Weeks of working, if you can call it that, is behind me. I have been busy the last few weeks. Besides Graspop, there wasn't much in June. I got one reexam which I didn't see coming. It's a good thing I'm staying at my da. Mom and me are going to have words when I'm back. But it has its advantages.

Graspop on the other hand was pure awesomeness. I saw Iron Maiden, Powerwolf, the Raven Age and a few other bands. Got myself a nice sweater, patches and a shirt from Iron Maiden. Laid a whole night awake in a tent, hey, if I don't stay a night from home now, when will I?

Graspop by morning was nearly worth lying awake in the cold the entire night. Went to Mol to catch a train but I had to walk quite a bit. A godsend that an older man gave me a lift. Ended up the train and slept on it.

But for now, till August, I'm working and I don't know how things will go on writing. Not that I won't try given that I have more time. I really should take some time of writing my original stuff as well. But that's beside the point.

Buying the Division caused me to spend way too much time in it. But hey, I am sick now of playing; Got 10000 Global events tokens and I got my 30 caches. Assault will start in July so I am good for that time. But now, I had enough of it.

The shields are also a real hassle. But now, I'm a bit too tired to play in a decent fashion. But I'm good for next month.

The reason why I have worked on this because I haven't thought out anything decent for the Graduated Student and En Route. This I do have plans worked out for now. If I can get the energy for it. But I know that tomorrow, my body will be tired but my mind won't be so much so it'll be easier to write more of this. I'm going to write a few bits on easy pieces before I skip on the next story. We'll see where we get.

Mattheus was now sitting on a bench in the park. His eyes were closed, enjoying the warm sun on his skin. It had been a long day. He guessed that Ichika must have been busy with his girlfriends like Kizuna was. He himself thanked for the harem situation.

He had Natasha, he didn't need anyone else. Speaking of the woman, she was sitting next to him, her arms wrapped around his arm and her head nestled on her shoulder. It had been a good couple of weeks of getting closer to her guy. That weighed on her.

When they were at the ISA, they had been going out for a while and it wasn't uncommon to share a few nights where hours were giving out. He got some nice stamina, courtesy of his training. She also admitted that she liked the sharing of the bed. He would often let Natasha have her fun first before ending.

If there was one flaw she would see in Mattheus, it was that he would often let his pleasure go past for others or that he didn't like asking for help. Make no mistake, in a fight, he relied on his allies to get him back into it but when he was going somewhere or had some issues, he loathed asking for asking for help. Part of him being a grownup. She nuzzled in his built, enjoying his body and warmth.

He was tired after the last training and it looked like he wanted nothing more than to take it easy with his girlfriend. Not that they were alone. Joel was observant but when they hung out, she had no real explanation.

Third wheeling was something she hated when going out with her boyfriend but Joel was a part of him. And his honorary big sis didn't really mind to have Joel around. This wasn't a date like he promised her one but more a hang out with her. Joel was just a part of that. And Joel was many things but dense wasn't one of them.

He could see when Natasha preferred to be alone with Mattheus. But she was the one who tagged along with them. So she couldn't ask Joel to go out alone.

They just passed by and she asked what they were going to do. When Mattheus answered looking around the place, she skipped over to them and hung on his arm. Joel had no problem with that either. It wasn't a relationship of sharing.

Okay, it was one but not like lovers. Mattheus was Joel's brother (and so many more) and he was Natasha's boyfriend (which was one word but entitled to a lot of stuff). It was just like that.

And that would explain how Joel was now nearly falling asleep on his older sister's lap, his head resting against her. They were content and happy. The three of them.

Her eyes cracked open to see Mattheus sleeping. He could fall asleep at some places when his body would give out. She looked at Joel who was also beaten and tired. Somewhere, the ideas of a family with him was something much more appealing. Especially when her government wasn't breathing on her back.

She didn't want to think about it and they would have been happy to have spent the evening like this. But unfortunately, they had no matter on that.

A loud beep awakened him from his nap. Natasha had moved out the way when he saw Reiri's face on a monitor. "Adjzof?"

"What?" He asked in a rough voice. That was thanks to waking up by her in such a fashion. Never a quiet moment. Was that too much to ask?

"Is that a way to speak to your commanding officer?" Reiri's reply came affronted by the way he spoke to her. Like she knew who he really only answered to.

"Apologies ma'am. What's going on?" He had no interest in arguing with her right now. That would just be a pain and it looked like that it wasn't the time or place for it.

"Adjzof, I need you in the command center ASAP. The rest of Amaterasu has gotten the same message as well. I'll explain the situation to you here. I expect you in five minutes." She closed off. Okay, he was sure about it. She was this universe of Chifuyu. That much was clear. But he wasn't going to argue with her. She was good and she could do her stuff.

He looked to Natasha. "Duty calls." He said in a sigh. He turned to Joel who had slept through that conversation if you could call that. Natasha looked at him. "Don't worry, I'll take care of him. Go get them tiger."

Giving his girl a kiss, she leaned in to that. "Thank you, sweetie. Will do." He took off and she looked at him. Joel opened his eyes as Mattheus went out of sight.

"You have been awake when he kissed me?" Natasha asked her little brother who hadn't the slightest intention of looking bashful. He smiled and looked at her. "I woke when you were busy. While I do admit, it's icky, I am not inconsiderate. So you'll take care of me?" He became a bit too cheeky.

Natasha replied with tickling him. He couldn't stand that and it was her way to keep Joel in check. She was somewhere happy with him here. She stopped ticking the boy and he did the thing that made her see how much he trusted her.

He took her hand and moved it to his brown mop. She ruffled his hair. That was the show of affection that only Mattheus could do. Ruffling his hair showed that Joel trusted you with his very core. Mattheus so far was the only he allowed to do it. Kerlongsj never did so. It wouldn't feel right.

With Natasha, he allowed it. She wasn't just his big brother's girlfriend. She was so much more to Joel as well. To say that Natasha loved Joel the same way as Mattheus was a thing all three parties would give you a foul look for. If you were lucky.

But Natasha cherished Joel. They had been through enough and when Mattheus would go out like this, she took care of him. End of the story. Anyone who'd ever lay a finger on Joel would have to deal with an angry Joel, a pissed off Mattheus (which made him worse. Anger was a quick burn, pissed was a status in which he wasn't enjoyable) and an enraged Natasha. Good luck surviving that.

Jogging in the place, the group turned to him. Okay, Ichika, Kizuna, Aine, Yurishia? Wait, where was Hayuru?

"Took you long enough." Reiri spat at him. There were things that were going too far with him. "I'm sorry if I ain't here on time but so far I knew, we weren't in alarm so excuse me if I thought I could take the day off. What's going on?" He asked.

Reiri had to have a big talk with him later. But he could get in line. "Himekawa is captured by the enemy." Okay, that wasn't good.

"What? Why the hell would she go after them? Especially if we were told to wait until we found a decent way of handling that threat." Ichika asked the group. Reiri sighed on that question. This was a headache. "We don't know that, Orimura. But for now, we can't have a solution for that. There's no other way than to save that hostage. We don't have any information from that AU. We don't know what else we can do but we have to save her."

Mattheus began to think on the situation on how to tackle this threat. "Either way, we can't do anything else but to save that hostage." When he saw Hayuru captured by the enemy, Mattheus knew that they didn't have any other choice. We will have to attack her."

She turned to Kizuna and Aine. "The two of you will have to do something first but Adjzof. From what I learned on Orimura-sensei, I heard you were a sniper. And you're a pretty accurate shot." Mattheus looked at her but he was a bit flattered on that.

"Yeah. I think I know what you're getting at. If I can get her in my sights, I can take her down but I'm afraid that it's not the best idea. As we can see, Himekawa is captured by her HHG or whatever the hell she calls it. If we kill her, I don't think it'll be favorable. Besides that, if we go there, Aldea is one thing. But we have that Tri-head on our backs. I don't think I'll be able to take that down." 'And no way in hell I'm going there with Joel.'

"Don't worry, I got that covered." He waited until he heard Reiri's plan. And he had to agree. That could work.

After a while, they were back at Guam. "So everyone knows what they have to do?" Reiri asked over the intercom. She was a bit worried about this mission but she knew that they were more than capable to take down this threat.

Mattheus was down on the ground, away from his team. They had to draw Aldea out from her ship and destroying that fleet. When that was over, Kizuna, Aine and Yurishia would take care of Hayuru. He'd be meant to take care of Aldea. Preferably with a bullet through her skull.

She was sitting on the ship with her prisoner next to her. Her purple eyes were scanning over Guam. This was just getting better and better.

"This is completely contrary to my expectation. This is really different from the story that I heard from that person. Even though I thought that child in white magic armor is surely the one" She said but she looked up and saw the Tri-Head covering nearby around her.

"If we just had to take back the cores, I would leave you up to that chore. But I think it's about time they'd come back." Suddenly, she felt a disturbance. A loud attack came from below.

"Pulverizer." Kizuna must have done a Climax Hybrid with Aine giving her the boost that she would need to get this started. Crafty bastard. Suddenly, the windows turned red and they destroyed the ships in the process. They could now move in.

Ichika was next to Kizuna as well. Aldea and Hayuru began to slide down on the deck. She had an idea that the bombing was from the last time.

'Even if it is that power, I can't block her when I'm using her Labyrinth Cube. That was the device used to capture Neros. It stopped Hayuru from attacking her but at this point, her options became more and more limited.

But Pulverizer was the last of her worries. A golden light trail, a second HHG was up in the sky. Yurishia had attacked as well. Kizuna and Ichika made their way to the ship. Luckily for them, they were covered from the fire of Yurishia and Aine. But they could do only so much as the power of the weapons wasn't enough to defeat the Tri-Head.

Aldea wasn't too happy to see that as a second time the bombardment would begin, would cause her damage. And Hayuru was still around her. Unfortunately for her, a serious loud bang came from below. They turned to see Mattheus from nearly two kilometers away with his rifle. They couldn't see it from that distance but the barrel was smoking.

He knew that it wasn't enough to stop her but at least, it gave Aine and Yurishia to focus on the different aspects. Aldea was blown away from the power that the rifle carried. When she regained enough consciousness, she felt a blast of a shotgun. Ichika watched over Kizuna as the Eros pilot captured Hayuru.

Using the mode Zeros, courtesy of the Climax with Aine, he had now enough power to get through. Ichika's help was just a boost. But the point was that after the bombardment, debris and dirt was falling down and he had no idea where she could be. Using his trackers, he could locate her and capture her right before she would hit the water.

He got her in his arms but it looked like she was out cold. He wanted to get away from his area as soon as he could.

{This is Kizuna! Himekawa has been safely rescued! We will immediately withdraw from the front line!}

The transmission from Kizuna was delivered to Aine.

Ten kilometers from the aircraft carrier, Aine was readying the Pulverizer on the sky, she was charging the energy for the second shot.

"Next is the Tri-head. Yurishia, lead the prey here quickly!?"

Her sensor reflected the shadow of something approaching in great speed.

{Aine! Aldea is heading there! Be careful!}

The moment she heard Reiri's voice, Aine readied her Pulverizer once more.

"To dare challenging this me in a one-on-one battle, there is a limit even in being conceited."

Before she had the chance, Mattheus had pulled the trigger. "Hate to break it to you but she gotta have more tricks up her sleeve than just the last few right now. Keep your head on your shoulders. We ain't out the woods just yet." He had been keeping tracks on Aldea and pulled the trigger a bit more. He really should talk with Joel about a semi rifle. His bolt action had a lot issues and he was finding it harder and harder to keep track of her.

Aine scoffed on her teammate taking her kills but she took care of when she fired again. And that was above anything anyone saw. The sheer destruction blew away the clouds and the sounds were louder than anyone had ever heard. With this power, even the strongest battleships could be destroyed with one fell swoop. Jesus.

Unfortunately, the cube that Aldea carried with her stopped most of the attack. Mattheus mouth had dropped when he saw that. Ichika had just looked back and his mouth had fallen open as well. The shock was written all over his face. He had been trying to get away from them but even from this distance, his machine could tell him what was going on.

Aldea had decided she had enough and attacked Aine again. A third shot from the Pulverizer was impossible so Aine disbanded the huge canon. She clutched her fist and made her way to her enemy. Mattheus cursed in every possible language he could think off. If she would let him, he could buy her distraction. But no, this woman decided to jump in. Damn it.

After that, the two were locked in a match. And Aine admitted, she really looked like a human. Okay, her hair and sense of clothes made her a whole lot different but that were just minor things. For most part, she was as human as she.

With her elbow thruster, she pushed back to her enemy's shield.

"What is without doubt, is that you are the fool who is challenging this me in close range battle?" When Aine broke through the shield, there was light on Aldea's shield that went brighter and her arm was taken over by the distorted space from her attack. Mattheus tried to maneuver around but he couldn't get a clear shot. Shit, where was Yurishia when you needed her?

But Aine's upper body was almost thrown backwards by gripping the shield. Turned out that was the Life Saver of the Heart Hybrid Gear. A last resorts but Mattheus could agree it was good. Aine stood back from Aldea, not losing contact. She had expected that Mattheus would have pulled the trigger but from he was, he couldn't risk that. Instead of from behind Aine, where a shot wouldn't be a thing he'd balk on, he was now on their side and it was now too dangerous for him to even try.

Aldea on the other hand was still busy fighting Aine. The silverette's kick was stopped by a shield. Still, Aine made her leg move past the shield and it moved to her chest. After that hit, Aldea ignited her thruster and somehow, she stopped Aine. She also stopped fighting herself.

She looked at Aine in amazement. "That fighting, you really are." Her face was no longer looking for a fight. No, Aldea was looking happy.

"For such an amazing magic armor in this world. Could you please tell me what the name is of the Magical Armor?" Aine was reluctant to reveal that but felt it was really important.

"Zeros." She just said and then, Aldea's smile froze up. "Zeros" Her muttering was delirious. "What was your name again?"

"I'll suppose I'll have to teach you. My name is Aine Chidorigafuchi Aine." Aldea was in a shock and even Mattheus could it see from the distance he had. "Chidorigafuchi Aine, Aine, Zeros. You really are." Aldea capped her hands and her smile was a bit disturbing.

"You really are. I knew. This is splendid." Aine on the other hand was too happy. "I wonder if you hit your head before I kicked you. Do I have to kick you before you turn back to normal." Mattheus was not liking this one bit.

"I see. The current you doesn't get what I am talking about. But you do not need to worry. Leave it to me. I'll save you." Aldea was more excited about the stuff going on while Aine was getting more disturbed.

"What are you talking about? Did you really turn insane?" Aine asked while she was looking in shock to the person. 'Didn't need to go that far. She was already touched when we found her.' Mattheus said while he was trying to find a point of where he could fire his gun.

"Well, I suppose that I first have to capture and kidnap you." But before she could set up anything, Mattheus had raised his rifle and was happy enough that while she wanted to get around Aine, she had built enough distance that it was safe enough for him to crack the shot. She turned to him furious and Aine made a bit more distance.

"I did not get one bit of your inane prattling about her but I can tell that I am not liking it one bit. If you want her, you gotta past me." Aldea turned to him and she flew after him. Putting away his rifle, Mattheus went for his spear and handgun. Blocking hers, he could keep enough distance. And his handgun rang shots out.

Kizuna was making his way back to Ataraxia until he heard a voice in his head.

"Kizuna, we need a change of plans. We intended to destroy the Tri-Head with the Pulverizer. The big problem is that Aine and Mattheus are fighting Aldea and that Yurishia and Ichika are occupied with the Tri-Head. We need you something else. The good news is that you are around Himekawa. You need to get back in the zone." Kizuna could only look to Hayuru and realize that this was a suicide mission.

"Nee-chan. We can't go back. Eros isn't going to work against her and Neros is already in the red zone. If we go back now, it's the end of our story." Luckily for him, Kizuna had a big sis with a cool head.

"Kizuna, I'm sending you something that you can use right now. You need to fly straight like this."

"What something?"'

He asked before he could see the capsule being launched. He had a strange feeling it was really familiar. Oh no. They weren't intending to use that on them, right?

Right?

But that wasn't the case and he went in.

Luckily for him, he was happy that Hayuru was waking up later on because she wouldn't be happy. He heard her stirring in her sleep.

"Himekawa?" He asked and she slightly opened her eyes. "I don't know why but this place feels pleasantly fluffy. Wait, nyaa?"

Hayuru Himekawa was a lot of things. Sharp of mind was one of those things. and she woke up with different clothes. Her pilot suit was torn to shreds and Kizuna was right next to her. With that, her voice took a different tone.

She hugged her body to make sure he couldn't see too much. She looked down to her suit. Here and there were a quite a few holes. It was showing quite some skin already and now, it was even more.

She was glaring at Kizuna who was trying his hardest not to look. Damn, was this too much to ask for when you have girls this hot, dressed in those suits? But at least, it wasn't bikini armor. He really should talk about his sis about this.

Well, he had bigger issues like calming down an angry Tsundere. Dear God, did he call Hayuru a typical anime stereotype?

"I did nothing. I just brought you back from the fight that you were having with Aldea." Her memory came back after he told her that.

"I lost right." Kizuna nodded on that. "We're now above the sea. Ataraxia has sent us new equipment. I brought us in here to make sure we're save."

"This is new equipment." It was more like a luxurious room with a queen-sized bed. There was also a table, sofa, dressed monitor. The bathroom was quite big as well.

"I was defeated by her. Her HHG, it can make shields to stop attacks." She pressed her hand on her head, trying to think back on the attack.

"You were an enemy captive by then. You blacked out." She was shocked to hear that and her face showed that.

"How did I get out then?" Her complexion changed when she saw the face of Kizuna changing as well.

"We carried out an operation. Aine's Pulverizer shot down the enemy's ships. Me, Yurishia, Ichika and Mattheus saved you. The problem is that they're all occupied with taking down the enemy. And we're not done yet."

"What do you mean, concretely?"

"Outside, they're all out busy fighting but they're not pushing her back. So…" He wanted to continue but he saw the face of his companion growing pale and her body was shivering.

"Hey, what's wrong?"

"I, I, what did I?"

Kizuna looked over to her and he saw how she went even further down this road. One he was not happy to see her going over like that.

"I'm really useless. Really, I was already useless." He didn't get her but he saw her hand trembling. This wasn't good.

"I was taking action by myself, based on my own emotions. While I am the one who was telling people how they should behave. I caused so many problems for so many people."

Tears were coming out of her eyes.

"Himekawa, please don't burden yourself like that. No one is thinking about you like that."

"Even if no one thinks about that, I can't forgive myself." Shad begun to cry and Kizuna was now realizing this cut deep. It cut her really deep.

"Himekawa, why are obsessed with the Tri-Head?" Her head hung down but she opened her mouth in a determined fashion.

"I have seen that monster before."

That was news to Kizuna. Wasn't it the first time that earth saw this beasts.

"How?"

"It was in the middle of quite a chaos. I didn't make an official report but I have seen it during the second AU conflict. Right before the Megafloat activated, it appeared in Japan."

Himekawa was now looking at nothing with a thousand year stare.

"Entrances also appeared in Japan at the 2nd Another Universe Conflict…however, Yurishia-san participated in the operation of the seventh fleet of American army, while Aine-san had the duty to guard Ataraxia and Megafloat Japan. The protection of mainland Japan was entrusted to me alone."

"They send you on a solo mission. For that sort of thing?"

"Yes."

"Stupid idiot." Really, the guy who had done that to her.

Looked like Kizuna thought like her as well.

"Indeed, a stupid thing. But at the time, I was thinking I could protect Japan. I had no idea how far you could push the machine. I was proving so wrong. Certainly, I defeated quite a few enemies. But then, the enemy came full march. It was impossible to stop them."

There were again tears coming out her eyes. "I was so desperate to stop them. If I was stronger, I could protect the people. It was like emptying the ocean with a thimble."

She paused before speaking again. "I wanted to protect those people. But I couldn't. I got the order to fall back. I had to buy time for the passengers that was shipped in Tokyo Bay. They were laughing and smiling at me. I was sure to protect them. But then, that thing came and I was defeated. I promised a little girl that I'd protect her. But still, I couldn't defeat that beasts. And I was defeated by that beasts."

She suppressed the sobbing spilling from her mouth with her hand, crying while stifling her voice.

"I was conceited, I before the 2nd Another Universe Conflict happened, I was hailed as the trump card of Japan. Everywhere I went, everyone made a fuss of me, I was feeling as if I had become a princess."

That was quite a difference from Kizuna who had been thrown away by his mother.

"I wanted to see things for myself. But I couldn't do anything else. Because of my HHG, I was only meant for publishing papers. But I couldn't do anything else. I couldn't have a boyfriend or hang out."

A teenage girl wanted love somehow. And that was something that was denied to Himekawa.

"If I was just better at training. Perhaps, I could have saved those people. If I didn't let my pride get in the way."

"And so, I don't want to repeat such a mistake for the second time. I regulate myself, remonstrate myself, I live systematically, sever my desire, not slacking in my daily training, I give my all for the sake of my mission. I decided in my heart to live like that."

"With that, Kizuna understood where her desire came from. Her harsh treatment of peers was only the way to prevent them of making the same mistake. That was the only plausible way of seeing it .

"Everyone of Amaterasu who shouldered the same mission as me. As well as all the students of Ataraxia, so that they won't make same mistake as me, I want them to lead a wholesome life."

"I understand your feeling but isn't that a little too extreme?"

Himekawa's glare was pointed at Kizuna and the evidence of her crying was pretty clear.

"No! It's something to protect your own life. And the lives of the people of Japan. I don't want to repeat that mistake again?"

Kizuna reached out to her shoulder and placed her hand to that.

"It's fine. Most of us don't know your story. Even so."

"Please. Leave me be. I'm just a human. A low human."

Trying to get the hand of her shoulder, she hit the bed several times with her fist clenched. "Everything would be better if the Core of Neros was installed in someone else. If that was the case, no one would be in danger. Even those I couldn't save."

It was something new to see her like that. He had seen her composed, dignified and serious. But like this. This was new and he didn't like that.

"I'm sorry. Because, I had the core. I got the HHG and a lot of people died because of that. and this resulted in only more problems." Like her, he had his issues from the past.

"It's true that you need to look at the past. But only for the sake of learning something from it. You can't live like this. This is killing you. Looking back with hurt in your soul."

"But that's it. I haven't learned a thing." She was now crying and it didn't look like she was stopping any time soon.

"Just leave me. I quit from Amaterasu and I'll run away Ataraxia. I had enough."

Not good. He had to make sure she would be back on her feet. There wasn't a way to make thing better. Not just for her but everyone involved.

Kizuna sidled up right next to her.

"Himekawa. Can you listen to me?"

Curse me. As much as you like. Someone like me?" She tensed up as he embraced her.

"What are you doing?" Her cheeks became red like the area around her eyes. She found his face close to her nose.

"Like this you can calm down right?" He remembered his sis doing this for him when he was a kid.

"Pervert."

Himekawa complained but she didn't resist too much. Kizuna took a deep breath. "Listen. There were lives you couldn't save. There were lives you have saved. But you don't know that. One thing is clear. You can't save everyone. It's messed up but it's the truth. You can't save everyone."

"That's true. But I don't know for sure."

"You saved my life. When I entered Ataraxia for the first time, you were the one saving me from the Viking."

"Really. But you still had a HHG yourself."

"Not really. I am not a real fighter and at the time, Eros wasn't adjusted. In fact, I was a civilian. You saved my life. That's how I see it."

He paused and waited until she listened to him. "If you didn't save my life, Yurishia would have died during the attack on the ISA an Aine would have been killed during the attack on the airships. Saving me saved a lot of people. That's the only way to see it.

"Even so, I don't know if that'll be enough."

"Listen. You want to redeem and I get that. But you need to fight with us."

"That's why, I told you that a useless human like me will just cause even larger damage. Please search for another qualified person."

Kizuna breathed a sigh.

"Is that so?"

Kizuna put some strength to his arms that were embracing Himekawa and pulled her body closer.

Himekawa was forced to entrust her weight to Kizuna's body.

"What is it? What are you planning to do!? Doing something like this"

"Isn't this fine?"

"Eh?"

"Because, Himekawa had already giving up fighting right? Then, whether you skip your training, or go playing around, even if you have a slovenly life, or get along with a boy, you shouldn't particularly mind it. Because, those things are things that Himekawa refrained from in order to fight the enemy."

"That's. I didn't mean it like that. I wasn't refraining. I have said that I don't want to do things like this."

"But you shouldn't feel guilty about this, right?"

"You're right but still."

Her cheeks heated up again.

"No, I don't want to give you my first time, just for this."

"I'm begging you."

"I told, I don't want to do anything."

"To help Aine, Yurishia, Ichika and Mattheus."'

She paused and she looked at him. His face was set in a serious tone.

"Those are in danger. And we need our power to save them." She was lost in her gaze.

"It's too late. How can I?"

"Climax Hybrid."

Her face heated up like he knew that was going to happen.

"This. Such a shameless thing is out of the question."

"It's either that or losing everyone in this fight? You want their death on your shoulders as well." It was harsh, yes but what would else could he say?

Her words were stuck in her throat.

"The only way we can restore your Count is by using Heart Hybrid. With the equipment of Corruption Armament, using the Climax Hybrid. Those are the only ways we can way."

"I don't know if there's something like that in my machine."

"Me neither but I think it's a safe bet to use it."

Her chest was throbbing even harder as his eyes eyed up her honestly.

"You've seen the power of Zero's Pulverizer. There's something as strong as that in Neros."

"If it is there, what do you mean with that?"

"We can defeat the Ultra with your help."

Inside her, she got a shock and a big one at that.

"That demon. I can defeat that."

"Yep."

She was thinking back at the people she had lost. The girl that called her big sis.

Kizuna took her hand and his finger intertwined with hers. Her back shivered from the sole action.

"I've thought you didn't like it but if you don't actually hate it and only stayed away from it because of that reason, I'm relieved."

"I told you already. I don't like it or anything like that." A moan cut her off when one of his hands was at her back.

"Please just for once. Do a Climax Hybrid with me and let's fight together."

Kizuna separated their fingers and he caressed her head. Her glossy black hair was touched through it and he stroked her cheeks while touching lips.

"Don't touch my hair that casually. Hair is a woman's soul."

He caressed her cheek to her ear. She was really sensitive, she gave him a reaction when he touched her.

"I'm not some shameless woman like." Again, he cut her off by his caresses and her eyes became intoxicated.

"I said no. I get you need to do this but I don't want to this. Like this."

His hand crawled from his hair back to her back and she shivered from the sensation.

"There's no other option. Just for one time, okay." While she narrowed her eyes, it was more pleasantly.

"If this is the only time. If I don't do it, I won't be able to save everyone so that's why, it can' be helped."

His hands were travelling down south on thighs. "

"It feels good." She said or better put, her words leaked from her.

"What feels good? Your head or your legs?"

"My head, my head."

"Really." From her head, Kizuna's hands brushed her long hair like it was scooping it. His hands brushed through it. He was exploring her body this way. Slowly but surely, he touched her body.

"Where are you touching?"

Each time, his hands went somewhere else, her body twitched to it.

"Himekawa is really sensitive." His hand went to her chest.

She suddenly embraced herself with her two hands, hiding her breasts.

"What's wrong?" He stared at her and he wasn't hoping he was going too fast.

"Hida-kun, you too think they're too small right?"

"What?" Okay, where did this come from?

"No, I told you before. I don't think that at all." Kizuna wasn't too much involved in that. Sure, Hayuru's boobs might have been smaller than Yurishia or Aine's but she was one hell of a knockout. So he wasn't concerned about that.

"You're lying. You absolutely compared them with those of Aine and Yurishia." She pouted. Did she pout? Was she pouting?

Kizuna was a bit confused but he had to put her in a good mood. "Sorry but the person in front of me is Himekawa. If you say I'm comparing, then for normal breasts, Himekawa got a bigger size."

"Really. Just why do you guys care about that. Something like that doesn't matter."

He wanted to say some stuff to her but he had to hold back. She was the one who started all this. "Well, your shape is beautiful. Can you show me so I can see it properly?"

"That's shameless. How can you say it so calmly?" She wanted to protect but with her arms, covering her breasts, she couldn't do that.

"Is this really okay?"

"Yeah, they're really pretty."

His rough fingertips the base of her breasts. Despite the slightest touch, she was still really sensitive. Her body was writhing around the bed, like there was electricity through her body.

"Aa, please don't. Don't." Her face was really red and she could feel the shape very well through her suit. He smiled at her when she was feeling it this much. Damn, she was so cute.

"Himekawa, you really feel this easily, huh?"

"You're wrong? This is." Her strict nature came in conflict with her shamelessness.

He looked at her and he was busy touching her.

"You don't need to be shy. Believe me, you don't lose one bit compared to Yurishia or Aine."

He calmly pressed against her whole breasts. Her mind wanted to ask a question but she withered in his touches. Her body was really sensitive, it made him worry she would lose her stamina.

He was caressing her body and he felt that she enjoyed it t as well. If this continued, he would be able to reach Heart Hybrid rather easily.

Kizuna's hand caressed from her breast to her side and stomach. Her body twisted as though running away from that hand, but there was no escape. Like that his hand moved from her waist to her thighs, he was caressing her legs. At that time, his finger pulled at the hole on her tights.

"Your suit really has taken some damage." He said to her while he smiled. He used his knees to crush her.

"No way, I got no change." Luckily, there was one here. Kizuna quickly got up and he opened the dresser at the wall and got a spare suit.

"I'll put this on the side of the bed."

"Yes." She moved her body to the side of the bed and he raised it up and brushed her hair.

"Please." He got her message and he took her slender leg. He had to make sure to get her excitement last longer. Her eyes were filled with light and he could see she was nearly there.

Crouching, Kizuna took off the tights with the holes in it. He was looking at her and her beauty went to everything. She withered really in his touch.

He looked up to see her, well, most could guess what was there. It only had one silver of thing fabric. How did someone managed to damage that part?

She shivered more as he undressed her. When he saw the shape of her foot, he couldn't think straight. A slow kiss went to the back of that foot. Placing kisses all over her body, she felt her paralyzing everywhere. She tried to hold back but particles of red light were coming out. Aine was blue, Yurishia was yellow and hers was red? Weird.

She tried to hold back but felt his hands on her ass. His fingers rubbed with the rhythm of his hand. It made even more particles.

"Please stop. This is shameful." She tried to hold back but there was nothing to protect her from it. He kissed her on a special place. Her back arched back and it was like everything of her body was under strain.

"AAAAAAAAAAAA!" And the strain was broken under her.

"This is Heart Hybrid."

'Aah. This feels so good?

Unbelievable.

For such a pleasure, to exist'

"It feels like the world has changed."

She was drunk on this pleasure. It felt so good, doing this with him. With him?

"Awesome job. Your Hybrid Count is at full charge." He looked to his phone and saw that happened. "If that's so."

She looked back to him.

"What thing are we doing next?" She asked him and Kizuna realized it wasn't over. He had to continue this. He had to go over her count but for that, he had to bring her to even higher heights. Seriously, who the hell had thought up with this sort of mechanism?

Kizuna now was out place here but he wondered. Was it really necessary he had to go so far? It was like he could only get those powers .

For Yurishia, SM brought her over the edge. But with her?

What could he do? But he couldn't test everything. Not with everyone out there risking their lives.

Kizuna displayed the console and like some pampered cat, she snuggled up to him. He had his idea. His hand hit the console and the room changed to the guidance room of Ataraxia.

"What in the world?" His female companions eyes were open in a real shock. "The function of this new equipment is an environment simulator. Not only location but even our clothes can be changed?"

"Clothes?" She looked down and she was wearing little less than her unmentionables. "Underwear?"

She wore her usual clothes but that wasn't all. Kizuna looked over to her and Hayuru was also wearing a bit more.

She looked into a mirror and she saw there was a cat headband on her. With her flustered behaviour, she saw her ears moving along with those. She had changed into a cat girl. Besides the ears, there were a few new additions.

"You also have a collar?" It was fastened to a bell with a red collar. When she moved her head, a ding was heard.

He looked over and he saw that there was a last piece. Really, who the hell thought this up? Right, he did.

"A tail as well." She looked behind herself and right. A tail right out her panties came out and it was waving left and right.

"This is really perverted."

"You don't say." When he was met with silence, he couldn't help but think about the situation.

"That public morals committee member Himekawa Hayuru, inside this sacred student guidance room, she is doing this kind of cosplay, this really cannot be told to other people."

Himekawa's throat gulped audibly.

"But, this is an imaginary world. If it's here, it's fine to do whatever you like you know?"

If it was the usual Himekawa then she would surely reject it. But, right now she was under an aphrodisiac effect due to Heart Hybrid. Himekawa would surely get on board. That was a good thing right here but still. He couldn't help but marvel at her.

"What I like, anything?"

"Right. The things you can't do in reality, that are impossible. In here, no one will know. No one will have their opinions about you."

Sweat came from her forehead. "It's not like I really want to?"

"But you're excited right?" Himekawa had a long guilt under her. That would explain her strong and stern behaviour. But she would now see that she shouldn't be ashamed to lose up.

He had to make sure she wouldn't be hurt from her past. And he had to do so without breaking the girl. Himekawa stared at herself in the mirror. Her thighs fidgeted and rubbed against each other. Her head nuzzled against his chest.

It should be illegal to be this cute.

"What a cute cat?" He said while stroking under her chin. Really one big cat.

"So if I'm thrown away, will you pick me up and play with me?" The phase of keeping her stimulated made him as well, excited.

She felt his heart throbbing under his chest and he was curious how she thought about it. "A boy's chest? It's hard and it also has wide shoulders."

Her own hands, soft and smooth, also explored her body. He had this when Aine teased him during the attack on Ataraxia.

"For some reason, your hands are moving in a lewd way. Not something you show to a cat?" He wondered who he had in front of him.

"Himekawa. You have to ask yourself. Where are you touching me?" She smiled as a little devil and again, pink met red energy. His hands moved down from her neck to her chest. Enjoying her soft body and liking how she became this, he liked this about her. In the middle of her body, he touched her chest.

"Hey, Kizuna-kun. When you did Climax Hybrid with Aine-san? What did you do to her?"

"To Aine. Well, I."

"I want you to do the same things to me." He looked up other eyes and her eyes were showing how much she wanted this. He sighed and he felt like he was moving along with this. His body wanted this as well. He slipped his fingers between her bra and her breasts, feeling her up directly.

Her body twisted in pleasure. It looked like she really liked it. He took off her bra and he looked at them.

Like he said, her breasts were smaller than Yurishia and Aine but it was still really beautiful. He took them up and he began to feel her up. He enjoyed her body a bit too much but still. There was no way he wasn't going to say he was lucky.

He began to travel down further up to her ass. That caused quite a reaction to her as Hayuru tensed up when she felt his hands on her ass.

"Hey, Himekawa. Are you okay?" He asked her. Taking heavy breaths, she tried to calm down.

"Yes, I'm fine but please don't touch that place too much." She hugged Kizuna and clung to him tightly. Kizuna couldn't hold back to explore her. Taking one half in each hand, he clung to her closer and the effects were noticeable. They were soft but held something different from her breasts. He enjoyed the sensation of touching her and seeing her react.

"Please, I told you not to do thaaaaaat." She looked at him and her tail was erectly. He also saw her ears standing up like that. In his eyes he could see that she was drawing in the pleasure. He slowly tugged on the tail and she tensed up big time.

A scream where he couldn't make most of it

"Nyaa. What are you. Please don't. Don't touch my tail."

"Hey, Himekawa. You're not telling me that this tail is."

"I don't know. Don't ask me. Please don't. It's not attached to anything." He didn't know what he should do. Push it back in or pulling it out? One way to find out.

He pushed on the tail and she tensed up again. It was like seeing ahegao with her eyes clouded and her tongue hanging out her mouth.

"Hey, are you really okay?" He asked her.

Her body trembled as she was heated up by it and she tried to fight back the effects of her body under this train, desperately looking for release.

"I'm fine but please, don't touch my tail so much." Her teeth chattered in her mouth. He looked at her and saw her body trying to fight back those effects. He knew that she wasn't too happy about this.

"I'm sorry Himekawa." He grasped her tight and lifted up her body.

'I want to see her Climax. Her Climax Hybrid.' His hand found the tail and pulled it out. Pleasure, heights unreached before came out. Her consciousness went out like that and he looked at her as her whole body convulsed to the pleasure that she was feeling now.

The red was now dazzling and shining. It filled up the room and he could see how her energy met his own. It was even stronger than the previous Heart Hybrid.

He raised up her body and she could see herself in the mirror. Her body, far beyond the point of exhaustion was embraced by Kizuna. She felt such a mess but she felt so relieved by the pleasure that she had just felt.

"This was Climax Hybrid." It was a strange and foreign feeling but she didn't mind at all. She felt power surging through her body and she smiled at him. She could take on the world.

His hand came out. "Himekawa." He offered her a hand. She took; it and stood back up.

"Kizuna-kun."

"We're going to end this. You need to settle your past. And I'm going to help with you that." Both of them kept their hands joined and they went outside. The dawn was setting in, the morning was coming. With a nod, they started up their Gears.

"Neros!" She shouted and her machine was built around her. With parts of jet black, that was close to Kizuna's Eros. Proof of what they have done.

"Eros!" He shouted and like her machine, it changed. Black and silver. He could feel more power.

He went for his earpiece. "Kizuna speaking. I got the Climax Hybrid with Neros. Ataraxia, what are our instructions?"

{Reiri here. Thirty klicks southwest from you are Ichika and Yurishia fighting the Tri-Head. Both of them at are the ends of their wits. Hurry up!}.

Himekawa's mouth resolved around her.

"Let's go, Kizuna-kun." Kizuna nodded and as answer he yelled.

"Mode Neros!" The machine was even further worked out with his machine. Neros abilities were in his machine. He could do this. With this power.

"Kizuna, Himekawa, heading out for category-Ultra's extermination from now on!"

Light was filling the thruster, then Himekawa and Kizuna flew to the sky.

I'm gonna end it here because it'll become too long to upload it A today and it would be a longer read. So for now, I'll end it and I hope I'll be able to work more in the coming weeks. I'm at my last week for now at my holiday job, although I'm really hoping that I can come back after my week holiday.

I have started up a Paetron account and I'm trying to work that one out. So far, I'm gonna need help so it's more to let you guys know. I'm nearly done with this one so this one was my first choice. I hope it'll be working around September. Just to let you guys know. When this summer is over, I just hope that I'll have three major uploads for my fics.

This is just to let you guys know. Made a promise to someone and I'm gonna keep it. Did so.

Saluut.