All right, so here's another chapter. All flashback again, so nothing really happens. It's about Momoka!
Wow. A Momoka centric chapter. Don't get used to it.
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Many Years ago before it was public knowledge that Fuyuki was in charge of the Harvest...
Momoka clutched a letter to her heart before putting it in a mailbox. It was another letter to Tamama about how things were going between her and Fuyuki.
The day that she had suggested to Fuyuki that the two of them get married for political reasons to align their interests had been the happiest day of her life, because Fuyuki had accepted. She had believed that he'd love her and the two of them would live happily ever after.
But life wasn't a fairy tale. It was becoming apparent to her that Fuyuki might have some hidden motivation for bringing the world to a better age and for pretty much becoming the person in charge of the planet. He also seemed more evil... more dark than she had been first led to believe.
The Nishizawa Corporation's had mysteriously disappeared as if something had taken them out. She heard that their buildings collapsed, killing all their workers. She didn't want to suspect Fuyuki, but he seemed so unsurprised by her rivals being gone. So... okay with it.
No... he couldn't have been responsible, she told herself. Fuyuki wasn't a murderer. He was the sweetest and kindest person she had ever known.
She had always loved his kindness.
But still... she suspected deep in her heart. So whenever she wrote Tamama about how things were going between Fuyuki and her, she lied. She told him of the happiness she was feeling and the attention he was lavishing on her and the love they felt for each other.
Really, that was all an exaggeration. Although they were engaged, he still acted pretty shy around her. She had kissed him maybe a total of six times. And none of them had been very long.
He seemed constantly distracted by his work instead of her. She knew he was busy, but still... They were engaged! He should at least take her out on a few dates or act kind of romantic.
This was just kind of nit-picky stuff. She knew Fuyuki was overloaded with work, and she knew eventually he'd come to love her.
She was the one he was marrying, after all. He must have cared about her enough to accept that.
I'll stick by him no matter what. I am his future wife, she reminded herself as she saw Fuyuki become more and more powerful politically. The Nishizawa empire was backing him, so of course he'd become powerful.
Still... she didn't want to tell Tamama what she was truthfully mad about.
"Fuyuki! I need to talk to you about that thing... You know. Progress has been going well." Mois greeted Fuyuki in the hallway as Momoka clung to his arm.
"Really? That's great news," Fuyuki beamed. Mois tapped her foot impatiently, as if waiting for Momoka to let go so she could borrow Fuyuki.
"Fuyuki and I have to go to dinner. It's an extravagant night for just the two of us." Momoka tried to be formal, to tell her of the press of time, but a hiss escaped her mouth. Mois always tried to steal Fuyuki away.
"Momoka... I'm sure that can wait until later. I think Mois and I probably have some business to tend to. Is that all right?" Fuyuki asked, choosing Mois over their plans again. He always did that.
Momoka deflated. She was finally going to have Fuyuki to herself, and Mois had to ruin it. "Yes... of course. Business is important," she told him, trying to give him whatever he wanted and to be the perfect wife.
Fuyuki nodded and left with Mois.
I know he and Mois are close... They've been close ever since Keroro's death. I think they're both mourning it together, but... Why can't he let me in on the secrets between them, too? Why won't he let me share the same things he and Mois share? Momoka couldn't help but be a little jealous.
But she knew Fuyuki was just trying to cope with Keroro's death. She had to respect his grief and keep away until he was ready to finally talk to her.
What she really wanted to write to Tamama about was Angol Mois. But she couldn't let him know.
How do I tell him I suspect his love rival is stealing MY boyfriend, too? He'd want to tear her even more from limb to limb for me, and that she's moved on so quickly from Keroro... Momoka wanted someone to talk to, but she knew it would be too hard for Tamama to deal with.
She decided maybe it would be best to just confront the source of the problem. Angol Mois. If she asked what Mois's intentions with Fuyuki were, if she was interested in him, she could tell her she was Fuyuki's fiancee and he was already hers instead of Mois's.
I'll just tell her clearly Fuyuki's my man and she should take her claws off him! Momoka felt quite pleased with her plan and went to Mois's room in the late evening. She knocked on the door to talk to her.
"Just a second!" Mois's voice called. After a few moments, the girl stepped outside, before quickly shutting the door behind her, so Momoka couldn't see her room.
Momoka was shocked to see Mois dressed in a robe that she had clearly thrown on to talk to whoever was bothering her. Her hair was a shiny tangled mess, like someone's hands had recently been in it, and her skin shined in a way that made Momoka know exactly what she had interrupted.
Oh no... She and Fuyuki were having sex. This idea hadn't occurred to Momoka before. She had thought Mois was interested in him, but didn't consider that they were already having an affair. That Fuyuki's distance and lack of interest in her was because he already had someone who was satisfying him on the side.
Momoka felt heartbroken at this realization, as Mois just looked at her, confused. "Is there something you need, Momoka? Do you need me to go get Fuyuki?" She could tell the girl was sad.
"No!" Momoka hissed. She knew Mois would have to go back into her room to retrieve Fuyuki. She didn't want to see the person she loved come out of her love rival's room. "It's... It's all right..." Tears sprinkled out of her eyes. She turned away. "You can get back to what you were doing."
"Okay." Mois left her there. And Momoka ran off to cry.
She cried into her hands for hours, but tried to calm herself after her tears were all dried up. He might be cheating on me... But it's me he's marrying. Not her. He'll... someday grow to love me. It'll just take a while, Momoka realized.
She just had to wait patiently, wishing she could have been able to relate to Fuyuki in the way Mois could.
She couldn't talk to Tamama about Fuyuki and Mois, but she could talk to one person, who she was sure was going through something similar to her - Kululu.
"Why can't we be the most important person to them? To Fuyuki and Mois? Why do they have to understand each other and be such good partners to each other?" Momoka asked jealously and absentmindedly as she was meeting with Kululu in a business meeting about the Nishizawa company. She had started mass-producing his inventions to help Fuyuki take over the universe, hoping Fuyuki would be impressed.
"Huh?" Kululu looked up, confused that she was talking to him. He didn't really want to hear her sob story.
"Why do they have to like each other more than us?" Momoka asked.
"Wh-why are you asking me?" Kululu stuttered. "I just work for them. I'm not engaged to one of them like you are, ku ku ku!"
"Well, I know you're into Mois super bad. It's pretty obvious by how loyal you are to her," Momoka defended. "So why is Fuyuki so important to her? Why can't it be you? Why can't Fuyuki share secrets and business with me like he does with her?" she asked.
Kululu didn't want her to start crying all over him. He looked rather awkward. "It's because at the present moment Fuyuki and Mois understand each other better than we can. They offer each other support in ways we can't understand," he explained.
"Because of Keroro's death." It all came back down to Keroro. Momoka hadn't been close to him, but Tamama had been. She looked down. So Fuyuki was with Mois because she understood the loss of Keroro as much as he did?
She couldn't understand.
"You jealous of their relationship or something?" Kululu finally figured out.
Momoka nodded.
"If... If it makes you feel any better... I've talked to Fuyuki a lot as a colleague. You're like the steady rock in his life, preserving his kindness. I think you were the only thing that really stayed and stuck by him after Keroro's and his mother's death. He needed that. If there's anything human left in that kid, it's because of you," Kululu told her.
Momoka listened, absorbing Kululu's words. Just the aspect that she was important to Fuyuki, even a little bit, meant a lot to her.
I keep him human... She didn't know what that meant, but she was glad he hadn't lost it.
That little bit of happiness made her stay by his side for the rest of that year. That was, until the next Harvest.
The Harvest, to her knowledge, was a terrible atrocity founded by the government. She didn't know who was doing it, but she vowed she would stop whoever it was. It was just plain wrong - a disgusting, horrifying event.
She never suspected it was Fuyuki who had implemented the thing.
She went to Fuyuki, the day before the Harvest, when he was preparing. She planned to ask him for his help in stopping it.
Although she didn't have permission to go down into the basement of his fortress, she couldn't find him in the upper levels so she went lower.
When she found him and Mois towering over a teenager, cutting her up, Momoka screamed.
"Momoka?" Fuyuki turned around, shocked. Mois dropped her knife. "Oh geez... I didn't want you to find out like this..." He tried to slowly approach her, but she just shook her head and backed toward the wall.
"Wh-what's going on, Fuyuki?" Momoka asked, terrified.
"You could say, we're harvesting! It's almost the Harvest!" Mois answered, a smile on her face.
"It... It was you who implemented it?" Momoka was horrified. She wanted to vomit.
"Yes... But please... Let me explain, it's not as bad as you think." Fuyuki tried to approach her, to give her a hug to stop her shaking. Momoka slapped him away.
"STOP! I didn't know you were like this. This is monstrous! Terrible!" she cried.
"Momoka..." Fuyuki tried to reason with her.
"You and me are over! Over, got that!" Momoka yelled out in her anger. "I... I thought you were nice, Fuyuki. I didn't think you were a monster. Were you going to kill me, too? Was your mom a victim of this? Was everything you told me a lie?"
"Not... Not everything..." Fuyuki's eyes drifted to the ground. "The Harvest... It's necessary, just let me explain, Momoka. Please... let me explain," he begged.
Momoka shook her head and ran away, a stream of tears behind her.
"MOMOKA!" Fuyuki yelled. He was about to run after her, to explain.
"Don't," Mois advised him, "Nothing we say is going to make it better. Give her time. You could say, she'll come around eventually. She's just mad," Mois tried to comfort.
Fuyuki nodded, unaware that was the last he'd see of Momoka.
A week later, her suicide letter was delivered by her parents. "Here." They gave it to Fuyuki. Fuyuki read Momoka's last letter, shocked.
Fuyuki,
If you're reading this, I have killed myself. I did not want to be married to the monster who started the Harvest, and honestly, I did not know who you were anymore.
If you did all these things without me knowing about it, then I won't be able to predict your actions anymore. I don't know why you were killing people and what made you choose who to kill.
I couldn't help but wonder, would I be next?
I never felt safe, and the heartbreak I experienced at learning the true you was too much. I couldn't cope.
I'm sorry.
- Momoka
Fuyuki read the letter again and again, as if there was some sort of secret message in there, as if Momoka would become alive again. He let out a long scream as the message finally hit him.
"No! No! No!" he cried over and over again. It was true, he was a monster. But he would have never hurt her.
I ordered Mom dead, though... But that was back when I was less experienced, he recalled. Why did she have to die just to keep herself safe from him?
He cried and wailed, snot coming from his nose as long streams of tears covered his face.
I can resurrect her! Yes! If I'm doing this for Keroro I can do it for her too! he realized.
"Where's... Where's Momoka's body?" he asked her parents. "I need it."
Their faces contorted to disgust. "We cremated it. It no longer exists."
Her body was never found. He could not bring her back. No matter how hard he tried.
He continued crying, feeling like he had lost everything.
After her death, Fuyuki changed. He came out as the one who started the Harvest and dispatched the council, truly taking over the entire Pekopon government and declaring himself ruler in name along with fact. He was no longer ruling from the shadows.
As his first act, he stripped the Nishizawa company from Oka and Baio. It was his by right. He would have had it if he had married Momoka, and he wanted to keep it as a keepsake from her.
They fought for the rights to their company, but eventually gave it up. Fuyuki assumed they were grieving for their daughter, as well.
They disappeared off the face of the earth after that, although sometimes there was news about them wandering around, so Fuyuki knew they were still alive.
He assumed they still had loyal employees giving them news about their company, and he made sure to give them a cut of the check from sales at their old company.
After that, he stayed in his fortress for a few months, giving the planet to Mois and letting her run it and do whatever she wanted with it.
She started a cult-like religion dedicated to Keroro and erected statues in his honor, declaring Keroro as "god" and that the Harvest was in his honor.
A lot of people went off the deep end as much as her, and they believed her.
Mois's sanity slipped more and more as she was given free reigns of control over the world and without a master for a while.
And of course, after Momoka's death, Fuyuki went completely off the deep end, as well. There was no turning back now.
I've done so much for my goal of bringing Keroro back. No matter what, I'll make it come true. I want at least one person that I've lost to come back, he decided.
No matter how many people had to die, he would go through with it. And the Harvest started getting bigger and bigger, people being killed for even going against it.
Fuyuki was truly evil now.
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