Are there special types of Mana? Of course, Elizabeth used a few, and had access to several others that she hadn't used as much. She of course was speaking about the [Sin Mana] types. And now she even knew of the [Virtue Mana] types too. That meant that if there were seven cardinal sins, then there were other seven virtue types.

  She… wasn't that comfortable with those, she didn't want to take them or even examine them, the mere idea of being branded by [Justice] made her want to throw up. Had Akira been somehow affected by that? Had his delusion been a way of being affected by some [Virtue]?

  Elizabeth didn't know, nor did she want to know, the mere idea of Akira being a victim…It didn't settle well to her, he was [Evil], he may have been a victim at some point, but he didn't do anything to correct his way.

  Elizabeth had clawed her way out of [Pride], she was more than that, granted, she had help from Alice and Chloe, but that was besides the point, she had taken the hand offered to her and used to become a better Elizabeth.

  Akira had probably discarded those helping hands that went to him, so for that alone, Elizabeth didn't want to even think about that possibility.

  "Or let's see it in another way, what is the [Soulscape]?" Evangeline asked.

  Elizabeth was tired of that question, "Really? That again? I feel like this is becoming an issue," Elizabeth sighed. "The Soulscape is the reflection of the Soul; how we are as a person is reflected upon our souls, and it makes a Soulscape accommodate that."

  "Meaning?" Evangeline asked for further elaboration.

  "Meaning that someone who likes books and spends time in libraries will have a library as their soulscape, a swordmaster will have a dojo, a lumberjack will have a forest, a crazy cat lady will probably have a room full of cats or something." Elizabeth said shrugging, "Really, it isn't that complex of a thing, the Soulscape is shaped by what actions we take, what we like and how we live."

  And that was why Elizabeth hated that description; by the mere definition of the word, she should have a comfy room or a big bed. Instead, she had a dead world…or well, a not-so-dead world now.

  "What is the soul?" Evangeline asked next, "If it can accommodate this type of place, then what is really our Soul?"

  …That was more philosophical in nature; what was the Soul?

  "It is who we are, our essence, the root of our being, when the body is dead, when the mind is crumbling. When we are at the cusp of being erased…" Elizabeth turned to remember all the moments she had been on the brink of death, on the brink of being fully obliterated, and how she had survived thanks to her Inheritance, thanks to the sturdy Soul that Alexanders had left behind for her, "...It is what keeps us here."

  "Well, that was more romantic than I expected, but then again, only a [Hero] would think like that," Evangeline smirked, "So what is mana?"

  "I already said it was the fuel of skills and magic, it is what a world uses to advance and the lifeline of their being," Elizabeth answered annoyed at repeating herself.

  "If it is the essence of life for a [World], how can we, mere mortals produce mana then?" Evangeline said smiling more deviously by the second.

  "....You all purify the ambient Mana, keeping some of it to increase your own tolerance to Mana and being able to absorb more and refine it before sending it back to the World, in such, you are increasing not only the density but creating more Mana. Making a positive loop feedback," Elizabeth answered with a shrug, "It ain't rocket science."

  "Yes, that is indeed how 'We all' do it, but how do you do it then?" Evangeline said, smiling like the cat who ate the bird, which was a very poor analogy since Elizabeth's Pride was quite literally a bird.

  "...Same as you, I take in the World's Mana, refine it and send it back to The World," Elizabeth of course didn't say what World she was referring to.

  "....Sure you are," Evangeline said laughing, "Well, then I guess it's time for the great reveal, we know what the [Soulscape] is, what the [Soul] is and what [Mana] is. Tell me, is the Mana you make the same as the one that Akira made?"

  ….Elizabeth wanted to scream No.

  But…was that the correct answer? Technically, yes, it was. No way Elizabeth was making Mana as slimy as his, but why was it slimy?

  "....No." Elizabeth ended up answering like that, "If you want to ask me why, I don't know. But I know for a fact that Akira's Mana is not like mine, his felt slimy and gross. And while I don't know how to describe mine, I don't think it would be like that. If anything mine should be more calm and soothing."

  It was soothing for Elizabeth at least, neither Rossie or Rena had ever said anything about her Mana or how it felt.

  "It is soothing, or well, more like alluring, it tempts those around you, especially those that are frail or broken, it calls to them like a siren's song. To those with strength, however, it is a beast that lurks in the darkness, baring their fangs at those that want to claim what is yours to protect," Evangeline answered while licking her lips.

  "And to you? What does it look like?" Elizabeth of course had hopes that it wasn't like the first one, it would mean that Evangeline was also broken, Elizabeth wasn't sure what she would do if it was the case. She… didn't want to leave someone who was hurt in the type of ways that her Soul called upon the helpless.

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  "Like a [Mighty Dragon] who wants to rule over [The World], it makes me want to attempt and tame it." Evangeline answered while licking her lips, the girl was broken all right, just not in the way that Elizabeth liked.

  "Sure it is a Dragon," Elizabeth sighed, "So, that does not explain why you say that my Mana is different than Akira's."

  "Oh right, that…It felt slimy to you since you both are of the same type," Evangeline said, "You as a female have black mana, or what Izanami calls Yin."

  ….Why Izanami?

  "And males have white mana, or what is called Yang." Evangeline moved on as if nothing, "To procreate a new soul you need both Yang and Yin to mesh together, you need to mix light and darkness. White and black."

  ….Elizabeth could swear that to procreate a new life, you needed sperm and zygotes. That or Magic.

  "Then how is it that Mother managed to get two magical girls to have daughters?" Elizabeth countered back.

  "That is an aberration to the natural order of [The World]," Evangeline answered, "But to answer your question, since both are Yin mana, the mesh is incomplete, and while a new life is created, that entity only has Black Mana, and while a new life was made, that thing is more like an incomplete chimera clone than a new life. Their [Soul] is also more like a mesh created from soul fragments. [The World] does attempt to fix their imbalance, but they are destined to be shunned by the Yang Mana, as they have not been made normally."

  "....so you are saying that the daughters of two Magical Girls are closer to clones? And since they are not made up normally, they are destined to be shunned by Males?" Elizabeth asked for confirmation.

  That did explain why second-generation Magical Girls were more….inclined to hang around with other girls and, in turn, like other girls…Making it a recursive loop that increased in a vicious circle of girls, making more girls who liked girls and more girls who liked girls.

  “....Mother….you monsters….you made a breed of lesbian Magical Girls….” Elizabeth wasn't sure if laugh or cry, her Mother had made her dreams come reality in the most bizarre way possible.

  "Yes, in a nutshell, it was allowed by [The World] since these girls are excellent Mana furnaces that help increase the Mana density, but they are destined to become obsolete the second their work is done." Evangeline said shaking her head, "Besides, they are being fixed slowly, some of the current generation Magical Girls have interest in Males again, so they will even out at some point."

  …Elizabeth was not so sure about that. It was a common occurrence that Magical Girls got in love with other Magical Girls since they spent so much time together in situations of great stress, but the fact that Evangeline implied that [The World] was messing with their interests felt wrong to Elizabeth.

  "And why does this matter? Didn't you say that the World is starting to accept and adapt those that are born from two Magical Girls?" Elizabeth asked, not that it mattered to her, she was sure that if she really wanted to, she could probably change her Mana from Yin to Yang…

  Or change Rossie or Rena's mana…If anything, she wouldn't mind being the Yin to Rena's Yang….

  "Your mana is more important, more dense, like I said before, you need a vessel strong enough to copulate with, and while Rena and Rossaline are strong, they are Yin like you." Evangeline said, "Even if I am like that and not an exception to the rule, you can't change those facts."

  …Elizabeth laughed at that.

  "You think so? Tell me, if you know so much, what makes a [Hero] special?" Elizabeth asked.

  "They are protected by [Fate], and are given a [Mission] from [The World]," Evangeline answered back.

  "And how do they fulfill that mission? What makes them so special that they are given those missions?" Elizabeth asked prodding more.

  "They are granted special allowances, magic, or skills that break or bend the normal rules of the World. Just like how Akira was given the power to brainwash people even protected by skills, a skill that managed to ignore a [Divine Decree]." Evangeline said, narrowing her eyes, "At what are you getting to?"

  "That," Elizabeth said pointing at Evangeline," Is my point, a Hero gets a Hero skill, something only to them that can bend reality and causality."

  Like how Akira had managed to escape from an impossible situation, even if he ended up dead nontheless.

  "What do you think is my Hero granted skill." Elizabeth said smiling as she prepared her Mana to work, setting up the skill to work in a way that she had never done before, but that was sure would work, she had, after all, a template ready to work with.

  "Is the [Shadow Minion] or [Shadow Manipulation] skill? We haven't worked out what it is, but we are sure it is [Shadow] related," Evangeline said, "Your Yin Mana is too strong to be anything but that, there is no reason or logic for it to be anything else, and while Asher may not have a strong Yang Mana, he is strong enough to survive till he acclimates, besides he will have Selen to heal him and Lily to help purify your mana, he will survive long enough till his mission is complete."

  … That was a very rude way to see one of her friends.

  "No," Elizabeth said, shaking her head, "While my Shadows are a great part of who I am, that was not the Skill I was given as a Hero."

  Elizabeth let the Mana flood her body, from the bottom of her feet to the crown of her head, the Mana flooded and rushed around, moving from her Mana channels into her lower, middle and upper dantian.

  "The skill I was given as a Hero was Shift," Elizabeth said as she raised her hand and pointed it at her heart, "It is what I am, who I am, and who I wish to be."

  And that was the important bit, "And if I want to, I can move from being Elizabeth Starbright and Shift - Elizabeth Starbright Yin Mana into Elizabeth Starbright Yang Mana."

  And so Elizabeth decreed it, and with a mere thought, her form shifted, her height increased almost five centimeters as her body changed; gone was her slim waist and wide thighs. Her chest shifted from a bountiful bossom into a flat almost sculpted like abdomen.

  Her beautiful face and silky long hair changed to a sharp face with domineering eyes and short ruffled hair.

  She… no, he stretched his arms to the side and made sure his clothes shifted along.

  Instead of the skirt and blouse she had before, he was now wearing a pair of jeans and a black T-shirt with a golden eagle.

  Atop of that, a white lab coat stood.

  "I knew it would be this. But I still had hopes…." The voice that came from his mouth was as annoying as the last time he heard it.

  “That… that is impossible…” Evangeline said as she summoned a towel and covered her chest.

  He couldn't help but laugh at that. So all it took for Elizabeth to make the girl cover herself was this?

  It was ridiculous.

  "So? I am sure Rossie will probably not mind it too much." That was a lie, Rossie would probably let him have his way with her, she would do her best to pretend to enjoy it.

  But she would hate every second of it. Of that, Elizabeth was sure.

  "Same with Rena, or tell me. Is my Mana still Yin?" Elizabeth raised his hand and let the mana flare, unlike the usual Shadow that came naturally. This time came Lightning.

  This really was Alexanders body wasn't it?

  "......It is Yang…. But…. Then what are we….?" Evangeline asked as she looked at Elizabeth with...yearning? The hell was she yearning of this asshole's body?

  "You all are...another way of the world at attempting to make sure her wishes are fulfilled." Elizabeth answered flexing her arms, it was...weird, he could feel something building up, some weird kind of pressure on his lower body.

  Not quite similar to how he felt when thinking about Rossie and Rena....aaand now it was feeling as if it was attempting to rise?

  Elizabeth peeked at his lower body using the shadows, and at the same time, his instincts made him peek at Evangeline's body, how nice it looked, the nooks and crannies of how she looked, the way she was shily hiding her upper body...

  And now Elizabeth's lower body was growing a tent on his nether regions...And how Evangeline tried not to look in that direction.

  "Aaaaand that is enough," Elizabeth said summoning his Mana and channeling across his body, this time he didn't take his time, he already knew how and to what he needed to return, "Shift - Yang to Yin."

  The change was faster than before, it helped that Elizabeth didn't need to take care or things slowly.

  The backlash was also less jarring than before as the body returned to how it had been before, the weight on Elizabeth's chest and the small back pain that Elizabeth had never noticed was a welcome sight. Especially since the feeling of... pressure and want was also gone when she looked at Evangeline.

  Who would have thought that the male desire felt like that, a few minutes more like that and Elizabeth probably would have done something that she would have regretted.

  "...." Evangeline even looked sad at seeing her normal again.

  Not that Elizabeth minded, the girl was crazy. And not the type of crazy that Elizabeth loved. Apparently her male version did enjoy that type, that or it was more imbalanced than her female version, not that she would ever go back to that form.

  "So? As you can see, I can deal easily enough with your so-called imbalance," Elizabeth said, crossing her arms above her chest, "What will it be then? Your reason for me getting with Asher is gone."

  Now, what would it be?