Chapter 12: Is it a dream or is it real?
Note: Readers please listen to Need For Speed Undercover (Soundtrack) Miami Drift
It's now I'm in what I'm guessing is my temporary bedroom, which consists of a lovely view of what I'm guessing is a lake outside. The room is about average size consisting of a low double bed with quilts and sheets, but not much furniture other than a wooden sliding wardrobe and a chair, but it is a nice comfortable place to sleep in.
I'm sitting on the low double bed with Noire, and we are talking right now, reflecting on what has happened today.
"….knowing Vert while I agree we should at least try and talk to her, I'm unsure if she'll agree to fight me one on one though. This is because even though we have won that battle, we are close to defeat so she reckons she can just beat Lasation with ease." Noire speaks with concern to me.
"I see your point, maybe if we're to stand our ground, take out their bases maybe it could work then. Or what if we could kidnap her with the Chronosphere, then make her submit that way." I suggest trying to sound optimistic, though I must admit the situation with Vert does indeed look bleak.
"I don't think she'd surrender even if we captured her. My beef is not with the Leanbox soldiers but it's perhaps with Vert, meaning I want to avoid destruction of Leanbox if possible. I'd like to know why Vert is doing this.
Thing is she never explained why she declared war in the 6th generation, in fact she never spoke to me that much, so if we're to talk to her we will have to capture her for sure, and make sure she is unable to fight in any way. Of course we have to wait a few days before we can even locate her." Noire explains to me.
"Agreed, I just hope we can hold out until then.
I mean who is to say they won't attack tonight with full force? Do you think we can hold them off?" I reply in the same tone.
"I'm unsure, there's no telling what they'll do. I mean the way they did that attack has surprised me, especially with just using loads of infantry. Hopefully we'll have at least some more troops defending PS3 City tomorrow. If they attack tonight, we'll do our best. Hopefully the Egrets can hold them off, while we bring our reinforcements there. Today must have been very eventful for you, I hope you're able to have a good nights sleep." Noire replies in a caring tone while smiling a lot.
While she speaks she places a soothing hand on me to help me relax. Which I appreciate as it works very well.
"You too, I mean you must have a lot on your plate, as you're in charge of the safety of Lastation as well as the strategies we use. It must be very tragic for you to find yourself fighting against the other 3 CPUs. What I will say is that I'm very happy to be with you, and I would like nothing more than to be able to help you in any way I can. It will be my pleasure and honour, as like you I'd love to make this world a much better place." I reply to her smiling as well.
What I say brings such joy to Noire. She even gives me such a loving hug before giving me a nice caring kiss on my forehead.
"Ah that's very thoughtful of you. Thank you very much you have done very well. Goodnight Black." She stands up with a smile on her face, blowing a kiss to me before she leaves the room, I notice she's flirting again as well.
"Goodnight Noire." I call back to her blowing her a kiss as she leaves the room.
What a day today indeed huh? I wake up in a gaming world, I become friends with Noire and some of my favourite game characters. And yet I have to do my best to defend this nation from Leanbox. I have no problems doing it it's just I hope I can do it, but if my CPU has faith in me and my skills have surprised me and are of the required level, then maybe I can do this. I wonder what I'll be dreaming tonight though? That is assuming of course I'll get to sleep, which… I'm unsure because of all the events that happened that day. I have a lot on my mind to take in, as I shut my eyes and attempt to go to sleep, which for me I know it's easier said than done.
After a while of trying to go to sleep with various thoughts racing through my mind, I think I'm dreaming now. What makes me think this is now I'm in a room that looks familiar. I remember being in this room before "arriving" in Lastation, the room is quite small, it's a living room and it is a basic room.
I'm sitting on a black simple couch with a chair next to both sides of the couch. I look around, there's a flat screen TV with a PS3, a table and a cabinet with a mirror on the wall above the cabinet. The walls are bare and white, while the carpet is blue.
What am I doing here? Why do I remember this place? I go to the mirror because I want to know what my face looks like, this is because as odd is at sounds I don't know what my face looks like.
I look at the mirror, I take off my hood and my sunglasses so I can find out my own hair and eye colour.
I now realise my hair is black and it is very long tied back in a pony-tail, as for my eyes, my irises are red. To me this suggests I am related to Noire as I remember Noire's human form has red eyes, as do Uni's human form. They both have black hair that is long, while Noire's is longer and are in pig tails. This does intrigue me to know that I have a similar appearance to my own CPU.
Suddenly though my skin becomes very pale, almost grey, I even have veins that are highly visible around my neck. As for my clothes they become ripped and appear unwashed, my hygiene has also dropped as well and I feel rather smelly and dirty. I am familiar with the symptoms and I have reason to believe that according to the video game I recall being called inFamous, I have achieved the rank of infamous.
But how though? How come I've become evil all of a sudden? What have I done wrong? Is it the battle? The carnage does bother me and even then I killed no one in cold blood, and offered the chance of surrender. With me having amnesia could it be that I have done something really bad in the past? I'm not sure. Or perhaps this is inflicted by someone else. Maybe it's just in my dream and I'll be fine when I wake up again.
I decide to put my sunglasses and hood back on. I then look down and there are a couple of old photos.
I look at one of them. It's a picture of a few young children, one of them is a baby with a bit of black hair, another is a female toddler with short black pigtails, and there is a male toddler with a short black ponytail. I notice that they're all wearing black baby pyjamas, that cover their bodies apart from their head and hands, they look familiar but why don't I recognise them? I guess it could be me, Noire and Uni yet for some reason I don't feel sure.
I must admit I find it unusual yet awesome, that there are implications that I am related to Noire.
It is then I have a flashback now, a memory being replayed.
Unfortunately I have no idea where it is, as what I see is all fuzzy and it's hard to make out stuff.
"Good news Black we have adopted two girls from…" A gentle voice says.
It was a male and I'm pleased the voice is clear, could it be my dad though? I have no memory of him at all. After he said "from" I heard a beep, the same beep when you censor stuff.
"Although one of them was born in…." Another gentle voice says.
I guess it's my mum, and it's the same story with regards my memories of her. I vaguely remember this event, but it was when I was a toddler. I don't know why the places are censored, probably due to my amnesia or something else.
"Wot is their name?" I ask my parents, though I said the sentence quite slowly.
"The toddler is Noire and the baby is Uni." Mum says? I'm guessing it's mum here.
I see the toddler with a smile on her face and I see her red eyes looking at me. I can tell how she sees me as a friend, someone to play with, someone to love.
After seeing that the flashback is now over. That's rather weird, me meeting the Lastation CPUs in their human forms as babies? This is odd, so basically I knew them from an early age, it could explain why they are very friendly towards me. Noire did think that I could be her brother, maybe I am but where were we when we met? I dunno, the place got censored out.
I look at another photograph. With this one I'm in it wearing the same clothes as now, but I also see Noire and Uni in their human forms, this time in what appears to be their mid to late teenage years, with the same appearance as in the first 2 games and we're also standing by a bus.
Yeah for Noire she has her black hair tied in pig tails that are so long, they reach her waist. Her hair is tied by rather pretty two piece blue bows, and she also has neatly combed bangs that cover her fringe. She's smiling in that photo and her red eyes are stared directly at the camera. For her outfit it consists of a navy blue and white colour scheme, and she has a blue and gold bow attached to a ribbon with a gold jewel on top. This very ribbon drapes over her cleavage that shows her womanhood. She wears what appears to be a fancy strapless dress of various colours. At the top which starts at the bottom of her woman hood, the colour is white with a bit of red at the centre with black and gold stripes. Her dress appears to be what consists of a bustier which is naval blue, tied together with gold buttons, though the bottom two are undone revealing more red as well as what looks like a white ruffled skirt, with navy blue seams along each layer. She has quite a large blue and gold bow tied on her back. She also wears rather long navy blue gloves that cover much of her arm. On her upper arms is white material that goes around at the end and has 2 layers. On top of the hand part of her gloves is a large gem, and her gloves only cover the top part of her hand in a triangle shape, only to end at the bottom of her middle finger. She also wears very long navy blue boots that have high heels, and another large gem on top of her toes. At the upper thighs at the centre her boots consists of white patterns on it.
I like the clothes, she looks like a princess which is very appropriate considering how I see her as a princess, a queen, an empress and someone of royalty. It's a very nice costume and makes her look attractive and adorable.
Uni's appearance is almost similar to her older sister. Her hair is long and black which reaches her back. Like Noire she wears pigtails but less of her hair is tied up, and the bows are black and milky blue. The way they're tied makes them look like antennae which is quite cute. Her hair is quite wavy and is in strands, her hair also covers her fringe in neatly combed bangs like her CPU, and her eyes are red just like her leader. She wears a black collar with frills around it, with a light blue circle at the centre. She wears a black fancy strap less dress, only for her colour scheme it is black with milk blue around the edge at the top, and at the bottom of her frilly skirt. On top of her dress which connects to her collar, is a large circular piece with a grey ring pattern with the word Lastation in the circle. On the dress she wears what appears to be some sort of belt, as well as a small fancy bow at the back that matches the colour scheme. To the side of her dress is her PSP. Like Noire she wears black long arm length gloves, though those are fingerless and only cover the bottoms of her fingers. The gloves also appear to be folded at the top, and have a black and milk blue pattern on the folded part. She wears boots though unlike her older sister, she wears knee length boots that are mostly black with a bit of silver around the top, on her boots is a grey circle and an arch shape above it.
Like with Noire I like her attire, she looks rather adorable and cute.
Yeah it was a lovely photo, it's just unfortunate I don't remember the location but then I have another flash back. This time I'm on a bus with about a dozen people, they look familiar but I don't know from where, it must be my amnesia. I'm sitting on a seat behind the driver, I notice the driver is a male who is dressed in a purple tracksuit and has short purple hair.
I look out of the window, we must be on a very tall bridge as all I can see are mountains, rocky mountains as well as lots of dirt, we must be over a gorge or something. I can't really see anything else and there doesn't seem to be any signs of life whatsoever.
It is then I can hear Uni yelling her name, she said something else but that got censored. The same went with Noire who did the same thing. I don't think they swore, I think they said a location that for some reason I'm not allowed to hear. As if on automatic I say.
"I am Black and I'm from…" I call out.
The driver then gets out of the seat and points a hand gun at all of us. I remember this happening to me, I feel very nervous now. I do remember that the world I was from, does not match the physics of the world I'm in now.
"So sorry I have to do this, have a nice ride, bye." The driver speaks to us, after which he jumps off the bus.
For reasons I'm unsure of, I get out of my seat and manage to grab his legs as he jumps out. I must be on automatic again as I'm finding myself doing things that I remember doing, but having no control of. This reminds me of Assassins Creed where people were reliving what I think were their ancestor's lives. They had no control but they got to see what happened.
"Why do you want us dead tell me!" I yell.
"I'm sorry I was under orders." The driver yells back in fear.
Due to the strong wind and the weight of the driver, I end up losing my grip and he falls and he screams. As it turns out he was wearing a parachute, but it doesn't work meaning he'll fall to his death.
A muscular teenager with mid length blonde hair and beard had rushed to the driver seat, attempting to stop the bus…..
The flash back is now over. Could I be dead and I'm in a different world? Or is there more to this? OK, I've encountered Noire and Uni before me being in Lastation, this confirms it but where was I during those 2 flash backs? I don't know. It intrigues to find reasons to believe I'm Noire and Uni's brother. I would love to actually be their brother and my gut tells me that this is the case, it does fill me with joy to know that I must have been with them a lot during my past. I would like to know for sure and actually see some proof.
It's ironic that I was hoping that going to bed would give me a chance to rest from the things that baffle me, but I end up finding more things that trouble me. I was hoping to have time to think about this, but sadly it's not be as suddenly I hear a loud knock on the door. After which a few riot police storm in with their guns pointed at me.
"PUT YOUR HANDS ON YOUR HEAD AND ON YOUR KNEES DO IT NOW!" One of the cops yell at me.
I obey immediately, I find this strange as I remember this happening to me before. This concerns me deeply, I don't like the idea that I could have been a very bad person before my amnesia. I want to be good, be helpful, make change for the better.
One of the cops holster their weapon and put some handcuffs on my hands. They feel quite cold and uncomfortable. He then pulls me up and drags me along, the cop sounds like the interrogator from Black Ops, which is very distinctive as well as unrecognisable.
"Black I'm arresting you for stealing PS3s and distributing fakes, along with selling pirated games and countless illegal downloads. You have the right to remain silent but anything you do say may harm your defence, if you do not mention when questioned something which you may later rely on in court. Anything you say may be given in evidence. OK take him to the police station where he'll be taken to court and face a free trial, not that you deserve one." The cop says with no remorse what so ever.
I remember the cop saying this to me, but I don't remember doing the crimes I have been accused of. The problem is I have amnesia, I could have done anything. I just hope I have not been evil.
I am now dragged into a van outside, and I can really feel my feet dragging along the pavement, it's not long before I'm thrown inside the back.
The next moment I remember is me being awake now. I'm no longer dreaming but sweating and panting frantically. I calm down though, and I feel safe now knowing I'm in my temporary bed and Noire is a few rooms away. It was a bad dream Black, it was just a bad dream Black. Or was it though as, as I said I remember some of it from before. I don't believe I did any bad things in the past, but what doesn't help is that the dream makes out that I have been bad. Do you see me as a villain or a hero? Maybe I should talk to Noire in the morning, it's fine. I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation behind all this. I shut my eyes and attempt to go to sleep again despite the difficulties.
Note: Readers please listen to Call of Duty Finest Hour The Sewers while reading this bit.
OK I'm in the dark now but for some reason I can't see anywhere, my special visions don't work here for some reason. I do know that I can feel cold slimy water on my feet.
The place lights up and I'm in some sewers, although where exactly I don't know, and there doesn't seem to be any exits either. I see then two girls standing side by side, I know who they are, they are Neptune and Nepgear named after the GameGear, they're in their human form.
Neptune has short purple hair with what looks like control pads in her hair and a fringe, she has two of these pads on each side. The purple eyed Neptune wears a white hoodie with purple around the edge on her arms and waist. The hoodie comes with a zip and pockets, which look like circles with purple pluses on them. She also wears what looks like long purple and light blue horizontal striped socks, and white and purple sneakers with a letter N on the tongue, as well as some futuristic necklace.
So this is Neptune eh? Yeah she happened to be the worst character from the series. I despised Neptune so much. I hated what she represented. She was lazy and yet had everything go her way, she's got a massive ego and doesn't care about anyone but herself. She doesn't even do her job as CPU and even bullies people and picks on them, making jokes at their expense. Yeah what Noire is Neptune is not and what Neptune is, Noire is not.
Then there is also what she has done to my CPUs. Due to my amnesia I don't have any actual memories, and perhaps it's for the best that it's blocked out, but I knew deep down that it was horrific, terrible, as well as how they always tried and portray Neptune as a good person when she just wasn't. I knew Noire's constant humiliations were appalling, dreadful and disgusting. I find it funny how she claims to be friends with Noire yet I knew she did nothing to prove it, but everything to prove the opposite. I hate everything about Neptune as well as how she is the MC of her series, and yet I hated the series so much. How it was just Neptune burying everyone else, how there was no representation, no equality, no justice. It's pathetic how they try and shove her down my throat as being the best CPU when she just wasn't. The same went with Planeptune looking the nicest, when it doesn't even make any sense. There's nothing for me to like about this witch, she's selfish, lazy and treats everyone terribly and yet she gets the best portrayal. It makes me sick.
With what I remember now from what I've seen for myself from the series, and with what Noire has told me, it does intrigue me how the both of us don't like her, and she appears to be how I see her. Perhaps here I'll get to see her for who she truly is, and not have some stupid script try and paint her to be this heroic ditzy clueless chatterbox.
Nepgear's appearance is sort of similar to Neptune, her older sister to some extent. Her purple hair is actually waist length and while she has a similar fringe with bangs, she only has one control pad clip in her hair. She has the same eye colour and her shoes and socks are similar, to her pathetic excuse of an older sister, only her socks have a pink and white colour scheme and she wears ankle length boots. Her outfit appears to be that of a sailors costume, it's mostly white with purple buttons and there's purple around her wrists, and at the bottom of her dress. She also wears the same sort of necklace as her sister.
I must admit I do have a higher opinion of Nepgear than I do of Neptune. At least she has done some good, I knew she treats the candidates with a lot more respect than Neptune does to the CPUs that's for sure. Another plus is it feels as though it's more of a team effort .
But unfortunately there are a few things I don't like about her, but as odd as it is although my amnesia blocks the actual memories out, I know deep down that there are indeed a few things that I don't like about her, and I knew one thing that tops it all and perhaps made Neptune look a bit better. Perhaps I'll find out more about what made me hate them so much, but I know I do and I trust my gut feeling with my life.
But yeah I definitely hated the series for what it did, and overall I hated them for being behind it, for how they represented the series. And who's to say that more bad things will happen from it. They'll perhaps repeat the same garbage over and over again.
With my thoughts of Nepgear in mind, Noire hasn't mentioned anything of Nepgear, so it does make me curious as to what sort of person she is like here. Will she be a better person than Neptune, will she be more reasonable? Or will she be just as bad as her sister?
I think it's best to play neutral here, even with what I know I don't know their intentions. Neither do I nor Noire know of their whereabouts when the 5th console war was won by Lastation and Lowee. And yet my gut is constantly saying to me they're both bad news, and I remember how much I despised them both even Nepgear. I thought they were a disgrace doing nothing at all for their landmass, and yet they have everything go their way, I found Neptune to be incredibly annoying even from her mere presence.
"Oooh, hello there stranger, I am Neptune. This is my baby sis Nepgear. What is your name, where are you from and what is your favourite cake?" Neptune asks me in her idiotic tone.
She was trying to be friendly although already I found her to be a complete moron. Interesting how she spoke exactly like I remember her, even saying her words like I remember her. Her mere tone I can't stand either as she has this arrogance about her, that's she's better than everyone else. Thing is though I only know my name, though I don't feel like telling her anything if I'm honest.
"I don't know, I don't even know where I am." I say with much sarcasm because I'm sure they brought me here.
I don't feel comfortable here at all, not because of how my body is filled with immense hatred of that CPewww, but my confidence has gone. I'm unarmed meaning I have no means of defending myself, and I don't even know where I am. My gut is just constantly telling me and telling me not to trust them. I wish I could do something, or say something to express my anger against them, as well as what they've done according to Noire but instead I reluctantly do nothing.
"It's OK I do, your name is Black and you're from Lastation. Have you ever encountered Lady Black Heart?" Neptune speaks casually.
Well if she knew that then maybe I should just talk but not really say anything, I apologise if it makes no sense guys. I certainly feel stressed and I can't wait for this nonsense to end.
"Yeah she's a very nice person, I think she does an amazing job." I reply.
I was tempted to add that she's better than Neptune could ever hope to be, and that is something I strongly believe. But none the less I kept the philosophy of thinking it best to act neutral. But every part of me is wanting to beat the crap out of those two, because of how much they've angered me, how much they've offended me, how they fought Lowee for four generations, as well as intending to invade Lastation. I wouldn't be surprised if they're responsible for the wars between Lastation against Lowee and Leanbox. I hated how they do not watch their landmass, and I wouldn't be surprised if Neptune doesn't look after her landmass or worse, I mean there has been various people coming to Lastation informing Noire, about the horrors that go on in Neutralland, but despite all this I restrain myself.
It is then Nepgear speaks. I must admit I do wonder what she is going to say considering how I view her compared to my views on Neptune.
"I have to warn you Black, Lady Black Heart is not as she seems." Nepgear says with concern trying to sound genuine, but I'm unsure if I believe her.
"What exactly do you mean not as she seems?" I ask, clearly sounding as though I don't believe her.
I think I know where this maybe going, it's probably going to be their propaganda nonsense, the same I've been experiencing in their series.
"Have you ever been baffled as to why Noire is so nice and friendly, or even why Lastation looks so wonderful, or why is it so flawless?" Nepgear asks with curiosity.
I'll admit it, I do wonder about Lastation and Noire being so idealistic and seeming to be my own perfect image. But how the hell can they know about me or this? I thought a goddess can only know everything in their own landmass, I don't think Nepgear and Neptune ever visited Lastation. Maybe I was from Neutralland, or at least I visited there before I arrived in Lastation, I dunno.
"You know why? I'll tell you why, it's because she's putting up a front just for you." She explains, her tone begging me to believe her.
But I refuse to believe this, even if it is true why would Noire go out of her way just for me? She would have to put in so much effort, a lot of people have said positive things about her, it makes no sense.
"I'm not sure I can believe that to be honest, I mean why would she do this?" I ask them both, my tone suggesting my lack of faith in their statement.
"Because of the way you are, you only see things how you want to see them. She's actually evil and corrupt, she intends to destroy Lastation just so she can kick our buts." The Candidate Nepgear says with concern.
I may do see things how I want to see them, but I refuse to believe that Noire is evil, as a matter of fact my gut doesn't think that Lastation is evil or Noire is evil for that matter. Funnily enough what she said in her last sentence sounded familiar. It reminds me of what happened in the series and proves my point, how they recycle the same nonsense over and over again.
"Can you prove this?" I ask them both.
"I'll happily show you, no need to cry blubber but. You'll soon know that Noirey is eviley." Neptune says while smiling.
I won't give you the satisfaction Neptune. She then takes me to a place in the sewers where I can view what has happened via a projection. It shows me how when she came to Lastation, there was a company named Avenir that caused Lastation's economy to fall. How they seemed to be really evil, as they are causing grief for smaller companies by putting them out of business. Due to the fact that Avenir doesn't use humans at all they caused mass unemployment. Worse Noire apparently turned a blind eye on all their doing, in fact she was supposedly responsible for doing this, as it turned out it was to oppose Neptune. Neptune then says some more stuff.
"It's a good thing I managed to stop that evil goddess, I mean she wanted me taken down." She says with pride at her alleged victory.
She shows more footage, but this time she showed me the times when they encountered each other and they fought, there was 4 battles and Neptune won every time, and it wasn't even close at all. Noire's reactions to her defeats made it even worse and more heart breaking, but seeing her with Avenir was perhaps the worst of it.
I found the footage tremendously painful to watch, because I do remember seeing this from before, and I remember this actually happening. I want to believe Noire is good, but unfortunately I'm unsure as I find myself convinced from the footage. I'm very confused about all this.
I feel as though my greatest fear, my worst nightmare has been realised to experience a nation that I would be proud of and fight for, to turn out to be pure evil and to be beaten by Neptune not once, not twice, not even thrice but four times.
Neptune then takes me back, I feel very demoralised and stressed, I am close to tears, but I don't cry. Neptune notices this as well as Nepgear.
"Don't feel upset Black, you can save Lastation, all you have to do is to get rid of Lady Black Heart before she does more damage to her nation. Better still fight the corruption and join us, we know of your abilities." Nepgear says with some pride in her voice trying to sound understanding.
Despite the fact I have seen Lastation and Noire to be wonderful, and I believe it to be genuine, what they have shown me I believe happened as well. But how can this be possible? Again my amnesia of only remembering selective stuff doesn't help. Unfortunately what they say does makes sense, as I get more and more upset almost breaking down.
"Can you please explain?" I ask, sounding depressed.
"Only when we're sure you will get rid of her." Nepgear replies.
For some reason they both then chant numbers which reminds me of the numbers from Black Ops.
"12, 1, 19, 20, 1, 20, 9, 15, 10, 0, 5 ,19 ,0 ,11 ,9 ,12 ,12 ,0 ,12 ,1 ,4 ,25 ,0 ,2 ,12 ,1 ,3 ,11 ,0 ,8 ,5 ,1 ,18, 20,100."
They repeat this chant over and over.
"12, 1, 19, 20, 1, 20, 9, 15, 10, 0, 5 ,19 ,0 ,11 ,9 ,12 ,12 ,0 ,12 ,1 ,4 ,25 ,0 ,2 ,12 ,1 ,3 ,11 ,0 ,8 ,5 ,1 ,18, 20,100
12, 1, 19, 20, 1, 20, 9, 15, 10, 0, 5 ,19 ,0 ,11 ,9 ,12 ,12 ,0 ,12 ,1 ,4 ,25 ,0 ,2 ,12 ,1 ,3 ,11 ,0 ,8 ,5 ,1 ,18, 20,100
12, 1, 19, 20, 1, 20, 9, 15, 10, 0, 5 ,19 ,0 ,11 ,9 ,12 ,12 ,0 ,12 ,1 ,4 ,25 ,0 ,2 ,12 ,1 ,3 ,11 ,0 ,8 ,5 ,1 ,18, 20,100."
I have no idea what the numbers mean, whether they're some command for me to do something. I have no idea what, and if I'm honest I wish they shut up because the numbers are getting on my nerves, perhaps breaking down my will even further.
Thankfully I wake up and I'm back in my temporary bed now. Apparently I drooled all over the pillows, must have been from that nightmare. I woke up with a shock and sweat all over my face.
I decide to go the bathroom while picking up my G Con 45 and holstering it, but I don't know why. Could this be I'm brainwashed? Could I be controlled by someone else?
"12, 1, 19, 20, 1, 20, 9, 15, 10, 0, 5 ,19 ,0 ,11 ,9 ,12 ,12 ,0 ,12 ,1 ,4 ,25 ,0 ,2 ,12 ,1 ,3 ,11 ,0 ,8 ,5 ,1 ,18, 20,100." Neptune and Nepgear chant in my head, goddess I can't get these numbers out of my head, not to mention the images of Noire that they have showed me, being played in my head. It's giving me a real headache.
After walking through the corridor, which is difficult to describe due to my vision getting worse, I reach the bathroom and I then see Noire standing inside as she turns to face me. In my vision I can see a lot of single digit numbers in purple all over the place.
I am worried my nightmare has become a reality, and I'm worried that Noire might in fact actually be the mean tsundere who I didn't want to see. I hope not but it doesn't look good as we both stare at each other for a while, with neutral expressions.