186 Vol. 3 pt. 56 Patch 10.0: A Growing Crew (2/2)
”Then I shall turn the oceans we sail upon into oceans of flames! We shall replace the water with lava and catch only the greatest, most powerful of hellish fish!”
”You're not allowed to catch The Shoebill on fire. You're out of here if you do.”
”I won't! Promise! No setting shoebills on fire! By the way, what's a shoebill?”
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”Extinct birds. Used to be really cool. Our boat is named after them. So, as long as you don't set our boat on fire, I'll be happy and we won't throw you overboard.”
”Deal! Deal, deal, deal! What's my bedroom going to be like?”
Fenrir and Cassiel look at each other and sigh. ”Were you listening to anything we were saying earlier?” Cassiel asks.
Azalabulia touches her lip and tilts her head.
Despite Azalabulia looking older – more mature than them both, they each feel as if they are far more mature than she is. In fact, both of them are somewhat confused by how her personality so strongly contradicts her appearance. She looks like a cool and mature, somewhat sexual, moderately edgy woman. Instead, she acts like a kid whenever she's not chanting spells, and even her spell chants are childish.
”O-oh… yeah, I – I might recall saying I would sleep on the floor,” Azalabulia says, tapping her fingers together as the three walk through the tunnel to catch up with the other four.
”I'm starting to feel bad for Olly,” Cassiel says to Fenrir.
”Why's that?” Fenrir asks.
”First Nyaiko, then Rao, now her. All in one day.”
”They'll grow on him. He's always been kind of iffy about adding new people to our groups, but as soon as he gets to know them, he'll treat them like he's known them for years. I mean, he's already starting to get along with Rao better despite Rao probably getting the farthest on his bad side.”
”I still can't believe he did that.”
”Did what? Who did something?” Azalabulia butts in.
”That guy with the red hair, Rao, peeked under my friend's tunic to figure out if he's a guy or girl,” Fenrir explains.
”Who? The girl with the antlers?”
”That's Oleander. A boy. Not a girl.”
”Ah… heh, I knew that. I was just testing you! For example, what gender do you believe I am?”
Fenrir looks at her abundant chest for a couple of seconds and shrugs. ”No idea. You look like you could go either way.”
”Wa-wait! Seriously? I – I don't look like a girl?”
Cassiel elbows Fenrir in the side.
”Alright, alright. Yes, you look like a girl. It'd be impossible for you to not look like a girl when you've got all that on display,” Fenrir says with a sigh.
”All what on display?” Azalabulia asks.
”He's talking about your boobs,” Cassiel answers.
”Ah… I – I knew that. I can cover up more now that I've got a party!”
”You're only this revealing because you wanted to find a party?”
”I – I was told by the guy who made these clothes that it would work to make new friends.”
”To be fair, it'd work against Cassiel,” Fenrir says.
”You bas—… I'm not some boob addict!” Cassiel shouts.
Fenrir leans closer to her and whispers, ”I'm addicted to yours.”
His teasing whisper makes her really happy as evidenced by her wide smile, but those words are also extremely embarrassing and makes her elbow him again.
The group of seven reaches the surface and gets some fresh air.
”Good, that foul beast is gone!” Azalabulia says after taking a cautious look around.
”You mean the giant gorilla minotaur thing?” Fenrir asks.
She nods her head. ”He is the one who chased me and made me hide down there.”
”I thought you said you were drawn by dark powers wanting to challenge you or something like that?”
”So… that oversized monkey came after us because it was waiting for you to come out of the tunnels?” Cassiel asks Azalabulia.
Azalabulia looks away from them and tries to whistle just like Cassiel was earlier, but manages to be even worse at whistling than her.