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"I have to go soon."

"Really? Where?"

That's a very good question my dear Kasumi. A question I'm not too sure I'll be able to answer truthfully though.

After our little heart to heart moment, we continued to porous through the commercial district of Lastation. We went into arcades, pet stores, and a whole bunch of stuff. Throughout the entire time I made sure to check the time and soon enough the time for me to go back home was near. As such I recommended that we pass by an ice cream parlor that is the closest to my home to hopefully end this on a good note. Kasumi does love ice cream.

As we ordered our ice cream and sat down, I was thinking about how to easily break it to her that I had to leave. She's rather adamant about these get togethers and as such, typically we'd be out until the moon is fairly high in the sky (9PM give or take). But with the dinner tonight, I have to think of a sly way to get out of here. I have to devise the most perfect method of escape without raising suspicion too much. This is mostly because Kasumi usually didn't like it when I was social around others much. She tolerated it, but she made it clear sometimes that she'd prefer that I stuck with her. As such I must do this method of slyly escaping to avoid unnecessary conflict.

Only for me to just be as blunt as possible. Shining moment there Adam. I could have done it worse I guess.

Now I could easily use my trump card to get out of this, but I'd rather not use it unless I have to. I've pretty much put myself into a pit full of snakes with that wonderful excuse. Those snakes being Kasumi.

"You see. I forgot that I have something important to do at home, and I'd like to have it done before the night is over." Solid.

"Hmm? It's only 6:30." That's the problem. I only got a half hour left to get ready!

"There's no something that you would take you so long to do. You're usually quite efficient with anything you do. Also not to mention that you've made no mention of such project before. Of which you usually do inform me of. Suspicious…" Crap, shes on to me. This is the one of the few times when being known so well by someone can mean your downfall. I can feel myself starting to sweat a little already.

"It's just a little something I started on this morning to kill some time before we met up. Although I'd like for it to finish it by the end of today considering how small it is."

"If it's another upgrade or design, it can wait then no? It's not like you're going to be going out questing anytime soon."

In my spare time when I'm not playing games, I like to design my own equipment/do upgrades. I also sell weapon parts on the internet that I find or am rewarded for on quests, as a way for extra income. I sorta had to become a main source of income in my household after the passing of my father since my mother stopped working with his passing. Just questing wasn't enough really so I had to do something else and I couldn't let us run the risk of going completely on our savings. She knows that a sale is done almost automatically as well, otherwise I do it on my phone and she usually watches me do that. Nepazon is great like that. So the only thing that really takes up my time would be an upgrade/design, of which I typically tell her about since I refer to her on designs from time to time.

"I just like to be prepared." Second try.

"It can wait though. I'd like to spend as much time with you like this as possible you know?" I'd normally return that sentiment but not this time. Guess it's time to use the pre-trump card. I really didn't want to.

I give off an audible sigh that immediately puts Kasumi on edge.

"Alright. In truth, I have an important dinner that I was invited to go to. I'm going to be late for it if I don't leave soon." My third attack!

She gains a pensive look on her face. Probably thinking of who would invite me to something that would be so important and why. She'll figure it out soon.

Suddenly, her face brightens and it appears she's figured it out.

"The CPU actually invited you for dinner!? I sorta find that hard to believe considering the rumors about her being a loner and a workaholic…hard to believe she'd make the time…" She yells/mutters in surprise into an incredulous tone. It's understandable for her to say it like that. She did used to be a citizen of Leanbox in her early years, so she's heard of rumors about the other CPUs most likely.

But even so…

"I'd appreciate if you didn't refer to my Goddess in that fashion Ms. Kiro." I state to her with a cold voice.

In Lastation, if you ever refer to Lady Black Heart as anything besides 'Lady Black Heart', it's seen as a sign of disrespect. Kasumi being from Leanbox originally, was hard for her since Leanbox doesn't always refer to their Goddess in such a way usually. That didn't help in her integrating to the Lastation schools, but she eventually got used to it. Although at times she'd slip and it'd be understandable and excusable to me but this isn't one of those times that she'd slip up on accident.

She fully meant what she said. She'd usually only slip up with that when someone got her angry or insulted Lady Green Heart. Her faith in her Goddess never wavered after all and she never showed much favor to Lady Black Heart. I grew to accept this part of her and merely fixed her mistakes, but this time she really meant it. Although she is a treasured friend of whom I've accepted her faults, I won't just let her disrespect my Goddess like that.

"Even though she isn't seen publically much, she still diligently does her work and truly does care for Lastation. I understand that you aren't from Lastation and don't share the same principles, but if you could at least show some respect for her around me, that'd be enough."

A little startled from my outburst, Kasumi visually shows that she's sorry for overstepping her boundaries with her face slacking and slight tears in her eyes. I almost never get upset with her after all, but for Lady Black I'd gladly show any emotion for her. I do already risk my life for her after all.

"Sorry Adam, I didn't mean to offend you."

"It's fine, as long as you understand."

Spats like this really show how of strong friends we are. This would usually be a rather serious argument between people, but me and Kasumi are able to get along just fine. Even after some of our more serious disagreements as well.

Taking this small grace period, I sneak a quick look at my phone to check the time. 6:50….

I really need to go!

"Look Kasumi. I really need to go now, just text me when you want to hang out again okay!?" I start to yell out as I leave, while leaving my share of the bill of course.

"Wai- Adam! Damn it…"

"I've never felt so nervous in my entire life until right now." I say to myself as I stand before the Basilicom.

After leaving Kasumi, I raced home to quickly change. Well, after my mom scolded me for arriving so late to get ready. Although it was more of a nervous scolding since she was nervous about me going to the dinner. You could think she was the one going to the dinner with just how nervous she was.

But Goddess am I nervous. I can't blame mom for being nervous for me. Just standing here in front of the door is making anything else in my life feel so insignificant. I wasn't this nervous when I had to deal with the tension in the wake of my father's death or my first quest. Heck, slashing a sword into a dangerous monster is nothing compared to what I'm feeling now!

In the effort to try to calm my nerves, I observe the building in front of me that has changed quite the amount over the year in order to clear my mind. The Basilicom used to be much smaller than it is now, It's now a sort of church/office/home building. Originally, the Basilicom was a building to leave a message of sorts to the CPU and the main governing location of the Nation. It also doubled as an apartment for the Goddess whenever she came down from Celestia. It was mostly a church though.

But in the aftermath of the events that occurred and the year that passed, the Basilicom had undergone great change.

It's gotten bigger now. Mostly since the Goddesses are now always in Gamindustri due to Celestia now being gone, and as a result the Goddesses are always with us now. As such, at least in Lastation, the Basilicom was renovated to properly fit the Goddess and her new born sister. It was sort of a general agreement amongst the people that our Goddesses should live in only the best available in Lastation. Although, not that much changed occurred to the role of the Basilicom. It's now just bigger really with a bigger staff to properly maintenance it, but that's not to say the interior isn't different. But I wouldn't have any knowledge about that since I haven't gone into the new Basilicom….. yet.

Speaking of yet. I've been standing here for a good 5 minutes thinking about this. Checking my phone for the time, I see that it's already 7:50. I sigh and check the text that Lady Uni had sent me earlier. Aside from the tsundere remarks, she instructed me to knock on the front door once I arrived. Seeing this text had reminded me when I was getting dressed that this was really happening and it does so again right now.

With a final onceover myself, I take a deep breath in and knock on the door before me.

…..

It's taking quite some time….my nerves…..I can feel them failing on me. I can feel the sweat forming on my palms and forehead already.

…..

I'm gonna knock again…just in case.

*knock knock*

And now I wai-

*mumble*

It was light. Like. Really really light. But I heard a very slight mumble.

*mumble*

Feeling a wave of curiosity surge through me, I put my ear to the door to try to hear what is being mumbled.

"…..h.w….th…."

"…e…t...ther"

I actually hear two different mumbles behind the door. So that means two people are busy mumbling to each other about something. Maybe it's servants deciding on how to let me in? Or maybe they are wondering who is outside and think I'm just some creep coming to the Basilicom at an ungodly hour?

Choosing to ignore all these thoughts going on in my head, I decide to merely make my presence known to the two people behind the door again. With a little more volume to hopefully catch their attention as well.

*knock knock*

"Hello? Is anyone there? It's Adam Aoi, I hope I didn't come late!" Hopefully that caught their attention.

Instantly I can hear the mumbling stop with my outburst. Instead now I'm hearing panicked talk and shuffling about? I guess I got their attention at least.

After about five more minutes of shuffling and….was that a cry of pain? I hope I didn't cause that with my outburst. Maybe I shouldn't have called out that loudly…

"A-ahem! T-the door is open! J-just c-come in."

No way… Could it?

With that stuttering mess of a voice I'm automatically put on edge. My body feels like it's covered in pins and I'm panicking internally.

They wouldn't do that. Would they? There's no way they would. I mean… there's no way they'd actually personally... but that voice…

Pushing through my emotions and doubts that are running wild, I bravely push open the doors to the Basilicom as instructed.

"W-welcome to the Lastation Basilicom! This is my sister and your CPU Candidate Uni, and I am your Console Patron Unit, Black Heart. Also known as N-noire."

Oh they did.

Standing before me is the young girl I saved and elder sister that I had spent a day with preparing for this very event.

In the same outfit from that day too. No wonder she felt so suspicious before.

"It's nice to meet you again, Adam Aoi." Lady Black Heart says to me as she takes off her red glasses and shows off an embarrassed smile.

My suspicions and expectations were completely and utterly shattered with that. For all of my wildest dreams, I never thought something like this would happen. For the person before me greeting me into her home is the Goddess of my home.

The Console Patron Unit of Lastation:

Noire.

…

I think I might faint.

A/N: So sorry for this coming out late. Again. .

This chapter actually went through a lot of re-writing, so I hope that explains.

Speaking of re-writing. I've been wondering about putting a little blooper section at the end of chapters. A little bit of a look see of how I write these chapters if you will, to give you all a sort of idea of my madness. Tell me what any of you think about this, I'll even add the blooper to previous chapters as well for those curious enough. In fact to give you a little sample of what I mean. Here!

Blooper: This chapter originally had a planned 1,000 - 1,800 word count. Through the editing process, it went up in it's count with a large amount of added content.

This chapter wasn't as eventful in terms of writing, so I hope that gives a decent example of what these bloopers would entail.

Any who. Thank you all for reading and I hope that you have a good morning/evening/night!