16 Another Day, Another Silly World (2/2)
”Well…yeah. Certainly. But then…?”
Vera's windshield suddenly got kind of foggy and her words started to ramble.
”It seemed like Usami would be a good 'Seme'! And that Tsubasa, he would look perfect on the bottom! And Kyouma, he's an all-rounder! He could get along with any one of them! They just need to end up as heated rivals guarding each other's asses…”
It took a few moments for Diesel to understand what Vera had meant by all of that, but when he did, he slowly backed up from her.
All this time, she had been looking for BL pairs to ship!
'So, that was the reason she painstakingly scrutinized each one of the candidates. She was looking for ones that triggered her Yaoi senses!'
Diesel had the incredible urge to bang against something. To think that her backup plan had been to pair up each of the unchosen guys as the solution.
'Madam Sorceress and her BL Squad, I dub thee!' Diesel imagined a strange title, mentally wrapping a bow around the request and calling it done.
The truck stop was now in their sights. Time for a quick refresher. When they arrived, they were greeted by the sight of only Mama Shanty.
”Back from a job? That certainly took a while.”
”Well…Vera was very keen on selecting the right candidates to ship.” Diesel sighed as Vera's headlights looked somewhat starry-eyed from the result.
”At least, you guys have a request to take care of. I'm here, waiting for the dream guy to truck.”
Mama Shanty didn't really do requests unless she felt like it. It seemed like she was the pickiest out of all of them.
”If only there was a nice world that requested a suave, cool-headed detective. The glint of his badge gracing his form and the determined, righteous look on his face as he points his gun at you – now, that is worth running into!”
Diesel didn't quite understand the appeal that she had for those in uniform. However, he couldn't deny that some people had them. His sister in the previous world he came from had a calendar of sexy firefighters hanging in her room, so he just passed it off as a strange quirk.
”Didn't you say you liked requests that looked for intellectual people that could defeat evils with their brains? It doesn't have to be a guy in uniform, right?”
Mama Shanty sniffled, which was a bit odd because trucks didn't have noses.
”I tried one not long ago, but for some reason, they didn't want the mature, classy guy that had many talents. Instead, they asked for a pair of shut-in siblings who did nothing but play games all day!”
Diesel couldn't say anything about that. It seemed like isekai-related requests all checked off the box asking for certain factors in their summoned heroes. The image of an action hero in a crime drama just didn't fit the bill. Rather, an image of the requesters cheering from their sofa, as a cute young boy or girl appeared, floated in Diesel's mind.
Although, what did he know? Diesel tended to watch problem solving through silly martial arts and fighting people with everyday objects instead. To him, a good fight scene just wasn't complete unless the villains were beaten up with things like ladders, bicycles, or umbrellas. It just wasn't as satisfying to merely see a villain taken away by the police after a 'the culprit is YOU!' moment.
”Cheer up, Mama Shanty. You'll find the request just for you someday. And it will be all yours. I'm sure Kami-sama will save it just for you.”
”If a goose doesn't beat me to it first.”
”They haven't been so active lately, so you're probably safe.”
In truth, Moon Goddess Yue didn't seem like she wanted to compete with Kami-sama directly, but rather, she wanted to catch his attention. After all, she had readily agreed to sending her geese out to help when he asked.
In fact, they were probably busy in the online world messing with people's gaming sessions and desktops. Most of them liked to play non-lethal pranks to begin with.
Diesel sighed as he thought that there could have been worse things that he could find himself doing.
It was just another day in the daily life of a Truck-kun.