Space distorted itself as the door into her armory en, Elizabeth couldn't help but smile as the ripples in space showed up from there the handle of a sword started showing up.

  It was a golden hah a sickle-like sword on it, Elizabeth extended her hand and pulled it out. It was white ornated and to be ho, it wasn't something that Elizabeth would ever use in a bat, she was more of a dagger-bastard swords kind of girl.

  Also some spears for throwing here and there if she was feeling it.

  "See?" Elizabeth said, wielding the sword that was crystalized from the beliefs of a culture; she had half expected it to e in the form of a weird der-like on, but getting a sickle was kind of sick...in a good way.

  At least she wouldn't infringe on ercial rights this way.

  "I see it yes," Rossie said turning to Rena, "Do you see it?"

  "Yes Rossie, that's a sword," Rena said nodding, "What I see also is Eli summoning a on from a subspace when I couldn't do the same using my skill."

  And at that, Elizabeth smiled, "Exactly." She thehe sword fall into her shadow where it sank, it would return to her armory soon enough, "My Shadow Haven, or well. Terra Nexus still be accessed when we are isoted."

  And after saying that Elizabeth snapped her fingers... And nothing happened. So much for dramatic fir, "Aura, if you would."

  "As you wish Mistress," The sound of the maid's void after the sound of a finger snap filled the room. Followed by the sound of gss breaking as the dimensional lock was broken and the room returo Zaanam.

  "....rude....could...have.....asked...." Lily grumbled from the side as she opened and closed her hand, had the backsh from that hurt her?

  "Oh, sorry about that." Elizabeth said turning to Lily, "Sihe idea was to have something to be broken through I thought it would be fio make my point like this."

  "....is....fine..." Lily said after cheg her hand was in perfect order, "...good....job..."

  "So yeah," Elizabeth said turning once more to Rossie and Rena, "The pn is simple, you two will wait within the Shadow Haven and if it turns into a bat sario then I'll summon you in the middle of the bat."

  "...so we are to prepare for an ambush while you go to talk with the student cil?" Rena asked from the side nodding, "We will need a way to see to the outside...and a way to get out in case you 't teleport us out."

  A way to see to the outside? Why?

  "Aura should be able to help us with the sed, but the first will be the problem." Rossie urning to look at Jenna and Lily, "And you? Will you e with us? Or not? I know Jenna said their time was limited here, but what about you?"

  Right...Jenna didn't want to abuse her time here for whatever reason, and Lily...

  "....will...wait....outside...school...." Merely answered like that, "...we....will....be....traveling....together...."

  That...would...get.....old....quite.....fast...

  Elizabeth would o see if she could help with that, perhaps Rossie? She had access to [Mind] and [Soul] Magic right? Perhaps they could fix her brain? Make it so she was closer to what the Echo Lily was like?

  That tion.

  "Fair, then Rossie, Rena?" Elizabeth said raising her hand and opening a portal bato the Shadow Haven, back to their shared apartment.

  "...And the way to watch outside?" Rossie said standing at the event horizoween the shadow haven and the real world.

  "Perhaps we could link one of Eli's senses into the shadows?" Rena said from the side.

  That was one of the usual ways that Elizabeth linked senses, and she liked to use her shadows as ways to see, but she had noticed that some people seemed to be able to peek into her shadows. Namely, Rossie exemplified that. Way before she was an inhabitant of the Shadow Haven. How was she even able to do that? Elizabeth didn't know.

  But that meant that using that wasn't an option, not really because she could put at risk them.

  "What about...using my eyes?" Elizabeth said eling some of her Authority into her eyes, she wao share what she saw.

  "Your eyes?" Rossie said fused, "They are lovely Eli-Eli. But how are we supposed to..."

  "See." Elizabeth said and for a sed Elizabeth's eyes turned bck, as shadows covered the iris. The effect was momentary as her eyes returo normal. "Now...did it work? Mordred?"

  Elizabeth could probably ask Aura or someohin her shadow haven hell perhaps even Reginald, he should be around.

  "There is a new data feed within the tral Spire Mistress," The voiordred sounded from within the shadows, "We are seeing from your Pht now, do you wao secure the feed or move it elsewhere?"

  Secure or move the feed?

  Why would she want it moved?

  "We 't turn it off or manipute it, Mistress, not after it's secured. We tried moving it and got such warning from Lady Alice." Mordred answered the unspokeion from Elizabeth.

  And before Elizabeth could say anything else, a bck s maed in front of her.

  WHY?!?!?!?!?!?Why in the seven pnes of hell, nine divine pnes and the f#g void are you creating a backdoor into the Shadow Haven?!?!?

  INTO YOD DAMNED SOUL?!?!?!?

  STRAIGHT INTO WHAT IS ALL BUT FIRMED YOUR ■■■■■■ ■■■■■■...

  YOU KNOW WHAT? SCREW IT.

  WHY ARE YOU LEAVING A BACKDOOR INTO YOUR D I V I N E D O M A I N ! ? ! ? ! ?

  ARE YOU DUMB? A BIMBO? YOU ARE A BIMBO!

  ....Yikes.

  Elizabeth hadn't thought that Alice would still be skirting words, it was obvious what the ■■■■■■ ■■■■■■ meant, especially in a setting like the one she was currently in. After all she had a [Divinity Gem] already, so if she had germinated ohen it was obvious what was happening within her Soul.

  Why her [Soulscape] was like it was, how it had evolved to the point to house a whole po germinate life. A soul could not be born within a Soul...A body may house several souls and several entities under different circumstances, such as a pregnant woman housing a sed soul, a sed body, and a sed entity.

  But Elizabeth was definitely nnant (Not yet, anyway).

  So how could she house so maies within her soulscape?

  How could she achieve such a thing without having taken a step into Divinity?

  "Move the data fed to my private chambers," Elizabeth sent to her shadow, "Send a Rey to the television in the apartment I share with Rossie, prepare to kill the transmission if I o do so, I don't want this to stress Rossie or Rena too much."

  "Did it work?" Rossie asked from the side.

  "Yes, now the TV at the apartment has a el that will allow you both to momentarily see through my eyes." Elizabeth answered with a smile.

  "Aura, stop Rossie or Rena from leaving the Shadow Haven in case something goes arepare to call them back if everything goes to hell after they are summoned." Elizabeth sent a and to her purple-haired maid.

  "Did you call Mistress?" Aura teleported into the room as soon as Elizabeth sent the and.

  "Yes, I want you to make sure Rossie and Rena teleport to my side from the Shadow Haven in case there is a space lock that prevents them from leaving the Shadow Haven." Elizabeth said quickly trying to not curse Aura's head for ing after she had sent her a secret order.

  "They will hate you if you end up hurt because you didn't allow them to help, or because you evacuated them." "You are askio pierce a space lock? You don't let your cute maid rest huh." Aura answered both things at the same time; how was she even doing that?!?!?

  "....I'll be in your care...Aura Di Starbright." Rossie said walking straight into the Shadow Haven without eveioning it.

  "Thank you for your help, we will be seeing you soon Eli." And afterwards Rena walked in.

  The portal into the shadow space was closed afterward, "They will definitely hate you, Mistress if they ever find out what you are attempting to do." Aura said after turning her head away from her.

  Was she shy now?

  "And yirlfriend probably knows how to read lips, so it's better for her to not see what I am saying." Aura said with an evil glee ione.

  "...*Sigh* Just...take care of them Aura, and thank you." Elizabeth said attempting to dismiss Aura bato the Shadow Haven... She half expected it to be impossible, but somehow Elizabeth was able to pull her into the shadow haven without great effort.

  How? Elizabeth was sure that Aura was the better space mage of the two, so it should be impossible for her to achieve this. Even if Aura allowed her to do so, she should have felt some repulsion, some difficulty preventing her from achieving what she wanted.

  "Don't let your little blonde head overthink Mistress," Aura's voice came from within the Shadow Haven as she was walking to the apartment, Elizabeth hadn't thought through her attempt so Aura had arrived at her Spire instead of the apartment, "You hold my Soul Gem. Of course you teleport me however you want, you are the one holding the Heart of The Maiden of Space."

  ...Ah right...she was holding The Gem of Space, that was how she was able to manipute space after all, so then Elizabeth could mess with Aura huh...

  "Don't get funny ideas Mistress, I am still a better space mage. Even if you teleport me to your arms I teleport away faster than you take advantage of me." Sent while turning around with a spin, was she attempting to look cute? "Do you need anything else Mistress?"

  "No, that will be all. Thank you Aura." Elizabeth said to Aura who was standing in the middle of a street within her Shadow Haven. How did she know that Elizabeth was looking at her?

  "So, that was your pn Elizabeth?" Jenna said standing up from the couch, "To send yirlfriends away and call them in case bat happened?"

  "It is a st-sed pn," Elizabeth answered, then from within the Shadow Haven, she felt the pull from something, and a sed afterward, her phoarted ringing. "...Hello?"

  "Eli-Eli, this TV doesn't have sound. you do something about it? It's weird to see from your eyes but hear nothing." Came the voice of Rossie, she could call her from within? That was a very good reception she was getting on her phone.

  "Let me see, wait a sed, Rossie," Elizabeth said into the phone and turo her avaible skills, spells, and maed abilities. What could she use?

  "Ah right," Elizabeth said aloud turning to Jenna, "Wait a sed, Rossie and Rena want to hear...let me..."

  And afterward, Elizabeth focused on her senses. Usually, she depended more on sight and the esoteric sixth sense, which was Mana sense, but she could use her shadows to exteher senses; she did use it to extend her sense of taste when the shadows grew maws. She used them to see when her dragon eyes leaked into them...

  So why not expand it to the other senses?

  What had allowed her to do so?

  Her maws came from Gluttony, that much was obvious, these had started going out of trol after getting her first Sin from Nyctophagia. The bastard.

  Her eyes...she had hought too much about them, but thinking ba it, hadn't she always had them whenever her mana fred? First whenever her [Taint] was going out of trol, whenever her mana was going awry... And what was the Sin that embodiment Elizabeth the best? What had she gotten when she crystallized her Sin?

  Her Eyes came from Pride, her hubris.

  Then what would let her hear through the shadows? What was the closest thing she had that could be used to pi things? She could uand why Gluttony was tied to taste, but why ride tied to sight?

  ...Because the eyes were the gateway to the Soul? Because she wao look down on others? If so, what sense could be lio hearing? What made her want to hear what other people said? Wrath? Greed? No.

  What feeling was tied to hearing other people? Wrath? Nay...

  Envy, and it was one of the ones Elizabeth had taken in already so that was easy.

  "Link the desire of listening in to the mana, let me listen in what other people say, let me feast on the envy of my great achievements..." Elizabeth intoned ahe Gem of Envy react, she...

  "......." Jenna acted as if she hadn't heard it...

  "...ibyo?" Lili however didn't mince her words.

  "You know how they are when growing up, Lily; she was lonely and now has great power; of course, she will have some weird quirks here and there." Jenna answered to Lily.

  "What's ibyo?" Elizabeth decided to ask, she could imagine what it was from the rea.

  "It's a disease more on in Izanami; it's when people act as if they are the protagonists of some great epic, ag as if they have special powers when they do not. Usually g cursed powers reside within their body, be it their arm or eye." Jenna expined slowly.

  That...wasn't that one of the main characters of Mother's stories? What? The Great Heroes..."Doesn't that describe most of your Eada?" Elizabeth said pointing behind Jenna.

  "We hear you now Eli-Eli, thank you ?" And on that note Rossie hanged on the phone.

  "....It's not the same." Jenna said as Lily started ughing from behind.

  "And isn't you g that making a Core for the mana, an activity that relies solely on our talent, goes against all that is taught by modern society. Something that reeks of 'I'm special and you are not'?" Elizabeth said turning to Lily.

  "....Still.....cooler.....than.....you....." Lily said hmping as she stood too, "....let's.....go....and.....wait.....outside...."

  And on that he white-haired girl teleported away in what Elizabeth felt ace magic but saw no sign of spell nodes ic circles.

  She wao do that too, but even if she khe theory she still had some testing to do, not that she had the time to i in that right now.

  Since she was out to go ahe student cil.