Chapter 3: Time for a walk
After the CPUs accepted Nico and Raven as a Gamindustri residents last time, they returned home respectively. The boys were told by Nepgear that they're allowed to use a spare room inside Neptower to stay. Night time has arrived, Compa cooks some food for everyone. Eggplants curry as a main dish, beef steaks, potatoes, salads as side dish. IF brings an orange juice and some sodas. Then everyone sit down on the dining chairs.
"A toast for Nick-nick and Ravy, as a new residents of Gamindustri." Compa while holding a glass of juice.
*Toast*
"Everyone, thank you very much. We owe you a lot now." Nico bow to them.
"Ah, there you go again. Don't worry about it, we're family now. So nobody owe each other here." Neptune who sit beside him, pat his shoulder
"Family eh.." Nico with gentle look on him.
"Now now, save the chat for later or the foods will get cold. Let's eat, shall we?" IF while sharing the foods.
They went eating, Nico said that Compa is good at cooking and would make a good wife. But somehow Compa just stared back with confused look. Either she didn't hear that or doesn't know what Nico means.
"Nep-nep, eat the eggplants too. It's good for your body and your skin." Nico look at her.
"Ermm.. I'll save it for later.. I guess.." Neptune put it aside.
"Hmm?"
"Nep-nep is weak when it's related to eggplant desu." Compa smiled.
"Ah, Compa! Why you tell them my biggest weakness!?"
"Ohoo.. Weak against eggplant huh?" a dark aura start come out Nico's body
"Nepu!" Neptune flinched.
"*Evil chuckles*.. Nep-nep.. here~ say aaahn~" Nico pick Neptune's eggplant with his fork, and slowly give Neptune like want to feed her with it.
"Nepuuu! Get it away from me!"
"Don't play with food." Raven with his chop attack to Nico's head.
"Ouch! Ahaha... I'm just joking around, Ravy." Nico eat the eggplant.
"Seriously..." Raven continue eating.
After done with dinner, Raven go help Compa by washing the dishes while Nico and Neptune play some game called Ultra Monkey Balls. IF and Histoire having a chat about works and stuff.
"What time is it?" Nico looking around.
"9:56 PM, why?" Neptune look at him.
"I and Ravy should go to sleep then. It's getting late and we're so tired after what happened today."
"Eeeh?! But we still have time for.."
"Nepko, Nico is right. Let them take a rest, and you still got time tomorrow. I and Compa should get going too. Let's go, Compa. Have a good night everyone." IF and Compa leave the living room.
"Just like she said, Neptune. We still got time tomorrow. You should go sleep too, even Nepgear is already asleep right now. Let's go Ravy, and good night Nep-nep." Neptune then headed to her room, Nico and Raven also went to their room. There're two single beds on the room, and a wardrobe. The room still spacy though, can fit a few more person, and there're extra beds too, and also a inside bathroom. Nico sits on his bed, and Raven lie down on his bed.
"Ravy, should we ask them about our phones tomorrow? They know this place better than us, and maybe they can help us fixing it."
"Why should we? It's not really that important. I don't care about it anyway."
"Well.. It contains our times when we still on Earth. Pictures between you and me, with each family, and friends.."
"Cut it off Nico, you know that I don't want to remember it all again..."
"..sorry... But, quite the day, isn't it Ravy? We traveled to another dimension, met a superhuman girl, monsters, learn about their culture(?), even we can do the impossible things too like casting a skills. Just like a RPG game should be." Raven has slept quietly, ignoring Nico. "Ah.. He asleep already. I should too now. Good night pal." Nico lie down and sleep.
The next day, inside Neptower.
"Iffy, morning. Do you have a moment?" Nico and Raven approach IF.
"Ah, morning both of you. What is it?" IF was busy her phone.
"Is there any store around here that can fix a phone? Our phones got broken when we landed in the forest last time." Nico shows it.
"Hmm.. There should be one on the Planeptune, but it's not the best compared to the Lastation's. You okay with that?"
"Yup, we're okay with it."
"Alright, I'm gonna tell the girls that we're going out for a bit." IF then went to the others. A few minutes later, she back, bringing more people with her. "Umm.. Seems like everyone want to go with us too. Histoire will stay to watch the Basilicom for us."
"Not fair, you guys want to go shopping without us." Neptune pouting.
"Onee-chan, she said that they'll go out to phone store." Nepgear tried to correct her as usual.
"Nep Jr., this is the chance for us to look for information about Earth dimension."
"... Don't you just want to escape from your works, that have been piling up on your desk?" Nico sneer at her. He saw it in the living room yesterday apparently.
"That's just your imagination, I done all of them already."
"Ohh, as expected from you, Nep-Nep. Good wo.."
"Neptune-san! Who said you could go out!? Get back here and do your work properly!" Histoire voice can be heard down the hall.
"..." everyone went quite for a few seconds, looking at Neptune.
"A-Alright everyone, let's go before it's too late." Neptune's lead the party to the elevator.
As they leave the Neptower, Neptune got scolded by IF for five minutes but later calmed down by Compa. Then they arrived at the main entrance of the shopping district.
"And here we are, the futuristic looking shopping district." Nico amazed.
"Okay, you guys can go anywhere you like. But remember to meet here again in two hours." IF stand beside Nico.
"Alright. Nepgear, let's go to there. Maybe you'll find something you like." Neptune holds Nepgear's hand while pointing at a some stores.
"Huh? Together.. with.. Onee-chan..?" Nepgear surprised that her big sister wanted to go together with her.
"Mmhm~ let's go." Neptune smiled.
"Okay." Nepgear nod. "It's been a while for us to be together alone like this." she smiled as they walk away from the group.
"Well then, I'll go buy some ingredients for our foods and items." Compa went alone.
"Okay, take care of yourself Compa. Let's go too, you two." the boys nodded.
At the nearest phone store.. Well, there's only one actually. Nico, Raven, and IF currently negotiating with the store manager in a room. IF has known the manager apparently. They sat down, and Nico put the phones on the table.
"So Mister, can these phones fixed as soon as possible?" IF ask the manager.
"Hmm.. I never seen these kind of phones before.. so it might take a while for us to fix them. And in top of that, we need to take care the other customers too. There's a lot of them." the manager was about to reject their request.
"Wait.. We will do anything for you in exchange of making us as a VIP? Maybe an errand or chores." said Nico.
"Hmm.." the manager close his eyes, went back to thinking over it again.
"Please, I'm begging you.." Nico continue.
"... Well then. I got a mission for you." the manager looking at the group, "We're lack of some materials right now, I need you to go get it for us. There should be a chest deep inside 'Planeptune Alley', filled with the materials we need. It's belong to us before we got raid by some R-4 Custom on our way back to the city. We don't know what they gonna do with it, but I want it back as soon as possible. The faster you done it, the faster you get your phones fixed." the manager stand up after he finished speaking.
"Just that? Easy peasy then. We'll do it for you. Deal." Nico stand up too and then shake hands with the manager. The group then leave the store.
"So, I guess we do the mission right after we regroup with the others then?" Nico crossing his arms.
"Not yet. You boys gonna need better equipments for this mission. We'll meet with my acquaintance that maybe can help getting you a weapons. He's the owner of weapon shop in this shopping area. The place not so far from here, just around that block." then IF lead the boys to the weapon store. They make a turn at the corner, and then start walking again. They can see the store sign with sword and gun make a cross, and a shield as a background. They enter the weapon store, and they met a big and tall muscular guy, stand behind the counter. Nico and Raven suddenly shrunk. His intimidation aura is way too big for them.
"Yo, Kazama. Long time no see." IF look at him.
"Ah, IF-chan. Welcome back. Yeah, it's been a while since we met last time. So, what brings you here? Usually if you need some weapon, you prefer it's delivered instead of coming here." Kazama smiled.
"Just looking for a weapons, but not for me, for them. Anyway, Nico, Raven, he is the owner of this store, Kazama."
"Ah.. Umm.. Nice to meet you. M-My name is Nico. And he is Raven." He speak formally. Raven glaring at Nico for bought him too.
"Ahahaha! They're so funny. Usually, people would run right away after they saw me, But these two? They got nerve. I respect both of you. I hope we'll be a good friend." now they know that the big guy is the owner.
Well.. Actually we want to run away so bad too.. And of course they'll run, you're too scary. Nico think.
"So, what kind of weapons you guys need?"
"Hmm.. We need a gun and a scythe, cheap and high durability one, and do a nice damage to monsters." said Nico.
"A cheap, durable, and nice damage.. Gun and a scythe.. Naah.. We got none like that on the list. Most of weapons with high damage relatively expensive." Kazama looking at the screen behind counter, scrolling the list.
"Kazama, What about the non listed weapon? I know you still got more than this. We need it right now." IF with serious look.
"... Come with me." Kazama lead the group to a corridor, and there's one door at the end of the corridor.
"Hmm.. The code for the storage should be this one..." Kazama said while pushing a keypad planted beside the door. Some machinery sound behind the door can be heard. Kazama said that there're multiple rooms, and it need a certain codes in order to get the correct room.
*Beep*
"Alright, come in." Kazama open the door and they all go inside the room. The room is filled with a lot of weapon racks. Starting from the small size weapons until the huge size that impossible to wield with human strength. "And here we are, feel free to look around while waiting for me to get a weapons for both of you."
"Thanks Mr. Kazama." Nico bow.
"Hahaha, drop the honorific already." Kazama then walk away.
"Say, Iffy.. How long have you known him? And are you scared when you met him the first time too?" Nico ask IF, Raven nodded.
"It's been a while, I think around two years. The first time I met him, I wasn't scared at all. When I entered the store, I saw him and he got scary look. But when he saw me, he suddenly blushed and his look became happy and smiled a lot. He's so kind toward me all the time, and he even said to me once that he wanted to keep me as his sister and called him Onii-chan." IF with troubled smile.
Lolicon!? Nico and Raven think the same.
As they keep talking, Kazama come back to them.
"I guess I got what you guys want. The first is a lever-action shotgun, called Manchester M1887. It was made by J. Browner and only 34 of them were produced. It shoots an energy bullet and also does a nice damage. But the downside of it, it needs to be recharged every shot by pulling the lever. The second is the scythe, which was used by someone called Daemon Blake. There're rumors about him that he was a powerful and dangerous illusionist. He sold the scythe before he died to a blacksmith. However, the scythe's head was reshaped by him in order to enhance the durability and it's power. And then the scythe bought by a traveler, bla bla bla, and it ended up in here. It might look normal, but it does a nice damage, nearly equal compared to the M1887. Here, both of you." Kazama handed the shotgun to Nico, and the scythe to Raven.
"Wow.. How much we need to pay? Both of these don't look cheap at all to us." Nico ask. they also checking out the weapon they just got.
"They're the cheapest weapons I have in my store. The total is 1.3 Million credits. But, since it was for my IF-chan's sake, I'll let you guys have it for free." Kazama grinned.
"Holy mother of cats! Really?!" Nico's eyes widening as he heard Kazama's statement, and Kazama nodded. "Sweet!"
"Thanks a lot." finally.. Raven start speaking again. He was way too quiet in this chapter.
You have received the following item(s):
- Manchester M1887
- Daemon's Scythe
"So, where should I put it? I would become a criminal if I bring this around publicly." Nico asked.
"Just hold it behind your body, or maybe like how you put a weapon on your backpack. The system planted in the weapon will store it for you and memorize you as their owner. And if you want to use the weapon, put your hand behind your body again and get your finger ready like holding your weapon. For a quick draw, just pull it out from behind with your fingers ready. Give it a try." long explanation from Kazama. Nico and Raven put their weapon on their back. Suddenly, it went into a particle of codes, and then vanished.
It does! Woow, this world is amazing! I might get addicted to this. Nico think.
"Thank you Kazama. Now, let's go Nico, Raven." IF smiled at Kazama. He blushed. The group once again thanked Kazama for his kindness, and then left the store, heading to the main entrance of the shopping district. When the three arrived, Neptune, Nepgear, and Compa were sitting on a bench nearby.
"Sorry we're late. Did we made you guys wait too long?" said IF.
"It's okay desu. We just got here few minutes ago too." Compa smiled.
"Ah, yes. Nep-nep, we got a mission! It's about collecting some items from monsters in 'Planeptune Alley' dungeons." Nico looked a bit serious this time.
"Huh? We also got a mission similar to yours, right Nepgear?" Neptune surprised, then look at Nepgear. Nepgear nodded.
"Compa-san, you too?" Nico turn, facing Compa.
"Yes." She also nodded.
"Coincidence? But I think it's a bit weird that they got raid in the same place. Something must be up.." IF looks worried.
"Don't worry Iffy. This must be a call for me, as a CPU of Planeptune!" Neptune's eyes sparkling.
More likely, a reminder for you to do your job properly. The others think like that.
"I guess we should head there as soon as possible. IF, Compa, both of you should go back to the Basilicom, let us handle it. And bring the shopping bags for us too, okay~" Neptune is ready to go.
"You sure about this Nepko? Maybe we should go together after we drop our bags at home." IF asked.
"Don't worry, I told you we can handle it easily."
"Okay, but don't get to cocky alright." after that, IF and Compa went home
"Let's go, Nep Jr., Nicky, Ravy." Neptune lead the group, heading to 'Planeptune Alley'.
Sorry to make you guys waiting. I'll try to reschedule my time, so I can work on the fanfic too and publish it as soon as I can. If you got any question, feel free to ask by sending me a PM.
Omake.
"... Come with me." Kazama lead the group to a corridor, and there's one door at the end of the corridor.
"Hmm.. The code for the storage should be this one..." Kazama said while pushing a keypad planted beside the door. Some machinery sound behind the door can be heard. Kazama said that there're multiple rooms, and it need a certain codes in order to get the correct room.
*Beep*
"Alright, come in." Kazama open the door. They can see from outside that the room is filled with a lot of anime posters, minifigures, a few dakimakuras can be seen, a computer beside the bed, and also there's a human-size doll, resemble to a girl named Asuza from J-On! anime. Kazama slammed the door quickly.