Against what Alexa had expected, the st member besides the Beatrice girl had surrendered, which meant that Alexa had only one target left, the one that could probably defend against her.

  "...Sorry…But I don't think I can block her," The st member said to Beatrice as he walked out.

  "It's fine; it takes great valor to admit when you can't face someone." The Beatrice girl said as she saw her cssmate walk out.

  "...!" The other kid stopped for a second and raised his hands to his eyes, "... I'm sorry!"

  And then left running out of the court, there seemed to be some drops of water falling as he ran away dramatically, "We have confirmed that one member has decided to leave the match!" The Spears Teacher's voice, there was something weird in her voice tone, as if the voice cords were trembling.

  "Now, there are no more people for you to bully Saintsworths!" The Beatrice girl said, gring at Alexa.

  Alexa didn't got why she was being gred, she did nothing wrong! Why would she go for the obviously better suit-up target when she could grab someone more squishy!

  Another point of great interest was how the Beatrice girl's aura seemed to want to shine in azure-pink light; what was aura, you ask? Well, there was some sort of weird gas-like thing flowing around the Beatrice girl. Was she overheating?

  "Is that normal?" Alexa decided to ask while turning to Glory.

  "Yeah, the rabble likes to bme us for their faults. Really, running away because they can't measure to us elite is quite normal, they will badmouth you for it, but pay no heed to them." Glory said, looking increasingly smug about it.

  It was a superior look of superiority.

  "That not is what Alexa is asking about," Alexa said shaking her head, she couldn't care less for what the [Prey] said about her, if they got too much to deal with, she would nom them and be done with that, "The vapor thingy, the weird gas that the Beatrice girl has around her body."

  "The what now?" Glory said confused turning to stare at the Beatrice girl.

  Yeah, she was still being all gasey, no changes there, if anything her gre seemed to do some weird thing that made her eyes shine, but that shouldn't be possible since the choker would strangle all the Mana that was used to activate her Core Power.

  "I don't see anything, is it a Core User thing?" Glory said crossing her arms atop her chest, "No, the choker would block that, and besides yours is a body type, it wouldn't give you paranormal perception…Is Beatrice the one who triggered it then? But her Core Power should be new and hard to control, no way she could get around the chokers this fast…"

  So it was possible to get around them! Alexa knew she wasn't the only one who managed to do that!

  No, wait, that wasn't the important part!

  "The ball will return to the fuzzy tigers!" The Spears teacher said wiping her eyes, why was she crying?

  No, wait, that was also not important!

  "Wasn't the ball supposed to go back to Alexa?!?!?!?" Alexa said raising her voice.

  "The Fuzzy Tiggers only have one member left, it is a courtesy for them. If your team only had one member left, then the ball would have gone to you too." The Spears teacher said.

  Getting a scoff from Glory from behind, "Sure it would," Alexa heard it since she had moved near Glory to ask her about the weird aura-like thing, Alexa got the impression that the spears teacher seemed to pretend to not look in their direction.

  So maybe this meant that their css was usually bullied on this? Alexa did get the impression that there wasn't much preparation from her cssmates; case in point was how they sent Glory and An.

  While An had pulled his weight…somewhat, Glory had most certainly had not. Really, her greatest achievement had been catching a ball that rolled to her feet, and that had been thanks to Alexa's calcutions even.

  Either way, now that the game was restarting Alexa needed to put her senses into combat mode, why? Because that weird aura made Alexa's Core all tingly! She didn't know Cores could get tingly! It was weird!

  “[Mana ressonance detected, new subtype of mana detected. Emotional Mana…analyzing…]”

  Emotional Mana? That seemed….weird? Alexa didn't need Mana with emotions! She already had enough problems with emotions as it was, mostly in the form of weird fixations from the naggy one and the mean one.

  Alexa? She was normal. She had no weird fixations on anything, no sir…Nothing about her was weirdly hyper-fixated in a thing!

  "[Results are as follows, a new subtype of Mana seems to increase the host's aggressiveness and increase the desire for a confrontation with no regard for the health or status of the field of combat. It will work by increasing the correct type of hormonal responses within the host's body. Results are not beneficial to host, purging new mana subtype.]"

  Aaaand there it goes; at least Main Core was good at his work.

  As soon as he purged the weird new mana subtype, Alexa felt her head turned clear again, and while she was still able to see the weird aura-type thing, it was no longer as strong, more like it was like a weird vapor instead of gas like before, if that made sense. It made sense to Alexa at least!

  "Prepare yourself Saintsworths!" The Beatrice girl said as she bounced the ball a couple times on the floor, "I'll mop that smirk out of your face!"

  Smirk? Alexa wasn't smirking! She was smiling! Cute girls smiled! … And smirked sometimes, but Alexa wasn't smirking right now!

  "Why do people have this weird fixation on Alexa's st name? Should she change it?" Alexa said, sighing as the Beatrice girl hit the ball a little too strong, sending it flying high up.

  Oh, Alexa had seen this one before!

  The Beatrice girl quickly jumped and….overshot her jump. She had put too much strength into her jump, and now she had flown straight past the ball. that was a jump a little too high for a normal human, so if someone doubted if the Beatrice girl was the Core User, they would no longer have a doubt about it.

  Not that Alexa minded it, she was not a friend of the Beatrice girl, if anything she was overly hostile, so Alexa didn't see them becoming friends, at all. Also she wasn't cute, not that she could be cute, since Alexa was the cutestest, but at least Glory was somewhat cute! (Sometimes)

  "StarDestroyer kick!" The Beatrice girl suddenly said, hitting the ball with her feet. Alexa hadn't been prepared for that since she had thought you could only hit the ball with your hands!

  Everyone had been hitting it with their hands so far after all, so Alexa had done the same, seeing that one could use their legs would have changed everything! Alexa had more ways to attack if she could use her footsies! These had more power than her hands! Not her stronger part, her strongest part was her nomskers after all.

  One needed to make sure she could do anything and everything.

  "KUH!" Not that it mattered, since the Beatrice girl's attack finished, and all they managed to hear was the whimper of An as he was hit on the stomach by a ball descending down and hitting him from below.

  The Beatrice's girl attack had bounced against the floor and hit An straight on his stomach, an ingenious way of attacking and making sure the attack went past his defenses, not that An had raised any defense. Alexa would need to speak with him ter about keeping up adequate defenses.

  “An Harmonia, out!” The Spears teacher said raising her hand and pointing at An, "Medic team! Check on Mister Harmonia!"

  The same group as before came and kneeled besides An, they asked him a few things and then moved him into a weird table that was then raised by a couple [Humans], it seemed to be used to move other [Humans] around.

  Alexa hadn't noticed them using one of them before.

  "Tch….hypocrites, they didn't use those with my friends…" The Beatrice girl said under her breath.

  "Why didn't they?" Alexa decided to ask as the Beatrice girl gred at her when she heard Alexa's question.

  "Are you for real?" The Beatrice girl said, "Because we are the rabble, the expendables, it matters not to them if we are hurt or not, only the profit they can make. Or what, do you think your fancy golden-pted clothes came free of charge?"

  "...Well, Alexa didn't pay for them." Alexa said, shrugging, "But shouldn't they give appropriate care depending on the type of injury received?"

  At least Alexa thought so, when she was doing those tests in the facility before she always got the right type of help that was needed…at least till she started trying to nom the maintenance crew, then she wasn't getting as much maintenance as before, at least not with her aware of the maintenance cycles anyway.

  "The Harmonia has a monopoly on the hospitals, so their medic staff is what we use in this school. This means that if you want to get good care while at these events, you need to stay in their good graces." The Beatrice girl said, gring at An as he was removed from the field.

  "...So hitting An like that will help you?" Alexa asked confused, she didn't understand the logic that the Beatrice girl was using, if anything this felt more like…

  "Screw getting help from them; I now have a Core. They will not be able to ignore me, and if they do. I can be a Hero like Mom; at worst, I'll be a Vilin like Mother." Beatrice said while smiling dangerously, "They will not ignore me, one way or the other."

  Ah, Alexa now knew what this reminded her, the Beatrice girl was acting like a spoiled brat!

  "Like you Alexa?" "Ooooh, I can see it too!"

  …No, Alexa was not a spoiled brat, she was a cute girl. She was supposed to be pampered, it was the natural order of how [The World] worked.

  "Okay…If you say so," Alexa said shrugging, she was not about to go and argue with a [Human] about what they could or not do, even if said [Human] was a [Child Stage] that seemed to have some weird fixation on being understood.

  "The ball will return to The Fuzzy Tigers, the Score is 4 - 1!" The Spears teacher said and gave the Beatrice girl the ball once again.

  Alexa could see it on her eyes, even though she was looking at Alexa, she was not looking at Alexa, instead she was measuring how Alexa stood and a way to get past her and go straight to Glory.

  And Alexa could guess that Glory also knew that, but for some reason she wasn't doing anything, so Alexa took one step forward and raised her hand.

  "Yes?" The Spears teacher said confused, "Do you need something Alexa?"

  "A question," Alexa said lowering her hand, "What happens if I hit Glory by accident?"

  "With the ball, I am guessing?" The Teacher person said, confused, Alexa nodded to that question, nonetheless, "Well…if you don't catch the ball after hitting her, she will be eliminated unless she uses the [Back] command, but if she gets eliminated again after that, then she will be out."

  Glory seemed to get what Alexa had meant and sighed in relief.

  "You need to catch it first," The Beatrice girl said with a smirk on her face as she licked her lips. Did she go hungry? Alexa had some candies…but she didn't really want to share them, less so with her.

  "We will resume the game now!" The Spears Teacher said, "Also Alexa, if you hit your friend by accident you will be the st member on the game, so if you are eliminated your team will loss the game. You will need to use the [Back] command as soon as you get hit to return immediately, and even like that, you will only have one extra life."

  An extra life?

  That word had that much power? Alexa would keep track of it then; an extra life was useful, especially if she ended in a test and misjudged something, leaving her exposed to damage. She had her body destroyed plenty of times when going through tests, but she had the members of the research boratory to fix her.

  Now? Now she wasn't sure if [Haephestus' Forge] would even be capable of fixing her body if she couldn't do so. Granted [Core] seemed to have the skill to do so, but she would need to pay with [Mana] for that, so Alexa wasn't sure if that counted as a free fix or not.

  "Prepare yourself Bckthorn, this will hut you more than me," The Beatrice girl said as she bounced the ball a couple times against the floor, Alexa wondered if that had some reason to be, or was it merely a ritualistic aspect of [Human Culture] that she still didn't get.

  Either way, Alexa prepared herself…not so much for an attack from the ball; she didn't need much to prepare in regard to that; no, what Alexa was preparing was to intercept the ball and redirect the impact; she needed to absorb enough kinetic energy from the ball and throw it at Glory.

  The first was to make sure Glory wasn't hurt, and the second was to eliminate Glory without carrying too much risk; the girl didn't want to quit like the other team had done, probably because she didn't want to go through the same booing that the other kid had gone through. It was understandable, Alexa also wouldn't be able to tolerate it, especially since the people there weren't even participating on the event!

  With what right did they compin about what other people did on their test runs. Rude.

  And to that end, Alexa needed to make sure she was ready, so first she put into a comfortable position that allowed her to move in a moments notice, it was simir to the base position that the Beatrice girl seemed to favor for all her movements.

  "Hmph, a mere copy…" The Beatrice girl seemed to notice it, but she continued bouncing the ball against the floor; it was in one of those bounces that the Beatrice girl moved, "Snap heart-wrenching strike!"

  Her right hand darted quickly towards the ball, Alexa had been paying attention to Glory's position, the girl had been slowly moving to stand behind Alexa, so that was something that should help Glory right?

  Wrong!

  The fact that she had moved behind Alexa meant that the obvious way of attacking her would be going through Alexa first, right?

  No.

  The attacks that the Beatrice girl had used before worked around the ball bouncing from the floor into her targets, if she did the same on this one, then Alexa would have no way of knowing in which direction she would use, right on this case, she had throw it towards the far end of the court, Alexa could probably go and stand behind the spot the ball would bounce normally.

  She had the speed for that, the problem…Alexa didn't know if the ball would indeed bounce on the normal way or go towards Glory, and in either case she would need to move and stop protecting Glory…

  But Alexa didn't have many options, so she moved.

  First she jumped and made sure that her body was between Glory and the ball, as soon as she started moving the ball was close enough to hit the floor, and as Alexa had predicted, the ball bounced out towards Alexa, her normal [Human] reflexes wanted her to get out of the way.

  But she fought against those instincts and raised her hand to attempt to catch the ball, it had plenty kinetic energy, but even so. Alexa had been ready, so she raised her hand up to redirect the ball to the sky.

  In this way, she wouldn't need to continue fighting against the ball.

  "Nice!" Glory quickly said as she saw the ball fly toward the ceiling.

  And she was the only one to say anything, the Beatrice girl merely etched with her mouth; as for the Spears teacher?

  She waited a few minutes, just enough for…

  *Bonk*

  That to happen.

  The ball fell atop Glory and bounced away, just as how Alexa had wanted.

  It barely had any momentum or kinetic force left, of that Alexa made sure, her hands stang like hell, and she couldn't even rebuild the damaged muscle tissue as she was supposed to have her [Core Power] blocked right now.

  Not that it prevented the Beatrice girl from using hers, even now Alexa could feel the phantom emotion of wanting to release all her limiters and fight with all her powers bared in a glorious brawl with nothing barred.

  Just Alexa, Beatrice and their emotions, a great confrontation between their creeds and beliefs…

  “[Purging foreign mana emotions…]”

  Or something like that.

  "Now only you remain Saintsworths," The Beatrice girl said with a savage smile on her face.

  "...Are you sure her limiter is working?" Alexa said to the Spears Teacher, "Because that looks like it isn't."

  Was Alexa really the only one seeing this?

  Well, if she was to go by the face the theater person was making (And his clones beyond the cracks in reality), at least another one was seeing it…Not that it helped Alexa at all.