Chapter 40: Hello Mother, how are you doing?

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It seemed that most believed her to be the blonde girl that threw that soda can at Akira. Even Akira thought the same... Just because she was a blonde they all thought the blonde girl was her? Talk about profiling someone. Either way, she just returned the comments with the usual 'I will not confirm nor deny'. The only one that got a worse treatment was a poor girl with a knight-themed hoodie, she was the same girl she had seen before. Now she decided to not [Identify] them since she was still working on if her skill would bring the right information or not. And so, she just greeted the poor girl that was being harassed by everyone. "Hey, don't remember if we talked before but I'm Elizabeth." And so she presented herself. For her part, the poor girl took the lifeline that Elizabeth was giving her and answered in kind. "Yeah..." And took several extra seconds to continue talking. "I'm Chloe...Ashcroft..." For her part, the blonde girl kept her kind smile and waited for further elaboration. And waiting. And waiting... Since she didn't move from her spot the rest of the students that were pestering them started leaving the area. Of course, Akira didn't read the room and came to say his part too. "I will not admit defeat, next time we will settle this...[Villain]." And left without saying a thing. At least Rena was more...Normal. "...I will find who you pose as and defeat you in the arena." And walked away. At least she didn't though the poor girl was her [Shadow Empress] persona. So that was a win for the poor girl. "Sorry about them, don't mind them nor everyone else. They also think my powered suit is someone else only because I'm blonde, can you believe that?" Said the blonde girl trying to redirect the conversation. The hooded knight girl just tried to hide in her hoodie. Oh right, she was also being mistaken for someone else...For her... The blonde girl could only hope she didn't plan to be a [Hero] too much... Because she was probably going to be hounded by the students who wanted to be more...Vicious in their endeavors. "Anyway...If they keep pestering you call me." Said the blonde girl while bringing her smartphone and getting her contact info into it. "Here, we should swap numbers too." Added the blonde girl. At this point, the knight-hoodied girl finally came from under her hoodie, and she could finally see why they insisted so much that she was her powered persona. Not only had she black hair, but she also had red eyes... The face was different, since she was on the cuter side, and her powered persona looked more... Vicious. But still, talk about bad luck. She...really had terrible luck, using the knight-themed hoodie with those looks? Yeah, she would also think she was her powered persona. But yeah...Overall, she was kinda cute. Especially how she was all flustered searching for her phone, a black one with a [Shadow Pact] hard case... The same one Mother & father didn't allow her to buy... They were jealous of him and even started their own phone case stuff... She still had a few of those in her room...Maybe she could see if Chloe would like to trade... "...Here..." Came the shy voice of the girl in front of her. A contact info swap later and she had saved her new contact in the phone. She even made sure to tag her as a priority contact with Mother, Father, and Rossie... Wait...Why was Rossie a priority contact? Well, that was useful since she was her roomie, but still...When did that happen? Heh, probably nothing important. "Okay, do call me if they harass you again. I will deal with Akira & Rena." Said the blonde girl. "See you later, gotta take a rest. These matches were too tiring." And on that note, she left the arena reception area. Chloe didn't say anything even if they mouthed some words that she didn't quite understand. But she had more pressing matters to attend to. So she went back to her apartment. Rossie was in the living room reading some grimoires on healing Magic already. "ELI-ELI!!!" Said the pink-haired girl who rushed to hug her. "Rossie. I'm sweaty, let me take a shower first." Answered the blonde girl while trying to free herself from the vicious grip of the pink-haired girl. To no success... She wondered if her friend had made some success since the last time she used [Identify] on her. She kinda felt that she should have a higher level than her... But she was still somewhat leery of her skills not working so she refrained from using the [Identify] on her. If she was one of those [Fate] blessed as Alexanders had hinted... Yeah, she might be of a higher level than her. She had to deal with Mother and get her to explain how those weird words worked. "Rossie...Are you sniffing me?" Asked the blonde girl after noticing her friend had his face pressed against her. "W...What? No...Of course not silly...That would be weird...hahaha" Laughed the pink-haired girl awkwardly... Weird, she only intended that as a joke... But since it worked she didn't mind. "I'll take a shower, and rest for the day...Can you give me a perk me up?" Asked the blonde girl to her friend. It would be a good way to evaluate if she had made more progress or not since stamina regeneration spells were of a higher order. "Of course! " Said with great vigor the pink-haired girl. " Mwah ❤️ !" And so she proceeded to kiss her. "I meant as a stamina regeneration or stamina buff spell Rossie..." Answered back the blonde girl while massaging her temples. Granted, a kiss on the forehead was nice and all. But that wasn't what she wanted. At least her friend looked somewhat embarrassed at her fumble. "Oh...Right...A spell..." And also somewhat downcasted. Was she rude in her answer? Perhaps she had a close-knit family before and it was a tradition? "[Stamina Regen]." Said the pink-haired girl while intoning a spell while embracing a pendant in the form of a heart. Oh, she even got a [Relic] to enhance her spellcasting already? Damn if the [Fate's chosen] have an easy life... She still didn't even have a gem for her scepter in magical girl form! "Thank you, Rossie." Said with a smile Elizabeth. "Even though I think the kiss had a better effect...I will go to sleep after taking my shower. See you tomorrow Rossie ♪~" And on that note she moved to her room. She of course as a good friend pretended that the happy shriek the pink-haired girl did after she left the room didn't happen. It was hard to accommodate the family traditions of other people. But so long her friend was happy she would be happy. Gotta keep those [Fate's Chosen] happy... Especially now that she had pissed off two of the possible four. Wait...there were only four...right? Uggh...She was going to have nightmares if more popped up. It was the dawn of a new day, the birds were cheerfully singing, and the sun was coming out on the horizon. Everything was fine with the world... Only with the world, because something was annoying the blonde girl that was laying on her bed. "Good morning, Eli-Eli!" an annoyingly cheerful voice sounded right on top of her. "Morning, morning, MORNING!!!" "...Morning Mama." Said the blonde girl opening her eyes and looking up to see the face of her mother smiling brightly at the top of her.

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