154 Vol. 3 pt. 24 Patch 4.0: A Cat is Fine Too (1/2)
Fenrir coughs and gags, but nothing comes out.
”You're so overdramatic, Fenny,” Oleander teases him.
”You don't know what it's like to have your own dog transplant crab guts into your mouth. It's all I can smell and I can still taste it,” Fenrir explains.
”That's because I don't tongue my pets. I only do that to my Cor!”
”I hate everything and everybody right now.”
Rock whimpers and nuzzles against his leg.
”Except you, Rock. I could never hate you. I don't really hate anybody else, either. I just hate that crab and Olly.”
”Hey! It's not like I did anything wrong! I was just recording something funny for all your girlfriends to see! Look, Fenny, if you're going to be dating three cute girls then I get to at least tease you around them so that your ego doesn't get too inflated.”
”I appreciate your effort to keep me grounded, but if it means going through that, I would rather become an egotistical asshole.”
”Woah, Onii-chan, I had no idea you were such a perv. I'm in your head and I didn't even know you'd want to make out with Rock and swap crab guts!” Saya teases.
”Even my virtual assistant is making fun of me now. See what you've started, Olly?”
”Hey, Fenny's assistant! Don't let him ever forget what happened today. Just send him screenshots at random times when he's not expecting it,” Oleander says.
”Tell him I said okay!” Saya says.
”I'm not telling him that. I'm telling him you're a brat who already teases me enough,” Fenrir tells Saya. ”She's a brat who already teases me enough,” he tells Oleander.
”I bet she's already agreeing with my plan anyways,” Oleander replies.
”This is cruel and inhumane treatment.”
Fenrir and Oleander look at each other while Rock licks her paws.
The two men start laughing.
”It's been a while since we've last had some time to play together – just the two of us,” Oleander says in his masculine, non-trap voice. ”I've missed it, man. Between Cor, your girls, Bone and all that other drama, we've had no time to just hang out and chill.”
”It's weird hearing your real voice when you look like that,” Fenrir says. ”But yeah, I know what you mean. Want to grab a drink sometime soon?”
”I'll be over by you next week, so sure. I want to meet all the girls after taking you home drunk. I bet that would be fun.”
”I already told them that exact thing is probably going to happen.”
”What's it like, dating three girls? Or is it four now?”
”Just three, and it's just as crazy as you probably think it is.”
While the two men sit down on the shells of dead crabs to talk, Rock runs around in the sand playing and barking at the water whenever it gets close to her paws.
”How're you and Cor doing?”
”Really good, actually. I'm still worried things might be moving too fast, but I don't think I have to worry about that when I look at your relationship. You're moving faster with three girls than I am with one guy.”
”You're right about that. You two planning on meeting up anytime soon in reality?”
”We're talking about it, but nothing concrete yet.”
”Maybe he'll dump you when he discovers you're not actually a cute trap.”
”I'd probably deserve that for how many guys I've tricked before, but I don't think so. He already knows all about how I look out of character.”
”That's good. You know how he looks?”
”He pulled a Serra and made himself look the exact same.”
”Well, it's not as bad when guys do that. We don't get stalkers as often. Invite him to the Fiscord yet?”
Oleander stretches out and yawns. ”He doesn't like stuff like that, so we just call each other,” he explains.
”Fair enough. We've had people like that before in our groups,” Fenrir says then yawns himself.
”So, we need to find a landmark for the new girl, right?”
”Yeah, something that should be easy to find from that top-down map we chose from.”
”Right here might be a good spot thanks to that island out there. Just tell her to choose a spot near the beach in front of the island on… the southern tip of the place that looks like Italy.”
”I think that's a good way of describing it. I'll go ahead and go tell her now, be right back.”
Fenrir goes from talking to falling straight back and rolling off of the shell that he was sitting on, his face planting itself into the sand.
”You could have picked a better spot to wake from,” Oleander says before getting up to help Fenrir's body back up.
When Fenrir gets back in-game, he opens his eyes and sees Oleander swinging his legs while sitting on his chest.