AUTHOR NOTES:
Yo! Middonaito here! Ahaha! Oh man. Just wanna reply to two reviews that I got:
Email to JustUsingARandomName:
Ahaha! You see, I wanted to put a Nekopara reference into the story, since Noble is referred here as well. Yeah, changing Minaduki to Minazuki. Not the best original reference I've made (slow sarcastic clapping in the background, thank you very much), but hey. At least, I pulled it off well. XD
Email to thespectator26:
Thanks for the compliment, bro. Appreciate it. :)
Well, that's enough Nepping around. Let's get it on!
/ MIDDOSTATION ENDS HERE
9:30 pm. Ugh... What happened?
Oh right. I got hit by a book. I touch my forehead for any blood. Oh, thank God I'm not bleeding.
I don't understand. Why did everything float? It still gives me a headache.
I look at my computer, and... Oh what luck...
My CPU is safe, but my LED monitor... Not that much.
"Well, it's a good thing mom's giving me a million yen. If I just clicked on the link..."
Wait, did the paranormal thing happened because I clicked the link? Nah, don't be paranoid, Minamoto. So I've been out for an hour and a half. Hope there's no burglar that took the chance to raid my house...
*cup breaking*
Guess not. I take the book, which is nearby, and while holding it tightly, I slightly open the door.
My room is close to the kitchen, and that's where I swore I heard the breaking sound.
"Wow, never thought Earth's technology was quite primitive," a voice remarked. Earth technology? Primitive? Eh? Did...
DID ALIENS COME TO INVADE?!
No, no, keep your calm, Minamoto, you know aliens don't exist. They're just figments of the science fiction authors' imagination. At least I hope so. I hold on to the book tightly. I'm quite scared...
"Pudding? Where are you?" a ditzy voice called out. What? They're in my house for pudding?! What kind of burglar goes after pudding?! Ah wait, that Japanese... I... wait... if I take the mail seriously...
A thought cloud popped up, first showing the mail from HIST, and after analyzing HIST over and over, I get an image of a certain fairy.
Oh... Is... This...
I've read stories about dimension hopping. I thought it's just imaginary.
What if...
What if...
"Is anyone there?"
AHHHH!
THUD!
I get stuck in a kind of seizure... I... can't think straight...
Sight... going dim...
Third Person:
Minamoto gets stuck in a seizure, and it seems like the book actually wounded him, though not fatally.
The ditz take notice of the poor guy and calls out a friend. A girl with peach hair and orange eyes pop up. The shorter blonde girl, a brown-haired girl, and another lilac-haired girl with them just looked away while the peach-haired girl wraps the poor protagonist's eyes with a gauze and tape.
Let's just get back to Minamoto's POV please. It's hard not to spoil.
Minamoto's POV
Ugh... Why did I get a seizure? Oh right. I got startled by a voice.
Wait, why can't I move? And why is my sight a dirty white color?
I know. I'm dead, right? I never thought my life would be so short... I had hoped that I would have a family, have 2 kids, settled down, and die a grandpa. Guess not.
Oh, what a logical way to die. Like that guy in Konosuba, but instead of dying because I thought I got hit by a truck, I died because of a jumpscare. I'm such an idiot. Well, I hope my mom finds my corpse after the burglars raid my home. T_T
"You okay, mister? Mister~?" a high-pitched voice said. Hey, I'm having my moment here. Not yet, guardian angel.
"*sigh* I feel sorry for you," a tomboyish voice remarked. What? Why do you feel sorry for me? Because I'm dead?
Wait, I can still feel a pulse. I'm still alive? Does that mean I got all melodramatic for nothing. Ugh... I wanna die.
"I'll just rip it off, hold still now," the tomboyish voice said to me. Hold still? What does she mean by-
*shhick*
Ah...
"AHHHHHHH! MY EYES! MY EYES!"
Well, not really my eyes, but the skin around my eyes. But it feels like hell!
"Nani no ittai?!" I blurted out, teary-eyed from the pain. So painful that I didn't bother to translate what I said into English!
"Ah, sorry, it was sudden!"
"Why did you do that, Iffy?! Now look at poor mister here!"
Huh? Iffy? Oh, it occurred to me that I... may have summoned the Neptunia characters out of the fourth wall. I gotta see it to believe it, though... Must be another of my stupid conspiracy theories…
Ugh, my vision is all blurry and bright as hell. Sheesh, it's because of the tears (stupid manly tears). I open my right eye.
I... can make out a girl wearing a pink sweater... and another girl wearing an oversized blue coat... I try to rub my eyes, just to try to clear my vision. It's really painful still.
And...
"Are you okay now, mister?" Compa said.
"Ah, can you see correctly now?" And there's IF.
Uh... Uhhh...
*crickets*
"AAAAAHHHHHH!"
I suddenly shout at what I see. "H-H-H-HOW?! WHAT?!"
"I think mister here is having a seizure again!"
"I-I-I'M NOT HAVING A SEIZURE! WHY AND HOW ARE YOU TWO HERE?!"
"What do you mean?"
"YOU TWO!" I hysterically point my pointing finger at them.
The girls look at each other, then the pink sweater girl says, "Hi, I'm Compa, a nurse-in-training. Hope you'll take care of me and my friends."
I still gave out a doubting yet confused face, and switching my attention to the brown-haired girl, she began to introduce herself too, "Hi there. The name's IF. Glad to meet you."
"LIKE HELL I'M GLAD TO MEET YOU! Ow!"
I feel up my forehead, and noticed that there's a bandage on the right side of my forehead. "Why do I have a bandage on?"
Compa then enthusiastically answered, "We found you in an epileptic state with an acute bleeding, so we brought you up here, on your bed."
I look around, and yes, it is my room. The PC with the busted monitor is there, my CPU is still alive, and I'm resting on my own bed. "Since when did I pass out?"
"I think it was about 30 minutes ago."
So it's 10 pm now. Huh, this is quite a day.
"So, um, IF and Compa, how did you guys get here? I do know you guys, and I know that you are from another dimension. So, what gives?!"
"You'll know once Nep, Gear and Histy are here."
"So, the ones I heard making a ruckus in my kitchen were Neptune, Nepgear and Histoire?"
"Eh?! How'd you know their names?" Compa asks me. Well, it is obvious.
"You see, here, you guys are video game characters..."
I do feel awkward now, since I didn't talk to girls when I was still in school. It's summer, actually, so I've been busy making videos. I didn't think I'd talk to IF and Compa in person. The featured word of the day: Wow.
Then, I start to get up. Wobbling a bit, but I manage to recover. "So..."
"Where are those three, you ask? Come on..." IF tells me.
Something tells me that my life has drastically changed... And it's NOT for the better.
"I told you not to mess with another person's stuff..."
"Aww... But he wouldn't mind, right? I mean, who can deny this cute little face of mine..."
"Goodness, sis, please listen to Histy..."
I take notice of the conversation in my living room and I hide for a while. IF asked, "Why are you hiding?"
"Uh... I don't want to interrupt their conversation... That or I know of Histy's wrath..."
Okay, so for the appearance of the three, Nep's still old Nep, with the hoodie dress, D-pad clips, sky blue and white stockings, and that ditzy face of hers. Gear is also the same long haired girl wearing one D-pad clip, a seifuku with a yellow ribbon, and I take notice of the N-Gear at the belt wrapped around her right thigh. Histy... Well... Not the same old one, and with that, I mean, she's totally human now. Short blonde, but she still wears her outfit as a Planeptune Oracle. I think to myself, "If you look at them like normal girls, you'd really fall in love with their appearances... If you really like 2D girls, at least..."
I also take note of the book that hit me. Maybe this is Histy's tome...
"See, this guy has me in a picture, I'm sure he won't mind if..."
I suddenly get out of hiding, "What the heck are you doing with my physical copy of Mega Nep V2?! That thing is a hell of a game to buy, woman! Don't make me earn a hell lot of money again!"
"Nepu!"
"Oh, it seems he's fine now. Let us introduce ourselves, my name's Histoire."
"I-I'm Nepgear..."
"Main heroine of this fanfiction, Nep-Nep!"
"Sure... This is not a fanfic though... And I mean if this was, this is garbage..."
"Woah, slow down there Masteralz-kun! You're injuring my dignity here, dammit!" Author Middonaito shouted in anger.
I clear my throat. Yep. NOT for the better, but I kinda hear those guys screaming at me for having five girls in my home. Yikes.
"Well, I'm Minamoto Minazuki, and may I ask... Why are you people here?"
The five stare at each other. Oh man, here comes the cliche bad backstory...
"We are just here for a study of your dimension..."
Oh. That was anti-climatic. But.
"But that email said you guys need MY help... What did that mean?"
"It meant we need you to be our host! For the Planeptune group!"
What. Hey, this doesn't make any sense.
"But, won't you... you know... since there aren't any people believing in you?"
"Nah, this dimension's people's feelings towards us is enough!" Guess who said that.
"*sigh* Dammit! All of this doesn't make sense! Oh..."
I get an idea.
"Huh?"
"I'm gonna need help and I'm getting advice!" then I show them a picture of him. You know who.
"Why are you..."
I sigh and turned around. "I'm getting advice from Noble. Don't worry. "
And I walk to my room. I take out a temporary monitor. The old-fashioned kind. Okay... There we go...
I Tweet to him.
Noble, I need your help. [picture attachment]
Hope he gets...
Oh, he's calling through Skype? Wah?
*click*
"Ahem, Mr. Noble... I need you to do me a favor..."
Ren's POV
Ugh... Why? Just why? How did I even survive that explosion?! Damn virus email...
"Uh... Big bro?" Tomoka peeked in.
"If it's about the computer, so sorry, sis!"
"No... Some strangers are here..." my face turned pale.
"Wah?! Why did you let strangers in?!"
Tomoka then nervously answered, "But... I didn't... They somehow appeared out of nowhere..."
Out of nowhere?!
"*sigh* Alright..."
I take out a baseball bat. Better hope those baseball lessons I got could help me.
I went out of the family computer room. And went to the living room... And...
"N-no way..."