"That is a very rude thing to ask Mistress," Miracle Zephyria said, smiling at her knowingly, "You already know what I am, I was born out of [Envy] and [Time]. What else is there to know?"

"For example, what type of Minion do you claim to be? What is your identity." Elizabeth growled, she was back in real space and had full access to all her mana types and powers once more, and most of her senses screamed the same thing.

Miracle Zephyria…She was dangerous, probably as much as Aura was, if not more.

"I was born from the desire to have a second chance, gestated in the hopes of a brighter future filled with love and care," Miracle moving her hands all over her body, "Born from the wish of a dying old man who couldn't accept that he was born in the wrong body."

"So you claim to be what, the reincarnation of Michael?" Elizabeth asked; she knew where the remnants of Michael's soul were, so that was not possible.

"No," Miracle Zephyria said shaking her head as her hands passed over the small chest she had, "I will never claim to be that man, for I am not him. I am, as you can guess by my attire, a girl. A Magical Girl even."

"Of course you are," Elizabeth said. To her senses, she indeed had the classical smell of a Magical Girl, magic woven over her body to make her shift into a corporeal thing, "So far, all the entities born from the fusion of my Sin Gems and Elemental Gems have been animalistic minions, even if some of them can take upon a more humanoid form."

Elizabeth really hoped the stupid birds never took one, but even her Shadow Dragons could do so; Mordred was an example of that. Elizabeth was sure Reginald could do the same. And while Beatrice and Sebastian never fully transformed into a humanoid form, they were close.

The Soul Owl and the Space Fox were the same, they had come in a fully humanoid form but took on an animalistic form as needed. So the same should be true about this girl.

"Oh, that?" Miracle said, smiling impishly, "I was born out of [Envy] and nurtured with the feeling of guilt and shame from an old man who wished to be a young girl. What do you think my true form is?"

The girl smiled as her eyes shifted from a pure blue to the eyes of a reptile. Was she also a dragon? Elizabeth so dearly hoped she wasn't, she wasn't sure she could deal with a creature on the same degree of power as Aura with access to the draconic might.

"I am…Ouroboros, the eternal snake that eats its own tail," Miracle Zephyria said as the figure of a snake eating its own tail manifested behind her.

"Oh….thank god you are just a stupid snake," Elizabeth sighed in relief, she could deal with that.

"Elizabeth?" Jenna said from the side, "...The ouroboros is one of the most dangerous entities across the planes, it is very hard for one to be born, and even more hard for one to mature."

"....I feel like I am being underestimated here," Miracle said grumbling, "My whole identity is that I can't die, being eternally living and dying, no end to my own existence as I am a fixed event, I can't disappear…What do you mean with only a stupid snake?"

"I mean…I thought she would be a dragon, but a snake? Even one that is fixed in time…" Elizabeth said shrugging as her figure started flickering, the wings started shrinking into her body, the tail slowly was being pulled into Elizabeth's body, her clawed hands returned to normal. Her dress…slowly shifted into normal clothes. "That's easier to deal, besides even if your power is based upon Time and Envy, you said you are the magical girl of second chances right?"

"....Yes?" Miracle said, confused, "What's the deal with that? Do you have a problem with people getting second chances or something? Everyone deserves a second chance."

"Not everyone," Elizabeth said raising a finger, a normal one, not a clawed one, Elizabeth couldn't help but smile at that, "But I like that, please coordinate with Iroha and Sana. Iroha can help you get to the souls in question while Sana…Oh, my voice returned to normal, anyway. Sana can help you relocate anyone that needs help."

Elizabeth's figure had slowly shifted into her more normal form.

"Why the slow transformation?" Jenna asked poking at Elizabeth from the side, "Usually you just use your [Shift] spell and return to normal, or is it a skill these days?"

"I would love to do that," Elizabeth said, sighing, "But the asshole that made this girl possible ripped out my clothes, so undoing the shift would just mean me showing up naked. And…I like you, Jenna. Don't get me wrong, you are probably the closest person to someone I can truly call a friend, but I don't like you enough to show up naked to you."

"Fair," Jenna said, nodding, "Thank you for the consideration, but it's fine. I have seen plenty in the field, I will not bat an eye just because you showed up naked, we are both girls."

"....I really like you, Jenna," Elizabeth said, "I do not want to have to explain to Rossie that you saw me naked and then have to stop her from doing something…bad to you."

"....So you are aware that your girlfriend is a psycho." Jenna said, narrowing her eyes, "And you are okay with that?"

"I mean…she is kind of cute…I didn't know at first; the whole first year, I was mostly working using reflex and whatnot," Elizabeth said, nodding sheepishly. "But after getting that fixed, it was kind of hard not to notice. Did you know most of her skills and spells are designed to erase evidence? And she has all these nifty spells to record and monitor everyone?"

"Mistress, that is usually what we consider a crime." Miracle said from the side lifting her hand, "And I am literally a snake. It is kind of my thing to entice people into sin."

"Shush, she is adorable." Elizabeth said grumbling, "Besides, she is so adorable when she is trying to pretend that the red stains are from ketchup or juice…As if I didn't know the difference between human blood and condiments."

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….Granted, first-year Elizabeth did buy into that, even though she (As most girls had at some point) ended up with blood on her clothes, so she should know how that looked.

"Well, that is nice and all," Jenna said, clapping her hands, "But questions are to be asked."

"Hit me." Elizabeth said, nodding and preparing herself, "Preferably with questions and not fists."

"First…Did you manage to do what you wanted?" Jenna started easy.

"Kind of, it didn't work as I wanted and I ended up using more time than I had planned, but yes." Elizabeth said raising a finger and materializing the Crown of Sin atop her finger, silently hovering above there, "I have fully incorporated the [Time] and [Envy] gems."

"As evidenced by myself." Miracle Zephyria said striking what Elizabeth assumed must be a cute pose.

Rossie could do it better.

"Second, what is the deal with the weird girl?" Jenna said pointing at Miracle.

"Name's Miracle Zephyria, you may call me Mira." The newly named Mira said while winking at Jenna, "I was born out of-"

"I know, I was there while you said it." Jenna said nursing her head, "Why are all your sentient Minions troublematic girls?"

"Not all…of them….are…." Elizabeth said raising a finger and then slowly lowering, "I mean…The Fire Salamanders aren't problematic…girls…I think…"

"Is that the group of lizards born out of literal [Wrath] with gruff voices who use the names of cheerleaders?" Jenna asked with an incredulous expression on her face, "Have you seen what cheerleaders do? Have you seen how they treat other girls? And you have LITERAL [WRATH] FUELED FIRE SALAMANDERS TAKING THEIR NAMES?!?!?!"

"....Fair," Elizabeth said, admitting defeat in that aspect, "The Space Fox….are daughters of Aura, so we are skipping them; what about Iroha? The Soul Owls are doing fine…"

"...Elizabeth, she is a literal representation of Death and Souls." Jenna said facepalming, "You literally made a death reaper, it would be an issue if she made issues or something."

"I am here you know…I have not caused any issue." Mira said raising her hand while trying to balance a drink in her very modest chest to no success.

"...You just got here, and if these time bubbles we were stuck in are to mean something, you already caused several issues; how many years did we spend in the time dilation?" Jenna asked pointedly.

"YEARS?!?!?!" Elizabeth said as her face blanched and all the blood of her face left, "YEARS?!?!??!"

"....Not years," Mira said grumbling, "Besides, that wasn't on me, that was on the previous not me version."

"That is not an answer," Jenna pointed out.

"Fine…But that was only relative, for Mistress' Body she aged around 20 to 30 years? Give or take?" Mira said, shrugging, "Hard to gauge correctly since she has the whole dragon body and blood. They don't age quite right. You on the other hand are easier, you spend around between two weeks to two months."

"Wait…wait a second," Elizabeth said raising her hand, "I spent almost thirty years stuck in that stupid library? But that felt like…a couple hours at most."

"Hours? If my skills are to be believed, you were stuck for years there." Jenna said confused, "I was using all my powers to the maximum to get you out since time was moving so fast."

"Like I said," Mira smirked, "Relative, the spell is a masterpiece. Time moving in different frequencies, the body aging faster while the mind goes slower. You don't notice it, so you don't fight it. And at the end, the body fails before the mind ever notices the signs of alarm."

"....that is totally not troublesome at all," Jenna said in a sarcastic tone, "Yeah, you are right, Elizabeth; all your examples of minions are normal, not problematic ones."

"...I mean, the Shadow Dragons…" Elizabeth said weakly.

"They built a cult if what Mordred was saying is to be believed, same with the stupid round birds." Jenna added before Elizabeth ever mentioned them, not that she was going to mention them to begin with.

"How did you find out!" Elizabeth jumped out in surprise, as in literally jumped and backed away from Jenna, "Who told you?!?!?"

"You really thought I wouldn't check out? After two cults were formed in Zaanam? I checked out all Prana streams; it wasn't hard to inquire with your girlfriends when I told them about the dangers of uncontrolled Prana." Jenna said shrugging, "I made sure that they would ensure the Prana was as pure as possible and devoid of as much precognitions about you as possible. I can't fix the Prana of the cults within the shadowy city…Not that it matters since Echidna is taking that Prana for herself anyway."

"....Fine…. I'll admit to that." Elizabeth said sighing, "As for her…well….she got literally born out from the seeded hidden desire of Michael, as you know."

"That sounds so bad, let's just say that I was born of a desire of a second chance please?" Mira said, sighing from the side, "Pretty please? I know Michael was kind of a hunk, but I do not want my image of cute petite girl to be linked to him like that, people may think that he is my boyfriend or something…"

"...Michael was not a hunk." Elizabeth stated, "He was not ugly, but hunk…is not the word I would use for him."

"....Your opinion is invalid, you are into girls." Mira said, sticking her tongue out.

I am bisexual; I like both equally. Elizabeth pointed out.

"Name one single male that you are into." Mira said challenging Elizabeth's honor, "I'll admit defeat if you manage."

"...." Elizabeth was stumped at that, she…was bi right? She was into men too…She….Who did she like of the opposite gender?

"She was into [Shadow Pact]." Jenna said helpfully from the side.

"....Please don't remember me of my dark past," Elizabeth said shuddering, "He was kind of hot…but…. If I had known he was such a siscon with mommy issues I would…probably wanted him anyway, oh god…I would probably would want to be his mommy…"

Elizabeth shuddered even more at that idea.

"And…Asher looks kind of nice?" Elizabeth said in a questioning tone, "I mean, his attitude is an issue too…."

"I am seeing a pattern here." Mira said, nodding while pulling out a notebook, "And your taste in females is different?"

"...I guess? Rena is kind of a muscle girl too…But Rossie is more delicate…" Elizabeth said nodding after thinking about her girlfriends, then turning to Jenna, "Rena is actually kind of like Jenna in that aspect, she is a very fit girl."

"Again, not into girls." Jenna said, raising her hands and covering her body as best as she could. "No offense."

"None taken." Elizabeth said nodding at Jenna.

"Well…What can you tell me about these girlfriends then? Are they similar to the men you are into?" Mira said, looking more intently at Elizabeth.

"Not really?" Elizabeth said confused at the question, how two cute, sexy and hot girls be similar to Asher and [Shadow Pact], that was stupid.

"Rossaline Singh, psychopath, murderer, suspect of mind and soul tampering. Suspected of being a Soul Mage, suspected of being a former Hero Reincarnated into Zaanam." Jenna said as she pulled a folder and dropped it onto the floor in front of Elizabeth, "Did I miss something?"

"...She is a nice girl who had some issues, her soul is on its way to a full recovery while I give her as much love and care as possible, she is a sweet girl who is doing her best while learning how to be human and wants to do her best." Elizabeth said as she glared at Jenna, "What she was and what she did before may have been wrong, but she is doing her best now. As far as I know, she hasn't tampered or manipulated anyone this last year."

"And that is why she is merely a suspect," Jenna said, nodding to Elizabeth, "If she wasn't close to you, she would have been taken in the second Akira was out of the picture."

"I see, so who would she be more similar in this case then? To the shadow pact person? Or to the asher person?" Mira said while she wrote something on her notepad.

"Probably to [Shadow Pact]," Jenna said, "Both have issues with boundaries and can be said to have committed a large amount of crime, such as kidnaping after all."

"Interesting indeed," Mira said while she continued writing on that weird notepad, "What about the other girl?"

"Watanabe Rena, suspected of being a victim of abuse and is actually on several watch lists for self-harm," Jenna said, dropping a secondary folder, "She seems to have anger issues and is on watchlists not for crimes, but for potential danger as she is a known sword master."

"Saint," Elizabeth said pointing out, "Rena is a Sword Saint, also she…is the sweetest girl of them all, she is a shy girl who wants to be cuddled and loved, and is more of a scaredy cat than a danger to society."

"And she is similar to the other person in…" Mira said leadingly.

"...Not sure actually, I have not interacted much with that Asher." Jenna said, "Elizabeth? How would you relate them?"

"....Probably because both were victims to people who should have been friends," Elizabeth said sighing, "Evangeline toys with the student council to test the boundaries of the Gems of Virtue they all hold, and Akira toyed with Rena to indulge in his own desires. Granted…I don't think Evangeline has actually abused any of them beyond a point…And they all seem to want to stay there soo…"

"....That is disgusting," Mira said, narrowing her eyes, "Even if willingly, manipulation is wrong."

"...I know," Elizabeth said sighing, "But my hands are full at the moment, I'll return to fix that later…I didn't want to deal with it at the moment since I need to deal with these things first."

"....You better do that, you do not want me to deal with it." Mira said as the illusory image of the snake behind her split into seven different snakes that flew away.

Elizabeth… didn't know if she wanted to know about that.

"So, you started all of this for a reason, will you tell me what you wanted to achieve?" Mira said, turning to Elizabeth as she pocketed the notepad. "I don't mind spending time like this, time is all I have as of now after all."

"Oh right, we need your help, Aura!" Elizabeth said raising a finger to the ceiling.

"...." And nothing happened.

"....I swear to myself Aura…" Elizabeth grumbled while infusing some Mana into her finger, "Come!"

"Ah! Sorry about that Mistress, your mana signature seemed off so I teleported to…" Aura said as she materialized and stopped talking as soon as she saw Mira. "....What the heck is that supposed to be?"

"Oh hello to you too." Mira said as she walked up to Aura, looking up and down the purple girl. "Hmm…..I think you have the wrong body…and mind for that matter."

"....And I think you are barking at the wrong tree." Aura said glaring at Mira.

….was….was this going to be a thing?

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