"She is fine and should start moving on," the doctor said after finishing his examination. "I would advise to increase her status evenly for now since I don't know what they are..."
The doctor hadn't been allowed to see her status, Rossie had cast some nasty wards and spells on the doctor and on her to make sure the man kept his eyes to himself. "I will not allow you to see them," And spoke icily at the man.
"Sorry Doc, she gets grabby like that." Elizabeth found it quite amusing if she was honest.
Though she understood why Rossie was acting like this, her status had some interesting things after all, "Fine, just get her a [Privacy] skill if you want to keep her stuff private. Not that it will work at her level, I don't know what kind of life she had but my [Passive Scan] returns a low amount of status points, barely enough for a level 2-3." The man said before writing a prescription and handing it to Rossie.
Hey, wasn't that supposed to be given to her?!?
Sure, she couldn't buy anything since she didn't have money...Or not anymore since her cellphone had been yoinked and she hadn't tried to call Mother or Father to ask about it. But still!
"Thank you, I will not see you out," Rossie said to the Doctor who only sighed once more.
The man had been surprised when she greeted him, and through the whole consultation, she could feel his curiosity and he asked if she felt safe with Rossie around, as if he wanted to imply that she was held against her will!
And...She laughed, laughed really hard at that, for almost five minutes. In the end, it took her quite an effort to convince the man that she was fine with Rossie staying around, the man seemed mollified about it, and Rossie was quite angry at him for implying that she was taking advantage of her.
But all ended well, and she had been given the go to start walking around!
"I will be free from that horrible bag!" She chanted to the heavens, finally being able to go to the bathroom without Rossie fussing over her would be good.
She got the feeling that someone was laughing at her, but she promptly ignored it, "Yes yes, I know you hate the Foley catheter. I will remove it now." Her Rossie said while smirking.
"It's okay I can do it, just tell me how to. I don't want to be a nuisance." Elizabeth said quite hastily at that.
It was silly of course, Rossie had seen her body more than enough in the last six months, she was aware of that. The girl had installed the thing and removed it...And installed again...At least four or five times.
She shuddered at the idea of thinking how often Rossie had changed the thing "You get the silliest about the dumbest things Eli-Eli." Rossie said while passing her a syringe.
She took it and just stared at it, what was she supposed to do with this? It was empty.
"The foley catheter has a connection, you need to drain the balloon and then pull it slowly, it shouldn't hurt, but you should still do it slowly." Rossie said while walking towards the door, "I will prepare Lunch in the meantime, just leave the bag and catheter in the bathroom trash."
And walked away, leaving her with a syringe in her bed, alone. "Amm...." And a holy mission to keep her modesty intact (Not that there was much modesty intact for her anyway).
"Just...connect the thing...And pull...?" She lifted her blankets exposing her gown, then lifted a little the gown exposing her tight where a white tape was stuck with a latex tube tied to the tape.
She could see the tube going into her inner thigh and the other side going to her bag on the side, and also the small connection Rossie had spoken about.
She would like to think that as an almost adult young adult, she was brave, she had fought against solitude in her [Soulscape], and she had clawed her way through the fusion of her [Soul] [Mind] and [Body]. She had survived the meshing of three people worth's.
She could do this!
"... Nope, not dealing with this." And she was a [Magical Girl] and a [Hero]!
She would do things like the [Metahuman] she was!
So throwing the syringe away she focused on her mana and tried to feel the stupid tube, the shadows answered her call and climbed her legs "Now...[Pull]." And then she made the shadows climb into the stupid tube and follow it to the tip.
Inside she found the balloon Rossie had spoken about, so cutting the end where she would need to pull using the syringe she squished the stupid balloon releasing the liquid that held inside. Using her shadows she contained such evil liquid and sent it towards the bathroom. Now the stupid thing was deflated.
"Step one done..." She was feeling the drain on her pitiful mana, this had consumed almost half of it already, so she would need to finish it fast, and gritting her teeth she commanded her shadows and... "[PULL]!" repeated her order.
In one smooth motion her shadows tensed and pulled, "Khhh..." and she bit a small whimper as she felt the hideous and terrible implement leave her body. That...Hadn't hurt that much, if anything it just was a weird feeling of finally not having a weird tube stuck in her.
"Lunch's ready " And in that moment Rossie walked in, seeing first the empty syringe on the floor, then her stupid tube flopping on the air hanging with a pair of shadow tendrils that went to the bathroom.
"...Did you use [Shadows] to remove the catheter?" Asked the pink-haired girl with one eyebrow arched at her.
"Amm....No...?" Was all she could try and answer, she was doing her best to try and not think too much about it.
She wanted her god dammed privacy!
| Notice: |
| Skill [Privacy] awoken! You are able to reduce the amount of information that is gleaned from [Infosec] type skills. The amount of information hidden depends on the level of this skill vs the level of the [Infosec] skill. This one level depends on the amount of gravitas the information contains and how much you are able to deceive others about said information. |
....She was not happy about it!
Also, she didn't want to privacy to hide her status, but to keep her dignity!
"Here here, it's okay Eli-Eli," Rossie said while hugging her and patting her. "The evil catheter will not bother you anymore."
This was nice, "Let's go and eat, we need to talk about some things." But it ended quite fast, and she found herself almost grasping at Rossie who walked towards the dining room.
Was she this clingy before? Or was it the fact that Rossie was the first person she saw after so much time alone in the ruined city? She wasn't sure, but if anything she didn't feel inclined to cling towards the Doctor, even though he seemed to want to be seen as someone dependable.
So with extreme care and thinking about each of her movements, she walked to the dining table, the apartment seemed different from how she remembered it, most of the furniture was the same of course, but it felt...Cozy.
There were some pictures here and there of Rossie and her, she recognized them, those were the pictures that their room at the school had, had she moved them here?
Actually hadn't the midterms ended? What was Rossie doing here then? Shouldn't she be at school? Did she fail the Midterms?
"First...I'm sorry for not helping you fight against the [Villains]" Rossie started while she sat at the table.
What? But she wouldn't have been of any help, Nyctophagia was a veritable monster...Actually what had happened with them?
"It's okay Rossie, who defeated Nyctophagia in the end?" Elizabeth said while grabbing her spoon and taking a sip of her soup.
Rossie had cooked chicken soup...Because obviously, she needed easy-to-digest food...How long would she need to wait to eat some meat...
"No, it isn't okay!" Rossie screamed at her, the sudden change made her drop the spoon.
Rossie was even glaring at her, what did she do?!? Was it because she wanted meat? Did Rossie read her mind?!?
"It's not okay...I...I knew something was going to happen," She started saying, was Rossie working with the Villains?
But she didn't see her in the [Induction] for [The Hydra's Fang]...
"The [Skill] you gave me, it...It told me someone would come and use his [Skill] on you, to not interfere and make sure no [Healer] tried to help you. In exchange...They [Skill] would... Help me with a problem I had..." Rossie said while looking down at her plate.
Problems she had? Had?
"Ethan fixed your Soul?" She asked, the stygian bane didn't seem like the guy who would do that.
"Yes." And yet Rossie answered as such, did he patch her Soul using remnants from the taint? That didn't sound right.
"After the big fight, I ran away, when you didn't return home I thought you had left me after finding out about my betrayal. I was too happy to care about it." Rossie smiled at herself, a small tear falling from her eyes. "I could feel the world's color, the emotions flowed through me, not mere mockery of them. But true happiness."
"I'm happy if you are better now then. I would thank Ethan the next time I see him...But I doubt he is still alive after Papa and Mama found out what he did." Elizabeth said while finishing her soup, it was tasty.
"Yeah...Your Mother while powerful didn't get a chance, [Mainframe] and [Oddyssey] arrived before the rest of [The Nine Stars] and defeated him first. They ascended to godhood and made sure he wouldn't get his chance." Rossie spoke while getting something from her purse. A couple of pamphlets that she passed to Elizabeth.
The first one had a shield very familiar to her, and the second one held a staff with some stars surrounding it...Wasn't this...
"They now have churches as new gods and everything, their ascension changed a few things, some people found themselves with no past, mostly those that held some connection to them and didn't have enough [Fate] to protect themselves..." Rossie continued speaking, she... It couldn't be right?
"You are one such victim, your parents probably died that day under the fight, and after [Mainframe] and [Oddyssey] ascension their bodies got deleted from the fate of the world. Your past changed and now you are registered as an orphan called Elizabeth Ashcroft, who got kicked at 15 years old and changed her name to Elizabeth Starbrigiht." Rossie said while passing her a folder, where her parent's names were written.
Not as Jack Brighton and Catherine Starlight, but as Jackson Ashcroft and Catherine Saintsworths. "oh..." Was all she could say.
This...This couldn't be...Had... "Did you see my titles?" This made so much sense now.
"No. I narrowed the scope of my [Skill], and it showed me your [Inductee] title and status, but nothing else." Rossie answered.
"Well...I think Mama & Papa are okay." She said while summoning her Status screen, "How do I share this?" She asked to Rossie.
"Just think about sharing it, when you get the [Privacy] skill you can decide what to show using that one," Rossie answered in kind. "But that is not important right now Elizabeth."
"Okay then focus on [Privacy]...Yes...Here look!" She was too busy thinking about this, she needed to calm down Rossie!
She was feeling bad, probably because she thought that by not helping her her parents had died or something, nothing further from the truth!
"No Elizabeth, this is...WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!?!?" Rossie said when her status screen was shown to her, she had modified it to focus on her Titles [Daughter of the Gods]. "[Identify]!"
And the girl hadn't missed her chance, oh right. She had one of those too, might as well get to it too "[Appraisal]!" and see what her parents had done this time.
| Daughter of the gods: |
| You are the sole mortal daughter of the [God Mainframe] and the [Goddess Odyssey]. While your parents left their mortal coil to ascend they trusted the world to you as their sole remaining family, and while their past has been purged clean only to remain as legends from the myths the [System] knows of your connection to them.
May your [Legend] be as grand as your parent's glory!
Bonus: -Increased EXP gain. -Increased proficiency gain. -Lowered amount of proficiency needed to awaken skills. -Increased amount of options from the system. -Protection from [Fate]'s Meddling. -Increased [Fate] weight.
-Permission to have a pink-haired girlfriend. -Permission to be a [Hero]. -Can stay awake late at night. |
"...It's true..." Rossie seemed to release a breath she had been holding.
"See, mama and Papa are okay...Ignore Mama's jabs in the description, she is like that sometimes." Elizabeth said while walking to Rossie and bringing her chair closer to the girl to hug her more easily.
"And besides, you took care of me all this time, right? I would have told you to stay put had I known that would help you get better anyway. I would probably have used a few shadow dragons to make sure too!" Elizabeth said while pointing to her shadow.
Nothing came from it obviously, she didn't have nearly enough mana to summon one...Yet.
"Right...that...It actually took about two weeks to find you were in a coma too." Rossie said deflating once more, "I was too busy enjoying the world while you stayed in a coma in a rundown room. And as [Oddyssey] stated in your title's description, while she forgives me it was my mistake for not making sure."
She what?
Another quick read of her title didn't point at anything, but there was a smiley face at the end...Was her Mother messing with her title's description? "You didn't have a way of knowing. Just like how you had no way of knowing that Papa was [Mainframe]...That papa was [Maincrame]...What the hell?" She wasn't trying to say his title.
She was trying to say his name as a [Hero]!
"[MAIN-FRA-ME]!" ...."aaaghhhh PAPA?!?" She screamed at the ceiling.
Nothing came but a blue window with an apology, but that was it. "Anyway, the fact that Mama and Papa were the most powerful Heroes in the world was a secret that I didn't tell you either, so you didn't know they were the ones to ascend and that I was alon...." Oh...Right..."I'm alone..."
She was alone.
That thought floored her completely. She was alone now, wasn't she?
That..."They wanted my phone because it was made using S-Tier Tinker-grade technology...And since I'm an orphan there is no reason for me to have it." And in turn, this meant that she didn't have money. Or anything to her name.
"I'm sorry. I know this is a bad moment but I needed to make sure you knew it..." Rossie said while standing and walking towards the living room.
She followed her and found the backpag Rossie had brought before, and some extra luggage. "You are leaving?" Elizabeth asked, feeling a chill on her back "Why?"
"If you want me to. I understand that what I did is...bad. Odyssey said as much too, it was my fault that you...that you....You don't understand, how I found you..." Rossie said while rummaging in the backpack.
After a few moments she brought another folder, this one held more papers, different files, and notes, and medical notes. "You were full of bruises, anemia was the least of the problems, you didn't have stats, and the mana wanted to flood you to awaken you. But your brain had no readings. As far as everyone was concerned you were brain dead." There was even a picture of her, she looked so pale.
"And since there was no family recorded on your file they called me after the school said that I was the closer you had to a family." Rossie showed her another folder, this one held her school registration, it seemed that she had put the same orphanage Rossie was part of when she was little, and this, in turn, made her the closer relative she had...
Somehow.
"I thought I could wake you up with some of my spells you know, I was among the few that managed to keep most of their magic after the induction since I used your style of building spells by spell components instead of complex spells..." Rossie smiled at that, a self-deprecating smile.
"I couldn't, no matter the level of magic, the complexity of the spell, or the amount of spells I tried, nothing wake you up...Then...I found vestiges of the [Soulscape] you had described, but they were falling apart." So she found Alexanders Soulscape?
Or what he built, how did she manage to even find that. She had thought the thing had crumbled away when Ethan took her body and left her in that Shadow Doppelganger.
"Then that gave me an idea, maybe if I broke apart my soul and used it to feed your [Soul] this could make you wake up!" Rossie said suddenly with a crazy glint in her eyes.
Wait..."And it seemed to work too!" WAIT A SECOND!
"Rossie...Did you harm your [Soulscape] to try and heal me?" Elizabeth asked an even tone in her voice.
"What? Of course not. No one can access their [Soulscape] nowadays, not even I can." Rossie answered that was good. "I did however find a way to crush part of what should be my [Soul] and siphon it into a spell so I could nurture your [Soul]" Aaaand yes, there it goes.
"Idiot," Elizabeth said while throwing a spoon at the pink-haired girl. "What do you think I would do if I woke up to a world where no one remembers me with you dead in my bed?"
She couldn't even imagine what she would have done...Actually "Only reason I rushed to awake was because I was told about how you would die if I took my time." And here she was in the real world...With no way of knowing how bad Rossie's situation was.
"Look at me Rossie," Elizabeth said while trudging towards Rossie who still refused to look in her direction till she grabbed her face and pointed it towards herself. "I will not let you go."
Rossie seemed torn between being relieved and guilty at this statement, but she wouldn't relent "Among the things that I had to go through in that whole ordeal was seeing Elizabeth Starbright whole life." Rossie didn't seem to notice how she used the third person.
"I am more than I was before, but I'm not the same Elizabeth. I have new parts of me." Mostly Chloe and Alexander's parts, "And so I needed to watch [My] whole life from a third person point of view. I saw you slow-cooking me." She said, and Rossie seemed to blush a little at that mention.
Good.
"And while Mama [Oddyssey] confirmed that I was still their Daughter." And she gave her the [Perk] of allowing to have a pink-haired girlfriend...Not that she could stop her from the heavens mind you!
"I will reaffirm it here," Elizabeth said, she really needed some extra levels, this would suck.
"I'm Elizabeth Starbright, daughter of the most powerful people in the world." Her words seemed to resonate with the fabric of reality itself. "I don't hate nor am angry at anything Rossaline Singh did."
She was feeling her pitiful mana waste away, would she manage?
Yes, you will manage.
Only to feel an infusion of mana flood into her, it tasted like stars. "Mother?" was all she could mumble, but felt the mana start to waver, so she refocused her efforts while using this new infusion of mana "I pledge right now at this very moment that my words hold no falsehood." Elizabeth said and careesing Rossie's face "I love you, Rossie." Ended her pledge.
And hugged Rossie as the girl devolved into tears, she felt the sudden influx of mana start to dissipate, and she, of course, took this opportunity to squirrel away some of that mana into her mana pool. It wouldn't do for her to blackout from the mana drain right?
They stood like that for the rest of the day, recounting all the little things she remembered of how Rossie had taken care of her, the reason why she liked the girl. It was a heavy duty effort to make sure Rossie understood and believed her.
But she could make that effort, she wouldn't allow the girl to run away on her, not after leaving her like this.
As for her level? That could wait.
Her new title as Daughter of the Gods? It wouldn't leave.
The other title that sounded more ominous than it should? Probably something her father threw at her.
For now, she needed to make sure Rossie didn't run away. That was all that mattered to her.
"She is fine and should start moving on," the doctor said after finishing his examination. "I would advise to increase her status evenly for now since I don't know what they are..."
The doctor hadn't been allowed to see her status, Rossie had cast some nasty wards and spells on the doctor and on her to make sure the man kept his eyes to himself. "I will not allow you to see them," And spoke icily at the man.
"Sorry Doc, she gets grabby like that." Elizabeth found it quite amusing if she was honest.
Though she understood why Rossie was acting like this, her status had some interesting things after all, "Fine, just get her a [Privacy] skill if you want to keep her stuff private. Not that it will work at her level, I don't know what kind of life she had but my [Passive Scan] returns a low amount of status points, barely enough for a level 2-3." The man said before writing a prescription and handing it to Rossie.
Hey, wasn't that supposed to be given to her?!?
Sure, she couldn't buy anything since she didn't have money...Or not anymore since her cellphone had been yoinked and she hadn't tried to call Mother or Father to ask about it. But still!
"Thank you, I will not see you out," Rossie said to the Doctor who only sighed once more.
The man had been surprised when she greeted him, and through the whole consultation, she could feel his curiosity and he asked if she felt safe with Rossie around, as if he wanted to imply that she was held against her will!
And...She laughed, laughed really hard at that, for almost five minutes. In the end, it took her quite an effort to convince the man that she was fine with Rossie staying around, the man seemed mollified about it, and Rossie was quite angry at him for implying that she was taking advantage of her.
But all ended well, and she had been given the go to start walking around!
"I will be free from that horrible bag!" She chanted to the heavens, finally being able to go to the bathroom without Rossie fussing over her would be good.
She got the feeling that someone was laughing at her, but she promptly ignored it, "Yes yes, I know you hate the Foley catheter. I will remove it now." Her Rossie said while smirking.
"It's okay I can do it, just tell me how to. I don't want to be a nuisance." Elizabeth said quite hastily at that.
It was silly of course, Rossie had seen her body more than enough in the last six months, she was aware of that. The girl had installed the thing and removed it...And installed again...At least four or five times.
She shuddered at the idea of thinking how often Rossie had changed the thing "You get the silliest about the dumbest things Eli-Eli." Rossie said while passing her a syringe.
She took it and just stared at it, what was she supposed to do with this? It was empty.
"The foley catheter has a connection, you need to drain the balloon and then pull it slowly, it shouldn't hurt, but you should still do it slowly." Rossie said while walking towards the door, "I will prepare Lunch in the meantime, just leave the bag and catheter in the bathroom trash."
And walked away, leaving her with a syringe in her bed, alone. "Amm...." And a holy mission to keep her modesty intact (Not that there was much modesty intact for her anyway).
"Just...connect the thing...And pull...?" She lifted her blankets exposing her gown, then lifted a little the gown exposing her tight where a white tape was stuck with a latex tube tied to the tape.
She could see the tube going into her inner thigh and the other side going to her bag on the side, and also the small connection Rossie had spoken about.
She would like to think that as an almost adult young adult, she was brave, she had fought against solitude in her [Soulscape], and she had clawed her way through the fusion of her [Soul] [Mind] and [Body]. She had survived the meshing of three people worth's.
She could do this!
"... Nope, not dealing with this." And she was a [Magical Girl] and a [Hero]!
She would do things like the [Metahuman] she was!
So throwing the syringe away she focused on her mana and tried to feel the stupid tube, the shadows answered her call and climbed her legs "Now...[Pull]." And then she made the shadows climb into the stupid tube and follow it to the tip.
Inside she found the balloon Rossie had spoken about, so cutting the end where she would need to pull using the syringe she squished the stupid balloon releasing the liquid that held inside. Using her shadows she contained such evil liquid and sent it towards the bathroom. Now the stupid thing was deflated.
"Step one done..." She was feeling the drain on her pitiful mana, this had consumed almost half of it already, so she would need to finish it fast, and gritting her teeth she commanded her shadows and... "[PULL]!" repeated her order.
In one smooth motion her shadows tensed and pulled, "Khhh..." and she bit a small whimper as she felt the hideous and terrible implement leave her body. That...Hadn't hurt that much, if anything it just was a weird feeling of finally not having a weird tube stuck in her.
"Lunch's ready " And in that moment Rossie walked in, seeing first the empty syringe on the floor, then her stupid tube flopping on the air hanging with a pair of shadow tendrils that went to the bathroom.
"...Did you use [Shadows] to remove the catheter?" Asked the pink-haired girl with one eyebrow arched at her.
"Amm....No...?" Was all she could try and answer, she was doing her best to try and not think too much about it.
She wanted her god dammed privacy!
| Notice: |
| Skill [Privacy] awoken! You are able to reduce the amount of information that is gleaned from [Infosec] type skills. The amount of information hidden depends on the level of this skill vs the level of the [Infosec] skill. This one level depends on the amount of gravitas the information contains and how much you are able to deceive others about said information. |
....She was not happy about it!
Also, she didn't want to privacy to hide her status, but to keep her dignity!
"Here here, it's okay Eli-Eli," Rossie said while hugging her and patting her. "The evil catheter will not bother you anymore."
This was nice, "Let's go and eat, we need to talk about some things." But it ended quite fast, and she found herself almost grasping at Rossie who walked towards the dining room.
Was she this clingy before? Or was it the fact that Rossie was the first person she saw after so much time alone in the ruined city? She wasn't sure, but if anything she didn't feel inclined to cling towards the Doctor, even though he seemed to want to be seen as someone dependable.
So with extreme care and thinking about each of her movements, she walked to the dining table, the apartment seemed different from how she remembered it, most of the furniture was the same of course, but it felt...Cozy.
There were some pictures here and there of Rossie and her, she recognized them, those were the pictures that their room at the school had, had she moved them here?
Actually hadn't the midterms ended? What was Rossie doing here then? Shouldn't she be at school? Did she fail the Midterms?
"First...I'm sorry for not helping you fight against the [Villains]" Rossie started while she sat at the table.
What? But she wouldn't have been of any help, Nyctophagia was a veritable monster...Actually what had happened with them?
"It's okay Rossie, who defeated Nyctophagia in the end?" Elizabeth said while grabbing her spoon and taking a sip of her soup.
Rossie had cooked chicken soup...Because obviously, she needed easy-to-digest food...How long would she need to wait to eat some meat...
"No, it isn't okay!" Rossie screamed at her, the sudden change made her drop the spoon.
Rossie was even glaring at her, what did she do?!? Was it because she wanted meat? Did Rossie read her mind?!?
"It's not okay...I...I knew something was going to happen," She started saying, was Rossie working with the Villains?
But she didn't see her in the [Induction] for [The Hydra's Fang]...
"The [Skill] you gave me, it...It told me someone would come and use his [Skill] on you, to not interfere and make sure no [Healer] tried to help you. In exchange...They [Skill] would... Help me with a problem I had..." Rossie said while looking down at her plate.
Problems she had? Had?
"Ethan fixed your Soul?" She asked, the stygian bane didn't seem like the guy who would do that.
"Yes." And yet Rossie answered as such, did he patch her Soul using remnants from the taint? That didn't sound right.
"After the big fight, I ran away, when you didn't return home I thought you had left me after finding out about my betrayal. I was too happy to care about it." Rossie smiled at herself, a small tear falling from her eyes. "I could feel the world's color, the emotions flowed through me, not mere mockery of them. But true happiness."
"I'm happy if you are better now then. I would thank Ethan the next time I see him...But I doubt he is still alive after Papa and Mama found out what he did." Elizabeth said while finishing her soup, it was tasty.
"Yeah...Your Mother while powerful didn't get a chance, [Mainframe] and [Oddyssey] arrived before the rest of [The Nine Stars] and defeated him first. They ascended to godhood and made sure he wouldn't get his chance." Rossie spoke while getting something from her purse. A couple of pamphlets that she passed to Elizabeth.
The first one had a shield very familiar to her, and the second one held a staff with some stars surrounding it...Wasn't this...
"They now have churches as new gods and everything, their ascension changed a few things, some people found themselves with no past, mostly those that held some connection to them and didn't have enough [Fate] to protect themselves..." Rossie continued speaking, she... It couldn't be right?
"You are one such victim, your parents probably died that day under the fight, and after [Mainframe] and [Oddyssey] ascension their bodies got deleted from the fate of the world. Your past changed and now you are registered as an orphan called Elizabeth Ashcroft, who got kicked at 15 years old and changed her name to Elizabeth Starbrigiht." Rossie said while passing her a folder, where her parent's names were written.
Not as Jack Brighton and Catherine Starlight, but as Jackson Ashcroft and Catherine Saintsworths. "oh..." Was all she could say.
This...This couldn't be...Had... "Did you see my titles?" This made so much sense now.
"No. I narrowed the scope of my [Skill], and it showed me your [Inductee] title and status, but nothing else." Rossie answered.
"Well...I think Mama & Papa are okay." She said while summoning her Status screen, "How do I share this?" She asked to Rossie.
"Just think about sharing it, when you get the [Privacy] skill you can decide what to show using that one," Rossie answered in kind. "But that is not important right now Elizabeth."
"Okay then focus on [Privacy]...Yes...Here look!" She was too busy thinking about this, she needed to calm down Rossie!
She was feeling bad, probably because she thought that by not helping her her parents had died or something, nothing further from the truth!
"No Elizabeth, this is...WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!?!?" Rossie said when her status screen was shown to her, she had modified it to focus on her Titles [Daughter of the Gods]. "[Identify]!"
And the girl hadn't missed her chance, oh right. She had one of those too, might as well get to it too "[Appraisal]!" and see what her parents had done this time.
| Daughter of the gods: |
| You are the sole mortal daughter of the [God Mainframe] and the [Goddess Odyssey]. While your parents left their mortal coil to ascend they trusted the world to you as their sole remaining family, and while their past has been purged clean only to remain as legends from the myths the [System] knows of your connection to them.
May your [Legend] be as grand as your parent's glory!
Bonus: -Increased EXP gain. -Increased proficiency gain. -Lowered amount of proficiency needed to awaken skills. -Increased amount of options from the system. -Protection from [Fate]'s Meddling. -Increased [Fate] weight.
-Permission to have a pink-haired girlfriend. -Permission to be a [Hero]. -Can stay awake late at night. |
"...It's true..." Rossie seemed to release a breath she had been holding.
"See, mama and Papa are okay...Ignore Mama's jabs in the description, she is like that sometimes." Elizabeth said while walking to Rossie and bringing her chair closer to the girl to hug her more easily.
"And besides, you took care of me all this time, right? I would have told you to stay put had I known that would help you get better anyway. I would probably have used a few shadow dragons to make sure too!" Elizabeth said while pointing to her shadow.
Nothing came from it obviously, she didn't have nearly enough mana to summon one...Yet.
"Right...that...It actually took about two weeks to find you were in a coma too." Rossie said deflating once more, "I was too busy enjoying the world while you stayed in a coma in a rundown room. And as [Oddyssey] stated in your title's description, while she forgives me it was my mistake for not making sure."
She what?
Another quick read of her title didn't point at anything, but there was a smiley face at the end...Was her Mother messing with her title's description? "You didn't have a way of knowing. Just like how you had no way of knowing that Papa was [Mainframe]...That papa was [Maincrame]...What the hell?" She wasn't trying to say his title.
She was trying to say his name as a [Hero]!
"[MAIN-FRA-ME]!" ...."aaaghhhh PAPA?!?" She screamed at the ceiling.
Nothing came but a blue window with an apology, but that was it. "Anyway, the fact that Mama and Papa were the most powerful Heroes in the world was a secret that I didn't tell you either, so you didn't know they were the ones to ascend and that I was alon...." Oh...Right..."I'm alone..."
She was alone.
That thought floored her completely. She was alone now, wasn't she?
That..."They wanted my phone because it was made using S-Tier Tinker-grade technology...And since I'm an orphan there is no reason for me to have it." And in turn, this meant that she didn't have money. Or anything to her name.
"I'm sorry. I know this is a bad moment but I needed to make sure you knew it..." Rossie said while standing and walking towards the living room.
She followed her and found the backpag Rossie had brought before, and some extra luggage. "You are leaving?" Elizabeth asked, feeling a chill on her back "Why?"
"If you want me to. I understand that what I did is...bad. Odyssey said as much too, it was my fault that you...that you....You don't understand, how I found you..." Rossie said while rummaging in the backpack.
After a few moments she brought another folder, this one held more papers, different files, and notes, and medical notes. "You were full of bruises, anemia was the least of the problems, you didn't have stats, and the mana wanted to flood you to awaken you. But your brain had no readings. As far as everyone was concerned you were brain dead." There was even a picture of her, she looked so pale.
"And since there was no family recorded on your file they called me after the school said that I was the closer you had to a family." Rossie showed her another folder, this one held her school registration, it seemed that she had put the same orphanage Rossie was part of when she was little, and this, in turn, made her the closer relative she had...
Somehow.
"I thought I could wake you up with some of my spells you know, I was among the few that managed to keep most of their magic after the induction since I used your style of building spells by spell components instead of complex spells..." Rossie smiled at that, a self-deprecating smile.
"I couldn't, no matter the level of magic, the complexity of the spell, or the amount of spells I tried, nothing wake you up...Then...I found vestiges of the [Soulscape] you had described, but they were falling apart." So she found Alexanders Soulscape?
Or what he built, how did she manage to even find that. She had thought the thing had crumbled away when Ethan took her body and left her in that Shadow Doppelganger.
"Then that gave me an idea, maybe if I broke apart my soul and used it to feed your [Soul] this could make you wake up!" Rossie said suddenly with a crazy glint in her eyes.
Wait..."And it seemed to work too!" WAIT A SECOND!
"Rossie...Did you harm your [Soulscape] to try and heal me?" Elizabeth asked an even tone in her voice.
"What? Of course not. No one can access their [Soulscape] nowadays, not even I can." Rossie answered that was good. "I did however find a way to crush part of what should be my [Soul] and siphon it into a spell so I could nurture your [Soul]" Aaaand yes, there it goes.
"Idiot," Elizabeth said while throwing a spoon at the pink-haired girl. "What do you think I would do if I woke up to a world where no one remembers me with you dead in my bed?"
She couldn't even imagine what she would have done...Actually "Only reason I rushed to awake was because I was told about how you would die if I took my time." And here she was in the real world...With no way of knowing how bad Rossie's situation was.
"Look at me Rossie," Elizabeth said while trudging towards Rossie who still refused to look in her direction till she grabbed her face and pointed it towards herself. "I will not let you go."
Rossie seemed torn between being relieved and guilty at this statement, but she wouldn't relent "Among the things that I had to go through in that whole ordeal was seeing Elizabeth Starbright whole life." Rossie didn't seem to notice how she used the third person.
"I am more than I was before, but I'm not the same Elizabeth. I have new parts of me." Mostly Chloe and Alexander's parts, "And so I needed to watch [My] whole life from a third person point of view. I saw you slow-cooking me." She said, and Rossie seemed to blush a little at that mention.
Good.
"And while Mama [Oddyssey] confirmed that I was still their Daughter." And she gave her the [Perk] of allowing to have a pink-haired girlfriend...Not that she could stop her from the heavens mind you!
"I will reaffirm it here," Elizabeth said, she really needed some extra levels, this would suck.
"I'm Elizabeth Starbright, daughter of the most powerful people in the world." Her words seemed to resonate with the fabric of reality itself. "I don't hate nor am angry at anything Rossaline Singh did."
She was feeling her pitiful mana waste away, would she manage?
Yes, you will manage.
Only to feel an infusion of mana flood into her, it tasted like stars. "Mother?" was all she could mumble, but felt the mana start to waver, so she refocused her efforts while using this new infusion of mana "I pledge right now at this very moment that my words hold no falsehood." Elizabeth said and careesing Rossie's face "I love you, Rossie." Ended her pledge.
And hugged Rossie as the girl devolved into tears, she felt the sudden influx of mana start to dissipate, and she, of course, took this opportunity to squirrel away some of that mana into her mana pool. It wouldn't do for her to blackout from the mana drain right?
They stood like that for the rest of the day, recounting all the little things she remembered of how Rossie had taken care of her, the reason why she liked the girl. It was a heavy duty effort to make sure Rossie understood and believed her.
But she could make that effort, she wouldn't allow the girl to run away on her, not after leaving her like this.
As for her level? That could wait.
Her new title as Daughter of the Gods? It wouldn't leave.
The other title that sounded more ominous than it should? Probably something her father threw at her.
For now, she needed to make sure Rossie didn't run away. That was all that mattered to her.
