Chloe pov: We all decided to teach Laplus how to be nicer to all of us.
"Can you say Chloe?" Lui asked
"Sakamata," Laplus said.
"Wrong, you really aren't trying." I asked
"I'm sorry, Lui," Laplus said.
"I'm Chloe..." I growled
"Maybe if I use my potion, she will say it correctly." Koyori stated
"Wait, does it explode?" Lui-nee asked
"No, I'm over that now. This potion is about 89% acid," Koyori said.
"Don't you dare make her drink that," Lui-nee said.
"It wouldn't hurt her!" Koyori said
"It would dissolve her insides..." Iroha commented, "So don't make her drink it." She said
"Okay, as long as it's for you," Koyori said.
"See you love Iroha," Lui teased.
"Shut the hell up." Koyori snarled
"I'm going to slap you," Lui-nee commented.
"Stop arguing," Laplus commanded.
"Oh yeah, we are trying to stop you from fighting with us like this," I said.
"Yeah, that was the goal," Iroha said.
"Okay, Laplus, name all the members of Holox," Lui said.
"Alright, we have Lui-nee, Sakamata, Scientist, and Kazuma," she said.
"Wrong..." I said
"How?" Laplus asked
"Say Chloe," Lui said.
"C—hloe" She scoffed
"Now say Koyori," Iroha said.
"Ko—yori?" She spoke as if she were confused.
"Okay, now can you say Iroha?" Koyori asked
"Iro—ha!" She shouted
"Okay, the pauses are making me think you are having trouble saying this," Lui commented.
"It's not my fault that you all have hard, long names besides Lui-nee!" Laplus yelled
"Chloe is easier to remember than Sakamata." Koyori said
"Yeah, and you just call Koyori by her role," Iroha stated.
"She is a scientist, not a very good one, but why wouldn't I address her as such?" Laplus asked
"That is rude," I said.
"Well, what the hell am I supposed to call her?" Laplus questioned
"Koyori!" Koyori yelled
"Okay Iroyok!" Laplus said
"That had to take more effort than it would have taken to say her actual name," Lui said.
"Well, I'm sorry her name isn't memorable!" Laplus said
"Say Chloe," Lui said.
"Eolhc" Laplus said
"Okay, that is on purpose. You had to try to say that backwards. I was willing to accept Koyori but not Chloe." Iroha sighed
"We can't argue; we need to just keep talking until we get this right," I said.
"Wait, how long will that take?" Laplus asked
"As long as it takes, we need you to fully understand how we feel, and you need to call us by our actual names," Lui-nee said.
"Okay Lui," Laplus said.
"Can you say Eolhc backwards?" Lui-nee asked
"Chloe?" She said "Why is that relevant?" She questioned
"That is Atamakas Eolhc," Lui-nee said.
"No, that is Sakamata Chloe!" Laplus said
"So you can say it!" Koyori, Iroha, and I shouted as her face went blank.
"No, I can't..." Laplus said
"You can't hide that anymore..." Lui-nee said
"Ehhhh... you can't prove it," Laplus said.
Koyori pulled out a tape and replayed her voice, calling her out.
Laplus stood up and dashed out of the room, so we got up and chased after her. We all played a game: the first one to catch her gets to make her stay put by any means necessary, and they could design the trap.
Koyori used drones and mechanical arms, Iroha tried to get her using her sword, Lui-nee tried to catch her with talons, and I was going the traditional route, trying to grab her with my hands like a barbarian.
"Eeeek!" Laplus squealed as she realized how close we were to her.
"Slow down!" I yelled
"No way, Chloe!" Laplus shouted
"Wait, she got my name right!" I said it loudly in shock and awe.
Koyori's mechanical arms almost caught Laplus, but she dodged it—"too slow Koyori," she said.
"Eh?" Koyori said as she processed that her name was said.
Iroha managed to chip a piece of her horn off. "Iroha, you are paying for that!" Laplus cried
She stopped, realizing once again that she proved that she could say our names correctly, but she refused to do so for some reason. She gulped, looking away, as Lui-nee grabbed her.
"We don't need to do this anymore," Lui-nee said.
"Yes, we do. Isn't it bonding?" Laplus questioned
"Yeah, but it's practically torture." I said
"How come?" Laplus asked
"You just pretend like you don't know something, and then you make us go over it over and over again," Iroha said.
"Well, I found it fun," Koyori yawned.
"And you're a dumbass!" I spat
"I'm the brains of this operation," Koyori said. "Brains don't need to be smart!"
"You are supposed to be smart, but instead you invent ridiculous things." She said
"My brain is only for Iroha and for my personal projects... Koyori growled
"Only for me, eh?" Iroha giggled
"Is that all you got from that?" Koyori questioned
"Of course, why wouldn't I have?" Iroha asked
"You are blind to the truth," Koyori stated.
I rolled my eyes and turned to Lui-nee, seeing her reaction. It was as if she wanted to go to sleep; she wasn't though, and was very warm and attentive.
"Let's just hurry up and get some stuff done." Lui-nee said, "I need to find Mumei."
We went to the computer and put it back on looking for the location, and everything seems fine.
Koyori tried to open a wormhole to the location, but it didn't seem to work, which made me shake my head.
"We are never going to find her," I said.
"Well, maybe we will if we seriously try!" Laplus said
"Okay, now you are going against me!" I Said as they all glared at me, I laughed and smiled as they went to tickle me; this was definitely something Lui-nee told them to do. She seemed to be happy
"Let's go," Lui-nee said as we went into another room, "we need more power." She sighed
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