Chapter 404: Day 1.9.2 Alan Papa is a bad person.

“That was fun!” Alexa proudly said as she rose from the ancient waters where they had sealed the evil eldritch goddess that would bring ruin and destruction to the world. That is to say, the deep part of the pool.

“Yeah! I didn’t know you could make swimsuits with your Core Powers!” Glory called on from the side, she was currently floating above the water because Alan asked Alexa for floating devices for Glory, apparently she didn’t know how to swim.

“Yeah! And you were right, if you don’t have swimsuits you can just do a transformation sequence!” Beato nodded sagely from the side as she was sitting on the water.

Not on the side of the pool, not on a floater, but atop the water. Her [Core Power] was weird, Alexa now understood why Ale wanted to keep her as a student, such ability could be used for the greater good of Alexakind!

“… I still think we should have not wasted our time here.” Alan called from the shore, that is to say, from the spot he had been sitting in the corner of the pool.

He did not like the swimsuit that Alexa gave him, so he was back on his normal school uniform, how was Alexa supposed to have convenient blueprints of [Male] gender clothing?

Alexa was an Alexa! It was already an achievement the fact that Alexa had a [Blueprint] of clothes that Glory could use!

The one piece swimsuit with the funny number and weird moon runes in the chestto was staple! Staple Alexa said!

“Why Japanese swimsuit uniform?” Alan asked yet again, they had gone over it already!

“Because it is what one must wear in the beach and pool episode!” Alexa grumbled yet again.

“Yeah!” Glory nodded sagely, she knew her stuff, “They always use these kind of swimsuits in the animes! Papa said they didn’t sold them here, good thing that Alexa could make one! Now I can proudly go into the beach!”

“Momma Rona said that I shouldn’t believe everything I see in the tv…” Beato sighed, “But Mother Elisee always gets her one of those to Momma Rona whenever we go to the beach, yet they don’t let me use one! Injustice!”

“Injustice!” Alexa also joined to the call to arms for revolution, all should wear the swimsuit they wanted!

“Then if you are done complaining about the most stupid things…” Alan stood up and put on his shoes, “We should get going.”

“Where to?” Alexa asked confused, did they have anything scheduled? Alexa would need to check her schedule.

[There are no activities scheduled.]

Nope, Alexa was free.

“Our parents are about to arrive to pick us out.” Alan turned to look at Beato, then to Alexa, “Don’t know what time they are picking you two up, but I assume around the same time.”

“Papa said that he would send someone.” Glory raised her hand as she splashed her way to the shore (Besides Alan).

“I know.” Alan nodded at Glory while patting her head, “They are coming together… I can’t wait for them to leave the island…”

“Ah-“ Glory suddenly started smiling, “We are seeing true Alan! Beato, Alexa! You can see true Alan!”

“True Alan?” Beato asked as she stood up and walked to the shore, still walking atop the water as if it was solid. How or what kind of [Core Power] was that?

“Ah, normal Alan.” Alexa nodded in understanding, she didn’t get what it was, but it was probably the same Alan that had wanted to ditch them. Not sure if Alexa wanted to see that again.

“With that said, Alexa. Return Glory’s clothes to normal.” Alan turned to Alexa, then thought about it and added, “After she dries herself.”

“Alexa can dry her while giving her the clothes back.” Alexa helpfully added, “Do you want me to?”

“You can dry me?” Glory said confused, “But will it not take long if you blow me?”

“I’m not gonna blow you.” Alexa said shaking her head, “Alexa will just absorb all the water particles that are atop your skin, if there is no water, you will be dry!”

“Ah, that’s so smart!” Glory said nodding in understand, “And it will be faster! I will not need to spend hours drying my hair like that!”

“Just a second.” Alan said separating Alexa from Glory, “First, leave an appropriate amount on Glory, we don’t want her hair totally dry or it will break, also if you remove all water from the skin it will turn dry and fragile, so remember to compensate for that.”

“[Main Core] can deal with that.” Alexa decided to not think about it, she was sure that Ale would have a witty retort or something, but Alexa just asked and [Main Core] did the thing, “[Main Core]! Do the thing!”

[Starting protocol Dry the child.]

Alexa felt the Mk1 Nanites flooding into Glory, all running across her body collecting water droplets and taking them back into the [Banked Storage].

[Collecting bio sample and building up blueprint of subject Gloria Blackthorn.]

“Huh?” Alexa had been surprised! That was a thing that they could do?

Alexa had spent the whole day in the pool unable to slurp the pool since Alan always glared at her whenever water entered her mouth!

“…Alexa…” Alan suddenly turned to stare at her, so Alexa jumped away from Glory (Now dry and dressed in her normal school uniform).

“Alexa is innocent! She did nothing!” Alexa quickly declared her innocence!

“Can you dry me too?” Beato asked from the side, she was wearing her school uniform, but it was wet, did she not dry herself in the transformation sequence? “Momma Elisee said that transformation sequences only affect the clothes, because it looks coolz to have wounds that bleed into the clothes with clothes that are in perfect conditions.”

“Did you… drink the water you took from Glory?” Alan was looking first at Glory, then to Alexa.

“Alexa didn’t slurp a thing!” Alexa defended herself as she put a hand on Beato and commanded [Main Core] to do the same thing again.

[Starting--- Notice, found hidden orders.]

[Reading…]

[Checking credentials…]

[Atomizing water droplets, grime, blood and any sample of biological significance.]

“… Alexa was cheated.” Alexa said as she removed the hand from Beato. “Alexa was cheated!”

“Then what did you do?” Alan said narrowing his eyes at Alexa! But Alexa was truly innocent!

“[Main Core] stored the water with the other materials, but there was biological markers in it, so they analyzed that instead… So Alexa ended with a [Blueprint] of Glory…” Alexa said looking down, “But Alexa didn’t do it herself! She hadn’t even thought that was a thing that could work!”

“You can’t do that…” Alan facepalmed, did that not hurt? “You can’t just go around eating and drinking the sweat, water and whatnot of other people, even less if they are girls. Would you like it if someone did that to you? It’s weird right?”

“…Alexa doesn’t have those things.” Alexa pointed out, “Also Alexa didn’t eat them! [Main Core] did it by themselves! Alexa only asked for them to dry Glory!”

“Beatrice, you say something. It’s weird right?” Alan turned to Beato.

“I don’t have of Beato.” Alexa quickly added, “[Main Core] refuses to take anything from Beato, and it is stopping Alexa from doing so, something something orders from who knows who.”

“I don’t mind.” Glory chimed from the side, “We are both girls, and Alexa is my BFF. If you don’t let your BFF lick you, are they your BFF?”

“… There are so many wrong things in that phrase that I’ll not even try, let’s… let’s just go.” Alan grabbed Glory from the hand and started moving.

So of course Beato and Alexa followed suit! Alexa had already dried herself and put on her uniform back, Beato had put her uniform herself, so Alexa merely dried her… And saw her [Mana] meter go down as it was burning [Mana] to burn the water and waste!

What a waste!

At one point Alan slowed down and took a deep breath. “Okay, they should be around the corner… I am so sorry for this, but it is what it is.” Alan then turned to Alexa, Beato and Glory one by one, as if he was preparing himself to do something big, something important! “… I’ll see you all either tomorrow or whenever we are away from prying eyes.”

And with that, Alan’s eyes flared for a second, then as if it was the most natural thing, his eyes lost the sharpness they had before, his shoulders relaxed, his expression turned confused and as he was looking around. Alexa, Beato and Glory were looking at him.

“…?” Alan seemed confused, did he do a thing? “Ah! You will get your cooties on me!”

Only to scream and throw Glory’s hand away as he rushed to a wall and started trying to clean something of his hand onto the wall.

“Cooties?” Alexa asked confused, she did not know that word. “[Main Core], did Alexa found that in Glory’s [Blueprint]?”

[Negative, all elements within Experimental Subject: Gloria Blackthorn have been accounted for, no foreign element discovered, no unknown disease or pathogen was found. Extending search into Saintsworths database found nothing.]

[Increasing and expanding search parameters into the local networks.]

“I don’t have cooties!” Glory said kicking the floor with all the strength she could muster, “I don’t have cooties!”

She went as far as repeating it twice!

“Yeah!” Beato jumped in to help! “Girls don’t have cooties! That’s something you dumb boys say because you hate us!”

“I don’t hate Glory!” Alan screamed back, “But I also don’t want cooties! I tolerate being around her, but that does not mean she can hold my hand! What if she gives me cooties?!?!?”

“You grabbed me first!” Glory fought back! She had used a counter, it was super effective!

“Did not!” Alan, however, was not letting himself be defeated that easily!

“Did so!” But Glory fought back with the ultimate counter possible, the absolute truth!

“Did not!” Alan however was not defeated quite yet, “Dumb Alan did it! It does not count!”

“Alan is not dumb!” Glory however was angry at the retort! “Alan is the smartest person Glory knows! You are dumb! Your auntie is dumb! Your mom is dumb!”

“He is dumb! If he wasn’t dumb why didn’t he bring his trunks? He had them besides his backpack but decided not to bring them!” Alan revealed the unshakeable truth! “See! He is dumb! If it was me I would have brought the trunks!”

“… I am sure he had a reason for not bringing them!” Glory however was clinging to the last strands of hope! “Like… He had a reason!”

“Yeah, he had a reason. He was dumb!” Alan was not letting this win go! He struck again!

“…. You are dumb! You are a meanie and I hate you!” Glory was defeated, and now she was crying!

“You made Glory cry…” But Alexa was not going to let that go, anyone that made her frens cry… “… I don’t like this Alan.”

“*Slap*” And before Alexa could do anything, Beato had moved forward and slapped Alan! “A Hero never makes a girl cry. Momma Rona and Momma Elisee always said it. Apologize.”

“… *Sniff*…” Alan instead of apologizing also started crying, “She hit me!”

“You called Alan dumb! Waaaah!” Glory also was crying.

Everyone was crying!

“… Alexa is confused, who does she noms now?” Alexa was about to nom Alan till he became a good Alan, but now he was also crying, and she couldn’t nom Beato because [Main Core] was being a meanie…

Glory was the victim, so she also couldn’t be nomed.

“Yeah they are here.” And before she could move, two [Young Woman Stage] person arrived… Well, many more people arrived, but those two were the ones that stood out from the rest.

Behind them came a man dressed in a suit followed by two Maiddos.

“… Why are you crying?” The man asked at Alan.

But Alan merely continued crying and pointed at Beato, to which the man arched an eyebrow and turned to Beato.

“Why is he crying?” He just asked that just as he attempted to take a step forward, only for him to stop short as a wristband on his right arm shone in blue light. That was enough for him to stop and frown looking around.

“That was a very dangerous thing.” One of the [Young Woman Stage] person spoke, it was the red haired one with pink streaks on her, “Almost lost a hand there.”

“Momma Rona! Momma Elisee!” Beato suddenly ignored the weird man and rushed to the back. “I missed you! Look she is Alexa! I apologized!”

“Oh god…” The Rona person seemed weirded out, “Elisee… Is she…”

“Seems like it.” The other [Young Woman Stage] one said nodding at the Rona person, the Elisee person was a blonde with pink streaks on her hair, “Nice to meet you Alexa. I am Elisee and this is Rona.”

“Hi!” Alexa waved back at them, “Alexa is Alexa! The cutestest ever!”

It was important to set up the ground rules, what would happen if they suddenly said someone was the cutestest and it wasn’t Alexa? Alexa couldn’t have the Mommas of Beato making that kind of mistakes.

“…Are you aware of who I am?” The weird man suddenly spoke, turning to his maiddos, “Are they relevant enough to disrespect me like this?”

“Elisee Starcroft, twenty-one years old. Currently working as an actress.” One of the maiddos answered, and as soon as that one finished speaking, the other one started speaking. “Rona Starcroft, also twenty-one years old. Currently working in the Saintsworths Conglomerated R&D sub division, position undetermined.”

“That doesn’t sound relevant enough to ignore me.” The man said frowning, “ What else?”

“It is not confirmed, but it is suspected both have undetermined B-List Cores. The fact that one has pledged their allegiance to the Saintsworths makes it difficult to assert this fact.” The maiddo finished.

“Is that why you think you can get away with it?” The man turned, “Alan Harmonia. I have been telling you, you have to show your worth. Say the words and we will crush down these peasants.”

…. Alexa didn’t like that man.

“Alan, your Papa is a bad person.” Alexa decided to state it, “Alexa doesn’t like him.”

“You seem to be mistaken about something.” The Rona person sighed, “We aren’t disrespecting you, we are ignoring you. Because you aren’t that relevant to look at, I mean… You almost lost an arm because you tried to hit Beato.”

Before the bad Papa person could say anything, the Rona person raised her hand and pointed at him, and as soon as she finished doing that two swords materialized in front of the bad Papa person.

“!!” “!!!”

And a couple more around the two maiddos who had started moving but stopped as they had been chained down to the ground.

“See? The world is big, and here in this city there are aplenty monsters going around.” The Rona person winked at Alexa as she spoke, “So before you go trying to bully children, perhaps ask the tutors of who you are speaking first? Wouldn’t that be the right way to do it? What do you think Elisee?”

“Hmm… I have told you many times Rona, you can’t go throwing your weight around just because you have several contracts with the Saintsworths.” The blonde with pink streaks sighed, “Beato dear, did you bully or make cry the Harmonia brat?”

“Beato did nothing wrong!” Beato quickly defended herself, “He made Glory cry first!”

“Yeah!” Alexa jumped in as reinforcements, “Alexa saw it!”

“Yeah…” The Rona person sighed, “Well that seals it. Alan, did you make cry that girl?”

“*Sniff* She tried to give me cooties!” Alan threw his excuse as soon as the Rona person asked him, “I don’t want cooties! What if I end up pregante!”

“Oh…” The Rona person turned to the bad Papa, “There you have it. A misunderstanding, but my warning stands. Beware of against who you throw your weight, we aren’t even close to the worst people you can find here in Aquila.”

“Let’s go Beato, we can go grab ice cream!” The Elisee person smiled at Beato as they ruffled Beato’s hair, “You can tell us all about your new friends too.”

“Can’t they come?” Beato asked turning to look at Alexa, Glory and Alan. “We can all have ice cream!”

“Elisee….” The Rona person moved closer to the Elisee person as the weapons, chains and everything disappeared. They whispered something! They hid stuff from Alexa!

“They want to spend time with their own family, they probably don’t want to share us. Remember, they will not be able to see their own Moms and Dads for sometime.” The Elisee person said as they kneeled in front of Beato, “Don’t you want to spend time with us before we have to go?”

“…. Yeah… Sorry Alexa, sorry Glory and Alan.” Beato turned and apologized to them, “But I want to spend time with my Mommas, we can go for ice cream later!”

“Okay!” Alexa quickly accepted it, “We can have Mango Ice cream later!”

“Oh god… She really is Alexa…” The Elisee person grimaced, “Mom will be pissed…”

Huh?

She had her own Mom person? Why would they be pissed? Ah right, because they met Alexa and didn’t told their own Mom so they could see Alexa, it made sense. Everyone should meet Alexa at least once in their life, that would make them happier after all.

Yes.

“Okay!” Glory also accepted it, “Come on Alan, you too!”

“*Sniff* okay… But don’t get me cooties and I want choco mint ice cream.” Alan said in a small voice, it was such a weird thing to see Alan like this. Was that what everyone thought whenever Alexa swapped with Ale?

But… Couldn’t he do the same thing? The thing that changes their body? He had the same kind of powers as Alexa right? Or close enough anyway.