In the end the Beatrice girl decided to call 'Back' and get into the court again, they had to take a small break while she talked with her team and they ended up putting on the choker, all of them.

  "The match will continue with the ball in possession of the 'Golden Eggs'," The teacher person with small clothes said, throwing a new ball towards Alexa's side, "Remember, fair py and no overuse of strength. This is a non-core event, so if anyone is hurt and we deem excessive force, the person who hurt another student will be out!"

  That seemed…like an odd rule?

  Why would it be the aggresor be held responsable for the weaker link? If Alexa was hurt because she was weaker, then it was Alexa's fault for not preventing that. Granted, this was a great rule to protect Alexa, and since she didn't have the intention of hurting other [Human Kid - Stage] kids, then it was double so.

  Besides, why was everyone looking at Alexa? She was cute, yes, but wasn't this overpying it? Or…had Alexa become even cuter now that she stood on the court? She did know that she looked cute with the uniform that she was wearing, the golden colors of the clothes did match her appearance…

  "Is everyone ready?" The teacher person with little clothes said.

  "Yes!" The Beatrice girl screamed as she did small jumps on her pce, what was she doing?

  “[Martial Artist Designation: Beatrice Starcroft seems to be testing how much strenght it requires for her to move, each jump is done tensing different parts of her muscles.]”

  "Alexa! Get ready!" Glory screamed from the Back.

  Alexa acknowledged Glory's warning with a nod. As she turned her head, she noticed that Glory now only had one person guarding her. Confused, Alexa turned to look at An and found the missing one at his side. The dynamics between the characters were shifting, and Alexa was at the center of it all.

  "Keep up the good work!" An's voice echoed from the other side, pointing at the other student. They moved one there? Was it because Alexa had managed to knock out two people? The team was working together, each member pying their part in the game.

  Well, they had wasted the [Back] on the Beatrice girl, so it was fine.

  "Py!" The teacher person screamed and the ball fell into Alexa's side of the court, she quickly ran to it and caught it before it bounced more than once.

  "Tch…" The teacher person with little clothes tched with her tongue, did she want the ball to bounce more than once? But then Alexa would loss a point! That was a no-no!

  "Come at me, girl," The other student that Alexa hadn't even bothered describing said.

  "I'll catch it this time Saintsworths!" The Beatrice girl screamed from the side.

  "You'll not get away with another free ball either, Harmonia." And to finish, the kid standing near An added.

  Well, Alexa had been said to measure her strength, and now there was someone guarding An…that meant only one thing….

  "Star something something fist!" Alexa screamed as she threw the ball into the air and went into position again.

  "Cover!" The teacher person with little clothes screamed that as she started to run towards the court, Alexa could see her punching some buttons into her bracelet.

  "[Detected an increase in efficiency from the mana dampeners. Host is advised to not rely too much on her Nanites at the current time.]."

  Well, Alexa didn't need to rely on her nanites for this, she was in position and the ball would fall to her eye level soon enough, on the other side of the court both Beatrice and the other kid had gone into a defensive position, the kid near An had stopped speaking with him and instead was looking at Alexa.

  And for his part, An only smiled as he put his hands into his pockets, dang it.

  "Hya!" Even so, Alexa's pn had worked; her target was unaware of what was about to happen. So with a scream, Alexa prepared herself and…." *Bonk*”

  She punched forward her hand to grab the ball and threw it backward; she had grown an extra pair of eyes to keep track of the kids that were blocking Glory; now that only one was there, it was easier to deal with him.

  So, making sure that everyone was paying attention to Alexa…she used that to throw the ball to the one person who didn't expect to get attacked, ergo "*Bonk*" The sound of the ball hitting the face a student resounded on the hall.

  "....Eliminated." The teacher person said as she slowly came to a halt and walked to the court's outer area, "Just to make sure, but you aren't hurt?"

  And as she stood near the student that Alexa had thrown the ball at, one that had stayed behind them.

  "No trainer, everything is fine, she just took me by surprise." The kid said, turning to the Teacher with little clothes.

  But Trainer?

  "[Trainer, in this case it probably refers to a teacher who participates in extracurricur events to nurture and train the next generation of sportsmen for a school. The highly toned muscur body and above normal stamina and energy for a non-core user may mean that this Teacher is more adept at moving and using her body than the normal human.]"

  That was an interesting occupation to have, was this teacher person using all her resources to train the [Human Kid - Stage] kids? If they participated in events that forced them to develop like this, then it made sense that she was more protective of her assets; perhaps that was why the teacher person seemed to focus more on how Alexa behaved?

  Was Alexa being evaluated as a threat? Or as a possible new asset?

  If possible Alexa wouldn't mind getting more training done on her [School] hours, she hadn't found a trainer on [Haephestus Forge] so far after all, there should be someone like that, but Alexa hadn't really seen one, she would need to make sure that Ale researched more thoroughly.

  "Why me?!?!?"

  After all, who knew how it would end if she put the naggy one on that, after how she had behaved with Sam, nothing good could come, Alexa could only shudder thinking about how that would end up with.

  "Rude!" "I mean, she is right…" "You also stared at Sam's abs!" "But I didn't gush over them like you!"

  …Perhaps Alexa should be the one to seek training? But that sounded like boring….ugh….

  "Point for The Golden Eggs!" The teacher person with little clothes ended up saying, after making sure the other student was okay, "Pyer Alexa, please refrain from using movements that are overly aggressive…"

  "Alexa promises to only use movements they use against her from now on!" Alexa decided to say that.

  For some reason the teacher person grimaced at that statement.

  "The game will continue as 3 vs 3, Fuzzy Tiggers if you want to move a pyer to the outside you may do so. Golden Eggs, if you want to move a pyer inside the court, you may do so by using the back command!" The teacher person said turning to both teams.

  Thinking about it…Alexa had eliminated two people so far. One that was already on the outer court, so he couldn't move out like the Beatrice girl had done, for some reason she used the Back to return into the court.

  The first one hadn't returned either…well, that one was unconscious so there was that. Perhaps he could return afterwards?

  "The ball will return to the Fuzzy Tigers as no member of The Golden Eggs caught the ball!" The teacher person said, she then turned to look at Alexa's side, for some reason.

  Alexa merely shrugged and got into position once more.

  Glory silently pced herself behind Alexa and An merely nodded at Alexa. Truly, Alexa was the important one here for real, for real.

  "Let's go slowly," The Beatrice girl said, taking on the ball and making it bounce against the floor; she turned to look at his remaining companion on the court first and nodded to him, then turned to the one that was on Alexa's side of the court and doing the same.

  So the next part obviously would be to look at his own teammate on his own court right?

  When Beatrice turned to look at the st member of her team, the one behind her, it was when Alexa noticed it, or well, Main Core did. But let's be honest, it was the same. It's not like Main Core was separated from her anyway.

  She noticed how the Beatrice girl tensed the muscles on her arm as if she was preparing for something, and while the girl did nod to the one behind her, she did something else.

  "Heart Shattering Jab!" She screamed that as she threw the ball up and quickly hit her with her fist.

  The amount of kinetic energy was probably way less than the previous attack she had used, and it also felt like something had restrained her.

  “[Detected a mana eruption from Martial Artist Designation: Beatrice Starcroft, the mana rush was squashed and neutralized mid way turning to a strain to her left arm, time to healing estimated around two weeks.]”

  Alexa noticed how some of the muscles seemed to be moving weirdly, almost as if they were reconfiguring themselves. Alexa didn't have time to worry about that, however.

  "Oof…." Since An had caught the ball straight at his chest, only, not with his chest. He had raised his hands up and was currently holding the ball against his chest as if to prevent it from flying away. "Man, I knew this could happen, but goddess, stopping one of you martial arts kids' attacks will leave me sore, huh."

  An smiled as he looked at the ball, "I half expected a fist to be painted on it you know, it sure as hell looked as something that would send me against the wall in some dramatic look." An said mockingly while pointing at the open hole in the wall.

  "But then again, that only happens in movies…and when Core Powers are in the game." An then pointed at Alexa, "Like with Alexa for example, we had been told hers was more physical than metaphysical though. Wonder what type of Core did you awoke."

  "Harmonia!" The Teacher with small clothes said, "Either continue the game or stop that, we will respect the new Core User till they decide if they wish to be public or not."

  "As you say, Teacher Spears," An said, bowing slightly to the small clothed Teacher so that Teacher was a spear? Or several? Why did she use such a weird name? "Then I shall take this chance to attack."

  An bounced a couple times the ball and then hit it from the lower point, sending it flying in a long arc toward Alexa's side of the court, "Whoops, I guess now only a Core User would be able to catch it…" An smirked, turning to Beatrice and the remaining kid on the court, "That or someone with a superhuman level of strength, like those we see in action and martial arts series."

  Was…Was An actually evil?

  Alexa understood the underlying idea of why one should hide their Core Powers from the public, at least to some degree, not that she was pnning on doing a good work with that, she could always use another face when using her shapeshifting powers in public.

  Besides, not that someone would even attempt to go after her, all she needed to do was show her status as a Saintsworths and try to abuse of it after all. Nepotism was a nice word that she had just found, which meant that she was living in easy mode.

  But how An was pnning to find who was the Core User on the other side was both simple and effective.

  "Harmonia!" The Teacher with the name of a weapon screeched at An, "Behave!"

  "Teacher Spears. There are no rules against passing the ball to my teammates like this. Unless you know of a sure way to get past a newly awakened Core User whose powers are probably not understood and well sealed?" An said as the ball barely got to the apex of its travel, "CRADDLE may be top-of-art technology, but surely it would need more of a sample of someone to regute their seals."

  Wait…The CRADDLE person wasn't perfect at sealing Core Powers?

  “[Evidence shows that the entity known as CRADDLE may work using micromanagement of Mana, this is an inneficient way to seal and restrict Core Powers.]”

  So…Alexa could probably get through the sealing! If she ever needed it…which she did not…since her powers weren't actually Core Powers, but an application of Nanite technology…

  Man that was boring.

  "Alexa!" Glory suddenly screamed from behind, "Be careful! They will attempt to get it if you don't manage to catch it!"

  They what? Alexa turned to look around and sure enough the kid that was on their side had walked near the limit of where he could move, he no longer was standing near Glory…Who was as far away from the court as she could manage?

  What was she even trying to do so far away?

  But that wasn't the point! They wanted to steal her ball?

  Alexa turned to look at the kids on the other side of the court as they moved closer, it made Alexa narrow her eyes. If they wanted to py like that, then she could also do that.

  "It's time to boogey…." Alexa said in an extremely serious and totally coolz tone; her voice was totally not sounding like her usual high-pitched cheeky and cutestest voice, no sir.

  She sounded coolz! Not even cool, or coolest, or cooler, but Coolz! With a Z! It was so cool that she almost said it in a weird nguage. That wasn't this one, but it was one spoken by colonies in third-world countries that aren't relevant to the narrative! What nguage you ask? Something about the Inquisition and Spanish, probably.

  It wasn't relevant to Alexa or to this event, instead Alexa focused on how Beatrice's arm looked, why? Because that was how it looked when one overstrained their body and it got hit by the backsh of these chokers, everyone knew that Alexa was a Core User (Or well, Alexa registered for the events with Core Users, so they would soon enough).

  So taking note of that, she prepared for her next movement.

  "Main Core, prepare to imitate that state on Alexa's legs and her right arm." Alexa sent to Main Core.

  “[Noted, preparing.]” And Main Core answered in kind.

  Now, with that ready, it was time to pounce on her next attack. How? Well, by quite literally pouncing, of course!

  "Nya!" And channeling the spirit of Ale…

  "I AM NOT A CAT!"

  Alexa jumped with all her might, she noticed that after doing the jump her leg seemed….frayed, the muscle seemed to be damaged, Main Core was quick at work, well, she didn't need them for now after all. Or wouldn't need her legs till she nded anyway.

  But that was a worry for future Alexa!

  For now…." Pounce extra coolz attack that is totally legit and exists not because Alexa is jelly of the coolz attack that the Beatrice girl is doing!" Alexa excimed the name of her attack as she hit the ball with both her fists in a downward motion.

  The ball was then sent quickly down; of course, Alexa used barely more strength than the Beatrice girl had used; she had learned her lesson.

  Part of the reason why she hadn't used those weird movements that the Beatrice girl used was that there seemed to be made in mind to maximize the amount of strength a [Human] could exert with the minimum avaible motion.

  And since Alexa's body was optimized to the maximum effort, and her body was also twice or three times more powerful than a normal kid, and actually closer to what an adult would have…

  Yeah, she decided to dial down some of her strength (For now).

  Instead, she fpped around in the air as her attack barreled down, a smirk on her face and looking forward to how they would react.

  It would be amusing to say the least, Alexa hoped that Alexanders had enough popcorn, and that he would share the video ter, Alexa wanted to see how Coolz she looked.