"Raaagh!"

"Gyaaaa!"

"(Demonic Inferno)!"

We were currently fighting the Fenrir Wolf, and unfortunately, it had designated me as the biggest threat. Which meant running around the clearing and hoping that IF and Nepgear would land a hit or two to weaken it while it chased me around.

"Miss IF! Miss Nepgear! I hope you guys kill it soon!" I yelled.

"U-Um, I'm trying!" Nepgear was shooting her sword-gun hybrid.

"It's a lot harder than it looks! Couldn't you make it at least stand still?" IF was using her skills, as she said, it was harder to use them on a moving target.

"Alright! Once I get it to stop moving, use all of your skills on it!" I called out to them.

"Wait, what are you planning on doing!?" IF responded as she was preparing another skill.

Without warning, I turned around. The Fenrir Wolf wasn't expecting that, but kept running straight at me, teeth baring and eyes glowing.

"Take this!" I jumped straight at the Fenrir Wolf, lance in my right. The Fenrir Wolf stopped and opened its mouth, ready to swallow me whole. But…

"(Demonic Inferno)!" A fiery inferno spouted out from underneath the Fenrir Wolf, and it howled in pain. Nepgear took advantage of the distraction and started to slash at its legs. I, who was still in the air, took the opportunity to stab it straight in the head, and since the lance was heavy enough, pierced it through.

The monster started to disintegrate into particles, and then it was gone.

"Ugh, I'm going to feel that for days on end." I reached down to grab my lance that fell down to the clearing after it had disintegrated, and rubbed my back.

"What are you, an old man?" IF retorted.

"I guess. Miss Nepgear, how are you feeling?"

"Iffy, Kizoku-san…"

"Hmm?"

"What's wrong?"

"There's a lot more Fenrir Wolves in the clearing…"

I sat up and looked around. Sure enough, the outsides of the clearing were packed with Fenrir Wolves, all snarling and drooling, ready to send us to their stomachs.

"Gear, I think you might need to transform." If was looking at them with a worried look.

"OK. Access!" Light started to surround Nepgear. Once it fully surrounded her, the light started to swirl, and numbers appeared in a ring around it. Then it dispersed, and Nepgear appeared, in swimsuit form. Her eyes changed colors and had a power symbol on it. There was glowing wings on her back, and her gun-sword changed into a sabre of sorts.

"Hey, wait a minute. That outfit is showing way more skin than mine. And you call me the pervert." I told Nepgear.

"I-I-I can't control this!" Nepgear blushed, covered herself and turned away.

"Well, whatever." I turned around to face the many wolves. "This is going to take forever to clean up."

"Don't worry. Nepgear is going to defeat all of them." IF responded.

"Wait, what? Is there a secret weapon she has?"

"Close. It's more like an ultimate ability. Just watch."

Nepgear suddenly shouted out "[Celestial Severance]!" She dashed forward and started to slash at the Fenrir Wolves. With each slash, a Fenrir Wolf disappeared. After clearing out half of the wolves, they started to run away, but Nepgear mustered a bit of her strength and slashed straight through all of them. Behind her, purple explosions killed off the rest of the wolves.

"Wow. You really did clean out the bunch." I whistled, impressed at what she had just done.

"Thank you, Kizoku-san." Light started to surround her again, and she returned back to her normal form.

"If you can do something like this, does that mean your sister is more impressive than you?"

"Ah-ha-ha-ha." Nepgear sweatdropped.

"To be blunt, Nep doesn't go out that much to fight monsters: she just stays at the Basilicom, eats pudding, and plays games. Right now, she's probably weaker than Nepgear." IF deadpanned.

"Is she really a goddess?"

"Let's go back to the Guild and report our progress." IF started to walk back.

"Sure. I want that food me and Nepgear saw while walking around."

"W-wait up!"

"...And that's that."

"I see. So If-san, Nepgear-san, and…"

"Kizoku."

"Kizoku-san cleared out the Fenrir Wolves."

We were back at the Guild, and reported what had happened in Virtua Forest. The receptionist was a bit surprised that we were back so quick, but she masked her emotions and dealt with the report.

She bowed at us and said "Thank you for taking on this emergency quest. For your reward, please hand over your Guild card, IF-san."

IF handed a card that had her picture and other information to the receptionist. She swiped it through a computer, and handed it back to IF.

"The total credits now on the card is 205000." IF looked shocked.

"I had 5000 credits before. So the quest gave us 200000 credits!?" Hearing that, Nepgear was dumbfounded as well.

"That's a lot for defeating some Fenrir Wolves."

"Is that so? I believe that the reward is well deserved. After all, not only did you defeat those enemies, you made sure that no Guild newcomer would die to those high level monsters." She gave a warm smile.

"Hey Nepgear. How much is 200000 credits?" I whispered.

"Uhh, it'll take you 10000 credits to buy a high quality sword."

"That's not really telling me anything."

Nepgear sweatdropped. "It takes 1000 to go to a nice restaraunt."

"Really!? That's a huge reward!"

"I'm surprised at your standards of money." IF sweatdropped.

"Ahem." The reception coughed. "The money is not all. The Guild would also like to reward you…" She brought out a disk.

"A 1024 item storage drive." Now IF and Nepgear looked even more shocked.

"Aren't there a limited amount of those drives!? And you're giving one of them?"

"As I said before, this reward is well worth the task. Take it." The receptionist pressed it into IF's arms.

"O-OK." IF looked a bit worried. I would be too, hearing that I had a rare item.

"Hey. If that's all, then let's go to the restaurant. I'm getting hungry." I have to set my priorities straight, after all.

"True. I'm getting hungry as well. Well, thank you!" IF headed out , with me and Nepgear in tow.

Hey all! If you haven't noticed yet, this is the author, THE KINGDOM (Don't ask, I want to change it so badly, but don't know how to)

Anyway, this is the first author's note I've done for this series, so I really don't know what to say. I guess I'll just say thanks for reading thus far, and please, leave some reviews. I don't know if this story really needs some improvements or whatever, and it'd be nice to get some feedback. Also, releases will be inconsistent thanks to school. Sorry about that.

TLDR: Thanks for reading, and feel free to review.

Peace.