A/N: 100 Favourites. Before the end, we managed to break the big triple. When I started SWaS, I never expected a following this big. Hell, I didn't expect it to go the direction it went.

I'll save the big monologue for the epilogue's A/N. Just know that finding this out made my night.

Guest: Part of the joke with Noire being Tohka way back in "Koei Der Toten" is the fact they had the same character designer, so…

Cirno The Genius: Oh hey, some honest criticism! I'll admit, I wanted to tilt some characters in a new direction a little late into the story (Namely 5pb. And Big Nep) and that was a spur of the moment thing. Between that and everyone spouting sarcastic remarks I do admit I know my niche in writing and stick to my guns a little too much and it is something I've noticed myself. What shocks me however is the "Excellent use of description for attacks." (Paraphrased) I never actually thought the fight scenes were all that good. It is definitely something I struggled with in the last few chapters, but I got there eventuallly… I guess.

Back to the point, a lovely review and a truly honest one at that. I genuinely thank you for not only inspiring you (You wrote HA-V3N after all) but also giving your inspiration some sage advice. You have potential, mate. *pat*

Huh, that's it? Fair enough. Now, let's rejoin our two heroes…

We continued to hug it out for a while before separating, both of us with crimson blushes of course. With nothing better to do, we were hanging out as usual in the unending void, our legs hanging over the edge of the scorched island that served as our arena minutes before.

"You really went on a bass cannon rampage? I don't believe it, honestly." I had been catching her up on events since her kidnapping when we got to The Dubstep Gun Incident.

"NepG didn't bring it up until I asked her about the speakers.I was pissed. Then she gave me the chance to tick that off my bucket list and well, it ended with wubs." I gestured despite my tiredness and fresh wounds, just happy to be with her again.

"Mmm, I'll take your word for it. Speaking of fulfilled dreams… Nah, it's embarrassing."

I tilted my head. "I'll tell you mine if you want. I was stuck in her delusion before NepG shot me in the face."

She shrugged in response. "I guess. Got nothing better to do at the moment.

"Well, it was wonderful, first of all. You were my fiance, I worked as a military commander and there was this massive crossover with different anime. Didn't get too far into it before NepG kicked down my office door, yelled at me about being "stuck in the delusion" and shot me in the goddamn face." I sighed in frustration. "I get it was for the best, but I never found out what Uzume did. That and the commander I was talking to was cute."

"I'll ignore that last part." IF snarked before putting a hand to her chin. "Well, we had pretty similar dreams. Did you happen to shout "BUGGER" before running off to work?"

I blinked. "Shit the bed, I did."

"Mmm, she must have put us in the same dream to conserve energy. That was a cute ring I had one, too. But yeah, nothing much happened. I cooked breakfast, sat down and read about the attempted invasion of Planeptune when Gear kicked down the door to our apartment, Peace in hand. She had the courtesy to explain herself at least…"

"The fuck are you on about?" I asked, as Nepgear finished explaining the fact that I was in fact stuck in a dream. "Of course this isn't a dream, I'm engaged!"

Gear gave a half lidded stare. "In what universe is Koei Fucking Tech both sober and competent?"

I scratched my head. "Shit the bed, you might have a point. Now what?"

"Well, it's not a pretty solution, but…" She cocked Peace and pointed it at my head. "This will kick you out of your delusional state. Big Neptune can just open up a rift once I'm done here anyway."

I held up a hand. "That raises further questions."

"Questions that will sadly remain unanswered." A burst of dark energy indicated that someone else had entered the conversation. I recognized her straight away as I got up, katars in hand.

"You. You're the one who trapped me here. I'LL END YOU!" I tried slicing her face with my katars, only to find my hands bare.

"IF, IF IF… I don't think you understand. I'm God here. I could end you both with a snap of my fingers, but that's not really fair. No, I had something more... Fun in mind when I found out about Koei."

I grabbed her shirt with both hands and slammed her against the wall. "Better spill before your blood does."

"You do realize that you can't do anything to me and I'm only letting this happen to delay you." She admitted. "Your body is completely possessed by my delusional energy. Soon enough, Koei will find you and well… Maybe I beefed up your strength to match his..."

My eyes widened in horror. "He… Wouldn't fight back. Gear, the gun."

She fumbled before handing the pistol to me, I put it to my head. "You best pray that I don't find you again, cunt."

I pulled the trigger.

"That was unnecessary." I blinked as she looked down into the void, unable to meet my gaze anymore.

"It was." She admitted, staying silent for a time. "When I came to, I was barely able to speak, as you saw. I tried to warn you, but you're as stubborn as you are an alcoholic."

"Fuck me running, I need a drink…" This was hard to hear from her. Dammit, she had a point.

Seeing a ghost of a smile on her face, she put a hand on my shoulder. "That's the Kopey I know and love."

I smiled back, before hearing footsteps behind us. IF pulled out her katars as I pulled out Peace, forgetting where Serenity was.

"Relax, it's only me." Ultradimension Neptune put her hands in front of her as she approached. I put away my guns, but IF stood firm.

"Relax? You're the reason behind this in the first place! I'll kill you!"

"If you kill me, you won't get these Nep Bull EX IIs I brought as an apology." She pulled out two Nep Bull cans. I took mine gratefully and had a long drink.

"Not quite what I meant by I need a drink, but man I needed that." I sighed finally having things go my way for once.

Giving me a sideways glance, she cracked open her own can and took a sip. "Christ. It's like that drink I had at Celestia after the Pile Driver incident."

"Yeah, I based the recipe off of my vague memories of the Crevice Spike. Had a couple of years free time after Uzume destroyed my version of Gamindustri, so you know…"

"So wait, you're not just Ultradimension Neptune?" IF nearly spat out her drink.

"Nope. Alternate timeline Neptune. Koei killed you in my original timeline."

Now it was my time turn spit take "WHAT?"

"It was in your goodbye note. You completely disappeared after returning from Heart Dimension, leaving your gear behind. After that… I knew I had to go." She sighed. "I abandoned everyone. I was going to return after a few days, but the link between Hyperdimension and Ultradimension got cut off… For hopefully obvious reasons. I lost everyone. I had to start fresh."

Silence between the three of us. "Big Nep… I'm sorry." IF simply said. "If I knew before…"

She shook her head. "I've had years to grieve. I've just been following in the path I figured my older self would have gone in. Became a bug collector, "found" Crosty floating around my version of Ultradimension and I waited. On the plus side, I have a chest now at least!" She puffed out her chest, causing her meat puppies to jiggle.

"So when you said that line to me… You were talking about Iffy." I realized how clever she was in pointing that out.

"Probably, " She shrugged. "I knew you'd be hooked up to that machine sooner rather than later. That's why I intervened when I did. Course, with alternate timelines, not everything went the same way as I recalled it after we first met. Uzume fought you in Lastation after she had Linda find the documents on you."

"I'm still getting over the fact that he killed me in the original timeline." IF pointed out the obvious, shaking as she fell to her knees. "Why would he do that?"

"I was still Awakened when I pointed the gun to your head. If I didn't recall that line, I would have repeated history." I admitted, causing IF to clam up entirely. "I-Iffy?"

Neptune put a hand on my shoulder. "Let her process this. You should probably get going anyway. When Uzume finds out that she's free from her delusion, she'll come for you herself."

…

"Iffy." I started only for her to get up and stare me in the face, tears in her eyes.

"You put a fucking gun to my head and nearly executed me." She said, resentment in her voice and she clenched her fists.

"I was doing what was ri-"

Out of nowhere she slugged me in the right cheek, the same place she cut with her red hot blades. "Fuck. You. You're no boyfriend to me anymore. Hell, you're no friend. Hopefully Uzume will finish you off."

I...

…

"Koei…" Jill put a hand on my shoulder. I didn't push it away as I looked into my drink. "But you said you got an apartment."

"Histoire said I couldn't stay at the Basilicom after that happened between us. It's the same complex as Compa so I hope she doesn't find out." I finish off my glass. "Large Pile Driver. This is my lowest point."

She stood silently for a moment. "I wouldn't normally, but… Coming right up." She started to mix up my upteempth drink of the night. I checked my watch. Not even 7pm yet. Whatever. I had no one else anyway.

She put the drink on the counter and added it to my tab. "Take it slow. I'm not saying that as your bartender… But as your friend."

I took a drink of the mixture. "Koei Tech doesn't have friends. He's a fucking sociopath without a spellblade. At this point, I'm a disgrace to the title."

Jill leaned over the counter. The place was dead anyway. There was a 5pb. concert nearby, but nobody would come here after that anyway. All of her regulars… Well, they were my friends, anyway. I don't think the CPUs hate me outright, but…

"No spellblade, though? What happened to Serenity?" Jill asked.

"Guess I have to drop that bombshell, too."

Still stunned from what Iffy had done to me moments ago, I got up to leave. I could feel her hatred from here and I didn't want to get into another fight with her.

This time I knew only one of us would walk away from that. And I don't think it'd be me.

Looking around for Serenity, I saw the handle of the blade on another rock. Neptune was trying to comfort IF in her time of need as I walked over to the handle, thinking that the explosion had simply embedded it into the ground.

Preparing to pull it out of the ground Excalibur style, I lifted it without effort… Because the handle didn't have a blade attached.

I fell to my knees, looking at the blade's handle. IF was gone. Serenity was destroyed.

My resolve shattered like my heart. I couldn't… Getting up, I walked towards the unending void and looked down. I wondered what would happen if I did fall down into there.

A hand grabbed my shoulder. "Don't do it." She said, in a tomboyish voice Turning around, I saw a girl with red hair and matching else, dressed like the Uzume I saw before, but without the arm-socks and dressed in white instead. Looking down, I saw a skirt (I didn't think of it at the time, but it also looked like a pair of shorts.), knee high black and orange socks and some weird bag things covering most of her shoes.

"My name is Uzume Tennoboushi. I'm here to help you, Koei Tech." She said simply, pulling me into a hug. "Help you save the world and to support you in your time of need."

I nodded as I looked to where Neptune and IF were. They had already gone as I hugged the tomboy back. Not out of love like I did with Iffy, but to comfort myself with the warmth of someone else.

Eventually she let go. "I saw your fight with that jacket wearing girl. You kicked ass!" She pumped a fist. "But that also means you're a threat." Her voice darkened as her hair and clothes followed suit.

I took a step back. This girl… She was the one behind all of this. I tried to throw a punch at her, but she caught my hand and twisted it, causing me immense pain as I got down on one knee. "Cute." She mocked.

"W… Why." I grunted through my own agony.

"Why does anyone do anything? Money? Power? Love?... Revenge, perhaps? You and I… We're going to have a talk. But for now, you seem tired…"

I nearly blacked out from the pain as my vision started to blur. Letting go of my hand, I flopped to the floor, unable to move as she grabbed the handle of Serenity and stepped over my unmoving body.

"Neat sword. A shame I couldn't break it in front of you, but it saves me doing it myself." She turned to face me, a malicious smirk on her face. "Oh… But I have you to break instead. See you later, "Kopey"."

With that my eyes finally closed and I blacked out.

"Shit. If you weren't here talking to me, I'd assume you died." Jill cleaned out my old glass as I took another drink of the Pile Driver.

"Wish I did." Was all that I said in response.

Waking up, I found myself attached to a chair, my arms tied behind me with rope, as were my legs. I was in a room of blue neon squares, and Uzume was sat in front of me, seemingly waiting for me to wake up.

"Finally." She said. "Do you always sleep for so frigging long?"

I did the obvious thing and tried to shake myself free. "Let me go!"

"Really?" She sighed before getting up, walking up to me and slugging me in the face. "Stop that." She commanded, which I complied to because she hit harder than even Iffy did. "Thanks." She sat back down.

"What… Do you want with me?" I demanded, not moving as to not get another punch to the face.

"I said it before your nap. I want to break you like that IF girl broke your heart. Then I'll make you my new lieutenant and have you invade Planeptune and slaughter everyone there with your own two hands."

"What about the rest of Gamindustri?"

She shook her head. "My beef is with Planeptune. Plus, if I destroy Gamindustri, it means that nobody would be around to know how much you failed."

"They'll come for me, you know…" I threatened. "Better let me go and I might go easy on you."

She scoffed. "Koei… Nobody's coming for you. Your precious girlfriend… Oh right." She smiled at my growl. "Ex-girlfriend is telling everyone you put a gun to her fucking head. Nobody's going to like you after that stunt. Good job on telling her too!" She mock applauded me. "Went even better than I could have hoped! I was worried when you both lived, but you managed to fuck up. As you always do."

"I'm not a failure… I'm a hero." I said defiantly, but there was doubt in my voice. My scars were still fresh, both emotionally and physically.

"Ah yes, brave words from the guy who executed their girlfriend then disappeared himself." Her grin grew wider. "Some hero."

I struggled with the ropes again, the friction rubbing at my uncovered skin. "Don't bother. Even if you got up, I'd just put you back down. Reminder that I'm God here."

"Hell of an ego." I spat. "Tell me, how did you manage to fuck up even harder than your successor?"

She leaned back in her chair. "Ah, memories. Memories that you restored to Histoire, to boot. Good work, she'll be carrying that guilt for the rest of her life. Which won't be long."

"Just get on with it." I sighed, knowing that this would take a while.

"Well, as you know there's Share energy. It's what empowers the CPUs and allows them to fight for their Nation. I used to be a CPU, as you dug up by prying into my hideaway. The incident that Histoire didn't explain to you… There is too much of a good thing at some point."

"What. Happened." I was losing patience with the smug snake.

"I lost control of my power. Killed thousands. Shares tanked and I had no choice but to step down as CPU. Knowing I'd be lynched if I became mortal, Histoire froze me in cryostasis and wiped all mentions of me from everywhere, including herself… Except for that room." She smiled sadly. "She always had a soft spot for me. Was nice of her."

"And you're evil because you killed thousands?" I ask. I would have waved my hand if I could move it.

"No, but my early retirement… Well, the citizens did hate me, I was basically forced here. Hours turned to days, days to weeks… Weeks to years. You cannot imagine true loneliness on the scale I had to face. All because of them. My spite eventually became what I've coined as Negative Share Energy. Since then, I've become truly delusional, insane even." She laughed. "It's great! I'm God here! My old power pales in comparison to the reality I can write here and in the neighbouring dimension… Speaking of." She opened a screen with a snap of her fingers, the image of the Uzume she had disguised herself as wandering some ruins. "Who should I send, Dark Black? Dark Green?"

"The fuck?" I was utterly confused at this point.

"Ah, you're right. Let's send the Nation that you protected with your life… Dark Purple." With another snap, a massive robot-like humanoid crashed in from the sky, drawfing the alternate Uzume as she transformed into…

"Holy shit." I said. It was the same girl as the statue from the castle, shield and all. Raising her shield clad arm, she said something I couldn't hear due to the feed not having audio before both of them were enveloped in a massive orange shield.

Uzume sighed. "There she goes again. Trying to destroy my Dark CPUs. You know, since you ruined my other pawns with your leadership skills." She muttered that last part sarcastically, supporting her head on a single gloved hand. "She's my better half. Literally. The reason why I can't transform into a CPU myself is because you need positive Share Energy. I became so delusional that she formed into her own personality, completely unaware of her past or the fact that her reality is in fact, fabricated."

"You set up that destroyed ruin?" I ask.

She waved a hand in a "sorta" gesture. "Sort of. Zero Dimension as I coined it was created when she split off from me. I can't invade directly, but I can create delusional monsters to try and hunt her down." She sighed. "Try, anyway. Like I have absolute power here, she has absolute power there. She seems completely unaware of this, as she could just banish them with a thought if she wanted to, but fights them instead. She struggles to survive when she could live a life of delusional happiness. Can't believe I used to be her."

I was very tired of her shit at this point. "Cool. Please kill me."

"Nah. As I said, I want to break you first. Psychologically and once you're done with the massacre, physically. Sounds like fun, right?" She smiled as she said that last sentence.

I refused to respond as she sighed. "The CPUs were way more fun than you Whatever, I'm planning to how to get you back to Gamindustri without that ditz of a mercenary. I know our minds are linked, but they're probably trying to seperate us as we speak so my brainwashing won't work. It's how I got to the CPUs and IF after all… Until that bitch Nepgear ruined it with her fancy tech. Bah, all I need is for you to fall asleep… Then you're mine."

She had gotten up at this point and had walked up to me again, grabbing my chin as she forced me to stare into her purple, crazed eyes. "Nobody's going to save you this time, "hero." You. Are. Fuc-"

SMASH

"Wuzzat… Blargle." She fell over as the alternate Neptune smiled at me, the broken chair in her hands implying what I thought she did. "Goddess of delusion, can't take a chair to the head. How's it goin' Kopey?" She pulled out a pen knife as she approached me, starting on the ropes around me.

"If you don't mind, jam the knife in my throat once you're done with the ropes." I snark at her. "Delusional Doris over there strengthened my reasons I want to die. Iffy might have been the catalyst, but if I have to hear ONE MORE fucking word from her…"

"I know, she runs her mouth like a lame villain from a spy movie… There!" The ropes around my legs now fell away as I got up, stretching my now freed limbs as Neptune kicked the sleeping CPUs body for good measure.

"Umio… That tickles." She murmured happily in her own dream as I dusted myself off.

"What's the plan, then?" I ask as I turned to Neptune, hoping for something. "Serenity's shattered, as is my heart and I doubt any of my friends would be willing to help me once they find out I put a gun to IF's head."

"Figured that. So, I did some digging and… Come on out." She motioned for someone to emerge from beyond the room, it splitting off into two hallways it seemed.

A silver-haired woman with blue eyes emerged, wearing skintight most everything as her caped flowed behind her. In one hand was a handful of cards, with a buckler attached to her other one as her leather boots clacked against the hard ground. Much akin to me, she wore fingerless gloves. Seems to be the fashion lately.

"Koei." She greeted warmly and I knew who it was right away. "Been a while."

"Chrome?!"

I finished off my Pile Driver, finally through my darkest hour. "Alright, one Bad Touch. We both need the laugh."

She snickered. "One Bad Touch for the hero." Starting to mix up the drink she calmed down pretty quickly. "But damn, pretty big twist that Neptune brought along Chrome, huh?"

"It only made sense. Everyone else was either pre-occupied or already knew of… Well."

"Yeah, if I didn't know the context I would have barred you myself. Good thing nobody had that idea in the time between that and you starting to come here again!"

I sighed. "Don't jinx it."

I kept staring at the mysterious woman, holding out a hand for her to shake as I looked on in shock.

Chrome turned to Neptune. "Is he always like this? The silence is awkward."

Neptune shook her head. "You get used to his monologue. Eventually."

I rolled my eyes as I put my hands in my pockets. "So… Any plan? You always had a knack for planning ahead for the dumbest shit."

Neptune beamed. "Aw, you remembered one of my character traits! Came up only a few times, too!" Neptune then put a hand to her chin. "You have a point, though. Only so much time before… She wakes up." She kicked Uzume again. "Just for good measure."

"I'll keep her asleep while you fight the other Uzume. Neptune caught me up while we plotted. If my theory is correct, if you weaken the good half of her…"

"The evil part will weaken too to maintain balance?" I hmmm'd, "Sounds sketchy, but this entire fanfic is based on sketchy plans, hasn't it?"

Neptune shot a finger gun at me. "Right you are! Now that you're on board…"

I shook my head. "Can't really fight her without a weapon. Serenity's been shattered. I only found the handle and even then, I lost it when I was knocked out."

"Close your eyes and hold out your hands." Neptune gave me a wink. I complied as I felt cool steel on my hands. Wait…

Opening my eyes, there was Serenity. Not a mark on her. "I… How?"

"What, you think this is the first time I've done this?" Neptune crossed her arms. "Usually you die right around the time you first meet Noire. She slashes a little harder and the results… Are not for a T-rated fanfiction." She visibly cringed. "But I found one where you died to me… Well, the other me during the Siege of Planeptune. Skewered like a pig, you were."

I did not need that mental image. "Thanks." I gave Serenity a test swing to make sure it was real. "I mean, it was the last battle where it was whole. After that…"

"I did hear about IF. My sincerest apologies." Chrome put a hand on my shoulder. "I know if my own version of IF was like that, I'd feel the same way."

"Yeah, let's not get into Super Neptunia RPG spoilers." Neptune tried to move things along. "It is the most recent game in the series… As of publishing."

I roll my eyes. "That game was trash anyway."

Chrome just gave me a look. "Ahem."

"I mean I technically died before I finished it. So the incarnation of me who only played the first three hours and hated it was the one that Koei was based on." I pondered aloud.

An awkward silence sprouted between us.

"Well now that the mood is totally fucking ruined, let's go kick Uzume's ass." I had Serenity again and Neptune was giving me some sort of bloodlust with her meta bullshit.

"Alright, weaken her to weaken the other Uzume. If she starts speaking sense, I'll call you." Chrome tossed my phone at me. "Good thing we grabbed Serenity as well as your phone, huh? Makes it more than a one-off gag."

"Hey, cool your jets with the meta humor." I pointed at Chrome. "Come on, it's the final act, we can at least pretend there's stakes."

She put her gloved hands up in front of her. "Okay, okay. That thing's been sharpened, watch where you point it."

"Speaking of Artifacts… My loli self has them for you. I don't know when she'll be here, though." Neptune explained before opening a rift, which we all went through after I considered the implications of Neptune having two of the four Artifacts.

God, this place is a mess. Stepping out from behind a wall, the giant orange shield was still there, meaning that Uzume wasn't done with her fight. "Should we wait, or-"

Right on cue, the shield disppaited as Neptune herself ducked behind the corner. I went up onto some debris to get a better viewing angle as Uzume reverted to her previous form, looking tired but still ready to fight.

"Phew." That tomboyish tone that the other Uzume had mimicked so well came out of her mouth. "That was rougher than usual. Time to head back to base and plan my next move… Is what I would be saying if there wasn't something behind me! Yah!

I stood too close to the fire as she leapt up and sucker punched me to the ground before pinning me down with a boot. "Who are you? Who do you work for?" She demanded answers immediately.

I tried to go the diplomatic route. "Look I'm just a guy-"

"Horseshit! I'm the only person in this entire goddamn place! You must be a monster, like the rest of them!" Well, that worked out well.

Pointing Serenity at her, I released an Airbolt, forcing her off of me as I got up, chest still in pain from her stepping on my fresh wound. I dusted myself off and held Serenity in both hands as we stared each other down.

"You don't look like a challenge." She taunted, making a "bring it" gesture as she did so, before cracking her knuckles. "A nice cool down from that big monster I just fought."

"Hubris gets people killed." I sigh, repeating Uni's last words to me. "But I'll do my best to make you neither of us end up as a corpse for now."

Koei

Vs.

Uzume Tennoboushi

Ready?

FIGHT!

(Current Song - Voltage - Megadimension Neptunia VII)

She charged forward, attempting to punch me as I caught her hand, but she simply used her other hand for a punch to the gut, the fresh wound screaming as I doubled over, before getting a knee to the face. The fight didn't start well as I was now disoriented and my opponent had the advantage. Shaking my head, I dodged another swing just in time as I slashed at the goddess with Serenity, remembering I had it back.

Retreating, she pulled out a megaphone. "You're right, I have to go all out on you! BUT YOU'RE SO DAMN LAME!" She yelled into the amplifier, leaving me more befudded than anything as she continued to yell insults at me.

Blinking, I pointed Serenity at her and released a Frostblast, forcing her to dodge forwards attempting to counter with a punch. I ducked under it and swept her leg, forcing her to the ground as I stepped on her chest, pointing Peace at her. "Any last words?"

"Go fuck yourself?" She retorted.

I shrug. "Close enough." I then flipped Peace over and used it as a beat stick, knocking her out rather easily with her stuck on the ground.

"That went rather… anticlimactically." Neptune emerged from the alley she was hiding in.

(End Song)

"Barely worth the boss music." I sighed as I picked up her body, Neptune picking up the slack on her end of the girl as my phone started to ring.

Hefting her over one shoulder, I took my phone out of my pocket. "Yello?"

"If you're done screwing around, I'll be waiting for you back where we had our talk." Uzume's voice came from the other end. "Good try on the plan, but I'm still as powerful as I was beforehand. Bring my better half." She put the phone down on me.

"No Pain No Game is your ringtone? Really?" Neptune snarked as I hefted the redhead back over my shoulder.

"Uzume woke up. We need to move, now." I said simply as Neptune let go of Uzume's legs.

"Shit the bed." She murmured in response as she pulled out her NepNote. "I only got enough juice to get us back there… I think we're approaching the final battle."

I nod solemnly. "The final chapter, so to speak."

Opening another rift, we headed through the point of no return. We didn't have a choice at this point…

"Shit's goin' down." Jill muttered to herself as I finished off the Bad Touch.

I nodded my head. "One more Beer to finish this up. Don't think we need to interrupt the finale with any more of our banter."

Jill started to mix up a Beer as I thought back to that day, when the door opened. Walking in, a purple haired girl with twin pigtails sat down next to me, her purple shirt and white tie with a swirl on it making a nice companion piece to my own Planeptune branded shirt.

"Uzume… We were just talking about you." I said with a smile, knowing that the ultimate bombshell had just been dropped.

After all, everyone deserves a second chance.