Hello guys, Eraviel here!

So, if you guys were dropping by my FB page, you'd see my pain. Heh. My laptop is unavailable right now, and I don't have the means to fix it alone, so I sent it back to the vendor. I am afraid that I would lose all of my files there including my fics, so it's really sad on my part. Chapter 6 of Memories is half-finished, and then this happened *sigh*

Anyways, this is a new, err, let's just go with new fic, shall we? My apologies again if Memories will be delayed. I have to rewrite and revise the whole 6th chapter again.

Alright, no more dramas of me, onto the story now, enjoy!

"If I die, will I be able to see you again?"

~o~O~o~

A certain purple-haired girl slowly opened her eyes. There, she met a familiar ceiling, a ceiling that she had been seeing every day, every night, in the past ten years. She found herself leaning on a chair, with a lot of papers on the desk in front of her.

"…"

She must've dozed off for a bit, as far as she was concerned. There was a lot of work presented for her, and that might be the reason why she unintentionally closed her eyes just for a little bit.

She sighed.

Same stuff, different day. She had been doing nothing but work in the past years ever since she got inaugurated as Planeptune's CPU. While she wasn't opposed to the idea, she certainly didn't want to become one.

Because, the title was not fitting her.

She didn't deserve this.

She didn't like it.

She completely hated it.

What an irony, right?

But she had no choice. She had to do it. Because she was the only one who could do it. No other one could.

Except for a certain someone who wasn't with her anymore.

She shook her head, trying to get those thoughts out of her mind. But she just couldn't. That certain someone was far too important for her to forget. She tried to distract herself by going back to work, but alas, the first move she did was a complete mess up. She accidentally tapped her mug on the desk, and broke it as it fell down on the floor.

"Ah…"

She wasn't in condition to work. Maybe all those years of consistently working was taking a toll on her already.

In a short moment, she heard a sound of a door opening. She turned her attention to the door and saw a floating book with a small girl sitting on top of it, with her blonde-colored hair and purple clothing, going towards her way.

"Nepgear, what happened? I heard a sound of breaking something." The small girl asked as she floated beside Nepgear. From there, she saw a broken mug on the floor, and then had a worried look on her face. "Nepgear, you must've been tired. You should take some rest."

"Histoire…" She then turned back to the broken mug.

Yes, the small girl's name was Histoire. She was created by the former goddess to record history, and she was the oracle of Planeptune.

Histoire took a closer look at the broken mug on the floor, and gasped a little as she realized why Nepgear was so attentive to it. She suddenly felt bad for the girl. That object was very important to her.

"Nepgear, don't worry, I'll fix-"

But Nepgear interrupted her before she could finish what Histoire was about to say. "No, you don't need to. Please, just throw it away." She said as stood up from her chair and left the room.

Histoire just stared at the door. Her worries were growing as days passed by. While it was thanks to Nepgear that Planeptune was booming with shares now, overshadowing their neighboring countries: Lowee, Lastation, and Leanbox, Nepgear's condition was far more concerning.

She floated down and started to clean the pieces of the broken mug. As she did so, tears started to fall from her eyes, without her knowing why.

"…Huh…?" She then wiped her eyes off with tears. But it didn't stop. "Why am I…?"

No, she should've known the reason why. And that was the reason why Nepgear was in such a condition.

She picked up a shard of the broken mug, which was bigger than any shard that she just cleaned. There, she saw something on it.

'Nep', was written on it.

"Neptune…" She mumbled between her sobs. "Why… why did you have to go before I could meet you…?"

She knew what happened. Histoire records history after all, and she was very well aware of what happened to the person named Neptune.

~o~O~o~

Nepgear wandered around the city. The people were greeting her as she passed by them, in which she responded to them with just a wave. As much as she hated her current position, the people of her nation loved her. She did well in every job she faced on, and finished them flawlessly. That was why Planeptune prospered that it overshadowed its competitors.

But, all of it were meaningless if she couldn't bring back the most important person to her.

Her sister. Neptune. The previous CPU of Planeptune.

The citizens didn't know a thing about what happened to their former CPU, only the report that she was missing was known to public. Right now, only Nepgear and Histoire knows what really happened. The people in the Basilicom was definitely not pleased the moment they learned that their goddess was defeated (or so they thought), but Planeptune wouldn't last without a CPU, and so, they consecrated Nepgear as their goddess.

With that, the people's faith gradually turned to Nepgear, until Neptune was completely forgotten by the people. And that was what Nepgear hated the most. She wasn't mad at the people for losing faith to Neptune, but she was mad at herself for appearing like she was stealing her sister's people.

In which, it was technically what happened.

Nepgear ended up in the guild. She had a feeling that she needed to vent out something and doing some quests would be appropriate. She could kill a monster or two to help herself calm down. After accepting an A-Rank quest, she set forth to her target destination: the outskirts of Planeptune. She wasted no time and immediately went to her destination by transforming and flying.

The objective of the quest was to kill two Ancient Dragons in a hidden underground cave around the outskirts. The dragons weren't physically affecting the people at the surface but the quakes and roars they create were not very pleasing to the people. And being an A-Ranked quest, and two dragons nonetheless, no guild members dared to face it as the place was too small to fight them.

But Nepgear couldn't care less. Monsters were monsters, whatever the kind.

Nepgear arrived in the middle of the forest, with a giant hole on the ground. She didn't think twice and jumped down.

~o~O~o~

Inside Planeptune's Basilicom, Histoire just finished cleaning the broken mug in Nepgear's office. She floated down on Nepgear's desk, and took a deep breath.

"..."

At the moment, a sudden useless question entered her mind. So useless that she couldn't do anything about it, yet she couldn't stop thinking about it. The question in question goes like this.

"Have I done the right thing...?"

Yes. That question was indeed useless. What's done is done. There was nothing to be talked about. Yet, she still kept on asking that question to herself.

She was pertaining about day when Histoire suggested that Nepgear should takeover Planeptune as its CPU. While it was the most logical action to do, because Planeptune just lost their CPU at that time, she hadn't even considered Nepgear's feelings. And she just realized it when she saw how much it changed the young CPU as her personality drastically changed.

She failed to understand her. No, it wasn't really like that. Histoire did not even bother to understand her, because all she thought that time was the survival of Planeptune. Even the moment when Nepgear saved her from Arfoire's grasp when she defeated her alone, she failed on understanding her.

And now, she regretted it so much.

"I'm sorry... Nepgear..."

There we go, chapter 1 is done! Just a short prologue. It would be inappropriate for the story's flow if I would continue it further.

IT'S THE SEQUEL OF CHANGE!

YES! The sequel of Change. I'm sorry if I said that it wouldn't continue, but I suddenly got an idea in my head connecting to that fic, so I decided to continue it.

Please drop that reviews of yours! It helps me improve my writing :) In any case, if you have questions, just drop it. I'll answer it as long as it wouldn't spoil anything :)

Until next time, see you guys!