"Yes?" Jenna said once again, turning to Rena and Rossie, since Elizabeth didn't seem to want to answer her.

  And who would blame her? Not anyone who knew Rossie or Rena.

  "Can you explain it? Since it seems you somehow are aware, I assume Elizabeth's plan worked." Jenna added to her previous query.

  "It worked all right," Rossie said, nodding, "We were able to see and prepare for anything that could happen."

  "Not that something happened, at least between Eli and that whore." Rena added, some venom on her voice.

  "Do I need to pull from the records," Jenna said letting some of her mana pull into the ground. Elizabeth felt as if something wanted to resonate with that mana, and yet…it was… tame. As if it didn't quite wanted to answer, at least not near Elizabeth anyway.

  "*Sigh*" Elizabeth only let a sigh leave her body, "Fine…."

  And prepared for the worst, she pulled into the shadows and made sure no one else could hear it, not even Zoe. If the owner or Zoe noticed, neither did a thing.

  Even though Elizabeth was using her Domain to contain all the mana and even isolate the space.

  "Elizabeth?" Jenna asked in a serious tone as she noticed what Elizabeth was doing, "Is it that dangerous?"

  "People could die if this went out to the wrong people," Elizabeth said, nodding; namely, it was dangerous for anyone who thought they could do that.

  Elizabeth had resigned Evangeline's life to fate already, she wasn't sure why Rossie or Rena hadn't went ahead and killed her…

  Or perhaps they had done it already?

  She could see it: Rossie leaving a Soul Curse or Rena cutting her life string. Yeah…her lovely (And sometimes murderous) hot girlfriends were that kind of existence after all.

  "Evangeline…" Elizabeth said, trying to not think too much about what that girl had done, "...offered me a harem."

  She only said it while bracing herself for the reaction of Rossie and Rena, Elizabeth had the vague hope that they hadn't quite heard it fully or that they blanketed the data away in a burst of rage.

  "?" Jenna didn't seem to get the problem, and while Lily's eyes seemed to turn razor-sharp for a second… that was about it.

  "And….?" Jenna asked after a few seconds, "What else?"

  What else !?!?!?!?!?!

  "She also showed you her booba, and the other ones." Rossie added 'helpfully' from the side while happily eating her food.

  "Beg your pardon?" Jenna asked confused.

  "That is what I said, too," Elizabeth said, "I was not ready for that."

  And she really was not, she had expected an ambush, or perhaps something to do with what was happening around, a proposal for alliance or servitude. Heck, she could have dealt with threats to herself or her girlfriends.

  "I did not think I would be flashed like that," Elizabeth said, shuddering.

  "But....you...." Jenna said pointing to Rena and Rossie, "Aren't you into that?"

  Well, first of all, yes. She was into Rossie and Rena.

  Secondly of all, "Rude," Elizabeth said puffing her cheeks, "I may like Rossie and Rena, but that does not mean I want to see every girl's chest that comes across me."

  "Even if she likes to stare at every girl's chest that comes around," Rossie said, once again helpfully from the side. "Eli-Eli does like to look around, even if she doesn't always use her actual eyes."

  She had been had!

  "...I mean...A girl can appreciate beauty, but that doesn't mean that I want to actually see other girls naked at the first chance I get!" Elizabeth said defending herself.

  "So you don't want to see us naked?" Rossie asked from the side pretending to be offended.

  "...I will literally put a chastity belt on you Rossaline Singh," Elizabeth said glaring at Rossie who recoiled with a face full of horror.

  "Joke aside, what did she really ask you?" Jenna said sighing, she had enjoyed the laughs and everything, no matter what the girl pretended to say or act.

  "No, really," Rena said from the side, sipping at her drink, "That whore really took off her top, and showed Eli photos of the other bitches on the Student Council."

  She looked too adorable, even though she was swearing and Elizabeth could see the fires of Wrath on her eyes. How could someone be this adorable, hot and filled with righteous fury?

  Rena truly was a dangerous entity.

  "...What?" Jenna asked surprised as she turned to Elizabeth, "...they tried to honeypot you?"

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  Elizabeth nodded her head, "Why?" Jenna asked, "I mean...I know that you are important and why, but they shouldn't even know. No one remembers your parents after all."

  "They...know stuff, thanks to Evangeline being a [Galaxidae] she remembers some stuff, not about Papa and Mother," Elizabeth said, "It was mostly about Heroes."

  Or well, [Heros] if anything.

  "But why?" Jenna asked once again, "Why did they want to entice you? What would they even get from making you join them?"

  "I mean... it's me the one we are talking about?" Elizabeth said pointing at herself. "Isn't it obvious?"

  "I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but you aren't that good of a prospect." Jenna said shaking her head.

  "What?" It was Elizabeth's time for not getting it. "I am me, what else is there to it?"

  And Elizabeth really meant it, granted. There was no real reason that everyone knew who and what she was. But even like that, she was quite the looker, and her power was very real; she was a true powerhouse, even by actual superhero standards, after all.

  "But they have access to a different set of [Hero Apprentices]," Jenna said, "They have access to the whole school, people who don't have the same type of….issues…"

  And the last part was said looking at Rena and Rossie.

  "How so?" Elizabeth asked, "Aren't most of the top tiers people with particular mentalities? I know for a fact that Papa and Mother always complained about how exotic and weird their other A-Tier coworkers were."

  "....That is my point, most of those that didn't join a school are like that. But you can groom someone to A-Tier and keep them mostly sane." Jenna said bringing out her holopad and pulling out a list, "See? All of these are prospects for A-Tier and up, and they all are normal people without problems. The Student Council has access to these lists, they can recruit anyone they want."

  ….Oh….so there was that much talent? Elizabeth didn't remember sensing or seeing anyone that impressive though.

  "And on the other hand, while you are incredibly talented, Elizabeth," Jenna said, admitting that point, "If they don't know you like you, or even love you like they do…There is no reason to be near you."

  Well ouch, that hurt.

  "So you wouldn't be near me if Papa hadn't asked you to?" Elizabeth asked, that actually hurt.

  "What?" Jenna said surprised, "Don't be silly, you are still my childhood friend. I am willingly putting up with you because I do love you."

  And then a second after Jenna added, "As a childhood friend does, not as a love partner. Don't get any ideas."

  Elizabeth would like to say that she didn't got butterflies on her stomach for half a second, but that would be a lie. Not that she would go after Jenna, of course. The girl…was good-looking, but she was more like a big sister to Elizabeth than anything else.

  And you wouldn't bed your older sister, that was just wrong.

  "...Well, you are…mostly right," Elizabeth said sighing, "There was indeed a reason to the madness."

  "So? Did they found about your parents?" Jenna asked once again, there was an edge to her voice now.

  "No," Elizabeth answered, "They tried to get me to join because of me…I…am a [Hero], or well [Heroine] I guess?"

  "...You are more of a [Villain] if you ask me," Jenna said jokingly.

  "...not in that way, you see….there are [Heroes] and [Heroes]." Elizabeth said shaking her head and conjuring the image of two planets.

  One as Zaanam as how she knew it looked, the continental masses and everything, the other one was…Terra Nexus, the planet she was now using as Soul.

  "And what does this have to do with your explanation about having two planets?" Jenna asked pointing to the projections, "That is Zaanam, but the other? It looks like Zaanam? The continental masses are slightly moved out of place, and you are missing a few oceans here and there. Is this a projection about how the world would end if you went on a rampage?"

  Jenna eyed it more closely, "Because if you think you can bring this much destruction without anyone stopping you, then you are overstimating yourself."

  "Yeah....no, this is an example, the planets aren't relevant to it, well, at least not the...other one." Elizabeth didn't want to explain how she got the second one or how she was doing her best to find a way to fill quite literal oceans for her Soul. "So...imagine the [God] of this planet was having issues."

  Elizabeth said, pointing to the war destroyed and probably stuck with the tag of [Tomb World] that was Terra Nexus, "Either by a calamity an uber-powerful [Villain] or whatever fancies you, but the inhabitants can't deal with it." Elizabeth wasn't sure how much Jenna knew of these types of stories.

  She was able to peek into other realities with her power after all.

  "aham?" But since she wasn't saying anything, Elizabeth continued.

  "Well, the [God] of this planet would look around other worlds. For people who fulfilled the qualities needed to survive the travel, and so on. They will pluck a [Soul] from another world." Elizabeth made the projection show a hand and pluck something from Zaanam and throw it to [Terra Nexus], "This [Soul] would be summoned to this other planet, and they would be stuck with the powers of that [God]. This is what we call a [Hero]."

  "...so their [Soul] would need to be sturdy enough to survive the travel, sturdy enough to house the power of the [God] that summoned them, and talented enough to use these powers granted to them to help them solve the issue..." Jenna said nodding, "But wait...if they can grant powers like these, why not give them to locals...?"

  "Because they get something from summoning from other dimensions, care to guess what?" Elizabeth said zooming on the projection of her hand plucking a [Soul] from Zaanam, on the image one could see the [Soul] being plucked out and bringing some of the mana from Zaanam.

  "They get part of the local mana..."Jenna said understanding, "They get multiple things from summoning people from other places?"

  "Those that are summoned usually are also great talents, so it is a win for them; their planet gets a talented [Hero] who will vanquish whatever problem they have." Elizabeth said nodding, "Also they will better the local populace."

  "...So? Why is this relevant to the reason they called you and want to honeypot trap you?" Jenna said, turning to Elizabeth, "As far as I understand from your explanation, these [Heroes] must arrive in a time of war, so they probably are summoned with a fully grown body."

  Smart, Jenna was quite smart indeed.

  "Yes, they aren't so much as reincarnated but transmigrated," Elizabeth said nodding, "They get a new body since their old body rarely makes the travel, don't get me wrong. There are times when they do get reincarnated, though."

  "And you know of this because...your Mother?" Jenna asked, "She did travel across dimensions...and there is the story that she was originally someone who went through dimensions to help people in need....So that was true? And she wasn't just a stalker going through dimensions looking for cute girls?"

  ....Mother....

  "She probably was indeed looking for cute girls as a side quest, but no. Mother's main purpose was returning home...or that is what I like to think," Elizabeth said thinking about her own Mother's travels and adventures, "But yeah, she was the one to tell me most of this, some other stuff I found later thanks to rescuing Rena and Rossie tho."

  Also from the memories that she may have extracted from Akira.

  "And the reason they wanted to entice me was that very same reason." Elizabeth said nodding.

  "...you are a [Hero]?" Jenna asked after thinking for a few seconds, "Or is it because of Rena and Rossaline?"

  "A bit of both, they are [Hero's Companions], not mine though. They were Akira's [Hero Companions]." Elizabeth said shaking her head.

  "No," Rossie said shaking her head, "We are yours. Not that bug."

  "Or, well, they used to be anyway." Elizabeth said nodding to Rossie, "Akira was a [Hero from another world], he came here...after failing his mission. Not that Evangeline or anyone else knew, they thought he got here as a reward for fulfilling his mission. Or in a divine mission, they weren't sure."

  "And you know that..." Jenna asked pulling her full focus on Elizabeth.

  "Because one of my Skills, and the reason Evangeline wanted to entice me to her side." Elizabeth answered pointing to her own eyes as she flared her Skill, transforming her eyes into that of a Dragon, "These eyes can see and read all. So I knew Akira's title and what he was from day one."

  Elizabeth pulled from her Records and brought Akira's old status screen for Jenna to see, "The one who ran away, a disgraced hero. Unlike Rena, Rossie and Michael who still had their old titles." Elizabeth then pulled their respective titles, "[The Promised Sword Saint], [The Promised Healing Saint], [The Promised Sage]."

  She didn't brought forth the information attributed to those titles though. That was more personal information.

  "....Neither [Framework] or [Odyssey] had these type of skills...I don't think any member of [The Twelve] or [The Nine Stars] had something like this...I don't think even the [Galaxidae] have something that can peek at past lifes." Jenna said turning to Elizabeth, "...So why did you have that almost three years ago? Just after awakening your powers again."

  "For the same reason that Evangeline wanted me to join to their side," Elizabeth answered pulling out her own past titles, "I was [The Inheritor of the Akashic Records], I then became [The Inheritor]...I had been many things across these last three years, a [Hero] a [Villain]. I was for a brief moment a [Dragon] even..."

  And really, it was who Elizabeth was.

  "I was before all of that, was someone who got offered a second chance so long I became a [Hero]." Not that Elizabeth accepted that deal, "I refused the deal. Then, after the [God] insisted, we made a deal. They would strip me of my memories and everything that made me who I was, and they would ask again."

  "...so....you..." Jenna asked turning to Elizabeth, as if she was seeing for the first time.

  "I am who I am, I am not who I was before, and if you met that person you would be happy that I am like this instead of like that," Elizabeth said nodding her head, "Also before you ask. I said no, even without memories and with the barest of personalities, I didn't accept the deal of course. Who on his sane mind would even accept a dubious deal of someone who offers power and might for an untold reason?"

  "So your power..." Jenna said to Elizabeth, "Is it...genetics only?"

  "Of course not, I have talent. That can't be denied, I could be more of a monster of course, and...my previous life did leave me some things, but most of what I have is mine," Elizabeth said shaking her head, "Which takes us to the next thing, the actual deal...Do I have to say it?"

  Elizabeth turned to Rena and Rossie, "Yes." "Yes." Both answered like that, so Elizabeth took a deep breath.