『红皇飛龙中国街』 Hónghuángfēilóng Zhōngguójiē
The Red Emperor's Flying Dragon in Chinatown
Lilac Heart :"How is your tutelage with Saizen-sensei?"
RED: "Hmm... she's fairly strict, but she's fun to be around. I have several 'cute-sensei' pics if you want."
Lilac Heart :"Uh, you will be risking IF-san's memento doing that..."
RED:"Hey, hey, can you all be my wifeys?"
Lilac Heart :"You're much more straightforward in front of your wifeys-to-be now than ever, huh?"
RED:"But all of my wifeys hardly ever visits the Chinatown, It's been ages since I've ever seen any of my old wifies."
Lilac Heart :"You couldn't visit your wifeys back in Tōkyō in Lastation, and they weren't able to visit the Chinatown in Planepiciel, all because you brought it upon yourself to choose to stay in Planepiciel whene everyone else had gone to Lastation."
RED:"But, but, Sensei's is currently applying a visitor's passport to Lastation for me, so maybe I'll be able to see my old wifies soon."
Lilac Heart : "So there's yet another harem seeker, huh...? As if one is not enough already..."
Eclair : "You're such a sinful women, Master, for dropping by Red-chan while ignoring my wish to see Jaune-chan."
Lilac Heart :"Goodbye and see you again. Oh, and give my regards to HTC-chan while you're at it."
Reference:
- Hónghuángfēilóng 『红皇飛龙』 (pronounced like "hongwangfeilong") is simplified Chinese for 『紅皇飛龍』. The entire title means "Red Emperor's Flying Dragon in Chinatown", the 『飛』 is intentially put between 『皇』 and 『龙』 because... well, a reference to the "Bruce Lee clone" in Street Fighter, with the original Bruce Lee goes by the name of Lǐ Xiǎolóng 『李小龍』, the given name means "little dragon". The Chinese surname here means "plum", by the way.
- This little miss GARgear here is called Lilac Queen in her own Gamindustri (a.k.a. Planepgear Empire), and known as Lilac Heart in 8th-gen Gamindustri, where they're now.
- Saizen-sensei 『最禅』, the name means "ultimate Zen", is... long story short, the personification of UltiZen Games.
- This memento from Ai-chan here is a glorious red-coloured HTC smartphone, brand new when IF gave the phone as the present.
- According to the news, UltiZen Games bought off Red Entertainment due to their common passion for innovation and creativity. They sees their future in, among other things, smartphones. With that in mind, it's no wonder that Red-chan is totally hots for the Silver Sisters. Mind you, that was already her defining trait due to her being the co-developer of Agarest Senki alongside IF, which is why she made IF her Wifey No.1.
- Jaune, literally means yellow in French, is the founding CPU of Planepiciel, located at the west of the 8th-gen Gamindustri. And why yes, there is a group of catgirls called Génoise in Dog Days, the members are named Jaune, Noire, and Vert.
Author's Notes
This is a one-shot scene in Planepiciel featuring Red-chan, as a consolation over the fact that Red-chan would be unlikely to be featured in Neptunia series due to... the tides of game industry. Now that I think about it, I think that the mergers and company takeovers are so common that there many of the Makers can be paired in a Master-Servant relationship by now.
To iterate, under the Master-Servant Maker classification, out of the six Makers in the original Hyperdimension Neptunia, only two of them (or three if you count 5pb as the head of MAGES. Inc.) are Master-type Maker while the rest are Servants, with two companies representing these makers already bought off to other companies. 5pb. here is in a special case; she isn't being taken over by other companies, she allied with other game companies to form MAGES. Inc. , so as MAGES. she is a Master-type Maker while 5pb.-chan is a Servant-type Maker in a sister-like relationship... or so she told them...
That being said, I'm considering putting HTC-chan in this fanfic as a certified martial artist herself, what with being at a loss of ideas and all. so might as well put the 『全部中国人知功夫』 "All Chinese People know Kung Fu" trope... this applies to all Taiwanese as well, at least in this fanfic. There's no replacing Red-chan, but since the story's have the smartphone brands making their debut, why not...?
