She was staring at the reception desk of the i office dy answering calls and direg everything and everyone around, soon enough someone else arrived at the reception desk and took a couple of files from the office dy so she could focus on the people waiting.

  "You there! Magic girls, that way!" Said the office dy wheiced her and Rossie, she was sed with work and different kinds of papers all around her.

  The pink-haired girl nodded and nudged her "Let's go [Elemental Weaver]," and started walking in the dire they had been pointed.

  Soon after a few hallways, they found themselves in front of a door with a [Staff Only] sign, the pink-haired girl knocked on it and waited a few seds.

  "Yes?" Said the voice of a nurse-looking woman after opening the door, she was [Nurse looking] because while she was dressed in the ic's color and was wearing scrubs, she still gave off a little [Mana] from her body.

  "Oh [Sylphie Starheart] wele, and you are…?” Said the nurse-looking woman at the blonde girl, she gave her a one-over and frowned for some reason… While her clothing wasn’t that amazing it showcased multiple stars of different colors all around, it had some influences from Mother’s [Shift] but it was still mostly sky blue. Was it because usually the [Magical Girls - Healers] used Pink?

  “Good M, I’m [Elemental Weaver] the [Partner] of [Sylphie]. I am an…” Started saying Elizabeth when suddenly she was interrupted by the [Nurse].

  “Oh yeah, the [Guard] and [Assistant].” She got interrupted by the woman with a dismissal expression, “I hope you at least work as a [Battery] we don’t have enough workers and they send me a [Novice] as if the ic didn’t have enough power to defend itself…” Grumbled the woman while opening the door and showing them both a small room.

  “What are you waiting fo in.” Motiohe woman, while walking in and sitting in one side of the room, pointing to a couch for both girls to sit in.

  Both girls looked at each other and walked in, closing the door behind them. “First of all [Elemental Weaver], I don’t want you here. You are here because the [School] wants to give you experience as [Guard] for whatever reason, and frankly… I don’t care.” She said while fishing a form.

  At the top was her name as [Elemental Weaver] and some notes about her, “They deemed you an [Exceptional Talent] in spell crafting and want you to get some experieo see if you are talented as [Healer] but I ’t be bothered to waste [Mana] in that. We don’t have enough hands as it is, so here have a look.” After her rant, the woman grabbed a book and offered it to her.

  “ [Healing Magic: How to start]…?” Read the blonde girl while cheg it over, it had been signed by [Magical Girl - Triage Rush], a somewhat famous magical girl that rose to B rank in record time before disappearing.

  She was one of those weird [Magical Girls] that stopped w after making it to the big circles, “So she read!” Said the woman while turning to Rossie, “Yuard is better than the average, you are sure about wanting to keep her around?” Asked the [Nurse] while looking at Rossie.

  “I use my [Authority] to send her in [Scouting] missions if you need.” Said the [Nurse] while ign the blonde girl.

  Elizabeth ignored both and just started reading the book, it seemed to speak about how to build the correct magical circles and how to work their way so the caster could use the mana of the victim to help them [Heal], it was a good way to save [Mana] and helped both caster and victim, the [Healer] would save mana and the victim could stimute their own healing factor so it could tinue w way more than a normal [Heal] spell.

  The formue of the [Spell] was one of the more effit ones she had ever seen too, she made a mental o save that formue and see if she could sneak it into her own [Spells] ter.

  “Yes [Head Nurse], she is very talented in Spell crafting…I wouldn’t be surprised if she could cast [Heal] already.” Said Rossie bringing back the blonde girl from her musings, she had been fog on the information in the book si was full of hings she hadn’t known before.

  “Oh, that? Yeah…I studied one [Healing] matrix spell before ing here since I would be around a iviro.” Said the blonde girl while juring a magic circle in front of her and paring it to the information she had oher hand.

  Then after paring them both, she summoned another extra magic circle “[Magick Circle] + [Mana] + [Transform] + [Mold] = [Magigineering]” And after making sure the [Spell] worked as she wanted, she started editing the spell to add the funs detailed in the book.

  She started editing the flux, the mana battery, even the [Ehe spell used to work, soon enough her magic circle was totally different from how it had been before, “My previous spell database was somewhat inplete it seems…” Said the blonde girl while closing the book, it had some iing stuff, to say the least, and after thinking for a few seds she added “Say… I keep this o had some iing stuff about [Spell Casting] and [Spell Matrix], not only for healing spells…”

  For her part, the [Nurse] ughed and said, “Yeah sure, I see why they said that you had a [Knack] for [Spell casting]. The book was meant to be for [Sylphie] but you share it with her, this girl didn’t hat much help to cast [Healing Spells].” At least the [Head Nurse] wasn’t ht hostile anymore, so the blonde girl had that going for her.

  “You will be expected to cast that [Heal] spell, and while I ’t force you to learn the higher variants nor the [Diagnosis] spells, since as far as the [School] shared with us, your [Affinity] isn’t in [Healing]. You will be expected to help [Sylphie] as much as possible, do you know the [Mana Transfer] Spell? Or will you need a primer for that too?” Asked the [Head Nurse] while searg around for another book in the back.

  “I know the spell and start it from my side.” Said Rossie.

  “I know how to [Drain] and [Merge]…I have the spell matrix for [Funnel] so I could create a spell using those…?” Answered after the blonde girl, she hadn’t thought to make a spell dedicated to that…

  Nor had she thought to build the [Spell Node] in her [Soulscape] for transferring mana to someone else, why would she o do that as a [Magic Girl]? It just never crossed her mind.

  “Yeah…They hink to add that to their repertoire…Not many [Healers] do either…Usually, only those weird magic-focused ones do, but they don’t use it that often for [Healing]…Here it is!” Said the [Head Nurse] after finding another book and passing it to the blonde girl.

  “[Usefull Spells for bat Healing – By Magical Girl Triage Rush]” Another book from that magical girl… Was this Head Nurse…

  “Don’t even think about it,” said the Head Nurse before Elizabeth could even say anything, “ You keep that one, we haven’t had the need for that in a long time anyway.” Added the head nurse before walking towards the door.

  She turowards both girls and motioned for them to follow, “[Sylphie Starheart] already knows the pce but we will do aour anyway since you will be o move around.” And guided them both into the inner parts of the ic.

  The pce was retively small, on the first floor, with only a reception area “So we have reception here,” said the Head nurse showing them the part they had e from, “Usually you will er from this area, after the tour I will key your [Mana Signal] to our security ward so you will enter from the employee door in the back…Or the top floor if you [Fly].”

  They then moved towards the elevator and the blonde girl noticed how a few extra buttons materialized, “All elevators will show extra buttons if they detect a [Magical Girl] a [Hero], or a [Wizard], these are for two basements and the [Real Staff Room] as we like to call it, also there is the [Hero Wing] were you will see both powered and magical patients.” And after expining what the extra buttons were for, the head nurse pushed the one for [Staff].

  Then after going up for a minute or so they arrived at ay floor, it was a luxurious oh vending maes, plenty of sofas, and even a high-definition holo-projector…But still was devoid of people.

  “We mostly use this for meetings aing,” Said the head nurse pointing to one er of the floor where a couple of tables were set up, a nurse was eating in one of those while writing furiously with her other hand.

  But besides that, the pool table, the air hockey table, the arcade maes…The Holo projector…The Karaoke mae…It was all unused and alone, “Don’t know why they thought it would get used…To be ho, these are mostly for the doctors and maybe the administration staff, but they don’t e here sihey get gred by the occasional hat is eating here.” Said the head nurse while walking back towards the elevator.

  Elizabeth took notice that there was a bookshelf with some logos simir to the ohe [Magical Girl – Triage Rush] books she had in her hand, so she would e ter here to see if possible.

  “Now…The area you will work most often is here,” said the Head Nurse while pushing the button for the [Hero Wing], this was less than a moment away before the doors opened and they had arrived at another floor.

  This one was full of activity uhe previous one, with nurses going from one side to the other without stopping, “Here we have the patients with more active mana emissions…” Said the Head nurse while walking towards the nurses tral in the middle of this maelstrom of movement, “Aka…The [Heroes] and [Magical Girls / Wizards]…You will find both [Masked] and otherwise here, please do not disclose identities if you do find one…” She said while grabbing a file from there and putting it on the desk.

  She waited till both girls were close enough to open it, “As example…Here we have…Oof…[Magical Girl – Love Explosion]…A recurring t…” in the file was a small description of the magical girl iion and her diagnosis.

  [Soul gash], a wound in her [Soulscape] that was made after…”I swear you [This was the one!]…” Heard Elizabeth from one of the nearby cubicles, behind the curtain she could barely see a frilly pink dress before it was fully closed.

  “That girl es every few months or so with her [Shift] barely in pd bleeding all over, she tries to [Link] her [Soulscape] to someoo prove her [Devotion], and thehe other side doesn’t reciprocate she rips apart the e destroying part of the [Soulscape] and injuring herself i.” Finished saying the head nurse while pg the file in front of both girls.

  It indeed detailed her as a [Recurring t] and the extent of her injuries, it depicted several failing ans in need of [High Heal] and [Regeing Magick] to restore, some suggested school of spells to use, and a description of how much [Mana] they would o siphon from the girl to pay for the service.

  “Wait, they pay with mana?” Asked the blonde girl after arriving at that part.

  “Of course, not many have enough moo pay A-Tier or B-Tier Spells, [Vigintes] certainly don’t… and [Vilins] usually only have illegal money, so we charge them with mana to prevent those problems.” Answered back the head nurse, “Also this way the [Healer] recharge while treating them so they work more.” Finished with a smirk the head hat was evil… If they could use the mana of the t to recharge…Then the Healers wouldn’t o rest.

  The blonde girl kept reading in the file and found that this magical girl spoke about her [Soulscape] just enough to form a link with her [Destined one], but those she picked rarely felt the same towards her, more than half the time they rejected her if not ht ignored her. So she ripped the e injuring herself and trying to get them by guilt…

  It worked…The first time, but afterward the ic called them and told them that she was like that, but since she was also a B-Tier [Magical Girl]…They couldn’t get her into a rehabilitation facility, so they dealt with her a her home after she was good enough…They did however charge her five times the normal prig.

  “So…Do you have cases about [Soulscape] this often?” Asked the blonde girl thinking about the e [Her Rossie] had made with her, “And are these [Links] visible?”

  “Like hers? Not that often…Usually, people know to not share information about their [Soulscape]……” Started saying the head nurse before narrowing her eyes and looking at the blonde girl, “Did you share information about your [Soulscape] ahinking about severing the link?”

  The head nurse was gring at her daggers at this point, “No no…I mean…I tried…But…”Said meekly the blonde girl, speaking lower and lower by the sed, “The e didn’t form…”

  The head nurse was gring at her but got distracted when Rossie said “It’s okay [Elemental Weaver], I already told you I don’t mind…” and theopped gring at her and turo Rossie instead.

  A fsh of uanding on her face “I will be right back, sorry but this takes prece.” She said to one of the other nurses befrabbing both girls aing them back to the staff floor.

  Ohere she took them both to ay er and sat them on a couch while grabbing a chair to herself and sitting in front of them, a magical circle materialized in her eyes and she looked both girls up and down “I don’t see evidence of a soul injuries…” She mumbled, while looking at Rossie’s way a few extra seds, “When was the [Link] formed?” She asked in a tohat implied there wouldn’t be a discussion.

  “Today, five minutes ago.” Answered Rossie narrowing her eyes and she could feel her core starting to stockpile mana.

  She could feel how she reparing to cast a spell?

  “Hmm…” The head urowards Elizabeth and narrowed her eyes, “And you felt the e?”

  “Yes,” answered the blonde girl, “I e from [Avalon] so didn’t knoeaking about my [Soulscape] could form a e like that…So when [Sylphie] expined about it and talked to me about her [Soulscape] to make an example…” Said the blonde girl while l her head and speaking softer the part, “I tried to describe my [Soulscape] as much as possible but the e wasn’t made.”

  The head nurse narrowed her eyes at that and took a pen from one of her pockets, the pen had a small little heart-shaped cap on it, she poi at her and intoned “[Truth Detector], now answer me…How much of your [Soulscape] did you use to try and form a e?” She could feel the [Idea] radiate from that spell.

  It gave her the feeling of invioble truth, that any and all deceptions be from half-truths or ht lies would be discovered, “I described the main funs of my [Soulscape], the architecture, design, and parts of it.” Answered the blonde girl, the spell fred green ond theuro normal.

  The face of the head nurse for the other part…Was more iing, doubt, astonishment, disbelief, curiosity…All fred for an instant before it returo a more professional look, “How many years have it been since your [Awakening]” asked now the head nurse.

  “Sihe first day of csses…So half a year at most?” Answered the blonde girl, it surely felt as such, they had been thrown at the midterms so at least half a year already…

  By the end of these, she would be probably sixteen years too…

  She couldn’t tihat train of thought as the spell fred half green and the head nurse looked fused, “Repeat after me: As far as I’m ed I [Awakened] at school the first day of csses.” She said with a frown.

  So the blonde girl obliged “As far as I’m ed I [Awakened] at school on the first day of csses.” And the spell fred green once more, this time fully green.

  “Iing…If you awake school your [Soulscape] should be small, probably just big enough for only your sce to enter in it, your [Friend] here said she awake five, and she should barely have enough space for a [Room], if she is as talented as we think she is…” Said the head nurse pointing at Rossie, “But your use of words and descriptions…By the way, work on those, you o be more vague…” Added the Head nurse before carrying on, “Implies that your [Soulscape] is big enough that you o use the word [Architecture] and [Parts of it]… I was a [Magical Girl] that made it to A-Tier, and only when I made it to those levels of powers did I ever o use words such as [Parts of my Soulscape] to describe it and make [Links].” She said while nursing her head as if a headache was f.

  “That is a good idea by the way, if you divide it while it grows to create [Parts] you make [Links] to those parts, and then if you o [Sever] the link the injury is more tained,” said the Head Nurse while going to one of the maes aing a coffee drink, she returned and offered a couple to both girls while adding, “If your [Soulscape] is as big as implied…Then you are a monster and there should be no reason why a [Link] wasn’t formed.”

  Then after thinking for a few seds, she added “I would advise against f a [Link], there are a few spells stu your head that seem to be [Wards] they may be the reason why the [Link] didn’t formed, but I doubt they are…If you truly want to make oh your…Friend?” Asked the head nurse, as if she wasn’t sure what term to use.

  “Yes I want to reciprocate the trust [Sylphie Starheart] had io form a [Link]” Answered the blonde girl.

  Rossie had done much for her, and she didn’t mean only about the food.

  “Then try t her into your [Soulscape], you might o find a high ranking [Spell] or [Ritual] but that will o wait for your return to school…Or for you to go to a [Saintsworth’s Sponsored Library], they might have the spell…But you will o have enough [Clearance] and holy…It might be better to wait for school either way.” Finished saying the head nurse.

  So she would need clearance…She had enough with the bracelet her parents had given her… But, was she ready for [Rossie] to meet Alexanders and Alexa?

  She wasn’t quite sure, “But for now we have work to do, just…Try to not sever the [Link] nor [Create] a new one while you work here please?” Said the Head nurse while looking at both girls.

  What? She wasn’t going to create those links willy-nilly…

  Why would she…

  Then it hit her, of course…[Love Explosion] created those for her [Lovers]…

  WAIT!

  Did…DID SHE THOUGHT SHE AND ROSSIE WERE LOVERS?!?!?

  The blonde girl’s face quickly turned beet red at the thought “Not judging you both…God knows I don’t have enough energy nowadays to waste it on that.” Said the head nurse while walking towards the elevator. “You ing?” She beed both girls.

  She didn’t have enough presenind to turn to watch Rossie’s face, but by the fact that the irl stayed behind her, she robably the same as her.

  She would kick [Love Explosion] ter in the wild if possible, she had created such a big misuanding!

  She only wao share a [Link] with her girl friend!

  That it was one of the most intimate [Links] avaible wasn’t the main point!

  IT WASN’T THE POINT OKAY!