The room had turned silent after the latest reveal; Elizabeth had expected…something a little stronger reaction; she had effectively told them that they weren't quite entirely human after all. She wasn't sure if this was good or not, but at least Rossie seemed to have calmed down a little from the heavy mood she had before. Elizabeth could even feel a small tinge of Hope coming from their shared link.

  "So…can we see her?" Rossie suddenly said while she turned to Elizabeth. "Can we see Beatrice?"

  …Now this one Elizabeth had known this would come…

  "... I'm sorry." Elizabeth apologized, after all, she didn't really had a way to fulfill that one desire.

  "Not even from afar? Is it that bad?" Rossie asked while covering her mouth with one of her hands. Elizabeth could see her lips trembling.

  "No! It's not that!" Elizabeth quickly said, grabbing both hands of Rossie, "Trust me, she is fine!"

  Elizabeth had no way of showing that of course, not really.

  "Then?" Rossie asked confused, she looked as if she didn't believe Elizabeth, "Why can't we see her then?"

  "She…Beatrice..:" Elizabeth said slowly, "She is…outside of my area of influence."

  "How is that possible? Didn't you take her Soul?" Rena said from the side, the red-haired girl was too sharp (And cute) at the worst times possible!

  "I mean…yeah, I took her in. I assume that she was planning on joining the circle of transmigration of my Shadow Dragons and being reborn as a new Shadow Dragon later on. But…well, Alice and Chloe helped me a little, but at the same time…" Elizabeth said trying to pull at the connection she had with those two.

  Elizabeth saw two black screens, the first one was the usual mood of annoyance at Elizabeth, but the second, the second had what she wanted. A small frame with a picture of a small flame. A pitifully small flame dancing in a lamp.

  It had small motes of pink light dancing here and there with sparks of azure fire, Elizabeth didn't have a clear sight of it, of course, since it was a picture and not a video.

  “...Beatrice…how….small….” But it was enough for Rossie to look, Elizabeth willed the image to leave the projection and printed it into a piece of paper, then it was merely taking one of the photo frames Mother had around to stick in and presto!

  Elizabeth gave the photo to Rossie and slowly walked out of the room. Rena followed her in silence while they let Rossie come to terms with what had happened and what would happen in the future.

  Elizabeth didn't mind it that much the wish that Rossie had, she had come to terms with….the possibility of becoming parent in the future. Rossie had been quite vocal about it after all. Was it from insecurity? Or from an honest desire to have the crystalization of their love being born?

  Elizabeth wasn't quite sure, but it cost her nothing, and since Rossie was going to be the one to deliver, it wouldn't hurt Elizabeth at all! So it was a win all over the place!

  Also she was sure that any daughter born from Rossie would be cute! And cute was justice!

  …Elizabeth was going all over the place again, being stressed with all of this was a problem.

  "Eli?" Rena suddenly spoke to her, "Can we…talk?"

  ….oh no.

  "Sure, let's go to Papa's study; it is soundproofed, so we will not need to worry about bothering Rossie," Elizabeth said, walking towards her Papa's study, all the while wondering what she had done. Why Rena wanted to speak with her? Was she angry? Did she want a daughter too?

  Rena had said that she wasn't sure that she could go pregnant nine months, so she would not be the one to birth any daughters they had! But Elizabeth wasn't ready!

  She was barely coming to terms with the fact of getting one girlfriend pregnant! Now she was going to get herself pregnant?!?!?!?

  This was moving so fast!

  "We need to talk." Rena said seriously as she closed the door behind her. She looked so grumpy, serious, hot, and sexy…Focus Elizabeth!

  "Yes," Elizabeth nodded while she sat on the chair her Papa used, that was one very comfy chair.

  "The bastards that caused all of this, we need to deal with them." Rena suddenly said.

  The who did what?

  "How should we go about it?" Rena asked, her eyes showed wrath. Pure and unadulterated fury, "They are responsible for everything, aren't they? Maybe they can't be put at fault for what happened to Beatrice, but they sure as hell helped."

  I'm sorry? Rena? What?

  "You…are sure? We could use some vacations. I don't mind…" Elizabeth said she… wasn't quite that ready to start a new campaign after all.

  "Yes, this is not only for me. But for Rossie, too, I know you also want to deal with them and are restraining yourself for our sake. But it's okay, Eli, we are with you." Rena was so understanding, so comforting…But was Elizabeth forgetting something?

  "I mean, they kidnapped Reginald. And while that may not be the reason, I am sure they are involved in how the events ended going about. No way someone with the might of Jenna would use a spell like that to trigger your Pride by mistake, they must have done something to make sure she would do that." Rena spat with hate in her voice, "The Galaxidae must pay for making Rossie sad."

  ….Ah.

  Right….that was a thing that happened….

  Elizabeth had almost forgotten about them with all that had happened, but yeah…they got that clue in the middle of the previous disaster that the Galaxidae were at fault for messing around in the back from the very beginning…

  "If you are sure…" Elizabeth said trying to play it off the fact that she had ONCE AGAIN almost forgotten something important. Perhaps she needed to spend more time on her [Thunder Queen] form?

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  "Yes, and when we are cutting heads. I want to cut one myself too." Rena said, summoning her blood-red Katana, "They must pay for making Rossie cry."

  ….yep, her hot samurai girlfriend was sexy as hell. What did Elizabeth do to deserve her again? Ah, right, save her from Akira.

  "Okay, but we need to go about this the right way. We fumbled our way in Germania and look how that got us." Elizabeth said she would not make the same mistake twice.

  "...fair." Rena nodded, "But how do we go about that? Do we know any links to the Galaxidae?"

  …really?

  "We do, actually," Elizabeth said, raising her finger and summoning one of the pamphlets they gave her in the first year, "The student council."

  The pamphlet in question had the picture of Evangeline Galaxidae, the student council president, "She is part of the Galaxidae and has quite an interesting title, or had it at least." Elizabeth said, summoning the old status screen from her memories and projecting the Title.

  [Galaxidae's Heir]

  [Servant of The Akashic Records]

  Two of the three titles, the third wasn't that important for her discussion after all. It mattered not if she would become an S-Tier Hero or not after all.

  Not to Elizabeth with her current power anyway.

  "Servant of The Akashic Records?" Rena said after reading the Title, "What is this Akashic Records? Another enemy?"

  That…was a very dangerous thought process, was her hot sexy girlfriend dumb? That was quite unfortunate.

  "Here, Identify," Elizabeth said, summoning her skill to provide the description of both titles.

  "...So we must also kill the world, huh?" Rena said dangerously, Elizabeth felt the mana within the room slightly tremble at that statement.

  "No, nope. No sir, stop thinking about that!" Elizabeth quickly said in a rush, feeling the ambient mana slowly settle down, "We just need to be aware. I don't think we are enemies of the World quite yet."

  "Then? She seems to be tied to this Akasha thing." Rena asked confused, this girl…. not everything was solved by cutting it in two!

  Granted, very many things could be solved that way! But still!

  "All the student council are like that." Elizabeth said, summoning the titles of the other members, "But only Evangeline is tied to Akasha; the others are tied to her."

  —blue screen, other student council dudes—-

  And that was an important distinction.

  "And more importantly, Evangeline showed as only [Heir], not [Scion] or [Leader], she has the qualities to be their leader, but as far as I know, she is not keen on intervention. It was the same with your problem, so long the ones acting are [Heroes] chosen by the [World] she will not act." Elizabeth was confident in that, she had asked after all.

  "So?" Rena asked, tilting her head slightly to the side, cute.

  "Well, both you and Rossie are [Heroes chosen by the world], and while I may not be one, I am a [Hero] chosen by the [System], thanks to Mother," Elizabeth smirked summoning her Title and the titles of Rossie and Rena.

  –blue screens of those–

  "Oh…so you will attempt to use our identities to get some information within the Galaxidae?" Rena asked as she understood what Elizabeth wanted.

  Or at least what Elizabeth projected she wanted, to be honest before this conversation she hadn't really thought much about this.

  "Exactly." Even so, she couldn't look bad in front of her girlfriend! So she took the praise! "We will ask them if they know about the interlopers Reginald showed us; if they know, then we will just say that they interrupted something endorsed by their previous [World]."

  Elizabeth felt the ambient mana recoil just a little; was it offended because of what she said? But it was the truth…

  "I see, we can frame these people as enemies against the world and use their internal information to flush them, then we can chop their heads and those of the people that start wanting to defend them, I like it." Rena nodded at the plan.

  Why did it always include cutting heads? Did Rena have a thing with cutting heads? Elizabeth was sure she would look cute doing it, especially if she laughed a little as the blood splatted her body…

  Elizabeth could imagine some drops falling onto her chest, then Elizabeth bringing a handkerchief and cleaning it while scolding her for playing with her food…And then they would go take a shower because the blood didn't get cleaned well enough…Together…and Rossie would barge in on the middle…

  "Eli?" Rena suddenly spoke to her, bringing her out of her fantasy.

  "Ah? Sorry? Did you say something?" Elizabeth needed to release some of her pent-up stress; she was starting to fantasize more often about her girlfriends in some quite riske situations…

  "How much should we tell Rossy?" Rena asked, "She will know something is up, but should we frame it as us going to get justice for them screwing our vacations? Or just settling some debts?"

  …Elizabeth was not quite sold on the 'The Galaxidae caused Elizabeth to rampage out of control and ultimately ended in Beatrice's core breaking' thing.

  "We will tell her that we are squaring old debts, but that's about it. We were going to go after them anyway, so nothing really changes there." Elizabeth said as an answer, "We do need to check them; my current situation means that I am not quite…in the same wavelength as everyone else after all, I may end up as an enemy to them since my own existence is moving far away from the norm."

  "You think?" Rena smirked as if it was the most obvious thing, "You are way better than anything that has walked this planet before, so if they can't appreciate it, then they must be purged."

  …that is quite the extremist reaction Miss Rena. Why do you look so sexy while demanding people's heads?

  "We need to give them a chance to explain themselves, no way they didn't know that Reginald was in a mission sponsored by the world." Elizabeth tried to not think too much on her girlfriend prolictivities, she was ignoring most of Rossie psychotic behaviour anyway. What was a little beheading for her other cute girlfriend.

  "Fair, but as soon as we find the enemies among them, we start chopping heads," Rena grumbled.

  She also looked cute while grumbling.

  "Okay, so…any thoughts about Rossie wanting to be a Mother?" Elizabeth said, turning the conversation away from the beheading.

  "...she will be a good Mother." Rena said after thinking for a whole minute, "I… don't remember much about my own Mother."

  ….dang it.

  "I'm sorry," Elizabeth said back, she…was not the best one to talk about that, while she had her own share of personal trauma.Hers was usually not related to her family or her early life.

  "It's fine." Rena shrugged, "I did not have too much time to think about them, and most of my memories about them got bundled together into that [Gem of Wrath], so any memories I had probably weren't good."

  ….damnation, had Elizabeth taken those memories? Maybe she could give them back?

  "Don't get me wrong, Elizabeth, I don't mind this. I know there are many memories I have missing, most probably aren't good. So I am happy like this, making a new life, new memories with you and Rossie." Rena said, smiling at her, "Also…I will enjoy that too, raising a little girl born from the two people I love the most."

  ….How can this red-haired be so cute!!!?!?!?!?!?? This is a crime! A crime against all that is cute!

  "...you…we can also get one for you, you know? We can synch them up so that you also have one." Elizabeth said, all her doubts about being a Mother thrown out of the window.

  Was this a bad idea? Irresponsible? Perhaps! But Rena deserved to know what it felt like to be a Mother!

  She was this cute! How could she be a bad Mother!?!?

  If Catherine Starlight could be a Mother, then Watanabe Rena could also be one!

  Elizabeth decided it!

  "...are you sure?" Rena asked sheepishly, slightly blushing at the idea, "I'm not as good as you with my mana manipulation…So I might be slightly rough…"

  "YOU CAN BE AS ROUGH AS YOU WANT!" Elizabeth screamed, almost salivating at the idea. She, of course, controlled herself quite easily (She did not), and after thinking about what she said, Elizabeth slowly coughed into her hand and refocused, "I mean, that is fine. Your love will never hurt me, and even if it could. I am quite sturdy; if needed, I will just shift into a more sturdy form. There are very few things that could hurt me if I go into my more sturdy forms."

  …She always had the [Dragon] form to return to after all, she didn't want to use it too often, but if it would soothe Rena's fear that was a sacrifice she was willing to make.

  Also the idea of being dominated on her more [Prideful] form into submission….well, that one made Elizabeth feel a tingle she wasn't quite sure what to think about.

  "...then I'll take you on the offer. I'll start practicing my mana manipulation; I don't want to hurt…our daughter…or you." And in that note Rena bursted into a sphere of fire, the fire never damaged or singed anything.

  "Yeah, bashful Rena is also cute…" Elizabeth nodded as the last vestiges of her red-haired wild girlfriend disappeared, "Aura. I hope you took pictures of this."

  Elizabeth was in an isolated room, one that her Papa prepared to discuss the most important secrets of his vocation. There was no way anyone could peek at her here, not even the member of the [Twelve] at their best could do it.

  "Of course I did Mistress, who you take me for? Do you want one of your faces with you salivating at the idea of being utterly dominated, too?" Aura said as she teleported, sitting on the same chair that Rena had left.

  One thing was leaving, that was easy, but coming in from the outside? That was…

  "Of course. Also, add any video you have taken recently, and add some pictures of Rena's training montage, too." Elizabeth was more and more convinced about what Aura had told her before. And she was making a good idea about the identity of the maid.

  "As you wish, but you didn't called me for this did you?" Aura said, passing her a data bank. Elizabeth teleported it straight to her personal archive within the shadow spire.

  "Of course not, what are your thoughts on the Galaxida?" Elizabeth wanted to know from someone whose perception wasn't tainted.

  "They are…problematic; most of them are shielded in some manner that prevents me from going too close. The student president is one such case. If you really want to make an enemy of them, beware not only about them. But also from those that are under their umbrella. Not only those that wield the last name of Galaxidae will be your enemies." Aura said those words and teleported away.

  What did that mean?

  Elizabeth would need to check again and make sure everything was in order…dang it, she still only wanted to laze around….