Hey there! Welcome to this installment in the Neptunia archive! I really do hope that you stick with this story and see it through to the end. I have big plans for it and I hope you'll be around to see them.

This Author's Note was originally going to be much longer, but I've decided to put the rest of it at the bottom of this chapter. Something about not wanting to scare away any potential readers? Yeah. Please don't run away…

So right now, I really, really hope you'll enjoy this read. Have fun!

Prologue:

Do I remember all of it? Of course I do. We both do. I remember eeeeeverything about what happened back then, all the way back to when this all started. Or… I think I do. I remember most things, okay?

Yes, I do realize that I'm talking to myself, but so what? Do I find it weird? Not at all. Getting worried about whether or not I seem weird just so isn't me.

Especially since he thinks I'm fine. That's all that really matters to me. Everyone else could give me up and I wouldn't care, so long as he's still with me, supporting me.

It's kinda like that's already the situation we're in, huh? Nobody else to turn to, everyone who was around at the time's either betrayed us or died.

Not like there's many people from back then that are still alive anyway… Besides him and I, there's only one other person who was with us around that time who's still alive.

And it's… not exactly like we're on the best of terms with her either. She was the one who started this whole thing anyway. She was the one who changed our lives, as well as so many others, forever.

She was the one who ruined our previous lives.

Who is this "Him" and "He" that I keep talking about? Oh, only the most important person in my life. When I said that I only needed him around me to keep me going, I meant it.

Everyone else could be dead, but if he was still with me, I'd keep going. The only two left in our own little world. I wouldn't care. As long as he's with me.

Oh, right, about back then… Let's see here… Gotta recall some memories really quick. Hmmm… Okay, here we go. A brief, vague rundown of a particular day.

A painful day that shouldn't have even happened in the first place. He's told me plenty of times about his perspective, and we've both spoken about it a ton. We're super close, after all.

Buuuuut I'm getting sidetracked again.

I remember going through a lot of pain. And it wasn't only physical. The mental kind, as well. The kind that stays with you, and the kind that can change you.

We'd already been through many days of pain. And it wasn't just us two. There was a whole group of us at the time. Quite a large one, too.

Ahh, remembering their faces… It brings back so many good and bad memories. A lot of those memories are stained with red, unfortunately. Especially on that day…

I snapped.

There was so much destruction… The facility we were held in was torn to the ground. And as we ran away, escaping with our lives, destruction was left in our wake. You can imagine what the fate was for anyone involved…

It was a massacre. Nobody was left standing after it. Not those who were with us, our friends and family. And not those that had hurt us, who had tortured us, who had caused us so much undue pain and suffering.

Except… for her. The one who had started it all. The one who was still around to this day. The person… No, she's a monster. The monster we're looking for.

Who caused the massacre and destruction on that day? I know all too well…

I did.

I did it for him. Nobody else is more important than him. He thinks the same of me. He always helps me, always supports me, and is always… there. He's always there for me.

And he always will be.

Nobody can take him away from me. We belong to each other. Nobody else can have him. Nobody but me.

And if anybody tries…

I'll kill them.

We've always been by each other's sides, always there for each other to rely on. We're going to do what we said we'd do all those years ago, together.

And we will continue to be together.

No matter what, we'll be together.

Now, and forever.

Always.

And… prologue, done.

I hope you enjoyed it! I know it's kinda vague, but I can't exactly spoil everything in the prologue, can I?

This Author's Note is kinda weird for me to make. You see, at first I didn't have a prologue. So I wrote this after the first chapter had already been published. So it's kinda like this is from the future, right? Yeah. The next AN's will be untouched as a result.

So I guess… here's a quick summary?

I do seem to write quite long chapters, which you'll hopefully see! Just a heads up.

If I could, I'd allocate more than two genres to this story. It fits into way more than just two.

It does have action, but it's not in every chapter. There are breaks in fights and encounters, for examples. When there are fight scenes, I tend to be very descriptive in an attempt to make them stand out from other fight scenes that I've seen before.

I like to put a lot of emphasis on character interaction so that I properly flesh out and develop characters. This applies to the existing characters as well as my OCs. I really do try to make my OCs different from the standard generic OCs you see floating around everywhere. I try to make them feel like they properly belong in the world.

There will be a lot of questions you think of when reading this story, and trust me, they will be answered! Or at least, I'll do my best to answer them. Just… not immediately. Patience is a virtue, they say.

Geez, this is a long one…

So yeah! I really hope that I've intrigued you enough to give this story a chance! I have big plans for it, and it's probably gonna be a long one. So stick around, enjoy the ride, and don't be afraid to ask me anything! Any and all reviews are more than welcomed, and you can even message me if you want. I'm open to that stuff, don't worry.

So… yeah.

Goodbye for now!