"You cursed child!"
"Demon!"
"Cursed child! You don't belong here!"
"She killed my boy!"
"It should've been you!"
"Die!"
"Murderer!"
"DIE!"
"Psycho!"
"DIE DIE!"
"Killer!"
"DIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIE!"
...
Neptune watched with wide eyes as Nepgear made a spear water out of nowhere, wield it like a champ and managed to land a hit on the beast's shoulder, breaking it's momentum. The Del Wulff fell on the ground hard, it whimpered and howled at the pain the spear had hit and with one last growl it fled into the depths of the building.
The purple haired character was too stunned to move and too amazed at what the child in front of her had done. Nepgear released a breath and looked behind her to find her master looking at her in astonishment, but that wasn't what really got her attention.
The younger of the two rushed towards her master and held the older girl's incredibly torn arm gently. She made Neptune sit down and placed the arm on her lap and observed the arm. The skin was messily torn, as bits of the skin found themselves dangling or inside the bleeding arm. The flesh was still in tact, but has suffered from major tear, which will cause it to be useless. A simple healing spell would not heal it completely but it could help stop the bleeding and reduce the pain. Her master would need a skilled doctor or a high leveled magic to repair the damages.
Nepgear leaned closer to the injured arm and sighed in relief. Thankfully, the bone was still miraculously fixed and no damages could be seen despite the pressure it received from the beast.
"Recovery." A faint turquoise light erupted from Nepgear's hand and enveloped the older girl's injured arm, as it starts to stitch itself together. Neptune kept her gaze on the little girl tending to her torn arm.
"...-some" Nepgear lifted her head to look at her master, whose eyes are shinning in amazement?
"That was awesome Nepgear! I didn't know you were really strong!" The younger of the two was bewildered at the sudden outburst of Neptune. Who wouldn't? She literally almost had her arm torn off, and the reaction she shows is that her master was praising her? Shouldn't she be in pain?
"I-It's not that amazing... P-please don't move, master."
"What in the world are you talking about? Did you see yourself? You ran in front of me and cast a really cool spell! I know you're a mage so it not supposed to be a surprise, but damn." Neptune finished with a wide grin on her face, but the smile slowly disappeared when she saw Nepgear looking ashamed and scared.
"What's wrong?"
"...let...master...hurt."
"Huh?"
Nepgear gritted her teeth and swallowed the lump in her throat. "I...let master get hurt..." Neptune looked at the girl in front of her and frowned. "Master c-could do anything she wants to me as my punishment, I brought pain to master. Please, I encourage you, punish this slave f-for being useless." Nepgear said with a slight tremble on her voice. The purple haired character stared at the young girl in front of her and brought up her hand.
The younger of the two flinched at the action and clutched her eyes, preparing for any oncoming impact, but nothing came. Instead she felt something atop her head, and the gentle ruffling motion that Neptune was doing.
Nepgear looked at the other girl with wide eyes, and saw her smiling at her gently.
"Idiot, you're not useless. You rushed in and saved me."
"But-"
"I could've died Nepgear. If it weren't for your magic, that ugly wolf would've got me. It would've ended my story. But it didn't because you saved me, and I could never do anything terrible to you."
Nepgear chewed on her bottom lip and shifted her eyes to where she was fixing Neptune's arm to avoid the said girl's kind gaze. Why was her master so kind? She doesn't deserve it, in fact she should just die because she wasted time watching her master almost be eaten alive before taking action. But somehow, her master would still go on lengths to say that she was amazing, not useless... That she saved her.
"...I..." Nepgear's lips trembled but stopped herself from talking any further. "What is it?" The light erupting from the younger girl's hands came to a halt, and she looked at Neptune.
"...I think master should just punish this mere slave." Neptune frowned. She inhaled and exhaled, this child really needs to understand that she would never do that kind of things. She hates them.
Neptune hates whoever her previous master was, hates that the scum would plant such terrible conscience on a child.
"Hey, did your previous master punish you when you mess up?" Nepgear look through her disheveled purple hair and nod. "...They did." The older purple haired character's eyes narrowed. "They would whip my hands, back and feet. But master shouldn't worry about this slave, this slave deserved it."
"Stop that!" Nepgear gasped at the booming sound of the purple haired character's voice. "You don't need to be treated like shit, you hear me? I don't care if you think I'll do those things to you, because sorry to disappoint you, I would never do that."
"I-"
"Nepgear, I need you to understand that you don't need me to tell you what to do. You're your own person, okay? It makes me really happy to see you acting on your own, albeit it had me worry." Neptune said, she looked down to see her torn hand only to find that it was closed, an angry looking scar was the only thing that reminded her that it was torn. And there's the thing where she can't move it at all.
"...-me?" The purple haired character heard the girl in front of her murmur. She watched as Nepgear hesitantly looked at her in the eye, and the words she uttered made the heart of the older girl ache. "...Are...are you gonna leave me too? Please, don't leave me. I'll- I'll be good, p-please forgive me master. I d-don't have anything else. I-I don't know how I'll live, p-please don't leave me."
Neptune watched as the younger girl clenched her hands and placed her forehead on the ground, kneeling before the purple haired girl. Neptune didn't waste any second to let the younger girl meet her gaze and was met with snot and tear ridden Nepgear.
"Idiot, I won't leave you. I promise." Nepgear sniffled, waiting for her master to continue. "But if you live by order, then..." The older of the two placed her left hand on her chin, she smiled.
"I want you to live your life to the fullest."
"Eh?"
Neptune only grinned. "Well?"
Nepgear was baffled at the order, it's not like she had lived for a very long time to say that it was a surprising order. But for a child like her? Yes, it was. Living her life shunned and sold to others, using her as a tool, sometimes enduring the times other adventurers would use her as bait, masters who would pour boiling hot water because of one simple mistake, frequent enough that she learned healing spell for herself to relieve the pain, but other times the pain would be unbearable that she would sleep the pain away.
And now, her master Neptune.
Her third? Fourth? Despite not living long enough, she had been to many different people. But that is not what's important.
An order from her master.
To live like a human being.
Nepgear felt those familiar warm hand of her master, noticing that the arm she treated back then fall limp to her side. "Well, Nepgear? That's a pretty good order, right?"
Nepgear hung her head, it was a divine order. It was life changing in fewer words. The younger purple haired girl looked at her master once more, then she smiled, her eyes shinning out of excitement and...well happiness.
"Yes, master!"
...
"So I'm telling you, no more calling me master."
"But-"
"It's an order, Nepgear." The younger girl immediately shuts her mouth and nodded. "Good, feel free to call me whatever you want." Neptune said as she stood up from the ground and dusted her clothes. It has been a good, thirty minutes? Since that big event with the wulff, and in that thirty minutes, Neptune was reminded of her limp right hand. There was an angry scar from the wulff's bite, but that's it. Well except for the fact that she literally can't move her entire arm, driving her to make a make-shift sling with her hoodie.
It has occurred to her to turn back, but for some bizarre reason, the entrance was blocked by the debris caused from the beast's roar. A bummer, I know. Slightly dispirited, Neptune shook her head and exhaled, no point on getting down. She knows that they had just entered the power plant, but ever since the fight between the wulff, the purple haired character changed her mindset and proceed with finding a way out of the infrastructure.
Of course, finding the missing man while looking for the exit would highly be recommended, but that would take luck wouldn't it?
"Big sister..." Neptune hummed at Nepgear when she heard her utter something underneath her head. The younger girl swallowed the lump in her throat. "May I call you...big sister...? Ah! I-I'm sorry, master! I shouldn't have called-"
"Ahahahaha! Didn't you already call me that?" Nepgear looked at the older girl in confusion. "When we first met." The child remembered now, she did call her master 'big sister' on that fated day. It was a really rough meeting, the sight of her master taking all those arrows made her wince. The scars on her right shoulder and her lower back was still slightly pinkish and would sometime make her master furrow her eyebrows as she rolls her shoulder.
"Hey, are you listening? I said you could call me that." Neptune said grinned when the younger girl's eyes beamed.
"Really?"
Neptune chuckled.
"Sure, why not? I always wanted a little sister."
"Then..." Nepgear fidgets her fingers and looked shyly at the older girl. "Big sister..." The older girl released a 'Kyuun~' sound as she went and hugged the little girl with her left arm. "B-Big sister!"
"Hnnngg, Nepgear, you're so cute!" Neptune said while she rubs her cheeks on the younger girl. "That's it! I'm now your big sister, let 'Onee-chan' protect you okay? Your big sis will protect you!"
Nepgear let the purple haired character do what she wants, well, it's not like she isn't enjoying herself. It was warm. And soft. The younger girl made an 'Unyuu~' sound as Neptune continued what she's doing for a good five minutes.
Neptune suddenly stopped her motion as she sensed something nearby, causing the other girl to stay alert as well. Two pairs of purple eyes surveyed through the surroundings, observing for any movements or sounds.
The older purple haired girl equipped her katana positioned it in front of her. The familiar sound of a five dogoos surrounded them, not only that, but there were three 'Krantis' that uses their wings to make a sound.
Skill unlock: Detect lvl 1 (active)
*Skill to detect nearby enemies
Neptune was surprised at the sudden skill, she smiled. How convinient.
"Big sister." Neptune nodded. "You think you can cast one of your spells again?" Nepgear nodded. "Yes, but I only know one offensive spell, and it takes time to continuously cast one." The purple haired girl smirked. "That's more than enough, just be ready of your healing spell."
"Yes!"
Neptune exhaled, and fixed the sling to ensure that it won't bother her movement. Once secured, she inhaled and exhaled before quick stepping on the nearby dogoo.
The slime monster gave out a pained sound as it's weak point was hit before disintegrating, only seven more. Nepgear caster her streaming point as soon as she saw the one of the Krantis closed it's distance towards Neptune, successfully impaling it from it's body, creating a large hole in between.
She looked at Neptune and saw her get hit by a slime, and she didn't think twice to cast her recovery spell. Neptune thank her and proceeded to slash her way through, to which Nepgear observed her movement.
She just realized.
Her big sister is not skilled with a sword. It's not like she was a swordsman, but the way Neptune fights was way too risky. The purple haired character goes head on without thinking of the consequences of her move, thus proceeding to harm herself.
She's the embodiment of suicide style swordsmanship.
Neptune dodged one of the Krantis' pincers, creating a distance between them. Then she used her ultimate move, well, for now. The purple haired girl positioned herself, and closed the distance between them and readied her sword.
"CROSS COMBINATION!" Neptune sliced through the bodies of the Krantis, slicing through their head legs and hardened pincers. Dark green fountained squirted through their bodies, as they fell on the ground, creating a pool of their own blood.
Neptune released the breath she unconsciously holding, then spotted the remaining goo a few feet away from her. She held her katana in a reverse grip and aimed at the slime, hitting it in a pitiful precision.
The purple haired girl saw her sword disintegrate after hitting the slime as soon as it hits it, then she was alerted by a familiar sentence.
REQUIREMENTS MET, READY FOR LEVEL UP
Neptune
Level: 7
Class: ?
Race:?
Skills: Appraisal lvl 5 (passive), Quick Step lvl 6 (passive), Quick Evade lvl 5 (passive), Pin point lvl 2 (active), Detect lvl 1 (active) Cross Combination (active), Corrosive resistance+, Fatigue resistance+, Storage, PRIDE lvl 1 (active/passive)
AG: 18 STR: 22 INT: 12 DEX: 23 DEF: 18 LUK: 6 MP: 5
Ehh, she just leveled up right now? It took a while didn't it? Well, at least she did. Better than nothing.
"Nepgear! That was awesome! We make the best team don't you think?" Neptune turned to where Nepgear was standing and saw her staring at her intently. "What's wrong?"
"Ma-Big sister...uhm...do you have any experience with swords?"
'Huh? Why is she asking now?' Neptune placed a hand on her chin. Well not like she could say she has any experience, but she did play with fantasy MMO really really excessively. And she did started wielding a real one just a few weeks ago...hmmm.
"Well I've been using swords for a span of five years in my MMO," Nepgear tilted her head in confusion 'MMO?'
Neptune saw the confusion on the little girl's face and explained what it was. "A, A game?!" Nepgear shouted in surprise. "Yeah, oh but if you consider starting a few weeks back an experience then yes, I have experience."
The little girl look at Neptune with a horrific expression on her face. All this time her big sister was a total beginner?! No wonder she was prone to danger. But...what was that time when they first met? Her master's movements back then wasn't any elegant, it was rough, really suicidal. Not only that, but when she killed all those traders, there was now sign of remorse. The only look that she can remember from her master was that she was looking down on them.
"So...Big sister doesn't know how to wield a sword?"
"Urk! Nepgear~ of course I know how! Ughh, you're a little bit blunt for a little sister." Neptune sulked. "I don't have anyone who could teach me, so I have to copy the movements from my game."
"B-Big sister...Isn't that dangerous?"
"Eh? Hmmm, well yeah, actually I almost died back then." The younger girl looked at the purple haired character in surprise. "Don't worry though, I still here aren't I?"
"Of course, but still...How did that happen?"
"Well, a higher leveled monster appeared when I was still under leveled, so...yeah. But I'm fine! I killed it anyways and I managed to save a person." Neptune ruffled the younger girl's hair, sensing the worry that comes from her.
"Don't worry, this big sister will not die, you hear me? I still have to keep my promise to you."
Nepgear tilted her head in confusion.
"I promised that I won't leave you, right? You forgot already? Hnnn, Nepgear you hurt me." Neptune said with a fake sob, while the younger girl looked at her through her purple hair.
"...Big sister..."
"Hmm?"
"May I hug...you?" Neptune looked at the younger girl in surprise, but then smiled. She knelt and leveled herself, then hugged the child with her left arm. "You don't need to ask, you're my little sister now, right?" Nepgear buried her face on the older girl's clothes and wrapped her tiny hands around Neptune's neck.
"...Big sister..."
"Hmm?"
"I'm glad you found me."
