Hyperdimension Neptunia is owned by Compile Heart, Idea Factory, Sega, and whoever else worked on it.

Now here starts the Hyper Dimension Arc, featuring Kurome and an Unknown Blue-Soul that had woken Kurome by putting itself inside her

Okay, sounds somewhat lewd, but I'll just carry on to…

Chapter 24

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Gamindustri's Graveyard, Unknown Time, Inside the Graveyard's middle tower which is covered by numerous TV screens.

Evolry had just teleported into the tower's dark-red hallway with black pipes stuck randomly around the dark-red walls of the hallway. Her red blood drips on the red floor from her right hand which was cut off by Nepgear during their fight. Evolry could feel some pain from it, but she was already used to it and didn't mind it.

"Hmph, this reminds me of that one time with the other lilac gal…. Well, whatever. I should go and meet my boss. Wouldn't want to keep his pants waiting" Evolry let out from her mouth.

"Hmmm, where is he again?... Hoummmmmmmmmm…." Evolry portrays a psychic focus by touching her head with her left-hand index finger. It took her seconds to locate her boss.

"Ah, right there in his self-made home. Then off I– Oh, I should 'refresh' myself before seeing him" Evolry said before she regenerates her right arm with her Cursed powers.

Evolry's red right arm grew back up from its blood veins and to her tight long sleeves, which are also colored red. She moved her right arm and fingers with every movement she could to make sure it responded as quickly as she wanted to. Once Evolry was sure, she tidies her red split hooded cape and red tunic, and large pockets on both of her hip sides before joyfully walking through the Graveyard's tower hallway. As Evolry walked, she met some passing by Black Hazards Dogoo bouncing in the hallway. Evolry approached them and greets the Hazards.

"Heyya, my lovely Hazardies~! How you been?" Evolry greeted them.

The Hazard Dogoos were shocked to see Evolry and quickly lined up in haste. Then, they all tilt down their bodies a bit to bow before Evolry.

"Ah ah. No need to bow. I'm just passing by this hallway to meet our bossy boss. C'mon, giddy up" Evolry told the Hazard Dogoos to not bow to her.

The Hazard Dogoos do as they are told and lift back their bodies. They looked at each other weirdly as Evolry, one of their boss, acts friendly and joyous right now. Particularly since they are usually treated like a tool or an object.

"By the way, I got some of my blood on the floor's hallway right over there. Don't you want a good taste of me?~" Evolry allured the Dogoos to head on over to Evolry's blood puddle.

When the Hazard Dogoos heard about Evolry's blood on the floor, they all caught on the scent of their master's blood with their nose. Their red eyes grew brighter and their mouths watered in thirst at the thought of drinking Evolry's blood. Every Hazard monster that is made has an elevated thirst for blood, but if it is their master's blood, their thirst is heightened than before since their master's blood powers up their strength to a higher level. Evolry and her master know this and they use this knowledge to control and use the Hazards whenever they want.

The Hazard Dogoos immediately bounced past Evolry and hopped further into Evolry's blood pool. Evolry chuckled as their thirst remained the same even after she had left the Gamindustri's Graveyard.

"Take your time sipping! It won't go away unlike your free will!" Evolry shouted in the Hazard Dogoo's direction, then she proceeded on to her master.

"Heh, same bloodthirst as usual"

Evolry walked along the dark-red hallway until she stopped at an automatic black door with some red lines close to the door's sides, shaping a rectangle pattern like the door. Evolry knows that her master is behind this door, waiting for her return. Evolry put up a joyful smile and puts her face close on the door's face recognition scanner. The scanner scans Evolry's red face with its green light scan, then it opens itself and lets Evolry inside. Inside the room was quite normal in comparison to the rest of the Graveyard's vicinity.

Wooden floors with some small stairs leading to slightly lower wooden floors, some brown bookshelves consisting of several books that each vary in color, A gray N-Shaped sofa on the lower wooden floor, a small dark orange table was placed in front of the gray sofa, A pack of Lowee-varied soda cans was on top of the table. On the room's dark-gold walls, there's a small but long rectangle window emitting the Graveyard's skies into the room. There's also a black TV in front of the small table and a yellow light bulb shining in the room from the dark-gold ceilings.

Evolry was glad that the room is the same since she left to watch over the Ultra Dimension from her already destroyed Black Neptower. With that in mind, she still knows what to touch or not in the room due to her master's sense of being possessive and extra careful with his belongings.

Evolry noticed her boss was sitting on the gray sofa wearing a brownish-red full cloak hoodie. Her master sits with a tense posture, which was not noticed by Evolry as she was joyful to greet her owner.

"Master~, darling's home~~! Have you– WHOA!"

Evolry was cut off from her greeting because she had to barely dodge a dark-red beam shot aimed directly at her head. The beam had only taken some of Evolry's red hair and created a scorching hole throughout the hallway's walls. The beam eventually got through the graveyard's tower outer walls and it finally dissipated. Evolry look through the hole it made and she could see a glimpse of the Graveyard's grim dark reddish sky.

"I just came to greet you and you intend to put a hole in my head?! Why?!" Evolry blurted at her master for trying to make a hole in her head. The cloaked hooded man stood up from his sofa and slowly walked close to Evolry. Then, the man began to speak.

"I know well enough that you would be able to dodge it, I trust your capabilities after all. Besides, I wouldn't trust anyone if they can't handle such a mishap" The Hooded man said with a gentleman-like voice as he walks closer.

"Awww, that's so thoughtful of you" Evolry was flattered.

"Which moves us to a certain topic regarding….. Trust…"

The hooded man grabbed Evolry by the neck with his left hand and lifted her up whilst tightening his grab to strangle Evolry leaning against the room's wall. Evolry tried to struggle her way out of it with both her arms, but she gave up and act on her role as a masochist damsel. She laughed as she was strangled by her own master.

"Ghack!...Ack, Asphyxiation plays right from… the get-go… Ack" Evolry said while she choked.

"Be quiet until I let you speak….. If you don't…" The hooded man convulsed Its Cursed Power from Evolry through his right arm until a dark-red energy ball flows rampant on his right hand, waiting to be used.

"I'll consume every bit of your existence's powers and make it my own…" The Hooded Man said in a chilling tone, which made Evolry nod with a smile.

"... Remember how long we had to CAREFULLY proceed with our plan? To get our result?! Bringing the sunken Graveyard to this temporal dimension, Conducting a lot of experiments both here and out there, getting the CPU Crystals from the Ultra Dimension and taking away its temporal spawn points, and disciplining HER and A LOT of our tools which took a long time! Speak!" The Hooded man said while losing some of his cool, mentioning several points.

"Guh!...Oh yes, I still do… Even the..urk…. Funny bits I laid on you as we work our asses off. We had a good…. time right?" Evolry said strugglingly.

"No, I did not enjoy it one bit, your 'funny bits' didn't help our goal, AND it is annoying," The hooded man said.

"Ouch, way… to break a woman's heart…. No wonder you don't have bitches–"

"SHUT YOUR UNRULY TONGUE! Now I had to remake a new plan because of your shenanigans yesterday! Be grateful that this plan has a higher chance of getting our end result" The Hooded man grips Evolry's neck, it made Evolry cough some saliva and blood. But even after all that, Evolry kept on playing with the flow and chuckled.

"...Ugh, there's no way of breaking that mind of yours if you enjoy this"

Her master slowly retracts his right arm away from Evolry and flicks off the Energy ball until his right arm relaxes and the energy ball was no more. Evolry's Master had even removed his left hand's grip from Evolry's neck and freed her. Evolry dropped on the floor coughing and kept on inhaling and exhaling her breathing once her breath was back no normal. The Hooded Man straightened his brownish-red cloak and went back to sit on his gray sofa. Evolry quickly joins him and laid her body on an empty spot on the sofa.

"Now tell me, what are your opinions on the other Gehaburn sword's wielder? Was this other alternative of Nepgear met your expectations?" The Hooded Man leered at Evolry as she leisurely enjoyed the sofa.

"Hoooo, boy! You should've been there to see it in person. She was everything I expected! She is skillful, Smart, though that's obvious given she's the mech geek, and she's so coordinative with my Sis! Can you believe that?" Evolry enthusiastically explained her thoughts after fighting Nepgear, she got up from laying and went to sit on the sofa instead.

"If you're this expressive then yes, I believe you. Nepgear ALWAYS had the potential of those so-called ' protagonists' in stories after all, no matter what Dimension she's in. The very Goddess that started the ASIC's downfall, and partly….. My Fall" The Hooded Man said.

"And get this. Push comes to shove…. Hit her with one small Emotional Damage and paired it with my sis. Boom! You get yourself a World Destroyer, no, a Dimension Ruler CPU! An entity that could even send me running with my life. Never thought I would experience this again!" Evolry, still excitedly explained.

"You boast her like that but here you are alive and, unfortunately, with your jester nature intact" The Hooded Man snarked out.

"Yeah well…. She's not in her prime. Firstly is because she's too exhausted, duh. Fighting with me for an hour or so won't bode well. And secondly, Nepgear and My sis aren't quite there yet" Evolry said in her disappointment.

"Then all the more reason we stick to this new plan I made. Giving her a part of yourself and also a reason for them to come here and tap into her innermost wrath. It is what I order you to do before" The Hooded Man referred to his call during Evolry's fight.

"As your capable partner, I did as you told me to. Left a part of my Arm, getting someone she holds dear to our cell whilst making her go rage all over at the same time. Nepgear and My sis made when I jokingly killed off Kurome were so thrilling!" Evolry said as she stood up, with hands-on her red cheeks and imagine Nepgear and Gehaburn's faces filled with anger and high bloodlust.

"Oh you did, but there's a small wrinkle. Where is the hostage Kurome now? I had been waiting in the Tower's Cell and I have not seen her body there" The Hooded Man gets up and glared closely at Evolry.

"...Wait, she's not in our cell? What about the other cells? She could be in the occupied ones or hidden in the cell's corner" Evolry asked.

"You belittle my eyes? Need I remind you that I had to put with your random teleport many times before that I got used to it… Don't tell me that you did teleport her but not in our cell?!" The Hooded Man started to lose his temper once more.

"Well…. Oh… Hehe. If you told me to do that then I won't tell you that I flukily didn't send her specifically to our cell" Evolry said as she step back, realizing her mistake.

"Unbelievable….. Sometimes I wonder if should do this all by myself….."

The Hooded Man cooled down and took a drink of Lowee's soda before she walked away from Evolry towards the room's exit door. He slams the door shut and left his room with Evolry inside. Evolry took a Lowee's Soda and drink it all in one go. She lets out a big burp and chuckles as she intentionally teleports Kurome to a different spot in Gamindustri's Graveyard. Evolry throws the can far at the furthest trash bin just so she could test herself if she could put a hole-in-one in the trash bin with only a normal swing throw.

"That's one way of getting his ass to do some of the work…. And it wouldn't be fun if all goes according to the plan, hehe"

Evolry grinned and commented on her own act. Then, she stretched her arms and legs before exiting the room to 'help' his Master find Kurome before she gets out of the Graveyard's domain.

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Somewhere in Gamindustri's Graveyard, Unknown Time

Kurome had been wandering around the Graveyard trying to find a way out for quite a while ever since she woke up. But everywhere she sees, it is almost the same thing around the place. Graveyard monsters, the dark landmass, pipes, yellow rivers, numerous yellow-purple claps of thunder, Hazard Monsters, Pipes, and more pipes. Kurome groaned each she hits a dead end with pipes on it. There's also the problem of the monsters around her. One wrong small move and she'll be surrounded by all the monsters and Hazards available. For that measure, Kurome had quietly killed one of the Hazards with her Dark-Blue Megaphone and used their corpse's blood on her body to disguise herself as one of the Hazards.

Kurome continued searching for a way out until she was too exhausted to continue. She found a kinda safe place for her to lay low and rest her legs. Kurome sat down on the ground, breathing in and out, then she took out a small blue disk and throw it on the ground near her so the disk could unleash a temporal transparent Lilac barrier that heals anyone inside it.

"Color me surprised, there's such a disk that can do this kind of thing," The Blue Soul said inside Kurome with Kurome's voice. Kurome was surprised to hear the Blue Soul using her own voice perfectly as if it owns it.

"What time did you live when you were alive? You're an old-old soul or something? Should I call you, granny? hehe. No, wait never mind. If I call you that it feels like I'm talking to my great Grandma that I never knew I had before" Kurome waved her hands as she rejects her own idea.

"Oh please, who would want to be your Grandma," The Blue Soul said that striking a pierce at Kurome's Heart.

"Ouch, do you have to stab me that deep?... Damn, how am I gonna get out of here…. This place is somewhat different than before. I can't call Gearsy or anyone here and the dimension travel app on my Nep-Watch is only a one-way trip from Sigma Dimension. Early version sucks" Kurome mumbled and slumped down on the dark ground as she tried to think of a way out.

"Uhuh….. Though you've only been circling around the Graveyard here. Don't give up now. While we're at it, when are you gonna go Inside the pipe TV tower in the middle?" The Blue Soul asked.

"It's like I'm arguing with my other self….. No, I won't go in there. It is pretty obvious that whoever sent me here must reside there. Wandering around the enemy's place is dangerous enough, going Into their base is suicide" Kurome explained her reason to the Blue Soul.

"But then why are you here instead of inside there?" The Blue Soul asked.

"Heck would I know. Either that bitch Evolry didn't send me all the way there just to toy with me or she made a mistake… That makes me wonder. Why would Evolry target Gehaburn in the first place?" Kurome thought about the time when Evolry was supposedly about to kill off Gehaburn with a blast.

"This… Evolry. Is she colored Red? Figured those bastards would meddle more than I know" The Blue Soul asked for confirmation, which made Kurome surprised that it knows her.

"You know her?! Oh right, you're a long-time resident" Kurome said.

"I'm not that long. But I know enough that Evolry and two hooded people had arrived here a couple of months prior. Since their arrival, black monsters with red eyes started to pop up from that tower in the middle" The Blue directs Kurome's attention to the Pipe TV tower in the middle of the Graveyard.

"And like I said if you wanna know something like getting out of here or something crucial that would tear them apart, it's there" The Blue Soul encourages Kurome to go inside the tower.

"Okay first off, you're right. If I can't get out here through the usual way, then I might as well go inside and see what I can find. Secondly, why did you emphasize the 'tear' word there? Did they do something to you? If my past tells me one thing, emphasis on a word has deep intentions" Kurome asked in her concern for the Blue Soul. To Kurome, hearing someone emphasizing a word like that means they have a deep grudge or a similar thought.

"...I don't wanna talk about it. But in short, they had done something to me that I would never forgive…" The Blue Soul said grimly.

"There you go emphasizing a word again. But If you don't want to say anything more then I'll let it be like that. I don't want to force anyone to talk about things if they don't want to, whatever the reason" Kurome said to the Blue Soul inside her.

"Even so, I'll tell you this. I now know that we both have a common enemy and they will get what they deserve in time. So from now on, let us get along, you and I. Think of this as my way of thanks for waking me up from my nap, even though it feels weird to have two souls in one body. But hey, first time for everyone" Kurome said to ease up the Blue Soul.

The Blue Soul was left speechless for a moment, but it scoffed, and then its attempt to partly materialize in front of Kurome. A blue light spew out from Kurome's chest with a blue thread attached to Kurome's body. The blue light reshapes itself into a small, cute image of Kurome. It mimics Kurome quite accurately, from the two low pigtails, the big blue tie, black clothes with only one button, and the black fabric that covered her torso and arms. Only the arm part looks different as it's just round with no fingers and her leg part was left out since the Blue Soul is connected to Kurome through the blue thread at her bottom directed to Kurome's chest.

"I don't like this look, but it'll do to show my sincerity. Alright, Kurome, let's get along. Call me whatever–"

"Dips on calling you Bluesy! You look so cute right now! Reminds me of that Casper show in the old tapes. Is this your true form? As in me in this Dimension?" Kurome asked in joy seeing a cute version of herself.

"N-no! I'm just projecting your body as the representative. I had long forgotten my body. One more thing, I will NOT accept being called Bluesy! So childish" Bluesy protested at Kurome's chosen nickname for her.

"Too late, the author had already decided that your name is Bluesy! Yippee! My very own Soul Buddy," Kurome said after her nickname for the Blue Soul was used, which is Bluesy.

"Ugh…" Bluesy sighed in disbelief and utter disappointment as she facepalmed.

"Hehe, I think I've rested enough. Disk, turn off" Kurome said the disk code word to deactivate its healing barrier. Next, Kurome stood up and look upon the tall Pipe TV tower over the distance, followed by Bluesy glaring in the same direction as Kurome.

"If I'm gonna go in there, I need to devise a safe passage inside, the tower's inner map, and a lot of escape tools. Bluey, since you're a resident, you got a way in?" Kurome asked Bluesy beside her.

"There's a small pipe entry underneath the many big pipes there. Your quite slender body should fit inside, liable enough to venture inside and out. Although you have to crouch to get through" Bluesy explained with her ghostly arms crossed on her chest.

"Hmmm, If Gearsy and the others are here with me then we wouldn't be able to go together simultaneously, since some of us are fat or big in size," Kurome told Bluesy of her thought.

"Your way of saying that your friends–"

"Family, Bluesy. They're my family" Kurome cuts off Bluey for a moment.

"Feh…. Anyway, is that your way of saying your Family is fat or big-breasted?" Bluesy pointed out.

"Hey! Don't you go body-shaming my family!... And yes, some are Big-breasted…." Kurome puts her hands close to her chest are feel some of the emptiness over her breasts. Bluesy gives Kurome an understandable look as she puts her right hand on her shoulder. Kurome shakes her head off and focuses on their plan instead.

"So, the plan is we get inside the safe pipe you mentioned, then scan the surrounding area, and at the end, we escape through the same pipe we came in. There should be a diagram of the tower's interior or some sort, that should be the number one priority. The rests are the materials and other stuff should we come across it" Kurome continued on to explain their summarized plan.

"Not gonna sneak up on those bastards and beat them all?! You have the chance, Kurome!" Bluesy aggressively suggested at Kurome.

"Crap no! I don't even know how strong they are and I don't have enough Share Juice in me and my weapon. That's like fighting a last boss but you're not even on the same level as it! If I were to lose, we both gonna get messier than now, and I don't want that happen to you or me. So relax, Bluesy. They'll what they deserve later" Kurome countered Bluesy's suggestion.

"Hmph, fine" Bluesy looked away from Kurome and huffed. Kurome sighed at Bluesy's behavior and shrugs it off for now.

"Phew, Okay Kurome, you can do this. Sneak, search, and bailout" Kurome slapped both cheeks and readied herself to get on with their plan. Once she's done, Kurome walks toward the Pipe TV Tower.

"Bluesy, tell me where I need to–"

"HELLO HELLOOOOO! IS THIS THING ON?~"

Kurome stopped in her tracks after hearing a loud and familiar voice from the tower. The TV screens on the Pipe Tower began to flicker until Evolry's red face appeared on all of it. Even the scattered screens on the Graveyard's ground began to boot up and Evolry's face was shown for all Monsters, Hazards, Kurome, and Bluesy to see. Kurome couldn't believe in all her lifetime, someone use the screens and the dead screens in the Graveyard, and it was her enemy no less. Kurome also noticed that Bluesy's temper began to rise as she sees Evolry. she guessed that it was due to Bluey's personal reasons for Evolry. Now that Kurome thought that she was spotted, she called out to Evolry.

"HEY, PUNK. WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOING HERE?!" Kurome shouted, but Evolry didn't look at her one bit, which surprised Kurome.

"HELLLOOOOO?~~~Urk...OUCH!... Master, the buzzing noises are at it again!"

Thanks to Evolry's shouts that had finally gone through the speakers all over the Graveyard, the speakers began to start a distortive loop of unpleasant noises and bass sounds that are unnaturally bassy. Infinite loops of distortions had made the ears of all the Graveyard's Inhabitants ears in pain and were forced to cover their ears to lessen the pain. Kurome was affected by the loop as well and it wasn't nice for her ears to receive the painful sound frequency.

"Son of a–, Have she ever used a speaker before?! Grr!" Kurome, in her haste, took out an ear support device that would reduce the distortive sounds. She took a breather as she was glad that it doesn't hurt anymore, yet she noticed that Bluesy wasn't relieved from the pain.

"MAKE IT STOP!" Bluesy yelled in pain, which made Kurome attempt to help her by taking out another ear support device, but then realized that Bluesy was a ghostly soul.

"HOW COME YOU GET AFFECTED BY THIS?!" Kurome shouted.

"I'M CONNECTED WITH YOUR BODY, WHOLE BODY! EVERYTHING THAT YOUR BODY RECEIVES, I WILL FEEL THE SAME. ARRGHH!" Bluesy couldn't hear what Kurome said to her, which ticked off Kurome at Evolry.

Moments later, the distortive noises from the speakers throughout the Graveyard began to dissipate and cool down. Bluesy put her blue ghost hands down as her ears weren't in pain anymore. Kurome was glad that Bluesy wasn't in pain no more. Though Kurome is still in confusion about how Bluesy was affected by sounds despite being a ghostly soul, she didn't put it too much thought and went on to make sure that Bluey is okay.

"Bluesy! How many fingers I'm showing you?" Kurome put up a V-sign, hoping that Bluesy answered two.

"Five" Bluesy said.

"Five?!" Kurome was shocked to hear the answer, which made her fear for the worst.

"Your hand in front of me and you're asking me how many fingers you're showing me? Of course, I'll say five" Bluesy explained her unexpected answer. Kurome was astonished by Bluesy's reason, thinking outside the box like that.

"Err, attention, all residents of the gloomy graveyard. My bad for being abrupt back there. But uhh, our boss is going to present his benevolent presence…. Through the TVs. Without question, pay attention" Evolry said her piece before moving away from the screens to let her Master show his presence to all of the Graveyard's monsters and Hazards. Bluesy glared at the TV screens on the tower while Kurome could not see the Master's face since his brown-red hoodie cloak was in the way, which made her feel bumped for not being able to capture Evolry's master's face.

"Hello, my fellow subjects. I would to inform you all that we have a loose Prisoner. Therefore, search our prisoner through every corner and hiding spot of this place. Our prisoner is a CPU known by the name of Kurome, a blue-haired pigtailed girl with black items of clothing. Use force if you must, but bring her alive. If any one of you succeeds I shall grant you all the finest meals and drink, fresh from our very own goddess" Evolry's Master said before exiting himself from the screen. In a short second, Evolry swoops in and shows her joyful face on the screen.

"There you have it folks, happy hunting! And for you, Kurome, wherever you are. Show me a spectacle performance as you run for your life being hunted by thousands of my lovelies….. Best of luck, dear. Thumbs up!" Evolry put both of her thumbs up with a grin look on the screen before signaling the TV crew on the inside to shut the screens off, then all of the TV screens in the Graveyard were blank.

Kurome gaped and took time to process what she had heard. From what she can understand, Evolry's master is a man, which meant that Nepgear and her family are dealing with a human final boss. Another thing to add is that the monsters in here are now on the hunt for her. If she's caught, Kurome would be a prisoner for life being served as food and beverage for the monsters. It frightens Kurome when she imagined being chopped, squeezed, and thrown out into the monster's insides. To cope with it, Kurome took a deep breath and think positively.

"Welp, guess going inside their base is off the hook. Sorry to disappoint you, Bluesy. I should've gone in there sooner..…. Bluesy?" Kurome apologized to Bluesy who was still glaring at the blank TV screen. Kurome snaps her fingers near Bluesy until she snaps back to reality.

"W-what? Oh, Kurome. Yeah, I heard you and It is not a problem. It's unfortunate but we have no choice but to completely hide and get out of this place as quickly as we can" Bluesy said to Kurome.

"Agreed. Best we bail before–"

"GGRRROOAAARRGGHH!" A loud mechanic roar was heard from Kurome's back, and she knows that specific roar belongs to a Killachine type. Bluesy, being in the opposite direction of Kurome, was able to see a bunch of Graveyard monsters and Hazard monsters looking at Kurome with deadly eyes.

"They're all behind me, huh?" Kurome softly sighed and asked Bluesy, to which Bluey nods at her.

"I knew this wouldn't go smooth like butter….RRUUUNNNNNNNN!"

Kurome panicked and ran away from the Hazards and Graveyard monsters. Thousands of them pursue Kurome with the goal to appease their master and get what the reward that their master had planned. They all roared in excitement, calling out the other monsters who hadn't noticed the running Kurome to join the hunt. The purple-yellowish thunders grew wild as the Kurome's pursuers grew more in number by the second, it was triggered due to the intense impure aura that the Hazards are emitting that matches the Graveyard's environment.

Kurome did the best she could to flee from the onslaught. Parkours used the pipes, barely passing some of the Black fenrirs and dragon's bite, jumping frequently with the help of the passing through Hazard Vader's head, and she even tried to use her sole Dark-Blue Megaphone in the hopes to get most of them away.

"Blow them away! DREAM ROARRR!" Kurome shouted through the Megaphone towards the Graveyard and Hazard monsters, spewing out a dark blue sound wave that killed some of them.

But this made the rest of the monsters grow more ferocious and fastened their chase. Kurome was running cold sweat on her skin and she hastened her legs to even the game. To make it worse, Her Megaphone's energy is low, and Kurome herself has low CPU energy inside her. So she can't recharge her weapon

"Shit, being away from my Dimension puts me on a low-tier level! Kurome said.

"Then focus yourself on Running!" Bluesy reminded inside Kurome to just run.

Though this won't last long as her stamina couldn't last long.

It wasn't long until she stopped in her tracks as Kurome was on the edge of the Graveyard's landmass where the yellow rivers flow down towards the dark-red sky that has no land below for it to drop upon. Kurome looked down and true to her knowledge, there was only the Graveyard's sky beyond the landmass's edge. Kurome gulped in fear and turned her back to see the Hazard and the Graveyard monsters slowly approach Kurome.

"C-come on, you guys…. I'm not that tasty for you all to dine in, right? I mean, I don't mind being 'eaten', but not this kind of eat!" Kurome nervously smiled as she tried to negotiate with the monsters with her hands up.

"NOT YOU. YOU NOT TASTY" One of the black Hazard Dragonia said.

"Urgh, two deep stab's since I woke up. I'm supposed to be glad this time but…." Kurome strolled off from finishing her sentence and turned to the Hazard Dragonia as she wanted to ask it about something.

"If, if I'm not the Goddess your master refers to….. Then who is it?" Kurome asked.

To answer her question, Kurome sensed something fast is getting closer to her spot. Suddenly, a loud crash stumbled in front of Kurome. Specks of dust and some of the small bits of ground's rocks and dirt spew out from the crash, forcing the monsters and Kurome to cover their sights for a moment. Once it subsides, Kurome open her eyes and tried to get a look at the newcomer of her hunt. Who Kurome sees now is someone that she had not expected….. And couldn't believe it to be true.

The person that Kurome sees is a girl covered with spats of dried blood all over. The girl has long light purple hair with a single D-pad hair clip and violet eyes and wears a white, button-up sailor uniform with purple designs and a yellow ribbon being held together by the N-emblem to which all of it was bloodied. The girl wears thigh-high socks with pink and white stripes and medium-sized boots that match her uniform in a color scheme that is all dried with blood.

Kurome dreadfully recognizes the girl in front of her as someone who she holds dear, someone who she thinks is the only person that would stand against her.

"...Gearsy….?" Kurome's face put up a grim face as she looks towards the emotionless bloody Nepgear who slowly gets close to Kurome, which makes Kurome slowly walk back out of fear.

"Kurome, submit yourself to my master" The Bloody Nepgear ordered Kurome.

"Submit? To that guy?! I would never–" Kurome was cut off from her complaint as there was no more ground for her to step back and a red laser sword an inch close to her neck by the Bloody Nepgear.

"You have nowhere to run, there is no end to what's below, and fighting all of us is suicide. Think carefully about what you should do now. I know you value your life, so submit now while kneeling down in front of my master" The Bloody Nepgear said coldly. Yet to the Bloody Nepgear's surprise, Kurome giggled for a second. She thought that Kurome started to become crazy, but when she looked at Kurome's orange eyes she could tell that the blue-haired in front of her wouldn't follow her order.

"Hehe…. I almost thought that you were my Gearsy, but guess what Bloody Gearsy….. I value my freedom more than my life. I had enough of my freedom being taken by someone else, and I won't let someone like your Master use me like a tool! Bluesy, Now!"

"BOO!"

As Kurome's mark, Bluesy jumped out from Kurome's body and made the Bloody Nepgear step backward and flinch. Then Kurome kicked the Bloody Nepgear and used her as a stepping stone to backflip over the Graveyard's edge. Kurome falls down towards the dark red sky below with no end in sight. The Bloody Nepgear had recomposed herself as she looks down to look for Kurome, thinking that Kurome bluffed the fall and latched onto the bottom part of the Graveyard. But seeing there was no Kurome in sight, The Bloody Nepgear faintly huffed and turned back to the rest of the monsters to fall back. As The Bloody Nepgear walked away from the edge, she turned her head slightly and mumbled some words.

"You've chosen your end, Kurome. At the very least, you value your freedom till the end….. Whilst I must attend to my… Our freedom. To achieve that, I must right my wrongs, even if I have to sacrifice more people than I did before"

The Bloody Nepgear said her condolences before walking towards the Pipe TV tower to report back to her master that the prisoner had committed suicide.

Sometime later…..

Kurome was falling on the dark-red Gamindustri Graveyard's sky for some time. Screaming her lungs out as she remembered the time when she dive down from up above with Nepgear and Gehaburn when the three infiltrated the now-destroyed Black Nep Tower. Kurome thought that in her last moments, she would flash the best moments of her life with her family. But instead, she kept on replaying that specific memory in her head.

"AHHHHHH WHY CAN'T I THINK OF THE HAPPIEST ONESSSSS!" Kurome yelled out.

"COULD YOU STOP PANICKING AND COME UP WITH A WAY TO GET US OUT OF HERE?! UNLESS THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT? ENDLESS LOOP OF FALLING?!" Bluesy yelled inside Kurome.

"YELL FOR YOURSELF, NOT PANICKING AND ALL! I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT DIMENSION IS THIS! I'M SORRY FOR DRAGGING YOU ALONG WITH ME!" Kurome apologized to Bluesy.

"ARRGGHH, DO I HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING MYSELF?! LET ME BORROW YOUR BODY IF YOU WANT BOTH OF US TO LIVE!" Bluesy yelled a demand at Kurome.

"SURE! I TRUST YOU, BLUESY. OR MORE PRECISELY IS THAT I HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE!"

After saying those words, Bluesy began to possess Kurome's body and make it her own temporarily. When Bluesy is the one who is controlling Kurome's body, the Body's eyes turned dark blue with a streak of maroon. The very same color that Kurome had adorned ever since she break free from her console seal. When Kurome's soul wasn't in control of her own body, she can feel a hint of dark energy within her body. Kurome didn't remember that she had this kind of energy before, so it was weird of her to feel it now of all times.

'What's this familiar energy I'm feeling…. It is almost the same as when Nepgear and Gehaburn gave me the dark energy when I was trapped in my seal' Kurome asked inside her soul.

As Kurome was not in control of her body. Bluesy, now in charge, focused her soul energy and enveloped Kurome's body with a dark blue light. During the activation, Kurome's body stopped falling and began to regain its composure as it can float around the dark-red sky. To test the safety of her energy concentration, Bluesy moved Kurome's arms, legs, and other limbs to see if none of them was in a faulty condition.

"Good, it seems everything is in order and we're not falling anymore. Now for the tiring part…. Despite that, I will be free of this place" Bluesy put out Kurome's arms to the front and concentrated her mind with her eyes closed.

"WOW! You can make me fly even without Share Energy? Cool!" Kurome praised Bluesy as she speaks in her own body.

"Shush! I'm trying to concentrate on finding a loophole in this accursed pocket dimension in a dimension!" Bluesy told Kurome to shut up and let her be.

"That was oddly specific and made me raise more questions at you but uh…. Mouth zipped" Kurome said inside.

Bluesy continued to focus on using her own energy until a dark-blue pathway string appeared in front of her. To Bluesy, this is a breakthrough as she found a glimmer of a chance to escape from the Graveyard's dimension. Though this confuses Kurome even more about what Bluesy can do, she cheered for her Soul Buddy to work out the way. Afterward, not too far from their distance, a dark blue hole appeared at the end of the pathway. When Bluesy opened her eyes and sees the hole, she showed a joyful expression on Kurome's face.

"I'm free…. I. AM. FREE!" Bluesy shouted loudly using Kurome's mouth.

"Huh, I feel like this had happened before. Dejavu? Anyways, this is amazing Bluesy! Now we can get out of here" Kurome said from the inside, which Bluesy nodded in response.

"Indeed, now time for us to leave this place for now… I will have my revenge, double-crossers" Bluesy murmured revengeful words and made Kurome dwell on what Bluey meant.

Bluesy hovered Kurome's body towards the hole as if she were swimming. It didn't take long for Bluesy to reach the hole. She was about to put her hand in the hole to see if it is, then once it is, Bluesy pushed Kurome's body through the hole without warning. Kurome was surprised, but she didn't mind as it is understandable for one to escape from the grim place, especially after she was trapped herself.

When Bluesy got out of the dark blue hole, she and Kurome could see that they were in an entirely different place from the Graveyard. More, fortunately, it's a place where the two quite recognize.

"This dimension…. Is similar to mine…. Leanbox, Lowee, Lastation, and even Planeptune that's below us right now. They all look the same from where I am, except the sky here is not red. Though it's hard to tell if the sky is red or not since its night time. But at least we're not in the Graveyard anymore, right Bluesy?" Kurome said to Bluesy, but she didn't get a quick response as Bluesy was gazing down at the Gamindustri.

"Ahh~~, Hyper Dimension. I have returned and you all haven't changed a bit… Hahaha…" Bluesy mumbled as she looked down on the Hyper Dimension's Gamindustri. Then, a sense of dizziness struck Bluesy's soul. It messed with her power as the dark blue light that envelops her began to vanish.

"Bluesy?! You don't look okay!" Kurome said, noticing Bluesy's dizziness.

"Glad you didn't say the cliche 'Are you okay?!' sentence after seeing me and my power waver…. I'm fine, Kurome. I just…. Need to switch up…. And rest…." Bluesy shuts her eyes after finishing her sentence, then Kurome's eyes open again shortly but the eyes colored had turned orange like before, which means that Kurome is now in control of her body.

"Leave it to me, Bluesy. Sleep well within MEEEEEEEE!"

Kurome didn't have much of her Share energy, so she can't transform into her Goddess form and fly her way out of this. Kurome had once again fallen down from the sky. But unlike the Gamindustri's Graveyard, this time the ground is visible. This calmed down Kurome as she is glad that there was a spot to crash, but then she turned on her panic mode shortly after realizing that there was a spot crash which is Planeptune. Kurome couldn't bear to see where she was headed and closed her eyes out of fear.

"Please be a soft land, please a soft land, please be a soft land, please be a soft la–"

A loud crash had struck one of Planeptune's big green trash bins in the back alleys. Good thing for Kurome that it was a soft land due to the many black trash plastic bags in the bin. Kurome's head popped up from one of the trash bins with a dirty peeled banana on top of her. Kurome looked around to see if there were any witnesses that might see her current state, but luckily there wasn't anyone near to see her. Kurome gets out slowly from the trash bins and relaxes her body after running for quite a while before.

"Ahh~~, that's the spot… Now let us see how's the situation here"

Kurome picked up a left-out cloak in the dark alley of Planeptune and slowly creep out of the alley. When Kurome looked around, she sees the Planeptune at night filled with people who do night activities like group hangouts, family walks, adventurer guilds strolling around the streets, gaming night in one of the shops, couples enjoying some snacks along the way, a person in a bar with the other colleagues, and so on. In short, it was busy and peaceful, as Kurome had not expected it to be since it was near the Graveyard Pocket Dimension.

Kurome had to take in the situation she was in. It was different from when she was in Sigma Dimension. Now that Kurome knows she's on Hyper Dimension with no Sigma Share energy, Kurome had to find a way to get ahold of Nepgear and the others so she could recharge her Share Energy while trying to get some information about the Hyper Dimension's state while also blending in with the society Kurome once had a grudge against without attracting the residing CPUs and Guilds. It may sound like a lot for Kurome, but her gut feeling says that she can't let this chance go even with her current state.

"Guess I have no choice but to get a place to crash and part-time work. Imagine that, a CPU doing part-time jobs. I sounded like a broke Goddess, but nevertheless. Hyper Dimension, here comes Kurome….. And Bluesy who's taking a nap-nap!"

To Be Continued…

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There you have it folks. A Soul-Buddy for Kurome that she calls Bluesy, two antagonists with one of them being an Unknown and Emotionless Bloody Nepgear. Three Antagonists so far, Evolry, Evolry's Master, and Bloody Nepgear.

Yes, that's what I am gonna call the Graveyard's Nepgear.

And yep, as Bluesy had said. The Hyper Dimension's Gamindustri Graveyard is not at the bottom of the ocean anymore. It is now in a pocket dimension in Hyper Dimension. A dimension in a dimension in short term.

I won't spoil bluntly whose Identity Evolry's Master is right now, but I left out subtle details that have some relation to his Identity. So if you can guess who it is, don't say it and keep it to your heart.

Now then see ya next chap as Kurome had found a part-time job during her time in Hyper Dimension

Byeee!