The hidden and last wish of Michael? The same one that had committed suicide by Elizabeth?

"Start speaking," Elizabeth said as she started preparing her mana, or well, prana, if one started to get into specifics, so far she couldn't quite use her normal Mana within this library, something about the make of the place made it almost impossible for her to mold her mana.

But Prana? The pure belief of the people who trusted and had faith in her? That was another thing totally different; Elizabeth could feel their trust in her within her [Heart], an undying belief that she could make everything better, something that Elizabeth wasn't even sure she could live up to. For some, it was easier to ignore; to some degree, it was easier anyway.

Her Minions? She could understand why they viewed her like that, to her Shadow Dragons? She was literally her creator and progenitor, she was the reason they were alive…kind of alive anyway. The same could be said for most of her newest minions too.

Even if to a smaller degree, the Fire Salamanders followed Rena as their progenitor as much as they did to Elizabeth.

The Space Fox as a species viewed Aura as their Mother, Elizabeth didn't know what she was in their eyes and would rather not ask, she could already see the weird implications forming between her and Aura.

She assumed whatever spawned from the Gem of Lust would be as it was with the Fire Salamanders…

And the Lightning Birds…well, Elizabeth already knew about them, almost the same as with the Shadow Dragons.

She…wasn't sure what to think about the Death Owls… Both as a species and as minions. So far they seemed…chill?

But that was besides the point, their faith in her came from how she had birthed or helped their birth. It was easy to dismiss or even accept; they knew no better.

But in other instances?

Rena and Rossie's undying faith and love…that one was both heavy and hard to bear. Because it was undeniable proof that they both loved her and truly believed in her. Rossie despised gods almost as much as she despised men (Which was something to say), and even like that, she had the most pure faith in Elizabeth, both as a woman who she loved and as a goddess.

Even if she never said anything to Elizabeth, even if Elizabeth never saw her utter a single prayer, even like that. The river of faith was undeniable there, coming to Elizabeth and nurturing what would be the first layers of Elizabeth's path to getting the best of hoodies of them all, godhood.

Rena was the same, even if more heavier and filled with more guilt.

The red-haired girl's faith in Elizabeth came from a desire to both live, and the guilt that came from thinking that she didn't deserve Elizabeth's love. Because she was aware that Elizabeth hadn't been interested in her, and that she had abused Elizabeth's feelings.

That, of course, was a lie that Rena told to herself, and Elizabeth would need to fix that misunderstanding, while it was true that Elizabeth hadn't wanted to rescue Rena at the beginning and did more so to spite Akira. It was also true that Elizabeth started to develop feelings for the smoking hot body that Rena had.

Granted, it wasn't the best way to start a relationship(But it was one heck of an incentive, you do not say no to the sexy hot red-haired girl when she makes a move on you after all, lesbian, bisexual or not).

The next ones to come were smaller rivers of prana, so small that Elizabeth could ignore them and lose nothing. Mostly from people who prayed to either the Azure or the Red Moon. They didn't know Elizabeth and as such, Elizabeth could get that prana if she wanted, but after knowing why Papa and Mother didn't take in prana like that, Elizabeth decided to not take them either.

She would deal with them later, so for now she just willed them to condense into their own things.

For now she had other issues to deal with.

"So? Explain, now. And quickly. I do not wish to waste more time than needed." Elizabeth commanded.

"Michael Shepherd, [The Sage of Time]." The discount Akira started speaking, "Roy Price, the model student…"

His latest identity and the one he had before going to Aetheria? "What with it? I already knew of that." Elizabeth stated.

"There is no easy way of saying this…." Discount Akira said sighing, "I am…not Suzuki Akira."

"Big surprise," Elizabeth said with a shrug, "You said you were made out of the original aspects of him, so of course you aren't. You are closer to his form before going to Aetheria. Right?"

"Not really….I am also not Edward Smith…" Discount Akira said as his body started blurring; his visage changed into an androgynous form, "I took this form because it is the one whose I have more records…And one which The Sage of Time studied the most."

"So he could defeat Akira, yeah I know. Get on with it," Elizabeth said getting tired of this, it smelled like infodumps, she didn't want more of those, "What of it?"

"You aren't paying attention," discount…whatever it was now said, it snapped its fingers, and bookshelves manifested as the walls of the room folded away, "These are the books that depict all the torture The Sage of Time went through, these are the books that depict his attempts to escape, these are the ones that depict the best interactions he had without torture, these are the ones that depict the adventures he lived…"

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Discount whatever it was started explaning, the first line of bookshelves, the ones with torture were untold numbers, the ones with attempts to escape were only two, those witouth torture was a small bookshelf with barely five books on it, almost as many for adventures.

"And these, these are the ones that depict his interactions with Akira, Rossaline and Rena." The discount genderless entity said finally.

A long line of bookshelves with the name of Akira, almost a quarter of those for Rossie and then half of those for Rena. Most of his interactions had been with Akira it seemed.

"The more he interacted, the more he studied, the more he saw Akira…The more the same thought started worming into his very soul…" Discount genderless entity said passing a finger over one of the books, "This one for example, depicts all the data he could get about Akira, have a look."

Elizabeth took the book and read it carelessly, thinking it would have some data on his skills or techniques…

"....These are his weight, likes, dislikes….the size of his dick through the loops? Why in the seven hells did Michael log that?" Elizabeth said quickly closing the book as at some point she found drawings and very detailed imagery of Akira's body, a girl didn't need to know that much about a disgusting bug like Akira.

"The more he saw Akira getting his way with women, the more he saw the girls, women and even elderly moaning, the more the Sage of Time thought this…" The genderless entity said.

"Why can't I have a taste of these innocent girls?" Elizabeth ventured, "Why must I suffer while this asshole is having the time of his life?"

"What does it feel?" The genderless entity said while shaking its head, "How good does it feel?"

"So he asked Akira in a loop if he could have his way with some of the girls?" Elizabeth ventures, "Then Akira killed him and so he vowed for revenge?"

"Unlike Akira, The Sage of Time couldn't keep his memories, only his feelings, his very confused feelings that kept growing in his heart." Genderless Entity said as his figure started taking on a form, a blue-haired girl with spectacles, a small petite frame and a robe, a robe that Elizabeth had seen before. Only this robe instead of having pants had a miniskirt, instead of a long coat had a short top that showed her stomach, "What does it feel? To be loved like that?"

"....please….Don't tell me…" Elizabeth pleaded, she hoped she was wrong, she hoped this was not how it ended.

"So he experimented, and as Akira said, he showed his ass to him." The girl said summoning-

"I DO NOT NEED TO SEE THAT!" Elizabeth said, breathing fire into the summoned screen and turning it to ashes.

"So now you can guess what the last wish of The Sage of Time was? The hidden desire of his Heart?" The petite girl said.

"...To become Akira's lover?" Elizabeth ventured with a sigh, "Why Akira? Of all things…He could have a more stable and healthy love relationship with a street dog…"

"Oh, not of Akira. He just wanted to experience how it felt to be rammed to kingdom come by a man." The girl said shaking her head, "Even like that, he still despised Akira. But seeing so many girls moaning while drowing in pleasure…while he himself didn't felt that much pleasure after doing it…"

"....That…That is not how it is in real life; true a woman can orgasm multiple times if the intercourse continues long enough…Or the man is skilled enough, but Akira was mostly using magic to fix his inabilities." Elizabeth sighed in defeat, "Please tell me Michael didn't want to become a girl just for his lust."

"I can't answer that, I am not Michael or Roy." The girl said, shaking her head, "I am the crystallization of what he desired to be; I am…merely what was left of him."

"....Right….and that thing?" Elizabeth asked to the tiara, "What will it do? Will it revive Michael as a girl?"

"No, it will only settle his wish upon the Gem of Envy, it is already seeded within the Gem of Time," The girl said shaking her head sadly, "The Sage of Time is gone, nothing can bring him back…But with this…his last wish may come true in the end."

"Will I regret it if I let you do it?" Elizabeth asked in defeat, this was getting stupid, Michael was a closeted gay? A closeted trans? He wished to be born as a girl? He had magic! He had the shift spell! He could do it any second he wanted, for god's sake!

"Do you desire something for your next minion?" The girl asked as she took smaller steps towards Akira, "Do you desire something out of the fusion of your two gems?"

"For something normal to come out?" Elizabeth said in a mocking tone, "I do not mean to demean Michael's struggles or desires. But….I didn't think Michael would be like that, he didn't lool like that."

"Like a girl trapped in a man's body?" The girl asked, "No one does, was he like that? Or was it a result of the endless loop? Was it a way for his soul to try to not think about how it was aging? Was it that he longed for a youngfull body? And since all he saw were bodies of young women, so that is what his soul longed for?"

"....We will never know, will we?" Elizabeth said, sighing, "I could probably pull the answer out of his soul… But as unstable as it is, it will probably crack him."

"Better not to dwell too much on that, then." The girl said as she took the last step to get near Akira's frozen body, "Last chance, what is that you desire for this Elizabeth Starbright, what is that you desire for your new minion."

"....A second chance." Elizabeth said, "I wish for a minion that will help me give second chances to those that wish for one, for Michael who never made his dream come true. For Rena and Rossie who deserve a second chance after what they went through. And for whatever you are."

The girl smiled as the tiara was set upon Akira's body, "Then may your Wish come true, and may these second chances come in the best form possible for what you wish to achieve." The girl's word resounded as her body turned to ash and disintegrated away.

The same started to happen to the library, to Akira and even to the door that had been opened. A second Elizabeth was standing within the library surrounded by an innumerable amount of books, and the next she was once again standing in the apartment, the world around her frozen.

Elizabeth looked down upon her own body and found she was still on her Dragon Empress shift.

"AAAAH!!!!-----ah?" And the scream of Jenna resounded, Elizabeth turned and found Jenna stopping on her tracks with the fist raised, a fist that was brimming with a dangerous concentration of mana, "....Are you okay Elizabeth? I felt your body being affected by a very dense amount of Time mana so I was about to punch you out of that, but the phenomena spread to the room before I was able to pull out [Ikarus] or [Hermes] to help me."

"Yeah, I'm fine, I'm just…" Elizabeth said turning to look around, she couldn't see the girl, the room, or anything from what she had been, turning to her hands she found not the gems either. "Did you see where the [The Gem of Time] and [The Gem of Envy] went to?"

"They are on your head," Jenna said, pointing to Elizabeth's forehead, "Did you use that form to survive the Time Bubble? I know that dragons are long-lived, but wouldn't it be easier to leave the time bubble than endure the full effect?"

"I wasn't able to use Mana within the phenomena, so I had to use something that didn't require Mana." Elizabeth said shaking her head and pulling the Crown out of her head, "So….did a serpent or a monster come out of this?"

Elizabeth said looking at the resulting gem, all her fusions had made something loosely related to what she had wanted…to some degree, at least when she was focusing on it.

Okay, that had only worked once so far, when she made Iroha. She had somewhat made it work with Sana, but that one she hadn't pointed or wanted something specific, and honestly, getting Sana had been more of a lucky strike…even if it seemed that it mostly worked because of Aura and not because of Elizabeth.

"So?" Elizabeth said, looking at the newest fusion of gems, "Are you coming out?"

"Who are you speaking to, Elizabeth?" Jenna asked, looking at her weirdly, "There is nothing there."

Nothing? Jenna could detect most of her minions, even the most sneaky ones, so was there nothing there? Had the weird girl lied to her? Was that tiara a way to ensure nothing came out from Michael's endless attempts at recording his time loops?

If so, then it meant that all those lives that ended up with him secretly desiring to reincarnate as a girl had gone to waste….

"Time…" A voice whispered, "...you only needed to wait a little Mistress."

"....Motherfu-" Jenna said before caughing herself and covering her mouth, "Elizabeth? What did you do?"

"What indeed…" Elizabeth said nodding too, she recognized that voice, "Are you coming out then?"

"Just wait a second…" The voice of the girl said, "...I did not expect it to go this way."

And after that, a small portal opened on the air, something that was closer to a ripple in the fabric of space than one of the portals that Elizabeth had seen, if anything it looked more like one of those that the Valkyries liked to sue.

"Greetings, Mistress," The girl said, doing a small curtsy to Elizabeth, "I am Miracle Zephyria, The Magical Girl of Second Chances."

"Of course you are," Elizabeth said, laughing, "Should I call you Mira then? So…What are you?"

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