The ball was hit with all the might of Alexa, all her strength, her power, her Mana! All of what made Alexa an extremely dangerous Bio Weapon…who was sealed and had scaled her power down to [Human] levels that is, which meant that while it wasn't that dangerous, it would still hurt like hell if one was hit straight on the face.

  Which was a very real possibility, considering that Alexa had aimed at the chest area of her target.

  Now, Alexa had three possible targets to hit, one was the Martial artists Beatrice Starcroft, the girl who had signed a binding contract with the theater person. Honestly, that was bad, Alexa had learned of these contracts thanks to [Eleanore] and the [Elder] 's interaction with Alexandra.

  And they seemed like a dangerous thing, especially since these allowed Alexa to lie to the face to [Eleanore], a person who could detect falsehood as her [Core Power]. And the Beatrice girl accepted?

  If Alexa could move and speak while that was happening, then she would have advised her against accepting such a loosely set up contract, not that Alexa would have managed a better one, but then again, Alexa had the naggy one, the mean one, and the dumb one (Main Core) to ask advice about wording!

  Either way, that was too many words for something that was irrelevant!

  The important question was…who had Alexa attacked?

  "Guard!" The Beatrice girl had screamed as soon as Alexa jumped.

  "Nice!" Glory almost ughed while screaming that from behind.

  "No!" The kid that had moved forward said while he started running to their side of the court.

  Was that valid?

  Well, Alexa could move within her zone inside the court, so surely that meant that they could do the same?

  Not that he would arrive in time.

  As for the other kids, the Beatrice girl had raised her arms in an form of an X in front of her as she jumped backwards, was she attempting to pre-emptily reduce the damage by jumping on the same direction that he hit was coming?

  Because Alexa wasn't entirely sure that actually worked. Granted, the theory was solid, but…how fast did one need to move to actually make it work? Besides, if she wasn't touching the ground, would the kinetic energy be transferred properly to the ground? Or would it be trapped within her body, increasing the damage and strain he suffered?

  Alexa honestly doubted the efficacy of such a thing, especially in a pce as small as this, and comparing the amount of kinetic energy in py.

  Not that it mattered to Alexa.

  The second kid, the one that was also on the inner court threw himself to the floor while tucking her legs and arms as closely to his body as possible, he was making himself a smaller target.

  Alexa gave this one kid a five out of seven, he had the right mindset.

  The third one however, was the one with the worst performance, he merely stood there looking dumbfounded what his companions in the court did, all the while a death ball of destruction(A normal volleyball) flew straight to his torso.

  He had been the one that Alexa had decided to attack, only it didn't quite look like that. What did Alexa mean by this?

  Her attack wasn't aimed at him…per se.

  Alexa had hit the ball with the intention of having the ball hit the inner court first (Marking a point to them) and then hit the kid second. If Alexa's pn worked as intended, then she would hit a point, have the ball hit the kid and then bounce zily on the outer court, where An could grab it with ease and give it to Alexa next.

  The first problem with her pn was the Beatrice girl; she had awakened a physical [Core], one that messed with the normal rules of physics by how she had reacted to Alexa's previous attack.

  So she made sure to make it look like the attack was powerful…even if that was a lie. This forced the Beatrice girl to overdodge, which she had done, also it made her jump away from the actual target.

  The second problem was the other student on the field, Alexa had guessed that it was someone dangerous since he had stood with the Beatrice girl, the fact that he merely threw himself to the ground and cried meant that he was a non issue.

  The final problem was on the final kid, the one standing guard near An.

  He… *BANG* merely stood there like a dumb kid and got hit squarely on the chest.

  "KAH!" His lungs got emptied in one go and the ball bounced against the floor, losing all the kinetic energy that Alexa had used on it, the ball fell to the floor after its st bounce and nded near An. Who merely picked it from the ground and looked at it with great interest.

  "Time out!" The Spears Teacher said as she ran to the kid who was on the floor, "Medic team!"

  And started calling people over, it was at that moment that Alexa nded…and flopped to the ground helplessly.

  "Alexa became a noddle!" Alexa said as she flopped on the floor, her legs and arms barely functional. "Main Core?"

  “[Host has strained her arms and legs beyond the normal human limits, the abscence of our Core Power mean that we will be bound by normal Human limits, estimated time to recover 15 minutes till normal functions are returned to 100% efficiency.]”

  The voice of Main Core resounded, barely audible to the people near Alexa, that is to say, Beatrice, the Spears teacher, and Glory.

  "Okay~~" Alexa said flopping like a fish out of water.

  "We need a medical staff member here, too!" Glory said running to Alexa and helping her turn upside, having her face looking at the floor.

  "Heheheheh….Alexa Noodle Ver Mk1," Alexa said, moving her arms and legs as if they were snakes, not that she managed much with that since she had bones and whatnot.

  It gave Alexa an idea for a configuration without bones, though, but she would need a better muscur system or a [Blueprint] of some kind of animal with that type of body.

  "We said to keep the attack within the normal acceptable ranges!" The spears teacher said turning to gre in Alexa's direction.

  What was her problem?

  "What is your problem?!?!?" Glory asked, "Also, where is our medic? This is Saintsworths blood that you are making wait!"

  Not…No wait, Alexa's blueprint was indeed from a Saintsworths right? She was half sure it was anyway, since Alexanders hadn't problems with decring her a sister.

  "The Shepherd kid is okay Miss Spears, we will check on the Saintsworths kid now." One of the people that went into the court said walking to Alexa.

  "Is he? He got hit on the abdomen by a fshy move…one can't be sure with Core Users…" The Spears teacher asked worried, why wasn't she worried about Alexa though?

  "There was no Mana usage in the movement, the choker made sure of that." The person that checked on the other kid said as they kneeled near Alexa, "It was just a fshy move not practical or useful on the real world. Really, it was mostly smoke and mirrors type of movement; the damage was mostly psychological."

  Alexa had an extra new type of damage?!?!?!

  "The real damage is to her body, it seems she is also a body type Core Power," The person wearing a red cross on her chest said, they pced their hands on Alexa's noodles arms and a green light manifested, one that soothed Alexa's frayed muscles. "Multiple muscle straining, bone fissures, damaged ligaments…yeah, all the evidence of a body that is used to work beyond the normal limits. I would suggest not letting her participate in high-intensity sports till she gets used to the limits these things put her at."

  And she knew the type of damage that Main Core had given her!

  "[Detected mana probes, these seem to be limited to the affected area, no reason to fight back so far, all nanite probes have been called back from the moment the event was stopped. The Nanite swarm will remain on standby till it is safe to leave.]"

  ….Main Core was making smart decisions for one!

  "....So she…pretended to use her Core Powers?" The spears person said.

  "Probably? She looks like a mischievous kid who doesn't thinks too much, but she is still a Saintsworths," The Red Cross person said, "Remember that while they wield the emblem of an eagle, most are snakes. Even while young."

  Alexa was not an eagle or a snake! At worst she was a [CRAB]!!

  "She isn't like that." Glory said from the side as he continued holding Alexas' hand, "She is noble, like the current Scion. She doesn't look down on me for being part of an exiled cn, she is a normal girl…"

  "A normal girl with the Saintsworths name," The spears teacher said, "Alexa was it? Don't use more movements like that, keep your strenght within normal parameters."

  "What are normal parameters?" Alexa decided to ask, since they finally took her into consideration.

  "....What are the limits these chokers use?" The spears teacher said aloud, "CRADDLE?"

  "Current limits are set to twice the strenght a normal kid of the build and muscle mass can excert, this value varies depending on the person in question." The CRADDLE person said.

  So, Alexa needed to use less than twice the strength her current build presumed to have?

  …..She had been doing that, though…Was that why because it hadn't attempt to fre before?

  "Aye sir!" Alexa decided to give a noddle salute, only to find her right arm working as intended. Dang it!

  "...We will continue when the first aid finishes!" The Spears Teacher said walking to her spot on the benches.

  The other kid that had been hit by Alexa was already removed from the outer court, the st remaining kid on the outer court was moving from side to side, unsure of where to move.

  It took the Beatrice girl to point him behind their team for the st kid on the outer court to stand besides An, they sure as hell wanted to continue with that huh.

  "Okay team, we are almost finished, two points away from defeat." The Beatrice girl said as she stood with her remaining members, "Your job will be to block, stop worrying about Harmonia, if a ball hit us, you need to catch it."

  So she said, didn't she care about Alexa's hearing?

  "There you go, try to keep the muscle damage to the minimum, okay? Even if you can fix it with your Core Power." The Red Cross person said, so she noticed something? Or did she mean because her assumed power was able to fix that?

  Alexa was not sure.

  "Any brilliant pns Glory?" Alexa said while the Beatrice girl continued speaking about dreams, hopes, and some great tournament or whatnot.

  "Hit Beatrice on the face, and if you can, hit Dawnstrike (The kid on the outer court) with all your strength, I will be extremely happy if you hit Embersteel and Dawnstrike on their nether parts." Was the inspiring speech that Glory gave Alexa.

  Why was Alexa supposed to hit them in their no-no zone? Was it because it was a no-no zone?

  Alexa wasn't sure why, but if Glory said so, it may hav some important meaning.

  "We are ready." The Beatrice girl said, turning to the spear person.

  "Golden Eggs?" And that person in turn looked at Alexa and Glory.

  "Alexa?" Glory asked turning to Alexa too.

  "All good, Alexa is ready to go." Was what Alexa answered, she didn't really need that much time to prepare, her wounds were fake after all, something that she wasn't sure if the red cross person noticed or not.

  "Okay, the ball will return to the Golden Eggs!" The spears person said raising the ball and waiting for…something.

  "Give it to Alexa," An said from the enemy side of the court, or well, from behind them. "I'll pass it to her anyway, and I assume you would rather not give us time to prepare for the same attack again?"

  They wouldn't? Alexa did notice that the spears person seemed more partial to the other side….

  "The ball will restart in possession of The Golden Egg's Alexa!" The Spears teacher person said, giving the ball to Alexa.

  Now, she had attacked plenty, but now she had permission to give a viable 'All out' metric; she now knew how much force would usually be allowed by these chokers and by how much Alexa could exert her might without being limited.

  Now, how to go about it...Alexa could use once again the Star Breaker something something move. She had been given a precise metric of what was the limit after all…

  Alexa decided to bounce the ball as she walked from one side to the other, eyeing with a malicious(ly cute) glint on her eyes, the Beatrice girl seemed unfazed by it and if anything seemed to scream with her eyes 'Come at me!'.

  How she was doing that, Alexa…was not quite sure. She was getting way too many information queues from her, even though she was merely standing there all stoic, her muscles seemed to want to expand and contract as if the meat was alive.

  And Alexa could barely see the glint of a pink-haired tiger and an azure dragon standing behind her all menacingly; it was a very weird phenomenon. Not as weird as the images of the other theater persons standing behind her teacher though.

  On the other hand, the kid that was at her side seemed more normal, if anything he looked scared. A stark contrast with the st member of the team, the kid who had moved from guarding Glory to guard An…or well, to attempt to guard their balls. Since he didn't seem interested in preventing An from moving.

  The answer was obvious.

  "You." Alexa said pointing at the scared kid who bnched at the fact that Alexa had pointed at him.

  Alexa would always go for the [Prey], and while on this event the whole team was a target to be hunted, the fact that there was a weaker link meant that Alexa had an easy access to attack.

  "It's okay, its a bluff." The Beatrice girl said, almost snarling at Alexa, not that Alexa minded that.

  Instead, she merely stood in position straight ahead of the target, bouncing the ball against the floor and preparing to attack. She was not going to miss or pretend to miss, her pn was to use what she had learned to the maximum efficiency possible, she had found a great way to move after all, the limits of what the [Human] body was capable was at her fingertips, now she could understand how this species of barely functional monkeys had managed to stand at the top of the evolutionary tree.

  The fact that a body as underdeveloped as hers or the one that the Beatrice girl held was amazing.

  And the idea that her body could produce such amazing amounts of force by merely changing the approach of her movements? It meant that she needed to study this phenomenon more, and what better way than using what she had learned.

  The Beatrice girl had managed a new attack without straining her body and keeping to the limits of her nonaugmented body…barely.

  "Main Core, prepare to manage and distribute the kinetic force as needed," Alexa said in a small whisper.

  The Beatrice girl narrowed her eyes, interesting, she should not be able to hear Alexa.

  "Ultimately Cute Jab!" Alexa said aloud; the Beatrice girl called out her movements, so it was only right that Alexa did the same when imitating her techniques.

  She did as the Beatrice girl had done and raised the ball pointing at her target and without making too much of a movement she hit the ball barely moving from her spot. The Beatrice girl moved instantly standing in front of the kid that was on the outer court from their side.

  She stood with her arms in the form of an X and bracing for impact…

  "Aaaand out!" Not that it made too much of a difference, "Richard Dawnstrike is out!"

  Since Alexa had aimed at the kid that was also inside the court…as she had said. The ball then bounced back to Alexa's side of the court, nding near Glory, as Alexa had pnned, the math to achieve it was easy enough to make. And since the kid that Alexa had used as target was tense, it was easy enough to calcute how the ball would bounce out of a tense target.

  "I got it Alexa!" And the shrill, happy scream of Glory was evidence of how the pn was all coming together.

  "We are coming to an end!" The Spears teacher said, "The Golden Eggs have scored 4 points, the Fuzzy Tigers have yet to achieve a point, if the Golden Eggs manage to get another point the game will be over!"

  So soon? Alexa felt that this was barely getting started…Now…how could she milk this as much as possible…If she went for the st kid on the team…

  "I quit!" The st kid said from the back.

  Well, that was just rude….