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“I don’t think so Nepgya.” Game set and match. The lie has fallen apart out of her control, who knew the local CPU was so easily manipulated? She is going to have to keep that secret to herself but it will be fun to use in the future.

“After all, there are no other Nepgyas in the city database, and if your such a noob why would you know about levels or classes?”

Giving a wide grin Viola leaned back against a wall as she stared into the girls eyes. “I think your just the right person Nepgya, or should I say Neptune?”

     She opened her mouth to explain that every good protagonist would know about things like that, closing it after realising that something like that would only blow her cover as the noobish NPC she had to pretend to be to get out of work. Unfortunately, it seems she had been figured out anyway. Well, she guessed it was kind of fun while it had lasted, but she should probably level up her charisma a bit more before trying something like this again.

Well that wasn’t the kind of response she expecting. Although, she had to be fair, this was definitely a new type of character, so at least the writers weren’t running out of ideas just yet. Still, though, it was so surreal to have someone tell her that she wasn’t in a game. It felt wrong. Something was definitely off here.

     “Wow, um, rude. Have a little respect for the protagonist’s little quirks, okay? You’re supposed to say stuff like ‘don’t be so meta’ not deny the fact that we’re all just fictional characters being written by some lonely people on the internet with no friends. See, when you get me to point out stuff like that, it just gets depressing, and fans don’t wanna be depressed, they wanna have fun.” An over dramatic sigh was was let out before she continued, cocking a single eyebrow as she crossed her arms in an exaggerated show of confusion. 

Oh this was rich, maybe she should send a letter out to Histoire letting her know just how much Neptune thought of her. Giving the goddess a smirk the guild member crosses her arms as she looks over at the girl.

“Really? I heard of you Nepgya. They say that you are an amazing fighter and that your mother raised you on her own and even though she can be harsh that she cares. In fact I heard that You have a sister that needs a confidence boost.”

handing Neptune a quest requesting the death of an Ancient dragon the girl smiles innocently as she stares straight into neptunes eyes.

“I heard that you like to fight high level monsters to help the citizens of planeptune.”

     She waved her hand in dismissal as she was handed the quest, not really paying attention to what the girl was saying. Neptune was always impatient to get home and continue her carefree lifestyle, but today in particular she was in more of a hurry than normal, as Nepgear had beaten one of her high scores and the Goddess was just itching to get back there and claim the top score once again. However, once she read through the request, she was quick to break out in another exclamation.

“Say whaaaaaaat?” And just like that, her plan- her perfect plan- fell apart right before her eyes. Oh, cruel fate! This wasn’t something that supposed to happen to the main character! Things like this should be saved for comic relief when Arfoire tried to do something dastardly.

“Y-you really wanna know more about me, alright then” she said quietly once again. “If you must know I am quite the sports gal and I get out quire often to stretch my legs, but as for the pudding it’d have to be cherry flavoured if I have go be honest, and speaking of pudding would you like some right now?”

     “Ohhhh a sports girl, huh? What kinda sports are we talking here, huh? You don’t seem like one of those idol characters so it’s gotta be something intense like extreme soccer. Oh! Oh! Or SKYDIVING! I could probably teach you a few tricks for that one. I consider myself an expert when it comes from falling from the sky.” She mused over that for a moment of two, nodding to herself until she fully registered the girl’s offer.

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“Hurray! More for Peashy!” Peashy went and started on her half of the pudding, which didn’t take long for a big eater like her to go through. Once the cup was emptied, she left her spoon in it. “All done! Now we can go get more, right?”

“Well alright then, my name is is elrtica astra or as most people call me Ea for short”. Although her voice had camed down she was still a bit nervous on the inside

     A loud, dramatic gasp was given, as if the girl’s name was the biggest plot twist in the whole series. “No way! A two letter name that I can’t turn into a cute nickname like Iffy or Histy? What were the writer’s thinking?!” This was followed by a small laugh and one of her usual grins.

“A-alright then, should I introduce myself to you?”.  And she is still a bit nervous 

“Hm?”

Turning towards the voice a small smirk spreads across Viola lets out a smirk at the sight before her. So the goddess decided to grace her presence at the guild only to look for children based quests huh? Well two can play with that game.

“Of course! We have quests for the children who don’t even know how to pick up a sword. Tell me kid, I’ve never seen you around. Whats your name? Maybe I know your parents.” 

     An all too pleased smile spread across Neptune’s face at the reply that she was given, letting the obvious fly right over her head. It wasn’t often that citizens, especially those of her own nation, didn’t recongise her. This was an opportunity that didn’t present itself every day! While normal people might be offended by someone’s lack of faith in their abilities, Neptune thrived on it.

“Deal!” Peashy was certainly not going to say no to more pudding. “Here, I brought you a spoon.” She put it in Neptune’s hand before opening the pudding cup. “You can take the first half!”

     An exaggerated sigh was let out upon entering the guild, complete with arms falling heavily to the Goddess’s side in an obvious (and extremely childish) display of unhappiness as she was forced by her oracle to get some work done before playing the newest Lowee games with her younger sister.