268 Vol. 4 pt. 71 Patch 13.0: Operation: Operation (1/2)
After catching enough fish to trade in for alcohol to have a proper guys' night, Fenrir and Rao head back to The Shoebill with their wagon loaded up.
Corwin and Oleander have completed their jobs in preparing, too.
All that is left is to convince one more member to help them.
Even if said member is a girl, how important she is to their plan justifies her being allowed to come.
”Are you sure she's going to help us, Fenny?” Oleander asks as Fenrir and Rao unload the wagon.
”Yeah. She likes me more than Nell. I think,” Fenrir says, looking out to the water.
They haven't seen their favorite serpent friend in a while, but Fenrir has been able to feel her presence as much as ever.
Now, all he has to do is try to bring her to the shore so that he can communicate his request to her. She may be able to feel his emotions and understand basic thoughts such as when he wants to see her, but that's it. Complex ideas still need to be relayed face-to-face.
”See?” Fenrir says, looking over his shoulder to the others while pointing to the water.
The serpent's head can be seen poking out of the water and looking their way.
”Being able to communicate with animals just makes you even more of a furry, bro,” Rao says.
”Damn it, Rao, we've had this conversation. I'm not a furry,” Fenrir says. ”Besides, I'm communicating with a giant serpent, not some animal.”
”Then wouldn't that make you uhh… what're they called? The people into scaled animals instead of furry ones?”
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”Scalies,” Oleander says.
”Bro, why would you know that?” Rao asks Oleander.
”Why would you know that there's a difference?” Oleander asks back.
”Anyways, bro,” Rao looks at Fenrir, ”you do you.”
With a sigh, Fenrir looks back at the serpent and waves his hands to try and beckon her to come over.
”Good luck with that, bro. Have fun talking to animals,” Rao says.
Fenrir looks back at him again, expecting to see a mocking expression on Rao's face, but Rao looks friendlier than that. He's just smiling and even winks.
”Stop comparing him to Bone, onii-wan,” Saya thinks to Fenrir.
”I know. I just keep on taking him seriously when he says stuff like that and… keep thinking that he means it to be a dick like Bone would have. But, he's just being stupid and messing around instead of actually making fun of me,” Fenrir thinks back.
”This is what happens when you keep on thinking of him as a replacement for Bone.”
”I don't mean to. I wouldn't ever want to be seen as a replacement for somebody, so I don't want to treat him like a replacement. But… you're right. I kind of have been treating him that way.”
”Do you miss him, onii-wan?”
”You already know the answer to that.”
”You're so weird for missing somebody who you barely got along with.”
”That's how us humans are. Besides, if I miss him, then that means you probably do, too.”
”Hmph. Only because I'm part you. I really don't like him myself.”
”Either way, you know why I feel the way that I do. We were friends for years.”
”Now you can be friends with Rao for years! And your girlfriends! A-and me! No-not that I'd want to be your friend for that long or anything, ba-baka onii-wan.”
”Thanks for the fanservice.”
”Perverted baka onii-wan.”
”Adorable little not-blood-related sister.”