"I don't care about them," Elizabeth said before Evangeline could go more into detail about names and identities, "I just got an infodump about [The ars], twi a row. I don't need or care about what they do, are or pn to do. I only want to know why they decided to be my enemy, and if they are dangerous."

  Really, was that too much to ask? Elizabeth was feeling as if more and more data and lore about the world was being thrown around, why was that? Why was so muformation being thrown around as if it was cheap. Wasn't this supposed to be expined across great lengths of time?

  "...Such brutish methods," Selen said shaking her head, "To know if someone is dangerous, you o uand them, or is that too hard for you to uand Starbright?"

  Was that true? Yes, perhaps it was. Having information about something had helped Elizabeth in some instances; information was king in all warfare, but was that entirely correct?

  No, it was not. There was something that mattered more than information.

  "That is not quite correct, why are you allowing me in here near your boss then?" Elizabeth said, smirking at Selen and pointing at Evangeline, "You know not what I do, have some suspis about how my powers work, yes, but you don't really know what I do, do you?"

  "That may be so," Magnus was the oo answer, "But we have mitigated all the possible problems, the mana within this pce is sealed unless you have one of these."

  Magnus said bringing a neckce from within his clothes, "This allows you to use Mana even while it is being disperced, no natural mana is allowed to be maniputed within my [Workshop] unless you have one of these."

  So that was how they were doing it?

  Elizabeth couldn't help but scoff at it.

  "That is one way of doing it yes, but riddle me this Magnus Embersteel." Elizabeth said while summoniatus s, " you block the [System] from iing here?"

  Elizabeth said as she summoned her status s, it was quite empty at the moment since she had deleted most of the skills that had been there, following the example of what Lily had advised them at, really, only two skills survived, one because Elizabeth didn't want to risk losing Shift and not being able to use it again, even if it was almost akin to a sed breathing.

  That skill was too important to risk, and the sed...Well, a girl needed her...things...SHE WAS NOT GOING TO EXPLAIN WHY SHE WAS KEEPING SHADOW PUPPETEER OKAY!

  "Of course not," Magnus scoffed at Elizabeth, "There is no way someone could prevent [The System] from ag its divine right upon the world. What we stop is you maniputing any degree of mana to i with the world, so may as well."

  That was a very stupid and limited way to see how their world worked, was it Elizabeth the only ohat could see the problem with how their SYstem worked? Or was it because she knew how it had been made?

  "Well, then you are wrong about how you see your [World]," Elizabeth said summoning her skill list, and the skills she had avaible and those that she had seen so long ago, at that moment she hadn't seen any reason to piy of these, she had no need for this, it ath she hadn't o walk through nor wao.

  Why?

  It was the path that Alexanders had gohrought, it felt...wrong. To take something she herself knew had discarded, only because it was ve. Especially sihe man was an asshole.

  Besides, she had gottey of things from him, from this ce to live, to help stabilize her soul...to some degree, it was thanks to him that she was alive, and even if the man had been impossible to deal with, she respected him to some degree.

  "You tread dangerously close to heresy, Starbright," Selen said as her body was covered in the e light of her Shift; gone was her human form, and now she was on her [Shift]; she was now closer to what Elizabeth imagined would be an argel, or perhaps a cherub?

  She was not quite good on her angeologic studies.

  "Heh, so you say..." Elizabeth said, finding the skills she needed and pig them one by one. "[System Debugger], [System Override], [Code Ior]...Let's see...How about this [No shift will be avaible for this meeting's duration] and...[Execute]."

  The ge was almost ie, the first skill opened a new window that she had never seen, it had a keyboard included, the knowledge from the skill came flooding down into her mind, as if it had always been there. It wasn't quite how when she used other skills.

  No, some people described the feeling as if they suddenly knew how to use a new arm , some people went as far as to say that it was closer to suddenly learning how to use a bicycle for the first time.

  To Elizabeth?

  It was...not like that; it was closer to as if she suddenly remembered something she had always known how to do. It was as if she suddenly remembered that she could use something in a certain way, a, she was aware that this was by far what Alexanders could do at his peak, no. This was closer to being someohat learned a few tricks by standing by a master of their craft.

  Elizabeth wasn't even close to debugging or uanding how [The System] worked.

  But what she could do revent some things, mess with things, and maybe even stop them from w entirely, not for long, of course. She could percieve the pressence of the true [Administrators] of this [System].

  Her Mother who was running at the back, her Papa who was shouldering the mainframe of the System, and of course...Crystal, the purple-haired girl who sometimes visited Rena.

  Not like she would do much with this skill.

  "What-?" After all, Selen was staring incredulously at Elizabeth, Magnus's clothes fshed for a few seds, and his suit turned simpler, not as ornate as before. Asher...didn't ge muor did Lily, to be ho.

  As for Evangeline? She was still the same.

  What did ge, was that both Asher and Lily's demeanour shifted as they moved closer to Evangeline.

  "That is quite the iing trick you did Elizabeth," Evangeline said as Selen seemed tle attempting to call upon her [Shift], to no avail.

  "Heh, serves yht." Elizabeth heard the voice of Rossie filled with malice at the back, so they could send messages to her after all?

  It was good to know.

  "We theorized it could be possible for some people with certain types of jobs to acquire this type of skills, but we didn't expect for someoo get them this fast..or this easily." Evangeline said turning to Elizabeth, her eyes shining in purple light as the feeling of an [Appraisal] type skill fshed towards her.

  The blue s that Elizabeth had used befistered Evangeline's skill activation and even prompted her if she wao block it, Elizabeth decided to not move anything quite yet.

  "Hmm...not enough [Authority] to be able ahe data...But I know you now have five skills instead of two," Evangeline said, "Was this why you purged your job skills?"

  "It had something to do; I did get quite the eye-opening teacher, even if she wasn't the ohat was supposed to teach me." Elizabeth answered with a shrug, "Not that I'll hese, my job will probably be different too."

  "Moving away from the [Magical Girl] trope? That will be impossible for you, unless you mean moving more towards the [Shadow Viliness] trope?" Evangeline said with some mirth in her voice.

  What did she mean by impossible?

  "Why would it be impossible, uhe [System] stops giving me jobs? It shouldn't be that hard; it has been granting me all kinds of options in most job types, from mere [High School Girl] to [Empress]." Elizabeth said fused, "Why would it stop doing that?"

  "Oh but you are mistaken, there was never a question, all [Heroes] and [Heroiake different starting paths, but their end is the same." Evangeline said, summoning some blue ss, all with the same variation of jobs.

  -Hero

  -Heroine

  -Hero King

  -Hero Queen

  -Magical Girl

  -Viliness

  All had something to do with those types of jobs, the type her Mother had mocked and ridiculed, even if she herself was a Magical Girl.

  "You WILL be doing [The World]'s mission, it is your [Fate]." Evangeline said.

  "And those that stand in my way?" Elizabeth said turning to stare at Selen who was gring at her.

  "Will be purged, be them my aides or family." Evangeline said nontly, but none of the other student cil members said anything about that particur point.

  "Well, then it's your time to finally answer my question don't you think so?" Elizabeth said, "I have revealed quite the iing thing to you after all."

  Not that it was something relevant to Elizabeth, it was a rick perhaps. But Elizabeth didn't think for a sed it could wainst everyone.

  The reason it had worked this well against Selen and Magnus was that they both were tapping into the same work from the mana dampeners, and Elizabeth got the impression that both Asher and Lily could probably break her seal.

  Evangeline of course also could. Of that one, Elizabeth had no doubt.

  Besides, if Selen took a few seds to think, she would notice that Elizabeth had only stopped her from using [Shift], not from using any of her other normal spells or skills. So really, this seal wasn't that good to begin with.

  "[The Gaxidae], the most obvious answer is that they didn't reize your servant as someone w for [Akasha]," Evangeline said for starters.

  "I khat, they said as much." Elizabeth deadpanned back.

  "Well, they are quite...proud. The most likely answer is that they po search for the summoner using the minion they sent to you. Awaiting for you to show some promise, something stopped them from doing so and or are waiting for you to go to them, sininiourned..." Evangeline said turning to stare at the shadow from where Reginald had returo the Shadow Haven, "They will probably e on their own, or maybe attempt to go for you when you are at a oint in life, as a [Hero] chosen by the world that is bound to happen sooner or ter, if it hasn't happened yet."

  "If it hasn't happened yet?" Elizabeth asked back, that tone implied that it had happened.

  "I mean, you have had your weak moments, right?" Evangeline said, turning to Lily. "She has, hasn't she Lily?"

  "Yes," Lily answered, "After the [Advent], she was in a Mana-induced a; she was nearly abused (There is no evidence of abuse) by personnel of the ic."

  *CRACK*

  "....No evidence as I was saying," Lily carried on as if she hadn't heard the mana crag uhe pressure ing from Elizabeth, "She was also at a ot during the finals of the sed grade when she was nearly assaulted by Suzuki Akira, [The Warden of Justice]."

  *CRASH*

  A lightning strike burst open one of the office's walls, wonder how that happened?

  "Yetting awfully fident for someone who only mao momentarily disrupt two of four bodyguards." Asher said as his thunder flew towards the broken pieces of rubble, these shone in the light of Asher's thunder aated back to their spot, how had he dohat?

  The bimbo part of her brain said that it was merely some trick using magism. The not dumb part of her mind said that magism didn't work like that.

  Either way, Elizabeth would not think about that, she had a bigger fish to fry.

  "After that event, she remai a previously abandoy lot that turned out to have a house. The registry all poi to be in the name of Elizabeth Starbright," Lily tinued as if nothing had happened, "She remaihere for some time then disappeared from the premises, leaving [World-css wards] to protect her home."

  "As in world-css wards? Hah, so that's why you got so cocky?" Selen ughed, "As if mere world-css defenses are enough."

  "[World-css], not World-css," Lily corrected Selen, "This meant that those wards are desigo protect a [World]; anythihan an attack meant to destroy a [World] would be meaningless."

  "Hah?" Selen turo Lily, "How does that make sense?"

  "Mother is very good at what she does," Elizabeth said with a smirk, "You should take that into sideratioime."

  Not that Elizabeth could move or manipute those wards, besides turning them On and whitelistening someoo the ward defenses. But evehat was enough most of the time, Elizabeth had a few ideas of how to mess with people using that.

  Not that those people would survive long after she whitelisted and suddenly removed them from the whitelist. The wards would probably kill them the sed they got removed from the list.

  But then again, that was one easy way to deal with people.

  "Right, then you moved to Germany, where you disappeared yet again after causing a mana terrorism i." Lily carried on as if nothing, again. "You disappeared from [Zaanam] and showed up oreets of Germania as if nothing happewice."

  "...That wasn't me." Elizabeth said in a low voice.

  "Right...they never introduced themselves til they ied with a couple [Magical Girls] sent to give some relief, they introduced themselves as [Elemental Weaver] aka Elzbeth and [Shadow Empress]. Your [Shifts]." Lily o Elizabeth, "Leaving aside your... amnesia problem, you somehow mao create a [Doppelganger] and give it some degree of independence, whie was you by the way?"

  "..." Elizabeth decided to not ahat question, she wasn't quite sure if someone could even do what Lily had implied Elizabeth did. She sure as hell didn't do that. Even if she could indeed give [Doppelganger] some independe was closer to...a fake reination than anything.

  Not something she was willing to do often, she didn't regret doing that to Mordred, even if she had do in a moment of weakness as a petty move against [The Shadow Tide].

  "Either way, after some enters, you, your Doppelganger, and the two [Magical Girls] disappeared oside of the city you got found. Only to reaper and front [The Shadow Tide]." Lily carried on with her expnation. "At that moment you almost got defeated, again. Only to somehow wrestle the win using some special type of Lightning."

  "And your point is?" Elizabeth asked annoyed.

  "You have been in weakeates plenty times, and they haven't moved against you. Have you thought about that?" Lily said throwing a folder to Elizabeth, she caught it and read it. It had all the data that Lily had said before. "Maybe they aren't your enemies."

  "They moved against me and promised to do it again. So I want to nip that in the bud if possible, so will you give me some data, or am I losing my time?" Elizabeth asked again.

  Evangeline merely smiled and raised her hand, getting the attention of her four bodyguards, "Leave us." And said as much.

  So it was finally time for some goddamned answers, would the [Student cil] be her enemy or not?