When Uzume woke up, she saw EXE's cloak is over her. "Thank you Exsy," Uzume yawned as she got up. She felt the cloak be swiftly taken off her body. EXE has the cloak wrapped around himself again. Uzume stretched and popped her bones.

"Are you still on about changing Planeptune?" EXE asked. Uzume smiled and nodded. "Do you even know how you're gonna change this nation?" EXE asked and Uzume was about to answer. Before she closed her mouth.

"How would should Uzume change the nation Exsy?" Uzume asked. "Shares, take the Shares of this nation. Iris Heart needs Shares for her strength. Sap that, and she'll be looking for you," EXE replied and Uzume scratched her cheek, Shares felt so familiar.

'You're re-creating a Share Crystal?! That isn't possible...!!'

Uzume rubbed her head in pain as a memory flashed through her mind. A sense of anger, and fear washed through her for a second. Like Uzume witnessed something that shouldn't exist. She shook her head as the pain subsided.

"Uzume, are you okay?" EXE asked, never seeing this before. "Ugh, Uzume's head was spinny for a second. She's alright now, but Shares... Uzume knows what those are now," Uzume replied rubbing her eyes. EXE gave her a look of suspicion.

"So, you're memories are starting to come back?" EXE asked. Uzume nodded as she looked at her hand, the she clenched it. "How does Uzume get Shares?" Uzume asked. "The best way to do that is to register at The Guild and do quests. Normally the Shares after a completed quest goes to the nation. However, a lot of people don't know this.."

"...But it's possible to give those Shares to the other nations by claiming you belong to that specific nation. Or, if you specifically want those Shares, say you're independent," EXE explained and Uzume nodded. "There is one complication, you're not a CPU, so you can't take those Shares, you need a CPU Memory to become a CPU," EXE explained.

"Uzume already feels Shares, maybe she is a CPU?" Uzume wondered. EXE looked at Uzume critically, like she just reminded EXE of a bad memory. "Do you know about alternate dimensions?" EXE asked.

That sounded familiar, Uzume frowned as she tried to recall why. Something about coordinates and books, that's all she could think of. "Nope," Uzume said, popping the 'p' of nope. EXE nodded as she breathed in deeply.

"What I'm about to tell you is a closely guarded secret of the nation. No, not just this nation, but the other four nations. Remember when I told you about Rei Ryghts?" EXE said and Uzume nodded, not breaking eye contact.

"Well, when we fought Rei Ryghts, four permanent gates were opened to a place called the Hyperdimension. A place where CPUs are born from the desires of people," EXE explained and Uzume rubbed her head.

A place, that looks familiar, it's a nation, it flashed through her mind. A silhouette of a woman on a book with twintails and wings. Then, a white console with an orange swirl mark.

Uzume shook her mind of those visions. "You reacted to the word Hyperdimension. So that proves you have at least some connection to it. I bring up the Hyperdimension because it's CPUs helped us defeat Rei Ryghts. I guarantee you they don't know about the sorry state of Planeptune, and the Hyperdimension CPU of Planeptune would gladly be your ally," EXE explained

He had laid out two options. The first is do quests and leech Shares from Planeptune to draw Iris Heart out. The second, is to head to Hyperdimension get help from the CPUs there, and possibly find her memories. "However, you need to get inside the Basilicom to find the portal that leads to Hyperdimension. In order to do that, you have to get in Iris Heart's good graces," EXE brought up, to him seemed like an obstacle. Uzume saw it as an opportunity.

She doesn't want to fight Iris Heart, she wants Iris Heart to change her ways. The Hyperdimension option involves that, plus getting her memories back. "Either way, you need to register at The Guild. It's in the Neo Arcadia District. I can't come along, because i'm a super criminal. So, get going, and if your dream comes true. I'll tell you a bit about myself," EXE said, even putting in a reward like a quest.

Uzume nodded with her dark purple eyes sparkling. She walked out in the streets of the Zero District. Humming a delightful tune as her plan is in motion. To save Planeptune and get her memories back. She felt then felt a hand grab her shoulder.

"Hey! Girlie! Your face pisses me off! So empty your wallet and apologize," the punk snarled behind her. Uzume bit her lip, she has to be stronger. Because she has to work at The Guild. To save Planeptune by going directly at the source of the nation's struggles. The apathy of Iris Heart.

BGM: One Eyed Assassin(Yakuza 0)

The punk threw a punch, and Uzume ducked under it. Cracking her knuckles, her muscles feeling stronger and instincts sharper. The faith from the five homeless men helped empower her. This twisted feeling of joy wriggled through her body like a worm. She's gonna have fun with these fools.

Uzume gave two punches to the punk's stomach, and then poking his eyes. Sshe then grabbed his arm and threw him over her shoulder. The punk fell on his stomach, grabbing his face in pain. Uzume backflipped and landed her knee on the punk's stomach. She smiled sadistically as he closed his eyes and fell unconscious.

Another punk rushed her, Uzume sidestepped him and he was in now in front of her. She grabbed him by the hair, and dragged him to the wall of an abandoned tennant. "Uzume's gonna beat the stuffing out of you now!" Uzume chirped. She spun the punk around, and let him go. Slamming his back against the wall.

Uzume, now in front of him, with her back turned. She hit his face with the back of her fist. She then ran up the wall, and jumped off it. Backflipping off it and kicked the man in the head as he fell to the ground.

End BGM

She felt herself growing stronger when she beat those punks. She heard applause and saw people clapping for her. She felt their praise enter her body, it felt so warm, and foreign at the same time.

Uzume reached the Neo Arcadia District. She sees the Basilicom, Guild, barracks for the guards, and entrances to the other districts. Uzume looked at the Basilicom and frowned. It felt so empty, not empty in the sense of no one being in it. Because Uzume caught glimpses of workers.

It felt passionless and lazy, uncaring and apathetic. Just like the goddess who lives there. Uzume turned and headed to The Guild. It was crowded and bloated with people. It obviously needed renovations, but no one cared enough to do so.

Uzume feels the malcontent and negativity. People hate how little changes. How little the goddess they worship cares. Uzume felt strangely empowered by that negativity as well. She shook off that feeling and started to wait in line.

Once she got to the front. "Hi there, are you here to submit a quest, register, or something else?" The lady asked, with a fake smile. "Uzume wants to register, pretty please with a grape on top of the cake?" Uzume asked and the lady nodded.

She handed Uzume the paper. Uzume quickly began filling it out, excited to get started. Once she finished filling out the paperwork. The desk lady looked at it. "Let's see, you're name is Uzume Tennouboshi, and you specialize in hand to hand?" The lady asked for confirmation. "You're approved, make sure to read the handbook for all the rules and regulations," The lady gave Uzume a tablet.

Uzume began to sift through the contents of the digital handbook. She felt herself bump into someone, and they both tumbled to the ground. "Oh! Uzume is so sorry! She wasn't paying attention to where she was going!" Uzume quickly helped the person she bumped into up.

"Ohh, it's oookaaay," the girl she bumped into wore a pastel colored pajama dress. A stuffed animal dangling in her right hand. Lavender hair in a long braid, and magenta eyes. Her lighter and more friendly. Much more than Uzume's sharp and cold, dark purple. Yet they're also tired

"Uzume Tennouboshi is the name! What's yours?" Uzume asked, eager to make a new friend. "My names Plutia, it's nice to meet you!" Plutia smiled serenly.

When writing Kurome's combat style. I looked to Yakuza's own Goro Majima. To help convey that while Kurome is no longer totally evil. There is still that sense of anger and resentment that is released in fights.