228 Vol. 4 pt. 31 Patch 6.0: Hard Labor (2/2)
Oleander, at the ship's wheel, begins maneuvering to get The Shoebillturned around so that they can head back down the river to where they want to build their city.
”This is a lovely area!” Nell says.
”Yeah. Looks pretty,” Serra agrees while sneaking in a pinch of Nell's behind.
”Must you!? You are like a perverted old man! You already had me for hours!”
Nell blushes when she realizes what she just shouted loud enough for everybody to hear.
”You have to dress up like a nurse and I'll tell you to come sit on my lap,” Serra says.
While nobody may speak up in agreement with Nell, they're all agreeing with her on the inside that Serra truly is a perverted old man reincarnated into the body of a petite, young girl.
Even Serra agrees.
”Now then! I wished to ask something. My hero,” Nell looks at Fenrir, ”it is clear that these trees have a history of being swept by wind away from the coast. Do you believe that this area is truly safe?”
”We already talked about this, but yeah. I think it'll be fine. Rao knows how to build sturdy stuff, and we've got some really strong wood to build with. Some log cabins on the coast would probably get destroyed by strong winds if that's what happens here, but steel oak cabins might be fine. Even then, we plan on building actual buildings, not just cabins,” Fenrir explains.
”I see! Well, I shall hope that we do not all get swept away! I may love tragedy, but I cannot – actually, I can think of a fun tragedy involving something such as a hurricane! We could be holding onto each other in our final moments as the flood water grows higher!”
”But we can both breathe underwater. On another, potentially really stupid note, I just thought of something.”
”What would that be, my hero?”
”Hurricane-chan.”
”Wh-what?”
”A hurricane personified as a cute anime girl.”
”U-umm…” Nell tilts her head to the side in total confusion. ”How – how would such a thing work?”
”Well, first off, there would have to be twins. Hurricane-chan and Typhoon-chan would be twins. Hurricane-chan would have a tan and maybe a bit of a tropical flair to her, be super outgoing and loud, and love to party. Typhoon-chan would be her reserved sister. Tornado-chan would be like a spunky little sister loli who looks up to both of them, and both of the twins would kind of have like an older sister appeal to them. Then… while I'm thinking about it, a volcano would definitely make for a good tsundere. A tsundere Volcano-chan. Forest Fire-chan would be a yandere who threatens to burn everybody and chase people. Earthquake-chan would be a really nerdy and clumsy girl with darker skin who's super shaky and gets bullied a lot, but Tsunami-chan would be her guardian and always stick up for her whenever she gets bullied. Everybody would be afraid of her. What else… Nor'easter-chan would be a kuudere, and if this was a harem anime, the protagonist would need to be like a geologist or meteorologist.”
Nell feels her head spinning as she tries to keep up with Fenrir's conversation with himself. Is this how people feel whenever she goes over her fantasies with them? She might have to tone things back and be more considerate in the future if that is the case!
”De. Gen. Er. Ate,” Tabitha says.
”Seriously, how do you even think of things like that?” Cassiel asks Fenrir. ”Your mind is as overactive as Nell's is.”
”Volcano-ch-chan would need to be the strongest of them all!” Azalabulia declares. ”Because she has explosions! The one with explosions wins no matter what! She – she could fill the sky with smoke and cause an ice age! And lava melts everything! And it'd be like she can shoot meteors from her mouth that explode with more lava!”
”True, true,” Fenrir says, ”but I don't know about her being the strongest. Her power level would definitely be high, but I think a typhoon might be able to beat her. Actually, Volcano-chan and Tsunami-chan would probably fight over Earthquake-chan. Since she can be related to both of those, they might fight over who gets her attention the most.”
”A rivalry between powerful foes! Their battles would decimate land for hundreds of miles to win the heart of the earthquake! Who would win? The volcano's explosive abilities, or the typhoon's raging tides? I want to watch it happen! Somebody has to have done the math online and figured out what would happen! I might have something to talk to my students about now!”
”You talk to them about crazy stuff like this? Aren't they kids?”
Azalabulia, with a smug look of confidence, says, ”It's how you get them interested in learning! You have to stoke the flame within them! Kids are more interested in learning about cool things than boring things! What would you be more interested in, a volcano versus a tsunami, or about two plus two?”
”I mean, the former, but isn't the latter kind of more important?”
”Don't worry, I make sure they learn all of that boring stuff before getting them involved with the fun stuff!”
”You actually sound like you're a pretty good teacher.”
”Of – of course I am!”
”I bet the boys love you,” Serra says.
”Wha-what makes you say that?” Azalabulia asks Serra.
Serra points up at Azalabulia's chest.
”They're too young for that!” Azalabulia shouts with an embarrassed huff. ”I think!”