The announcement came while Alexa was having trouble dealing with a bunch of other kids from her css. What did they want you ask?

  "Is it true that you were the bastard daughter between an executive and the receptionist?"

  "Do you live in the Saintsworths tower?"

  "If you are a bastard daughter, then you weren't designed?"

  "Were you a mistake? Did someone have you under the table?"

  "You weren't pnned?"

  And so on, and so on. Multiple variations of the same question, roughly all about her ancestry and about who was her Father and or mother. How she had been raised and where did she grew.

  Alexa wasn't sure why they wanted to know about the site of her manufacturing, but then again, humans were weird in and out of themselves. But this was getting increasingly weird, Alexa had come to terms with the fact that these particur [Child Stage - Humans] were weird and out of the norm, since compared with the others she had seen so far these behaved more like [Adult Stage - Humans] wearing kids bodies.

  And that was a thing to check, too. Could someone do as Alexa and jump their [Consciousness Stream] from their normal body to another? Alexa needed to verify that, if it was viable then she could perhaps get away with changing identities if hers got compromised.

  Not that she couldn't do that already...she had done so before actually, since she moved from her original [CRAB] body to this one after making out as an experiment, granted she hadn't paid too much attention to the process so perhaps there could be some hijinks in the way if she ever attempted to do that.

  "So? Will you answer something, or will we need to remind you of your pce?" A haughty voice suddenly brought Alexa out from her pns to hijack other people's bodies.

  Her pce?

  They wanted to remind her of her pce?

  "Hah...hahahahahahahahahah," Alexa couldn't help but ugh aloud at that, "Alexa knows very well what her pce is."

  It was one of the very few things that Alexa was sure of, what pce she held in [Human] Society; it was what kept her awake at night (Not really; she slept like the Alexa baby she was).

  "No, I know my pce very well," Alexa said smiling, looking down at the [Kid] who had said that.

  It was a girl with dirty blonde hair and cyan eyes. Unlike Alexa's clear blue eyes or Alexander's Azure eyes, this one had a pair of eyes that seemed closer to green or gray than blue.

  Unlike Alexa's blonde hair or Alexanders' almost golden-colored hair, she had dirty blonde. Alexa could roughly imagine what this girl had attempted to do, she was wearing the golden eagle in her ribbon, not directly on the fabric but in a brooch.

  "So, do you know your pce?" Alexa asked back to the girl.

  The girl in question suddenly had her face grow red and Alexa could swear her hair seemed to want to move and raise as if she was some kind of cat.

  "I am Eris Ashcroft!" The girl almost screeched at Alexa, "I am a proud branch member of The Glorious Saintsworths!"

  ...But she didn't hold the Saintsworths name?

  "We have been wearing the Golden Eagle for generations; unlike those who fall from grace, we have always been proud, stalwart guardians for the main branch!" So she was a bodyguard? "We protect the glory of the Golden Eagle! Not something the daughter of a wench can compare to!"

  *Sp*

  "Bckthorn!" The girl said gring daggers at Glory who had return running when this one started going crazy. "You bitch!"

  "You would raise your voice to someone who is part of the main branch?!?!" Glory said to the crazy girl, "Are you mad? Do you want your family to be purged that badly?"

  Purged?

  "Main Branch? The wench's daughter?" The girl said taking a step back as her face turned white, that was an interesting effect, Alexa would try it one of these days, "Her? What are you...?"

  Glory let out a breath and sighed, "Of course you wouldn't even check, you are too focused on sucking up from the prestige of other families." Then, she turned to Alexa, "She may look like that, but how many people do you know that have such vibrant hair and pure blue eyes?"

  Alexa...didn't think that was such an important thing to focus though? Surely blonde hair and blue eyes weren't that weird...

  Not that Alexa had seen many people with this hair color... Besides Alexanders...

  Had she seen more people with blonde hair and blue eyes?

  She had seen people with blue eyes, and people whose eyes turned azure blue, but she hadn't seen people with blonde hair and blue eyes had she... Besides her...

  "...The people with blonde hair and blue eyes are all Saintsworths reted?" Alexa asked confused.

  "See!" The Eris girl said pointing at Alexa, "How can a Saintsworths be this ignorant of the world! This proves that she is but the daughter of a wench!"

  This girl liked that word too much.

  "*Sigh*" And Glory merely sighed again, it was refreshing seeing people sighing and knowing that the cause wasn't Alexa! At least not directly anyway, "Everyone knows that blonde hair and blue eyes are a sign of being a Saintsworths, yeah."

  Wait, Glory wasn't defending her?

  Betrayal!

  "But who would think for the combination of blue eyes and blonde hair to be normal?" Glory asked turning to the Eris girl, "Who would think that wearing blonde hair and having blue eyes is normal?"

  What?

  Why wouldn't it be normal?

  "Someone who has seen these two on a daily basis...or someone who interacted with enough people with these two attributes that they think they are mundane." An said finally walking to them while carrying a piece of paper, "Just like how people would think that having blue hair is normal among the civilian popuce, even though this hair is proof of being part of the Harmonia Cn."

  ...how were they even making sure that only people from a certain cn held these types of characteristics?

  "[Researched within data stored in Blueprint, found genetic markets tied to hair color and eye color. Host blueprint has a genetic marker that guarantees that she will have golden hair and blue eyes. Human Designation: An Harmonia has genetic markers that guarantee blue hair.]"

  So they merely tampered with the Blueprint? Wasn't that dangerous?

  Not even Alexa wanted to tamper with the base of her [Human Body], granted she modified the appearance using her nanites, but the base of it all, what made Alexa who she was, was something she didn't want to tamper at such a fundamental level.

  "[Modifications may be the reason for the fwed blueprint.]"

  "...Then...she..." The Eris girl said turning to look at Alexa with a new emotion, one she hadn't seen in someone else since Meli-Meli. Fear.

  "Yes, either she grew up isoted from human society..." An said turning to Alexa, smiling at her, "Or she grew surrounded by only members of the Saintsworths cn."

  "And such a pce could only be..." Glory added, standing beside Alexa, one step ahead of her and slightly to stand between her and the Eris girl, "...at their Main Branch, now tell me. You who is a proud guard of the Saintsworths, how many pces are that only members of their Main Branch can be?"

  There were pces filled with Alexanders? The horror.

  "...The...main house...where only people approved by the Young Master can inhabit..." The Eris girl said.

  Young Master? Who was that?

  "That's right, now...if Alexa grew in that pce, then surely she has the blessing of Alexanders. So even if she was indeed the daughter born out of wedlock..." Glory said walking towards the Eris girl, the girl's knees had failed and now she was kneeling on the ground, tears flowing from her eyes, "Nay...even if she was a child picked from the streets, nothing more than a street rat. If she was taken into the main branch, what would she be?"

  "....A...True...Saintsworths...A...person...close to...the gods..." The Eris girl said turning slowly to look at Glory, "...someone...who...was born...to....rule..."

  Alexa was born to rule? Lies!

  She was born to eat Mango! And to be happy. Yes.

  "You better leave, and beg your patriarch to be exiled." Glory said, pulling out her phone, "I'll ask my Father to ask yours for some mercy, but you had better solve it fast and leave sooner rather than ter..."

  Then turning to point around, Glory added, "You are no longer someone to be envied, but someone who can bring glory to whoever brings you to the enforcers after all." Alexa turned to look around, and the other kids' gazes changed.

  From one of amusement to disgust, to curiosity and finally they had set up in another emotion that Alexa knew very well, [Hunger].

  Only these people's eyes weren't focused on food, but on another of their species, and it didn't seem like the Hunger for biomass that Alexa had from time to time, but instead was one to take possession of someone.

  "...I'll...leave...Teacher!" The Eris girl said aloud.

  "Yes?" The teacher person once again manifested from thin air, no one seemed to pay attention or even mention that. Alexa had attempted to keep him at the back of her mind, within her sensors to track, but...

  "[SuperVilin Designation: The Theater Master, Tristan De'Medicci has not been logged within the sensor database, only time he was recorded was when host was looking at him.]"

  So, Alexa could only record him while she paid conscious attention to him? That was a weird thing to happen.

  "I....don't feel well...could I leave?" The Eris girl said, tears already on her face; her appearance was a mess.

  "So long your team leader doesn't mind it," The teacher person said turning to Glory, "She was part of your team right? I can permit her to leave, but no one will take her spot."

  She was going to participate?

  "We will be participating with one member less?" An asked, "We are already going with only four members, if we go like this then we will only have three members."

  What?

  "That are the rules, you are already with advantage since you have one Core User on your team," The teacher person said smirking, "It was deemed that Alexandra as a Saintsworths with a physical Core Power will be enough advantage to count for two people, even with her Core Powers sealed."

  "She may leave," Glory said, interrupting An from answering, "I only added her because she was supposed to be someone to keep Alexa safe, but she isn't what I expected."

  Glory turned to look down at the Eris girl, "So she may leave." Then, turning to look at the teacher person, Glory added, "I'll be on the outer ring on our side, An will be on the opposite side, and finally, Alexa will be on the court."

  What?

  "What are the positions?" Alexa asked turning to Glory.

  "Then she may leave," The teacher person said turning to the Eris girl, "Run little girl, the school protection only extends so far. While we are preparing to start the event, no student may leave unless we approve of it."

  What are the positions though?

  "Then..." The Eris girl said with hope in her eyes.

  "That is to say, while students can't leave without a teacher's permission..." The teacher person said, smiling evilly, "That doesn't mean a teacher can't authorize someone to leave like I did. Say...someone who is part of a cn that wants to increase their position within the Saintsworths Conglomerate..."

  And just as hope had returned to her eyes, the Eris girl once again fell into despair.

  "...I'll...I have to go!" And without even going for her stuff the Eris girl ran out of the room.

  Some other students attempted to go after her, but got stopped by teachers or other people, only the Eris girl managed to leave like nothing, even to the compin of the students that had attempted to block her from leaving.

  "...let that be a lesson students," The teacher person said turning to the kids near them, "Not everything is what it looks."

  And like that, the teacher person walked away, this time Alexa didn't let him leave her sight...At least till the teacher person turned around and fshed a fshlight at Alexa, making her flinch.

  That was enough for Alexa to close her eyes for half a second, but when she opened them again, the teacher person was once again on the same spot he had been before.

  Way farther than he could reasonably walk in the time Alexa closed her eyes.

  "...so the positions?" Alexa asked once again, annoyed at not being able to understand how the teacher person was doing that.

  "The same as normal dodgeball with some additions." Glory said, turning to Alexa and handing her the piece of paper that An had brought. "We have two areas to py with."

  The piece of paper had five lines on which to write names. The piece of paper had four names on leaving one of the spots empty.

  "Now we can cross out Eris, since she is no longer part of the team, that was a miss in our pnning." An sighed from the side.

  "...this doesn't expin the positions." Alexa said, pointing at the piece of paper.

  -Outside Offense: An Harmonia

  -Outside Defense: Glory Bckthorn

  -Inside Offense: Alexandra Saintsworths

  -Inside Defense: Eris Ashcroft

  If anything she knew that An would be outside being offensive, and Glory would be outside being defensive, so would those two fight between each other while Alexa was supposed to fight against Eris?

  "Unlike the normal version of dodgeball that you know," Glory said taking the piece of paper and pulling out a pen from her bzer, "This one has two active areas to py, inside and outside."

  Yeah, unlike the normal version that Alexa knew, totally. Because she totally knew how to py dodgeball...

  "Pyers can swap between outside and inside so long they aren't hit." Glory continued, "In normal dodgeball if you get hit you are out. But on this you only swap from being inside to outside."

  "That doesn't mean that a team can't loss, you can only swap with someone with someone inside if the one inside accepts. And even that is only allowed to one person by team." An added from the side, "The normal version of this only has one person on the outside, but since this one is reduced to be pyed by five people, we have two outside and three inside."

  "And this is the important bit," Glory said pulling the attention back to her, "If the ball hits the floor and there is no one inside then we lose."

  Wait..."If Alexa is the only one inside...then if she gets hit then we lose?" Alexa asked, she was alone in the inside after all.

  "No, you are only out if no one in your team catches the ball." Glory said shaking her head, "If you get hit, so long An or myself catches the ball then you will be fine."

  "Then Alexa only needs to dodge and hit the other side?" Alexa asked, wasn't this kind of easy to solve?

  "Also no," An said this time, "If the ball hits our court and go to the outside then we loss a point, we start at 3 points, one per pyer. If we end at zero, we lose too."

  ...."SO MANY RULES!" Alexa couldn't help but shout her frustration.

  "Also if we get hit while being in the outside we will get eliminated permanently," Glory said, " So we can't risk getting hit."

  Then...what was their role on the outside?

  "I'll be attempting to catch the balls they miss and give them to you." An said raising his hand, "My job is to prevent them from saving their teammates."

  "And my job is to catch the balls you miss, and attempt to save you if you get hit." Glory said afterward.

  "And Alexa only needs to hit the other pyers and either don't get hit or dodge the ball, right?." Alexa asked for confirmation.

  "Precisely." Glory nodded, "Easy, right?"

  ...No, not easy. It sounded annoying. Who even came up with these rules? A muscle-ball-loving convict?!?!?