Ultradimension Neptunia: Big Nep and Smolgear

Chapter 6: Bravery

After having made a full recovery, Neptune was able to go back to Guild quests with Uzume. Being the nice girl she was, Neptune had completely forgiven Uzume for what had happened, though she had become warier around her red-headed whenever her megaphone was out. Nepgear continued to enjoy school, and talk to her mother about all the fun she had with her friends, though she still forgot to tell Uzume and her sister about them.

It was a new day, and Neptune and her sister were in their room, talking to Croire, trying once again to get the dark tome to be nice to the little girl.

"Come on, Croisty, can't you just be nice to her," Neptune complained to her "friend". The older sister lifted the younger one up, so the tome could see her in her seal. "Just look at her cute face. How could you hate that face?"

Coire huffed. "I bet you she's a brat."

Neptune got offended by that. "Oh, come on. That's saying that you think she's a mean kid. She isn't. She's more curious than anything."

"She looks like a cute fairy girl on a book," Nepgear commented in her cute way. "I wanna pet her wings."

"You want to WHAT!?" cried out Croire.

"She's just being innocent," Neptune explained. "And come on, how could not love that innocence."

"Big sis, why do you have a book inside a book?" the little girl asked.

"Well... you see, Croisty is my friend, but she likes to do bad things. So, I have to put her in this book."

"You're friends with a bad fairy?"

"It's... complicated. I think Croisty is misunderstood, and that she really is a good person under that dark exterior. She just needs help seeing things in a better light."

"So Crokey is a good fairy?"

"Wh-what am I to you!? A frog!?" Croire complained.

"No, you're a fairy," Nepgear replied. "...Um, are you a frog fairy? And you didn't tell me why you have a book in a book!"

"Oh, well, first of all, Croisty is not a frog," Neptune explained. "Though, Crokey is a very cute nickname."

"Gee, thanks," Croire complained again, though Nepgear was just confused. She was sure she said her name right.

"And, for the book thing... the book Croisty is sitting on, it's... difficult to explain. I don't even fully understand it myself, but I think that book actually IS Croisty. So, closing up that book wouldn't really help in stopping her..."

Croire didn't comment on that, but she was glad that Neptune didn't know about ACTUAL tome sealing. She'd seen different versions of Histoire and other tomes get sealed away. Thankfully, Neptune didn't know anything about that, because it would suck to be properly sealed away.

"...so I have to put her in this other book," Neptune continued, lifting up her to emphasize. "My Nep-Note. It's actually really neat. With this, I can shrink all sorts of things, and tape them inside. I gathered all sorts of specimens in my travels. I've even sealed the occasional villain in here!"

"Woah, so, are you like some kind of hero?" Nepgear asked in amazement.

"In some places, yeah!" Then Neptune thought of something. "You know, I don't think I've shown everything I've put in my book. Would you like to see them?"

"Yeah!"

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"So, no luck with the CPU Memory, then?" Merci asked Uzume. They and Umio were having some tea.