Chapter 87: Action

[Edited by: Arthur300000, Bunny, deathbricks and ArchmageNaoki ]

“Now, shake your ass. Bust and hip, bust and hip. And turn right-” After we took a refreshing bath, I happily taught Cocoa my recently invented tail exercises while waiting for the others to dress up. However, Cocoa just looked at me suspiciously and didn’t want to follow my instructions.

“Hey, it will prevent your tails from cramping!” I protested, but Cocoa just ignored it and tried to whisper something to my ears.

“By the way, was it alright to tell them all that?” Cocoa whispered.

“Huh? Oh, that… I-I think that she was too pitiful. Yeah, I wanted to help her a little bit.” I made up an excuse and looked away. Actually, I wanted to see her naked, so I lured her with my secret information without thinking. Anyways, I have no regrets!

“Hmm, so this isn’t your original body, huh?” She inspected me from head to toe with a shrewd look.

“Oh no! Maybe you’re actually an old aunt who loves little boys!” Cocoa gasped and stepped back, covering her crotch… Maybe she got that from the suspicious looking books she read at home.

“No, no, you see, I like girls.” I stated, but she moved her hands to cover her flat chest instead.

“An ass lover… a gold digger… perhaps.” Valerie, who just finished drying off, joined in and said, which made Cocoa shift her hands to cover her rear end in panic. Valerie, I know that teasing my futanari fox girl is fun, but aren’t you being a bit too harsh?

“Drop it, Cocoa. She can’t turn back, she is what she is now. Her past is irrelevant, For all I care, she might’ve been a neighborhood house cat.” Lilith said the most tactful things for a non-tactful person like her.

“Rawr!!” I played along.

“Maybe she was a dandelion!” Mickie chimed in. I wondered why the more and more they speculated, I became less and less of a person though.

We walked back to our camp in high spirit. The sun had just risen, illuminating the peninsula, looking like the cleavage of a big chested girl that peeked up from a small laced bra. The light from the boob- I mean, sun, illuminated the beautiful beach, showcasing the picturesque landscape.

However, our boar carcass had already disappeared, replaced by several people in uniforms who busied themselves cleaning up the blood stains and our cooking waste from the beach. Also, our manly and simple hut was fully feminized with a bunch of flowers, vases, and porcelain dolls. There was also a rope swing installed on a tree nearby, also decorated with girly flowers…

“Ah, welcome back! Congratulations on winning yesterday's event!” The evil man, Gilbert, wearing a colorful beach shirt welcomed us. He said that the judging panel which includes the island supervisor, deemed our hut a winner and agreed on keeping it on the island as a tourist attraction. So they came to decorate it immediately.

Also as a reward, we were given a gas barbecue stove and several different types of kitchen ware so we could say goodbye to the handmade campfire. Beach toys were also provided: A colorful beach ball, an inflatable yellow boat, and snorkeling gear amongst others.

“And the third and the last quest of the program is seafood. Good luck, girls!” Mr. Gilbert grandly announced and went away along with his evil minions.

With a goal in mind we quickly changed into our swimsuits and prepared to catch something big from the sea. Valeria was strangely the most energetic of all. She made a harpoon from a piece of wood and proclaimed that she would catch the biggest fish before jumping into the sea which made Lilith and Mickie run after her, carrying an inflatable boat and three sets of snorkeling gear along.

“Yesterday, I saw some crabs in the rocky area.” Cocoa who took a big basket out from somewhere pulled me along. Crabs, huh? I’ve never eaten one before, but I heard that they are delicious. So, I followed her closely with high expectations.

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The rocky area where we made that axe yesterday was a lot wider. Maybe this was because this was low tide time, but the area that was submerged by the sea previously was exposed for us to walk around. The place most abundant with the seaside creatures seemed to be a pond of seawater. It contained several colorful sea creatures inside.

“Look, it’s a tide pool!” Cocoa pointed at what I was looking at. I spotted several types of shellfish, starfish, sea anemone, and whatever thing that looked like a moving sponge which I couldn’t identify. Maybe it was another type of slime. But the most important thing is there are big crabs and several types of lobsters in the mix!

I quickly jumped into the pond and grabbed two crabs in one go. They tried to fight back with their pincers but I easily avoided them and adjusted my grip to a safe spot and put them into Cocoa’s waiting basket.

“Do you want to try?” After I enjoyed catching several kinds of seafood by hand, I asked Cocoa who seemed to be only watching with her tails waving happily.

“No, it seems dangerous, so I’ll wait here.” She shook her head. “And healing magic doesn't work here anyways.”

“Heh, Cocoa is a worry wart.” I teased her, but as I said that I stepped on a sea urchin… Well, since it couldn’t penetrate my skin it should be safe.

There were too many things for me to choose from, and Cocoa also didn’t know much about them. All she did was complain when I picked up starfishes and the sea urchin that I stepped on and getting angry at me when I teased her with what she called a sea cucumber. In the end, I just picked up one or two of each unidentified sea creature randomly and hoped they would taste good. Well, if they aren’t edible I can always send them to the judging panel.

“Oi! Don’t go too deep, remember, they warned us about the monster lurking in the deep sea!” Cocoa yelled as I went further out to explore other swimming pool sized sea water ponds.

“It's only chest deep, and I saw a giant lobster over there!” I yelled back.

It seemed the deeper I went the bigger the catch. There was an arm sized lobster just in front of me. But as I reached for it, a giant snake, or rather a huge eel, came out from hiding and pounced at me at high speed with its mouth wide open giving me a decent view of its rows of sharp teeth that I really didn't want to see. In a fit of panic, I quickly retracted my outreaching arm and send a full power half-uppercut-half-hook at the incoming sea serpent with my other arm.

The impact caused a big geyser to appear with a loud boom. I was sent tumbling back for about ten meters and landed with my ass on a sea urchin infested area. It hurt a bit but it was nothing serious save for my now tattered swimwear and a bit of what’s left of my dignity.

The camera girl screamed, “Kya kya!!” like the world was going to end. She also complained that the monster just flew past her by a few millimeters. I couldn’t see what actually happened though, the geyser and the millions of droplets that exploded out were blocking my vision.

I looked left and right, trying to understand what was going on, but what I saw when everything cleared up was a panicking camera girl yammering non-stop about the sea monster that had flown to the sea and swam away. That guy must be a real monster to survive that crash. And Cocoa who seemed to be alright, had a vacant look in her eyes, dripping wet, and shaking from head to toe. However, she was not forgetting to tightly hold on to the basket. Seeing that, I teased her a bit about how she would make a good squire if she kept this up.

“I told you so!” Cocoa yelled at me as she came back to her senses… Maybe I should’ve listened to her advice, but what’s done is done.

“Uhm, can you go and get my clothes for me?” I asked her. Well, I was half naked at the moment. And I literally covered my body up with the collateral casualty of the brief fight between me and the unidentified monster, a torso sized lobster and a giant crab that were floating upside down a moment ago.

Cocoa was quick on her feet as always, in a short time she came back with my clothes. I quickly put them over my tattered swimwear. After I put some ass-killed sea urchin in the basket, we went back to the campfire with a giant crab in one hand and a lobster in the other.

“That was horrible!” I heard Lilith yell from a distance. Valerie’s team seemed to have just returned. However, to my surprise, the thing they caught wasn’t a fish, it was some kind of mollusk with a lot of tentacles…

“I told you not to bring it onto the boat!” This was the first time I saw Mickie getting angry, and she was covered in slime. Seriously, what the hell did I miss?

“... my first kill.” Valerie taciturnly argued. I inspected the thing they were arguing about. It was quite a splendid specimen. Its tentacles were firm and supple, and there was a plenty amount of glistening mucus covering them.

“Yeah, and it wasn’t dead when you brought it up, and look at what it did!” Lilith spread her arms wide, showing her body covered by a lot of slime.

“... nothing serious.” Ohh, lord of the tentacle monster, please revive again and show this humble servant the holy scene. You can do it once, so you can do it again, right? Pretty please.

“Ah, I hope you learn some common sense soon.” Lilith looked exasperated and seemed to be giving up on talking to Valerie. On the other hand, I really wish that I could use healing magic on this damned antimagic island so I might be able to revive him. C’mon you can do it, you are a capable child after all!

As I arrived at the scene, I kicked the boat a bit, trying to wake the monster up, but it seemed to be as dead as Bambi’s mom.

“Eh? There is no fish?” Cocoa asked as she tiptoed and looked into the boat.

“... swam away too fast.” Valerie answered while I lamented the scene I missed. This was the most regrettable casualty after all… Valerie, you shouldn’t kill it. This is a national treasure. Please learn some common sense!