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Sleep is by far the healthiest thing you can ever do in life. It rejuvenates the body, stores memory, grows muscle, and so much more. As such, sleep is by far the best medicine for anything. In fact, everyone does it. No matter who or what you are, everyone sleeps in some form. Although you shouldn't do this too much as too much of anything is bad no matter what. Remember that lazy people! Although, that COULD just be me being a citizen of Lastation. Living here, you tend to not sleep that much.

But yea, this little nap I toke really gave me the chance to sort my mind out with all the information my mother gave me recently.

I'm alive thanks to Lady Black Heart.

She is still trying to take me.

I worried my mother endlessly and nearly caused her poor heart to stop a few times. (Side note, make sure she takes care of herself again.)

I unknowingly saved the CPU Candidate. I wonder if this makes me a national hero now...

And five, I still don't know what date it is. My mother said a month nearly passed and last I remembered it was a Monday of the first day of the month. So… maybe around the 29th? That's my best guess for now really. Meh, I'll find out soon enough. Now to deal with this person who's muttering and pacing around randomly in my room.

Finally opening my eyes, I can see a young girl by the window pacing back and forth while muttering something. She is quite adorable looking actually. She's light skinned with long black hair done up into pigtails, which is held by two ribbons. A pair of dark red eyes (cool color, wonder if it's natural). She's wearing a black dress with a rather… interesting design on it. It consists of a sort of belt/bow (thing?) that reaches midway to her stomach, a phone thingy case is attached to one of the belt's side. A pair of fingerless gloves with short boots to boot (heh, puns). All of this is finished off with light blue lining all over with this weird circle thingy connecting the whole thing. Truly, this is one of the most complicated dresses I've ever seen and that's saying something considering I've been involved with her. Some of the stuff she's worn blows me away, but this? It takes the cake.

As of now she's just pacing back and forth pushing her pointer fingers into each other. I can barely tell what she's muttering, but I can hear some things like "better wake up soon," and something about paying back. Obviously she's to absorbed in her thoughts to notice that I'm awake. Although my question right now is; who is this girl? My mother never told me about anyone visiting me besides her and Lady Black Heart when she saved me. So, I didn't expect anyone else to ever visit. I'm not exactly a known person in Lastation as far as I remember. Also the fact that I don't recognize her at all doesn't help. At least… I think I don't recognize her? I'm sure I'd remember someone who stands out as much as her. Her whole…. Being kinda would be hard to ignore. Maybe in passing I've seen her? I do get this sensation that I've seen her before.

"Ah!" a rather loud exclamation bought me out of my little stupor. Turning towards the direction of which the exclamation came from, the red-eyed girl is now pointing at me with a startled expression and a gaping mouth. She looks like she'd seen a ghost with the expression she has on her face. I mostly hope she closes her mouth though, who knows what's around here? Even hospitals aren't the cleanest ever. But more importantly.

Was it really that hard to believe that I'm awake? Well I suppose it's natural since I've been supposedly out for a month in a compromising situation. Maybe she has been visiting and my mother just didn't notice her through the grief? A plausible story that would explain her reaction and lack of knowledge of her. From what my mother told me of my condition, I'd be quite worried about myself as well.

"Y-y-y-y-your awake!" She says in her stuttering voice.

"Yea I am." Such a weak reply

She just stands there with her finger still pointing at me and gaping mouth still intact. Is she going to stay like that? Shes literally just been standing there like a statue. I guess I'll start off the conversation then.

"Well, umm, I'm not quite sure who you are but thank you for visiting me for however long you have been. The name is Adam Aoi, but you probably already know that." I say to her to hopefully break the ice. Don't wanna sit here and have her point at me all day now. It was getting awkward, I'm also getting kinda hungry and I wanna know the date already.

My little introduction/thanks seems to have finally snapped her out of her own stupor, as she immediately turns red from embarrassment. She's now just sorta standing there now. She finally closed her mouth and put her finger down is now fidgeting quite a bit while looking down. Guess I have to play the waiting game now.

"…m…..i….you." She literally just mumbled something out after a few minutes and I have no idea what she just said. I'm not quite sure why she's acting like this. Maybe I look really ugly or something right now. It's true I haven't gotten a chance to look at myself but I'm sure my mom would have told me if I was horribly disfigured or something now…. Right?

"Sorry, could you repeat that? Take a deep breath or two if you need to. I don't have anywhere important to be for now, so take your time okay?" I say to hopefully calm her down and get this conversation going.

She blinks, and takes my advice in breathing in. After she does, she looks notably much calmer now. She finally looks me in the eye an-

"MYNAMEISUNIANDTHANKYOUFORSAVINGME!" All for her to say it all in one breath in a really loud voice. That sorta hurt my ears too but at least I got her name. I think.

"Uni, is it?"

She nods.

Oh thank goodness. That would have been really awkward if I got that wrong.

"Alright Uni, now what did you say after your name? You said it too fast for me."

She starts to fidget again but not as badly as before.

"I-i-i s-said…..t-thank you." she finished off shyly.

Although what she said came out so incredibly small, I could barely still hear it. Now there can be a lot of things someone can say "thank you" for but for Uni here, there can only be one reason that she's saying that to me. Besides the fact she now looks sorta familiar after looking at her long enough.

Standing in front of me, must be the one and only CPU Candidate of my nation that I unknowingly saved.

Well this is truly unexpected for my second awakening. I, like a lot of people, haven't actually seen the CPU Candidate before. We all know of her existence, but haven't seen her as of yet. No one knows why exactly she hasn't shown herself publicly but maybe she's just shy? She was born not too long ago now, and likely is receiving some sort of training from her sister? I don't know the process of raising a CPU Candidate, so I can't exactly say anything.

"Ah. Well I'm just happy to see that we're both alive and well."

"But you got hurt…. b-because of m-me."

"Hey, I made the choice to put my neck on the line you know? Also, I could have played it differently than I did to avoid all this from the start. So don't go blaming yourself for something you had no part in, okay?"

You know, I never thought that IF I did ever get the chance to meet any of the CPUs, that my first conversation would go something like this. Although a good portion of what I said was a lie, as there was literally nothing I could have done differently for a more favorable outcome. I, myself was prepared for the consequences of my actions. As long as she made it out alive, I was okay with my end. I couldn't have resisted the urge to help her even if I wanted to but I have no regrets in following my instincts. She shouldn't feel responsible for the actions that I toke.

She jumps a little at my answer, but she starts to look relieved and gives off a small smile.

Surely seeing the consequences of my actions must have been hard for her. After all, she got into trouble by fighting the Ancient Dragon in the first place, so I can understand why she'd blame herself. Who knows how much guilt she may have formed in herself after seeing my condition. It is a little surreal to be honest. Seeing the CPU Candidate is the one I saved, seeing her so guilty over it, and me being alive to tell her it's not her fault. Not something I'd thought I would ever do.

"So, Lady Uni. Have you been coming to visit me often?" I just have to ask. It's not every day that you have a Goddess worried about you.

"….Y-yea I have but it's not like I was w-worried about you or anything!" ….Wait what? Don't tell me…. Could she? Nah. She's literally a Goddess. I must be hearing things. I did just wake up after a month apparently. Yup, totally hearing things.

"Well, thank you for being so concerned about me Lady Uni. It means a lot to hear that you visited me, even though you must be very busy with rebuilding Lastation." She starts to blush a little at that and looks down again.

"W-well we have been busy but I couldn't just leave you after you saved me. I'd be a real screw-up then."

"Hey, like I said, don't be so harsh on yourself. We both made decisions that day that led up to what happen. We can only move forward from it now you know? So don't go calling yourself a screw-up for nothing. Okay?" I say in the hopes of calming her guilt down. Really, she shouldn't be burdening herself so much for this. We both made it out fine, which at the end of the day is the most important thing.

We lock eye contact at that, her with an expression of shock/surprise and mine of calm. I'm honestly not calm at all, I'm incredibly nervous about overstepping my boundaries here. She is the CPU Candidate of my home. Her sister being the CPU, but it's not like Lady Black Heart is mean or anything. Since Lady Black Heart came down from Celestia, she's been nothing but kind and hard working for us. Even when we didn't have much faith in her. I wouldn't want to disrespect her little sister after everything she's done to us and after all, her sister has been trying her hardest since she was born. Hopefully anything I said wasn't too much.

"Your right. We both made choices, and we can only keep going. Hehe, that's funny, both you and my sister said something similar." And just like that she gives me quite the smile. It's an innocent smile that matches her well.

"So, I think we should reintroduce ourselves again. As our first one wasn't the best. Here I-."

"Wait no! Let me go first, I kinda messed up the first time, so it's only right."

Well, how about that now.

"Yea, sure go ahead." She clears her throat and begins.

"My name is Uni, the CPU Candidate of Lastation and you better not forget it!" she says in a voice full of pride and confidence, of which is complimented with a flick of one of her pigtails, into putting her hands on her hips. I…. still don't want to believe it. I'm gonna give her another chance.

"I don't think I could forget my CPU Candidate, but anyway. My name is Adam Aoi, a resident of Lastation. It's nice to finally meet you Lady Uni." I finish off with a slight bow, gotta show respect after all.

"Hmph, well Adam. I gotta go now. I promised my sister I wouldn't be out for too long, and she'll start to worry if I don't get back soon. But before I go...Ah! Here it is. Take this." After rummaging around a little in her dress, she magically hands me a small PDA. I mean literally magically; I have no idea where this came from and she doesn't have anywhere visible that it would come from. A women's dress is truly complicated.

"What's this for?" Obvious question is obvious.

"It's an invitation. My sister told me that if you really were awake, to give this to you. It's an invitation to the Basilicom for a dinner. All you have to do is turn it on and show it to the guards when you come. I-it's not like I care if you come, but we'd like to show our gratitude to you."

"Ah, then I'll be sure to come once I'm given the OK to leave. But when will it be okay to come? I'm not sure when they'll let me out."

"There's a n-number on the PDA. Call that number a day before you come." She turned a little red at the mention of the number. Little weird but okay, at least this gives me plenty of time to get ready.

I nod, telling her I'll call and she begins to take her leave.

"T-thank you again for saving me, Adam." She says with another pleasant smile and leaves.

So, I've met the CPU Candidate, had a decent conversation with her (albeit was a little bumpy at first), and got invited to the Basilicom for dinner.

"Life is just full of surprises. Never expected any of this to ever happen." I say to myself as I look out the window. The view here is really nice. You can see a nice view of Lastation from my bed. It looks around maybe 4PM with the way the sun is located in the sky. Although, I'm not too sure.

"And she really is a tsundere. Never would have thought the CPU Candidate would be like that. Makes me wonder how Lady Black Heart is."

"Adam?" a voice softly asks from outside my room.

"I'm awake. Come in."

My mom comes in with my urging, and she looks visibly happier and better might I add. With my recovery, she probably finally ate a proper meal or something.

"I have some good news Adam. They are gonna give you a check-up today and tomorrow. If you show good signs today and tomorrow, they'll let you out!" You could practically smell the excitement coming off of her with just how happy she is. I really worried her.

"That's great mom. I'm uh, sorry again. For making you go through so much over me."

"It's alright Adam, I'm ju- *sigh* I'm just so happy that you came out alive. We really have to thank Lady Black Heart."

"About that, the CPU Candidate; Lady Uni came by and invited me to the Basilicom to show their gratitude."

My mom just stood there silently for a second. She's probably process-

"REALLY!? OHMYGOSHMYBOYISGONNAMEETTHEGODDESS*SQUEAL*!"

She suddenly gushed out and did I hear a squeal in that? I'm gonna try to ignore that she made that sound. While she may still be young for an adult, it doesn't mean my poor mind can accept that sort of sound coming from my mother.

She calmed down and I showed her the PDA. I explained to her what Lady Uni and me talked about and gave her my best description of her. I omitted the tsundere part though, not sure how my mom would react to that piece of info.

"Well, do you have an outfit for this sort of thing Adam? Last time I checked, you don't have a large selection of clothing."

"I'll go out shopping once I settle down from being released. So probably a day after of being released I'll go shopping."

"Alright, that sounds good. I'm gonna go home to get some rest. As you've probably noticed, I haven't been taking care of myself recently."

"Yea I've noticed. You go. I'll be fine now, okay?"

She nods, gives me a quick hug and begins her leave.

"The doctors will be in soon to take their first test. So stay awake until then, okay?"

"Gotcha."

"Okay, take care."

And with that shes gone…..and I still don't know the da- ah forget it. I'll figure it out at some point.

A/N: Little late on this update, busy week for me :D. So college starts for me this Monday, but I'll stand by my promise of at least a chapter a week.

If anything changes I'll leave an update on my profile.

Thank you all for reading. Things will get even more interesting soon.

Hope you all enjoy the chapter, have a good day/night all!