Chapter 2
The room was silent for a while, for approximately 4 minutes. Hippotsu looked at Neferpitou's expression and noticed that she was still trying to process the information bestowed upon her. Hippotsu tried to speak to her, "Ma'am are you oka-" only to be interrupted by a sudden reaction from the cat girl, Pitou fell to her knees and felt an emotion she had yet to truly understand. "Why? H-how? Who killed..." she tried to speak but it was too difficult for her to finish a sentence. In her mind she thought of her king and had multiple flashbacks of her many brief interactions with the King. Suddenly in a burst of anger she looked up and the doctor and said "IT'S A LIE! IT HAS TO BE A LIE!"
Hippotsu tried to comfort the despairing cat girl by placing his hand on her shoulder while trying to reassure her that this is in fact the undeniable truth. "I'm...afraid it's true. The Royal Guard members Shaipouf, Menthuthuyoupi along with the King himself have all passed on. Ma'am, I'm so sorry." Hippostsu harrowed. In response to that Neferpitou looked to the ground and punched a hole onto the floor below her without leaving a mark on her balled up fist. Hippotsu jumped in response and then tried to calm her down by saying "I know it's hard to take in, but please ma'am you must calm yourself."
Neferpitou's mind wandered to thoughts about the King while Hippotsu tried to comfort her. Hippotsu debated in his mind whether or not it would be appropriate to tell her the current situation she's in, he knew it would only hurt her even more however as a loyal subordinate to the Chimera Ant Kingdom he felt it was his duty to inform his distressed commander of everything that has transpired after her fight with Gon. Hippotsu proceeded with "Ma'am it is my duty to inform you of everything that has happened while you were asleep, however I wish to give you some time to process all of this."
Neferpitou responded to him "It...doesn't matter anymore." "Pardon me ma'am?" Hippotsu questioned. "IT DOESN'T MATTER HIPPOTSU!" Pitou exclaimed. "Without the King, Pouf and Youpi, It's pointless...my purpose...my entire purpose was to serve the King alongside with the other members of the Royal Guard. If they're all dead, than I no longer have a purpose." Hippotsu responded to her "Pitou-sama...that's not true. You are a survivor of the attack on this palace, if anything there is a chance you can redeem yourself of the pain you are feeling now."
With tears rapidly flowing down her face, she looked up to him and asked "What are you talking about?" She continued with "There is...no point in me going on anymore. My purpose was to protect the person most important to me; the King, but now he's gone. So why should I even try to redeem myself if I couldn't protect the one person who meant the world to me?!" She cried. Hippotsu looked at her and then in a stern voice said to her "Neferpitou, you are the sole survivor of the Royal family! It's imperative that you survive, it's imperative that you hold your head up and live on for the sake of the King's legacy! To the few of us who were loyal to the king even at the end...you are the only one we can turn to. You may have failed with your old purpose, but now you have a new one!"
Neferpitou looked up at Hippotsu and asked him "What do you mean?" "Neferpitou-sama, please stand up, it's not befitting of the Queen of the Chimera Ants to be on her knees like this." Pitou's face changed from depressed and confused to just utterly confused, a pure emotional outburst was the only thing that could result from this. "What do you mean? I'm...the Queen?" after she questioned Hippotsu she stood up and faced him directly and said "That doesn't make any sense! I'm one of the Royal Guard!". Hippotsu disputed her statement with his next sentence "Neferpitou-sama, whether you believe it or not, according to us, you are our now our Queen. The chimera ant kingdom needs leadership...we need Royal blood to guide us to our future."
"Listen to yourself! How dare you belittle the King's position and undermine his importance! I'm not worthy of taking the throne, it's unthinkable! It's impossible! It's not what I was born to do! I CAN'T BE THE QUEEN! I rather die than disrespect the King!" Pitou argued back. Hippotsu replied to her with a hint of desperation in his voice "P-please don't say that, Neferpitou-sama! I dread the though of losing our queen right after she has just awoken! I'm certain that you'll understand if you just-" however he was interrupted by Pitou "ENOUGH! I won't do it! I won't!" Hippotsu was a bit fed up with the queen who kept denying her responsibility while refusing to listen to him, in an instant he huffed and roared the following statement "WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS MORE DISRESPECTFUL TO THE LATE KING NEFERPITOU-SAMA!"
After he shouted at her, a silence befell the room. "Forgive me, please I understand what you must be going through. We have all felt the way you are feeling right now." Pitou singled out the word 'we' when Hippotsu made his statement, but was too in distress to care about mentioning it. Hippotsu stared at the his queen who refused her title without the words to back up his current thoughts. He was speechless to see the Royal Guardsmen Neferpitou act in such a manner. He understood that this could be a case of a bad first impression of her as well as acknowledging the situation she just found herself in. He thought primarily about how he was going to help her accept this new position as the ruler of the planet. He then decided to tell her everything that happened prior to her awakening.
"Neferpitou-sama...please allow me to explain, perhaps then you'll be willing to accept the truth." Pitou looked down with while clenching her teeth and responded with "Fine, but I'm not going to change my mind." "You might want to sit back down as I tell you what actually happened." He requested. Pitou complied with the doctor's request and sat down on the bed she woke up on prior to her tantrum.
As Pitou prepared herself for what she was about to hear her mind was racing with thoughts about what could have possibly happened while she slept. Her king is no longer alive. Her brothers Youpi and Pouf have joined him in death. She thought about how similar her reaction was to Gon's reaction when they heard heartbreaking news. Gon Freecs, the boy who she declared to kill right after she told him his mentor was deceased. Pitou knew Gon was a threat to the King, though a small part of her did feel bad for the boy, however she devoted herself to her mission. That mission was to protect the King she cared so much about. She decided with no more hatred toward Gon that she could at least put him out of his misery and protect the King as well. At least, that was the plan. Neferpitou woke up to a day she hoped would never come true.
She remembered telling Gon that she would kill him...What exactly happened afterward?
End of Chapter 2