Neptunia ReBirth2

AFTER CONQUEST

Chapter 6: True Conquest

"She was not perfect in her life." Nepgear mumbled. Cladded in black tuxedo and black fedora hat, she continued. "But nobody is. She may be spoiled and did a horrible thing back then… but so did I. She was forgiven long ago and she had changed since. She became a true friend for us. Her presence will be missed. She… will be missed. And may her soul now rest in peace."

Nepgear threw the last flower inside the grave, onto the lying coffin. Then, some shady looking people who dressed similarly to her began dropping down dirt, covering the grave for good.

"Good bye, Chika." She mumbled.

"Nepgear… I can see your tears." Histoire tried to cheer the Goddess up.

Nepgear wiped her eyes.

"Isn't it natural? No matter how hard my people think of me now, I'm still just a girl." She said with a smile.

"Well… at least we had a good farewell with her, dear."

"Yes… I'm happy with that."

The two then left their men who were still working with the grave behind, walking down the hill full of other graves.

Nepgear looked at them. Swiped her vision across the graveyard.

"So with this… the last human in our party is gone, huh?" Nepgear said to Histoire.

"Yeah. I couldn't believe Chika managed to live for more than one hundred years." She replied.

"Haha… first she set a record of biggest war, now she set another for longest human age. She really is something."

"Too bad we can't announce it thought."

"Yeah… if only we didn't have to fake her death after that incident, this would be much cooler."

"But if we didn't, she would have to live in people's hatred towards her… after all, she is treated like an international villain in all history books now."

"I really hope I could do something about that."

"The victor gets to change history, but not if everyone already know about it."

"Although I can actually use my power now to force my people to rewrite it, I don't think they will be happy."

Histoire chuckled.

"You know? Some people rumored that you don't care about their happiness at all… you've changed so much, dear... You used to be so soft but now with soldiers roaming the street twenty four seven and your assertive way in governing, people is calling you 'the iron heart'."

"Hey, but at least with how I'm doing things now, we've keep peace for a century. Very low crime rate, very low poverty… high tech everywhere and much more. In my opinion, we're even more prosperous than before."

Histoire hugged Nepgear's shoulder with love. Like a proud mother.

"Oh, dear… you really did it…"

Nepgear smiled gently and stroked the tomb's head.

"Thanks, Histy. It's all thanks to you too."

Nepgear looked out the window as the black car carrying her rushed on the quite road. Histoire had to go a separate way to deal with another business.

"Now that nobody lives there anymore… I guess I have to demolish that apartment…" She mumbled. She was talking about the apartment she built for all her friends. It was treated like a tribute for veteran soldiers. Chika was the one to live there the longest since her faked death.

The car kept moving. The street was almost empty that noon but it wasn't that weird. Nepgear managed the city so well that there was almost no traffic jam ever happened. She might even have built too many roads. Not that anyone could complain about 'she wasting the nation's money'. In fact, nobody was even dare to speak bad about her for the sake of their lives.

The car kept moving and moving…

…until Nepgear realized something out of place.

The car wasn't going to where it should.

"Hey, you missed the turn." Nepgear called. The driver didn't respond. "Hey."

She leaned forward to take a look at the driver. Nepgear sighed when she saw the man's stern and obviously scared face.

"Who sent you?" she asked.

The man didn't respond.

"Sir, do you have a death wish?"

"N-n-n-no, ma'am."

"Then tell me who sent you? Where are we going? What are they planning?"

"I-I-I-I don't know, ma'am! Th-They got my family… I'm so sorry, ma'am… I-I was just told to bring you to them."

Nepgear slammed her body on the back seat.

"Just right after I bragged to Histy about low crime rate."

"I… I'm so sorry, ma'am…"

"Don't be. Take me to them… I have to take care of some pests."

A group of hoodlums were gathering under a skyway. There were about twenty or thirty of them.

Moments later they saw a car they've seen before coming their way. They knew that the Goddess was inside.

"Guys! She's here…" said one hoodlum getting ready.

The car moved along the alley. But it was moving fast. Too fast. It wouldn't stop in time.

"OI! STOP THE CAR!" called another hoodlum.

The car didn't stop.

Suddenly its back was slashed open. From inside emerged the Goddess already transformed carrying the poor driver out.

The no more unusable car flung right onto the hoodlums, crashed into some, killing them.

She put him down. "Run." She commanded. Ran away, the driver did.

Nepgear undid her transformation, back to her previous tuxedo.

"So… you're the heroes who are trying to bring me down?" she said.

"YOU BASTARD! YOU KILLED MY BROTHERS!"

"Awww poor you… Do I look like I care?"

"I GONNA TURN YOU INTO MEATBALLS!"

"I'd like to see you try."

The goodlums gathered together. Growling. Angry.

"You know what?" Nepgear spoke. She took off her hat, tossed it away. "Today, I just attended a funeral of one of my friend…" She opened her tuxedo vest. "So I feel kinda down right now." She tossed the vest away. "I don't feel like working at all." Nepgear rolled her sleeves up. "Thus… I need something to boost my mood." She took a few steps forward. "Usually I would just deal with pigs like you quickly, but… today might be your lucky day because after this… you might actually contribute to the country…

…by being my punchbag."

Evening. Nepgear looked out the big window in her work room. She just got home.

Histoire opened the door and saw her.

"Oh my gosh! What happened to you, Nepgear?" she panicked upon seeing Nepgear rumpled and covered in blood. She was stinky too.

"Oh, hy, Histoire." She turned her chair around.

"I thought you were going to some meetings."

"Well, I ran late to all meetings today, but instead I attended some unplanned ones."

"Was it rebels?"

"Naaahh… just some group of thugs. There were a bunch of them though especially in their hideout when I was rescuing a family. They might become a burden later so…"

"Have you sent the cleaning crews?"

"Don't worry, I did."

"Oh dear… don't overdo it."

"How about you, Histy? How's work?"

"Nothing's out of ordinary. Everything's going smoothly." Histoire smiled. "Oh by the way, dear I have something to show you?"

"Hm? This isn't my birthday."

"It isn't a present. Just look at the Gehaburn over there."

Nepgear followed the instruction. It was to her surprise to see the sword turned back to its rustic condition when they first found it.

"What happened to it? I've never maintain it much but it was just okay last night."

"It happened this noon when you were gone, Nepgear."

"Does it have to do with shares?"

"Yes, it has." Histoire cleared her throat. "As we all know, your sharicite had evolved. It doesn't absorb only faith anymore, but also hatred and fear."

"Yes we do."

"Apparently, without us knowing since we've never checked it that often anymore… It evolved even around a few decades before… now it absorbs all kinds of energy."

"How is that even possible?"

"I may know why, but I need three days to find out."

"Forget it then. Please continue."

"With all these energies, your share had become massively powerful. And although it takes quite a long time, a Goddess with this much share is possible to grant her own wish whatever it is."

"Cool. I've always wanted to try out this new mech the army is developing."

"Too bad, dear… only one wish can be granted and you've use it."

"Huh? When?"

"It reads your heart, Nepgear. The deepest wish your heart desire… Although iIt is natural if even you don't know what it is."

"So what does it have to do with Gehaburn turned Rustyburn?"

"Well… let's look at it like this… you made a tea, but it's sour. What do you do?"

"I put in sugar."

"Correct. Now if the tea suddenly become sour again, what do you thing is missing in it?"

"Umm… I'm not that expert in chemistry, Histy."

"It's the sugar, dear. The sugar is missing."

"Oh right."

"Try to see the Gehaburn like that… what did you put in to make the Gehaburn powerful?"

"Goddesses souls…"

"But now suddenly it turns back to being rusty… so what is it missing?"

"The Goddesses… souls…"

"That is correct."

Nepgear stood up frantically. "WHERE DID THEY GO?! DID SOMEONE STEAL IT?!"

"Calm down, Nepgear… Nobody steal it… but somebody DID take it out…"

"What?! Who?!"

"You."

"ME?!"

"Yes… by using your deepest wish. But don't worry… all the souls that was took out recreated their new body."

Nepgear stood silent. She realized something.

Tears flowed down her cheeks.

"Histy… Where are they?!" She asked excitedly. She was crying but was also smiling.

"They've been waiting for you on the veranda."

Nepgear quickly dashed out the room.

But she came back and said. "Histy… thank you."

"Go for it, dear."

Nepgear never been so excited in her life. She ran as quickly as she could. She jumped through stairs instead of climbing them.

The finally arrived at the veranda's door. She opened it.

Setting sunlight shone to her happy face. In front of the sun, at the edge of the veranda fence, she saw seven very familiar people.

Her face… was the happiest face she ever made.

She called her names one by one as they rushed to hug them.

The seven people called her name also rushing to hug them.

It was the reunion she had ever wished for this whole century.

But suddenly… upon realizing how messy Nepgear was… Neptune shouted…

"HOLY MOLY, NEP JUNIOR! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?!"

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Aaaaaaaand that's it! It finally ends!

Thank you so much for reading till this point!

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So, it's Yanaka here and hopefully I'll make another stories in the future. But for now, bye bye~~ until next time~

DISCLAIMER:

I don't own Neptunia franchise. I didn't make conquest ending. I just made this fanfic. Well, you get the idea.