"Shit!" The battle with the Mechs had already begun by the time that we had came out the church. Apparently the Mechs had just appeared, and the villagers were able to evacuate before things got ugly. Once I walked outside, a small bit enemy flew straight to me, pushing me back into a tree. "That shit is strong for it's size." Vert, Blanc and Neptune had begun taking care if the giant blue Mech. Blanc's battle style was pretty new to me. While Neptune was fast and Vert danced with her attacks, Blanc was very stiff. She moved slowly and took a lot of hits, however that didn't seem to bother her. So she's the tank.
"Watch it!" The Bit had come for more and Financier had tried to warn me.
"Hehe. I can take care of one little Bit. Projection: Dual Blades!" I held out my hands, and what came out...was a puff of smoke. "Wait what?" The bit slammed into me once more, I could feel my ribs break with that strike. "Ugh. Fucking hell!"
"Watch it Arcy! For some reason we can't use our skills or items!" Neptune yelled.
"Oh thank you! You should have told me that a long time ago!" Shit. There's nothing I could do then. Literally everything I do is a skill. I can't even punch these mechanical shits. I tried to get up from the ground only to be hit with a giant wave of pain. It really broke my ribs... God dammit.
The Bit rushed towards me again. Am I really going to die from a fucking Bit? Jeez. I am useless. "What the hell are you doing?" I look up and see a small girl take the hit for me. She immediately strikes back with a giant swing of her hammer. Completely flattening the Bit.
"Lady Blanc..." Blanc slams the hammer into the ground, keeping it up right. She then walks up to me and offers her hand.
"Get up." I take her hand, and am lifted up. Once I'm upright the pain becomes obvious. I could barely walk, let alone stay standing. Blanc notices my grimaced face and forces me to sit down. "You broke some bones... why didn't you say that before I picked you up?!" She began to get angry.
"Well, I don't want to be rude..." Blanc begins to shake with rage. The second bit comes flying over to us.
"Shit! It got away!" Iffy yells. I guess she was the one fighting that one. As it came towards Blanc and I, she turned around and punched it. It immediately turned into pixels. W-What the hell?! This girl is crazy strong! She turned to me, with her eyes red with anger. I'M NEXT!
"Next time, fucking tell me what the hell is wrong! Got it you piece of shit!?" Even her language changed! Shit! I nodded my head, and Blanc began to run towards the giant mech. She jumped into the air, and mid air she transformed. Her hair grew a short length and turned blue. Unlike the other CPU's she did not grow...anywhere. She stayed flat, and only grew maybe a couple of centimeters. She wore what looked like a white one piece swimsuit that had blue and black designs on it and white stockings with strange looking white shoes. She also wore detached sleeves that connected to pretty large gauntlet. Two light blue W shaped wings floated behind her. Lastly, her hammer had transformed into a futuristic ax. "DIE!" She brought down that ax and cut the Mech perfectly in half before it burst into a sea of pixels.
"WOAH! AMAZING!" Neptune yelled. She had stars in her eyes, clearly excited. When Blanc touched the ground she turned back to normal, and sighed.
"That was a hassle." She brushed herself and returned to her normal quiet self. "It must have been that impostors work. Fucking bitch."
"Well, at least we were able to gauge your strength." Vert commented, getting Blanc's attention. "You did pretty good...for a little girl."
"You wanna die bitch?!" Neptune had to hold back Blanc from smashing Vert's head in.
"How scary. Very well, I apologize. You aren't a little girl." Blanc calmed down. "More like a little boy."
"YOU CUNT!" Neptune lost her grip of Blanc and Vert had to run from her. So all the CPUs are un-goddess like, eh. I don't know if that's disappointing or... no it's disappointing.
"Um. Can I get some help here?" I call out to them. That was when they all noticed that I was still lying near the trees. Iffy was the first to run over to me.
"Oh my god! I'm sorry! I didn't notice you were hurt, I woulda-"
"It's alright Iffy." I try to reassure her. "It's my fault for not being able to lift my own weight." Iffy puts my arm over her shoulder and lifts me up off the ground. "Gah..."
"Arc!" Iffy begins to fidget. "What should I do? What should I do?" She begins to whisper to herself.
"Iffy, calm down." Vert walks over to us and puts her hand on Iffy's head. But she didn't seem to notice or care. "W-What?! Could her love for Arc outweigh her love for me?"
"What are you even talking about?" I ask.
"So dense." Vert sighs and motions over Compa.
"I'm getting tired of you guys calling me dense!" In the corner of my eye, I see Blanc begin to take down notes. "What are you-"
"Neptune! I need your help." Compa says when she come to me.
"Nepu?"
"I need you to resuscitate Arcy."
"Got it!"
"WAIT WHAT?!" Before I could react, Neptune runs over and head butts me directly in the stomach. CRITICAL HIT!
"Arc! Nep what the hell are you doing?!" Iffy woke up once she realized I wasn't in her arms anymore. I land on the ground and could feel my consciousness fading.
"C-Compa. Why?" I ask.
"This way it doesn't hurt as much. What hurt? WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO?! Before I could react, I fell into the darkness of sleep.
"..."
"Well well well. Look who it is. That was a really amazing fight, man." Goldman says, teasing me.
"Oh shut it." I sat down on the ground. Here, I didn't really feel anything. Guess it's because it's a dream. "Just tell me about the king."
"Very well. What do you want to know?"
I thought for a minute. "So, how did the king defeated the first Goddess exactly?" The goldman stood up from his chair and began to jump around with excitement.
"Yes~ Yes~ Man, you are gonna love this part." The Goldman sat back in his seat and crossed his legs. "The King, Gilgamesh if you would, had been revolting against the first goddess for about two years before she was defeated. It wasn't an easy fight either."
"Hmm. sounds like something that would be pretty common knowledge then." The Goldman laughed.
"Jeez, kid. Remember what I said. History is forgotten. After all, that is the reason why I'm here." Goldman, cleared his throat. "Now then, as I was saying, as the King had fought through the Goddesses army, he began taking territory. By the time the final battle was going to happen, the only land that wasn't under his control was the capital of the world. Which you all know right now as the Gamindustri Graveyard." That story was pretty believable. The Gamindustri Graveyard laid in the center of the continent and was surrounded by mountains with it's only entrance being from right at its front which was a beach.. It was a very large piece of land, enough to have it's own country. Unfortunately it was just a giant junkyard that is riff with monsters. No normal person has set foot on that land and live to tell the tale.
"Is that why it's such a terrible place now?"
"No...that comes afterward.' Goldman lost all of his excitement. "It's quite possibly the King's largest mistake. Possibly the reason why he is forgotten now." Goldman shook his head rapidly and slapped his knees. "But that's whatever."
"I don't know about you but that seems like a way more interesting story!"
"No."
"C'mon!"
"No." He was acting like a petulant child. "It's my story. I can tell it in the way that I want." He poutd. "Meanie."
"Don't turn into Neptune." He laughed and seemingly smiled at me. I really couldn't see his facial features but it felt like he did.
"You mean the girl you desire to protect?"
"W-What are you talking about?!" I felt heat rise into my face. "I couldn't careless about that girl. It'd just be really inconvenient if she were to kick the bucket."
"Oh right. Sorry. I forgot that Miss IF has that spot taken."
"W-Why do you continue to spout out such crazy statements?!" He was definitely smiling now. I'm glad I couldn't see his probably shit eating grin.
"What are you, a lolicon?"
"You wanna die?" He burst into laughter, so hard that he fell onto the ground.
"S-Stop! I can BREATH! AHAHAHAHAHA!" This fucking guy.
"How the hell am I a lolicon?"
"W-Wait! Kahaha!" He continued for about two minutes. After he finished laughing, he sat back in his seat. "Woah. That was, haha! Hilarious. Anyway, the two closest girls to you are lolis, you perv."
"I really couldn't care less about shit like love!" I wouldn't consider Iffy a loli...she's just flat.
"Sure."
"You..."
'Who knows, you may meet a perfectly normal girl soon. Cough cough Noire cough cough."
"Don't say cough you idiot. And stop playing matchmaker with me! I just want to be the neutral main character!" I felt strangely frustrated. "Plus, it's not like those three even see me as anything."
"*sigh* I truly feel sorry for them. So what is it that you want? A harem?"
"NO!" Why am I stuck with this guy? I just wanted a normal, quiet life.
"Alright. I'm just joshing you man." Only you and Neptune fucking say Joshing. "But, it's time for you to wake up anyway. I would have told you more but you had to make us sidetrack."
"Don't you put that on me!" The world grew dark.
When I opened my eyes I was faced with a purple haired girl over me, looking around the room. She then apparently found what she was looking for. "Sweet a cheeseburger." She reached over me and took a cheeseburger and took a bite. What the fuck? That was supposed to be out loud. Wait, why can't I talk?
"Neptune. Have you taken of Arc's bandages?" Compa asked from another room.
"I'll do it now!" Neptune then finally looked down at me. "Oh! Well good morning, did you dream of gumdrops and jellybeans?" I mumbled Take this off of my mouth Neptune! She did as I asked and ripped off what seemed to be a giant band-aid.
"OW! WHY?" At the sound of my voice, I heard stomping come from the outside of the room. Slamming open the door was Iffy.
"Arc...you're ok!" Iffy immediately ran next to the bed and grabbed my head. Pulling me into her chest. "I thought you were done for..."
"Iffy, what are you-" The Goldman's voice rang through my head.
A harem eh?
"NO!" I shot up, pulling myself from Iffy's hug and stood up on the bed.
"Arcy?" Neptune asked. I looked down at the two of them and realized what I did.
"O-Oh. Sorry. I had a weird dream is all.' I sat back down on the bed. I looked to my right and was shot with a bullet of guilt. Iffy's face was of utter depression. "I-Iffy?"
"Nothing. I'm just happy you're ok." She got up from her seat and began to leave the room.
"Aww. Don't be a party pooper. You know Arcy, didn't mean it." Neptune backs me up.
"Yea, sorry Iffy." It takes Iffy a while, then she turns around to me and gives me a bright smile.
"Alright. But you better make it up to me." She walked out of the room, pretty chipper. I looked around the room and got a good look at where I was. It looked like I was in an old room that was just cleaned. I was probably in a side room of the church that Blanc lived in. I slept in a futon, that laid in the middle of the room with a chair on each side of it, that looked really familiar. I recognized the green stain that was next to where my pillow rested. It smelled like tea. This is probably Blanc's futon. I'm gonna need to thank her.
"Man, you won't believe how worried Iffy was about you. She was crying and hollering for a whole two days!" Neptune took another bite from the cheeseburger.
"Two days?! How long was I out?!"
"Two days and a half." That explains why the dream with Goldman lasted so long. "Like C'mon man. Why would you sleep so long. We got stuff to do."
"Aww. Don't talk like that Nep. You know you were worried too!" Compa walked into the room with a first aid kit in her hand.
"I did not! What do you take me for, a lonely black haired CPU?"
Somewhere in Lastation...
"Achoo!" A black haired girl sneezed.
"Are ya ok?"
"I'm fine, Chian. I just feel like someone was talking about me for a second..."
"Maybe it was that weak dude you can't stop talking about." The blue haired girl responded, looking up from her computer.
"W-W-What?! I don't talk about Darl- I mean Arc at all!"
"Were you about to call him-"
"S-SHUT UP!"
"What was with that tangent?"
"What are you talking about Neptune? You just stopped talking for five minutes. Are you ok?" I asked. Neptune shook her head and stuffed the rest of the cheeseburger into her mouth.
"As I was saying, I wasn't worried about Arcy."
"But you wouldn't leave that seat no matter what we did..." Compa responded.
"Cuz I was lazy!"
"But you kept whispering to yourself about something like 'I shoulda kept an eye on him' or something like that." Neptune shook her head again.
"Not necessarily."
"*Sigh* Neptune is not gonna admit to anything. Which is strange. You'd think that the girl who can't live without attention would do anything for it." Neptune pouted at my response and punched me in the arm lightly.
"It's only natural for the protagonist to get all the attention."
"For the last time, I'm the protagonist."
"HAHA. No." Why you-
"Can I just do a check up on Arcy, please?" Compa asked. Not even waiting for a response, she walked over to my right, sat down and threw off my shirt. WHAT THE- oh wait, my ribs broke. It's only natural she'd take off my shirt.
"KAHAHA! Arcy, you don't even have a single muscle on your body!" Neptune ridiculed.
"Aww. C'mon. Why do you have to- why is your nose bleeding?" She had blood gushing out of her nose.
"No reason! I'm gonna go take care of this!" Neptune ran out the room. That girl is getting stranger and stranger with every passing day.
"Hmmm." Compa said from my right. The girl was inspecting my chest and feeling around my stomach. "Looks like you're all healed up! You weren't joking when you said that recover really fast Arcy! I'm glad you're better."
"Yeah..." I looked down at my body and it was covered in bandages. I could see in the corner of my eye, a trash can filled with bandages with red markings on them. "Did you do any treatments on me?"
"A bit." Compa admitted. Putting everything back into her first aid kit. "I had to check that you weren't bleeding internally so I poked around a bit."
"Excuse me?! I thought you were just a nurse!"
"A nurse in training!" Compa puffed up her cheeks. "But I did read a book on how to do surgery in an old abandoned church." What kind of medical book is that specific!? "But everything went fine! Blanc was there to coach me through it." That doesn't make me feel better!
"Speaking of Blanc, I haven't seen her nor Vert anywhere. I'm sure Vert would have loved to come here and teased me to death." I barely know the woman and she has smothered so many times...I mean it's not THAT bad.
"Oh right!" Compa clapped her hands together. "Vert told me to take you to her when you woke up! Come on." Compa grabbed my hand and begun to pull me out of bed.
"Let me at least put on a shirt first! Compa!" The pink haired airhead just kept pulling. "W-Wait!"