Bab 138: Camping And Exploring (2)
Hey, Shun here!
Have you experienced giving a lap pillow or being on the receiving end of one? Let me tell you something that the romance novels never told you…
LAP PILLOWS ARE REALLY UNCOMFORTABLE! Don't get deceived by how comfortable the protagonist or the main heroine looks, it's not what you think it is.
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(Shun's POV)
At a makeshift kitchen where I, Mutsuko-san, Satania-san, and Kaede-san are cooking, four kids and four young beasts were watching us intently.
"Fire, we need to light up some fire here!" Mutsuko-san shouted.
In response to her call, Fenny stepped forwards and told the baby bird within her arms to conjure fire.
"Fire…? Phi-chan, fire…"
"Pii?"
While that would've been quite the tall order for a regular chick, the one Fenny called as Phi-chan is not any ordinary bird. It's a bird that could spit fire out of its beak.
Following Fenny's orders, Phi-chan, full name being Phenex, leaned back slightly and, after it's beak lit up slightly, a ball of flame came out of its mouth.
*Swooosh*
You could tell that Fenny, similar to Tsuka, are not great when it comes to naming stuffs. Whether it is something that every individual from the bunny race possess is debatable.
"Now I'll need some water on this pot."
"Do your best Fuyuku! You are the chosen dog of mine! Give Mutsuko-oneesan some water! Show off you POWER!" Rikka dramatically raised the blue colored puppy.
"Wafu! Auuuu!"
As if it was trying to play along with its owner's antics, it tried to howl, which it ultimately failed to do, before small blocks of ice slowly dropped from on top of the heated pot. It then started to melt before gradually turning into water.
The full name of this pup is Wafuryuuku. Rikka said that she came up with the name "Wafuryuuku" with "wafu" coming from waffle, "furyuu" from the mix of "fuyu" which means winter and "ryuu" which means dragon.
As for the "ku"? Well, it came from "niku" since Fuyuku likes meat. Fuyuku was a nickname that the kids came up with since Wafuryuuku is such a mouthful to say.
As for the other two young beasts, well, they're playing with Pochi, Tama, and Tsuka who seems to like the two kittens. It seems like we just didn't notice it earlier but the two are pretty similar to each other.
The black one have a white colored paw, while the white one have a black colored paw. The two could emit differing colors of lightning from their paws, a jet-black one and a pure-white one respectively.
According to Pochi who seems to have been electrocuted by the two kittens' lightning, it seems like the power was just enough to make her feel ticklish?
Time passed and, after we were done cooking, we served the food for everyone before we all separated by gender and went to our respective log houses. The girls went to the larger log house while us dudes went to the smaller log house.
Lyly was understandably extremely tired due to the work that he had to put in today, assembling all of the furnitures and the log houses itself by himself so he immediately fell asleep the moment his face touched the pillow. It didn't even take him one second to enter deep sleep.
As for me and Cloude? Well, we were still awake and we couldn't fall asleep just yet so he, the second most talkative person amongst us guys, the first being Lyly, decided to strike a conversation with me.
"You think you could become a model for my shop once I finish making your whole set?"
That's for sure a little weird of an opener to a conversation but since I'm feeling pretty bored myself, I feel like I don't really have the energy to make a retort.
"Sure. As long as you endorse my channel a bit, I don't see why not?"
"Oh, I see that you're also a content creator, huh. Well, you got yourself a deal then."
"Speaking of my armor, when do you think you could finish it?" I asked, remembering that I've commissioned him to create my armor.
"I could finish it by tomorrow." Tomorrow? That's quite fast.
"Alright. We could then talk about the model stuff after that then."
"Sure…"
After that brief conversation, we both became silent…
That… I'm feeling a little… sleepy… now.
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(Girl's POV)
Outside of the two log houses, three girls could be seen awake. The first one is starting to doze off, sitting on a wooden trunk that was made as a makeshift chair while the other two are busy hammering some metals and crafting what seems to be potions.
"Fuaah~! Why did we have to stay up for the night for a night watch? I'm feeling really sleepy…"
"Well, we won't really be awake for that long, Rikka-chan. It's going to be Shun-kun and Kaede-chan's turn to watch out for monsters until early in the morning so our shift is easier than theirs…"
The one who said so was Mutsuko who's busy diluting some [Condensed Potions] that she brought with her. She's also experimenting with the new types of grasses and herbs that lher guildmates harvested while she's at it.
"You just want to sleep immediately because you don't want us to pester you about Shun-kun calling you without honorifics, aren't you?"
At Magi's teasing, the sleepy Rikka is now fully awake as she vigorously waved her hands to deny the claim.
"As I said! Our friendship just advanced a few steps, that's why he started to drop the honorifics! There's nothing wrong with that, right?"
"Well… There really is nothing wrong with that but…"
"You're acting a teeny tiny bit suspicious, you know? That's what's making us curious."
The two older girls were ganging up on the much younger Rikka. In truth, they were just curious about what happened between Shun and Rikka during their trip that Shun decided to drop the honorifics when calling Rikka.
As far as they know, it's only Tsuka, Miu, Rokuko, Fenny, Pochi, Tama and now Rikka who Shun calls without any honorifics. While he insisted that they should call him without honorifics, he wasn't really doing the same with them so some of them are stuck with calling him with a suffix while the others called him with an affix.
"I'm just curious… Who do you guys think is the closest person to [Admin] Shun right now?" Either because she was really curious or she just wanted to divert the older girls' attention to something else, Rikka asked this question.
"Closest? Well, I think it's either Miu-chan, Rokuko-chan, or Tsuka-chan." Mutsuko replied.
"I haven't really seen Shun interact with everyone as much but I think he's closest with Tsuka-chan. I feel like they have this kind of weird bond between them. As for the second closest, I think Miu-chan wins by a short margin against Rokuko-chan."
"So we thought the same, huh. You think [Admin] Shun is a lolicon?"
"That… It's hard to say…"
"I don't think he is. Shun-kun reminds me so much of my little brother Yu. Yu and Shun-kun tries to hide it but they're both a proper boy in the middle of puberty alright?"
"Well, you can't really blame Rikka-san to think of it as such. Shun-kun is really close to many young girls after all…"
"Isn't that because he's aiming to become the harem king?" Mutsuko remarked jokingly. When the two other girls heard what she said, they couldn't help but raise their voice a bit.
""Eh? HE IS!?""
"Haha, I was just kidding~…"
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(Shun's POV)
I was woken up by a light slap on the cheek and the still energetic voice of Mutsuko-san who came to wake me up. When I came outside while feeling dizzy, I saw Kaede-san who was a bit wobbly as well.
"Yo, Kaede-san. It's like we're both from a drinking party, aren't we?" I remarked jokingly.
"Yeah… Fuaah~! I'm feeling sleepy even though I got to sleep for a few hours."
Instead of sitting down on the makeshift chair/tree log, we sat on the grass beside it after laying down some cloth on it. Then, we used the tree log as some sort of back seat.
"Fuuaaah~! So sleepy~…"
"You could sleep if you want to? I could watch out for any upcoming monsters or thieves for us two since I have [Hawk Eyes]."
"Really…? Then, thank… you…"
The moment she finished her words, Kaede-san immediately fell asleep. Since her head was leaning back and sleeping like that wasn't really comfortable, I decided to just let her sleep using my lap as her pillow.
"Well, it seems like I have to distract myself with something or I will also fall asleep. Tomorrow, we'll go exploring in earnest."
Kaede-san suddenly moved her head slightly while I was talking to myself so I looked down to see what happened. It seems like she's knitting her eyebrows, probably dreaming about something unpleasant, so I patted her on the head slightly.
When it seems like she's finally back to her deep sleep, I stopped patting her and instead began to rummage through my inventory. This is going to be a long and boring night…
Well, I guess it wouldn't be so bad since there's someone here with me?
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Bab 139: Strategic(?) Meeting And Breakfast
Hey, Shun here!
Did you know? My current dimension's Earth use Hydrogen and Thorium as its main source of energy?
My past life's Earth could also utilize Hydrogen and Thorium as a source of energy but, for some sort of reason, they were so fixated in using coal, fossil fuels, solar, wind, hydroelectric, and Uranium as their main source of energy.
No wonder Earth was dying. One of the first world countries like China are still stuck on using coal as their main source of energy, despite its obviously high carbon emissions.
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(Shun's POV)
For the majority of the night, Kaede-san stayed sleeping on my lap. The only sounds that accompanied my quiet time in the forest was the soft sounds of the crickets from a far distance and the soft breathing of the person sleeping on my lap.
I gotta say though, staying in this position made me feel that sort of numbing sensation on my thighs, like, seriously. I quietly proceeded with busying myself, enjoying the quiet experience that I'm having all by myself.
Well, I'm technically not all alone but Kaede-san is asleep so I think this counts as me being alone? Sort of?
Well anyway, while Kaede-san was asleep, I did what any teenage guy would do when they have a cute girl sleeping on their lap…
Yes, I poked her… cheeks… a lot!
There was a few times when she was about to wake up due to that but I managed to somehow avoid the urge to poke her again to wake her up. Once I regained control of myself, I stopped and decided to distract myself with some other stuffs like checking out the places that we managed to map out yesterday.
Through that, I found out that north is mostly composed of mountainous terrains, presumably filled with ores and stuffs that our Guild's blacksmith, Magi-san, and probably, to a lower extent, Mutsuko-san, would like while the south mostly have lakes and rivers in it. We don't know much about the east and west side since we never really explored it that much yesterday.
Heck, we don't even know much about what monsters live in the locations that we briefly explored as we only did it for a few hours and with some other objective in mind. We sure need to scour our surroundings more.
An hour right before the sun was about to rise up from the horizon, someone from the girls' log house came out and, seeing only me doing the night watch at first glance, couldn't help but ask.
"Oh, did Kaede-san sleep early? Why are you the only one who's—" It was Magi-san who woke up early.
She approached me while I was busy looking through the things in my inventory and saw Kaede-san who's peacefully sleeping on my lap.
I was just about to greet her and reply to her but she suddenly gasped loudly.
"—*GASP*!"
Because of that loud gasp, Kaede-san who was probably having a pretty good sleep was woken up.
"Hmm~? What happened? Who's there, [Admin] Shun-san?"
She was still feeling sleepy and the things on her surroundings wasn't registering yet but she did hear some other person's voice earlier. She was sleepily rubbing her eyes and, that's when she suddenly noticed that something was wrong.
"Good morning Kaede-san. Did you sleep well?" Me greeting her while looking down at her probably didn't help either.
"Eh? Eeeeeeh—?"
In her confusion, she turned to her left and saw a patch of grass, along with my legs and feet.
What? You think I'd give her a lap pillow with my legs and feet folded, with my whole body weight crashing down on it? No way.
"Eh? Why am I in [Admin] Shun-san's lap!? Eeeeeh!?"
She was extremely confused. If I didn't throw my head backwards, our heads would've bumped due to her suddenly getting up.
"Hey, that was dangerous Kaede-san! Also, you were sleeping in my lap because your sleeping position earlier seems very uncomfortable to me. That's why I decided to let you sleep on my lap."
Hearing me calmly explain to her what and why this all happened, it seems like she finally calmed down.
"Also, good morning Magi-san. Why are you up so late?"
"Eh? Ah… I wanted to see if I could make Rikka a kitchen knife."
"Heeeh. A kitchen knife huh. Is that even a weapon?"
After that, the next hours before the sun came up was very awkward. Kaede-san would become very red up until her neck whenever I talk to her and, although I know that she was feeling embarrassed, I wouldn't even be upset if she starts ignoring me or something due to that for a few days, she still talked to me in a relatively normal manner.
It was like we three formed an unwritten agreement not to talk about what happened.
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After almost everyone was awake, the girls insisted that they would be the ones who will make our breakfast, possibly because they wanted to impress the little animals who are still sleeping with their little owners. Rikka-san is already awake, yes, but Wafuryuuku is still fast asleep on his little crib, similar to the other three young beasts.
Speaking of sleeping inside the game, it wasn't much different than sleeping in real life, which I found really amazing. Even a little bit of sleep felt really refreshing.
Also, I don't know what I was expecting when I slept for a few hours yesterday in-game but, it felt rather anticlimactic to me…
With majority of the girls, namely; Kaede-san, Mutsuko-san, Satania-san, Lucato-san, and, surprisingly, Toutobi-san, busy cooking, there were only a few people left, gathered around the huge wooden table that Lyly made yesterday. Miu and Hino-san were too busy discussing about where they could go to encounter rare mobs while Magi-san and Cloude are immersed in their own crafting world.
Lyly, Tsuka, Fenny, Pochi and Tama were the ones who are still asleep in our group.
"Good morning Shun!"
"Morning Rokuko. Seems like you had a good sleep?"
Rokuko was at first in the makeshift kitchen but it seems like it was overcrowded and she voluntarily left so that there will be more space there.
"It was really good! This game world thing is really magical. It's just like when we're inside my Core Room, isn't it?"
"Yeah, it is. The only difference was that your real body is still outside, sleeping."
At my remark, Rokuko nodded her head vigorously while smiling from ear to ear.
"Hey Shun. Do you think you could help me find a little animal too? I already have Fenny so I don't need any other rabbit."
"Of course. If I managed to find one again, then sure." Rokuko was so happy that she gave me a bear hug.
"Thank you Shun!"
"No problem. You could also probably befriend someone yourself though? Don't you have [Taming]?" When she heard me ask that question, she was like, "Eh? I do?"
"You… You forgot that you have [Taming]?"
"Ha-Hahaha… Yeah…"
We then both looked at each other silently before bursting out in laughter. Not long later, the others who heard our conversation also burst out in laughter.
Hey Cloude, trying to hide your laughter with a cough won't work. See, everyone knows that you're trying to suppress your laughter.
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Since everyone was mysteriously all awake, the moment that the breakfast was cooked, I decided to start some kind of strategic meeting.
"By the way everyone…"
My first sentence gathered everyone's attention immediately, even the little beasts were looking at me attentively. Oh, why is it that everyone from my group seem so attentive today?
Was there something on our breakfast that made them like this?
"E-hem. First of all, you all should check out your menus. There's something important there that you all should see."
Everyone was like, "What was this about?" as they curiously looked at the menu. Aside from me though, it seems like Cloude have already noticed what I was talking about.
"Are you talking about the [Information Board]?" He asked while adjusting his spectacles.
"Yup. That's the one I'm talking about. I saw it earlier while I was in my nighttime watch with Kaede-san."
Kaede-san became red to her ears when I suddenly said that but she didn't say anything. She was just quietly looking at her own menu screen.
"It's just a speculation, but it seems like the appearance of this menu was either because of the death of many players or some player managing to open it up for us. The latter theory is rather unlikely since no one could possibly do so without completing a chain of quests, which was impossible during this short time frame."
I paused for a few seconds to let everyone take in the information before continuing.
"This [Information Board], like it's namesake, is filled with threads where we can glean some information with others."
Majority of its content is filled with the rant of incensed players but there's a minority who genuinely just want to help others with the information they found out so it's still a good idea to check it out.
"Through the sacrifice of those, let's just say, 'heroic' players, we finally have information about the East and West. There are ruins to the East and what seems to be underground caves and such at West. In the middle of each area there are high level enemies and materials, as well as a number of players who work on the peripheries of nearby safety areas."
I looked at everybody's faces and, while I didn't mean to create a tense atmosphere, I somehow did.
"Now, the real question is, which place do you guys want to go? Depending on where you want to go, we could divide our group accordingly…"
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