"I rey your message; you tell it to me," Asher said as Elizabeth felt the presence of the other students move away from the reception area.

  Why? They didn't have any faith in their Disciplinary chief?

  "I could do that, yes," Elizabeth said, nodding, letting her mana course through her body. She tu to Lightning a ma on her hair, "But this is a private affair, besides…The student cil is there to listen to the student's problems, right?"

  Not that Elizabeth would use them for that.

  "So are the Disciplinary ittee." Asher said back as his hair turned from silver hair to almost silver energy, "You trust us too."

  Elizabeth wasn't going to ever do that, she khat, Asher khat, hell, at this point, the students that had run away from the building were certain of that.

  "The Disciplinary ittee is there to police the school and make sure the students follow the rules. Did they implement a new ruling that prohibited students from speaking with the Student cil President?" Elizabeth asked with a smirk on her face; she really should be de-esg the issue.

  But she couldn't. This erfect ce to test the waters, "Identify".

  Notice:Blocked

  "Well, would you look at that…" Elizabeth hadn't seen that in some time.

  "I 't allow you to see Evangeline." Asher said as a pair of sabers made of white energy maed on his hands.

  So it would end like that, huh? Not that Elizabeth would mind it; she really wao deal with them before it became a five vs three. Even if Elizabeth owerful and she had full fiden Rossie and Rena, better to deal with as many members as she could earlier.

  "Let her e in, Asher," Then, before Elizabeth was even able to start getting into the fun part, the sound of a voice came from the speaker system. It was a regal-sounding voice; it was...

  "As you wish Evangeline," Asher said p down, "e this way, as for everyone else. Vacate the building and make sure there isn't anyohe building or in the immediate areas."

  Yikes, so he really wao make Elizabeth fight them?

  "Don't get your hopes up Starbright," Asher said as he turo Elizabeth, the other students had started rushing out of the room and more and more people started ing down from the stairs, "This is standard procedure when Evangeline is to meet someone we deem potentially dangerous, you aren't the first and will not be the st one who is given such treatment."

  Well, hoeople did they evehat required this? Elizabeth those words heless and waited till the wave of people slowed down; she would prepare for what was going to e ; this was the important bit, after all.

  "We are ready." Then, the elevator door ope the end, revealing Selen Dawnstrike, her e hair tied in a ponytail behind her, and Elizabeth could see the phantom of white wings behind her.

  Elizabeth had never fotten who and what that girl was, "e on then, you wao meet Evangeline." Asher said walking towards the Elevator.

  Elizabeth followed half a sed ter and stood in the middle of the Elevator. Tht stood Asher Sterling, and to Elizabeth's left stood Selen Dawnstrike.

  Was it some type of way to attempt and pressure her? Perhaps, but to Elizabeth, this was fine; having them this eant that if it devolved into a fight, then she would have them close enough to terattack.

  And Elizabeth didn't think they would be able to teract her fast enough from this distance.

  "So?" Selen suddenly started speaking, "Where are your pink-haired friend? The red-haired ohe blue-haired one?"

  What?

  "Rossaline Singh, Watanabe Rena and finally Michael Shepherd." Asher said after Selen.

  "They are waiting for me at home," Elizabeth said, "At least Rossie and Rena. I haven't seen Michael since he came to tell us about the pns of the school to attempt arain our movements."

  And that was a thing, she still didn't fully uand why he had done so, he had Seen his past, or some of it, of that Elizabeth was sure, but even after doing so, he decided to help them?

  Elizabeth didn't uand what he was thinking; if Elizabeth had been hit with the type of memories that Michael had...well, she wasn't sure what she would have done; what Michael, Rossie, and Rehrough was horrible.

  "Hmm...." Selen hummed to herself, "Well, better this way, I don't want to speak ill of them, but if Rossaline wasn't fated to be a Hero then she would have beeo prison and the key to her cell would have been lost."

  Rude, Rossie didn't...well, she probably did deserve some of that, but she was gettier! Elizabeth was sure that she was at the very least asking for sent nowadays!

  She hoped, at least.

  "Rena is a victim," Elizabeth decided to say, she wouldn't say anything about Rossie though.

  "She is a Hero, whatever happens to her is for a reason. A true Hero and will always surpass whatever es their way," Selen said turning to Elizabeth, "That's what Heroes do, her past may be tragic, but that is just something that o happen."

  "...What?" Elizabeth turo Selen, her hand moved before she could process what she was doing, "She was tortured, starved, raped, abused, her identity got denied from her...and you knew?"

  "Careful-" Asher attempted to say something, but Selen raised her hand, stopping him.

  "Of course we knew, we know everything that happens on school grounds and to our students," Selen answered, the girl had guts, Elizabeth was holding her by the neck against the wall, she was exerting as much strength as she could but even so, her Dragon Cw was hitting a barrier, a barrier of some kind was between her d the neck of the e-haired girl. "We know the things that Akira the Former Hero did, we know of the things that Rossaline does to the female students, we know of the things you do, the things that your friends do when you aren't near... And of the things that hide within your Shadows."

  Tch...

  "We are about to arrive, so unless you want to start your talk with Evangeliied, I advise you to let go, Starbright." Asher said from behind, "We resped tolerate your outburst since you are, even like this, a Hero. But we will not risk Evangeline."

  "Tch..." Elizabeth let go of Selen and turo look at her hand...or well, Cw really.

  "So a Dragon Hero huh," Selen said smirking, "Perhaps you are on the route to turn into a Falleoo? I 't wait to see how you germinate, you surround yourself with a Fallen Healer a Fallen Sword Saint and have talks with a Broken Sage, this should be good."

  Elizabeth really was not liking this know it all attitude from the school cil, Elizabeth wao pull her Identify into Selen just to see how this girl had mao prevent her from pretending to crush her throat. Because Elizabeth wasn't going to do so, totally wasn't going to murder this girl who had caused Rossie so much trouble and eaking out of her ass about her girlfriends.

  Totally.

  "Rossie and Rena aren't fallen anything," Elizabeth said in the end, "Rossie is doing her best to e to terms with who she is and who she was, Rena is overing her problems o the time and looking to the future."

  And that is what was important to Elizabeth, "Rossie wants to bee a Mom and take care of the people that she loves, Rena wants to embrace love even though she fears being hurt again. They are doing their best in the best possible way they , even though both got hurt. Their efforts aren't merely there for the amusement of other people, their stories aren't merely the retings of something as banal as a 'Hero's Journey'. They are real people."

  And Elizabeth hated with all her being the fact that other people merely thought of them as something as stupid and childish as a Hero, especially when all the Heroes that Elizabeth had met were people that abused their power.

  Hypocrites that preteo be better than the rest; at least her parents never preteo be something that they weren't. Papa while he wielded the name of a Hero, he was always ho about what he wao protect, he wasn't a Hero because he wao be fawned on by the popuce, he was a Hero because he wao protect his family.

  Mother didn't pretend to be someone who she washer, she was The Mother of Magical Girls because she wao help girls, the fact that she gushed over them from time to time was a side bonus to her, even if a girl wasn't pretty, so long she needed help, so long she needed rescue, Mother would rescue her...And then turn her pretty with magic, but that was also beside the point.

  They never preteo be something they weren't nor wielded their power in the name of something as abstract as saying that they were Justice like Akira did.

  "Tell me, Asher Sterling, Selen Dawnstrike. Do you think that what you do is Justice?" Elizabeth decided to ask just in case; perhaps her time with the student cil could be more tolerable.

  "What we do isn't Justice," Selen answered as she dusted her clothes off.

  "We aren't the ones who decide Justice, we are merely the servants of someone whose job is to record," Asher answered before Selen could say anything else.

  And at that point the elevator door opened, Elizabeth turhere and found Magnus and Lily waiting there, the first one had a scowl on his fad seemed...off.

  While Lily sported the same ral expression as she stared at Elizabeth, "Evangeline is waiting." And said nothing else.

  Elizabeth shrugged at the iion and started walking out of the Elevator, the first thing she noticed as her feet touched the ground was that there seemed to be some type of mana dampers embedded into the floor.

  As soon as her feet touched the ground the little mana ambient mana that had stuck to her seemed to be drained away, and some of her Mana that she had worked to extend outwards and give herself the same may that a C-Tier.

  "Problems Starbright?" Asher said with a smirk on his face, Elizabeth noticed that his Mana didn't seem to be sapped away.

  "Stop that Asher," Lily said with a frown, "Elizabeth is a guest, and more importantly, she is the only firmed Hero we have left."

  "This is pointless, if she isn't a Hero then there is nothing she do to us." Magnus said as his frown deepened and he brought a tablet, "If she is a Hero then this will be meaningless as [Fate] will bend itself to her aid."

  "We still o be sure, she could be an irregur, aion, something that interfer with the narrative. In which case she may have ways to i or affect the [Characters]." Selen said, "The [Characters] we have firmed were twisted, and the ohat remai ag like [Protagonists]."

  ...Were they nuts?

  "Keep her as doossible, but not that low, Lower D-Tier at the minimum." Asher said passing behind Magnus, "And be ready, if she seems to be preparing to do anything strip her of all her Mana. Those that wield the power of [The World] should not point their ons against [Akasha's Servants]."

  Well...that lenty iing.

  "We will be waiting inside," Selen said as she walked past Magnus aered into the room behind Magnus and Lily.

  "Sorry about that, Elizabeth," Lily said with a wry smile, "Asher is..."

  "Oppressive, prideful, over w." Magnus finished for Lily as he tampered with the tablet and Elizabeth felt the floor starting to sap more and more of her Mana.

  She didn't repce the Mana that was being sapped away; instead, she worked towards keeping just barely above the threshold that the sappers left her.

  "He is a loyal [Guardian], so is Selen, they worry about our liege...I am sure you uand the feeling that Evangeline has," Lily said as she stared pointedly at her shadow, "You must have the same problems dealing with your servants"

  She did not, her shadons never caused this type of problems...or she hoped so at least.

  "No, I do not have those problems." Elizabeth decided to trust iian's managing her minions before, and now in Reginald and Mordred doing well at that job, "A good Servant never causes problems to their liege, nor makes them ehat they don't need."

  And that was the thing, wasn't it?

  "...I see..." Lily said sighing, "We aren't eo a [Hero], we do our best to help [Heroes]."

  "It doesn't feel like that," Elizabeth said, pointing down, "Or what? You think my titles are a lie?"

  Elizabeth smirked as she summoned her own status s and made it visible to the people in front of her, or well, one of them. The one she wielded as a Magical girl.

  StatusNameElizabeth StarbrightHealth:100%TitleMagical GirlMana:100%Passive TitleStardust WeaverStamina:100%tractor of The ShadonGrade:A Level50Job:Strength50Magical Girl - Shadow Attunedstitution50Job Skills: Agility50General Skills: Dexterity79Title Skills Intelligence400 Wisdom400Charisma50"That one?" Lily said with a weird smile, "We could take it into sideration. Yes, Magical Girls do are [Protagonists], but you are so much more than that, isn't that right?"

  Lily's hair started to shih the red color of [Fire Mana], "[Shadow Empress]?" At that point, Elizabeth felt something pierce the first yer of her Layered Safeguard. "There it is..."

  And like that, the sed status s maed. "[Shadow Empress - Shadow Vilin], some people thought you would bee the hope of Shadow Aligned users, that you would take in the legacy of Ea and bee the light that shone from the darkness..."

  StatusNameElizabeth StarbrightHealth:100%TitleVilinessMana:100%Passive TitleShadow EmpressStamina:100%tractor of The ShadonGrade:A Level50Job:Strength209Viliness - Shadow Attunedstitution100Job Skills: Agility310General Skills: Dexterity310Title Skills Intelligence50 Wisdom50Charisma50Not that Elizabeth became that...

  And as soon as the sed status s maed Elizabeth felt a str at her mana reserves, s that she had to pe by increasing the amount of mana that was sapped. Because the thing was attempting to pull so much mana that a normal C-Tier would probably die.

  "...So she was indeed hiding her power, huh." Magnus said as he read the s on his hand.

  How?

  "You do uand ould be wary of a blonde Viliness like yht?" Lily said with a smile as she poi the status s, to be precise at the part that stated her [Tier]. The status s said [A-Tier].

  ...right.

  "So? That means your student cil will bey enemy after all?" Elizabeth said as she extended her shadows behind her, eyes opening and dragon maws maing.

  "No," Lily said as the fire attempted to e the shadows. Somehow, it was managing to do so, that was a new one. "[Vilins] also bee [Protagonists] depending oting, and we aren't quite sure what the [Setting] of this pce will be, that is for the [Director] of this [World], and Evangeline will be there to record it."

  ....They were nuts, all of them.

  "So you will beere spectators of what is to happen?" Elizabeth asked, "Is that it? You will not be an enemy unless I attempt to turn my fangs to you? Couldn't there be an easier way to tell me this?"

  "Yes," Lily said without hesitation, "We are the [Servants] of Evangeline. And she is in turn a [Servant of The Akashic Records]."

  Yes, she khat.

  "Then why are you all blog my [Identify]." Elizabeth said raising her eyebrow, "If you aren't enemies, why are you perusing my [Status] while not letting me do so? You cim to not be my enemies."

  "No, I said we aren't [Enemies] of a [Protagonist]," Lily said shaking her head, the mana behind her calmed, so Elizabeth powered down her shadows too, "We have yet to decide or learn what you are. You could be a [Protagonist] and we would be your allies, you could be an [Antagonist] and we would respect that a you do what you want so long you keep to the [Rules]. Or you could be an [Irregur], something that ehrough the cracks into our world...Something that isn't tied by [Akasha]..."

  Well, that was something very specific to be a mistake or fear.

  "You know many like those?" Elizabeth asked.

  "One, we knew of one, but he was assighe [Hero] bel, so even while irregur, he ted." Lily said, turning to the door and pointing it with her hand, "Let's go then, Elizabeth; Evangeline awaits us."

  ...That would be an iing thing to see.