Chapter 85: Construction
[Edited by: ArchmageNaoki, deathbricks,Arthur300000 and Bunny ]
“I’m a man!” Valerie yelled again like it was the most important thing to her… I looked at Lilith for help. Was she really a man? Maybe she also had a raging python hidden within her like Cocoa, but I doubted it since Lilith said that she was 100% human.
“Ah, she’s been like this since yesterday. When someone told her that she was a girl, her fuse blew.” Lilith pointed at her head and circled her fingers around, trying to say that we aren’t supposed to call her a girl anymore.
“Ah, I see…” From the look of it, she might’ve been a man before she was transported to this world and gender-bent like me. I wondered which game, anime, movie, or novel her character came from though.
“Nooo! I’m really a man!” Valerie suddenly yelled and ran into the woods.
“Hey! That’s dangerous! Wait!” Lilith quickly reacted and ran after her, followed by Mickie who looked back at me as if trying to apologize for something. I wondered why she wasted time apologizing to me, she had a gender confused outsider for her to take care of. A second later I realized that I was left with Cocoa to set up the camp.
The tasks we had at hand was to cook up something and build a shelter. Since the three of them went into the woods, I took it as them volunteering to search for food ingredients. There was very little chance for them to actually get lost in the wild, since we were already close to the designated campsite and a camera crew were also following them, so I wouldn’t worry about them.
As soon as the sound of crashing waves were noticeable by ordinary human standard, I knew that we were near the campsite because on the map they showed us beforehand, the campsite was at the beach. It’s the sea, you know? In my past life I never visited it before. This time, I’m here with several beautiful girls to boot! Well, it would be a lot better if the mini-bikinis I brought for Cocoa and myself weren’t rejected by that evil man.
As we passed through the giant, long leaved bushes, the scene of a clearing with a small shack, which was supposed to be our campsite toilet, appeared before us. But that wasn’t important now. What mesmerized me was the scene of the glittering, blue sea and the silky-smooth, pure, white, sandy beach spread out in front of us.
Holy panties! It was practically just a few steps from the camping area to the paradise beach. If I had a change of clothes, I would’ve yelled ‘Yippee!’ and ran to the sea already. Huh? What about setting up a shelter? We can do that later… right?
“Yay! It’s the sea!” Cocoa, my nine-tailed fox maid, forgot herself and made a mad dash towards it. Alright, to make sure I don’t get my clothes wet, I’ll just dip my feet into the sea. Yeah, just a little dip would be fine, I told myself.
I always wanted to know what the sea was like since there are so many hentai stories depicting young couples trapped on a deserted island, and after that… you see, wonderful things happened. And the tanned girls in those stories were just too hot…
With a loud splash Cocoa jumped into the sea without caring about the consequences while I took off my shoes and carefully tapped my feet on the white sand. It felt so smooth but scorching hot. Not too much though, the temperature was still bearable when I got used to it.
I noticed that there was a small crab coming out from the sand and running away at high speed. There were also slow moving but bigger ones carrying a shell on their backs walking around the shallow area. I quickly skipped there. The waves which carried over some fine grains of sand brushed against my ankles which felt a bit ticklish but very comfortable. The sand underneath my feet was soft and firm. It was like it was somehow trying to massage me as I walked. I pitied the camera crew which was stoically filming us.
“Look! The fishes are jumping!” Cocoa yelled and pointed forward, then suddenly a horde of blue-ish fish each around the size of my arms jumped in unison. I wondered if it would be alright to let Cocoa swim in the sea though. Maybe there were sea monsters around here. No, they said that this was a tourist attraction, so it should be fine. I hope.
Before I noticed, I were already knee deep in the water. The sea was so crystal clear that I could see my feet and the waves weren’t too high. I could see several fish and some strange looking creatures which I couldn’t identify swimming around all over the place. All of them were so colorful. Cocoa also swam around happily a bit further out from me, trying to point out starfishes and sea anemones as she went. Her swimming style was a bit funny though. It was dog-paddle style, but she also rotated two of her tails like a fan to make her move a bit faster than normal people.
I wanted to swim with her, but I decided to turn back. There were so many things for me to worry about. On the top of my list was the throbbing pain in the pit of my stomach, the ominous sign of the bloody rain which fell from between my legs. If that was to happen when I was swimming, wouldn’t I practically be perfect shark bait? Ah, being a girl wasn’t purely a good thing-
“Ouch!” A big wave splashed on my back as I turned- no someone just splashed water over me. “Ah ha ha ha ha!” Cocoa laughed loudly. The mirth in her voice was palpable.
“You just did it! Now, face this divine punishment!” I swam after her. Even with her twin-tail turbo runaway speed, it was only a matter of time for me to catch her. I playfully pushed her down, forcing her to taste some sea water for me. Well, I wondered whether or not this world’s sea water would have a different taste. But the answer came to me first handed as Cocoa came up and squirted sea water like a squid at my face.
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“Ah ha ha ha!” She laughed happily again as my face was also now soaking wet and salty. After that we happily played together in the sea, watching underwater marvels and wonders for a while.
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“We’re back! Look at what we found!” Lilith and her group just came back from the hunt. They seemed to be carrying a lot of things on their backs, especially Velaria, she carried a boar bigger than herself.
“Whoa, you guys gathered a lot.” I swam back to shore and greeted them, dripping wet. Looking at the size of the boar alone, I think this amount would be enough for us to live comfortably for a few days. That is if we preserve it.
“It’s the job of a man.” Valerie said. It was easy to see how proud about it she was because of the big angelic smile on her face and her non-existent chest that was puffed up.
“Yeah, Mickie was also very helpful with gathering fruits and plants.” Lilith showed us both of their backpacks which were both filled to the brim with fruits and herbs. “But look at what we got from the hidden quest! Tada! Five sets of swimwear!” … Wasn’t this a bit too late? No, this might be a polite way for them to complain and say something like ‘Hey you guys just played around and didn’t do your work properly!’
“Ah, thanks, sorry for not setting up the shelter. You see, the sea’s too alluring.” I said after receiving a set of swimwear from them. The feeling of wet linen fabric rubbing against my nipples wasn’t pleasant, so this swimwear was a heaven send, albeit a bit late.
“Ah, that. No problem! We can help build it together!” Lilith said.
“No, I’ll do it. You guys go cook.” Valerie taciturnly said, then she added. “It’s a man’s job.”
“It’s okay, I’ll help you. I also don’t know how to cook.” I told Valerie. For some reason, I still had some male pride left in me.
After changing into my swimsuit and leaving my clothes to dry up, we split into two teams. The building team consisted of Valerie and me, and the cooking team consisted of Cocoa, Lilith, and Mackie. However, Cocoa soon left that group after Mackie complained that she wanted to have a cooking knife.
“Leave it to me!” Cocoa proclaimed and ran off to a rocky shore area which was about a kilometer away.
As I was worried that my nine-tailed foxkin maid might disappear into the sea again, so I followed her after I finished the ‘vine gathering’ task that Valerie had entrusted to me. Well, our house was far from finished, but I decided to let her chop the trees by herself since she was so insistent about it.
I thought it would be difficult to find Cocoa at this wide, rocky shore, but as I followed the clack-clack sound, I found her in no time.
“What are you doing?” I asked her as she kept throwing stones at a big boulder with all her might. If I didn’t know better, I would guess that she was throwing a tantrum.
“Trying to make a knife.” She answered while still continuing her rampage. “When, a, rock, breaks!” Bang! “There’s, a, chance, that, a, sharp, one will, break off.” Oh? That’s how it was? I looked at the last one she tried to smash, but it was perfectly intact. It seems that her strength wasn’t enough.
I picked up a melon-sized stone. It looked like a sturdiest one in the pile, then I used my wo-, blacksmithing instinct to smash it at the right angle. The loud bang caused Cocoa to stop what she was doing and looked at me. Then I picked up a sharp looking stone shaped like an axe head from the debris.
“...” Cocoa was staring at it, without blinking.
“It can’t be helped, I’m a genius that succeeds at everything on the first try.” I bragged a bit while waving around the sharp piece playfully.
“Oh, almighty blacksmithing goddess, please make a knife for this humble servant.” Cocoa played along and offered some random rock to me in an exaggerated posture.
Anyways, it took me three attempts to make a knife blade that she wanted. Maybe the first one was beginner’s luck or something. But, with sharp tools and vines I previously gathered, it was easy for me to make handles for them.
“Whaa! Thank you very much!” As we came back to the camp. I heard Lilith thank Valeria loudly. She just started a fire by rubbing dried twigs together at high speed. Valeria’s body seemed to also be OP, but she wasn’t as strong as Superman though. Her hands were already reddened and a bit swollen from her karate style tree cutting job.
Seeing that, I handed her my axe and told her to use it.
“Thank you.” Taciturn as always. But this time she smiled in earnest.
“Whoa, this is helpful, now we can drain this piggy’s blood properly.” Lilith also thanked Cocoa for the knife.
“May I ask how you made it?” Mickie questioned.
“Ah, it was Cocoa’s idea.” I told her what we just did, and Cocoa beamed from ear to ear.
Surprisingly, the cooking and the small hut building job was finished at almost the same time. Maybe it was because Valerie and I were too OP or it was the primitive tools that we used for cooking. Also our food can only be grilled or toasted.
I forgot that we didn’t have any pots or pans. Maybe I could carve one from wood, but it was too late for this meal. I’ll try to do it in the morning, I told myself as the sun was already beginning to touch the horizon, dyeing everything red with its last rays of light.
We watched the beautiful scene of a sunset while having dinner on the wooden table and chairs in our new house’s front yard. Well, it wasn’t exactly a chair though. Because we were running out of time, we used leftover stumps for them instead, but it did its job and looked very nice with the wooden hut we just built.
The food was top notch. It seemed these girls didn’t cut corners like us, the builder team. All dishes, I mean leaves, since we use a big leaf as a plate, was exquisitely made and arranged. The fresh water was also transported from a nearby stream by our quick legged Cocoa who ran to and fro with a makeshift jug that was made from hard, huge, and black… flowers of insect-eating plants.
We split some of them and had the bodyguard girls carry them to the judging panel. Then we enjoyed our meal, chatting about inconsequential things, and teasing each other until the sky went dark. I wanted to talk about Valerie’s outsider situation, but since we were always being filmed, I decided to save it for later tonight when the cameras are off.
In our hut, there was only one small bedroom, but it was well made. It was me who insisted that we should arrange the logs carefully, so the bugs would have no chance of sneaking in and biting us in the night.
However, Valerie complained a bit though. She said that the bed was too small since we had to be packed like sardines in a can. But I disregarded it as a nonsense, it wasn’t worth decreasing the quality here. This way I had beautiful girls all around me as I went to sleep. I quickly surrounded myself with the most beautiful Valerie and the cutie pie Cocoa… Wait, strictly speaking, wasn’t our team consisting of two bonafide, and two and a half dudes? And why did I surround myself with the dude and a half?
Oh well, they’re cute so I don’t care. Time to sleep and hopefully I will be able to dream a nice dream with cuties surrounding me.