Chapter 4
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After the meeting with the Pair Slayers, they all part ways. During their tour, Neptune met a lot of different creatures who kindly welcomed her in the castle after knowing her story. The Heavenly King also noticed how the monsters - the way human looked at the creatures - interact with Neptune as if she was part of them.
The CFW could not help but appreciate that the Hero 'invaded' this place other than the other three Heavenly Kings. And with that, Magic completed the tour with Neptune until they returned back to Neptune's new room.
"And that concludes our tour on the upper part of the castle grounds," Magic said to Neptune as the two stood in the middle of the room. "Say, Neptune, is there anything you want and need to know?"
Neptune poked both of her fingers awkwardly. "Uhm... um..."
"Come on, there's no need to be shy," Magic smiled a little. "You can say it, as long as it is within my range."
Neptune then replied. "Um, do you have any clock here?"
"A clock?" Magic pressed her finger on her chin and ponder. "I wonder why, of all things?"
"For why do you need it? Is it base to your daily routine?" She asked the Hero.
Magic then noticed how Neptune's eyebags suddenly got thicker and it felt like her aura choked the Heavenly King after knowing the reply.
"By state orders, to comprehend the ability of Time Manipulation, I must stare at it for ten hours straight."
The Next Day...
Linda and Pirachu was walking down the hallway until they noticed a hole on the wall.
"What happened here?" Linda looked at the whole to see the other side. She backed off and and noticed another thing, something missing. "Huh? Shouldn't there me a clock in this wall?"
Pirachu put his hands on his hips. "I don't really know what happened but I heard from the Batsis that they saw Lady Magic flying around the walls and punching down each of every clocks she saw before burning them to pieces."
Linda raised an eyebrow. "That's weird, anything else?"
"They also heard Lady Magic ordering the transport units not to bring anymore clocks. Or else she'll kill them."
"Huh, strange. A death penalty for a clock?"
The sun is shining and strike Neptune in the face. She slowly woke up and scratched her eyes. After yawning, she looked to the side to greet Magic. "G-Goodmorning Lady Magic, thank you for-"
Until she noticed how Magic forced herself to smile.
"G-Goodmorning to you as well, Neptune."
The Hero only blinked at her and tilted her head in confusion. "Is there something wrong?"
"No, it's nothing for you to worry," Magic said as she waved off the topic. But deep inside. "Phew! I managed to burn the all the clocks in one night! To think that I have thousands of those in the basement. Now that I think about of it, it's probably from my experiments trying to control time too?"
"Um, Lady Magic,"
Magic snapped out of her thoughts to see Neptune looking at her. The Heavenly King watched as Neptune smiled at her. "Thank you, for letting me stay here."
Smiling, Magic replied. "It is nothing, for I am glad that you came,"
After that, Magic waved goodbye to Neptune since she still has works to finish before deadline. As the Heavenly King's footsteps was far from hearing, Neptune simply hugged the big pillow.
"Fluffy~"
Skip right at afternoon, Magic went back to Neptune for the Hero to change her occupation as the Heavenly King's attendant.
"Neptune, starting from today, you will start helping me with my research." Magic said to Neptune. "That being said, it would be difficult for you to do your job properly with that armor of yours. Was it from the Nautic?"
"H-How did you know, Lady Magic?!" The Hero, Neptune, asked in amazement.
Magic huffed with a proud smile. "Of course, as the Chief of the Demon Army, I know how well my ears when gathering informations, especially about you as a Hero." She answered. "Anyway, I will have to take care of that armor of yours."
Magic looked back and yelled through the hallways. "Rei Ryghts! Rei Ryghts! Are you there?!"
It was a few seconds of silence before a figure suddenly flung out from the wall and it startled Neptune.
"Owiee," the new person emerged said. It was a woman witg blue hair and single-silver horn from the side of her head. She wore a long, black and maid outfit. She was rubbing the back of her head as she stood up. "W-Where am I?"
"Ahem,"
The blue haired maid shuddered as she turned around to see Magic behind Neptune, the former giving her a disappointed stare and the latter looking at her curiously.
"A-Ah! I'm very Lady Magic," Rei bowed her head as an apology. "I am very late for your summon! I hope you can punish me later!"
"It's fine," Magic said as she waved it off. "Anyway, sorry for disturbing your work."
Magic then grabbed Neptune's attention back to her. "She is Rei Ryghts, the Head Maid here in the castle. She's in charge of managing the castle here. Whenever you find fault in your life here, just call her and she will fix it."
Then she looked back at Rei with again another disappointing look. "Even though her first impression is not that great."
"I-I'm very sorry, M-Miladay!" Rei apologized.
Neptune frantically waved her hand in front to try to calm down the maid. "N-No, it's okay. I-It is totally fine."
"Uwaah! To think that a young child would try her best not to make those people older than her feel bad."
"I said it's totally fine!" Neptune flustered.
Magic sighed. "Anyway, this is Neptune, she will be my assistant starting today."
"N-Nice to meet you again! M-My name's Neptune."
Rei looked at Neptune before saying. "I heard about what happened to Lady Neptune's life from Linda and the others." She then walked in front of the Hero before bending forward to pat Neptune's head.
"It must have been harsh, you've been through a lot." Rei said with a teary eyes while smiling.
Neptune flustered as she stuttered in her words. "Eh?! Um, n-no that's...!"
"Rei Ryghts," Magic said, the maid returned her focus back to her Master. "I would like you to prepare a set of comfortable clothes for Neptune. It be would be fine if it's just a spare uniform from the maids."
"I humbly apologized, Lady Magic," Rei replied. "But it is unlikely that we have possession of clothing befitting to Lady Neptune and all."
After that, Magic and Rei looked over at Neptune. The Heavenly King obviously noticed that the Hero was simply too small.
"W-What's wrong? Is there something in my face?" Neptune said, slightly bothered.
Rei Ryghts simply giggled as she pat the Hero's head once more, leaving the latter simply confused.
"I see," Magic muttered before saying once more, now with glint in her eye. "It cannot be help then. I will make one."
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Suddenly, a beautiful fabric of purple appeared in front of them and in an instant, Magic cut in it in half. Then a sewing machine appeared and the Heavenly King sat on the chair that also appeared out of nowhere.
The Head Maid and the Hero simply watched Magic as she sewed the fabric and formed a set of clothing. Then next, the machine disappeared and in its wake was a purple and blue leather. There, the Heavenly King also made a pair of shoes.
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"It is done."
Neptune's face turned beet of red as she stared down at the clothing given to her by Magic. It was a beautiful, purple dress with some glittering jewels of diamonds at the sides of her dress. She also wore a pair of tights and a pair of purple and blue shoes.
"Amazing! What a splendid and magnificent job you did, Lady Magic." Rei said as she stared in amazement at the product that Neptune currently wearing.
"Agreed," Magic nodded and proudly smiled at what she did. "It suits her very well, unexpectedly since I did it in a hurry not more than a minute."
"I was bestowed a great honor to watch your performance, Lady Magic."
"It was nothing."
"U-Um, p-p-please don't look," Neptune said, covering her red face. "T-There's no way an amazing dress like this could suit someone like me."
"...Lady Magic," Rei suddenly said before turning around to look up at Magic with her eyes suddenly turning bright blue. "If it's okay, I would like for Lady Neptune to join my Maid Battalions."
"I refused." Magic said as she looked down at Rei Ryghts with her single fox eye shining as well.
The two stared at each other with sparks flying out between them. Eventually, Rei sighed and looked away. "What a pain. I want to see more of that baby face."
Magic shook her head in disapproval. But deep inside, she was about to burst in anger. "Damn it, what is wrong with this Evil Goddess?" She thought before looking at Rei - who was staring very hard at Neptune, meanwhile the latter tried to hide her face.
Neptune, our small Hero, was wearing a handmade outfit made by the great Heavenly King?! It was a shocking work from one of the Four Heavenly Kings! What would the next chapter be like...?!
Additional Scene:
The Armor of Polaris.
It was a Holy type of armor that resides within the deepest dungeon from the north of Gamindustri, called 'Depth Nautic.' The dungeon was very cold and its temperature reached below that of a freezing point, it is a subzero death for all living things that will dare step foot.
However, only one human prevailed and reached the bottom. It was the Hero of Gamindustri.
It granted the Hero to wield the coldest ice power and was able to create a forcefield around her to freeze her opponents instantly.
It was an armor wore by the Hero in her journey to fight
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It is currently midnight, back at the Heavenly King's room...
Magic stared at the armor that Neptune used to wear. It was a small, white armor with golden segments around the chest area and a sigil of a power symbol over it. The armor was on a stand.
From a glance, it would appear to be a normal, white armor. But thanks to Magic's appraisal...
"This child," Magic said, she greeted her teeth in anger at the thoughts of human. "She's too young and yet those pathetic humans forced her to be this way!"
"They did not even think about her health! That wretched True Goddess did not even tell that the consequences of wearing an armor from the depths of ice!"
Magic clenched her hands hard and her yellow eye glowed in the dark. Her knuckles clenched so hard you could hear small bones cracking. And then she let out a heavy sigh before rubbing her forehead.
"It's still amazing," Magic said, "To think that the Hero would wear such a God-level armor, if we two were to fight, I wouldn't stand a chance. She truly deserves to be a worthy opponent for the Great Demon Lord."
CFW Magic, she was not only a Heavenly King by title, she was also the most intelligent and smartest demon. It won't be abnormal to think that she can stand toe-to-toe with the Gamindustri's greatest magicians who all can use 10-Tier spells simultaneously. She truly is a prodigy of the demonkind.
But she also knew that nature had it all. She knew all along that the nature was her greatest opponent, not the humans. So she worked hard on researching magic countless times almost to the point where she needs to create one.
However, no matter what she do, after seeing the Hero who wore that armor.
"Still I wanted to ask her," Magic said to herself while thinking of Neptune's cute face. "Did she used its special ability that surpassed 15th tier?"
That question left hanging the more she imagined Neptune's cute faces.
"What am I doing again?" Magic said to herself before looking back, seeing a desk with a document on it. "Oh yes, a meeting to the capital... If only I can deny, it would honestly be great."
She said before seating back.