"Lady Morceau...?"

  "Gokigenyo to you too, Neko-chan."

  The newly familiar unfamiliar face in Neko-chan twitches her bck catears atop her head, looking deep into the eyes of Val-sama. Scanning the pink-dotted room full of dolls with trepidation and a ting of pain in all of her broken limbs, she tries to get up to the painful crack of a tailbone somewhere within!

  "Grrr-----nyaaah?!!", the catgirl winces as pain pricks all fifty-six broken bones crack and tremble from the sudden movement!

  Val-sama puts hands on both the overly-agitated catgirl's shoulders, "Careful!" Gently pressing her down to get her to rex, Neko-chan's heavy breathing just does not allow her to rex at all! Recounting in her mind the events of two nights before when she was thrown off the top of a sixteen foot tall building onto the pavament below by a purple-haired fiend...

  ... and then again for a second time by her Owner.

  She remembered her Owner's fshing green eyes, an unknown figure in orange coming up the stairs to the highest point of New Coimbra, then being thrown into the sky once more by her owner's mennifest, countless thin strings which wrapped around her neck and flung her off the building.

  Time seems to stop for her as the figure in orange twintail puts both hands on the shoulders of her Owner, the dark monarchess [La Monarquía], as the simir glowing newcomer puts her lips on Owner's ear and whispers dark intimations into it,

  "You did good, my child."

  [SFX:SLAM!]

  The panicking Neko-chan winces as she hits her back against the head of the headboard once more!

  The projected memory breaks into shattered gss.

  A trained [GLOYW] [1] agent, she was all too sensitive to intrusive magickal attempts to pry into her mind, and cut off the connection at the st moment!

  What was that?!

  Someone was definitely using magick to pry into her mind!

  It wasn't any low tier magick either, it was a power easily on par with her Owner's [Lined Thoughts], which allowed Owner to pry out thoughts from a person's ---

  Neko-chan forcibily obscured her thoughts again, staring angrily into Val-sama now! No, the source of this disturbance wasn't from this familiar golden-haired girl, but somewhere else. Somewhere tinged with the [Exposer of Conspiracy's] familiar malevolence, but different, and foreign. And powerful. Far too powerful to be any third rate mennifester---

  "Neko-chan?" Val-sama raises a hand at the hissing catgirl, whose tail has straightened up into a single straight line! She tries to clutch at the bedsheets covering the lower half but her casted and fingerless arms, but fails! It would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic! Val-sama's kind gesture is ignored, as she goes into a ritualistic recitation---

  "My name is Agent Agabamiya, my ID registration is NEK38-86,

  and I demand to be released from... whatever this prison is!

  Put Director Diamondback on, she'll know who I am!"

  Val-sama lets out a puff of suppressed smugness with closed eyes, having rexed enough to move past the gigantic, but cute teddy to plop down at bedside with a 'pomf'. She had been worried that Neko-chan just took an injury she would never recover from; but it seems that she is completely fine, just some broken bones! Catgirls are tough!

  "Yes, I know that, Neko-chan. Before I graduated [2], you were my bodyguard in Arcadia. I'm now with [Trono Palido] ---"

  [SFX:Angry Hissing]

  "How would this cat NOT know that?! You told me your crazy idea to become a 'princess-knight' for real, first!"

  Neko-chan catches herself, having broke OPSEC [3] heavily enough in enemy territory that she immediately cmped her mouth up into an angry :<, not willing to speak any further!

  For a rare moment, Val-sama breaks off her smugness, to twirl the side of her single sidetail. The two sides refuse to speak in awkward silence, slow violins being pyed to the gliss of a xylophone.

  "I didn't expect to see you here. I never thought you would leave Arcadia for real."

  "You are... still angry that I left home for the New Continent?"

  "Nyargh, what do you think??"

  "I wanted to do something for real people for once, I can't do that as a veetuba."

  Neko-chan bites her lip, tail swaying with apprehension. She knows of Val-sama's nature all too well, having stayed by her side for her entire veetubaing career from start to graduation. Even so, plunging into the magickal danger of the New Continent was like leaving the safety of the hills for the vast wilderness, it was bold, but reckless, and done without any care for Neko-chan's feelings! Just like always!

  The awkward silence continues. The sidetail now twirled like a golden cornet around her finger, Val-sama opens her mouth to speak, then stops again. Instead it is Neko-chan who angrily accuses in a misunderstanding,

  "I should have known that you, the [Lord Protector of New Coimbra], would be in cahoots with 'her'! Wearing that pink-haired skinsuit was a nice touch! I was fooled too!"

  "But Neko-chan, I am a member of [Trono Palido], not its leader."

  "...??? If not you, then who---"

  At this moment, a sleepy and oversized yawn knocks into the nearby Neko-chan, tumbling her body into Val-sama's grasp! Wolf-ears sits up on the bed, rubbing the sandman out of her olive-green eyes. A growl of hunger escapes her stomach, as she looks towards the odd couple in each other's clutches.

  Blinking, she utters a single confused sound,

  "Ey??"

  Elsewhere, in New Coimbra.

  A certain small and cute detective is running down the a street, hands cutting the air at both sides as she gives pursuit to a pair of enormous Horseguys who are running away in the opposite direction...!

  Her two companions are utterly bewildered as well, since the reverse usually happens!

  "Why are you running, why are you running?!?!"

  The adventures of cute girls and funny girls exposing conspiracies... shall continue!

  Go Go And Learn Moonrunes Veetubaing With Aya-chan Val-sama![1] [GLOYW Agency] - One of the ten major factions of Vespana. Currently on a downswing and on the verge of having their seat repced by a new faction. They are also the source of where all the 'glowies' in Madi-san's now somewhat real imagination come from.

  [2] Graduated - For those who don't remember, all the way back from Chapter 2, graduation is a veetubaa term where they stop streaming a skinsuit and pass onto their next life!

  [3] OPSEC - The act of keeping secrets, especially vital information that you don't want your enemies to hear. Especially ones concerning your identity! Did you hear that, Aya-chan?