I will strive beyond this cursed bloodline!

The orange-haired girl had announced social service in such a happy tone…

She almost felt bad for the silence that rebuffed her back. Almost.

“Why should we be happy about doing social work?” Asked Akira, who would have thought that he could make such rational and normal questions? Most of the students that had left his immediate area also looked at him as if he had grown another head.

“What?” Glared Akira at the students. Rena, for her part, was just nodding, as if everyone else had seen the light or something. Of course, she glared at her when she noticed that Elizabeth was also looking at Akira.

Calm girl, not going to take your boy toy away from you.

“Thought you at the very least would like this Akira.” Said the orange-haired girl while pointing a remote at the screen and clicking a button. Soon enough, a magical circle materialized at the tip of the remote, and presto!

The screen projected…A PowerPoint presentation.

“Wait, a second…What button it was…” Mumbled the secretary of the student council. After a few minutes of fumbling around she finally managed to start the presentation.

“This social service consists of you all going into the city and searching for things to do with your power set.” Said Selen, while showing photos taken from a newspaper about sidekicks or brand new heroes.

“The school doesn’t encourage any type of work. You can do whatever you want.” And soon enough, other photos were shown, photos of Villains, photos of henchmen, photos of minions… Even a photo of a delivery man…That looked suspicious…Blonde.

Nah, she must be imagining things. That guy looked closer in age to Alexa than to Alexanders, no way in hell.

“Granted, you will need to file a report on your activities or show evidence of working in the persona you filed as a powered or mage.” And sure enough, the presentation advanced showing the scanned image of a report.

It even had the name of the reporter, Selen, and while it had her last name censured, one could imagine what it said.

More importantly, it showed her as…A delivery girl? What?

“And of course, if you have pictures, you have to add them.” She moved to the next slide in the presentation.

There it was indeed the secretary of the student council…Somewhat younger looking with a face full of freckles and a cheap-looking magical girl outfit.

She…Didn’t have a very good [Defense Nodes] since she was making the connection quite easily.

“If you don’t have a discovered talent yet, this is the chance you need to find it.” Said the girl while moving on to the next slide in the presentation.

There was a new picture where she was outside a church delivering some…a dubious-looking parcel.

The contents were censored once again and she really didn’t want to look closer.

The next few slides were of her in a priestess-style magical girl dress and a new report file. Now with a new work as a priestess there.

“I found my [Affinity] was closer to [Holy] in my social service. Before I was training as a [Wind] attuned magical girl for long-range deliveries. Now after graduating, I will be working as a [Holy Aligned] magical girl fighting incursions into this plane.” Smiled brightly the orange-haired girl.

Somehow she still thought that she was in the wrong line of work… But if the student council president wasn’t advising her against that, perhaps her [Origin] was that?

“And don’t let anyone else tell you what to do. Do what feels right!” She said while moving on to the last slide in the presentation.

There it was a more recent picture, perhaps at the start of this year? It had the student council president speaking with her while pointing at a report file and the orange-haired girl hugging another report.

She was sorely tempted to use [Identify] on that girl to find if her [Origin] was indeed one attuned to [Holy]…Maybe she also was whitelisted on that girl status screen? A quick peek at the silver-haired girl…And she made an X with her fingers…

That’s a no…Huh…

She would stockpile mana and try when no one was around.

Either way, the next one to speak was the disciplinary council telling them to not be brats and follow the rules of our employers, be they heroes, villains, or a corporation.

Some advice on what corporations to stay clear of. The school advises to not work with conglomerates as a rule of thumb till graduation.

Weird addendum there.

In the end, the only one that didn’t speak was the black-haired guy and the fire-aligned girl. Weird.

They both were just looking at the students and just tried to be stoic or something.

The most interaction they got was when Akira started screaming since the fire-aligned girl shifted her center of gravity and the black-haired one placed one of his hands inside of his coat.

But beyond that, they just stood there, they waited for the other members to leave and after a few minutes, they left too. Did they end on guard duty?

Shouldn’t that be the work of the disciplinary council? AKA Albino guy?

“This is exciting Eli-Eli!” Said her pink-haired friend. “We will get to work as Magical Girls!” Shrieked the girl.

Most of the people around them were already planning things to do and places to go.

Granted most of them knew of friends that attended classes with them, so they had vague ideas of who they were and so.

She for her part was wondering something else…

Would she need to work twice as much since she had two identities?

…She might need to get help.

She could use Rossie as a helper for magical work…But for powered…

Who to ask…This would need some questioning.

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In the end, Elizabeth defaulted to ask the crazy old man, he was her powered homeroom teacher after all.

“How can I help you brat?” Asked the crazy old man, still rude to this day.

“Will I need to field reports as powered?” Said the blonde girl, while trying her best to not think about all the smoke that was in this small office.

“Are you a powered?” Was the answer she got from this teacher. What kind of question was that?

Of course, she was! He even was the reason she ended up in such a stacked match in the first place!

So as a mature young woman, she materialized some shadows and created a small whirlpool of shadows to suck all the smoke that was damaging her lungs, huh.

“Would you look at that.” Said the blonde girl while she added a few blades to the whirlpool to pulverize any cigarette that fell inside. “It looks like I might be a powered.”

To this the crazy old man just smirked and threw his cigarette, making use of the whirlpool of death (To the smoke) “Then it seems you will need to give a report after all. If you want to make it easy on you. Go Villain style.” He said while searching on his desk for something.

Was he suggesting the daughter of two of [The Twelve] to work as a [Villain]?

“Here, this is one of the reports you will need to file as a [Villain].” He said while showing her a newspaper cutout. It showcased a few minions working securing a vault door while a [Villain] directed them.

Was…Was he stealing a vault door?

“That is a newspaper cutout.” Said the blonde girl, stating the obvious. Just making sure this crazy old man wasn’t going crazier.

“Yes, that is obvious. We can’t ask for fancy reports from [Minions], nor hope that [Villains] file evidence to the school about their crimes. So a newspaper cutout, a youtube clip, a post on social media about the crime. Anything that can link your powered persona to someplace that you needed to be or work is enough as a report.” Said the teacher.

That…Was fair. One couldn’t expect [Villains] or [Minions] to give away the secret of their works, that was a liability. So she wouldn’t need to do that much paperwork…

And if she found time to pester or annoy [Hero]’s work…That would make sure she got into the news easier enough…

“So…Hypothetically…If a powered embarrassed a Hero or Sidekick on tv…” Started saying the blonde girl smiling maliciously…

“That could count as a report of said powered’s social service yes.” Answered back the crazy old man also smiling…

Yeah, she would go at it as a [Villain]…Or perhaps a minion…

I hope Father doesn’t mind it that much…Oh well, she could always craft a new [Shift] if she wanted to work as a hero later on…Plenty of people could have shadow powers…right?

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And with that out of the way it was decided!

She would start this social service as a [Villain]!

"Excuse me..." Said a meek voice bringing her back from the land of the dreams.

Elizabeth turned around and it was the knight-themed hoodie...Girl, the girl!

"Yes?" Answered back the blonde girl. Had she perhaps come to ask something to the crazy old man too?

She didn't notice anyone waiting for him...Did she jump the lane?

Oops.

"Amm...."Started fumbling this adorable thing.

She wanted to kidnap her and pamper her!

No wait...She couldn't do that, that would be evil!

She wasn't evil...

Right?

Well, she would work as a villain this summer...Or as a minion if that didn't work out...

Perhaps she could do so then?

"Amm...." Oh right, she wanted to ask something. "Want to pair up for the summer work?" Finished saying the black-haired cute shaped person in front of her.

"Ah?" Elizabeth couldn't help but fumble back her answer.

"I was scouted as a [Sidekick] for [The Tribunal]...But I don't want to go alone..." Said almost in a whisper the black-haired girl.

She what?

Wasn't..."Isn't that the most popular governmental approved [Hero] organization in the world?" Asked in surprise the blonde girl.

That list of 'Approved' organizations didn't include [The Twelve] since they didn't answer to the government. And so the united nations made [The Tribunal] in an attempt to curve the influence from [The Twelve].

It didn't work of course, since they barely had S-Class Heroes with them. And even then, they didn't have the equivalent of an S-Class Mage. Unlike [The Twelve].

So their reach wasn't that great. Can't work for the government if half your work has 'Ritual' in the name...Bad for the press.

"Impressive." Said the blonde girl, sure enough, it was.

If she wasn't planning to work as a [Villain] she wouldn't mind accepting that offer.

"Yeah..." Answered back with much life in her the girl. "I asked if I could bring...a friend..." Said while blushing the girl.

SO CUTE ASDASDFASDFASDFAFSD

Was she doing this on purpose? She must be right? RIGHT?!?

"And they say they could...I want to give you this spot as...an apology." Finished saying while looking down at the black-haired girl.

A what?

"Apology?" Asked the blonde girl. What was this girl speaking about?

Was apology for moving her heartstrings this much?

Don't worry about that girl, it's fine!

"...I can show you...Come..." She said while grabbing her hand, then dropping it...Then looking ashamed and walking into an empty classroom.

The blonde girl of course followed her. Never leave a cute girl alone in a classroom!

Everyone knew that.

Inside the somewhat big classroom, she found the black-haired girl in front of a backpack.

It was one of the standard issued ones that the school provided to hide your powered disguise.

"This...is me." Said Chloe while showing her the disguise she used as powered.

And it was pretty. One could even say it was cute how she was hiding behind it with only her red ears peeking behind it.

"I see." Said the blonde girl.

She now understood what was happening.

After all..."You are the reason why they think I'm [The Thunder Queen]." Sure enough, it was the disguise used by the blonde powred girl that everyone thought it was Elizabeth.

"Yeah...[The Tribunal] also thinks that, that is why they offered me the spot as a provisional Hero. They said that if not for that I would only get openings as a [Sidekick] at best." Said a somewhat downcast Chloe.

"Of course, I don't offer you this as a bribe or anything!" Quickly added Chloe. "I just think that you deserve the spot if you want it...If you ask me to say no I will say no too!"

Yes, she was adorable.

"You should accept it." Said the blonde girl. "Also if anyone should give an apology that it's me." Added the blonde girl.

She took a few steps backward and made sure there wasn't anything in her way.

"After all..." She said and left a dramatic stop for a good measure." I also am to blame for this identity problem." And after that, she theatrically snapped her fingers.

"[Shadow Shift - Shadow Empress]" And so intoned the blonde girl.

She wasn't doing this because she wanted to impress Chloe, no sir.

It was...Because she genuinely felt bad for her.

She was getting blamed for her antics, and if she went the way of the [Villain] she would get even more blame.

"[As you can see, the infamy I will bring you is greater than the privileges you will get from (The Tribunal) thinking you are me.]" Said the now black-haired armored girl.

To her surprise Chloe didn't blame her, not even demanding compensation either.

"SO COOL!" Said with vigor Chloe while throwing her own disguise into the floor. "You even have the spikes in the elbows!" She fused while examining her armor.

She was somewhat at a loss of words.

"Are you using the Golden Age [Shadow Pact] as inspiration? The helmet feels like it's from the silver age..." She mumbled while going on her phone and looking at older photos from the renowned [Villain].

Yes...Everything was well in the world.

"[Of course, the sword is from the epic fight he had with those (Tribunal) wannabes too!]" Said the armored girl while materializing her sword.

"Can I take a picture?!?" Said Chloe while bringing her phone and posing near the armored girl.

Wait...Wasn't she going to join those same [Tribunal] wannabes?

"[Of course!]" Answered the armored girl. "[You can use it later if they pester you too hard about being me too.]" Added the armored girl.

"Let me dress up so you can take a picture with me to do the same." Said Chloe while grabbing her clothes and running towards a bathroom.

Right...That was an option...

"What is this oppressive feeling in my heart?" Mumbled the armored girl while seeing Chloe running towards a bathroom to change.

Couldn't she change in this room?

Of course, after Elizabeth summoned a shadow panel to protect her dignity.

Not that it would hide her from Elizabeth...She could see quite well in the shadows and through the shadows after all...

...At least she would get pictures with her.