After having walked all the way to the school, Alexa had learned two important things. One…There was not a [Kettle Core] nor a [Pot Core], there were several things that qualified for [Pot], and very few of these were things that Alexa needed to mind, and if someone asked if she wanted some of it she was to say no.

  Alexa wanted to nom a few since they seemed to be dangerous if they were things that Alexa wasn’t supposed to handle, but she could leave that to the mean one or the naggy one. [Fan Girl] did promise to talk about it with the naggy one later.

  So that was that.

  The second important thing…there was a thing called phrases, weird ways that [Humans] spoke that weren’t supposed to be taken literal, like the [The Pot talking to the kettle], it was supposed to be a saying about someone accusing someone else of a thing that they also had.

  In this case, it was supposed to be about how Alexa was(Allegedly) weird, so she couldn’t complain about [Fan Girl] or [Humans] about being weird.

  Alexa was not happy with this, she was not a weird [Human], she wasn’t [Human] to begin with! So she couldn’t be weird!

  Alexa was a perfect Alexa! She was normal! This was how a normal Alexa behaved! How did Alexa know that? Well, she was an Alexa, and if she said that this was how an Alexa behaved, then only another Alexa could contest it!

  Was there another Alexa here to say that she was weird? No? Then Alexa was normal!

  “That is…” “No she is right, she does have a valid point.”

  And neither the naggy one or the mean one could say that Alexa was weird, since they weren’t Alexa either! They were the naggy one and the mean one! They could only say if they themselves were weird, they couldn’t complain about Alexa!!

  “It’s perfect!” Alexa proudly declared from her perch.

  “We are about to arrive. Are you sure you want your friends to see you like a bag of potatoes? I don’t mind carrying you since I can make sure your skirt doesn’t flutter thanks to my Core Powers, but normally you would have shown the whole world your underwear,” [Fan Girl] said turning to look at Alexa, Alexa had noticed how the wind always seemed to blow in an angle as if to make sure her skirt was always down, no matter the direction they walked. “No girl should be this defenseless, at least wear a pair of shorts or spats under the skirt.”

  …But weren’t the shorts supposed to be outwear? The skirt was outwear, how was she supposed to equip two gears of the same type at the same time? She only had so many slots!

  “But I already have the skirt on…?” Alexa said back confused, “How would I even use shorts or spats? Wouldn’t I need to take off my skirt?”

  Really, why was [Fan Girl] saying such weird things?

  “...You put on your underwear…Then your shorts…and then your skirt.” [Fan Girl] said back confused, “Or you can put first the skirt and then the shorts, it is not rocket science Alexa.”

  ….But…that was not how dressing up worked!

  “But if I put on the shorts first, wouldn’t I need to take them off when I want to put on the skirt?!?!?” Alexa fought back, why couldn’t [Fan Girl] understand this! It was simple logic!

  “It is simple! If Alexa wants to put on a pair of shorts, she needs to remove the skirt! If Alexa wants to use a skirt she needs to remove the shorts!”Alexa was getting exasperated at this, why couldn’t she understand?!?!? It was simple! It was how the world worked! Alexa had checked!

  She went to the Internet and asked before!

  ‘Can I wear a skirt and shorts at the same time?’

  And the helpful Reddit guys told her that any character could only equip one piece per slot and that, at best, she could use [Glamour] to change how one looked, but that no one would swap a skirt’s appearance into a pair of shorts, not while wearing school uniform.

  It was weird the fact that they asked who [Dropped the set], they got angry at her when she said that [Eleanore] and [Fan Girl] had dropped it, and called her a [Troll] and [Karma farmer], not like they explained what they spoke about when she asked what they talked about.

  “One can’t equip two gear pieces on the same slot! Alexa checked!” Alexa said, bringing out his cellphone and showing the Reddit thread, she had needed to go into a place that also had status numbers and stuff before asking, since her posts kept being deleted when she did them at random. “See! They all said the same!”

  “...Alexa dear…” [Fan Girl] said reading the thread and obviously understanding the wrong of her ways, “...This is a subreddit for a videogame…One of those MMORPGs made by the goddamned Saintsworths, The World’s Root. One game that is not among the type that you should even know about.”

  Alexa shouldn’t know about it? But then, why was it on the suggested pages for Alexa to watch? She even got there after watching a video of Magmo! So surely the thingy at the end of Magmo’s video was something that Magmo Endorsed!

  If not why did it play after Magmo ended his video then?

  “What is that World root thingy?” Alexa asked, if it was something that Magmo wanted her to play or know about, then she would play it…she would play it or the world would burn in her wake.

  “It’s a MMORPG or a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game. It’s basically a video game that you can play with other people on the Internet, the Saintsworths made this base program that uses their internet network to connect people across the world in a virtual world.” [Fan Girl] said, placing Alexa on the floor, “It allows you to play in real time with other people no matter where they are, and one of the ways to keep people in check is with the gear slots. Like you said, you can’t equip two things at the same time in one slot within the game.”

  [Fan Girl] then walked to a nearby tree and broke a branch into two.

  “Here grab this stick,” [Fan Girl] said offering her [The Stick], “Now you have a stick equipped, what slot is it on?”

  What slot was it? It was on her hand!

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  No wait…,her hand already had the cipher ring that she got from the cereal box she ate god knows when and that she totally mentioned picking it up from the box and totally did not forget to mention so now she has to retcon the equivalent of half a book worth of words to fish the exact moment that it happened.

  Totally.

  Alexa would never make that mistake. Ever.

  “It’s on my main weapon slot!” Alexa said after thinking about it for a few seconds.

  “So now you can’t equip another weapon unless you drop that one right?” [Fan Girl] said throwing the other stick to Alexa.

  “Hey!” Alexa said, catching the other normal stick with her left hand, “Weapon safety is important!”

  And it was, if not they wouldn’t have taught that- No wait, Alexa hadn’t gone to that one, good. Now she didn’t need to retcon that either!

  “And now you have equipped two sticks,” [Fan Girl] said, pointing at Alexa.

  “Of course, the other is in my off-hand slot.” Alexa said pointing with [The Stick] at the other stick. The nice people of the redditto had given several examples of how many gear slots Alexa had.

  “Okay…can you show me the thread you made again?” [Fan Girl] asked,with a weird smile on her face.

  Either way, Alexa pulled out her cell phone and grabbed the second stick with the hand that had [The Stick], “Here is, see? They get very specific with the slots we have!” And one of those posts even had weird icons under it, a banana a thumbs up and a weird green head coming out of a metal disk.

  “Then how are you holding two sticks in one hand?” [Fan Girl] suddenly asked pointing at Alexa’s hand, there were two things there…one stick and [The Stick].

  Alexa…Alexa…

  “...Alexa is bugged!” Alexa screamed in horror, he had heard of cases where people had [Hacked] their characters and ended up lossing everything!

  Alexa didn’t want to lose her character! She loved being Alexa!

  What would she become if she wasn’t Alexa??!?!?!?

  A tiffany?!?!?!

  A Karen?!?!?

  A Trixie White?!?!?!?

  A Kendra Killer?!?!?!

  No! She was too cute to be any of those!

  Besides, one of those had her own story coming up soon (Not soon)! And the other had the name wrong! She was supposed to be a Jack, not a Kendra! (Not relevant)

  “...Like I said, we don’t have equipment slots, those are for games. And maybe artifacts, but those are beside the point. I am half sure that the Saintsworths make them like that because it amuses their evil CEO.” [Fan Girl] said while ruffling Alexa’s hair.

  She had just fixed her hair! Rude!

  “...So…I’m not bugged out?” Alexa asked in a small voice while pocketing her phone and…wondering if her hand would break because she had two weapons equipped.

  “No, you just are holding two sticks. When you get back to your room, try putting on the shorts under the skirt without removing your underwear and see what happens. If we really had equipment slots, then you couldn’t do it, or one of those would disappear or unequip on its own.” [Fan Girl] said while kneeling to her level.

  It made…sense, most people had said the same, that if she tried to equip anything else then she would end up automatically unequiping whatever she had before. That it was a QoL feature, whatever QoL was.

  “Okay,” Alexa said while nodding. [Fan Girl] smiled at that and stood up again, offering her hand to Alexa to grab hold; they still had a couple streets to walk after all, “Also, you don’t need to wear shorts or spats under your skirt if you don’t want to. You shouldn’t need to, not yet anyway. But it is precaution, there are…very sick people around that look at little girls in ways they shouldn’t. So the shorts under the skirts are a precaution.”

  People who saw Alexa in ways that they shouldn’t?

  “Oh! Like the guy in the alley!” Alexa said, remembering the guy that gave PTSD to the mean one!

  “....right, that happened…” [Fan Girl] grimaced at the memory, “Just like that one yes, please don’t follow strangers into dark alleyways…even if you can call your older selves to protect you.”

  …But Alexa didn’t have the mean one or the naggy one then…Or had called them. She had only punched the guy and then nomed him.

  “... Alexa promises to not put herself in danger knowingly!” Alexa decided to say that, not like it mattered if she lied since [Eleanore] could not use her [Core Powers] on her anymore!

  “....Just be safe Alexa, that’s all I ask.” [Fan Girl] sighed in defeat, yay! Alexa managed to deceive her! “Also, we are here. Do you want me to stay around in case your classes are suspended?”

  “Alexa!” And Alexa didn’t have time to answer as a shrill voice attacked her! “There you are! Do you have an idea how worried we were?!?!?!? Why did you skip classes?!?!?!?”

  From nowhere (A nearby Limousine) came Glory Blackthorn, the….daughter of the Blackthorn.

  “Good morning Madam, I’m Glory. Alexa’s classmate.” The little girl said bowing to [Fan Girl], why was she bowing? Was Alexa supposed to bow?

  “Good morning, I’m Skye. One of Alexa’s guardians.” [Fan Girl] said smiling and waving at Glory, “You are a very polite girl. I hope something of that sticks to Alexa.”

  “We of the Blackthorn strive to be the best Madam,” Glory answered with a weird smile, it looked as if it was…practiced? Rehearsed? Alexa couldn’t be sure why, but it looked weird!

  “Should I…pick something from Glory?” Alexa asked confused making a motion with her hand towards Glory.

  “Do not nom your friend Alexa, we spoke about that this morning.” [Fan Girl] said sighing.

  “Oh? See? What did I tell you Blackthorn? Alexa would return on her own, she probably wasn’t even near [The Scrambler] and [The Theater Master] fiasco. Even if she isn’t a real Saintsworths, any supervillain worth their spot on the list knows not to mess around with kids.” Alan said as he got down from another Limousine (Did the students in this school not walk or something?). “Good morning Miss. I’m Alan Harmonia, one of Alexa’s classmates.”

  “But Alexa wa-” Alexa was there! But she was interrupted when the wind failed to move out of her mouth, that was such a weird feeling.

  “[Notice, Human Designation: Sky Venti is currently blocking the propagation of vibrations in the air that produce sound.]”

  “That is correct, Alexa WAS NOT anywhere near the area of conflict, we were SEEING THIS from the couch on our home, right Alexa?” [Fan Girl] said while staring daggers at Alexa.

  “Yes, Alexa was totally not there running around, jumping and kicking V-8 into a wall!” Alexa said nodding her head, [Fan Girl], for some weird reason, placed her hand against her face again.

  Neither Glory nor Alan seemed to say anything.

  “Told you,” Alan only said that while extending his hand towards Glory.

  “...She could have been in danger and you…Fine! Here!” Glory grumbled as she threw a couple of papers towards Alan. “It’s good to know that you weren’t there, Alexa. Did you prepare for the war games?”

  “So that’s why they asked Alexa to have a light breakfast, huh? I thought it would be a normal Exam,” [Fan Girl] said from behind, “Also, did you two bet on Alexa being affected by the event?”

  “Of course not madam!” Glory said aghast…Alexa did not know what aghast was, but Glory had that on her face! Of that, Alexa was sure.

  “I bet to Glory that Alexa would fail to see the danger of the situation and would focus more on the injuries of the Heroes or Villains. Alexa mentioning the accident V-8 got against that Midget Minion is proof that she was too busy focusing in that instead of the ramifications of [The Scrambler] getting into a squabble with [The Theater Master],” Alan said many words that went over Alexa’s head, but Alexa was sure that they were important! And that she was being described as dumb!

  Alexa was not dumb! She was cute!

  “...you are a pair of weird kids,” [Fan Girl] said smiling, still at the back.

  “We are Elite, it is expected of us to understand, analyze and plan in case of situations like these.” Glory said pushing her chest forward.

  “....We are also bored and asked to write a report of these types of situations, it comes with the ‘You are the heir of blablabla, Alexanders was building a multibillion company while you want to play on the mud with the rabble blablabla’ territory.” Alan shrugged while he got a punch on his side.

  That must hurt.

  “Right….Well…Not gonna say I understand what’s the deal with that.” [Fan Girl] said…her smile was faltering.

  “Understandable, madam. I can suggest some books about the topic to you. Alexa is in the class of the elite, so while she is not a real Saintsworths, her name will put some expectations on her.” Glory said while pulling a notebook from one of her blazer’s pockets, Alexa had used that pocket to store candy! Glory was using that pocket wrong!

  Oh, right! Alexa almost forgot!

  “Alexa is a real Saintsworths!” Alexa said, pulling back the sleeve on her right hand, “See! Brother gave Alexa her thingy!”

  “....” Glory’s notepad fell to the ground as she stared at Alexa’s bracelet.

  “*whistle* Well, I should have bet on that too after all,” Alan, on the other hand, walked to Alexa’s side and looked at the bracelet, “It is engraved with white gold, and the eyes have blue gold too? Fancy.”

  White gold? blue gold? Alexa did notice that her bracelet had other colors on it, but why was that important?

  *faint*

  “....Is this normal?” [Fan Girl] said as she made sure that Glory didn’t fall to the floor, she moved fast and got hold of Glory before she hitted the floor when her eyes turned white and she fell back.

  “Yes, we thought Alexa was from a branch family that got disowned since no one knew of her, add to this the fact that Glory is a nutjob for the Saintsworths.” Alan said touching Alexa’s bracelet.

  Did that count as someone touching Alexa against her wishes? She wasn’t sure, she had been told to not let adults do that, but no one told her if another [Child Stage] kid doing it was bad or not.

  “...Are the other kids in your class like that too? Or, like you, that is one weird classroom.” [Fan Girl] said as she lifted Glory and stared at Alan, “Either way, let’s go to the nurse’s office. We have to report this…I guess.”

  “We are the Classroom of the Elite, no one in that class is normal. Not even the teacher,” Alan said bowing to [Fan Girl], what was the deal with bowing?!?!? “This way miss.”

  And so Alan started guiding [Fan Girl] to the nurse’s office, Alexa was wondering other things while they walked away.

  Hadn’t this happened before? Last time it was Meli-Meli, and then when she returned to the classroom she used her [Core Powers] to start a time attack with restrictions…

  Then this time it would be Glory?

  “[The chances of Glory Blackthorn having an unregistered Core Power are low, members of the high strata of society are more closely monitored, after host was added as a true member of the Saintsworths she too was added to the list of Core Users and her data was given more restrictions of access.]”

  Hadn’t Alexa already been registered? Mister Pig had done it right?

  “[The data was rewritten and fixed to remove suspicious; host went from Miscellaneous Core to Shapeshifter. It was stated on the reports written by Alexanders Saintsworths that host can’t shift into other people since host has a psychological limit and can’t sustain such changes.]”

  ….But that was a lie.

  “[...]”

  “Come on Alexa, don’t get left behind. Your friend needs you!” [Fan Girl] called to Alexa, so Alexa went after them.

  She was already looking forward to what [Core] would Glory have, with some luck she would have one that Alexa hadn’t checked yet!