216 Vol. 4 pt. 19 Patch 4.0: Ferrets and Dogs (1/2)

”Finally,” Ryouta says, wiping the sweat off of his forehead. His body really hurts now.

”Sthoopid,” Serra says, giving the metal cage they just finished putting together a punch.

”Seriously. I've never put together anything that was as annoying as this,” Cassandra says.

Meanwhile, in the closed-off spare room, Alice is lying on the floor while the ferrets climb all over her and play with one another. She's been giggling and smiling and playing the whole time while the others put together the ferrets' cage.

”Can I have a massage after this? Please?” Ryouta groans.

Serra pushes Ryouta down onto his stomach, straddles his back, and starts to rub his shoulders and neck.

Ryouta melts underneath the touch of her fingers.

That's when Mr. Chubs hops off of Alice, runs up to his face, bites his nose, then runs away while making dooking noises.

”The little bastard is lucky he's adorable,” Ryouta says as he rubs his nose.

”Mr. Chubs is not a bastard! He is an adorable prince!” Alice sticks up for Mr. Chubs as he hops up onto her stomach, looks around, and then hops off of her to chase after Shark.

Serra watches the playful fight between Shark and Mr. Chubs with great interest.

That interest turns into disapproval when Shark loses and gets pinned underneath Mr. Chubs' superior mass.

She will train Shark to be the most ferocious carpet shark in all of history.

Then there is Cassandra trying her hardest not to squeal from how cute and happy all the ferrets look! Between their dooking, war dances, and wrestling, they are just far too cute for her to handle. They are causing her emotions to run wild on the inside.

Shark embraces his inner hunter, and digger, by diving into one of the extended tubes lying around on the floor. The other ferrets hear the crinkling sound from him sliding through it, come over to investigate, and get pounced on! Shark lunges out from one end of the tube and tackles Lily!

That's when Damian sees what's going on and jumps onto Shark to save Lily from him.

”I ship them,” Ryouta says.

”Who?” Cassandra asks.

”Damian and Lily.”

Lily looks at Damian once Shark has been scared off. She even pokes her nose against Damian's nose! Then she pounces him before dooking away into one of the other tubes lying around on the floor.

”I could watch this all day,” Ryouta says.

”Hmm. Well, I shall not impose a limit on ferret watching hours. Only gaming hours!” Alice announces.

”You know… I'm curious about something. It's technically possible for animals to use virtual reality, right?”

”Yeah, but it's illegal and everybody says that it would be cruel,” Cassandra says.

”Right, but, what do you think ferrets would do in virtual reality? Like, could you imagine a ferret running around in the body of a human avatar? Hopping around, making those dook noises, pouncing on each other, and so on? It'd look like some sort of really kinky orgy.”

”You're so weird.”

”Yeah, well, you're a nerd. A beautiful nerd. Also, when do I get to fluff your hair?”

”I – I said,” Cassandra lowers her voice so that Alice won't hear and makes sure that Serra can't see her lips, ”when we're alone.”

Ryouta needs the fluff.

”Oh. I just remembered that I fluff myself in-game,” Ryouta says.

”You really are weird,” Cassandra says.

”It's like masturbating but with cute fluffiness instead of sex.”

”You're proving my point.”

”Reminds me of that time I tried rubbing my own belly in-game and it worked.”

”Wh-what?”

”Oh… yeah. I never told anybody about that. Aha. Uhh, right after I made Fenrir, I tried rubbing my own belly and it made my tail wag and leg shake.”

”I'm judging you.”

”I deserve it.”

Ryouta moans when Serra rubs one particularly tense spot. She may be small and weak, but she knows how to give a massage.

”Cass, ask Serra how she learned to be so good at this,” Ryouta says.

Cassandra gets in front of Serra, grabs her attention, and asks the question.

Serra signs her answer, but Cassandra doesn't understand the signs, so Serra pulls out her phone and types her response into a text message.

”She says that she used to get out of being grounded by offering massages to her parents, and they pretty much gave her anything she wanted as long as she'd offer that. She says that her massages were her currency back home,” Cassandra explains.

”I can believe that. You need to get one of these to experience how good she is,” Ryouta says.