Hyperdimension Neptunia Conquest Friction:

*CLASH!*

" '…!' "

" 'Kh…!' "

*BANG!* *BANG!*

" 'What!?' "

*CLASH!*

" 'Kah..!?'

*THUD!*

"…haa… haa…"

" 'Kh…! Sis! Rom!' "

" 'Mhm!' "

" 'Arrows of Ice!' "

" 'Absolute Zero!' "

" 'Rom… Ram…!?' "

" '…!' "

" 'Nepgear!' "

*BANG!* *BANG!*

" 'EVERYTHING—' "

" '—FREEZE!' "

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

*BAM!*

" '…!' "

" '…' " Neptune untransformed as she looks back at the beaten Blanc who must have used the last of her strength to raise the snow from the ground with her hammer.

"…There's no need to fight anymore, you two…" Rom, Ram, and Nepgear cancel their transformed state as she said this.

"But Sis…!" Ram wants to testify, but her sister ignores her as she turns her attention to the Planeptune CPUs.

"…You've won…" Blanc concluded the fight with two words.

"…I guess we have…" Neptune responds half-heartedly.

"…Then use the sword on me" she requested as though she was ordering a cup of tea.

"…" Nepgear couldn't respond to that.

"Same ol' Blanc as ever… Even at a time like this…" even at a time like this she only thought of her little sisters, Neptune finishes that thought to herself.

"…I prepared for this from the moment I left your Basilicom" Blanc already knew the outcome. Even with 3 on one, with almost 2 nations worth of Shares under Planeptune's belt, Neptune and Nepgear are simply too strong.

"…This might be the best option. My sisters don't need to go through the pain you two will" Blanc lets go of her hammer as she walks forward to them.

"Sis…!"

"…Sis, Don't…!" Ram and Rom run up to her as fast as their feet could take them on the snowy field. They both bury their faces in her sister's blouse, hugging her as tight as they could.

"…Don't cry. You're going to be the new CPUs. It's time to start acting like it, okay?" Blanc pets their heads as she returns with an embrace.

"Blanc…" Nepgear's hand, which was holding the sword, shakes uncontrollably.

"Sis…!"

"…Sis…!"

"…" Blanc's embrace on her sister's end, and passed them as she walks forward.

"Nepgear. Let me have the sword. I should be the one to do it" without waiting for her sister's response, Neptune takes the sword into her own hands and walk towards the Lowee CPUs.

"But Sis…"

"…Hurry, Neptune. The longer you make me wait, the more scared I'm going to get…"

"We'll stop the Deity of Sin. For you, for Noire, for Uni…"

"…I never thought I'd see the day when I'd leave the world in your hands…"

Both of them stand with only 1 meter of distance between them. It will only just take a moment, one single moment. Blanc tries to hold her tears, trying not to think about everything she'll be leaving behind. Trying not to think about everything that she wanted to do. Neptune holds back her tears, trying not to think about if there could have been a better way. If what they have talked about is the better decision.

"…Now" without wanting to drag this on more than it should, Blanc commanded.

"Mhm…! Haaaaaah!" and with a shout from Neptune, a shout that curses more their fate more than the action she has to do. A shout that says, 'this is just too cruel', she dashes forward with all the leg strength she could muster and pierces her friend right through the chest.

"Ghhhhh…! That… didn't hurt too bad… See, it's okay…" something foreign was thrust through her, she doesn't need to know what organ had been crushed by it.

Her eyesight is starting to lose focus, and she her legs are almost about to give out. She's tired. It feels like her body wants her to go to sleep. She's breathing slow, but that's okay for her, she's just going to sleep anyways. She turns her head towards her twin sisters. Their faces shocked and wide-eyed, tears streaming down their faces.

She wants to go there, she wants to give them a hug. She wants to tell them it's going to be okay. But her legs don't have any strength. She can't move her arms either. It's painful for her to look at them like that.

If only she was granted enough strength. She could have done something. She could have expelled every demon that is about to plague her sisters in the future. Because for her, despite all those two have done to her, those two were her most proud and precious sisters.

If only they had another way…

"…I'm sorry, Rom… Ram…" her knees gave out and her vision went dark. As though someone had cut a string, she slips out of the sword and collapses on snow.

Blood trickled down the sword, the pure white snow covered are slowly dying red from underneath the CPU. Neptune tries to hold down her wailing tears. She wishes she could cry, she wishes she could curse right now. She wishes she could go to the Graveyard and take out all of her frustration to the Deity itself. But she can't.

"Sis…" without warning, Nepgear was already by her Big sister's side. She tries to look away from the scene, but the sharp color of blood draws her eyes to it nonetheless. She took the sword from Neptune's hands and gripped tightly. Somehow it's heavier than she remembered.

"…Sis…!" Rom runs towards her fallen sister.

"Stoppit, Rom! She told us to act like CPUs, so we gotta be strong like her!" but Ram grabs her by the hand and embraces her tightly.

"Ah… Mhm…"

Ram releases her embrace and looks at the long purple haired CPU candidate who holds the sword that took their sister away. With hands holding as tightly as they could, reaffirming each other's presence, they take their steps towards Nepgear.

"Huh…?"

Both of them stand before Nepgear. Their eyes, although afraid and is about to cry, have already told her everything she needs to know.

"…"

"…"

"What're you waiting for?" Ram breaks the silence.

"…Are you serious…?"

"L-like you've given us any other choice, you jerk! You took our big sister away from us!" Ram puts up a brave front.

"Ram…!" Rom displays her fear by hiding behind her brave little sister.

"I know… Just hurry up…"

"O-okay. I'm going to do it…" Nepgear takes her stance, readying the sword to skewer them both.

"*Sniffle!*"

"*Sob!*"

Both of them holds their breaths. The imagery of something painful, the imagery of red liquid spilling out, the imagery of leaving each other's side. Their innocent minds unable to understand the feeling of dying. It shakes their knees uncontrollably.

"…" Nepgear closes her eyes, hesitating.

"…I… I don't wanna die…"

"Rom…"

"Don't say that Rom! We promised, remember?" Ram faces the tear-eyed Rom, still putting up her brave front as hard as she can muster.

"…B-But… But it's… so scary…!" Rom embraces burying her face by her shoulders.

"S-Stop crying, jeez! If you do it, then I'm… *sob!* *sob!*"

"…Scary…! I'm so scared… Sis… Waaaaaaaaah!"

"I… I don't wanna die, either… I'm so scared! WAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

"I'm sorry… I'm so sorry!"

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAH!'

Both of them breaks down wailing. Their tears filling the chilly air with their echoes. Two children innocently cry at their predicament. They cried for an alternative, any at all. They cried for someone to save them from this. They cried for their Sister to save them. But no matter how much they shed their tears, no matter how much they wailed, no matter how much they say it's scary, they have to…

"*Sniffle* Th-That wasn't very strong of us…"

"…But we're… okay now…"

Still hugging each other, on their knees, they both turn their heads to Nepgear.

"Do we really have to do this…?" Nepgear asked a futile question, as she clutches the sword until it hurts for her hands.

"Yeah! Do it! Hurry up, while we can bear it!"

"…We're CPUs, too… We wanna… save Gamindustri…"

"Mhm… I'm so sorry…!"

Not wanting to make this any harder for them, Nepgear dashes forward and pushes the sword through Ram's back and through Rom's front.

"Ack…!"

"Aaah…!"

The sword pierces cleanly through them with little to no resistance. Nepgear pulls out the sword, dripping with even more blood as it trickles down to her hand on to her sleeve. They both fall on the snow as red liquid quickly dyes the snow underneath them.

"Rom… We're together, so it's all gonna be okay, right…?"

"Ram… Please hold my hand…"

"Mhm… I won't… let go…"

"Thank… you…"

And as though falling asleep from a long hard day of play. As though telling each other good night. They gently close their eyes, drawing their final breaths.

"*Sob!* *Sniff!* *Sob!*"

"Nepgear…" Neptune runs up to her Sister, trying not to wail as best as she could.

"I… Rom and Ram are…! *Sniff!* *Sniff!*"

"It… hurts so much, Bis Sis! *Sob!* Waaaaaaah!" and as she cries her shattered heart out, she holds her Sister tightly.

"Come on, you're a tough girl. You gotta be strong for them"

"But… I'm not…! I'm not strong…!"

"You have to be! If not, then…"


"All right… I think I like this one the best…" I admire myself in the mirror.

I have the truck's headlights pointed directly into the shop so I can see myself despite the place being as dark as it is.

"It's kinda lucky that it was stuffed into a corner at the basement" I almost have my hoped dashed away from me because most of the display suits are ruined.

I've changed my outfit to a red double-breasted, 6 button, 'disco', red hue, colored coat. And yes it's called disco from an article I read back in the day of the different names of colors. Underneath it, is a grey vest that is slightly peeking out from the edges of the collar of the jacket. Underneath that, is a rose-bud colored necktie and also a black shirt to go along with the gray vest. To go along with the red coat, I wear black pants and white leather shoes with 2 golden stitches that extends from the tip of the shoe to the tongue of the shoe.

"If only I have a watch though, then I'd have completed my motif…Hm?" as I move around in front of the mirror, I notice something bulging at the vest's pocket. I reach inside underneath the coat and pulled out the object.

"A watch…" ask and you shall receive.

It's a watch that has a gold strap and with a black metal frame and a diamond-paved dial. Wait, is this a Rolex watch? Why hello, 50,000 dollars. Or about 10 million credits.

"Almost sad that it's surely going to be damaged" but we are going to a social event so it does fulfill its purpose.

I wear the watch and take one last look at myself in the mirror. I fix my hair for the finsihing touch... Yeah, this looks good enough.

"Alright…" I turn my back and head towards the truck.

"Let's jam"


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