*Ding*

The elevator opened revealing the oracle of Lastation Kei. She had her usual stern facial expression, but deep inside she wanted to rip her hair out. Having to deal with Uni's romance issue was a very likely cause for this, but then again, she couldn't complain since she did agree to help the candidate's situation.

Sighing to herself, Kei walked out of the elevator and into Noire's workroom which was a very long room for some reason. The walls all had fancy designs, and a whole lot of gears making it look like a sophisticated steampunk room.

On the left of the oracle was six giant window doors which lead to a large beautiful balcony overviewing the entirety of lastation.

Kei, however, didn't pay attention to the scenery since she's been in this place for who knows how many times. No, her attention was focused on the far opposite side of her. A rather large wooden desk that looks like a lengthy piano at the front of the room, on top of this desk were various items such as a brown metal globe, a computer, and a miniature phonograph… and other stuff the oracle didn't precisely know the hell they were.

But the weirdest one was behind the computer, Noire, the lastation Goddess CPU Black Heart. From the silver-haired woman's perspective, Noire was still wearing her usual apparel, her fancy dress consisting of dark blue, white, red, and small amounts of gold lining and buttons.

Due to how long the room was, it took Kei a considerable amount of time to get to her destination. Even with the loud elevator noise, and the sounds of footsteps on the marble floor, the pigtailed goddess still hadn't noticed the oracles presence. Choosing to type away excessively on her keyboard with her red eyes glued to her computer screen.

This wasn't anything new to the oracle. Every day the CPU would always be on her computer working the entire day with little breaks. It's impressive but also a bit concerning, don't get her wrong, Kei is happy she has a very hard-working CPU who does her job unlike a certain purple hair goddess, but the oracle must admit there are limits to all things.

"Noire being Noire. Forever a workaholic."

She sighed, halting in front of the wooden desk. Kei faked a cough to capture her CPU's attention. Several seconds of extreme typing later nothing. Again, she faked another cough but this time much rougher which prove to be fatal as it caused Kei to suffer a coughing fit.

A coughing fit later, the goddess still hadn't budged from her seat or even changed her monotone expression. Kei widened her eyes in disbelief.

"What is… Noire?" She thought, usually it wasn't this hard to grab her attention, but damn this girl was really into her work today.

"Uh, Noire may I speak with you for the moment?" She said in a not certain tone, still astonish on Noire's ability to avoid all distractions.

"Oh, hello Kei didn't notice you there. What brings you here? More issues going around Lastation?"

The silver-haired female narrowed her eyes causing Noire to tilt her head in a confused manner.

"Wha-"

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"Seriously?" Kei cuts off Noire before shaking her head and resuming her current objective and reasoning she was here in the first place.

"Never mind." Noire shrugged in response before Kei continued, "There is an issue, but it doesn't concern Lastation as a whole, more so only in the Lastation basilicom."

Noire furrowed her brow, "The basilicom? And what's this issue?"

"I'm guessing you haven't been out your room for the whole three days or been near Uni's room." Kei said, knowing full well what the answer was going to be.

"No, I haven't had the pleasure. I've been stuck up here all day because of work as usual. Wait, are you saying my sister is the issue? Is she creating another wacky weapon and accidentally destroyed the basilicom walls again?! Because if she is-"

"No, no its nothing like that." Kei waved her hands in perpetual motion, "Uni is the issue, but it isn't anything like her dangerous antics. She's been on the downside lately."

"How so?" Noire leans back in her chair.

"For the last three days she's been crying nonstop, and her cries are so damn loud almost everyone who's near that room can hear it, driving our basilicom staff to literal madness." The oracle closed her eyes and pinched her forehead a third time, "I had a conversation with her before coming here, and apparently Nepgear ended their relationship because of reasons that I'm not sure if Uni is keeping away from me or Nepgear has other reasons that are unknown." She reopened her eyes.

"Oh, that's doesn't sound good, anything that has to do with Nepgear would cause a huge problem with Uni. And a break up between the two seems unreal." Noire sighed, rubbing her chin, "And I'm guessing you want me to go talk to her in hopes of calming my sister, down right?

"Well I'm not well equipped with this sort of stuff, so yes that is the plan. After all, you are her sister, so I expect she'll listen to you and be more reassured from your presence far more than she would with me."

The goddess rubbed the back of her head, a cramp settling in after working for so long, "Fine fine, I'll give her a visit after I'm done with this. Hard to believe the sweet and humble Nepgear would rip my sisters heart out." The CPU massage her temples before beginning her excessive typing.

"And I forgot to say she has a grudge against you Noire." Noire ended her typing to look at Kei with wide eyes.

"What?! What did I do? I wasn't the one that told Nepgear to end her relationship with my sister!" The pigtailed girl yelled, not wholly believing what the oracle had said. I mean Uni having a grudge against her was rare if not outright unheard of. The goddess had always tried to set an example for uni as a good role model, by being the all perfect sister or at least worked hard to become one, although her sister bonding skills were a bit lacking due to this.

"Apparently, actually it's not apparent since you confirm yourself that you haven't visited her during her broken state for three days. Three days and her big sister she is so fond of isn't there to comfort her. I had to reassure her, and you know I'm terrible at that stuff."

"I m-mean if you put it that way then yeah, I guess I've should've gone to see her…" The CPU gripped her arm in shame, "But it's not my fault! I have to protect and increase my shares for this nation." Noire stammered, hating the fact Kei did have a point.

"We're number one in shares."

"B-but I have so much wor-" The goddess was cut off by the silver-haired girl again.

"I can try to do them for you during your talk with Uni. You won't miss anything."

A defeated sigh escape the goddess's lips, "Okay, okay I'll have a talk with my sister, just don't patronize me Kei! Hmph." Noire got off her work chair and strode past the oracle.

Kei smirk, "Next time pay attention to others when you're hard at work."

Noire faced Kei in a confused manner, "What was that?"

"Nothing." The stern oracle said before sitting down on Noire's chair. The goddess only shrugged before making her way towards the elevator.

"Hopefully I can calm her down, I have been a terrible sister as of late. I'm not good at talking to her normally." The goddess said, rubbing her temples as she entered the elevator.

"I'm sure you'll do just fine. Better than me I hope." Kei gave her a thumbs up from afar.

"I hope you're right, in any case, Ill snap Uni back into action!" she quickly pressed a button causing the elevator doors to close and sending her down.

"I just got a feeling something bad is going to happen between those two." Kei thought.