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I finished this in a month! I'm so glad.
Kululu entered the castle in the Kingdom of Justice. It had been a while since he had been there.
Keroro sat by Angol Mois's bedside, reading her some books.
"You've been relieved of duty. Go back to Tamama." He spoke like a ruler, talking down to Keroro.
"Wh-who are you?" Keroro bristled. "I can't leave! I need to find her true love!"
"How do you know true love's kiss will wake her?" Kululu asked, wanting to check the facts before he did something stupid.
Keroro grabbed a book. "I've been researching magic and curses. The person who cursed her didn't specify a different way for her to wake up, so the default of this spell is true love's kiss."
Kululu thought for a moment, remembering Tororo and how he had needed to specify a way for Kululu to turn back into a Keronian.
It might not have been a magic curse, but a scientific curse that everybody believed was magic. Either way, the way to get her back might still be true love's kiss, as specified.
"I'll find her true love. You don't need to stay by her side. I'll do it," Kululu volunteered. His best bet to awaken her was finding her true love, but he had no idea where to look for that.
"And why should I trust you?" Keroro asked.
"Trust him! He has her best interests at heart!" Tamama popped up behind Kululu. "Mr. Hero! He'll find her true love. Really. And then we can go home together."
Keroro frowned. Was it right to abandon this girl to a stranger? But Tamama trusted him.
"Fine. But promise you'll find her true love," Keroro ordered.
"I promise," Kululu told him. Keroro felt at peace and left with Tamama. Fuyuki's wrongs would be righted.
Kululu stayed by Angol Mois's side, looking at her for a moment and thinking.
He tried to remember what she had told him about herself, how she had no family, how a monster beyond the wall had brought her to this kingdom two thousand years ago.
So... her real species probably lives beyond the wall. And one of them is probably the best bet I have of finding her true love. Someone just like her. So if he really wanted to fulfill his promise, he'd have to go beyond the wall, looking for someone nice from her species.
He would do it. Anything to get her to awaken again. He couldn't bare the pain of her gone any longer. Even if it would throw away the kingdom that he had conquered, he'd do it to awaken her again.
"Mois..." He leaned down on his knees to talk to her. "I'll go beyond the wall for you. I'll find an Angolian like you and make them come here to kiss you awake," he told her. "I... I want you to wake up."
He leaned down and gave her a quick kiss on the lips good-bye, knowing that it was very unlikely that he'd ever return. He smiled as he saw her only rustle, and not wake up from his kiss. Just normal sleep rustling. "I love you, Mois," he told her, knowing that she'd probably never hear his words. "Good-bye."
He then left the room and stepped through a teleporter that would take him to the top of the wall, where he wanted to be.
With that, he was gone.
Mois yawned, because sleep rustling wasn't normal for her curse. "Huh...?" She looked around, opening her eyes. She had heard Kululu's last words to her, but yet he was gone.
She just blinked sleepily, very confused.
Kululu didn't have many tools on him for his journey beyond the wall. He didn't even know where to look for wherever Mois's species lived.
He just walked, trying to ignore monsters and for once not draw attention to himself. But a griffin spotted him anyway and flew down toward him, without him noticing.
"Look out!" Giroro yelled, shooting a few arrows at the griffin. "It's dangerous here. Why are - ...It's you!" he realized, pointing at Kululu.
"Ku, ku, ku... What are you doing here?" He noticed Koyuki and Dororo backing away. My invention must have worked wonders if he was so hurt that he went beyond the wall.
"I'm going to destroy the monsters here once and for all, so if you've come here to make me suffer any more, it won't happen. I'm on a mission, and the mission is something I will give my life for," he told him.
"I'm not here to bother you. I'm here to find someone," said Kululu.
Koyuki disapproved. "You left the kingdom all alone?"
"Ku, yeah. My bad," Kululu told her. "If you disapprove so much, why don't you go look after it? You're the one it actually belongs to, after all." He was done with ruling that kingdom. There was a chance that his revenge against Natsumi had failed, but his first priority was finding Mois's lover. He needed to save her instead of focusing on some warped revenge plot.
Koyuki didn't believe what she just heard. "You're... just giving it back?"
"Sure. Seems I might not be coming back, anyway."
"Can you fix my eyesight as long as you're giving back things?" Dororo asked.
"Nah," Kululu responded. Dororo cried.
Giroro looked up at him. "You intend to die here for your mission, too. Are you also running away from something?"
"For once, no. Believe it or not, I'm trying to help someone," Kululu admitted. Giroro did not believe it.
"Then... Dororo and Koyuki," he said, "you go back home. You have a kingdom to take care of. Not me. You. Dictator guy..." Giroro pointed. "You'll die here if you're alone. So... if you want any chance of completing your goal, help me. I'll help you find who you're looking for, and in return, you help me destroy the breeding pit, so no monsters can ever bother the kingdoms again," he requested.
"Fair enough request," Kululu agreed. It wouldn't hurt him having someone strong on his side.
Koyuki and Dororo hugged Giroro good-bye, but their goal had always been to protect the kingdom.
"Good-bye," they told their friend.
Giroro nodded and hugged them back. But he knew they had better things to do. They left him in the unknown land, to go back to reclaim their conquered kingdom.
"So... What are you looking for?" Giroro asked.
"A species. A species that look like humans," Kululu told him. "They'll have silver hair and three eyes. Like the Princess of Justice."
Giroro nodded, and the two went forth with their journey.
They were attacked by monsters several times, but Giroro always managed to fight them off. One time, he was in a tight spot, though, so Kululu helped him out. He threw a piece of food at the manticore-like creature, letting them eat it and fall to the ground.
"That... That was a poisoned apple..." Giroro realized. "You... You were the one who poisoned Natsumi!"
"Ku, ku, ku. You caught me." Kululu was proud of his poison job on Natsumi.
Giroro was furious. "I should leave you to defend yourself. You'll die on your own." He turned away to leave, but then decided against it. "I-it's... It's not worth it. Natsumi's alive again, she's fine... And we're both in a land that will kill us if we're not together," Giroro realized. "I'm not forgiving you, though!"
"So you woke her? Don't worry, I won't forgive you for that, either. Ku, ku, ku." Kululu was still bitter, though a bit relieved Giroro hadn't abandoned him.
The two finally saw something in the distance, something that looked like a village made out of crystals.
"We... We actually found it!" Kululu was surprised. No monsters flew over it. It looked safe.
The two ran forward to the village.
"Who are you?" a man with silver hair asked. "We've never seen outsiders here."
"I am Kululu. I come asking for help. Did any of you by any chance lose a baby girl two thousand years ago?" he asked.
The people frowned.
"Yes... Our tribe chief lost his daughter to monsters around that time... How do you know?" the man asked.
"I made her acquaintance in a land far away. She's been cursed by some sort of scientific invention to sleep forever, unless she's kissed by some sort of true love," he told them.
"Are... Are you speaking about Mois? That was to be her name... She's been hurt?" The man seemed to be a little bit concerned. "I was supposed to be her betrothed when she came of age in this village, but sadly, it was not to be..."
"You would do it for her, then. I ask you to fly far away, to her Kingdom of Justice and kiss her to awaken her. Please," Kululu begged.
The man thought for a moment. "I would be honored to kiss her." He didn't question Kululu's concern over the girl.
Giroro smiled. "Is your business done?" he asked Kululu.
"I suppose if he's going to do what I asked, then yes." Kululu nodded.
"Do any of you know where the monster's breeding pit is?" Giroro asked.
"I do," the white-haired man nodded.
"Where?"
The man gave Giroro's directions.
"Come on. It's my turn to do some business now," Giroro growled, not letting Kululu socialize with the Angolians.
They left the village without getting rest. One of them still focused on his goal, and the other one, not really caring what Giroro did.
