Chapter 88: Contemplation

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

The film shooting ended at noon, and we went back to the overpriced hotel on top of the giant elevated platform to take a shower and prepare for departure. This program ended up being easier and more relaxing than I thought. Even the adventurer school assignments was more difficult. Maybe this was a cute girl doing cute things kind of show after all.

Anyways, we only got second place in the end. Even though we had a lot of popularity votes from the people watching the show, the only competition we did win was the house building contest, but the dinner and breakfast competitions we lost both to other foodie groups. Still, each of us received 2,000 credits as our reward. With my salary on top of it, I got 6,000 credits which was a significant sum.

Cocoa was also very pleased when she received the money. Well, compared to her 400 credits a month salary, this was a big sum in comparison. She said that she wanted to come with me when there is an opportunity like this again with sparkling eyes and waving tails… Didn’t you act like a tragic heroine when I dragged you from the house yesterday morning?

“Uhm, Kuro, can I ask you something?” Lilith who was showering in the stall next to me asked.

“Yes, what is it?” I replied back and began to rub the hotel pineapple scent shampoo on my hair. But somehow the bubbles refuse to form up, maybe it was because of the salt from the sea.

“Yesterday you said that you’ll attend Bluebell's Lady and Witchcraft Academy. Can you take Valerie along?” She asked.

“I don’t mind, but why?” I needed to know the reason because it looked like they were trying to abandon her.

“Well, you see, it’s a problem with money-” Long story short, Valerie received a scholarship from the academy due to her exceptional magic aptitude. However, her family also had a big amount of debt. She didn’t go into details, but they seemed to be trying to scrape together all the money they could get. Thus, if I agreed to take Valerie along I could save them a flying ship ticket, which cost a lot.

As I agreed to take Valerie along, Lilith happily skipped out of the shower stall and went to arrange things with Valerie. But as I was carefully trying to put my sanitary pad on, there was a commotion outside.

“Oi! Don’t run around like that!” I could guess what happened. It must be Lilith yelling at Valerie for something. Because I wanted to watch the show, I quickly put my panties on, wrapped myself in a big fluffy white towel, and jumped out from the showering stall at high speed.

The bathing room was filled with fog, but I could still see the outline of what was happening. Valerie was wearing her towel like any other… man, covering only her lower part, leaving her small, soft mounds and pink nipples exposed while drinking a small bottle of milk. Ah, this scene is a work of art.

“It’s alright Lilith, it’s only women here.” Mickie tried to placate the red-faced Lilith.

“But I just taught her how to wear the towel properly a moment ago! Look! Even Kuro can do it.” … Why did you compare her to me? Of course I can do it. The bathing scenes are my favorite scenes in hentai after all.

“More comfortable this way… And I have a manly chest.” Valerie’s explanation made me inspect her chest again, but I saw nothing manly there. Well, she was flat alright, but her perky chest which shook a bit by her action said otherwise.

“Mhhhhh! Suit yourself!” Lilith stomped her foot and walked away to sulk in a corner. Seeing that Valerie and Mickie looked at each other and talked about something. I couldn’t make out any of their conversations afterward because of the noise from the hairdryer in Ms. Try-To-Make-Herself-Useful-So-I’ll-Bring-Her-Along-Again’s hands.

Having someone else drying my hair was comfortable, and I was addicted to it. So, I let Cocoa do as she pleased and watched the scene unfold. After the short discussion, Valerie adjusted her towel to the proper position and went to apologize to Lilith. Then they hugged each other with Lilith one-sidedly crying and Valerie patting her back. What a melodramatic family they were. Well, I’m glad that they made up.

“My my, it’s good to be young.” An auntie next to me commented. She must be watching the scene as well.

Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.

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“I’ll write you an email every day!” Lilith yelled as we entered the car Ms. Nyatalee had come to pick us up in, waving her hands energetically while shedding tears.

“Me too… Once a month.” Valerie taciturnly answered and waved back awkwardly. This time I let her call shotgun since she was eyeing it expectantly.

“Welcome back, Mistress.” Skynet greeted me as I fished her out from Ms. Nyatalee’s backpack, along with some snacks and souvenirs that I asked her to shop for me.

“Thanks, but why is the car a bit shakier than usual?” I asked. The vibrations were a lot more obvious than when we left home.

“Ah, that, you see we are almost at the weight limit of the car. This car was built for two people after all, nya.” Ms. Nyatalee explained and pointed at a gauge on her dashboard. It had a dumbbell sign on top of it, and its needle was hovering just a fraction of a millimeter below the max scale.

“... What? This is for my safety!” Cocoa defended as I looked pointedly at her full body, giant, monster, hide armor.

“We won’t be safe when we fall. Take it off.” I sternly told her. Then I got an idea. I inched closer to her while smiling evilly. “Or, would you rather have me undress you?”

Sadly, Cocoa quickly unequipped her gear without my help, and as to prove Ms. Nyatalee’s explanation, the car stopped shaking. We flew smoothly through the cloud bathed in orange beams of the setting sun while the sky slowly turned dark.

“Are we going to be alright flying in the dark? Shouldn’t we park somewhere and continue tomorrow?” I asked worriedly. The only natural source of light I saw was from a greenish tint on the horizon and some stars in the sky.

“Don’t worry nya, I can see perfectly in the dark.” Ms. Nyatalee pronounced the word dark with a purr. Maybe she was a night owl or something.

Well, I can also see things in the dark, as a grayish outline. But it didn’t make me feel safe like during daytime. Plus, the scenery was less interesting in this greyish tone. So, I closed my eyes and leaned back in my seat, trying to relax and ignore the throbbing pain in my stomach and praying that my sanitary pad’s absorptive power would hold on until we arrived at the destination. However, a few minutes later a theme song started playing from the front seat, so I peeked to see what happened.

“Isn’t that Dungeon World EX?” Cocoa asked as she clung to the back of the front seat. The conversation about games made me curious, so I couldn’t help myself but lean forward, brushing my head against Cocoa’s ears, to see what games in a fantasy world were like.

“Hmm.” Valerie nodded while holding a small beaten up tablet in her hand. The game she was playing seemed to be some kind of a third person RPG game. That meant we could see her avatar which looked just like her. We watched Mini-Valerie talk to town people and accepting their quests while Cocoa kept tickling me with her ever moving ears.

“Oi! Are you planning to go into the dungeon just wearing a G-string?” Cocoa protested as she saw what Valerie had equipped.

“... More defense rating.” Valerie tapped the equipment menu and showed several items to Cocoa. There it showed, that the mysterious black G-string actually had a lot more stat bonuses than full plate armor would have… She must be playing that kind of game. The kind that the less the clothes there were, the more stat increase it gives. I watched patiently to see whether there was a function which the clothes fall off as the main character received damage.

“This is stupid, how can this be possible!?” Cocoa rudely pointed out.

“Heh, Cocoa you know nothing. A wise man once said, with less clothes you fight harder because of the embarrassment.” I explained and tried to protect men’s hope and dreams at the same time. Valerie also nodded sagely.

“Alright, next time you go adventure in a G-string.” Cocoa didn’t give up. Didn’t I just fight a sea monster in a swimsuit this morning? Well, some people just want to have the last say, which includes Cocoa. So I decided to just shut up and enjoy the show.

Seeing Valerie playing a game like this made me feel nostalgic. I considered myself a gamer in my past life, however, since I was transported to this world, I didn’t have a chance to play games much, except hentai games of course.

Anyways, I asked Skynet to download the most popular game for me, but she said we have neither space for it nor an internet connection in the sky. Damn, I should have seriously considered moving my ‘reference material’ away from this device, but it kept coming back because my other device was infected with viruses and malicious software from the porn website.

I asked Skynet to clean it for me, but she politely refused with the reason of it may corrupt her system instead. “The advantage lies with the one who owns the territory, mistress. And that is their territory. It’s too risky for me to try.” Is what she said.

I wondered whether computer viruses in this world were as scary as she claimed. But since my brother also said so, I could only clean everything up along with my treasure, and restart with zero on Skynet’s device again. Luckily, I bookmarked everything. Lesson learned, don’t browse a website without a proper antivirus, even in the fantasy world.

Hmm, maybe with my adventurer license, I could buy a bigger and better computational device.

The rest of the trip was uneventful. We only came across a flying luxurious yacht where their passengers yelled and waved their hands at us. Also, we flew over several strange looking clouds which turned out to be flying, giant sheep.

During that time, I watched the wild survival video which Skynet recorded for me. The content was a bit … complicated. For some reason, when the camera focused on me, it always somehow… emphasized how my boobs bounced. Especially the scene where I tried to light the campfire in the morning, the camera practically focused on my shaking boobs when I rubbed the stick on a piece of wood.

To be honest, it was good fapping material, however, it was me in the video which made the thing turn complicated. I contemplated it for a long while and decided to move the video to my ‘reference material’ folder.