152 Vol. 3 pt. 22 Patch 4.0: A Cat is Fine Too (2/2)
”Hmm. There's eight crabs and three of us. We're stronger now, so… three for each of us and two for Rock?” Oleander proposes. ”I could probably take them all out from back here now. It's always nice returning to low-level monsters after powering up.”
To demonstrate, Oleander reaches into his satchel to pull out a thorn, enlarges it, and sends it flying toward one of the crabs!
The thorn travels with incredible speed straight through the side of the crab, carving a hole through it and exiting out of the other side before the crab even realizes what just happened.
”I probably should have aimed for the head. Oh well!”
The crab falls down and starts writhing its legs around, unable to properly stand.
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”Aww, cute,” Oleander says with a happy sigh.
It's been a while since Fenrir has seen Oleander's inner sadist come out.
”How about four each? Me and Rock will team up,” Fenrir says.
”Sounds good! Wait, you don't seriously plan on fighting with a fishing rod again, do you?” Oleander asks when he sees Fenrir holding Rod.
”Yeah, why not? It's funny. We've fought with joke weapons in games before.”
Rod pulsates a few times as if to express anger that he was compared to a joke.
”Whatever floats your shoebill, Fenny.”
”You get the four on the right, and we'll get the four on the left.”
”Wanna race?” Oleander asks.
”I already know you'll win with your magic if we try to seriously race, so no.”
”You're no fun, Fenny. Annyyywaaayys, let's go!”
Oleander and the trio made up of Fenrir, Rock, and Rod charge at their respective crabs.
Fenrir realizes that he has to let Rock get a head start because of how slow she is.
While Oleander unleashes thorny tendrils produced from the stems of roses against all four crabs at once, Fenrir and Rock reach the first crab and cooperate in attacking it.
The crabs were just enjoying their lives digging around for shells, but now they are under attack.
Fenrir gets himself right in front of the crab, grabbing onto each of its pincers to disable them from being able to move and attack, while Rock hops up onto its back and bites into the shell! The shell, while sturdy, is no match for being crunched on by Rock's fangs.
Fenrir first killed a crab with Rock when she was just a rock by slamming her over and over into the crab's head until its brain was crushed, and Rock seems to remember that tactic. She bites right behind where the crab's head is, uses her front legs to swipe away some of the shell once it's cracked, and then digs her snout into the crab's shell and kills the crab by what Fenrir can only assume is directly biting its brain. He can't see much of what's happening since Rock is sticking her head into the crab's shell and since he technically has traumatic content turned off, so he can't see anything too gory.
He does, however, see Rock lift her head out from the shell once the crab falls to the ground. There is yellow and pink liquid all over her face when she happily barks.
”You're gross, but good job,” Fenrir praises her.
The next crab, Rock distracts it by biting at its legs and running underneath it while Fenrir looks for an opening.
He'll just copy what Rock did.
While the crab is distracted, Fenrir jumps up onto it from behind, grabs onto its head by one of its eyestalks with his left hand, and holds Rod in his right hand. ”Sorry about this, Rod,” he says right before slamming the bottom of Rod directly between the crab's eyes.
He realizes that he should probably be more careful of using Rod like this when the gem that contains Rod's soul—at least, that's how he thinks these gems work—is embedded directly into the bottom of the handle and is the first part of Rod to get slammed into the crab's hard shell. But, when Fenrir pulls Rod up to look at the gem, it looks unharmed.
Back to being used like a hammer.
One of the crab's claws reaches behind it to try and tear Fenrir off from its back, but Rock protects him by jumping up and biting onto the claw!
Three strikes with Rod directly between the crab's eyes is enough to knock it down, lifeless.
”Nice assist, Rock. That's two down and two to go. Want to try taking the other two out on our own?” Fenrir asks her.
Rock barks and runs at one of the two remaining crabs.
”I guess this one is mine then.”
Fenrir notices that Rod is rapidly flashing.
”What?”
Rod pulses twice, waits, then twice again over and over.
”Are you angry or something?”
One pulse.
”Alright, I won't use you to smash crab brains anymore. I want to try going feral on this crab anyways.”