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_{"What will dear old dad say when he hears of this hmm?", "Bet you he'll be thrilled to hear about his daughter's journey haha"}
"I don't care, i must find Kisaragi and Mutski" she thought defiantly.
_{"The heir to an Empire of two billion souls, the largest on the planet". "Going through all this effort"}
"Silence" she resonated in her mind.
_{"Stalking through the streets, scaring the locals", "And for what?"}
"I must find them" she tried to convince herself.
_{"Oh how the relations between the Necerierrans and the rest of the Empire will improve from this", "Two ragged pieces of neko trash"}
"SILENCE!" but the voices did not stop.
_{"The future Empress", "A madwoman"}
"Leave me ALONE" she let out under her breath as she felt a sharp pain in her right hand "Kut, thats right, my hand, has got to be broken.."

But the voices did not relent
_{"Aww does your hand hurt?", "Still cant keep yourself under control can you?", "I bet you that whatever they will do to them will hurt more though.."}
"SHUT. UP." she screamed internally.
_{"You pretend to be a 'big girl' but you let yourself be hold back by a little boo-boo?", "Are you gonna hurt the other Necerierrans now?", "Oh i don't think i need to spoil for you what they will do"}
Helene wanted to, but she couldn't even fight them anymore, her resolve was all but spent. "No" she could only whimper in her head.
_{"Your weakness shows", "As i recall it, if you were to lose Kisaragi you would 'Personally exterminate each and every single last one'", "You know what they will do"}
"No."
_{"Pathetic weakness", "Is that what you will do Helene? Exterminate them all?", "Kisaragi told you all about what they had done to begin with"}
"No.."
_{"Utterly defenceless peasant", "Genocidal maniac", "Worthless parent"}
"You're... no... i am not..." Helene struggled as the voids darkness came for her again
_{"Not better than a child", "Only fit to be executed yourself", "Incapable of fulfilling your one reason to exist"}

Having fallen down on her knees Helene felt her consciousness slip away as the void slowly consumed her. "...Angels... forgive me..." she uttered as she blinked one more time, closing her eyes. And as she opened them, in the corner of her eye, vaguely in the distance standing next to the entrance of an alleyway stood two figures. Two females. One a small child clad in all black with what appeared to be a feathered cap, and larger girl in a white blue dress with crimson ponytails. They were looking into the alley and speaking, but what they said, she couldn't hear.
Helene, having been ever so slightly distracted from the encroaching void looked towards them as they turned to look at her in what appeared to be shock. She blinked once again to see nothing but what appeared to be a black mist dissipating where the two had stood.

Helene slowly crawled back upon her feet and walked through the empty cleared street to the alley to take a closer look at what she had witnessed. As she rounded the corner she saw nothing where the two had been, not a foot print in the dust, nothing. "I am losing my min-" but before she could finish her thought before her down the alley, leaning against the wall with one hand and holding his jaw with the other was the man she had knocked out. In an instance now her mind had cleared and made place for razor-sharp focus.

"Y O U." she yelled as she ran up to him full of zeal. "You?! Get the hell away from me!!" Surprised and frightened by the charging woman he tried to run for his life, but Helene was faster by grabbing the back of his shirt with her hand. She had taken hold of him, victory was hers...had only she not taken hold with her broken right hand which casually let go as Helene recoiled in agony from the sharp pain shooting through it and fell to the ground. "Haha, you're not getting me this time you tall bitch!" he laughed as he ran down the alley, nearing the end and away from the fallen Helene. Reacting fast however Helene bit down as hard as she could to withstand the pain and reached into her boot to take out the small pistol she had hidden and took aim. With a grunt of pure agonizing pain she pulled down on the trigger as many times as she could manage. The sound of the shots in such a cramped space rang Helene's ears but the bullets had found their marker with the mans legs giving out under him as Helene stood back up and walked over to him.

Soldiers swarmed from every side to check the commotion, only to find Helene standing over the terrified man laughing maniacally. "FINALLY" she exclaimed "I've been looking for you and your buddy my friend" she said as she knocked him unconscious with the back of her pistol and sighed deeply. "Princess Helene.. are you.. all right..?" one of the surrounding soldiers said after watching the whole thing. "Oh i am just fine, great even, fantastic if you are so inclined" she said as she put the pistol in her pocket "Because he is going to tell me everything i need to know" "What if he refuses to tell your majesty?" "Refrain from calling me that-" _{"i'm sorry your m- Princess"} "-just.. call me Helene" she said as she looked towards a tool shop further down the street "Take him down to the closest police station, and bring me some tools from that shop over there. A couple of pliers of varying sizes should do the trick, there won't be much to refuse for him" she said as she waited for a couple of the soldiers to take the unconscious man with them and for the remaining soldiers to dissipate before sitting down and leaning against the wall.

With a deep breath she steeled herself, taking in all that had just occurred, and thinking about all that was yet to come.

Hidden in the distant shadows two figures lurked in the darkness, looking upon Helene. "Now look what You have done Sister, We agreed not to interfere with the mortals" He said "I am sorry Brother, I simply wished to look on as the course of the future was to be set in stone, a turning point in history created, I thought her to have already passed" She apologized "And she would have, and I would have brought her across if it hadn't been for You getting Us spotted, reinvigorating her and giving away what she was after." He said. "I merely wanted to watch the irony of her passing so close to her target, I never meant to get in Your way Brother" She said once more "This is the same as 272 years, 6 months, 20 days, 3 hours, 13 minutes and 21 seconds ago when You almost prevented the 19th big calamity from hitting them with Your interference. We will talk about this later, Sister." He said before fading into the darkness "I just wanted to help..." She said before too fading into the darkness.

About half an hour later she went into the local police station, watched by all those inside with either respect, fear or both. She opened up one of the emergency boxes in the building's kitchen and with groans of pain wrapped her hand in bandages before making her way down the stairs to the interrogation room that the man was placed in, strapped down to a chair, praying to Jingo. "Get all of the.. convincing tools loaded on a cart and drive it in, then leave me alone" she said before taking a deep breath and stepping into the room.

"Hello there" she said with a sinister smile as she slowly walked up to him "We're gonna have a nice talk" "Who the hell even are you?!" he asked "Well it doesn't really matter who i am, but since you ask so nicely; i am Helene von Friently-Hannover, Heir to the Grand Friently Empire. And you have something or rather, someone, of mine. But we'll get to that later, let's start out with your name shall we?" she said as she stood before him "Helene von Friently? A kechba, your empire is responsible for our losses, our need to hide. On Jingo's name i'll never tell you anything." he said as he spat at her "And here i had hoped we could begin with a productive conversation-"

Helene said as she stepped a bit back while one of the soldiers pushed the cart filled with all types of tools into the room "Guess i'll have to turn it into one then" Helene said with an eerily warm smile as she took one of the smaller pliers from the table. "My father told me about the way one of our allies used to get people to talk as much as she wanted, even if she didn't need them to talk. But that aside, tell me, have you here in Necerierra ever heard of this nursery rhyme that goes 'This little piggy...'"

Several hours later the door opened again to reveal Helene's hands and clothes covered in a deep crimson red as all the surrounding garrison soldier looked at her "I'm going to need a couple of people to clean up the mess here, i'd help myself as well if i could but i fear my time is limited" she said as she walked back up the stairs to wash her hands "It's taken me too long, goddamned left hand, i knew i should have trained for omni-dexterous when i was younger.." she thought as she dried off her hands and walked to the nearest phone and gave the special code to the connector. At the other side of the line the phone was picked up.

"Father, i am going to need your help..."