So hey, I'm back! Pay no attention to that disappearance for a few months. I've been here the entiiiiiire time. Yep. Right here. Nowhere else. Okay? Okay. I totally wasn't distracted by video games and other writing projects. Nope, not at all. If anyone says otherwise they're lying. Totally lying. Not telling the truth. Now let's get on with the current chapter.
It'd been two weeks since the attack on Lowee, Nova had been staying there with her and helping with repairs to the nation. While he wanted to return to Steamport to get some information out of the man that Nitroplus had captured, according to her, he was putting up quite the resistance to Raw Meat's special interrogation methods and as such things were at a standstill for now, however the man named Jake Raimes was being held in top level security until Nitroplus could get something out of him. With that being the case, Nova was left to his own devices, Blanc being thankful for the help in getting things back up to speed.
Staying in Lowee was surprisingly nice for the most part. Sure it was cold all the time, but it had a nice quiet and relaxing feeling...and that was something the young swordsman could get behind. There was just one thing that was making his stay at Lowee less than enjoyable...or rather one person.
"Gotcha!" Ram exclaimed hurling a book at Nova's face, which he deftly dodged
"Grrrr, no fair, you're not supposed to dodge my attacks!"
"You aren't supposed to attack me at all." Nova said with a sigh
Ignoring his words Ram ran off, probably to set up some other prank for him. For the past two weeks, the little goddess had gone out of her way to try and prank Nova. She'd actually been successful a few times, nailing him in the face with a book on several occasions and drenching him in water before. At first he thought it wouldn't be any worse than this...but then she tried freezing him solid once, which Rom had thankfully stopped her from doing, telling her that it was going too far and that Blanc would be furious. Thankfully, that was enough to deter her and since then she wasn't trying to freeze him solid anymore. Lost on how to handle Rom, the best he could do was simply dodge her, which got easier as the days went on. Even Mina voiced her surprise when Nova had managed to dodge one of her surprise book attacks.
Still, the constant attacks were sort of killing his mood, so Nova figured that going to Blanc would be a wise idea. After all, she was Ram's sister, so maybe she'd be able to help in getting her to lay off for a while.
"Sorry, I can't help." Blanc said bluntly from behind her desk
"You can't be serious; Ram has been on my case ever since I've been here!" Nova exclaimed in disbelief
"It's not so bad once you get used it, she'll probably get bored eventually and just leave you alone."
"Blanc, she's been at it for two weeks now, I don't think she's going to get bored."
"Well, you better keep your guard up then. Now get lost, I've got tons of work to do."
"But...!"
Blanc materialized her hammer in one hand as she looked at Nova threateningly
"Get. Lost."
Not needing to be told twice, Nova left her office, sighing as he did so. He really was on his own with Ram now and at the moment he was not in the mood to deal with more pranks from her, so since it was nearly noon already, he decided to sneak out and go grab some lunch. He still had a mountain of credits left from the monster attacks and since he'd gone out and done some quests during his stay, so he wasn't hurting for money at all. Lowee had quite a few interesting food shops, despite the whimsical nature of the nation, there were quite a lot of Japanese styled eateries around from sushi to ramen to beef skewers, Lowee had it all and more.
"Heeeeeeeey Nova~!" came a familiar voice
"Oh hey, Neptune!" Nova said with a wave as the lilac haired goddess strode over to him, Neptune had been coming by frequently as well since the attack on Lowee and according to her, it was because she brow-beat the author into including her since her name was in the title and as such, she was here...along with dodging work at her own Basilicom. When she told Nova this, he was just left dumbfounded at her words, not knowing how to respond to that at all. Whatever the case, Neptune had been fun to hang around for the most part, making the stay at Lowee much more bearable what with Ram trying to kill him.
"Yo yo, I'm here, what are you up to my faithful ally?" Neptune asked cheerfully
"I'm just going to grab some lunch, what about you?" He replied "Did you skip out on work again?"
"Ouch...it's not skipping out! I'm letting handle it!"
"That sounds a lot like you're skipping out on work..." Nova muttered
"Whatever, come on, let's go get some food, I'm starved!"
"If that's the case then why did you come all the way here to Lowee...?"
"Because this is where the story is focused on for the time being!"
Again, Nova didn't know how to respond to Neptune's fourth wall breaking words and so he just decided to go along with her. Besides, it never hurt to have a friend to eat with, his thoughts went back to his own world where he'd routinely eat lunch with his best friend Issen, and for a split moment he felt a sharp pain in his heart for doing so. He mentally shook it off and stayed close with Neptune as they decided to hit up the beef skewer restaurant. The two were quickly seated and began enjoying their food after they had allowed it to cook properly on the stove that sat in-between the two of them.
"So Nova, You find anything about that Reverend Badd guy?"
"Nope, he's been silent the entire time; I guess he wasn't expecting to lose the battle, so he's in hiding right now, can't say I blame him though."
"It's strange, if he's anything like the I knew, he'd have some scheme up his sleeve that'd put us on the ropes and then come out and taunt us about it."
Neptune had made mention of another dimension she'd visited some years ago. According to her, she and her sister Nepgear had been stuck there for about 15 years or so and while they were there they had to go up against the Seven Sages, of which was one of them, the story was quite harrowing (at least it was with how Neptune talked about it) and it ultimately ended with her and her friends having to fight off and insane older goddess.
"Don't jinx it Neptune." Nova let out with a sigh "The last thing we need is for that psycho to actually gain the advantage over us."
"Don't worry, who would actually listen to some weirdo priest guy anyway?" Neptune replied while swallowing her food effortlessly.
"I dunno, maybe he's got other tricks we don't know about it, and don't forget about that anti-sharicite blade he has too."
Neptune shivered at the mention of that sword, Blanc had gone into detail on how it had been making her progressively weaker throughout the battle and if he hadn't retreated, she was sure she'd have eventually been defeated, probably worse if Nova and the others hadn't been around.
"Man don't talk about that thing, it gives me the creeps." Neptune groaned "Let's just eat and forget about it for now."
Nova agreed with Neptune, talking about the battle wasn't a good conversation when out eating, and so he and the friendly goddess happily ate away at their food...well Nova stopped at his fifth helping, but Neptune just kept going...and going...and going...! She was going to use up all his money at this rate!
"Neptune, that's enough!" He exclaimed when she'd finished what had to have been her twenty-third helping of food.
"H-hey come on, I'm not done yet!" She whined
"You are when I'm the one paying for it." Nova replied through gritted teeth, ever since they'd been hanging out together, Neptune never once paid for a meal; odds are with how much of a slacker she was, Neptune had no money to her name, so he was forced to treat her to a meal...maybe that's why she was always coming to Lowee, a constant stream of free meals is something no one could turn down.
"So hey, did ya find out anything from the whacko that Nitroplus caught?"
"Nothing yet unfortunately." Nova said with a loud sigh "He's not talking and he's seemingly quite resistant whatever Raw Meat's interrogation method is. However, we've got him locked up tight, so it's not a total loss. He'll talk soon enough."
Paying for the food, Nova and Neptune left the establishment, while Nova inwardly sighed as his funds had taken a bigger hit than he anticipated. Did all the goddesses of this world have the same eating habits as Neptune? If that were the case, he couldn't imagine what Blanc or the others would be like...and he prayed that his wallet never found out. Since he was spending time with Neptune, Nova knew that this meant that a majority of his day would be goofing off with her and doing whatever she wanted, it was weird, but Neptune just had that effect on people, despite the clearly trying times they were in Neptune still found time for fun and just being a goofball in general, it was no wonder that according to Blanc, she was in a constant state of being heckled by her nation's oracle, some little fairy named Histoire. He wondered if he'd ever get to meet her, she seemed pretty interesting if she could manage to get Neptune to actually work every once in a while. The day came to an end with Neptune having dragged Nova out to the arcade for more fun. The games were good, but nowhere near as great as the arcade back in Leanbox. Eventually, night fell and Neptune decided that she'd sleep over at Blanc's Basilicom.
"Are you really sure you should just be deciding that on your own?" Nova asked as the two of them walked back to the Basilicom
"It'll be fine, Blanc won't mind if I hang out! Besides, I've haven't hung out with her in a long time!"
"It sounds more like you just wanted to avoid getting yelled at once you got home."
"Urk...that's not true, I'm not running away from punishment!" Neptune replied lamely
"Sure, whatever you say Neptune." Nova replied, clearly not believing a word she said
"It's true, I'm serious!"
"Of course you are."
The two continued on like this until they got into the Basilicom proper, with Neptune wanting to stop by and speak to Blanc. Not seeing the problem with that Nova complied, until he stopped for a moment.
"What's wrong Nova, why the sudden serious face? You look like you just walked into an action scene from a movie."
"We're walking down the hall...no we got inside the Basilicom and we didn't get attacked."
"Attacked by what? Blanc wouldn't try to hurt us." Neptune said with a confused look on her face still
"Of course Blanc wouldn't...maybe...if she were angry enough she'd kill us, but Rom and Ram are a different story...especially Ram." He muttered
As if on cue, a cart started barreling down the hallway at an insane speed, it was coming way too fast for either Neptune or Nova to dodge out of the way and so Nova did the one thing he could think of: He got in front, preparing to take the thing head on.
"No-Nova watch out!" Neptune shouted
He ignored her, taking the full brunt of the thing, which he managed to stop successfully, he'd even managed to keep it level so it didn't tip over or anything like that, to which Neptune was quite surprised
"Wow, not bad Nova, I was expecting you to get run over or something like that."
He chuckled at her words "No worries, I've dealt with things way tougher than that."
"Oh yeah, well take this!" came a familiar voice, turning his head to the right, his face was met with a thick book hitting him square in the face. Nova let out a loud grunt as he took the full force of the tome head on
"Hah, I got you!" Ram cackled
Neptune just stared at the entire situation impressed, "Did you really plan that all out Ram...?"
"Of course I did, there's no way this dummy can outsmart me."
"U-um...are you okay?" Came Rom's voice who had been hiding around the corner, it was clear she'd been roped into this whole thing by Ram.
"I'm fine Rom." Nova said offering the soft-spoken girl a pat on the head
"Well now that you've finally 'got' me can we please stop with the pranks for now?" Nova moaned "We were just about to go see Blanc before all this."
"Big sister is sleeping..." Rom muttered "So it's best not to disturb her."
"Oh nonsense, Blanc won't mind waking up for lil' ol me, now let's go!" Neptune exclaimed ushering the twins and Nova along. The group made their way to Blanc's office where upon opening the door they saw the petite goddess snoozing on her desk.
"She must really work herself to the bone looking after Lowee" Gray Heart echoed from within Nova's head
"You've been quiet today Gray Heart..."
"What can I say? I was sleeping. That hit from Ram was enough to wake me though."
The fact that Ram's throwing arm was enough to wake a slumbering goddess gave Nova a small tint of worry, but even so that wasn't anything compared to the sudden yelling he'd heard from Blanc
"NEPTUNE, WOULD YOU PLEASE GO AWAY!" She hollered angrily, a shadow casting over her face as one of her eyes had a dangerous red glow to it
"Jeez, what's the problem? I just wanted to play some games with you, come on stop sitting at that musty old computer and play a few rounds with me and Nova!"
"I'm tired." Blanc growled
"And a quick game will perk ya right up!"
Nova could see the vein building on Blanc's forehead and so he decided that it'd be best to intervene before things got out of hand and Blanc started attacking everyone in the room.
"Look, come on Neptune, let's leave Blanc alone to get some rest, I'm sure Rom and Ram could join us for some games instead?"
"Oh oh, I'm always up for some games, I Rom and I could totally school the two of you in Blatoon!" Ram snickered
"Oh yeah? Well you're on, come on Nova!"
The three girls ran out of the room, leaving Nova alone with Blanc for the moment
"Thanks for that..." Blanc said with yawn "Now I can get back to sleep."
With that, Blanc quickly fell back asleep, a light snoring. Feeling a twinge of curiosity well up within him, Nova couldn't help but walk over to Blanc's desk. Peering over her shoulder he expected to see some sort of important email or something about the welfare of Lowee, what he instead saw...surprised him. It wasn't about the welfare of Lowee at all; it instead was a...story? A fanfiction or something of the sort by the looks of it, Nova began reading it and as he scrolled down, he started noticing some...similarities to himself within the story.
It included a young man being spirited away to another world by a 'evil' god and how shortly after he allowed a beautiful goddess to inhabit his body so that they could defeat the evil god who had been causing trouble in her world as well. It wasn't a one to one telling of his story, but the more he read, the more it became pretty clear. No wonder she had asked so many questions about his world and that she went and wrote them down.
Nova couldn't help but chuckle at it all, it was a surprisingly interesting story for the most part, she'd even wrote in expies of herself and the other goddesses as well as the other candidates. Heck she even went far enough to write an encounter that was basically her experience with Reverend Badd, but instead he was named Pastor Mean.
Well, that wasn't a particularly creative name, but it was the thought that count...probably.
"Come on now, you shouldn't keep Neptune and the others waiting." Gray Heart chided
"Yeah, yeah I know." Nova replied heading out of the office, he'd have to remember to talk to Blanc about that story of hers; it was pretty interesting all things considered.
The next few hours consisted of Nova, Neptune, Rom, and Ram all playing Blatoon together with Nova only winning a handful of matches. Neptune and Rom however were masters of the game with the two of them usually ending up as the last two combatants alive on their respective teams with both of them giving each other a rough time. Unfortunately for Neptune though, Rom was the one who would normally end up on top from these confrontations, she really was a beast at video games despite her soft demeanor.
"No fair!" Neptune cried after being killed for the fifth time straight
"Rom really is way too good." Nova sighed
"Rom, how did you get so good at this game...?" Ram asked in disbelief
"I...practice in the online lobby a lot. It's a lot of fun; I even reached S++ rank!"
"S++?! But that's impossible; no one can get to that rank!" Neptune exclaimed
"Yeah, I heard there was only one person in all of Gamindustri who ever made it that far..." Ram muttered
At those words, Rom sheepishly raised her hand with a small blush on her face, looks like she was that singular person who had broken the S++ rank.
"You're a real terror, ya know that kid?" Neptune deadpanned
"S-sorry..." Rom muttered
"Don't worry about it, you should be happy, not many people can do something like that, so wear it as a badge of honor!"
This made Rom's face brighten up a bit as she offered Neptune a soft smile in return
"That smile is dangerous...I get the feeling it could tear apart an entire civilization..." Gray Heart muttered
"What the hell are you talking about...?" Nova thought back at her
"Nothing, just making an observation..."
The group continued playing into the night, Blanc eventually joining them as well after she'd finally woken up from exhaustion induced sleep.
Meanwhile at an undisclosed location...
Reverend Badd angrily sat in the private bunker he'd had made, it'd been a couple weeks since the failed siege of Lowee. He wasn't sure what he could do right now, he had some allies within the nation, but not enough to help mount another attack like he'd done before. There weren't a ton of monsters to call on either as that infernal Gray Heart along with the army of Lowee had killed them all, and to top things off, he'd been trying to get in contact with Jake back at his hideout in Steamport, but unfortunately for him, the idiot had gone and gotten himself captured!
"This is so irritating! All of it!" he growled "How can I spread my holy gospel if things keep going like this?!"
"Really now Reverend, you ought to calm down, a man your age shouldn't get their blood pressure up after all." The voice in question was that of a womanly sounding person wearing a beautiful red and dress with small orange accents along the bottom, she was quite mature sounding with long blonde hair, yet at the same time her voice gave off hint slyness as well, making her somewhat unsettling. "So we suffered a small setback, there's no problem at all that we can't come back from."
"Indeed!" said another person whose voice was quite calm despite Badd's outburst. He was dressed as what could only be seen as a doctor, yet the glasses he had on obscured his eyes and made him slightly unnerving "All we need to do is just adjust things a little isn't that right sir?"
"Quite so." Said one more man, a bit more younger sounding than the last , with his body being obscured in shadow "Tell me doctor, did you finish that little project I asked you about?"
"Of course I did, you're quite lucky I'm good at software. All we have to do is get these distributed and anyone who uses them should be under your control."
"Good to hear, this will do perfectly."
"What is he on about?" Reverend Badd asked with a raised eyebrow
"You see Reverend..." the young man said "If we cannot assault the enemy with an army of monsters...we'll simply attack them with an army of people."
"But...where in Gameindustri are we even going to find enough people willing to stand up to the goddesses?"
"Well...to that end, we'll just have to find some...local talent."
The next morning...
Another typical day in the Lowee Basilicom had Nova waking up and after getting his wits about himself, checking in with Nitroplus. According to her, that Jake guy still wasn't talking at all and like before she'd notify him if anything else happened. Having gotten that out of the way, he took a quick shower before getting dressed and deciding what more to do with his day, there was still no word on Reverend Badd either, so for the time being there wasn't much to do.
"Maybe I should go do some more quests?" Nova muttered to himself
"How about we warp back to Steamport for a bit, Lowee is nice, but I'd like to be somewhere that's not as cold." Gray Heart said with a yawn
"Huh, I'm surprised to see you up so early."
"I got enough sleep last night, so I should be ready for the day."
"It's not like you really do all that much anyway whenever we go out, I'm strong enough to take out whatever monsters are roaming around on my own."
"Oh be quiet, remember our enemies are still out there."
"Well, no denying that, if we're gonna go back to Steamport for a while, we should probably let Blanc know."
Gray Heart agreed, with Nova heading over to Blanc's office, since she was no doubt in there right now...probably working on that novel of hers or something like that. Coming across a maid along the way, he asked if Blanc was in her office, and after receiving confirmation that she was there he quietly stepped inside, seeing Blanc furiously typing away at her keyboard.
"Hey Blanc, you got a minute?" Nova called out to her
"What is it, I'm busy." She replied without looking up at him
"Just wanted to let you know that Gray Heart and I are stopping by Steamport for a bit, let us know if you need any help or anything."
"Really? That's too bad; I had something I needed you for actually."
"And what would that be?"
At this Blanc suddenly tensed up, a small blush creeping up on her face "I...wanted you to take a look at something for me, if you wouldn't mind?"
Nova raised an eyebrow, Blanc was suddenly quite nervous now and it without a doubt had to be because of that story he'd snuck a look at earlier, maybe she wanted some critiquing? It wasn't his forte, but he could help out with it probably.
"Sure, I'd be glad to help you out Blanc." Nova said with a smile "Lead the way
"You're totally doing this only because you think she's cute..." Gray Heart mumbled
"That's not true, I wanna help her out! I mean yeah Blanc is pretty cute, but that has nothing to do with this at all!" Nova thought back as he began following Blanc, doing his best to keep a straight face while following her.
The mental argument continued until Blanc had lead them out into a small patio, a maid waiting for the two of them , standing next to a small table for two. Blanc sat down opposite from Nova, the maid setting down to warm cups of tea. While he wasn't a big fan of tea, it was a big commodity in Lowee, which made sense considering how cold it was.
"I will be back with your food shortly." The maid said with a small bow before leaving
"So um...this is what I want you to look at." Blanc said pulling out a small folder "T-tell me your honest thoughts alright?"
Nova nodded and opened the folder and sure enough as he expected this was the story he'd seen her working on the previous day...though there was a lot more to it than before. She must have added some in at some point. As Nova read through it (taking small bites of his food and sips of his tea) he noticed some...strange parts of the story. Now, instead of fighting Reverend Badd in Lowee, they were fighting him in space, Gray Heart (or rather the expy of her and by extension Nova) had a random break down out of nowhere and were rendered useless both in and out of battle, the expy of C-sha (Now named Teesha)was now an angst ridden mess and while she could still fight, she was nothing like the upbeat woman Nova had come to know. This left the expy of Blanc as the sole hero to keep things together from the looks of it.
"So what do you think?" Blanc asked looking at him with anticipation on her face
"It's...definitely something that much is for sure." Nova said with a sigh
"What's with that reaction?" Blanc growled, the sudden mood shift causing Nova to shrink back a bit.
"Well...how can I put this nicely...?" He murmured
"It's a load of crap." Gray Heart said bluntly
"It's a load of crap." Nova repeated without thinking
"WHAT?!" Blanc hollered, her temper clearly rising
"I mean...look, what was the point of making things so...weird? Things were pretty cool until we were suddenly in space and then all that pointless angst and drama happened." He said trying his best to get the reasons out before he ended up dead.
"It was a twist, it'd take the story in a new direction that no one would see coming!"
"And it's completely unneeded, things were pretty much okay already before that."
"Oh what would you know anyway, since when were you an expert on the literary arts?"
"Okay, fair enough, you're right Blanc, I'm not the least bit of a writer, but shouldn't the fact that I was able to point this out tip you off to how bad this is?"
Blanc opened and closed her mouth several times before realizing that yes, he was in fact right about this and so she sat back, angrily taking a bite out of her food before deciding to speak up again.
"So...?" She growled
"So...what?" he replied
"What do I do to make my story better?!"
Uh...I dunno; just take out that the space part and all the angst? Try focusing on having the story make sense instead of just making a weird twist that has no lead up or any foreshadowing or anything, I mean, I can't really think of much else other than that."
"Fine...I guess I can do that...but you're helping me!"
"What, why, I'm not a writer remember?"
"So what, better to have someone rather than no one and you can catch any mistakes I make as well, from now own, you're my official ghost writer."
"I don't get a choice in this at all do I?"
"Depends, do you enjoy not having your face caved in?"
"Yes...?"
"Then you have no choice!"
What followed for the next several hours was Nova pulling up a chair to help Blanc out while she sat at her desk typing away. The monotony of her clacking away at her keyboard made him sigh inwardly countless times and he couldn't exactly leave, as any time he asked for a break, Blanc would shoot him a glare that pretty much told him that if he moved or tried to leave, he was a dead man. It took him until the middle of the afternoon to convince her to take a break for some lunch, and though Blanc at first didn't want to move and just continue her work, her grumbling stomach made it clear that it required food or she wasn't getting anymore work done for the day.
This led to them heading out to Lowee so that they could grab a bite, this time just opting for some ramen since it'd be a quick meal...or it would have been at least if not for one small problem.
"So Neptune...what are you doing in Lowee again?"
"Well I wanted to come hang out! Besides, it was getting to be lunch time and I figured that I-
"She came here because she knew I'd pay for her food..." Nova said with a groan
"That is totally not true! I just so happen to value our friendship Nova, and so I have come by to spend time with you!"
"More like you value my wallet..." he sighed
"Just forget it and eat, you're treating both of us today." Blanc said calmly
"W-what, since when was that decided?!"
"Right now." Blanc smirked as she ordered her own bowl of food
"Huh...but...m-my money..." Nova whimpered
"Just forget it; you can't win against the both of them." Gray Heart said with a laugh
Sighing, Nova resigned himself (and his wallet) to the fate of two hungry goddesses. The only good thing was that Blanc was far more reserved in her food intake. She only had a three bowls of ramen and at that they were the cheapest ones on the menu, but unfortunately, Neptune was not as forgiving and continued to eat more than her fair share of Ramen, stopping at about fifteen bowls, before she figured enough was enough (mostly so she could save room for pudding).
"Now that was a good meal!" Neptune stated as she, Nova, and Blanc were walking down the streets of Lowee "Now how about we head back to the Basilicom and play some games!"
"Not today Neptune, Nova and I have a lot of work to do today." Blanc replied
"Yuck, why bore yourself with that when we could play more Blatoon, I'm sure if we work together, we could beat Rom this time!"
"I'd love to Neptune, but I did promise Blanc I'd be her helper for the day, I can't just blow her off." The boy said with a shrug
"Oh you two are no fun! No fun at all!" Neptune whined
As the trio walked towards the Basilicom, what they saw made them all stop. There in front of the Basilicom were a crowd of people, trying their hardest to break down the front doors of the Basilicom, bashing and banging away with whatever items they had in their hands. Rolling pins, baseball bats, sledgehammer, you name it, and someone in the crowd most likely had it.
"What the hell is this...?" Nova said shocked at what he was seeing
"I don't know...but I'm not going to put up with this crap." Blanc said her temper increasing with each word, though she didn't like raising her voice to the populace of Lowee (it's bad for reputations after all) in this case Blanc saw little choice.
"HEY YOU ASSHOLES, WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING TRYING TO BUST UP MY BASILICOM?! She roared, enough to drown out the noise of the crowd, they all turned towards her slowly, their eyes glassy and devoid of life.
"Holy smokes, they're zombies!" Neptune cried panicking "They're gonna eat our brains!"
"Neptune, don't be ridiculous, there's no way-"
"The goddess of Lowee..." one of them droned
"Kill her..." muttered another
"Eat her brains..." one spoke
"Make her a warm cup of strawberry flavored tea and offer to pat her head..."
That last guy was tossed out of the crowd as the crowd began to slowly advance towards Blanc and the others, a murderous intent coming off of the lot of them.
"Girls...I think we should run." Nova said backing up
"I can't, not without Rom and Ram!" Blanc growled, she took out her hammer, preparing to beat the entire mob down, until it was Neptune that stopped her
"Blanc wait, you can't hurt them! I mean...they're citizens of your nation right? You can't hurt them, especially since a lot of them look like rowdy teenagers..." Neptune said, placing a hand on her shoulder "Come on, let's regroup for now, we'll save your sisters!"
As much as it pained Blanc to admit it, Neptune was right; she couldn't go around just beating on the people of Lowee...even if they were mindless zombies right now. With that being the case, she withdrew her weapon, she and her friends fleeing as the crowd began to give chase. Her thoughts were only on Rom, Ram, and Mina as she could only hope that they managed to get out of the Basilicom okay.
END
So yep, this chapter is done! I suppose the fun fact for this chapter can be that I mostly had it done, but I got really distracted by a few things. (Namely Final Fantasy XIV if anyone reading here plays it. Aside from that, I suppose I'll just leave you all with the usual message of hoping you enjoyed the chapter and leave any reviews or whatever else with your opinions and I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to read the story.
