How are kids born? Everyone asks their parents at least once, right? Elizabeth sure as hell did it, at least once.

"When Mommy is very bored, she goes for daddy, points the Magic wand into Mommy and boom! Shacalaca! Nine months later, a cute little Elizabeth is born from Mommy's Magic and Papa's Might!" Mother said the first time Elizabeth asked.

Elizabeth didn't buy a single thing that came out of her mouth.

"Papa! Mother is speaking nonsense again!" And ran to Papa to snitch on her.

She hadn't wanted to ask Papa at the time since he was busy with work, but even so…

"You hurt my heart Eli-Eli! Of course, you were born from Mommy's Magic and Papa's might!" Her Mother kept saying that over and over again.

At the time, Elizabeth hadn't trusted it, but now?

Well…she may need to seriously consider that answer… At the clinic where Rossie had been assigned, she learned that it was more normal than she had thought the fact that Magical Girls got into a relationship with other girls.

So was her Mother normal? or weird?

She absolutely loved gushing about magical girls. But she married Papa, a man. Not any man, but the epitome of masculinity, everything Elizabeth knew about him screamed American Macho.

And she loved him nonetheless, he was a good father. And to be honest, while she had liked [Shadow Pact] as a [Hero], she rather would have liked to have a boyfriend like Papa…that was, of course, before Rossie stole her heart.

And really, how could she not love Rossie, she was dedicated, only thought about Elizabeth, did her best to live up to her expectations and asked very little. To be honest, Elizabeth would love it if the pink-haired girl asked for more.

All Rossie wanted was to spend time with Elizabeth, kiss her, mess around with her, and maybe get her into bed. Really, all of those were things that Elizabeth would do easily enough, except the last one; she would wait for her 18th birthday for that. Elizabeth hoped at least to survive till that date.

And the first thing that Rossie asked, that wouldn't benefit Elizabeth at all was this?

"You want…Beatrice to be our true daughter…" Elizabeth said it once again.

"Is it…possible?" Rena said from the side, she was still hugging Rossie from behind and resting her head atop Rossie's shoulder.

"Yes," Rossie answered first, "There are some historical records of two Magical Girls having daughters."

That they were…

Elizabeth had seen them too, not before, of course, but recently, when looking around about more cases like hers, she had found about them, probably not the same that Rossie had seen.

"There are records, while hard to replicate, making a magical girl pregnant using Mana of another girl is possible. It requires extreme focus and [Soul] compatibility, but Eli-Eli has good [Mana Manipulation] skills, and I can make my [Soul] compatible in case it isn't." Rossie said seriously.

"There is no need for that," Elizabeth said, extending her hand into the empty air and pulling a couple of notebooks from the study. She had not used [Shadows] to achieve this, but pure [Space Manipulation].

She had noticed the problem thanks to [The Shadow Tide] that she was overly reliant on [Shadows], so she wanted to use her other masteries too.

"This is a journal Mother wrote," Elizabeth said, opening the journal and letting both Rossie and Rena look at the letters there.

"Experiment #5318, result: Failure. The artificial zygote survived merely minutes after forming; no changes were found even after modifying the [Soul] of the donor to match my wavelength. Possible reason…difference in [Mana Purity]." Rossie read aloud while looking the other information on the page, "This…Elizabeth, this is forbidden Magic…this isn't merely [Soul Magic], this is [Life Magic], [Necromancy], [Biomancy] and…[Void]? What…what is this?"

What that was indeed…

"A research journal," Elizabeth said closing the notebook and showing the title on the front, "[To get pregnant and fulfill Jack's dream #5.]"

One of many journals that Mother wrote while trying to get pregnant, "Mother and Papa…tried to conceive me for almost 100 years it seems." That had surprised Elizabeth, she had always thought that her parents had gotten her after Mother got drunk and assaulted Papa.

She could see that as possible more than anything else, her Mother was, after all, a very…silly person.

"We have access to almost a century of experimentation into fertility and fecundation, and none of their problems," Elizabeth said smiling, the main problem that Mother had found was that her body, while incredible Mana dense, was still not fully attuned to Mana, and more importantly. Her body wasn't made like Papa's.

As far as the research she gleamed had to say, Papa's body was continuously evolving and adapting; each fiber of his being was highly concentrated Mana. And Mother, while powerful, could just not match him.

Elizabeth did not have that problem.

"None of their problems? But you got born…normally…right?" Rossie said confused.

"Papa was one of a kind, his [Skill] allowed him to adapt to anything and be the best, this includes mana." Elizabeth said shaking her head, "This means that his body had a high degree of mana, everywhere."

Elizabeth wished she hadn't seen that explanation.

"Everywhere? Why does that matter?" Rena asked tilting her head to the side, adorable. How could someone be so pure?!?!?! And be so filled with Wrath and also manage to look so hot.

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"Oh…then his…part…shoot…oh….how was your mother alive?" Rossie, of course, the little healer, understood what Elizabeth had implied.

"She wasn't normal either." Elizabeth said sighing, Mother wasn't normal in more than one meaning of the word, "Her body was Human, by any degree you could find she was purely Human."

"Most High Tier Magical Girls aren't entirely human, though." Rossie chimed up, "Even Teacher Agatha is like that; her body, while human-looking, has a higher than average mana density, and she has a couple mana organs that aren't normal."

That…was interesting to know.

"No, you don't get it. Mother's body was Human, not magically enhanced or modified. But entirely normal." Elizabeth said, summoning a book with a diagram of Mother's body, "See?"

Elizabeth willed the diagram to be projected upon the air in front of the two girls, it was…mundane.

Mother was a looker, even at her lower point in life; the pictures she had seen of her during the war showed a grim appearance; even with makeup and dressed in ragged skirts, she looked good.

But this? This showed her normal body without a shift, and it was incredible…

"That's a civilian body." Mundane, no evidence of anything, no evidence of Mana coursing the body, no evidence of Mana-enhanced muscles, nothing.

"And this is Mother with her [Shift]," Elizabeth said, summoning a second projection; this time, the body was what one would expect of a normal Magical Girl.

She had the center of her body emanating Mana, and her muscles were laced with Mana. And there was proof of her body taking in ambient Mana.

"That…looks more like a D-Tier Magical Girl? I think that [Lunar Shade] had more Mana before the [Taint] was released even." Rossie said narrowing her eyes, "Can you show one of the last time she came to the school?"

The last…oh right, she meet her then.

"Poi!" Elizabeth did a cute sound while pulling a new projection, "This one is after I was birthed,"

And this time, the image was closer to what one would expect of the Mother of Magical Girls. The body was dense, at the center of her body you could see the Mana wanting to burst out, it was the image of a monster wearing Human skin as a disguise.

"Yeah, that checks," Rossie said from the side, "But how did that… turn into this?"

That was the question, right?

"Well, when a Mommy loves a Daddy very much….she funnels magic and using Daddy's might a lovely Elizabeth is born!" Elizabeth said smirking as she recounted the same bullshit story that her Mother loved to say.

"...so they solved the problem using Magic? That doesn't explain why it took them so long to have you. Don't get me wrong, I am thankful for that; the thought of you having to wait a century to meet your soulmate is harrowing." Rossie said shaking her head.

….Cute.

"Not really, this is what happened," Elizabeth said, pulling another notebook, "This one is dated four months before I was born."

That one gave Elizabeth shivers, for it had blood on the cover.

"June 14, We are going to visit a classmate; he should have a solution to our problem. I will not let this baby die, even if I need to sell out my Magic. She or he will be born. Catherine Starbright." Rossie read the page and turned to the next, "Eli-Eli? There are missing pages here."

The notebook had more than half of it missing, "I know, so far I haven't found them either, but either way I know what problems they encountered, here." Elizabeth said pulling another journal, this one did not have blood on it.

"We did it!" The first line of the journal read in big letters, "We managed to keep the zygote alive! I didn't want to write anything on the first week; the second week was hell waiting for a bad news, but now that I am about to finish the first trimester, I can proudly declare it, I will be a Mother!"

Mother had written that last line in a rush; the letters were a little blurred, and there were some marks on the page as if someone had dropped some liquid in them, transparent liquid… Mother had been so emotional that she cried over her journal.

That made the next page hit even harder.

"...I will be a Mother." Wrote over and over, she made sure the words would be marked, "...The pregnancy is advancing as well as one could expect it, I had morning sickness, some food I can't tolerate it anymore…And I'm puking blood, normal pregnancy all over the place. All the doctors we visit say that they don't know why, but my body is reacting badly to the baby…All the Healers we visit say the same, and Lucia dared to suggest I abort my baby! Fucking Italians…She said that it was that or signing a contract with one of their fake pseudo gods, if hubby hadn't closed his hand over the statue of their patron goddess I would have summoned a true Devil to show them what the real ones were like. I will be a Mother, and not heaven, hell, the Void or my own body will prevent me from achieving it."

"....What…what happened? How did they solve it?" Rossie asked; it seemed as if the girl was worried about Elizabeth being sick or something.

"It was quite easy to find out, but no one wanted to tell Mother, since they all thought it was impossible and didn't want to admit a mistake to the Mother of Magic," Elizabeth answered, passing to the next page.

"I'm….weak, normal, talentless. My own and greatest achievement was hitting my head against the wall that is [Magic] hard enough to break it and so being able to cast Magic. To become a Magical Girl and spread happiness all over the place," Her Mother wrote in the journal; the next words hit harder thanks to this, "I had forgotten that, thinking that Magic would solve everything… Hubby…My husband Jackson, he is…a genius, a true talent. A monster among monsters, a god walking amongst men. I have knew his type, our clan master was like him. But unlike him, unlike Alexanders, Jack is humble, he worries about me. Even now, he is seeking a way to heal me. To make sure our baby is born, to find a solution to this…The problem is not the baby, it's me. I'm normal, mundane, it is the gifts by those cursed gods that allow me to cast Magic, to summon an artificial body that can achieve my desires. But trying to give birth to the son or daughter of a monster with the body of a mortal? No wonder my body can't survive this. I'm sorry, my baby… I'm sorry for being weak."

That is right, her Mother's body was too weak for the Mana that Papa had seeded within her, and now that Elizabeth knew more about herself, that was not the only problem, her skills…Those were a problem too, and if that was not enough, there was the problem of her Soul.

No wonder [The World] wanted [Echidna] to be the one bearing her, the woman was a monster like Papa.

"...Your Mother was….weak? The [Mother of Magical Girls] couldn't wield Magic? It was thanks to a divine gift? How?" Rena said from the side.

"Mother was not a human of this world, you know this, right?" Elizabeth said, pointing back to the origin story of her Mother.

"Wasn't that branding? She is really from another world?" Rossie asked confused.

"No, she was, like you and Rena was someone summoned into another world," Elizabeth sighed, "And like you she was abused by the [Hero] she was summoned with, but she managed to escape. And using the gift she was given as a [Hero], she started using her powers to try and return home."

"So…she WAS from this world then." Rena said after hearing that.

"No, her homeworld was…here," Elizabeth said pointing at herself.

"Of course you are her home, you are also my home too," Rossie said, hugging Elizabeth.

"Thank you, but not like that, her homeworld was the planet that rests within my Soul. Mother was from [Terra Invicta]," Elizabeth sighed, "Her true name was Catherine Saintsworths,"

She hated that fact; what was she even supposed to think about that? Her past life was responsible for ruining her life, and then ruined her new life, too.

"Oh." Rossie said, turning to look at the journal, "Then she…used the Saintsworths to make sure you got born? They had some presence in this world before the advent, right?"

That was an understatement.

"She returned to [Terra Invicta] before it disappeared and made a deal with a clansmen there. It doesn't say the name of it, but I assume it's someone who managed to survive till the last second. Using that, they stabilized me within her body, and Mana locked her into a state of mana overdrive." Elizabeth said turning the pages and showing diagrams of what looked more like torture than surgery, "Like that she managed to keep a [Shift], or the image that you knew her from public stage, that is how she managed to give birth to me. By making a body that was similar to that of Papa."

And that was the reason that Elizabeth had confidence in that they would not need to go that far to be able to get Rossie to get pregnant.

"So I need to go through that procedure, okay. I will prepare some artifacts that will keep me alive, we need to study that procedure. If they did it in [Terra Invicta] then there must be some evidence in your Soulscape, we will scour it till we find it-" Rossie started planning as soon as the confirmation came.

"No, there is no need." Elizabeth said shaking her head, "This…and this…"

Elizabeth extended her hand into Rossie's tummy and then the other hand to her own, she could feel the mana resonating already. "It's the same."

"Of course it is Elizabeth, we are both female. Our reproductive organisms are the same, that is the problem." Rossie sighed as if she couldn't believe what Elizabeth was saying.

"No Rossie, not that. Our bodies," Elizabeth said, closing the journal and summoning a projection of her own body this time, "My body is what I choose it to be,"

That was not a question, but a statement.

"My Shift allows me to be what I want, be it a Magical Girl, a Hero, a Villain or a Queen. Even a Dragon is not out of the list." Elizabeth summoned projection of those bodies, too, all to make her point stand.

"Yes, we know, that is what the [Shift] spell does, summon an artificial body," Rena said nodding.

"No," Elizabeth shook her head, "That is what a normal shift does, summon a fake body. Mine transforms my body into what I desire."

The images turned in and gave more readings.

"A normal shift looks like this," Elizabeth summoned a projection of Rossie with her [Sylphie Starheart] Shift, then at the side put her former [Elemetnal Weaver] form.

"....yours has a pulse…and blood? And why does it have organs?" Rossie started debunking her [Shift], "...oh…and this body…is also a Shift, I had forgotten that…it feels so…Natural…"

"....Ah," Rena said at the side only that as she took her own pulse.

"Exactly, our bodies all are Shifts; we couldn't be incompatible. It is impossible because I made these bodies; we will never experience a rejection from each other. For our bodies were quite literally made for each other." Elizabeth was proud of that, "The only thing is that we need to find a way to heal Beatrice, and then we can look into seeding her into a zygote for Rossie to nurture. The delivery method can be then looked after, but we don't need to worry about that either. Mother left plenty of means to achieve inception on her journals. Beatrice will live again, we only need to wait for her Soul to heal."

And for Elizabeth to think of a way to get Rossie pregnant, one that all people involved could like. She would need to start holding hands more often with Rossie; that was how girls got pregnant, right?