INTERMISSION!
Something will happen before Noble can go to LoWee, the next destination.
And that thing is… ARFOIRE!
HYPERDIMENSION NEPTUNIA:
FIGHTING FOR THE GAMING FUTURE
WARNING! INTERMISSION: Arfoire, the Graveyard Witch
Heh, funny feeling that someone's following me, I was just heading for LoWee, Blanc's place, when I was middle-way, I felt someone was kind of coming along without being invited.
"OK, what's your bullcrap? Get out, I know you're following me!" I said to no one in particular.
"Eh? But I thought humans couldn't see witches?" A voice of a girl toned in "Oh well, guess you caught me."
"Witch huh?" I turned around to find…
If THAT is a witch, then I might confuse her for a CPU or something, because she looked DROP DEAD GORGEOUS. Except that… She was pale.
"Eh?" I made the noise in confusion
"What is it?"
"Are you OK? You look very pale." The woman just facepalmed in response.
"Of course I'm OK. And of course I'm powerful!"
"I never asked if you were powerful." She just did a classic anime style drop.
"*sigh* You're… something else…" She comments "Anyway, I cannot let you proceed."
"Why? Are you gonna fill the way with monsters?" I mock her
"No, I'll stop you myself!" She gets on her fighting stance.
…Something tells me this girl is WICKED.
(Play here: Call Shot – gvgkid Remix)
The woman launches at me with a swinging attack, but I avoid it and hit her 6 times. She does two swings, I dodge them and punch her in the face to send her back
"HEY! I JUST GOT A NEW MAKE-UP!" She shouts.
"Sorry! In fighting you have to mess everything up!" She's angry, I can tell, she now is swinging her spear like crazy around me, but I avoid all these swings and do some hits of my own; some hit, some are blocked. Then I go for two moves, I grab her and throw her to the other side, then I use one of the special attacks I got from fighting games.
"KURAE! (Take This!)" I shout then punch upwards, after that, a series of kicks and "ORAs" follows until I spin around and hit her stomach with flaming hands "SHINRYUKEN!" I got this one from a classic: Street Fighter IV.
"What the hell was that?!" The witch shouts
"An upward flaming fist, try that one on yourself!" I then roundhouse kick, countering her attack, we were about to hit ourselves when a hammer stopped us.
Wait… White Heart!
"Are you ok, Noble?!"
"Never better! Just fighting this crazy witch or something."
"THE NAME'S ARFOIRE! STOP CALLING ME A WITCH! [Even though I am one]" The woman shouts, hmm… I've heard some stories of a witch called Arfoire around LaStation and LeanBox, I guess this is the girl.
She is now swinging her spear on a circle, heading towards us, White Heart also spins in a circle and stops her movements, making her dizzy. That was our chance.
"White Heart, follow me!" I run to Arfoire and do various kicks and punches, then I use a Tatsumaki Senpuu Kyaku to launch Arfoire to White.
"Now it's my turn!" White says, she then hits Arfoire with her hammer until she launches her upwards, then her special proceeds. "Hammer…" She punches the hammer into Arfoire until they reach the ground in a great force. "SMASH!".
That finished her.
"Grr… You haven't seen the last of me!"
"Yeah, yeah, shut up!" I say to her, then I pull off my finisher.
"Now you better not challenge me again!" I raise a leg, then I hit her twice. "Hade ina!" I spin around on my legs, then with my left leg, I jump to her and performed my critical. "GUREN ENJINKYAKU!" I do a flaming Tatsumaki Senpuu Kyaku then I hit her face with so much force, that when my leg got off, she got launched very far away.
(A/N: The Guren Enjinkyaku is Ken's Critical Art for Street Fighter V)
"I'LL HAVE MY REVEEEEEEEENGE!" She shouts while flying away.
What's going on with me? There are too many Street Fighter references in this intermission! (Arfoire's shout is Juri's K.O. cry in SSF4/USF4)
Oh well… maybe it's because I really like the fighting game franchise.
"She's… formidable." Noble commented "But not as formidable as you four."
"Um… Thanks? I think…" Blanc said "Where were you going again?"
"I was heading for LoWee, your place, when this witch tried to stop me."
"We'll explain what she's trying later, for now, come with me and enjoy your trip." Blanc said, but somehow, there was a tone of worry on her voice… maybe this Arfoire is a bigger threat than I thought…
Oh well, I'll just walk with her to LoWee… I still don't know what's going on, but after these trips, I hope everything can be explained.
Since it's just an Intermission, this chapter is short. Expect a longer one when Noble arrives on LoWee.