Chapter 11

Side chapter 1

Planeptune

Minato was at the weapon shop where he got his guard shield, he was there now to get a quest after what Histoire told him. Apparently the way the goddessess maintain and increase their power or shares is by doing these quests as well as how well they govern their lands. When he looked at the information about the quest it showed how much shares he would earn from each nation, since he is viewed as a messiah in this world he can actually share the faith energy with the goddess. The more quest and deeds he does the more the people who worship the goddessess will see him as a messiah.

The problem was everyone didn't see him as one at first glance and some were giving him envious looks because he could hang out with the goddesses. So Minato decided to do what the goddesses do and complete quests. His current job was to hunt down a pack of monsters roaming near Planeptune's borders, the monsters were also near Village 22 so Minato could help ensure his people's safety as well.

After he finished the quest he was about to turn it in when he heard a load roar and a scream, he ran in the direction were he heard it and found two massive monsters attack a small group of adventurers.

Minato shot at the monsters with a Maragi to their "faces", they stumble back and the adventures look towards Minato. Minato shouted at the adventures "Run! Get away from here!" they all nod and run in Minato's direction. Minato notice a number of them were badly injured and limping

One of the adventurers stopped by Minato "Thanks a lot kid, now come on. Let's get out of here!"

Minato shook his head "Sorry, but I can't let these things endanger anymore lives" he stepped forward towards the monsters bringing out Excalibur.

Minato decided to use one of his newest items, apparently when he made Aigis his inheritor to help her and SEES get through the Abyss of Time, any item she stored in her sea of soul was duplicated into his.

The reason why Minato made Aigis his inheritor was not because she was the one he had the deepest bond with but rather after his death she became empty, in other words she was the only one in SEES who could become a wild card who was in the dorm at the time.

Minato ran towards one of the monsters attacking it's mid-section two times, the other monster was about to attack him when he teleported out of the way forcing both monsters to hit each other and fall over.

Seeing both were about to get up Minato used a Mahama to hopefully finish them off, but just after Minato casted it he heard a voice from above "Justice Kick!".

The light from Mahama hid the person from view for a moment before they started to emerge from the light.

Time seemed to have slowed down as Minato's instincts took over. He held out his arms and as the figure come close he caught the figure, bridle style for some reason, he spun around a few times before he stopped and looked down at the person he caught. A girl with blue hair goggles wearing a body suit.

Minato asked the girl "I'm sorry miss, but were you going to attack those monsters with that kick of yours?"

The girl nodded "Yes, since most adventures would have difficulties fighting just one of those things, two would be almost impossible for an average group of adventures so I decided to help. Though I got ahead of myself and didn't get to my introduction".

Minato heard one of the adventures mutter "Damn, that guy has to be the only man in all of Gamindustri who can have a conversation with someone who he's carrying bridal style" Minato then notices how he's carrying the girl, the girl notices as well and blushes a little.

Minato put the girl down "Well... I'm Minato. Nice to meet you and thank you for the help"

The girl nodded "Nice to meet you Minato. I'm NISA Heroine of Gamindustri" she said as she did a heroic pose. Minato smiled at this.

Minato looked towards where the monsters were, seeing only one of the monsters was taken out while the one that remained looked very angry, it let out a very loud roar. Minato glanced at NISA "Let me guess, you were aiming for the other one" NISA nodded "Well then since you're here to help, how about we work together to take this thing down?"

NISA smiled at that "Alright, I like your altitude! Let's finish this thing together. I'll take the lead since ordinary adventurers can get instantly killed by these things"

Minato gripped Excalibur tighter "Trust me. I'm far from ordinary"

Both Minato and NISA charged at the monster, the monster fought back but both Minato and NISA dodged it. Minato began slashing at the monster while NISA began punching or kicking it.

The monster attacked Minato again, however he wasn't able to dodge so he blocked it. However there was more force in it then he was expecting, sending him skidding backwards. NISA being distracted by Minato skidding back was attacked by the monster sending her flying back towards, she manage to regain her balance mid-flight and landed on her feet.

Minato glanced behind him and noticed the group of injured adventures were watching the fight. Minato smirked knowing he could hit two birds with one stone.

Blue energy gathered around Minato "Orpheus! Apsaras! Candenza!" both Orpheus and Apsaras appeared above Minato, Orpheus played his Lyre while Apsaras danced to it. Minato, NISA and the adventures were covered in a green light which showed music notes in it.

The adventurers were healed as was Minato and NISA, they also got a major speed boost. Minato ran double the speed he showed before and got a number of slashes on the monster before it could react, finally the monster was defeated and Minato put Excalibur away. Minato turned around to see NISA and the adventures gapping at what he just did.

Minato smirked "Told ya I wasn't an ordinary adventurer"

NISA was about to say something until one of the adventurers asked aloud "Those things... it can't be..." with a shaking figure he asked "Are you the saviour of the Enlightened?" everyone went wide eyed and turned towards Minato waiting for an answer.

Minato bowed slightly "Correct, I am Minato Arisato, the saviour of the Enlightened"

The man replied "I knew it! I knew the second I saw you summon those entities you had to be the real deal, it's all over the internep that the saviour of the Enlighten can summon beings to do his bidding!" he said more to himself and fellow adventurers more then to Minato.

NISA stepped towards Minato "Wow, when you said you were no ordinary adventurer you really meant it" Minato nods at NISA.

One of the larger men of the group comes towards Minato "On behalf of my team I offer you, both of you. Our deepest gratitude for helping us, however" he looks Minato directly in the eyes "Though I am sure we all are grateful you, a messiah, helped. Myself at least refuses to worship you. My family and I have nothing less than absolute faith in our goddess and it will take more than just protecting us from monsters to turn our back on our goddess to worship you"

Minato nodded "Of course, I understand. I would never ask you to turn your back on your beliefs, however acknowledging me as a saviour doesn't mean you have to turn your back on the goddesses"

Everyone looks at him dumbfounded with blank faces. The man, who stepped towards Minato, posture slouched and asked "Huh?"

Minato explained "The Enlightened worship both the goddesses and their saviour. So you don't have to abandon your goddess, in fact I've heard that some of our members began to worship all the goddesses as soon as they joined"

One of the other adventurers a women spoke up "Wait, we were taught that we should only worship one goddess. So how can we worship both you and our goddess?"

Minato looked at her "Well I'm not a goddess, so it should be fine"

The adventures group together and start to talk among themselves. Minato decided to speak up "Anyways, it's about time we got out of here in case more monsters start to show up"

All the adventures look down before the man who approached spoke up "We can't. We have a quest to complete and we're going to finish it" his fellow adventures nod their heads.

Minato sigh "Very well. Then I shall join you on this quest to finish it up quicker" Minato looks over at NISA "Want to join this quest?"

NISA shakes her head "Would love to, but a hero's work is never done. Besides you have the whole situation under control so I'll leave it to you" she begins to run off while waving "Later Minato"

Minato waved back "Later NISA" Minato looks at the adventurers "Well lead the way" they do and began walking being followed by Minato.

They entered a cave to find the monster they were hunting. Turns out the monster was a sand worm. The adventurers did most of the work while Minato healed and increased their stats, anytime the worm tried to attack him he would either dodge, absorb or reflect the attack back at it. With one last strike the sand worm was defeated, however another sand worm jumped out of the ground ready to attack Minato.

Just before it could reach him a mass of black energy, which took the form of a monsters head, attacked the sand worm pinning it to the ground. Minato used a bufu spell to freeze the sand worm, he looked where the mass of energy came from only to see nothing.

One of the adventures screamed at the top of their lungs "IT'S! IT'S THE DEMON! IT'S HERE TO EAT OUR SOULS! WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE!" one of the other adventurers began to slap the now screaming adventurer.

Minato approached the larger man he talked to earlier, who turned out to be the leader of the group "What's this about a demon?"

The man rubbed the back of his head "Apparently, there's this urban rumour going around Planeptune about a demon roaming it's boarder at night. Some have said it shows up in caves as well, regardless of time of day. However any sightings of it are so few no one can be sure if it's true"

The one who was scream their head off replied "No one can be sure!? WE JUST SAW IT!"

Minato replied "You saw it? What did it look like?"

The adventure replied "Well, I didn't see it exactly, but you all saw that thing hit the sand worm. Meaning it had to be the demon because no nation has anything like it and the bad feeling I got from it only makes me believe it more"

Minato looked at the adventurer for a few moments before using Excalibur to finish off the sand worm "We're leaving now. I'll come back later to investigate this 'demon', right now I'm not endangering any of your lives in this so go home and leave it to me"

The leader of the group retorted "On your own?" he had a look of worry in his eyes as well as the other adventurers.

Minato looked at them with a smile "Don't worry. I've faced things far worse than a demon" all the adventurers could feel the sincerity in Minato's words and were willing to put their faith in him.

After escorting the adventurers back to safety, Minato returned to the cave to try and find clues to the 'demon' that was here.

He looked around but didn't find anything, suddenly Minato could hear the faint sound of a fight. He followed the sound and saw a large dragon attacking a boy roughly the same as him.

The boy looked to have a slim build, silver hair. He was wearing an all-black outfit dress shirt, trousers, shoes and a black jacket with a high collar at the sides. On his hip were three Katanas, he was holding one at the dragon, the katana had a white blade with a golden guard and the handle was wrapped in white cloth with a broken chain attached to it.

Minato could hear the boy chuckle with a sadistic glee "Alright you over-grown lizard, I've had fun but now it's time to end this!"

He raised his right hand into the air and mutter some sort of chant under his breath, suddenly a mass of black energy exploited from his hand and covered his entire body with it.

Minato could get a better feel of the energy now than before, it was savage, primal, destructive yet restrained and somewhat….. Incomplete.

A large amount of the energy flowed into the blade infusing it with power. The boy slashed the dragon with the empowered blade, which released a large energy slash cutting the dragon in half, doing this the boy yelled "Sinner's Skewer!"

The dragon falls to the ground and balls of energy flow out of its body and into the boys, who seem to have recovered from any injury or exhaustion he had.

The boy exhaled and released his posture "Right, target monster down. Damn that thing was tough, had to use this accursed power to take it down as well as help those adventurers with that sand worm. Today can't possibly get any worse" he put his sword back into its sheath.

Minato began to move closer to the boy while having a persona that reflects darkness equipped, as he move forward the boy turned around and when he saw Minato his eyes widened with both shock and fear.

With his eyes widened Minato notice he had blue eyes, with oddly enough slit pupils. The boy asked in a trembling voice "You didn't see that right?" he points to where the dragon was.

Minato answered "Which part? The one you spoke with a sadistic glee, or when you sliced that dragon in half with that dark power of yours?"

Minato looked at the boy's right hand and saw it was shaking, he looked the boy in the eyes and asked "Who forced that power onto you?"

The boy stopped shaking and looked at Minato with both shock and confusion "I'm sorry, but want did you just say?"

Minato asked again "I asked you who forced that power on you? I'm pretty good at reading people and I can tell you hate everything about that power since you used the word 'accursed' to describe it. So I'll ask again who forced that power onto you."

The boy grabbed his right arm with his left hand and looked down "This arm and I were part of my parents insane plans" tears started to build up in his eyes "They wanted, They wanted me to destroy the world, not physically but to destroy the current order of it. To kill the goddesses so they could use me to take over the world"

He fell to his knees still clinging to his right arm "Earliest memories were them telling me to grow up quickly and become the destroyer they wanted" his voice trembled at what he said next "And chopping off my real right arm then fusing this thing in its place!"

Minato just stood there watching the boy who was recalling his past, the boy's right hand started to let out a very faint aura "They were archaeologists when they discovered the tomb of an overlord. They used a gem that belonged to an ancient overlord as well as some of its flesh to make this arm" tears began to run down the boy's face "Now I can't be near anyone any more otherwise I risk the chance of this thing eating their souls, and the worst part is the more I use this thing the more of my body becomes just like this arm!"

Minato walked towards the boy and offered him a hand "My name is Minato Arisato, and you are-?"

The boy looked at Minato's hand before he grabbed it with his left "Virgil. No second name, I threw it away a long time ago"

Minato looked at Virgil's hand again "Let me guess, your Overlord's Arm is feeding on other's souls as a source of energy?"

Virgil looked at Minato with a raised eyebrow "Overlord's Arm?"

Minato shrugged "Got a better name for it?" Virgil shakes his head. Minato closed his eyes and tapped into the universe arcana.

Energy gathered around Minato, he held out his hand and a large amount of bandages landed in his hand. Virgil was looking at the bandages just made with a look of shock, he finally snapped out when Minato asked "Can you please roll up your right sleeve so I can get a better look at your Overlord's Arm?"

Virgil was a little absent minded when Minato asked that, though he did it right away allowing Minato to get a good look at the arm.

The entire arm was a pale purple with a red gem in the back of the hand, there looked like a moving eye inside the gem. The finger nails were black and the veins were easily visible.

The bandages came to life and wrapped themselves around Virgil's arm just below his elbow. He panicked a little at the bandages, the bandages tightened themselves and emitted a soft glow. Virgil winced as the light faded and what he saw was a perfectly normal human arm.

Minato answered Virgil's unasked question "Those are special bandages I just used. Right now they put that power of yours into a slumber. Unless you willingly wish to use that power, it will remain inactive. Also it will no longer feed on souls until you release it. After 10 minutes those bandages will reseal your powers again as a safety measure"

Virgil looks at Minato in pure and utter shock "Who are you?"

Minato smiled "Like I said I'm Minato Arisato, I'm also part of the Enlightened" Minato began to walk away "See ya later. When you got your head together come visit me at Village twenty-two"

Virgil shouted with pure happiness "Sure thing man! You can count on it!"

Minato leaves the cave hoping the best for Virgil.


Minato was walking down the streets of Planeptune on his way to the Basilicom, he figured since he was going to be working with the deities and heroes of this world he may as well get to know them better.

Minato stopped when he saw Nepgear in the crowd looking a little worried "Neptune! Where are you?"

Minato stepped towards her "Hi Nepgear"

Nepgear jumped slightly before she saw Minato and calmed down "Oh, hello Minato. What brings you to Planeptune?"

Minato answered "Passing through really. Are you alright though? You seem a little worried"

Nepgear sighed "Neptune was supposed to do some paperwork today, but she ran off the moment she got the chance to. Histoire asked me, Compa and IF to find her, but she's not at the usual places she goes to when she skips work. So we starting to get worried and decided to split up to find her" Nepgear looks down "We're supposed contact each other once when found her, but I haven't heard anything from either IF or Compa and with these shadows around-" tears slowing begin to build up in Nepgears eyes

Minato put his hand on Nepgear's shoulder "It'll be alright Nepgear. Your sister is no push over when it comes to fighting, and if there were any shadows around that would give her and the other goddesses trouble I would have sensed them already" Nepgear looks up to sees Minato reassuring face "I'll help you and the others find her"

Nepgear smiled "Thank you Minato"

Minato nodded and let go of Nepgear's shoulder "Now then, are you sure you and the others checked everywhere she normally goes to?" Nepgear nods "Okay then, what was she doing before she ran off?"

Nepgear thought for a moment "She was at her desk complaining about doing work" suddenly her eyes went wide "Wait a minute. I came in before Histoire and everyone else to give Neptune some snacks to help her get through her workload. When I put the snacks next to her I saw she was looking at a website showing events taking place in Planeptune, but she turned off the screen before I saw anything else"

Minato quickly took out his new phone and activate the browsing app "Do you remember what the website was?" he asked as he held his phone towards Nepgear.

Nepgear nodded and took the phone "Yes. It's a well-known website so most people can tell what it is from a first glance" Nepgear typed in a web address into the search bar.

After a moment a list of results showed up showing various links to websites, Nepgear clicked the first one.

Minato watch the screen as Nepgear browsed through the website, he asked "Anything you see your sister would interested in?"

Nepgear answered "Not yet" her eyes suddenly focused on one article "Wait a minute, I'm sure Neptune went here. She was thinking of going to it before but never knew when or where it was held"

Minato looked at the article she was talking about "Vehicle Smashers?"

At a parking complex in the middle of Planeptune

Minato and Nepgear stood on the ground floor as they saw a man continuously punch and kick a car while not getting seriously hurt, although the car looked like it got in one too many accidents.

Minato wondered if Neptune was really here, until he heard her voice near the front saying "Smash that ride to bits!"

Both Minato and Nepgear pushed their way to the front, when they got there Nepgear grabbed her sister's arm "Neptune come on!"

Nepgear pulled her sister out of the crowd and outside the parking complex, while Minato cleared a path.

When they were outside Neptune rubbed the back of her head "Nepgear! What brings you around these parts?" she looked slightly surprised when she noticed Minato "Yo Mintty! When did you get here?"

Nepgear answered "The reason we're here is to find you Neptune. Minato helped me figure out where to find you" Nepgear sighed "You can't just skip work like that Neptune"

Neptune crossed her arms and pouted "But, it was so boring...!"

Minato sighed "Girls, I don't think we should just talk casually in front of a parking lot where people are destroying cars with their fists"

Suddenly there was a loud cheer from which someone said "Oh my goddess. They just sliced a car in half with their bare hands!"

Both Minato and Nepgear stared into the crowd with blank looks, while Neptune complained "Aw, I missed the chopper!"

Minato tapped Nepgears shoulder and whispered "Let's try something different" Nepgear gave him a puzzled look before he walked over to Neptune "Okay, Neptune lets make a deal. If you do a good amount of paperwork, I'll personally gave to a reward"

Neptune's eyes started to go starry "Really, like what!?"

Minato flashed a teasing smile "Anything you want" his smile was replaced with a neutral frown "As long as it's not perverted or anything that goes above a T rating, also depending on the quality of your work I will give you a reward of lower value if your work is of low quality"

Neptune took a thinking pose before saying "Deal, so what will the rewards be?"

Minato closed his eyes "Well, you can choose, however I will make modifications if need be"

Neptune, Nepgear and Minato went back to the Basilicom, on the way Minato and Neptune discussed about the rewards with Nepgear offering a few opinions, while she phoned IF and Compa.

The rewards were:

Ninety to a hundred percent earns a date.

Sixty to eighty-nine earns a shopping trip where Minato buys Neptune anything she wants.

Thirty to fifty-nine percent earns one quest with only Minato, Neptune and Nepgear, if she's free.

Eleven to twenty-nine earns a piggy back ride.

Ten and below Minato cooks something, of his choce, for anyone if they ask.

When they got to the Basilicom. Histoire was at the door looking very upset the moment she saw Neptune.

Before Histoire could do anything Neptune jumped forward and asked "Histy! Where's the paperwork!?"

What Neptune said was so out of character that she took a moment to recover from the shock before answering "It's still in the main office" before she could blink Neptune sprinted straight to where the paperwork was. Histoire looked at Minato and Nepgear "What happened?"

Nepgear let out a nervous laugh "Well, Minato offered Neptune a reward depending on how well she did her paperwork"

Minato simply shrugged his shoulders "I'd figure I'd just give some motivation" Minato rubbed the back of his head "also Histoire we need you to grade her quality of work depending on her handwriting, deciding on what to approve and, if you want, her choice of writing utensil."

Nepgear bows slightly "Sorry Histoire, but you're the best person to judge Neptune's work while remaining bias" Minato bows as well.

Histoire shock her head and smiled "Well, if it helps Neptune get some work done then it's alright. Let's go see how she's doing"

When they entered the room, Minato was surprised that the amount of paperwork was stacked into a few towers of paper on the giant desk, they saw Neptune tried to reach the paper at the top of the pile of papers.

Minato sweat-dropped "This is going to take a while"

An hour passed, during which IF and Compa came back and where shocked at the sight of Neptune doing paperwork willingly, and Neptune only got about a quarter of the pile done.

Neptune looked pretty tired and she kept moving the wrist she used for writing, Minato couldn't help but wonder how Neptune could take on monsters but could easily be defeated by paperwork.

After Histoire looked over Neptune's work, her verdict was ten percent. Partly because she barely read any of the documents she signed, partly because she rushed through everything, but mainly because she used crayon to write with. Histoire still gave her a good score for effort.

Minato was in the kitchen cooking everyone there a meal, he asked if anyone was allergic to anything and was relived to find out none of them were allergic to anything.

Minato finished cooking and brought out the food. Since he didn't know what they liked, he made a wide a range as he could make with what he had.

They were a little hesitant eating it at first, but after one bite their eyes lit up and started to garble up the food.

Compa looked at Minato "Wow! Minato this food is great!"

Neptune spoke with her mouth half full "Yeah! It's a damn close second to Compa's cooking though" Compa blushed slightly at what Neptune said.

Minato shrugged his shoulders "Well I've never had her cooking so I'll take your word for it"

It turned out to be a very light hearted meal with lots of conversation. After a while Minato left the Basilicom and headed back to village twenty-two.

The next day in Lastation

Minato was on his way to the Lastation's Basilicom when he saw Noire talking to a number of people in suits, when Noire moved away from the group she let out a frustrated sigh.

Minato started to approach Noire, Noire notices Minato "Oh, well this is a surprise. What brings you to Lastation?"

Minato answered "Just passing through, are you alright though? You seem pretty frustrated"

Noire sighed while she rubbed her temples "Just a number of Lastation's nobles, seriously their some of THE most arrogant people I've ever met. I'm dealing with most of them while Uni's handling one of them herself"

Minato raised an eyebrow "How's she doing?"

Noire gestured towards Uni who was with another noble "See for yourself"

Uni was making some talk with the noble, however she looked a little nervous. The noble was wearing a long black coat, underneath it was a black waist coat with a white shirt and a black tie. Baggy black trousers kept up with a black belt and black leather shoes. His eyes were dark brown, his hair was black, in a swept back parting style.

The two parted and Uni came over to her sister, but stopped for a moment when she notice Minato but came over with a smile on her face.

Noire asked her sister "Well Uni. How do you think you held up?"

Uni nodded "Alright. Although it was really hard to pick up any emotion from him, he kept the same expression all the way through"

Minato mused "Hmm, he has a decent poker face then"

Uni nodded in Minato's direction "By the way Minato, what brings you to Lastation? Wait, there aren't any of those shadows nearby, are there?" she asked nervously as she began looking left and right.

Minato smiled and shook his head "No, no. nothing like that, I'm just passing through mostly and thought I'd come over to say hi" Uni sighed with relief.

Suddenly a shout came from the group of nobles "WHAT DID YOU SAY TO ME YOU INSOLATE BRAT!" Minato, Noire and Uni turn around and see one of the older nobles yell at the one Uni was talking to.

The younger noble tilted his head slightly and stared at the older noble "What do you mean good sir, I merely stated a fact about your family. A fact if anyone would easily know about if they put some effort into research"

The older noble grabbed the other "Now listen here you brat! Your father is the only reason I'm not going to smack you. So watch your tongue child when talking to your elders"

The young one grabbed the older ones wrist, earning a yelp of pain and surprise from the old man, before twisting the wrist bringing the older noble to his knees.

The younger noble smiled slightly, however Minato could easily tell behind that smile was a bit of malice "You know you really shouldn't grab others like that, it's quite rude and unbecoming of someone of your status" the older noble looked up with a furious look before the younger noble added more pressure to his hold.

Noire was about to intervene when Minato stepped forward and put his hand on the younger nobles shoulder before the two made eye contact "That's enough. I think you got your point across" the two stared at the other before the young noble sighed and released the older noble.

The older noble got up to his feet while rubbing his wrist, before all the other nobles moved away from the younger one.

The older nobles talk among themselves while the younger noble turned towards Minato "I should say thank you, had you not intervene there would have been a real chance I could have broken the old man's wrist and I wouldn't go into detail how would have damaged both my family's reputation and my own" he said this all without showing much emotion. He bowed slightly "Pardon the late introduction, I am James Solus"

Minato nodded "Minato Arisato. Just out of curiosity, what were you two talking about?" Minato asked while trying not to force an answer out of the young noble.

James sighed "Family matters, all the noble families of Lastation donate to charities. However almost all the noble families just do it for their own ends and when the charities are no longer making the news or any form of media they stop donating the money. In the end giving money to the less fortunate is just a means for them to show off their money and to stroke their own egos" James puffed his chest slightly "However, my family does donate as well but unlike others we don't just pick the most popular at the time, we pick those with a real purpose and genuine drive in what they do. Regardless of if it's well-known or not. We send them money and don't stop"

James stopped for a moment "Except if the charities are a scam, ran by corrupt people or if the charities just stop" James glance over at the crowd of nobles "However... one of them tried to say my family was pathetic, so I merely stated something bad about him, that was inertly true. He grabbed me and the rest was self-defence"

Minato nodded, if anyone said something bad about those he cared about he wouldn't just stand by and let them get away with it.

The old noble who grabbed James stepped towards Noire and Uni, who were eavesdropping on Minato and James conversation. The old noble clear his throat "Lady Black Heart, we have come to a decision on who will be the representative of Lastation concerning the Enlightened, it will be" he points a finger at James "James Solus"

James glares at the group of nobles "You sons of-"

The old noble smirk "What? You would send a fragile old man to get close to a possible insane cult, that doesn't sound like a member of the 'kind hearted' Solus family. You should be honoured you brat, you got a complete landslide with the voting" James took a step towards the group of nobles.

Noire spoke up "Earl Maximillian, need I remind you all voting involving the noble families of Lastation must be made at the weekly meeting" all the nobles stopped what they were doing and looked at Noire, before looking down at the ground all except James who was smirking "Also, may I ask to please refrain from insulting the Enlightened"

They looked at Noire with a puzzled look "Why? May I ask Lady Black Heart?" one of the random nobles asked

Noire answered "Because from I have seen, the Enlightened are far from insane, a little different arguably but not insane. In fact I happen to have already met with the saviour of the Enlightened with the other goddesses" she then points towards Minato "In fact he's standing right there. Allow me to introduce Minato Arisato, the Saviour of the Enlightened, and let me add his powers are all real"

All the nobles turn towards Minato in shock, some with easy to notice fear. Minato bowed slightly "Greetings, as Lady Noire has just said I am the saviour of the Enlightened and its current leader" he stood up straight and gave some of the nobles 'excluding James Solus' a threatening look "and I would like you to not insult my people, especially when I can hear you"

Some of the nobles quickly turned tail and ran like they were being chased by the devil, those who did stay were the old noble who threatened James, James himself as well as Noire and Uni.

Minato's sweat dropped "I think I may have over did it"

Uni came over and gave Minato a reassuring pat on the back "Don't worry about it, if its any help, I once saw some of those same nobles run away just like that from a dogoo"

Minato looks at Uni "Really? Then they're either frightened kittens or I somehow reminded them of a dogoo?" everyone had a little laugh at that, except the old noble who was still scared at what was going to happen to him after he just insulted the Enlightened and its leader within ear shot.

James came over to stand beside Minato "You know what, I like you" James glares at the old man "Hey! Maximillian! I personally volunteer to check out the Enlighten on behalf of Lastation" the old man visibly gritted his teeth.

Minato stayed in Lastation for the rest of the day working out the details for James Solus's stay with the Enlightened with James, Noire and Uni. The reason Lastation was sending one of their nobles to join the Enlighten was because the nobles didn't trust any group of people who potentially threatened Noire's position and by extension their own, mostly their own though. They did this to keep in god graces with their CPU, but mostly in case the goddess falls there's a chance they could keep their nobility. The expression 'playing both sides of the board' works in this situation.

Minato spent a lot of time with Noire Uni and James.

Next day Lowee

Minato was walking through Lowee in his winter clothes, patrolling and looking around.

He stops outside a bookstore, being reminded of Bookworms Bookstore as well as Bunkichi and Mitsuko the old couple who owns it, he decided to walk in and have a look around.

After taking a quick look through a number of books he picks some to take with him and goes to the counter to buy the books.

Just as he turned around to leave with his books he sees Blanc come in through the door, though she didn't show much emotion he could tell she was surprised to sell him there.

Minato raised his free hand in a greeting with a smile "Hello Blanc"

Blanc nodded walked over "Hello Minato, what brings you to Lowee?"

Minato answered "Passing through mostly, though when I saw this book store I decided to come in and have a look around"

Blanc nodded and saw the books Minato was carrying "I see, you decided to buy some that caught your interest"

Minato nodded "Yeah, just a few. Even though you can buy these books online and have them delivered to your house or apartment, nothing beats going into a bookstore for a look around" Minato smile remembering the old couple who owned Bookworms. Blanc nods, glad she met someone else who enjoys reading books.

The clerk sees Blanc "Ah, Lady White Heart you're here early today, please wait a moment" the clerk goes into the back of the store.

Blanc tells Minato "I ordered some books from this store yesterday, to replace the ones Rom and Ram ruined yesterday. I was supposed to pick them up later but since I was nearby I decided to pick them up early" her voice showed a slight annoyance at the mention of the destroyed books.

Minato laughed slightly "I'm sure they didn't mean anything bad by it" Blanc nods, already knowing it herself.

The clerk came back with a large pile of books, went into the back again to bring out another pile of books the same size as the first. Minato's sweat dropped "They ruined this many books?" he looked Blanc who nodded.

She gave the money to the clerk before the clerk went to grab something from under the counter before he came back up with a nervous expression "I'm sorry Lady White Heart, I seem to be all out of bags"

Blanc nodded "It's alright, I'll carry them myself" she then went to lift up the books. When she had them in her hands, the tower of books complete covered her face and going a little over her head, however she showed no problem carrying the books.

Minato looked as Blanc held the tower of books, she was holding two piles of books in her hands, before he asked "Need any help with those books Blanc?"

Blanc looked at Minato with a blank look "You don't think I can handle these books myself?"

Minato shook his head "I'm not worried about your strength, I'm worried about your visibility since those books completely block your view"

Blanc looked at the books before she nodded and Minato took the top halves of the pile of books, placing his own books in his armour of the soul.

Blanc asked "Just asking, but why don't you put my books in your 'armour of the soul' and make it easier for us both?"

Minato answered "Because if I do then those things automatically become mine, and seeing that I don't want to steal from you I'll have to carry them"

Blanc nodded, but a thought put into her head as they walked "What about people who go into your armour of the soul?"

Minato thought for a moment "Don't know. I've only ever stored non-living things so I can't answer that one" Minato also just thought of something "Don't you have a storage disc you could just put your books away?"

Blanc looked away from Minato "I was only going for a quick walk for some fresh air so I didn't take it with me, what about yours?" she asked as she looked at Minato.

Minato shook his head "I forgot about it actually"

Minato walked with Blanc back to the Basilicom with the books. When they were in the Basilicom, Mina rushed over to Blanc "Lady Blanc, I'm sorry but an urgent matter has come up that needs your attention right away" Mina said as she held a phone in front of Blanc, Blanc sighed.

Minato looked over at Blanc "If you want, I'll take the books to the library. I still remember where it is from the last time I was here"

Blanc turns to Minato "You sure?" Minato nods and takes Blanc's share of the books and walks towards the library, however just as he pasted through the doors a large book fell down and hit him on his head causing him to stumble and nearly drop the books.

He heard giggling and looked to see Rom and Ram, with Ram pointing a figure at Minato while Rom had her eyes closed "Haha, got you again-"Ram stopped mid-sentence when she saw it wasn't her older sister that fell for the trap but rather Minato. Rom noticing Ram stopped laughing and looked at little worried looked over and saw Minato too, Rom also looked a little worried.

Minato seeing the twins smiled "Hello Rom, Ram. Do you two know where I can leave these books?" Rom and Ram looked at each other before pointing Minato to a nearby table, Minato replied "Thank you" before setting the books down. He then walked over to the book the fell on him and set it with the others.

Minato stepped towards the twins and bent down to eye level with them "Your sister will be over shortly, she just had a phone call she had to take" the twins nodded. Minato then stood up straight and looked around the large library before he looked at the twins "Just out of curiosity, do you girls read a lot of these books?" Minato asked as he looked around the library.

Rom shook her head "We read some of them, however Blanc reads them the most"

Ram nods her head "Yeah. We read with her sometimes, but we mostly play with each other to pass the time"

Minato nods his head, Blanc walks in and sees Minato looking around, Minato sees Blanc and points towards the books. Blanc nods as her sisters run over to her

Minato was about to leave when Blanc stopped him "Leaving already?"

Minato puts his hands in his pockets and answers "I don't want to over stay my welcome, and besides I want to get a start on the books I got"

Blanc was silent for a moment "If you want, feel free to stay and read some of your books here. It's the least I can do after you helped with the books. I offer you a place to read quietly"

Minato glance at Blanc "You sure?" Blanc nods, Minato smirked "Alright then" he took a seat and got one of his books from his armoury of the soul, which appeared in a small flash of light.

Rom's and Ram's eyes widen at the book appeared out of nowhere, they both walked over Ram asked "Hey! How'd do that?"

Minato looked and saw the two were shifting their view from the book to him clearly wondering how he did it, Minato couldn't help but smile at that.

Minato spent a good part of the day at Lowee's Basilicom reading books while sometimes showing off some of his power when the twins kept asking him to. When it started to get late he left Lowee and headed back to village twenty-two

Next day Leanbox

Minato was walking through Leanbox in his summer clothes listening to his mp3, as he turned a corner he bumped into someone who was running in his direction. When Minato looked to see who it was a girl with blue hair, wearing a black bikini top with a ruffled skirt with a pink belt and wearing headphones.

Minato offered her a hand which she took, as she got up Minato couldn't help but feel he seen her somewhere before.

The girl gave him a weary smile "Thanks and sorry, I wasn't looking were I was going" Minato smiled and nodded.

Suddenly they heard someone yell "I think she went this way!" suddenly the girl who bumped into Minato jumped slightly and ran down an alley that led to a dead end, seeing she ran into a dead end the girl tried to hide.

Seeing a group of people approaching him Minato stepped forward, walking past the alley, to the group of people, who Minato notice had a number of different cameras.

One of them asked Minato "Hey kid! Have you seen 5pb around here?"

Minato tilts his head to the side "Pink eyes, blue hair, wearing a pair of headphones?" everyone looks at him, he then pointed to a nearby restaurant "She ran in there, although she may have ran somewhere in the back" the mob ran into the restaurant, seeing this girl pokes her head out of her hiding spot. Minato turns and looks at her "I suggested you start moving now, chances are they'll be in there only for a few minutes" the girl nods.

The girl comes out "Thank you for your help, um..." she looks like she doesn't know how to continue

Minato smiles gentle "Minato Arisato, nice to meet you" the girl nods.

The girl bows slightly "I'm 5pb, nice to meet you too Minato".

Suddenly Minato hears footsteps behind him. He turns around and sees more people with cameras.

One of them pointed "there!"

Minato cursed under his breath, he turned towards the 5pb "Go, I'll then off as long as I can" the 5pb tried to protest but Minato said "Go!" the 5pb then started to run.

Minato stood in the way of the, he assumed, reporters "Why don't you people leave the girl alone, can't any of you see your troubling her?"

The reporters were about to rush pass him, as Minato was about to use the jack brothers to distract them, when one of them stopped, as did the rest, before asking Minato "I'm sorry but you look familiar. You wouldn't happen to be Minato Arisato would you?"

Minato raised an eyebrow "Yes, I am" the reporter smiled with glee, Minato could already tell he just made a giant mistake.

The report flashes his camera "I knew! You're the saviour of the Enlightened! How about a smile for the daily Green Dragon!"

Minato sound found himself surrounded by flashing cameras, thinking on his feet he used a weak guru spell to launch him into the air and out of the middle of reporters, the second he landed he ran with the reporters following him, little did Minato know was the earlier mob of reporters who ran into the restaurant came and in seeing the other mob of reporters decided to join them as well.

Running for a good minute Minato managed to break free from their line of sight, giving him a moment to think of what to do. Scanning his surroundings he notice a nearby store with a lot of people inside, deciding to duck and hide until the reporters were gone, Minato soon joined the crowd in the store trying to get further in. besides his was slightly curious about what all this people where here for.

Moving himself moves closer to the front he sees what the people were there for, a TV screen showing the title of a new game called 'Four Goddesses Origins: Tales of the Untold'.

Suddenly someone bumps into him, he looks and sees it's 5pb from earlier "Had the same idea huh" then 5pb looks at Minato and nods.

The T.V. shows a trailer for the game, a voice reads out the text that appears on the screen "After the great collide, the realms of divine, mortal and nether fused with one another. The resulting disaster destroyed everything and with the help of the goddesses the world of mortals were able to survive the against the nether. The knowledge of the worlds before the great collide was nearly all lost, but now the truth shall be revealed!"

The trailer shows a vast world map before its covered in light and split into three different maps "Journey through the ancient worlds as you try to stop the destruction of your world" the screen then shows a character customization screen "Make allies and enemies alike, remember every choice has a price, every action a cost" it then shows different scenes with multiple characters "And at the end learn the truth that the goddesses themselves have forgotten" it shows four women "But that's not all, after you complete the game connect with your four goddesses online account to receive special items and new side quests for both games!" it then showed two arrows going back in forth from two scenes "The time is now brave warriors! Four Goddesses Origins: Tales of the Untold' the screen then shows the title of the game before the crowd around Minato and 5pb roared with cheers, 5pb as a result moved closer to Minato.

Minato looked forward and to his surprise he saw Vert behind the counter "Alright now everyone! Please get in an orderly line to receive your game" After Vert said this the reporters from earlier were outside of the store trying to get inside, however since a number of reporters tried to push their way the gamers started to fight back.

Vert looked at the entrance to see the reporters trying to force their way in. She wouldn't just stand for it after all this was supposed to be a secret event allowed only for the lucky thirty 'Four Goddesses Online' players who managed to defeat a special event boss to get an invitation to the early release of the spin-off game of the series, she herself was excluded from it mostly because she was asked before the event to give the games to the winners and as payment she would get the game as well as all the gifts from the secret release and pre-order editions.

She was about to confront them when she heard one of them say "Let us in! 5pb is in here!" one of the others replied "What!? I thought the saviour of the Enlightened was in here!" Vert stopped and looked through the crowd and saw Minato and 5pb backing away from the reporters.

Vert stepped behind them and tapped their shoulders, as they turned around she put a finger over her lips to signal to them to keep quiet, she gesture for them to come with her to the back room.

As they entered the back of the store Vert turned to the two blue haired teens "Right then, can you please tell me what's going on?"

5pb lowered her head "I'm sorry this is my fault. I was going for a quick walk for some fresh air when all of a sudden a number of reporters showed up. They kept taking photos and asking me questions, at one point all the questions began to overlap and I couldn't make out what they were saying so I ran" Minato nods

Minato continued "She bumped into me, after helping her get away from the first mob of reporters a second came out of nowhere. I planned to distract them long enough for 5pb to get away but then ended up surrounding me like they did with her. After I got away I came in here to try to lose them, I met 5pb here again and the reporters followed us" 5pb nods

Vert sighs "I see, the two of you stay here while I'll handle it" Vert then immediately walks ahead of them and to the front of the store. All Minato and 5pb could hear was Vert saying "Leave now! And also stop pestering those two!" and the reporters answered back "Yes Lady Green Heart!" before the sound of multiple feet running away could be heard.

Vert comes back to the two "Don't worry they should leave you two alone for a while, but just in case Minato could you take 5pb to my Basilicom just to be on the safe side. I would go myself however I have a responsibility here to fulfil"

Minato nods "No problem, also thanks for the help Vert"

5pb nods as well "Thank you Lady Vert"

After that Minato and 5pb left and went to Leanbox's Basilicom, as they walked there Minato and 5pb talked with one another.

Apparently, according to 5pb, the reporters were after because of her recently released song. 5pb asked Minato why they were chasing him, Minato told her that he was the saviour of the Enlightened and that they most likely wanted to interview him.

5pb asked "But, if they did interview you wouldn't that help get people to join the Enlightened?"

Minato looked at 5pb. Her question was a completely valid one if he did do an interview they it would be possible for him to get more followers which would result in more faith energy and the more faith energy the sooner he could return to the seal before Erebus returned, however there was a problem. Minato answered "It depends mostly, some reporters would twist a person's words so they could sell more papers, have more people visit their website or anything that would get them more money or fame"

5pb went wide eyed "So they would just make something up about someone just make more money?"

Minato shrugged "Remember it's just some reporters who would do it. Some may have to though and may have no choice but to lie, but there are reporters who following what being a reporter is about and that is spreading absolute truth or reporting events with complete honesty. That's why I'm being careful who interviews me" 5pb nods

As they walked through the Basilicom doors Chika comes running "Oh, Vert I knew you'd come back early!" she looks at 5pb "Oh, 5pb it's been a while" she then looks at Minato "And you, what are YOU doing here?"

5pb answered for Minato "We both ran into trouble with reporters and Lady Vert helped us, she asked Minato accompany me here to be on the safe side"

Chika nods "Sounds like something my Vert would say" Chika than glanced "Thank you for escorting 5pb here. However since you're the saviour of the Enlightened, I wouldn't want to keep you from any important business you may have so feel free to leave at any time" Minato picking up on her empathise of the word decided to leave early.

Minato turned to 5pb "Actually there is something I need to take care of, will you be alright here for now?" 5pb nods. Minato turns to leave "Alright see ya later, hope to talk to you soon" Minato leaves Leanbox and returns to village twenty-two.

Village twenty-two

Minato walked through the door of the Hanoo residence and as he did he noticed Satomi was looking intensely of a few papers, he decided to walk over and to take a peek over her shoulder to look at the papers after a few seconds Minato asked "What are these Satomi?"

Satomi yelped and turned to look at Minato "Ah! Minato your back. I wasn't expecting you until later tonight"

Minato looked Satomi in the eyes "I decided to come back early, what are these papers anyway?"

Satomi picked a few paper "Oh, just a few papers regarding our group don't worry about it"

Minato then stood up straight "Satomi, from now on if there are any documents regarding the Enlightens current situation or future I would like it if you count me in it"

Satomi looked surprised at what Minato said "its okay Milord, you don't need to trouble yourself with paperwork. Just leave it to me"

Minato shook his head "I'm sorry Satomi, I can't do that. When I took the position of the Enlightens saviour I decided to take full responsibility of the position. That includes paperwork, besides I can't stand by while you bury yourself in work. So Satomi please"

Satomi blushed slightly "Alright then, there are a few things we could go over together with" Minato nodded, and so Minato and Satomi began work on the paper work together.

Later that night Minato was having a shower lost in his thoughts "Now they're all set up in case of an emergency" Minato thinks about the warp points he marked at each nations Basilicom in case of a sudden shadow attack, each warp point he either made when he was going to a Basilicom or leaving one. He then began to think about the CPU's "Even though they have divine powers, they're no different than ordinary girls, hmm the vessel of the divine and a human soul I wonder if that would be a good way to look at it"

Minato then stares out the bathroom window "Won't be long now till the shadows begin to move again"


Omake What Minato doesn't know won't hurt him

Satomi was listening to her headphones as she walked to the bathroom. As she opened the door she saw Minato taking a shower, however because of the steam she could only see his torso. She immediately closed the door, with a blank face, and walked into her room there her face went a deep crimson red and blood shot out of her nose like a waterfall.


Please teach me Mr Arisato and Miss Histoire!

Minato and Histoire stands in front of a classroom with the goddesses and their sisters in Gekkoukan uniforms from persona 3, however IF, Compa, NISA and 5pb are in the class too also in uniform.

Minato speaks first "Persona was originally a part of the Shin Megami Tensei (True Goddess Resurrection) series. Though Persona was spawned by this series it has gone on to be a series in its own right. You can tell persona come from the Shin Megami Tensei series if you look at the personas in the game and the creatures in Megami Tensei"

Histoire then spoke next "Hyperdimension Neptunia was at the start a crossover project between multiple game developers, such projects have been done before like Cross Edge and Trinity Universe. However so far the Neptunia series is the only one to have made a franchise for itself"

Both Minato and Histoire Bow "Thank you for your time and until the next lesson"


Omake Story reversed

Minato was running through Tartarus trying to find the large amount of people Fuuka see were on this floor. As soon as then entered Tartarus then got a signal showing a large number of lost ones, people who were taken/kidnapped by shadows, Minato was assigned to find them and get them out as the rest of SEES covered their escape.

As he turned a corner he saw a large shadow looming over a group of people, acting on instinct Minato fought and defeated the shadow. He turned around and saw every lost one was a girl, and to Minato it looked like they were cosplaying some anime characters.

Minato brought them to the entrance, the girls names were Neptune, Nepgear, Plutia, Noire, Uni, Blanc, Rom, Ram, Vert, Peachy, IF, Compa, NISA, Gust, 5pb, Red, Falcom, Cave, MAGES, Broccoil, MarvolesAQL, Cyberconnect2, Tekken and Rei Rights.

Little did Minato know he was about to have another problem on his plate, besides climbing a hellish nightmare tower at night and having a social life by day, he had to keep an eye on these group of girls who were going to be dependent on him and SEES until they can get rid of the dark hour.

Not to mention they still had to deal with Nyx and suddenly there's another goddess named Arfoire to deal with.


hello everyone here is the next chapter sorry for the wait

Minato's Lily rank with the girls

Neptune likes

Nepgear likes

Noire likes

Uni neutral

Blanc neutral

Rom neutral

Ram neutral

Vert neutral

Histoire Likes / trusts

Kei neutral

Mina neutral

chika cautions

IF likes

Compa likes

NISA neutral

5pb likes

i'm not too familiar with the lily system so pm me their ranks if you know them please

sadly i have bad new, i'm taking a break from this story for a bit. i swear i will not abandon this fic i just want to try writing other stuff to refresh my self, i will finish this story so please wait

also what would the arcana be for each Neptunia characters if they were given socail links for example

Neptune - Magician

Noire - Empress

Blanc - Strength

Vert - Temperance

try and think what the other girls arcana would be

also check my profile for my other story ideas

till then see ya

(angel turns around to see Minato and the entire cast of Hyper dimension Neptunia glaring at him, angel laughs nervously before spreading his wings and getting away from them)