Love Far Beyond the Ashes

Simple Compromises

Lui pov: Okay, everyone, name one thing you want in your new world," I said.

Everyone gave it some thought, besides Iroha and Koyori, of course.

"Let me reaffirm with everyone that I want revolution and for everything I hate to disappear," Koyori said.

"And I want a world where Koyori is loved by everyone." Iroha stated

I glared at the two girls and exhaled at them. "We all know what you want," I stated.

"Well then, what do you want, Lui?" Koyori said in a snarky manner

"What do I want?" I asked, gave it some thought, and questioned what I wanted before coming to my conclusion: "I want my sisters to be happy."

Chloe looked at me and sighed. "That is basic," she mentioned.

Okay, then what is your wish?" I asked her

Chloe laughed at that question and pointed at me, saying, "I will dispose of baths!" She laughed

"Yeah no..." We all agreed.

"Of all the things I want to vanquish from the world, baths aren't one of them," Koyori claimed.

Look, I don't know why you hate baths so much, but we can't get rid of them," Iroha said.

"They're just so weird to me," She said.

We all stared at her in astonishment. The only reason she wanted to get rid of baths was because they were weird to her. That is kind of petty, to be honest.

"What do you want, Laplus?" Iroha asked

Well, I want world dominance to be the one and only ruler of the world, and then people won't mock Holox!" She laughed

"Hmph. All the pieces are set. We all know what we want, which is good. Now we don't have to worry about anything," Koyori said.

Well, that isn't necessarily true. We still need to take over the world, which is a task in itself. It won't be easy to do at all, and I don't think we can do it even if we get the forces and the money.

Although it seems like Koyori has thought this through to the end and will be able to make quick compromises for our wants and needs,

She's only being considerate for some reason. I don't know what is going on with anything in her head, but I'm sure something will happen that will make her mind change, or something will happen at some point.

Although Koyori is stubborn, her revolution plan may be the finale to her grand play, but we accept it now.

I think Mumei-senpai would be okay with anything she does; she wouldn't mind destroying everything, so as long as she doesn't interfere, I will stand by her, but if Mumei-chan decides that she doesn't follow the recalculation plan, I won't let it happen.

"What are you thinking about, Lui-nee?" I was asked by Iroha.

"Nothing just about Mumei-senpai," I said.

"Don't think about her!" Chloe shouted with jealousy.

"It's not like that." I clarified it to her and sighed abruptly.

Chloe always gets jealous over everything; it's cute, but at the same time, she has no reason to be jealous of my sister at all. Why would she have any reason?

"Holox will get what we want no matter what, right?" Laplus asked

"Of course we will; after all, we have power now," Koyori laughed.

Everyone but Iroha looked at her, asking what she meant, but she didn't elaborate on that; she just continued to laugh maniacally.

"So I heard you were planning on using me, so show me now," Laplus said.

Koyori laughed once again and sent out nanobots to "hologram activate." She said on command, they formed into laplus.

"Now what?" Laplus asked

"Go destroy a city." Koyori commanded. She looked at Iroha, though. "Don't kill anyone," she said.

The nanobots flew off, and Koyori looked at us and smiled. "What did you do?" Chloe asked

"We are completely attacking a city and blaming it on Laplus; we won't do the capture release technique, but we will just flat out force them to give us publicity; we will destroy and destroy until they are forced to acknowledge us; we will be taken seriously," Koyori said.

"But everyone will be safe, right?" Iroha asked

Yes, I promise I will relocate everyone who is going to lose their homes. I have set the nanobots to even protect the important things for everyone so they won't lose anything," Koyori said.

"Wait... destruction is what you want, right? Why are you making so many changes?" Laplus asked

Look, it's a revolution, and in my revolution, what Iroha wants also takes precedence; she doesn't want anyone to get hurt, and I just thought about it; there are children that wouldn't want their things destroyed if I took them from them. I'm being hypocritical." Koyori stated

I didn't know Koyori was actually this deep. I never thought she would stop to think about other people's feelings. Even if what she is doing is completely arbitrary and isn't really going to work in the end, I respect it.

"Where are all the people you displace going to go, Koyori!" Laplus yelled

"To a paradise that I fabricated, the nanobots will transport the people there until our new world is created," She said.

"We can't make that overnight!" Laplus said

"Yes, I can... and I'll find a way to make our new world too, so we will have the perfect world to rule," She said.

"Are you saying we should be nice to the people after we take over because I want servants?" Laplus yelled

"I'll get you servants okay, so just focus and please listen to me; you need to just trust in the process!" Koyori said

I honestly respect Koyori a lot more now that she seems to have thought this through; she even applied everything Iroha wants to it, so she will be able to accommodate ours as well with ease.

"We just need to wait. The day of reckoning is about to come." She laughed.

I looked at the sky, sort of dumbfounded at how it was still sunny.