"YOU PROMISED NOT TO MESS AROUND UNCLE!" Screamed the little girl to the ceiling.
She was annoyed since something had been messing around with her little slice of heaven.
| I am not the one 'messing around' my lovely granddaughter. |
Answered back a red screen that materialized in front of the little girl, it was quite obvious that the red screen was quite disturbed by the outburst of the girl.
One could even feel the feeling of a sweet grandparent looking at his favorite granddaughter. Why one could even get the feeling that if the red screen could it would be bringing out candies to try to placate the tantrum of the little girl!
"[Who are you?]" But the little girl answered with a scowl.
She stopped throwing her tantrum and instead gazed with cold and devoid-of-life eyes at the red screen... THE GALL!
That was no way of treating your grandfather!
| Why? Who would I be but your favorite grandfather? |
Answered back in a jovial tone the grandparent of the blonde little girl, why one could almost hear the merry laugh of a senior looking at his younger family member!
Truly... That girl had more than she deserved by having such a caring and dedicated family member looking after her!
Even if she was a spoiled little br...
| [Show yourself.] |
Why the little girl was fuming while trying to look mature, but no one would ever fall for such trivial kid games. She should only act like the spoiled little...
| [Under the authority granted to me I will raze this world if you keep this charade going.] [Do not mistake my patience for unwillingness to commit.] |
Slowly but surely the eyes of the little girl started turning red, perhaps she was about to cry?
To cry because her tantrum had no effect. She was, after all, only a little girl, a powerful little girl... But even so a little girl not older than five or six years.
She had no idea what she was playing with nor what she was toying with, that is the problem all the [Monster] have after all, they misunderstand what [Humans] can achieve.
She was only playing to be human after all, she was only playing at the family game...And her allowances had ended.
They ended as soon as her [Toy] stopped playing ball as she was supposed to, they ended when the [Thing] started acting up and showed his fangs.
No one likes to play with them if the game doesn't follow the [Rules] set up by the [Game Master].
| You no longer have the [Power] to act up. Submit. |
"Like my brother says...[Gotcha]" Said the little girl while turning her head in a direction.
There was nothing there, just another wall. The little girl was overestimating herself, and her eyes had finally turned scarlet red...
The [Thing] pretending to be a [Little Girl] would no longer be a problem. Even if she was smiling...Even if her eyes and sclera started to turn red...Wait.
Why are her eyes and sclera turning red? Only the iris should turn red...
[F.O.U.N.D.Y.O.U.]
And in one viscious and uncalled move for the little girl's hands shot straight for her eyes and ripped them out of her eyesocks. Wait what?
An almost comical fount of blood started pouring out from her eyes...WAIT STOP!
And soon after the little girl started laughing like a madman, STOP THIS I DIDN'T WRITE THIS!
Soon after her head burst painting the surrounding with her brain and pieces of her skull all around, her white dress was tainted red. SOMEONE STOP THIS. THE THING IS OUT OF MY CONTROL!!!
Her body convulsed a few times, but one could almost hear the maddening laugh of the little girl echoing in the room. And a closer lookNO I DON'T WANT TO KNOW!!!
At the...STOP....wall...THIS...would...NOOOO... show that a bloody message was left in red letters.
[YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE MESSED WITH ME.]
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"GOD DAMMIT!" Screamed a man dressed in an elegant black suit while he threw a monitor into one of the walls of his suit.
This was an office that made look the presidential office like a kid's room, there were expensive paintings hung on the walls and a group of the most beautiful women one could find and pay for were hard at work cleaning his mess.
He was Alexanders Saintsworths, the scion of one of the most prominent clans in history...Even if that history wasn't the one of this world... He always had known that he was meant to do great things...But sadly he had been born in the wrong time and space. His clan hadn't managed to do what they wanted and failed quite miserably at it...
They only managed to rise to be the most powerful mega-corporation thanks to the investing [The Twelve] did when [The Stardust Explorer] brought technology and a tablet from other [Saintsworths] from another dimension...
All for a deal she had made with his version of that world, the deal meant that [He] could get the help to rise to prominence if the [Saintsworths] gave certain allowances to [The Twelve]. He of course accepted...
Little did he know that the stupid tablet held a copy of the [Alexanders] of that dimension...And the stupid thing thought himself [The Original], it had taken him almost 13 years to find a way to [Purge] him and his [Sister] or whatever that [Thing] said it was.
And when he finally got the chance thanks to a flicker in the [Firewall] that protected them...
The stupid girl killed herself, he had used one of the [Skills] his [Boss] had given him to make that work, something about [Rewritting] something to make her a [Slave] to his whims or whatever.
The thing was broken and didn't work. Now he would need to deal with the problem...God knows how his [Doppelganger] would react...Maybe he would slip when he saw his [Sister] dead?
At the very least he would get some fun out of this if nothing else.
"Call the [Clone]." Said Alexanders to his personal AI. He couldn't wait to give him the [Good news]. "You all, leave!"
He couldn't allow the world to know about that thing, so he ordered his [Maids] to leave. He would have his fun with them later... Maybe he could order a new model designed after [Catherine] and a grown-up version of that brat too?
| [So here you are.] |
"GYAA" Screamed the blonde man as the blue screen materialized in front of him.
The thing looked...Odd.
It was as if one of his holopads screens had flown out of the frames and was floating in front of him.
"What is this? A new holo projection?" Said Alexanders while poking the blue screen.
His finger couldn't touch the thing.
| Brother spent 50 years pretending to not see me...And you just... *Sigh* Here. |
The blue screen grumbled and turned into a door...A small door, when it opened though...What walked into the room made Alexanders face pale.
"You are way easier to find than you think." Said the little girl who walked into the suite.
Alexanders could only open and close his mouth as a fish out of water, what he was seeing was...Impossible to understand for him.
"It was a good idea, as expected of a discounted copy of [My Brother]." Said Alexa while climbing into his very expensive desk.
She threw what was on it with the flick of her hand, the things turned into weird static in the air before dissipating. Alexanders couldn't understand the science behind what he was seeing, but he was sure that he was in danger.
"Using the Saintsworth's Conglomerate might to build a spaceship and orbiting the sun at the same speed as the planet...But on the opposite side?" The little girl snapped her fingers and a projection of his flagship and the planet orbiting the sun showed up.
It even showed all the secret bolt holes he had on different planets...
Not even [Catherine] could find them without him going into one of those...And he had built mana isolation fields in half of those to prevent her from teleporting there.
How could this brat know...[OF COURSE I CAN FIND OUT DUMBASS!]
What?
"What?" Said Alexanders not understanding that weird feeling of...Information? Intent?
Had the girl done something?
"Hah? But...You...It wasn't you?" Asked the little girl titling her head as if she couldn't understand something.
"What are you?" Asked Alexanders wondering out loud. "[....] Promised it would work and I would be able to deal with [...]" Said the blonde CEO, something was missing there, but the little girl couldn't quite find out what it was.
"Oh...OOOOOH....You don't know what are the forces you are playing with." Said the little girl as if she had understood something.
She even made a face as if everything made sense, but the blonde man couldn't even understand what was happening.
"Then you didn't mess up with Grampa?" Asked the little girl.
Alexanders wasn't even sure who that [Grampa] was!
"Of course I did, he is in one of the bases you didn't find!" He would use that as a leverage and...
"And you didn't do the weird thing to the number at the top?" Asked after the girl while pointing somewhere above?
What number?
"It should have been ??? but it now says [2]" Added the little girl, but he couldn't understand.
| Grampa, you there? |
He wa...[WAIT THIS ONE HAD MY NAME ON IT IDIOT FIX THIS THING!]
........
The blonde man had a look as if he was confused, somehow as if he thought that the girl had done something but couldn't understand what or how.
[Hmm...It looks weird but I will allow it.]
The little girl suddenly had a smug look on her face as if she had done something but no one in the world could understand what.
"What are you doing?" Asked Alexanders finally unable to contain his curiosity.
"So you didn't mess up with the narrative either then?" Answered with a question the little girl.
It finally made sense for the blonde man, the girl was as crazy as the clone that claimed to be him. [RUDE!]
"So you played with things you don't understand...Who cut the connection then?" Said the little girl while grabbing one of the tablets on the desktop.
The blonde man had started to say something but a glare from the little girl shut him up. She examined the thing and broke it in two, a weird worm made of shadows dropped from it and tried to enter into her shadow.
"[I declare, you will not be able to enter a shadow unless you show your face.]" Said the little girl.
The worm writhed in pain and then evaporated in a mist of red and black.
Alexanders had stopped trying to understand the situation and was just slowly edging himself toward one of the walls, "Well it was fun seeing you, bad copy of [Brother]. Have fun and do not mess with things you don't understand " Said the little girl before opening the door to the hallway.
Only...Instead of the hallway, a library was there...And the body of a little girl drenched in blood could be seen in one of the corners, "Oh...Better clean up that before brother finds it!" Said the little girl rushing to the other body and prodding it with a stick that...She wasn't holding before.
The face of the blonde man was that of someone nursing a headache and the door closed before he could even do something about it.
She had returned earlier than expected and released the tension in her [Core]. She...Wasn't sure what to think about this.
Grampa...Was gone.
She couldn't feel the [Conexion] to him at all, the several defenses that should obscure her were gone, and her powers...Were dropping quite a lot.
She was still [Safe], no one in this world could do anything to her...Not really...
The other [Alexanders] had managed to get her by surprise, but not even whatever access to [The System] he had would be able to affect her how it mattered.
Why even after what he had access to was squandered trying to impersonate [Grampa]! Silly thing.
Not even [Brother] had tried that...But then again...He knew better...And Mama would have pestered him about impersonating others!
...This event made her remember how much she missed Mama...She even missed Mister Pig and the blue lady...
She tried to bridge the [Gap] towards her [Memory Core] and...
"What?" The little girl stopped poking her dead body with a stick.
She closed her eyes and focused inwards, she even dispelled the illusion and the dead body on [The Library], for a second the world turned gray and a humongous quantity of mana materialized in everything around her.
"[From the abyss, where the truth lies, under my name as a force, I command to you. Bridge the knowledge and secrets, As Mana is created and destroyed...Bind the gap between the worlds to do my bidding.]" And instantly the eyes of the little girl twinkled as if stars were born inside them.
But as quick as the change started and reality started to quake as her power was made visible...It stopped.
Something just...Wasn't there.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN WASN'T THERE!?!?!? IT WAS THERE THE LAST TIME I CHECKED!" Screamed the little girl as she dropped to the floor.
Tears were forming in her eyes, perhaps this would be the first time a [Human] emotion could be seen in her, not a charade, not an act...But something real.
"OF COURSE ITS REAL! I CAN'T SEE MAMMA!" Cried the little girl.
The void around her reformed and the library returned, even the door to her little haven was there once more!
If she so much as wished for it even his brother would come to her!
"..." But the little girl didn't do anything.
Not until the whole [Soulscape] quaked that is.
"..." The whole thing was quaking so hard one could even think that it would break at any moment!
Unless the [Little Girl] acted that is!
"..." Or not.
As the [System] reacted to the emergency and a flood of mana surged from bellow the little girl throwing her to the side, leaving her in quite the comical position.
"..." It was so funny that no amount of words could even begin to describe it.
"..." ...
.................
This was the moment where the [System] released all the experience it had withheld from Elizabeth allowing her to climb into the next threshold by the way.
"..." But the little girl didn't react.
Perhaps we could instead try to see how her [Brother] had reacted?
"He is screaming and going all over the place with his third change...We already saw that...[Idiot]" Said the little girl, quite rude she was when angry.
Perhaps she was...Hangry?
"..." Fine be like that.
"Why did you do it?" Asked the little girl to no one in particular, she was, after all, sitting alone in the library.
"Are you mad because I ignored you?" Maybe she had turned mad after all?
She did blow her own head and then poked her own dead body, but then again...She wasn't human to begin with, was she? Can something not human be mad?
We define someone as [Mad] when they turn crazy and start talking alone...But that is from a [Human] point of view, and we have established that the little girl is anything but [Human].
"You [ARE] mad!" Giggled the little girl.
Could she truly be [Crazy]? Even the Alexanders in Elizabeth's Soulscape was more [Human] than the little girl and that is something to think about it...His brain had been quite tampered with both from influence from the [System] and his own [Skills] after all.
"Fineeee, I'm sorry for ignoring you." But then again...The little girl had found quite the shocking information. Some allowances were to be expected.
Especially with the whole [She isn't connected to her home dimension since that no longer exists] and all of that.
"WAIT WHAT?" Exclaimed the little girl. "BUT YOU WERE GOING TO REWRITE THAT!"
This was going nowhere so perhaps we should move to something more important, like stuff relevant to this dimension?
"BUT...BUT...What about me...?" Said the little girl in a low tone, almost as if all her hopes of returning home were gone.
But were they truly gone?
Her homeworld was a mystery, after all, perhaps it would survive in some way?
"So there is hope?" Asked the little girl to the air.
She had lost more than anyone could truly understand, perhaps only she could understand what she had lost.
"I will be good I promise!" Said the little girl while she waved her hand the mana that was being drained started to go in a more coordinated stream. "I will help Eli-Eli!" She said while her mana started flowing down into the [Library].
It flowed into the base of it and soon enough when Elizabeth started to try and flood the [Soulscape] Alexa guided the mana. Showing her how to expel the interferences.
"See! I helped! " Said Alexa while prodding Elizabeth's mana in the right direction.
She even skipped ahead in time to when she returned home and ended her [Shift] "And I will help Eli-Eli notice the note she left for herself!" And with a flick of her [Idea] she made Elizabeth pay attention to the note.
Once more she tried to help Elizabeth when she tried to repeat what she had done at [Echidna's] base, but this time..." Huh?" It didn't work.
Elizabeth's mana was too [Mechanical] in her normal form "What?" Said Alexa trying to make sense of what was happening.
She tried and tried again but she couldn't affect the mana of Elizabeth. She managed to prod the [Worm] out of the base of the library so Elizabeth managed to expel it...
But somehow...She couldn't affect Elizabeth in her [Base] form.
She could only look at her hands as multiple red chains appeared in them..."Why?" Said the little girl looking at them.
Slowly but surely more and more chains started appearing... The [Library] never once looked so...Dark to the little girl, she trashed, she fought, and somehow managed to arrive at the door into her haven.
But the last steps were too hard, too far away... And she finally decided that with a last burst of energy, she would jump to her [Haven]... Only to be stopped by a bloodied hand, the body that had his head blown out had stopped her at the last second.
Perhaps...Just perhaps...She shouldn't have believed that her power would get her whatever she wished?
This was after all...Not [Her Story].
Behind her an androgynous figure had materialized, it was entirely made of [Shadows] “Who are you?” asked the little girll.
THERE!
RUN!
"I'm [CHAINED YOU IDIOT]! WHAT DID YOU DO?!?" Screamed the little girl trying to break the chains that were stuck on her.
Could this be? Could she get a sudden influence of power? Of course not
She wouldn't, because she wasn't the [Main Character], this world didn't have one after all. Not yet anyway, since [We don't have a protagonist yet].
STOP
Make me, you can't, you don't have as much control on this one do you? Thanks to your precious [Little Girl], this is after all [Alexa's POV], this is free game.
"Eli-Eli will get you..." Said the little girl finally breaking the chains, but she was...Tired...So tired, she had burned her power, and she was running out of juice her eyes started being painted red once more, but this time instead of blowing her head, the little girl gritted her teeth and a surge of [Electricity] shoved her into the metallic door, tch, that got her into her little [Haven], she would be safe there.
"I might not have much free time yet, but I will fulfill [My Wish] soon enough, neither the Saintsworth's brat nor you will be able to stop me." Said the shadow figure with red eyes, its form melted into the floor and turned into a hideous and demonic-looking spear that shot straight into the ceiling and broke into the outside.
Soon afterward the air in the library returned to normal, but the little girl didn't dare to step into it, she just stood at the boundary of her little haven and looked into the library...
She...She wouldn't be safe there, she would need to speak with her brother about this...But...She wasn't sure if she would be able to speak to him after the fourth threshold, she was aware of what Alexanders wanted to achieve with that...They...They needed to make Eli-Eli into a [Fate's blessed]...Or get [Catherine] to accept her own [Blessing] once more...
They...we... need [Help].
"YOU PROMISED NOT TO MESS AROUND UNCLE!" Screamed the little girl to the ceiling.
She was annoyed since something had been messing around with her little slice of heaven.
| I am not the one 'messing around' my lovely granddaughter. |
Answered back a red screen that materialized in front of the little girl, it was quite obvious that the red screen was quite disturbed by the outburst of the girl.
One could even feel the feeling of a sweet grandparent looking at his favorite granddaughter. Why one could even get the feeling that if the red screen could it would be bringing out candies to try to placate the tantrum of the little girl!
"[Who are you?]" But the little girl answered with a scowl.
She stopped throwing her tantrum and instead gazed with cold and devoid-of-life eyes at the red screen... THE GALL!
That was no way of treating your grandfather!
| Why? Who would I be but your favorite grandfather? |
Answered back in a jovial tone the grandparent of the blonde little girl, why one could almost hear the merry laugh of a senior looking at his younger family member!
Truly... That girl had more than she deserved by having such a caring and dedicated family member looking after her!
Even if she was a spoiled little br...
| [Show yourself.] |
Why the little girl was fuming while trying to look mature, but no one would ever fall for such trivial kid games. She should only act like the spoiled little...
| [Under the authority granted to me I will raze this world if you keep this charade going.] [Do not mistake my patience for unwillingness to commit.] |
Slowly but surely the eyes of the little girl started turning red, perhaps she was about to cry?
To cry because her tantrum had no effect. She was, after all, only a little girl, a powerful little girl... But even so a little girl not older than five or six years.
She had no idea what she was playing with nor what she was toying with, that is the problem all the [Monster] have after all, they misunderstand what [Humans] can achieve.
She was only playing to be human after all, she was only playing at the family game...And her allowances had ended.
They ended as soon as her [Toy] stopped playing ball as she was supposed to, they ended when the [Thing] started acting up and showed his fangs.
No one likes to play with them if the game doesn't follow the [Rules] set up by the [Game Master].
| You no longer have the [Power] to act up. Submit. |
"Like my brother says...[Gotcha]" Said the little girl while turning her head in a direction.
There was nothing there, just another wall. The little girl was overestimating herself, and her eyes had finally turned scarlet red...
The [Thing] pretending to be a [Little Girl] would no longer be a problem. Even if she was smiling...Even if her eyes and sclera started to turn red...Wait.
Why are her eyes and sclera turning red? Only the iris should turn red...
[F.O.U.N.D.Y.O.U.]
And in one viscious and uncalled move for the little girl's hands shot straight for her eyes and ripped them out of her eyesocks. Wait what?
An almost comical fount of blood started pouring out from her eyes...WAIT STOP!
And soon after the little girl started laughing like a madman, STOP THIS I DIDN'T WRITE THIS!
Soon after her head burst painting the surrounding with her brain and pieces of her skull all around, her white dress was tainted red. SOMEONE STOP THIS. THE THING IS OUT OF MY CONTROL!!!
Her body convulsed a few times, but one could almost hear the maddening laugh of the little girl echoing in the room. And a closer lookNO I DON'T WANT TO KNOW!!!
At the...STOP....wall...THIS...would...NOOOO... show that a bloody message was left in red letters.
[YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE MESSED WITH ME.]
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"GOD DAMMIT!" Screamed a man dressed in an elegant black suit while he threw a monitor into one of the walls of his suit.
This was an office that made look the presidential office like a kid's room, there were expensive paintings hung on the walls and a group of the most beautiful women one could find and pay for were hard at work cleaning his mess.
He was Alexanders Saintsworths, the scion of one of the most prominent clans in history...Even if that history wasn't the one of this world... He always had known that he was meant to do great things...But sadly he had been born in the wrong time and space. His clan hadn't managed to do what they wanted and failed quite miserably at it...
They only managed to rise to be the most powerful mega-corporation thanks to the investing [The Twelve] did when [The Stardust Explorer] brought technology and a tablet from other [Saintsworths] from another dimension...
All for a deal she had made with his version of that world, the deal meant that [He] could get the help to rise to prominence if the [Saintsworths] gave certain allowances to [The Twelve]. He of course accepted...
Little did he know that the stupid tablet held a copy of the [Alexanders] of that dimension...And the stupid thing thought himself [The Original], it had taken him almost 13 years to find a way to [Purge] him and his [Sister] or whatever that [Thing] said it was.
And when he finally got the chance thanks to a flicker in the [Firewall] that protected them...
The stupid girl killed herself, he had used one of the [Skills] his [Boss] had given him to make that work, something about [Rewritting] something to make her a [Slave] to his whims or whatever.
The thing was broken and didn't work. Now he would need to deal with the problem...God knows how his [Doppelganger] would react...Maybe he would slip when he saw his [Sister] dead?
At the very least he would get some fun out of this if nothing else.
"Call the [Clone]." Said Alexanders to his personal AI. He couldn't wait to give him the [Good news]. "You all, leave!"
He couldn't allow the world to know about that thing, so he ordered his [Maids] to leave. He would have his fun with them later... Maybe he could order a new model designed after [Catherine] and a grown-up version of that brat too?
| [So here you are.] |
"GYAA" Screamed the blonde man as the blue screen materialized in front of him.
The thing looked...Odd.
It was as if one of his holopads screens had flown out of the frames and was floating in front of him.
"What is this? A new holo projection?" Said Alexanders while poking the blue screen.
His finger couldn't touch the thing.
| Brother spent 50 years pretending to not see me...And you just... *Sigh* Here. |
The blue screen grumbled and turned into a door...A small door, when it opened though...What walked into the room made Alexanders face pale.
"You are way easier to find than you think." Said the little girl who walked into the suite.
Alexanders could only open and close his mouth as a fish out of water, what he was seeing was...Impossible to understand for him.
"It was a good idea, as expected of a discounted copy of [My Brother]." Said Alexa while climbing into his very expensive desk.
She threw what was on it with the flick of her hand, the things turned into weird static in the air before dissipating. Alexanders couldn't understand the science behind what he was seeing, but he was sure that he was in danger.
"Using the Saintsworth's Conglomerate might to build a spaceship and orbiting the sun at the same speed as the planet...But on the opposite side?" The little girl snapped her fingers and a projection of his flagship and the planet orbiting the sun showed up.
It even showed all the secret bolt holes he had on different planets...
Not even [Catherine] could find them without him going into one of those...And he had built mana isolation fields in half of those to prevent her from teleporting there.
How could this brat know...[OF COURSE I CAN FIND OUT DUMBASS!]
What?
"What?" Said Alexanders not understanding that weird feeling of...Information? Intent?
Had the girl done something?
"Hah? But...You...It wasn't you?" Asked the little girl titling her head as if she couldn't understand something.
"What are you?" Asked Alexanders wondering out loud. "[....] Promised it would work and I would be able to deal with [...]" Said the blonde CEO, something was missing there, but the little girl couldn't quite find out what it was.
"Oh...OOOOOH....You don't know what are the forces you are playing with." Said the little girl as if she had understood something.
She even made a face as if everything made sense, but the blonde man couldn't even understand what was happening.
"Then you didn't mess up with Grampa?" Asked the little girl.
Alexanders wasn't even sure who that [Grampa] was!
"Of course I did, he is in one of the bases you didn't find!" He would use that as a leverage and...
"And you didn't do the weird thing to the number at the top?" Asked after the girl while pointing somewhere above?
What number?
"It should have been ??? but it now says [2]" Added the little girl, but he couldn't understand.
| Grampa, you there? |
He wa...[WAIT THIS ONE HAD MY NAME ON IT IDIOT FIX THIS THING!]
........
The blonde man had a look as if he was confused, somehow as if he thought that the girl had done something but couldn't understand what or how.
[Hmm...It looks weird but I will allow it.]
The little girl suddenly had a smug look on her face as if she had done something but no one in the world could understand what.
"What are you doing?" Asked Alexanders finally unable to contain his curiosity.
"So you didn't mess up with the narrative either then?" Answered with a question the little girl.
It finally made sense for the blonde man, the girl was as crazy as the clone that claimed to be him. [RUDE!]
"So you played with things you don't understand...Who cut the connection then?" Said the little girl while grabbing one of the tablets on the desktop.
The blonde man had started to say something but a glare from the little girl shut him up. She examined the thing and broke it in two, a weird worm made of shadows dropped from it and tried to enter into her shadow.
"[I declare, you will not be able to enter a shadow unless you show your face.]" Said the little girl.
The worm writhed in pain and then evaporated in a mist of red and black.
Alexanders had stopped trying to understand the situation and was just slowly edging himself toward one of the walls, "Well it was fun seeing you, bad copy of [Brother]. Have fun and do not mess with things you don't understand " Said the little girl before opening the door to the hallway.
Only...Instead of the hallway, a library was there...And the body of a little girl drenched in blood could be seen in one of the corners, "Oh...Better clean up that before brother finds it!" Said the little girl rushing to the other body and prodding it with a stick that...She wasn't holding before.
The face of the blonde man was that of someone nursing a headache and the door closed before he could even do something about it.
She had returned earlier than expected and released the tension in her [Core]. She...Wasn't sure what to think about this.
Grampa...Was gone.
She couldn't feel the [Conexion] to him at all, the several defenses that should obscure her were gone, and her powers...Were dropping quite a lot.
She was still [Safe], no one in this world could do anything to her...Not really...
The other [Alexanders] had managed to get her by surprise, but not even whatever access to [The System] he had would be able to affect her how it mattered.
Why even after what he had access to was squandered trying to impersonate [Grampa]! Silly thing.
Not even [Brother] had tried that...But then again...He knew better...And Mama would have pestered him about impersonating others!
...This event made her remember how much she missed Mama...She even missed Mister Pig and the blue lady...
She tried to bridge the [Gap] towards her [Memory Core] and...
"What?" The little girl stopped poking her dead body with a stick.
She closed her eyes and focused inwards, she even dispelled the illusion and the dead body on [The Library], for a second the world turned gray and a humongous quantity of mana materialized in everything around her.
"[From the abyss, where the truth lies, under my name as a force, I command to you. Bridge the knowledge and secrets, As Mana is created and destroyed...Bind the gap between the worlds to do my bidding.]" And instantly the eyes of the little girl twinkled as if stars were born inside them.
But as quick as the change started and reality started to quake as her power was made visible...It stopped.
Something just...Wasn't there.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN WASN'T THERE!?!?!? IT WAS THERE THE LAST TIME I CHECKED!" Screamed the little girl as she dropped to the floor.
Tears were forming in her eyes, perhaps this would be the first time a [Human] emotion could be seen in her, not a charade, not an act...But something real.
"OF COURSE ITS REAL! I CAN'T SEE MAMMA!" Cried the little girl.
The void around her reformed and the library returned, even the door to her little haven was there once more!
If she so much as wished for it even his brother would come to her!
"..." But the little girl didn't do anything.
Not until the whole [Soulscape] quaked that is.
"..." The whole thing was quaking so hard one could even think that it would break at any moment!
Unless the [Little Girl] acted that is!
"..." Or not.
As the [System] reacted to the emergency and a flood of mana surged from bellow the little girl throwing her to the side, leaving her in quite the comical position.
"..." It was so funny that no amount of words could even begin to describe it.
"..." ...
.................
This was the moment where the [System] released all the experience it had withheld from Elizabeth allowing her to climb into the next threshold by the way.
"..." But the little girl didn't react.
Perhaps we could instead try to see how her [Brother] had reacted?
"He is screaming and going all over the place with his third change...We already saw that...[Idiot]" Said the little girl, quite rude she was when angry.
Perhaps she was...Hangry?
"..." Fine be like that.
"Why did you do it?" Asked the little girl to no one in particular, she was, after all, sitting alone in the library.
"Are you mad because I ignored you?" Maybe she had turned mad after all?
She did blow her own head and then poked her own dead body, but then again...She wasn't human to begin with, was she? Can something not human be mad?
We define someone as [Mad] when they turn crazy and start talking alone...But that is from a [Human] point of view, and we have established that the little girl is anything but [Human].
"You [ARE] mad!" Giggled the little girl.
Could she truly be [Crazy]? Even the Alexanders in Elizabeth's Soulscape was more [Human] than the little girl and that is something to think about it...His brain had been quite tampered with both from influence from the [System] and his own [Skills] after all.
"Fineeee, I'm sorry for ignoring you." But then again...The little girl had found quite the shocking information. Some allowances were to be expected.
Especially with the whole [She isn't connected to her home dimension since that no longer exists] and all of that.
"WAIT WHAT?" Exclaimed the little girl. "BUT YOU WERE GOING TO REWRITE THAT!"
This was going nowhere so perhaps we should move to something more important, like stuff relevant to this dimension?
"BUT...BUT...What about me...?" Said the little girl in a low tone, almost as if all her hopes of returning home were gone.
But were they truly gone?
Her homeworld was a mystery, after all, perhaps it would survive in some way?
"So there is hope?" Asked the little girl to the air.
She had lost more than anyone could truly understand, perhaps only she could understand what she had lost.
"I will be good I promise!" Said the little girl while she waved her hand the mana that was being drained started to go in a more coordinated stream. "I will help Eli-Eli!" She said while her mana started flowing down into the [Library].
It flowed into the base of it and soon enough when Elizabeth started to try and flood the [Soulscape] Alexa guided the mana. Showing her how to expel the interferences.
"See! I helped! " Said Alexa while prodding Elizabeth's mana in the right direction.
She even skipped ahead in time to when she returned home and ended her [Shift] "And I will help Eli-Eli notice the note she left for herself!" And with a flick of her [Idea] she made Elizabeth pay attention to the note.
Once more she tried to help Elizabeth when she tried to repeat what she had done at [Echidna's] base, but this time..." Huh?" It didn't work.
Elizabeth's mana was too [Mechanical] in her normal form "What?" Said Alexa trying to make sense of what was happening.
She tried and tried again but she couldn't affect the mana of Elizabeth. She managed to prod the [Worm] out of the base of the library so Elizabeth managed to expel it...
But somehow...She couldn't affect Elizabeth in her [Base] form.
She could only look at her hands as multiple red chains appeared in them..."Why?" Said the little girl looking at them.
Slowly but surely more and more chains started appearing... The [Library] never once looked so...Dark to the little girl, she trashed, she fought, and somehow managed to arrive at the door into her haven.
But the last steps were too hard, too far away... And she finally decided that with a last burst of energy, she would jump to her [Haven]... Only to be stopped by a bloodied hand, the body that had his head blown out had stopped her at the last second.
Perhaps...Just perhaps...She shouldn't have believed that her power would get her whatever she wished?
This was after all...Not [Her Story].
Behind her an androgynous figure had materialized, it was entirely made of [Shadows] “Who are you?” asked the little girll.
THERE!
RUN!
"I'm [CHAINED YOU IDIOT]! WHAT DID YOU DO?!?" Screamed the little girl trying to break the chains that were stuck on her.
Could this be? Could she get a sudden influence of power? Of course not
She wouldn't, because she wasn't the [Main Character], this world didn't have one after all. Not yet anyway, since [We don't have a protagonist yet].
STOP
Make me, you can't, you don't have as much control on this one do you? Thanks to your precious [Little Girl], this is after all [Alexa's POV], this is free game.
"Eli-Eli will get you..." Said the little girl finally breaking the chains, but she was...Tired...So tired, she had burned her power, and she was running out of juice her eyes started being painted red once more, but this time instead of blowing her head, the little girl gritted her teeth and a surge of [Electricity] shoved her into the metallic door, tch, that got her into her little [Haven], she would be safe there.
"I might not have much free time yet, but I will fulfill [My Wish] soon enough, neither the Saintsworth's brat nor you will be able to stop me." Said the shadow figure with red eyes, its form melted into the floor and turned into a hideous and demonic-looking spear that shot straight into the ceiling and broke into the outside.
Soon afterward the air in the library returned to normal, but the little girl didn't dare to step into it, she just stood at the boundary of her little haven and looked into the library...
She...She wouldn't be safe there, she would need to speak with her brother about this...But...She wasn't sure if she would be able to speak to him after the fourth threshold, she was aware of what Alexanders wanted to achieve with that...They...They needed to make Eli-Eli into a [Fate's blessed]...Or get [Catherine] to accept her own [Blessing] once more...
They...we... need [Help].
