Love - The Story of Lowebox


Chapter 1: The Proposal

"Hey, Rom! Over here!" A small girl wearing a pink winter coat with a matching hat ran down a snow-covered road, her pink boots biting into and crunching the snow beneath her. Following the girl, albiet at a slower pace, was another girl who looked identical to the girl, except that her face had a softer expression, her clothes were blue and her hair was cut into a short bob, while her sister had a longer hair style.

"Ram! Wait for me!" Following behind the girls was another girl, slightly taller than the other two. This girl had short brown hair, wearing a white coat that she left open, revealing the short white dress underneath. Unlike the other two girls, this girl's coat was trimmed with fur and the sleeves that were long enough to consume her arms and still have room to dangle around as she walked forward. In the girl's hand was a thick book, that had white bookmark, the edge sticking out creased and bent.

"Don't go too far." The twin girls turned to their older sister, already holding balls of snow.

"Okay~!" Ram turned towards Rom, a large smile on her face.

"Hey, Rom! Let's make a fort!" Rom held her snowball in her hands, smiling tenatively.

"I wanna make a snowman of Blanc onee-chan." The older of the trio, Blanc, rolled her eyes.

"Yeah, whatever. Just stay near me, alright." With another "Okay~!", the twins ran off to an empty lot, gathering large piles of snow and molding the tiny frozen flakes into large spheres that they began to roll along the ground.

"Blanc-nee, stand there please!" Sighing, the CPU of Lowee shrugged her shoulders and crossed her arms, opening her book.

"Sure…" Now that the twins were busy with something that didn't need her attention, Blanc happily immersed herself into her book. Painting the fairy tale of a princess wanting to free herself of her loneliness and forcing herself onto another, larger and crazier family. Eventually, the princess would fall in love with the head of the family, who happened to a short, young man with a shorter temper.

At first, the head had not wanted the princess of the family, being annoyed by her haughty personality. Eventually, the head warmed up to the princess, still uncomfortable with the princess's affections. After years of spending time together, the princess's dreams came true an-

"Blanc onee-chan, look! Look!" Squeezing her eyes shut and closing her book, not before placing the bookmark in place, tore her eyes away from her fantasy world to see a snowman.

The creature of frozen flakes of water stood at Blanc's height, with three large spheres of snow creating the body. Rom and Ram were able to find two sticks lying around and make them as the snowman's arms. However, much to Blanc's buried disappointment, the twins were unable to capture Blanc's likeness in the snow, prompting to make a smiley face. The eyes were extra patches of snow molded and blended into the snow while the huge mouth was drawn in, presumably with one of the sticks.

"Doesn't it look amazing?!" Ram popped in behind the snowman's left side, Blanc's right. There a grin as large as the snowman's plastered on her face.

"I like it." At Blanc's left side, the snowman's right, Rom peered out from behind, a cute, small smile on her face. No matter how much these two pranked. No matter how many times they bothered her when she was working, or worse, when she was drafting a manuscript. No matter how annoying these little brats were. Blanc couldn't help but crack a tiny smile at their excitement to show of to their sister.

"It's great." The twins turned to each other, eyes sparkling.

"Yay!" Ram hopped into the air, raising her hands high into the sky. Rom raised hers as well, bouncing on her feet. The twins high fived each other and clasped their hands over each other.

"Blanc onee-chan likes it!" Ram nodded.

"Rom, let's make a snow fort now!"

"Mm-hmm!" As Rom was dragged away by Ram to start making snow bricks, Blanc shook her head, putting her book into her inventory. Letting the twins do what they want, Blanc walked over to the snowman, admiring their work.

The snowman was crafted beautifully, not that there was any doubt. After all, Rom and Ram made this. Each base was a perfect sphere, and Blanc didn't realize but the two sticks were almost symmetrical, making it look like the snowman was raising its hands to summon a bomb made of spirit energy. It was per-

Wait.

Blanc narrowed her eyes.

What are those?

Blanc shook her head, hoping what she saw was just an illusion made by the snow.

It's still there. Closing and rubbing her eyes, Blanc looked again. She wasn't imagining it. They were there.

In the middle base of the snowman were two large and round mounds, making the snowman look like it had breasts.

Subconsciously, Blanc put her hands over her own chest, eyes narrowing and ignoring that her sisters had moved away from their snow fort and moved towards the blonde-haired CPU who had assets similar to the snowman, maybe even larger.

"Ah, it's Vert!" Blanc froze as she heard that laugh.

That laugh, the one that got on her nerves more that Neptune's stupid ideas.

"Hello, Rom. Ram. How are you today?" Blanc heard Ram, well she expected it was Ram, hopping up and down.

"Look! Look! We made a snowman and a snow fort!" Now Blanc heard that giggle, something she hated just as much as her laugh. Although Blanc hated her need to point out her own chest and compare both of theirs.

"Yes, it looks amazing!" Taking a deep breath, Blanc turned around to see the CPU of Leanbox, normally called Vert by her CPU peers, with a wide smile on her face.

"Why hello, Blanc!" Rolling her eyes, Blanc crossed her arms and tilted her head to the side.

"What do you want, Vert?" Vert motioned for the twins to run along, which they returned to building their snow fort. Although, the snow fort was more like a lopsided wall rather than a fort.

"Oh, nothing much. I just came over for a visit." Blanc grunted and turned around to watch Rom and Ram work on their fort, which looked more like a shoulder high, for the twins, wall. "Oh by the way, how are the reparations for Nepgear going?" Blanc groaned, facepalming and slouching over.

"Don't remind me." Unfortunately, Blanc did remember.

O o O

It was a normal day in Lowee when Purple Heart showed up at her veranda carrying a beaten up, trembling woman. Blanc had to sit through a half an hour of Purple Heart dramatizing what this "wench" did to her innocent little Nepgear.

To sum it all up.

This woman tried to hit on Nepgear and proposed to him immediately. Then, after Neptune and IF drove her away, this woman kidnapped the CPU Candidate under Compa's watch and proceeded to nearly rape him along with some of her friends. Not once realizing the kid was a CPU Candidate. And that Nepgear was only a week old at the time.

Blanc couldn't say anything because of how ridiculous it was. Except question why they were here. Blanc was saved some breath upon hearing the woman plead for help as an avid follower of Lady White Heart. Instead of confusion, Blanc felt a migraine coming.

In order to pacify Purple Heart, Blanc arrested the woman for sexual assault, attempted rape and pedophillia (on account of the CPU Candidates). At the same time, Blanc had to make sure that she was behind rigid steel bars, not to protect society from her, but to keep her safe from Purple Heart's grasp.

O o O

"Ugh… I still need to find something to hand over to Nepgear…" Blanc took off her hat and scratched the back of her head, reminding herself to pervert-proof the twins soon. "Maybe I'll give her some pudding flavored Blanc Manju…" Blanc's eyes turned to Vert, who was happily watching Rom and Ram build their wall. "So, why are you here again?" Vert closed her eyes, admiring Rom and Ram's work.

"Am I not allowed to visit? You see…" Vert gestured toward the twins as Rom a snow brick while Ram directed her to the correct spot. "...Those little sisters of yours are adorable! " Vert clasped her hands over her arms, smiling. "I'm so envious. I would love to have them as my little sisters, too! So I was thinking…" Blanc blinked, slightly not liking where this was going, but not caring enough to figure out where it was actually going to end up. "... That we should get married!"

Blanc stopped. Stopped functioning, thinking… She just stopped.

No matter how aloof Blanc made herself out to be. No matter how angry she could get at Vert. No matter what… Deep down inside her heart. Blanc was a maiden.

Maybe it was all the romance novels that she read, maybe it was a part of her subconscious. She didn't know.

As the blood tinted her cheeks a bright red, Blanc could see it now. There she was, wearing a traditional Loweean kimono and Vert wearing a Leanboxian wedding dress as the former sat at the alter as the latter slowly walked up to her past the church pews. Despite the pews being filled with their loved ones, Blanc and Vert could only see themselves. As Vert walked forward, Blanc scanned her eyes all over Vert's-

Wait. Wait. Wait. WAIT.

What the hell was she thinking!?

She's Blanc and Vert's Vert! They hated each other! Why would Blanc want to marry Vert, of all people?!

Quickly regaining a shred of her composure, Blanc planned her response. In order to respond to Vert's natural proposal, Blanc would have to be cool-headed, preserved and-

"D-DON'T BE STUPID!" …Blanc whipped her head towards Vert, face still deep red and eyebrows furrowed , mouth twitching. Vert, satisfied with Blanc's reaction, put a hand on her cheek, taking a mental picture of Blanc's reaction and titling it, "Fufu I love this reaction."

Upon hearing Vert's giggle, Blanc took a deep breath and recomposed herself, looking away in order to let her blush die out and keep Vert from feeling even more satisfied.

"Blanc-nee, let's go home!" The two CPUs turned to see that Ram was waving towards her with both arms while Rom stood next to her, holding her hands together.

"...We're tired..." Thankful for the twins for getting her an escape plan, Blanc nodded her head and walked towards them.

"I guess we should be going." Blanc turned to look at Vert, who had taken a step back. "You wanna come along?" Vert shook her head.

"Oh, no. I wish I could stay, but I'm afraid I still have some work to attend to." Blanc shrugged. "Well, thanks for having me!"

"Yeah." Blanc turned away to see Rom and Ram racing towards the Basilicomm. Taking a step forward, Blanc glanced at the snowman, remembering that it was originally intended to be her. Taking off the her hat, Blanc placed it on top of the snow creature's head and putting a hand on her chin. "If they were large…"

Suddenly, Blanc heard a faintly familiar giggle.

"Too cute…" Blanc's eyes widened as she whipped her head around, seeing Vert failing to fight back a smirk and attempting to cover it with her hand.

"Ah...A-Ah…" Swiping her hat off of the snowman, Blanc turned into White Heart, her blush the same color as her eyes. "G-Get out of here, you bastard!" White Heart flew away, scooping up Rom and Ram in the process, leaving Vert behind.

"Fufu… that one was good too." Smiling to herself, Vert activated HDD and flew home, humming to herself.