268 Vol. 4 pt. 71 Patch 13.0: Operation: Operation (2/2)
”Technically, we kind of are blood-related.”
”We're just brain related.”
”Yeah, but there's blood in the brain, isn't there?”
A few moments of awkward silence pass.
”W-we are blood-related,” Saya says.
”That makes you even better,” Fenrir thinks back to her.
”You're the worst. You really are the worst, onii-wan.”
”Says the blood-related little sister who's still calling me onii-wan despite knowing how horrible I am.”
”Bye.”
”Later, blood-related lil sis'.”
The serpent slides up into the shallow water of the coast and looks down at Fenrir.
”Hey there,” Fenrir says. ”Been a while since we've seen each other up close. You haven't been eating any rowboats, have you?”
The serpent shows him memories of her trying to find some rowboats to snack on but, unfortunately, all of her hunts were unsuccessful.
One such memory includes a quick glimpse of something else far larger and more powerful than a rowboat.
”H-hey! Wait, what was that you just showed me?” Fenrir asks.
The serpent turns her head to the side and goes through the memories again, conveniently leaving out the memory that Fenrir is curious about.
”No, that one where it was really dark and there was something glowing,” Fenrir says.
The serpent turns her head the other way and goes through the memories again.
She still fails to show him the memory that he's talking about.
”Are you hiding something from me?” Fenrir asks.
He doesn't get a response.
”Anyways… I need your help. I should have asked you sooner, but I'm doing it now. Think you could help me and the guys with our operation?”
A new memory gets shown to him this time. It's a memory of… Nell already asking the serpent for help and telling her not to listen to anything that Fenrir says while Tabitha stands in the background with a smug smile and arms crossed over her chest.
”She's… way too smart. Seriously? How'd she even predict I'd come to you?” Fenrir asks himself. ”We are definitely going to surprise them all now. I refuse to let her get ahead of us.”
While Fenrir talks to himself, the serpent spits some water at him which—despite just being ”spit” at him—completely drenches him from the tips of his ears down to his toes.
”Really?” Fenrir asks. ”Come on, you don't even know what our plan is yet!”
The serpent lowers her head so that she's right in front of Fenrir now.
”Alright, thank you. I promise that it's a good plan and probably better than whatever Tabitha is thinking.”
While Fenrir goes over their plan to try and convince the serpent to help them, Rao looks over the job that Oleander and Corwin did.
”It looks good. This should work fine. Good job,” Rao tells them.
”We made it exactly to your specifications,” Corwin says.
”Yep! We made it as perfect as possible!” Oleander says.
”All we need now is for bro to convince the serpent to help us,” Rao says.
”I'm still disappointed our plan relies on a girl. This is supposed to be guys' night and guys' plan. I'm supposed to be the only girl allowed to join,” Oleander says and sighs.