Well here is chapter 13, with this we begin with the arc of the hierarchs, where the hierarchs of the north, east and west make their appearance, as well as their true origins.

It had already been three days since that battle against the candidates for hierarch and since they saved noire, ram and the two nepgears, also how to tell them the whole truth about why ryo wants Neptune. At that time noire, nepgear, ram with the company of nepgya, (that's how Neptune decided to call chaos nepgear nepgya) they went out to look for cpu memories for the first three, but unfortunately they had not found any, but that did not discourage them. While Neptune stayed in the basilica by orders of histoire, who during these three days has been checking the seals that protect the key as well as Neptune.

Today nepgear, ram, nepgya and Shirou who went to visit them that day, went on a mission, in order to get to know the young former hierarch more. Their mission was to defeat two ancient dragons that were causing trouble near a village on the outskirts of the city.

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"Slash wave!"

"Mirage dance!"

Nepgear and Nepgya attacked the ancient dragon that roared in pain from the damage caused by the two gears. This was the last one left as Shirou dealt with one, and now he was helping the three candidates fight the dragon that was easily falling from the combined power of the 4.

In that ram with his pencil-like scepter, he made an ice coffin to immobilize the monster for a few seconds long enough for Shirou to finish it.

"Shock from the north!"

The new candidate of the ultradimension summoned a blue magic circle where a powerful beam of ice came out that went towards the dragon, impacting it, thus ending it and disappearing in its typical data light.

"That solves everything," Shirou said with a sigh of relief.

At that, the three cpu candidates approached the boy who turned to them.

" Finish us ," Shirou said with a sigh to finish the mission. At that, ram would approach the young ex-hierarch with a big smile.

"Wooooow! Shirou that last attack was great! What did you call it? MMM?"

"Northern impact"

"Yes, that! I finish off that dragon in one hit, "said the twin in pink.

"It's nothing ram, you guys also helped if it weren't for you I wouldn't have been able to win so easily," Shirou said with embarrassment in his voice.

"Actually Shirou-chan, that was a very strong attack, I see that you have great mastery with ice magic", nepgya looked at the male candidate nodding in confirmation.

"Yes, in fact among the Hierarchs Shirou and I had the best magical abilities, Shiro trained more in fire magic and I in ice magic",

"Seriously that's amazing," Nepgear looked at the boy in amazement. "But I see that your magical abilities are very good in addition to your strength, resistance are very high and that you are not transformed",

"Well we were trained under a really tough regiment, but you can do the same",

"We really can!"

"Yes, if you train more it may not be necessary to use your Hdd to defeat an ancient dragon",

"I really want to see that, I can't wait to show off blanc and rom!" Ram said, jumping up and down with excitement.

*snarl*

The three girls heard a loud roar, which rang out right in front of them, they all looked at Shirou who was holding his stomach with a slight blush of embarrassment.

"Hehehe, sorry, I didn't eat much this morning",

"In fact, it's been a while since we had our breakfast, do I think it would be better if we had something to eat?" Suggested nepgya, who was also a little hungry.

Ram and Nepgear nodded according to Nepgya's suggestion.

"Well then let's eat," Nepgear said, but noticed that Shirou was walking towards the forest.

"Hey Shirou! Where are you going? ", Ram yelled the boy who turned to look at her.

"I'll get some food,"

Eh why? Nepgear was confused at Shirou's statement.

"For us to eat," Shirou tilted his head in confusion.

"That's not necessary Shirou pack some sandwiches before coming, you forgot," said nepgear who summoned a picnic basket from his storage.

"Hey! Lll sorry! It's just that I still haven't gotten used to it because I'm no longer with the hierarchs! "

"Eh why?"

"Well when I was with them, and we were hungry, we hunted our own food", Shirou replied somewhat nervous.

"seriously!,

Shirou just nodded.

"Don't worry Shirou-chan, come let's eat at once so we can go back to the basilicom to rest",

Shirou nodded and walked over to sit together with the two nepgear and ram.

Shirou took the sandwich that Nepgear gave him, he still had a hard time getting used to seeing a girl who looked like his Nepgean friend. He wondered if the ancient hierarch of the south had a resemblance to Neptune, to tell the truth he could never see what Nepgeo's brother looked like since he always wore a mask, he only knew his name, but now he did not have to think that, he had to Come up with a plan to convince your former colleagues and friends to leave the hierarchs.

Shiro, it would be something easy to convince, nic it would be the complicated one but it was possible to convince him, and finally nepgeo, he would be the most difficult to convince, since his brother died at the hands of the Planeptune cpu, he has had a deep hatred towards the cpu, but especially to those of Planeptune, he has to be attentive since he will most likely go after the Nepgear and Nepgya ladies.

*sigh*

"Hey? Did something happen Shirou? "Nepgear asked causing Nepgya and Ram to also turn to see Shirou who looked very thoughtful.

"Hey?"

The new cpu candidate came out of his thoughts and looked at the three candidates who were looking at him.

"Eto ...? If that happened?" Shiro scratched his head in embarrassment, another thing he had is that he was very shy if Shiro wasn't with him.

"I asked if something's wrong with you? You're very thoughtful that you haven't eaten much of your sandwich," said nepgear, seeing that he hadn't eaten much.

"Hey....?" Well about that... .. "

"If you have a problem you can tell us Shirou, now we are friends, so you can talk, we will listen to you and help you as much as we can", said nepgya smiling.

"That's how Shirou is! Speak confidently, we promise not to laugh! "Ram said cheerfully.

Well......! I was thinking about how to get shiro, nic and nepgeo to join us. " Shirou explained to the three girls who were silent for a few seconds until.

"Eeeehhhhh!",

"You kind of want to bring those three dolls!" Ram exclaimed.

"A-are you sure Shirou ?! They tried to kill us, do you think they left the hierarchs alone to join us ?! " Nepgear said.

"I don't think they want to come if we tell them, they are bad," Nepgya said.

"It is not surprising that they react like this, but ...... .. I think I can persuade them," said the boy in blue.

"Do you think you can? since I see that they are very loyal to ryo, unlike you, they were willing to carry out all his orders ". Nepgear said remembering the three male candidates.

"Well I don't blame you ......... in fact he acted like that too, but as I said once, we only did that for our older brothers",

"It's true, but do you think they want to join us ...... .. I mean they tried to kill us",

"I don't know, but I have to try, shiro will be easy, I just have to make him understand that we are not doing the right thing, nic it may be complicated but if I can persuade him maybe I can, only that nepgeo will be the most complicated of all" ,

The three girls looked at each other and as if they knew his thoughts they nodded and looked at the male candidate.

"Hmmmmmmm? Shirou?

Nepgya spoke to the boy in blue who looked at her.

"Yes?",

"Can you tell me more about them?"

"Hey? Why?",

"Like why, to help you silly, if you really think that those silly dolls will join us then we support you", said ram animatedly looking at Shirou, "but yes, first I have to kick your twin's butt" ,

"As long as it doesn't get older it's fine," Shirou smiled nervously.

"I don't promise anything," Ram laughed.

"Well Shirou tell us about your time as a hierarch and how are nepgeo and nic and Shiro", nepgya looked at the boy nodding.

"Well my time with them, believe it or not they were somewhat pleasant, although we all have a dark past, we still support each other as a family,"

"Is that so?" Ram was surprised.

"That's right, despite our reputation in the stories that are told about us it is true, but that does not mean that between us there was no camaraderie",

"I see",

"In fact, when we were born, each of the candidates was trained by our brothers, even though they were very hard training, even so the older brother was very good to us, and we also saw that our brothers were good friends",

"seriously?"

"Yes, in fact the death of the southern hierarch also affected them, but continuing, After our training, we the candidates for hierarch formed a team among ourselves, becoming good friends and at that time we all questioned the reasons why our brothers hated the four nations and the cpu ",

"Something must have happened to them for them to have a great hatred for the nations," Nepgya said, thinking about why the hierarchs' hatred.

"That's right, we tried to ask, but he only told us that the CPUs and their people made their life hell, after that we no longer asked questions and decided to just carry out the orders we had, After we lost, against The cpu of the seventh generation all change, since our leader the southern hierarch died, Nepgeo was devastated by the death of his older brother, if it were not for nic and us he would have gone out to seek revenge, and after that I swear that he would kill all the cpu's and especially those of Planeptune, to avenge his brother and make him feel proud ",

"That is something that worries me, nepgear trembled a little when he learned that. "And what are the personalities of the candidates like?"

"Well as you know Shirou, he is my twin but we have different personalities as you will see I am very shy and somewhat cowardly if he is not around, although I am trying to change that, he is determined, brave and somewhat arrogant."

"I see as in the case of rom and ram although I am not arrogant and an idiot like that doll",

"You can say yes, but Shiro is someone who helps his friends and allies, and even if he did not admit it, he also wanted to stay in Lowee, but the desire to help our brother is greater, his hatred towards CPUs is due because our brother told him that he suffered so much for the cpu and his people, I do n't know why, but he said that if it weren't for ryo he would be dead so he owes a lot to him ".

"I see, that's why his hostility towards us, I think he must think that we would do the same to him," said nepgear, remembering when he met the twin in red.

"Yes, I thought that too, but after spending time with blanc I changed my perspective towards female cpu",

"Then this nic, as you know he is the hierarch of the east, his specialty is firearms and also sword fighting, but he is not very good in that area."

"If he uses weapons he might have a plan to counter it," Nepgya said.

"Yes, but don't trust yourself, among the candidates, nic is the most powerful, and he doesn't use all his skills."

"eh no?" the three girls looked at Shirou nodding.

"Yes, but although in battle he is someone serious and somewhat ruthless With his enemies, he is someone nice who cares about his friends, he was the one who helped Nepgeo with his depression since they are best friends even though he denies it, there is one more thing, it is a tsundere too.

"hope for! It's serious! ",

"That's right, well or so I think since sometimes he denies what he feels and gives a lot of excuses",

"Heh, we found the male version of uni," ram scoffed.

"If so, that does not mean that the eastern hierarch is the same since he is his brother, I mean that he is also a tsundere",

A certain hierarch of the east and candidate sneezed and had the need to deny that they are tsunderes.

Shirou just gave a nervous laugh and nodded at what nepgear said.

"But hey then this Nepgean, and I will say that his personality before was like that of Nepgear."

"Eh like mine ?!"

"Yes, before he depended a lot on his brother, and he thought that he could never be a worthy successor as a hierarch of the south, but after his death he changed a lot, as you could see him as he was, although he still has that personality from before. safer than now I'm depressed for losing ",

The three girls only imagined that with a drop of sweat.

"I don't think I'm doing that",

"Actually yes, the most likely he is now in a dark room with a cloud of depression over him, the most likely he is denying his loss, Shirou not so much since he lost against me and the most likely he is trying to cheer on nepgeus.

In a dark room, only illuminated by a light hovering over a certain purple hierarch candidate sitting on the floor while a black cloud hovered over him.

Next to him was shiro and in the corner was nic with his arms crossed and with a drop of sweat on his forehead because of what was happening, the three of them were in their human forms.

"Come on man, it's not that bad, we only lost once",

"Correction I did not lose, that was only part of my plan, to pretend to lose and then at other moments crush it", answered nic.

"You don't even believe it yourself, accept that your butt was kicked and your Nepgean behave like a man, accept defeat, so don't worry, we will surely win next time."

"You don't understand Shirou, if I lost, that means that I'm still not up to my brother's height," Nepgeo said as the cloud in his head grew.

Then suddenly a screen appeared above Nepgeo with the following words.

Nepgeo gained the Negativity skill.

"No, not again," shiro moaned, he remembered the time that nepgeo gained that ability, he had a hard time getting him out of his room.

Nic only saw this with a drop of sweat, and wondered if Planeptune's candidate cpu had these strange abilities that Nepgeo gained. But he shook his head now he had to make Nepgeo come to himself again. Maybe giving him pieces of technology will bring him back to himself.

"Well, with all that you told us about them, you can hear that they are good people, although that does not erase the fact that they tried to kill us." Nepgear said remembering.

"In fact, the personalities he has reminds me of uni that makes me wonder if we had been boys we would look like them" Nepgya wondered.

"That would be weird," Ram said, imagining that.

"Well, stop thinking that, they think I can convince them",

"Well, I'm not 100% sure it will work, in fact our chances of hearing us are very low," Nepgear said scratching his cheek.

"I already knew that," Shirou lowered his head.

"Hey! Wait, that doesn't mean we can't try! "Nepgear panicked seeing how Shirou became depressed."

"Seriously!", Shirou perked up a bit at the statement.

"We don't lose anything by trying, plus we need as many allies as we can if we want to defeat ryo and if they join our party it will be of great help."

"And if they refuse we can kick their butt and force them until they say yes," Ram said.

This brought a drop of sweat to everyone.

"Well, I think we should go back to the basilicom," Nepgear said.

"It's true, I want to rest", ram stretched as he got up

Without further ado, Nepgya and Shirou also stood up and helped Nepgear put things away and then go to the Planeptune basilicom.

"Come baby compa!"

"Hey hey don't ignore me!"

Today was the day that Neptune and Noire had to take care of the three babies, and Neptune made a bet with Noire, to see who would win the attention of the three resident infants of the basilica.

So far Neptune has been winning.

"What about these kids who don't see how fabulous I am!" The hyperdimension cpu tsundere complained.

"I actually think they see how lonely you are,"

"Shut up, I'm not alone, if I have friends!",

"Oh, it's like that then tell me a name",

"Eto ...... well, eh .......", Noire didn't know what to say and got nervous.

"I knew you are a lonely heart, do not worry noire I will try to help you in your loneliness",

"Neptune I swear that one of these days I'm going to strangle you",

"Come on, it was a joke, don't take it so seriously",

The cpu tsundere just crossed her arms and looked away.

"Now that I think about it, why do we have to take care of these children?"

"Why did Plutia order it?"

"You're really afraid of him, I know he can have his moments when he says disturbing things from time to time, or his personality change when he transforms, but still",

"Believe me noire, just until you see what sadie is capable of, you won't be able to sleep for a week",

"What me, what neppy?",

Neptune stiffened and turned around only to see his sleepy friend looking at him with a dreamy smile.

"You are very adorable and very pretty," said our protagonist somewhat nervous.

"Really thank you neppy"; Plutia said smiling with her eyes closed.

Noire for some reason felt jealous that Neptune called Plutia pretty, he never told her that she looked pretty. But Ella at the thought of that shook her head while gaining a big blush.

At that moment histoire arrived with his smaller self.

"Oh Hi Histy and mini Histy", the boy greeted the two volumes.

The two tomes nodded in greeting and approached the group.

"What happened histoire?" Asked Noire who saw a certain concern in the two volumes.

"Eh no, it's nothing noire-san, it's just that I've been a bit tired trying to find a cpu memory", replied the tome. "

"Woa, Histy you don't have to work so hard, relax a little for sure later in the plot we'll find a memory for the lonely heart right here next to me," replied Neptune.

"Hey!",

"I know Neptune, but we must find a memory and quickly, since now your sister, ram and noire are human and with the hierarchs appearing I want them to at least have their Hdd mode, to be able to fight if they were to attack",

"I see, so I assume you found one or am I wrong?" I questioned the cpu tsundere of the hyperdimension looking at histoire who nodded.

"I think there may be one or more, but I'm not sure, that's why I want you and Neptune to go to that place," said the great histoire looking at the two and showing a small map that she made.

"Well a search mission", Neptune got up when he heard that since in the last three days he has been in the basilicom.

"Yes, but Neptune refrain from doing reckless things and keep an eye on him so that he does not do something stupid",

"Histy fence you act as if you were my mother, nothing bad will happen to me, you know that I am the protagonist",

"Neptune, I remind you that not long ago you were impaled with a cursed sword that by a miracle you did not end up inside",