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It's finally happening, Re;Birth 3!

Keep your eyes on my Twitch account; you never know why I may be streaming some gameplay.

Also I'm playing through Re;Birth 3 blind, I mean I've seen the anime, but still. I ask that you respect that by not detailing plot points in your reviews, should you choose to leave them.

This chapter is just meant to be a brief prologue to Excel's journey into the next game.


Excel's POV

After the whole near disaster with the kidnapping things were quiet for a while. Nepgear and Uni would visit me, I would help 5pb with her radio show…things were nice and easy.

I woke up and said good morning to everyone before taking off, I was going to Planeptune, Nepgear wanted to hang out, I was free so I figured why not.

"Hey Nepgear?" I called out as I walked in "You around here?"

"See this is what I'm talking about!" Histoire yelled "I had faith you'd be better than Neptune but now all you do is hang out with that boy!"

"It's not that big of a deal!" Nepgear yelled back "No one needs anything right now so being relaxed is fine."

"Hello?" I said popping my head.

"Oh Excel!" Nepgear smiled "Perfect timing, let's go."

"Where do you think you're going?" Histoire yelled.

Why do I feel like I'm caught in an argument between a parent and a child?

"You're not going out Nepgear, you're going to stay here and listen to me, just like Neptune."

"I don't wanna!" the older girl whined.

"Excel already came all the way here." Nepgear pouted.

"Then he can go all the way back!" Histoire said pushing me out the door "Goodbye Excel!"

"Uhhh-?!" the door was slammed in my face "What the heck just happened?"

For the next few minutes I heard Nepgear get into a yelling match with Histoire before things got quiet. I didn't really feel like flying all the way home right now so I just went to the café across the way and grabbed a cup of coffee.

I waited a few hours before Nepgear and Neptune came out the front door, they looked very glum.

"What happened to the two of you?" I asked.

"Histoire." They both grumbled.

"She wants us to stop being lazy and act like proper CPUs." Nepgear said "I'm sorry Excel I have to work, our date will have to wait."

"It's no big." I smiled "But you really shouldn't be so angry with Histoire-."

Nepgear shot me a polite glare "It would be best for you to stop talking now."

"Yes Ma'am." I gulped.

"Aw man." Neptune sighed "Well Nep Jr. and I should get to work. Hey do you want to tag along, if we get done faster you two can go do stuff."

"Sure I've got time to kill." I said "Let's go."

The three of us looked at the nearby guild for some work that needed doing before going out into the nearby forest to slay early game trash.

"HYAA!" Nepgear yelled slicing through a dogoos.

"See this isn't so bad." I said pulling my trident our of the ground.

"I guess." She frowned "I just wish it was only me and you, no third wheel."

"YEAH!" Neptune cheered running around after Dogoos.

"I feel like I'm babysitting." She half smiled.

"You're sister's just having fun." I said "Come on we've got more work to do."

The three of us cleaned out the forest before heading back to turn in the ques, we hadn't done anything special so it only tooka short period of time.

"I have an idea!" Neptune said "How about we go visit Nepgear's buddies!"

"My…buddies?" the girl said "Are you talking about the other nations."

"Yeah that's it."

"Neptune, Histoire will get very angry if we do that."

"Bah!" the girl waved her hand "We'll just say it's a peacekeeping mission…a mission full of snacks and games."

"You're terrible." I sighed.

"Well…I guess." Nepgear sighed "I wasn't really looking to go back just yet."

"Then it's settled." Neptune smiled "Let's go!"

"Are you coming with us Excel?" Nepgear asked.

"Sure I don't have to be back yet so I can tag along." I shrugged "Let's hit the air."


AN

Thank you for reading. Feedback is appreciated. Feel free to message me any questions or concerns.

This Chapter was intentionally brief, it was just meant to let you guys know Re;Birth 3 is starting and I was playing it. So far I like it, I look forward to playing a ton this weekend.

Till Next Time!