239 Vol. 4 pt. 42 Patch 7.0: (1/2)
Having made it back to the site for their future town, the crew is getting to work unloading materials from The Shoebill when Rao returns with Shogun.
”Find anything?” Fenrir asks, still feeling deflated from just how predictable he is. Him climbing up onto The Shoebill's railing for comedic effect completely backfired on him when everybody called out that he wouldn't actually jump overboard, and then he didn't do it even after threatening to.
”Yo, and yeah. Pretty big town to our north. They seemed friendly. Were waving to me when they saw me flying over, and nobody tried shooting me down, so they can't be too bad,” Rao explains.
”Maybe they just wanted to lure ya in and trap ya?” Tabitha suggests.
”I don't know. Maybe. They looked nice, though.”
”Did you say anything to them by any chance?” Fenrir asks.
”Nah, bro. I just flew around and checked things out,” Rao explains.
”They probably thought you were really suspicious.”
”Why? I was just flying with Shogun.”
”I'd assume you were the scout of a potential threat if you were doing that to me.”
”That's because you're paranoid.”
”I think you're just too trusting.”
”Am not!”
”Hey, Rao. How many of the griefers that have messed with you were people pretending to be your friends?”
”Most of them. It's the only way they could find out where I kept on hiding. Why?”
Everybody looks at Rao in disbelief of just how truly gullible he is. Even Serra is pitying him. And, for once, Tabitha looks like she wants to comfort him rather than smack him away with her hammer. She doesn't, of course, but she looks like she kind of wants to.
”Well, we should deal with them sooner rather than later. They might not appreciate us setting up shop here, so if they're going to be annoying threats, it's best to find that out soon,” Fenrir explains.
”Bro, not everybody is out to get you,” Rao says.
”I'm starting to understand how and why you got griefed so much. You're still too trusting even after all those times.”
”Should I not trust you?”
”I – I mean, yeah, you can trust me, but you don't know if you can trust others. Are you forgetting what happened when you trusted that Olly is a girl?”
”Fair, bro. Fair. But, I think I'm fine. You're here to call out the untrustworthy punks now! Plus that explosion girl with the huge chest can blow them up if they try to do anything to us.”
”Oi, it ain't polite to refer to girls by their chest size,” Tabitha scolds Rao.
Rao, being stupid enough to dare and stand up for himself against Tabitha, asks, ”You jealous?”
Tabitha takes her hammer off of her back and taps its blunt end against her free hand. ”Ya know I could've made myself whatever size I wanted to, right?” she asks.
”I – I… yeah,” Rao answers, all of his confidence to stand up for himself now gone as he backs away.
”You're lucky we need ya to lead the dog to where that town was.”
”I guess we really should try to get that done with right away. Was it on the coast, Rao?” Fenrir asks.
”Yeah. Looked like they had a harbor, so we could sail up to save some time. Would probably take a day to walk up there, and I don't think Shogun could handle flying us back and forth,” Rao answers.
”We really need to get some faster ground transportation. I don't suppose you were able to see horses or anything up there?”
”Actually, yeah. I did.”
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”We might be able to convince them to part with some of their horses then. We do have all that coin now.”
”Oi, what's this about my coin?” Tabitha asks.
”You're the logical one, Tabs,” Fenrir says. ”You know we can't hold onto the coin forever. If we can use it for something useful, we've got to use it.”
For the first time, Tabitha acts how she looks by crossing her arms over her chest and stomping her feet. But, she calms down and sighs before long and says, ”Fine. Only because I don't want to spend months doin' this the hard way. We might as well make life easier on ourselves.”
”So, how do we want to do this then?”
Olly chimes in and says, ”Well, Rao said it's on the coast, so we don't really need him to lead the way. We can leave Tabs, Rao, Cass, and Nell here to build while the rest of us head up to the town.”
Fenrir looks around. They may not have encountered any monsters nor other threats since their arrival to this area, but that doesn't mean he's not going to be concerned about leaving his girlfriends here without his protection. Then again, both of them are more than capable of handling themselves, and they have Tabitha in case anything goes wrong.
As much as Fenrir doesn't want to admit that the shortest, most loli member of his crew is the strongest, he can't deny it. Tabitha is, by far, the strongest fighter that they have. Her small figure is way too effectively deceptive.
”Well, I guess we might as well go and get that done with,” Fenrir says.