “Also, you girls are underaged while I am not; as a [Hero], I’d rather not it a crime.”

  “Oh, that is fine; Elizabeth doesn’t want to have al retionships before eighteen; we will just kiss, make up, fondle, and maybe tease each other. At least while Elizabeth is around.” Rossie answered with a seductive smile.

  It was very hard for Elizabeth not to indulge in her most primal desires, but she would not fail!

  It also made Jenna blush red as a tomato, which was cute.

  NO ELIZABETH! DON’T TRY TO BANG UP YOUR MATURE OLDER STEP-SISTER!

  BEGOATION!

  “ANYWAY, I’M OFF TO CHEW OFF THE HEAD OF A MINION WHO HAS A HAT HE SHOULDN’T HAVE BYE!” Elizabeth said quickly while pulling both of her temptress girlfriends into the dark tent that Aura had made for them, Elizabeth would ighe fluffy handcuffs and the pink s that went into the floor and ceiling.

  That girl truly was evil, what did Elizabeth even do to be teased like this by a girl who she wasn’t even trying te? As far as she knew, Aura didn’t even look at her like that!

  What did she do to earn this kind e!?!?!?