279 Vol. 4 pt. 82 Patch 14.0: An Explosive Date (2/2)

Sure, he might have enjoyed a bit of light femdom play with Serra, but he's not a masochist into getting his knees smacked by solid rock over and over again.

That's when Rock stops what she's doing, looks around, jumps up, and barks!

Shogun and Fenrir instinctively look around to try and see what she's barking at, but… there's nothing.

Rock also realizes that there is nothing and then tries to go back to licking Fenrir, but she's too late.

Her master has already gotten up and is rubbing his knees.

Rock feels betrayed by her own mind tricking her into barking at nothing.

She cheers up when Shogun rubs up against her, though.

Now that those two are being all lovey-dovey, Fenrir can safely do what he needs to do without worrying about his knees getting broken by his dog's tail.

As for what it is that he needs to do – well, he realizes that he has no idea what he needs to do.

Because this game is so much more realistic than the previous VRMMORPGs that he has played, he finds himself confused when he sees all the raw materials lying around.

Before, if something needed built, he could just gather the materials, walk to where he wants to build it, and then accept the prompt confirming what he wants to build. An entire building, castle's walls, or interstellar warship could be near-instantly built that way with minimal effort as long as the materials were gathered.

Now, the materials are gathered, but he can't just go up to a spot of land and click on a ”build” prompt. Whatever he wants to build has to actually be built, and without Tabitha or Rao telling him what to do, he doesn't want to risk screwing anything up.

They're both sleeping, too. In fact, everybody is asleep except for Rock, Shogun, and himself.

Fenrir sighs and looks over to the pen that has built to contain the captured fluffs.

A horrible sight awaits his eyes.

Two of the fluffy sheep creatures are merging together to form some sort of eldritch abomination of fluff!

Then their bodies get separated and they look like normal again.

”You saw nothing, onii-wan,” Saya chimes in.

”Still working out some bugs?” Fenrir asks.

”Don't worry about it.”

”You know, seeing glitches like that happen in something as real as reality is kind of freaky. It's like… if I was walking to the store in real life and then two people bumped into each other and got their bodies fused together. That's just Lovecraftian.”

”Hmph.”

”Still being tsun because of earlier?”

”Hmph!”

”Right, right. Alright, I'll leave you alone so that I can go and do… something.”

Fenrir looks over the area once more.

Yeah, there's really nothing for him to do.

That's why he decides to just head down to the beach to go swimming instead.