Hyperdimension Neptunia | The Bound Warrior

Ch.18 aftermath

To recap on what has happened{Because its been a while}, Tari, a void lord who was h*llbent on killing Max has successed in killing him but not permanently as the fallen bound warriors have given some energy to him that allowed him to resurrect. And in the midst of the conflict, tari has called Luthic into the fight, wanting to kill him as a way to make sure the bound warriors do not return. But her attempts have failed when max has returned and afterwards Luthic was forgiven by Max, only wanting to know what he did. Max had one final reunion with his brother Matt before heading back to Planeptunes basilicom.

Max's pov

I land on the balcony of neptune's basilicom and look to see everyone was already gathered up, except for noire, who is waiting for me. I give a small smile.

"Its done." I nod to her.

Noire gives a stressed sigh, and looks to the others who are all looking a bit cautious as they talk to Luthic, then turns back to me and approaches. Her look is mainly of concern.

"Noire, you okay?" I ask, a bit worried.

Then suddenly noire hugs me tightly. I'm caught off gaurd but dont push her away, but hug back. Right, I died.

"I was so scared." She says, a cry hidden within her voice.

"I. . . I'm sorry, noire. I didnt even think of how you were feeling, I was too scared about tari getting all of you." I tell her, my face buried in her shoulder.

"I'm just glad your alright." She says, not letting go of me or loosing her grip.

"Same for you, I dont even want to think of what would happen if I didnt arrive in time." I say.

"You. . . . . heh, you sound like you dont even care about dying." Noire observes, sounding a bit better as she wipes a tear in her eye.

"Weeeellll, it isn't my first time dying." I say sheepishly.

"Care to explain?" Noire's tone dropped from sorrow to a low threatening one as her grip around me tightens.

"I- uh, well, this is my third time dying, the other times I died was from saving a city from an atomic bomb, but not getting out of the blast in time, and the other by fighting carelessly. Similar to the way tari killed me." I expain, scared at noire's sudden change of tone.

She sighs, and loosens her grip. "You idiot." Shes says, but her tone was her normal tsun tone.

I close the distance, giving her a kiss before pulling away and seeing that we have a bit of an audience.

"Enjoying the show?" I ask, still holding onto noire.

"You can put it that way." Vert smiles. "But in a happy for you way."

"I- wha- When- How!" Luthic stammers like crazy.

"Hahaha, it's a bit of a long story." I say.

Noire, realizing our audience, lets go of me and pushes herself away slightly, bright red.

"T-This isnt anything! I was just making sure he wasnt killed is all. Haha, dont want him dead again, right?" Noire tsuns up.

I give a bit of a smug smile. "Yeah, making sure my chest was alright, along with my lips." I start.

"Shut it!" Noire says, almost as red as a tomato.

"Haha, okay, for noire's sake, lets go in, you need to tell me what you have gotten as info from the void." I say, giving a slight stretch.

"About that. I told the others the same thing im going to tell you. I dont know anything. And I dont mean it to cover anything up, I mean, they wouldnt tell me anything. They thought I was too much of a joke to them for me to know anything important. They just gave me one order. Hunt bound warriors. And we'll, I think you know who it was that I had in mind." Luthic says, avoiding eye contact and twisting the end of his boot on the ground. Sadly I know this is the truth, we tried using spies on the void lords by infilitrating their ranks but they couldnt get any information without proving their worth.