Author's note
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Update 07/10/2014 XXX add a new omake at the end.
I had rewrite the first 3 chapter a little. No significance story change aside from dropping the mundane shield idea, I just found it can be broken than I first thought, also swords just feel cooler.
For this chapter, I will try to write in English without write in Thai first like usual, maybe I can post new chapter faster this way. May fortune favor the foolish.
Despite what I said above, this chapter turned out to came pretty late, no thank to my real life problem, and the fact that Neptunia Re:Birth is damn fun! I only miss that 100M money trophy till I can hug my platinum trophy of that game. Why are you so damn fun Nep-Nep!?
I have completed a (very) rough timeline of this fic up to Index arc's ending. Hopefully this will prevent any major contradiction in story I may make later.
I almost decided to let Emi join Judgement, but feel that it will complicate the plot too much, so I have dropped the idea for now, 'FOR NOW'
I want to keep Emi's Level 5 status as a level of rumor, partly excuse by Aleister's interference, but I wonder if there is really new level 5 appear in canon, will that be announce in Academy City somehow, put in news headline, or something else entirely?
Also, I would really appreciate if anyone pick up that parallel universe idea in the story and write a real fic about that, I don't want credit, just tell me if anyone really do that and I will go read that ASAP.
Last thing to add, I actually got myself a beta-reader, but he (or she? I didn't asked that yet.) is probably having trouble with my rough grammar right now, so I will publish an alpha version first, and I will upload the beta version once that is finish. That included the first 3 chapter.
Now then, to the story
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July 18 Tokiwadai middle school, lunchtime
Emi froze, her eye focus on the girl in front of her.
The girl in front of her is gorgeous, long blond hair with matching gold eyes, however, one notable feature of her eyes is that it has a star design on it. Literally, she is a starry-eyed girl, which tears now start to from at the edge of that starry-eyes, She is now crouching on the floor, wearing a soaked Tokiwadai uniform that show her voluptuous feature of her body…
Emi's face redden, she may have been living as a girl for almost a year, but she has been a boy far longer, and that make her feel awkward when being in this situation like this.
No one said anything for a long while, even the schoolgirls surrounding us didn't said a word, until the blonde girls finally find her word.
"T… Take responsibility…" the blonde said weakly with a shaking voice.
Emi, however, finally snapped due to that word.
"Don't just spout easily misunderstandable thing like that!" Roared Emi, before put both of her hand on her now reddened face.
This day was just a normal day, she was going to take a look at some school club, isn't it?
Then how did she end up in this situation?
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July 18 Tokiwadai middle school, back in the morning
"Club?" Said Emi.
"Club, some are call clique though. What is your hobby Einsbern-san? If you join a club of your interest is should be the best for you" said one of her classmates with energetic voice.
What the girl didn't tell, but Emi already knew (during her talk with Mikoto and Kuroko yesterday), is that there is a small war between clubs and cliques in Tokiwadai, no, they didn't fight to the death or something like that, just some fight over some school area or lending school equipment to use in their club's activities, and that someone with high background or high esper power will affect a lot in that 'war'. It could be said that Tokiwadai's girls playing their politic game with their club activity.
Which make a Level 5 like Emi and Mikoto an unvaluable member that every clubs want to recruit.
Emi glanced at Mikoto, who for some reason, look very sleepy, make Emi wonder what happened after Touma and Mikoto left yesterday? Mikoto has told her that she didn't join any club because she don't want to get in the politic wars between clubs, but should Emi do the same? She want Mikoto's opinion. When their eyes met, Mikoto gave her a hand wave that Emi interpret as 'It's up to you, just do what you want.'
Well, she has some clubs that she's interest, so it may worth a try, let ask first are those certain clubs available here?
''Is there Cooking or Archery clubs in Tokiwadai?"
While Emi listening to her classmates answer and planned her schedules, she didn't notice that one of the classmate has picked up her phone and send mail to someone, or that there is star-shaped design on that classmate's eyes that wasn't there before.
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At lunch time Emi, followed her classmates who leading her to cooking club's room, saying that they cook their lunch in the club room sometime, and this day is one of that day, so it is a good opportunity for Emi to observe cooking club and decide if she want to join or not, Mikoto didn't tag along saying that she need to take a little nap.
What Emi saw at cooking club room, if she has to say, managed to surprise her, to say the least.
Back in her homeworld, Emi has seen so many thing, magic users, an secret organizations made of them, monsters straight from myth, a war between legendary heroes, a living vampires (another than that old man Zelretch), legendary weapon/item that capable of destroy a mountain and a few than can end the world literally, and sometime Zelretch will let her see their counterpart in different universe like the one that universe's version of Shirou, for some reason, drew Saber class female version of GILGAMESH of all people as his servent, in a post-apocalyptic world where some super strong monsters have swarmed the planet and pushed humanity to the brink of extinction, and the pair along with many others go monster hunting style to save the world and solve their romantic relation on the way, as crazy as it sound, it is real in that parallel world, so Emi thought she seen enough to say that she has seen it all.
But despite all that, she somehow never saw anyone use their insane skill/abilities they has in some mundane task like what she's seeing in front of her right now, so that managed to surprise her, well, if there is a STORM MADE OF FIRE in the room with someone in the center of that storm and she has been using that fire in COOKING of all thing, who won't surprise? At least for the first time.
The red head ponytail glass wearing girl who turned her back to most people in the room is now focusing to cooking something in front of her, the storm of fire that surrounding her didn't seem to bother her at all, she stand inside a fire that should be too hot for living thing like it was nothing but normal air, all the while flame circle around something that is on a metal stick that she hold in her hand, even Emi reinforce eyes can't see through that easily.
"I think this is enough." Said the girl in the center of the storm.
Then suddenly, the storm of fire disappeared as if it never was there, leaving only a red haired girl in apron who hold a…. pan full of fried rice? She then put a portion of it in a giant plate that have been prepared beforehand, after she finished and put down cooking utensils, someone start clapping hands ,follow by others who clapping their hand though, the cooking club captain smile and bow for praised she got.
"Smell so good" said one of Emi's classmate. "As expect of cooking club captain's cooking, good cooking and awesome show of esper power as always, she is the best cook of Tokiwadai and master of heat control, hence her ability 'Pyro master' name"
Emi herself also clapping her hand followed other girl around her, she too got captive by that display of utilize esper power in cooking, however, she noticed something strange.
"Is her cha-han (Chinese fried rice) recipe didn't include a garlic? She didn't add any in that" Emi murmured to herself with a normal voice that with clapping sound around, even her classmates who stand near her didn't hear that without paying attention.
But the red headed girl suddenly changed her expression after Emi said that, she picked up a spoon near the plate where cha-han is and put spoonful of it in her mouth, her eye widen with surprise, then she put her eyes on Emi nervously.
"Hey! You foreigner over there!" her finger pointed straight as Emi, the other girls seem to surprise as sudden change in the famous cooking club captain manner, stop clapping, then their eyes focus to person who is being pointed at by the red headed.
Emi, suddenly become the center of attention from everyone in the room, pointed at herself reply back "M…me?"
"Yes, you. I heard what you just said, how did you know that I forgot to put garlic in the fried rice? Even I didn't notice that until I tasted it" she demanded answer, her question raised some voice in the room.
Emi scratched her head a little, before replied back "Um… I just feel that the smell is a bit off I guess? Maybe because I just made my own for lunch too so I noticed that" She said and bring her pack of lunch in front of her, this morning she just used some cooking ware she had in her room to make a cha-han to pack for lunch, she just wanted to eat her hand-made food once in a while, it is a pure coincidence that she want to make cha-han here.
And follow reaction of the red headed almost made Emi jump.
"Foreigner, come here, NOW!" The red head ordered with a voice that is almost count as snarl, Emi, panickly, walked to her side as ordered.
"H.. Hi! I am Emilya von Einzbern, 2nd year student, eh… what do you want with me?"
"You said you made this right?" she pointed at Emi's food box, Emi nodded. "Perhaps you want to join our club?"
"I'm considering" Replied Emi, though she somehow want to say that she is now decide against that, her 'I'm in trouble, but I wonder what?' sense is tickling.
"In that case, may I taste you're a little?" ask the red head "I want to know how good you are before you join your club, so that we can plan how to make you even better in case you decide to join our little club"
Inside, Emi want to giggle at that, but she keep her face the same, she open her food box and offer it to the girl in front of her, since the girl is a little on the high side, around 170 cm. if Emi guess is right, so she have to hold the food box a little high.
"Well then, as your wish, maybe I should warm it first, we have the equipment here."
"No, that's fine. I just want to taste a spoonful" the red headed put a spoonful in her mouse, then froze, her eye widen, her mouth still moving to chew what is inside, then after swallowed it all, she stared at Emi with a new eyes that scared Emi a little. "H…How did you learn to do this?"
"Um… self-taught and a lot of practices I guess? My parent are quite incompetent at cooking, so I have to do that myself for most." She didn't lied, Kiritsugu's cooking is too simple, if it is edible, it is food, he almost didn't care about taste at all. Maybe it is a result from his long mercenary life? Kiritsugu once told that it is easier if you can eat anything as long as it is edible, instead of trouble yourself trying to cook something good in the battlefield, however that do almost nothing good with Emi's childhood, if she didn't learned to cook back there, either her tastebuds deteriorate first or she may have die of food boredom thank to Kiritsugu's almost non-exist cooking skill.
Anyway, Emi answer seem to be trouble with the red headed a lot, because she literally collapsed to a floor, kneeling in despair, her face stared at the floor beneath, while her mouth speak in a quite voices "Self-taught… Self-taught… and yet better than me who taught by a real chef…" she murmured something that Emi can't hear
"Um… are you alright" asked Emi, her 'I'm in trouble' sense is tickling again, she should just leave and treat this event as if it never happened, yet she worried about the kneeling girl too much that she didn't leave, she later regret that she didn't choose to leave.
Emi let the "Eep!" came out when the girl suddenly rise up and hold both of her hand with the girl's, then the girl used the famous 'puppy's eyes' to look straight in to Emi's eye and then said something that will haunt Emi for a while.
"Einzbern-san, I beg you, please join our club! And taught me how to cook like you!"
"…Ehhhhhhhh!?" The sound of Emi and surrounding Echoed around the room.
And that is how rumor of 'a new transfer foreigner student who beat the cooking club's captain in cooking with a single spoonful of food, and almost succeed in conquer the cooking club within her 1st day' start to spread in Tokiwadai.
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Homura Hime is a 3RD year at Tokiwadai, long red haired often in ponytail, brown near-sighted eyes, 172 cm. height, also quite good looking, a mostly typical Tokiwadai student with a strong esper ability related to fire, normally cheerful, but rumored to have split personality, the other personality is a girl that obsessed and overreact in anything regarding cooking, also captain of cooking club that Emi can guarantee that she won't forget the name for a long while.
Actually, it wasn't that strange for people to have split personality, maybe it is rare in normal human, but most magus have more than one personalitys, a normal/social one and a magus one, some may have even more than that like battle one, researcher one, ETC. Emi herself has at least four, normal, magus, battle, cooking.
Yes, Emi put a lot in her cooking so much that it become another personality in her body, and it is actually the first that appear after her normal one, battle one developed during the 5TH grail war, magus one developed during her time in Clocktower, so while she was surprised of Homura-senpai's overreact to her food, she didn't surprise about Homura's split personality things at all, though some may say that this didn't really counted at split personality but more of mind focus something too much than it should be, Emi won't argue if that was right or not about that.
Well, at least Emi finally calm Homura down now after that outburst.
"I'm sorry Einzbern-san." After some introduction between the two, Hime apologized after calm down a bit. "Your food was so good that I really lost my mind back there."
"It's all right." Really, how can Emi said anything else? Since Homura-senpai is now praising her food, that is the best thing a chef like her appreciate, a praise from someone who enjoy their foods, from someone who is also quite a good chef herself to boost!
But now her cha-han is already disappeared in to surrounding student belly, who want to taste her food that Homura-san praised on, resulted in that Emi didn't have even a spoonful of her own cook, at least Homura offered her cooked cha-han for Emi to eat instead, which is actually quite good. Emi noted that Homura skill is very close to her level.
"What do you think? I think Einzbern-san's really better! Even only by little margin."
"I don't sure, I feel that both are pretty good"
"Homura captain just underestimated herself, I still think Homura-san's better, though I only got to taste a half-spoon of Einzbern-san's so I can't say for sure. Maybe if I could taste some more…"
That's some opinion of the other girls in the cooking club which Emi heard while eating Homura's food.
"Einzbern-san, would you mind do me a favor?" Homura suddenly asked as Emi just finish her portion of lunch.
"Huh? What do you want from me? Name it." replied Emi, she won't accept any favor before know what she have to do first.
"Could you cooked some more of your cha-han? I only taste a spoonful of that and want to taste some more to see what I miss, also there are more guests come to this little event of our club more than usual, my own prepared food has already eaten out, if you could cook for this time, we will able to kill two birds with one stone, club has more food for guests, I got to taste more of your cooking, and you can show how really good you are to those girls, …count it as three birds then."
"I actually don't care about the last one, but I like cooking so there is no reason to refuse that" said Emi with a smile before stood up. "Could you help point me where you store the ingredients though? I am new to this room, so I don't know where you store them" unless I use structural analysis to scan the clubroom first that is.
"With my pleasure" answered Homura, before she bring Emi to where the club refrigerator is.
After a few minute, both girl came back with an ingredients in their hands. When they reach the stove area, Homura offer an apron for Emi to use, but Emi wave her hand in refuse.
"I always bring my own with me" With that said, a pink apron appear on Emi's body.
Homura froze for a moment before asking "Your ability?" Seeing Emi nodded in response, she asked another question "KISS THE COOK?" that is what imprint on Emi's apron.
"It is a gift from my old friends, sort of inside joke, better don't explain the joke" Said Emi, who quickly bring up her 'Cooking Mode', and focus on making new set of cha-han.
Emi's cooking isn't any flashy like Homura who can control fire as her will, but the red-headed captain noticed that there is far less excess movement than her cooking, Emi know what she has to do, and in her 'cooking mode' she do all of necessary thing with a focus like steel on cooking.
But that's why her focus on surrounding lessened and she didn't notice strange movement of one certain blonde in the room.
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The blonde, Shokuho Misaki, hold a plastic TV remote in her hand, then she point at pink-haired girl from afar and press a button.
But almost nothing happened, nor anyone in the room notice the strangeness of this action, Emi still focus on her cooking, while the other girls continue what they were doing, only thing that change is that now everyone aside from Emi has a star-shaped design on their eyes, and won't be able to disrupted her in anyway thank to the blonde's power
Misaki frowned, she half-expected this after hearing that the girl is a new LV 5 but didn't want it to happened.
Her ability, Mental Out, is a powerful ability that play with human's mind, mind control, reading other people's memories, telepathy, changing a person's personality by means of brainwashing, revelation of feelings, memory elimination, destruction of will, institution of illusions, transplantation of emotions. Due to variety of her abilities and very little restriction, she is among a few level 5 of this academy city.
The 'restriction' is the reason that she isn't the strongest esper, she can't just mind control the other level5 because most of them always has some ways to counter her power, somewhat like that Railgun girl's electric barrier but varies on their power, so when she heard that there's a new level 5 appeared, she want to test that will she able to control the newcomer, while the result is clear that she can't control the pink-haired girl with previous attempt, it is different than when she tried to control Railgun girl.
When she used her power, mental out send some sort of electric power to her target's brain, in case of Railgun, her electromagnetic barrier is always on and will block Mental out at the cost of some pain to Misaka (much to Misaki's pleasure), probably because of two electric base power collide and cancel each other out.
But the case in front of her now is different, her mental out didn't seem to effect the target at all, however from what she know from her 'network', Emilya von Einzbern's power 'Tracing' is around creating something, so she shouldn't be able to use that protect herself automatically with that power like Mikoto.
Unless she made something that can protect herself from outside interference using her power that is.
If that's the case, then maybe if she can get into direct contact, she maybe able to bypass that protect and use Mental Out on the girl.
With that in mind, Misaki keep on her plan in finding how much can she control the new level 5.
It should be no problem, since the girl clearly didn't know her, she just has to pose as some student who want to know the new transfer student and get in close with her, then try using her power, even if that fail and a fight breakout, she already control all the girl in this room beforehand, so there is no way that girl can win against this much espers, and that was on assume that the girl react with violence, judge from how the girl focus on cooking at the moment, she is probably more of the lady type and prefer the non-violence method unlike (or when involve innocent peoples, like) Misaka, thus pose no threat to her.
Really, what could go wrong?
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Most of Emi's focus is now on Cooking
She almost finish her cha-han now, but she can't drop her focus or she know that she will make some mistake, while her knowledge in cooking theory are even better than before thank to memories in archer's arm, her overall cooking skill is actually drop by little degree because the lack of muscle memories, her new small female body, that if her lost focus and act like when she was a bigger boy, her movement will be slightly off and sometime result in some kind of accident.
Simply put, her new body make her become a clumsy girl in cooking.
Yet for some reason, this new clumsiness only affect her cooking the most, it didn't affect her ordinary life or her battle skill that much, her theory is that Illya body has muscle memories on standard thing like walking or running, and when fighting, memories of owner of the traced weapon keep her body react in the way it should thank to her sword affinity, but that didn't go the same for her cooking skill.
Anyway, Emi is still a good cook, just need more focus than before or she will make some mistake.
Too bad for Emi this time though, if she focus a little more on her surrounding, she may has prevent what is going to happen next. (or maybe another event will happen instead?)
After put her now finished cha-han in to nearby plate, she was returning cooking pan to the stove when suddenly, a hand reaching at her from behind.
Emi become alerted in an instant, she quickly turn and swing a still hot pan at the person instinctively thinking that she was attacked, before suddenly realized that she wasn't in clock tower and that wasn't Zelretch trying to pull a prank on her (yeah, she will swing anything lethal at Zelretch if the chance arise, not that she ever succeed though.) but just other student, the blonde who clearly stunned at frying pan coming straight to her face, Emi managed to change direction of frying pan mid swing, but while it didn't hit the girl directly anymore, the fear of almost get smack in face make the blonde stumbled backward, Emi try to catch the tripping girl with her free hand but didn't react fast enough, to add insult to the injuries, Emi's hand accidentally hit a bowl full of water nearby causing the water inside to spill toward the now falling backward girl, followed by a sound of loud clashed and a water splashed, the blonde now sitting on the floor with her uniform soaked.
Already put the frying pan back on the stove, Emi want to check if the blonde is all right? Only to froze at the sight of gorgeous blonde wearing a soaked uniform that revealed more than it normally should, and the 'mature' underwear that is slight visibly under that make Emi face become redden.
For some reason, no one around react or even said a word, the room was quite, until it is the blonde who broke the silence.
"T… Take responsibility…" the blonde said weakly with a shaking voice, either of embarrassing or feeling cold.
"Don't just spout easily misunderstandable thing like that!" Replied back by Emi who put both of her hands on her now reddened face, she think about the way to defuse this strange situation when suddenly an idea came to her mind. "Come with me, I will find something for you to change" Emi said while giving her hand the blonde who accepted her hand and rise from the floor. "Homura-san, where is the restroom?"
Homura seem to be in a daze, then her sense seem to come back after being questioned. "That way." She pointed at the back of the clubroom.
"Thank you" Emi then quickly bring the blonde to the restroom.
Seeing that no one else were in the restroom, Emi released her hand and turned back to confront the girl "I'm sorry, that was my mistake back there, did you got any injury eh… what's your name?"
"Shokuho Misaki, please just called me Misaki, and I didn't get any injury, thank for your concern, Einzbern-san"
"Well, Misaki-san, you can called me Emi if you like" saying that, Emi put one of her hand on the blonde's uniform. "Please stay still, I need some focus to make sure this work well enough." Trace on Emi said quietly in her mind.
A few second later, a traced copy of Tokiwadai uniform appear in Emi's other hand, which she quickly gave to the blonde girl.
"There you go, you should change in to this, this is my power 'Tracing', in brief, I can create something if I can understand the original and if it wasn't too complex or too hard to make. However, it will disappear after a while, but I can guarantee that these uniform will last at least 12 hours at least, just don't forget to change your clothing before that"
Hearing that, Misaki look at the uniform in her hand doubtly, then her face change in to a smile, a playful smile that alerted Emi somehow.
"I appreciated your help but… there is still something I need you to do." Misaki said while unbutton the upper part of her soaked uniform.
"Erm… do you want me to get out first so that you can change?" Emi said while try to avoid her glance on 'interesting part' of the blonde girl. Damn! They're huge!
"No, no, what I want to say is that you didn't make me a new underwear, you can see that my bra is also soaked." Misaki said while acting somewhat 'seducing', in Emi's opinion at least. "Actually my pantie too, so I wonder if you forgot to create spare of that or you didn't see it clearly enough to, as you say 'understand it enough', I am letting you having a clear view of them so that you can make a new one for me" And as if want to tease the smaller girl, she added "I don't mind you seeing me change though, we are both girls isn't it?"
Emi face reddened again, she quickly traced an underwear per request, then her face become even redder when she saw closely how 'mature' it is, she gave them to Misaki then quickly leave without saying another word, in fear that Misaki may tease her to help the blonde dressing, Emi even left the clubroom without caring about what other student there may think of the scene. All she need now is find some secluded place to cool her head.
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"Well, that sure gone wrong but at least the end was good and in my favor" Said the Queen of Tokiwadai to herself while changing her uniform with a new one that she just got.
Misaki got a lot of surprise during that span of minutes, and a few conclusions, useful or not is up to debate later.
The first is that Emi has either some awareness sense or super quick reaction time, good strength, and maybe a bit on violence side, she was try to touch her back there, then in a brink, that frying pan almost hit her face, that was scary! At least it seem Emi didn't really intent to hurt her for real.
The second is that her Mental out clearly don't work on Emi, she tried using it a few time when their hand touched but failed, the other girl didn't seem to noticed though.
The third one is that Emi is probably a nice girl, at least nice enough for now. She mayn't be able to read that girl's mind, but with her experience, she always know when someone pretend to be nice, and that girl wasn't pretended to act nice in the least.
And the last, though this one is only her guess, and a little disturbing to boost, is that judge from how Emi reacted to her flirting, that girl maybe a LESBIAN, or at least has some non-normal interest in other woman's body. Seriously, that girl is reaction is in a way almost like the much less creepy version of that Railgun's 100% lesbian follower Kuroko. She may be able to use this fact in her favor later somehow though.
Misaki didn't count the knowledge about 'Tracing' since she already know it beforehand.
Anyway, now she know that she can't control that new level 5 girl with her power, but also knew that the girl is nice enough and won't be troublesome like those other Level 5s to her, so she can get that girl out of her 'potential enemy' list for a while.
Still, since she hasn't each her lunch yet, maybe she should try the food that Emi made, she still wonder how good Emi was to get that Homura 'Flame Master' and 'The best cooking student in Tokiwadai's history' to admitted her defeat that easily.
Finish changing uniform, Misaki walked out of the restroom to find herself a plate of Chinese fried rice.
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Forget leaving Emi to 'Ignorable for now' list, that girl is now on a newly made 'I must get her to cook me a meals everydays from now on' list! Even some of the mind controlled girls was noticeably trying to break out of her hypnotize to get some taste at that girl's Cha-han for god's sake! That was Misaki's thought while serving herself another portion of foods, and that was the 3rd plates by the way.
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AFTERNOTE
After testing myself finished this whole chapter writing in English without typing in Thai first like usual, I decided, I will continue the old way, write in Thai then translate to English later.
I mean, I really can't write faster with this way! There are so many time I have idea but I can't put it in English word in an instant, got to looking for word, then I can't keep the idea flow going and get struck, at least if I write in Thai first, it is more natural for me.
Entered my first (and maybe only) OC character in this fic, Homura Hime. I didn't planned for her to have more role in a major story though, but she will have some role in slice of life part of this fic, she mostly created because I don't want to keep calling her 'cooking club captain', though her power will be broken in a way but probably no match for LV5. Sadly I can't figure a way to let her show my idea of her ability's full potential in this chapter though.
Also, I already decided, I will put this story in a more original way than I intend at first, and Misaki will have more role in story, though I will keep her as a support role and as Emi's (strange but still more of a) friendly buddy, the story will still mostly follow canon Index/Railgun though.
Some opinion need, since Mikoto and Misaki is '(Electric) Princess' and 'Queen' of Tokiwadai respectively, I am thinking of give Emi some royalty nickname to match those two, 'something of swords' is what I think, but I can't choose what is best for her, Duchess, Mistress, Damsel, Heiress is what I can think of. Is there any better word that suit her more in English? Or any specific word that mean 'woman knight' or 'Second princess' or something like that? I think that will suit Emi the most, or maybe I should let her do something 'manly' enough to earn her name 'Prince' (lol), 'Swordswoman' is also fine but there is no feeling of royalty theme in that.
On the other idea, maybe just called her 'LITTLE Princess of Tokiwadai' is fine, can be add as her 'please don't call me that!' gag later.
Some may feel strange that Emi didn't noticed Misaki using her power at all, my explanation (or 'excuse') is that the nature of Misaki's power make it so subtle that Emi didn't notice that unless she put her effort on detect that, somewhat like how Illya manage to use her Mystical Eye of Binding on Shirou in fate route, Shirou only notice that when the binding effect is already on.
This chapter also change a lot from my first thought, at first I want to include some more dark element of nasuverse and let Misaki saw some of that, but what I really done is what you just read up there. It now more lightheart than I originally intend.
And for last note, reason for Mikoto being sleepy is because she was fighting Touma at riverside, then chase him when he ran away just like in canon. I was going to add this in story but I really forgot lol.
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Omake 2
What could have been?
Set place in an alternate universe, where event in this chapter happen slightly different, and then with domino effect, something interesting occur after.
During Emi's cooking, she noticed that someone was reaching her from behind, so she warned first. "Please don't come too close during my cooking, I need some focus here."
"Ah, sorry" the blonde said before back off.
"You're welc- oh hot!" With just brief loss of focus, Emi's right thumb touch a hot frying pan accidentally. "Argh! Why had I become so clumsy?" said Emi before put her thumb in her mouth to ease some of the pain, tears form at the edge of her eyes, her left hand still hold frying pan though.
To describe this so adorable scene of clumsy girl in cooking, just one word is enough, 'MOE'.
Since Emi was distracted at the moment, she didn't noticed that some of surrounding girls bring out their phones to get a picture of MOE action in front of them. Also, it should be note that they somehow broke the Queen's brain control power on them by sheer urge to record this MOE scene in front of them, even the Queen herself was shocked that some girls can break her mind control power with that ridiculous reason.
"Einzbern-san! You really must join our club! With that high MOE level of your, we will be able to increase our members without effort!" said Homura, who also break of her mind control already.
Emi become dumbfounded, only one word managed to leave her mouth "Huh?"
Later that day, the picture of Emi in her MOE mode has been spread on the internet inside academy city, it was rumored that some fanclub of Emi has been founded after that, and later that fanclub help her fight against some darkside of the academy city in their later day, screaming "For our goddess Emi!" during that 'Holy Mission' they call.
Emi wasn't amused, to say the least.
But Zelretch was.
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Damn! I really run out of idea at the end of above omake, but at least I can forced it an ending and post it anyway since it will be a waste if I just discard that.
Original intention is I want Emi to make some mistake which, in game term, has chain event in to unlock her possible 'yuri harem' ending route with Homura and Misaki (and maybe Fate casts), but I got a nasty headache at the time due to lack of sleep and so I just want to finish that ASAP (since ch 4 was already finished, and I has my little rule that short OMAKE should end in 1 day only, I do them for my own fun, not to stress myself more), resulted in what you got there.
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The next bonus omake is made in memory of a certain goddess, memory of happiness I gain from her will always with me, ah… I will miss her forever.
? : Hey! Did you intent the above line to sound like I am already death or something?
You catch on quick, as expect of someone like you, Neptune.
Neptune : Duh, I even got a black belt on 4TH wall breaking even before becoming a goddess.
There is a school teaching 4TH wall breaking? No, don't answer that question. Anyway, my idea of this omake came from my play on your game, it was really good that I want to make some parody for it.
Omake 3
Sword of the Purple Goddess, also known as, The writer wonder 'how good he is at 4TH wall breaking' and 'why he want Misaki to be Emi's friend'.
Set place after Emi and Misaki become close enough and their lily rank was so high a special event occurred, also let them use combination attack if they have one.
Neptune : In case you wonder 'what the hell is lily rank?', since the writer here are too lazy to explained that gag (and he is a firm believer of 'don't explain the joke' to boost), go play Neptunia Re:birth, it is a fun game with this super lovely me as a Heroine!
Or just go google it.
Neptune : You meanie! I was trying to raise my share here!
I already got first game's true end and trophies so I don't care about your share that much anymore. My faith is already in Iris-heart sama so I will let you gain some more time once Re:birth 3 come out though.
Oh yeah, a few lines above is another 'don't explain the joke' gag. If you don't get it, I won't tell you.
Neptune : If you're so curious, just play any of my game!
Well, this drag on too long already, better get in to the Omake now.
Neptune : Aye aye sir!
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After so many misadventure together, Emi and Misaki has already become true friend, they trust each other enough that Misaki finally ask something that she was wonder from when they first met.
Misaki wondered that, since Emi can actually create any item she understand (mostly a swords), she was thinking that, if she force Emi's mind to believe that she understand some non-exist in real life items, will Emi be able to trace those items?
The idea was absurd, and require Emi to lower her anti-magic power and let Misaki mess with her head, but since they are already very close, Emi make no objection and just go along with the idea.
What Misaki forgot however, is that she didn't think beforehand about this 'non-exist in real life items' to test her theory with, what should she use? She then remember about a game that she saw one of her follower play in her PS Vita, a game about some girl wielding a sword, she then imagine that sword in her mind and force Emi's mind to truly believe that she understand that sword.
Back there, she wasn't really think that it will work, she just want to try and proved that she was wrong.
Oh, how wrong she is.
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"The result was a success then, you actually manage to create that sword." Said Misaki with an excitement in her voice.
"Yeah, and this is a very strong weapon than I imagine" replied Emi.
"Strong? What did you learned from that sword?"
"This is called a 'Mecha-nep blade', a Planeptune-Made sword hat bear Nep's name. Made in mimic to her weapon used in CPU form, STR 2150 INT 1500 AGI -215 TEC -215."
"Who is this Nep? What do you mean CPU form? And what does those numbers mean?"
"The name of this sword's owner, Neptune, she is actually a CPU which is equal to Goddess in her world Gamindustri, and those number are this sword's in game stat, this is one of the best weapon available in the first game."
"What? you mean that sword carried it game data into real world?"
"Yeah, and since it was goddess's weapon, it was very strong and has some… strange abilities of this Neptune girl in it which I can use via my ability, for example, now I can break the 4TH wall with this thing"
Misaki blinked, once ,twice, before she said "What?"
"Better not explain, it was crazy enough that if I wasn't distorted I may become crazy already just by reading this sword, and that power is now affect this world in some strange way, but there is this other power I want to show you…"
Before Emi finish talking however, a Guy with white wing suddenly appeared in front of the two.
"LV5 No.2 Teitoku Kakine!" Misaki shouted, already in alerted mode. "How did you suddenly appeared without any of us noticed! And what do you want for appeared here?"
"Actually… I don't know, I just feel like the author want me to appeared here for no reason aside from being some test dummy for that cool sword over there" He pointed at sword in Emi's hand. "And he also want me to say that he really want to use NO.1 here but that may spoil what he intend in that girl and the albino's fight so he use me instead, and the fact that this was a good chance to let me get some cameo appearance since he has not plan for any of my scene in main story yet. Damn, did he don't like me or something?"
More of I don't know about you that much so I can't put you in the story, or you will be too OOC.
"That suck"
"What was you talking about? And whose voice is that? That is clearly not one of us!" Said Misaki confusingly, what NO.2 said made no sense to her at all, and that strange voice is somehow familiar to her. "He's talking again" Wait, you hear me? That was a surprise.
"Misaki, that was GGFBank, the author of this fi- no, you better not now that or you may become crazy, I will just change the subject instead. It seem that Kakine has been affect by the power of 4TH wall breaker and I must stop him with this sword or this world will not back to normal state, what a lame excuse plot" Said Emi while ready the purple sword in fighting stance.
Yay, this is all excuse plot. I need stress relief you know.
"And now you're talking strange too! What is happening around here?" shouted the still normal Misaki, she didn't know that the author thought that leave her normal in this scene was to make the scene funnier. "I heard that!" Oop, I forgot she heard me now.
"We already use too much line for an omake, I will just activate the HDD power of Neptune and defeat Kakine as the plot demand now!"
With that said, a column of light appear around Emi and transformation scene occur. I want to explained in detail but it will be too long so just imagine some magical girl like Nanoha's changing scene here, and her HDD from is something like Irisviel with pink hair in ponytail wearing Neptune's Planeptune armor.
"You are lazy than I thought dear author." Said the now transformed and more mature Emi, 'Sword Heart', that name just thought while writing this line though.
And I just feel the need to say this, while Sword Heart is really very beautiful, Misaki's breast still bigger than Emi's mature form.
"Pervert!" said the two girl, I am hurted.
"Well, since you're transformed, I have to say this cliché line now. Do you think you can defeat me?" Kakine said as I made him to.
"It is obvious that I will win, because I am the main character of this fanfic! Who do you think I am!"
After that the big fight occur, but this omake was too long already so I will leave the rest to reader's imagination, half the reason is I'm not good at writing long fight scene.
"I'm having a headache, at least give me some paracetamol first" said Misaki whom later get some medicine from the author, I'm such a nice guy isn't it? "You're the reason for my headache here!"
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This idea just pop in my head and I finish it in one go. Go play Hyperdimension Neptunia Re:Birth!, it was a very good game!
Neptune : Ah! You finally fall for me at last you tsundere.
I just want the 3rd game to come in English quicker. Iris heart-sama is main character in that game.
Neptune : Meanie!
The next part will reach the graviton bomber case, I hope.
