"No," Selen answered immediately, "Not after what she has shown this [Skill]."

  "If she can interact to this degree with the [System] then she may be more dangerous than we think. This may be the reason why the [Main House] acted against her." Magnus also showed his stance.

  "Are you sure Evangeline?" Only Lily seemed to think about it seriously.

  Asher for his part narrowed his eyes at Elizabeth, as if calculating something, what was he even thinking about?

  "Yes, besides it isn't like she removed the [Skill], she just made it harder to access, isn't that right Elizabeth?" Evangeline said turning the attention back to Elizabeth.

  "Something like that," Elizabeth said mentally sending a command to her new terminal. It undid the lock on the skill she had made, and immediately after, the [Shift] returned to both Selen and Magnus as if nothing had happened, "There, are you happy?"

  Selen quickly summoned a magic circle and tested some spells and summons, going as far as summoning an [Angel], "Do you need something summoner?" Its voice sounded...at the risk of sounding obvious, angelic.

  "Remain at the ready, if my [Shift] is cancelled attack this girl." Selen quickly said pointing at Elizabeth.

  "...As you wish, summoner." The [Angel] said looking at Elizabeth, there was some...reticence?

  Elizabeth may have been looking too much into it, but she was not entirely sure about it. Nonetheless, it was not her problem since she could deal with a random fake [Angel] being summoned by the creed of someone like Selen.

  "...?" Selen seemed to notice something was wrong, but she didn't seem to want to look into it at the moment, perhaps she didn't want to show weakness in front of someone who she had thought was easy to deal with.

  Elizabeth still wasn't sure what the problem was with Selen, with Asher she knew, he was just an edgelord, these always acted all antagonists till you broke their shell.

  Elizabeth wouldn't break his shell though, she was liable to obliterate his shell, and his squishy interior. She wasn't into white-haired bastards; besides, this one was all androgynous; if she wanted some girly-looking person, she would go and hug Rossie. If she wanted a muscular-looking girl, she would hug Rena.

  Really, Asher was kind of only annoying with the whole too cool to care about what others think and the thing of being 'Powerful enough to look down on everyone under heaven and earth'. Really, it was annoying. If anything, it only made Elizabeth want to pummel him down a few pegs and give him the same treatment that she gave [The Shadow Tide]. That was a whole other thing, she was ashamed of having a crush on him...

  If she hadn't gotten over it...The horror, perhaps she would have ended up infatuated with him? With Asher...

  Then she would end up being under Evangeline as Elizabeth would be an indirect servant to her? Or perhaps...she would have been assimilated into the Student council? Replacing Evangeline...

  They both were around the same age...

  Wait….if the [Trope] was for Rossie, Rena, Michael and Akira to be a team…What was Elizabeth's team? She was also supposed to be one of them, right? A [Hero].

  At least she thought so, since that had been the thing that she got offered before being born on Zaanam…

  Was…The only people around her age who had some degree of talent or power were the student council…

  And she did not see herself being in love with Selen or Lily, Selen was outright out of the question, who even dates orange girls. Lily….looked too pristine for her tastes, so that left Evangeline, Magnus and Asher.

  Magnus looked like someone who was more focused on his work than people around him, so that would mean that Elizabeth would have needed to take care of him, and she was too lazy to do that. So Asher and Evangeline…

  Evangeline seemed more of the…type that wanted to do all the things, and Asher was more laidback…

  Oh my god…

  "What?" Asher said, looking at her with his smug face. "Plotting something Starbright?"

  Elizabeth was supposed to hook up with Asher….Elizabeth was [Fated] to hook up with this asshole?

  "It's fine Asher, she will not harm me." Evangeline said from the far back, "Go outside, you will regret it later if you continue to antagonize Elizabeth, trust me."

  "...You imply I would lose to her? Someone who adopted [Lightning]? "Asher scoffed in that too edgy way, the type of scoff that Elizabeth felt could cut through things from how edgy it was being executed, "My [Thunder] is not that weak."

  ….cringeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

  "Lily, please make sure they don't interrupt us." Evangeline said with a know-it-all smile.

  "... I'll break in the moment I feel your mana be disturbed, the moment the Mana within this room is so much as disturbed." Lily answered while walking forward from behind the desk, pulling Selen with her.

  The orange girl continued glaring at Elizabeth all the way till she was shoved out; Magnus was the one going after, only he didn't need convincing or being manhandled, leaving only Asher and Lily with Evangeline and Elizabeth.

  "I'll trust in your [Fate] with us Elizabeth," Lily said before walking out.

  "Don't tempt us Starbright, you can't deal with us. A wall between us and Evangeline will not be enough to stop us from pummeling you down." Asher said as he walked out.

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  "Don't mind him; he is quite adorable when you get past his antics." Evangeline said with a smile on her face, "I'm sure you will get around it with time."

  "Stop it," Elizabeth said seriously, "Just stop it."

  "What?" Evangeline said laughing, "I find it quite adorable you know. How he acts all cool around you, when you think about…"

  "No," Elizabeth letting her Idea permeate the room, "Just…No."

  "....Do you know your [Fate]?" Evangeline asked more seriously, "Your real [Fate], not the one you currently hold, not the one you seem to think you want. But what was [Written] for you."

  "...I assume you are going to tell it to me," Elizabeth said back to Evangeline.

  "You were supposed to either save a [World] or [Raise a world]." Evangeline said, "Your original [Fate] was one of those two."

  "Save Aetheria from the [Demon King] with other Heroes blablablabla, I know. I was told that too." Elizabeth answered, she still remembered talking to….someone about that. She couldn't quite make out who she was talking to, but it should be the purple woman…probably. "The other one was to uplift this world and become the goddess of shadows or something right?"

  "No?" Evangeline said, confused, "I know you have a thing for [Shadows], but no, that was not among the [Fate] written for you."

  It was not?

  But that was what Elizabeth had been told!

  "No, your second [Fate] was to come to this world, go to the same school that I went, become my friend. Be the glue that joined and made us true friends, not as servants and masters. But friends." Evangeline said summoning pictures of a blonde little girl playing around with a small group of kids, Evangeline, Asher, Magnus, Lily…. "We would enroll to the same school, our parents would start becoming friends…Eleanore and Jack would then give you more freedom…."

  Eleanore?

  "Then in high school love would bloom…" Evangeline summoned another photo, one of a girl who looked like Elizabeth…but was wrong.

  "That isn't right…" Elizabeth said instinctively as she raised her hand and touched the projection; a ripple spread across the image, and the content changed. Instead of a blonde Elizabeth, what showed was….

  "So that was why it felt wrong, huh?" Evangeline said as the image stabilized, now there was an image of Asher talking to a black haired petite beauty, crimson red eyes and a smooth black hair that went as far as to her waist.

  It was the image of Alice….Alice Ashcroft, the true Daughter of Jack Ashcroft and Eleanore Windsor…The person who should have been born instead of Elizabeth.

  "As I was saying, you would declare your love to Asher, and he would accept it. You two would then go on to become boyfriend and girlfriend…" Evangeline carried on with the image show.

  Elizabeth knew something of this of course, she had some memories and flashes of this life from her time with Alice.

  "Are you seeing this? Alice?" Elizabeth sent inwardly, straight to her Core.

  Elizabeth hadn't known, hadn't even stopped to think about it, about how much different her life would have been should things went differently.

  How much her life would have changed if not for her [Inheritance], if not for being born to Mother…How much her life changed thanks to being the daughter of Catherine Starlight.

  "Things would move on from there, Asher would be recognized by your Father as someone worthy after surviving a spar with him without being hit," The image moved to one of Asher dodging by millimeters the attacks from Papa, "You would get your Mother's permission to date him after proving your seriousness."

  Elizabeth… hadn't even thought about that, Mother was too carefree to care about Elizabeth's relationship. Besides, she didn't have any dignity to complain about if she loved girls or not.

  "Then….you would follow in your parent's footsteps, climbing in power, amazing might. Till you ascended as the [Goddess of Shadows] with your husband [The Thunder God], bringing prosperity. You would then connect all the humans into the shadows while Asher would help and assist you with the work." Evangeline then showed an image of an adult Alice, one that looked similar to [Echidna], at her side stood the white haired edgelord. Shirt open showing his chest….

  Elizabeth almost felt like she was going to start bleeding, from all the edgelordiness coming out of the image, who even uses Katanas with [Thunder]?

  It didn't make sense, why would you use something that would magnetize itself? You should use spears or chains, not Katanas…actually who even uses that type of weapon anyway?!?!?!

  "So while your guess about becoming a [Shadow Goddess] is correct, the order was wrong." Evangeline said shaking her head.

  "And yet….[Advent] happened, I was born to Catherine Starlight instead of Eleanore Windsor, and more importantly. I didn't go to your school." Elizabeth said, then she pointed at herself, "And more importantly I don't look like Alice."

  "And yet you are aware of this story," Evangeline said back, "Proof of that is how you used [The Shadow Empress] and built your [True] form into it."

  True form?

  She was not aware of what Elizabeth's True form was like. While Alice was close, it was not close enough.

  "But we are in time. You can fix this, we can return to the original [Plot]." Evangeline said, standing up from her chair and walking to Elizabeth, "Do you know how?"

  "...You want me to be Asher's girlfriend." Elizabeth answered, "... For what? Your loyalty? Your help? I need neither."

  Really, Elizabeth was only here for Intel on the [Galaxidae], not for this.

  "Besides, I don't like Asher. He is not my type." At least if he had more muscle….

  "I know your type." Evangeline said raising her hands to her chest, "I can join to this deal, marry Asher and I'll let you have me too."

  What?

  "You can have Selen and Lily too. Selen is a little foul mouthed, she should be similar enough to Rena….minus the broken Soul." Evangeline said as she unbuttoned her blouse, a couple of pictures of the orange-haired girl manifested behind her, "Lily is calmer, just like how Rossaline projected herself to the public. Only Lily, is actually calm and proper, both in public and in private."

  More and more pictures manifested behind Evangeline as the white-haired girl showed her bare chest to Elizabeth. The pictures were of two blushing girls without clothes.

  Selen Dawnstrike and Lily Hartley.

  The always antagonist Selen, blushing furiously at the camera, all the while she had her hands below her chest, as if she wanted to cover herself but was doing her best not to.

  The calm and collected Lily, shily looking at the camera with her fingers interwined at her navel level.

  What?

  "I...beg your pardon?" Elizabeth said unsure of what or where she was supposed to look, looking ahead was the nude Evangeline smirking at her.

  The girl raised her hand and cupped her breast, "I am quite confident in my size and texture, you know?" This....was wrong.

  "And while Selen doesn't have as much going for her unlike Rena, I am sure you will enjoy taming her." Evangeline said, summoning a picture forward. Selen's bashful look was almost tempting.

  Almost.

  "Lily on the other hand is more calm and collected, she looks quite the tomboy doesn't she?" Evangeline summoned another picture forward, "But she is quite the opposite in private...I am sure you will enjoy pampering her, she isn't as clingy though. So she will not mind if you wish to increase your harem either."

  Very wrong.

  Tempting? Yes, of course it was.

  "I have been playing with them, seeing what the deal was. Can't say I don't see the appeal. A woman's body is softer and more enjoyable, but I guarantee you. Asher has a good body, too, even if he doesn't look like it." And at this point, Evangeline summoned a third picture.

  A shirtless Asher.

  "Okay, stop," Elizabeth said, raising her hand and dispelling all the pictures using a wave of Lightning to disturb the cohesion of the images, "What the hell? Why do you have these? Is that what you all do in this room? Take nudes? Now you will tell me you also have one of Magnus?"

  "I do, want to see?" Evangeline said, smiling impishly at her.

  "No!" Elizabeth quickly said, "No...This...I know my relationship with Rena and Rossie is not sane, but this?"

  Elizabeth shuddered at the idea of it happening, she could even see it happening. Evangeline one day came here and asked her [Friends] to undress so she could take pictures... Playing with their bodies...

  And if the loyalty...no, not loyalty, if the fervor she had seen from them towards Evangeline was something to go by, they probably felt happy at it. Even if Lily looked like she was extremely ashamed, even if Selen looked quite pitiful...

  Elizabeth wasn't a saint, she wouldn't ever pretend to say that she didn't got quite...in the mood just thinking about having Selen to play with, even so... degrading her like this...

  It was not correct.

  "This is wrong," Elizabeth shook her head. "You shouldn't do this to your friends, even..."

  "Even if they felt happy while doing it?" Evangeline finished Elizabeth's words, "Don't be a hypocrite, they may not look it or be it right now, but all of us are [Hero] candidates. And I mean the real type, not the [Heroes] that run around the streets, if Akira had something right it was that. There are [Heroes] and [Heroes]."

  "So? That makes it, right? The fact that [The World] picked you all for [Hero] candidates?" Elizabeth spat back, "Just because they are that it's fine to abuse their trust? Just to sate your lustful curiosity?"

  "You did it too, didn't you?" Evangeline said back, "Did you enjoy the taste of Rossaline's breast? The feeling of toying with Rena's body? The fact that you made her crave being ravaged? Something she used to hate?"

  The silver-haired girl said, looking down at Elizabeth, "All [Heroes] are lustful creatures because they must spread their [SEED]. So don't be a hypocrite, Elizabeth Starbright. Just accept it, Asher is a good steed and I haven't taken his [SEED], or you can take Magnus I guess...I wanted him since he is the Scholar type. But you will [Take] a man's [SEED]."

  What's the deal with this girl?!?!?!

  No wait...

  "If the whole thing you are doing this is to make me spread and have descendants I don't need to take one of you or marry Asher," Elizabeth said suddenly remembering the promise she made to Rossie, "I can just have Rossie and Rena's daughters!"

  Elizabeth felt herself blush at saying that, what? She was an innocent girl!

  "Also...I'll have you know I am a virgin. So I am not a hypocrite!" What was she even saying? "I never abused or did anything to Rossie or Rena, our relationship is purely platonic!"

  Even if Elizabeth was going to have a very.....rough birthday in a couple months...