Another couple of hours pass by. Fenrir has not been able to stop himself from taking peeks over at Cassiel with her new hairstyle, and she has been playing with her hair on and off the whole time. It turns out that twintails not only look nice but are fun to play with. Her hands swing and twirl her twintails whenever she has nothing better to be doing.
Fenrir has been wanting to comment on how cute she looks when she does that, but he knows she’ll probably get embarrassed and self-conscious about it if he does, so he has been resisting the temptation.
There is something else, though. He has been feeling… suspicious. Whenever he checks on the other girls, Tabitha excluded, he sees them looking at him and whispering to one another.
Aiko may have been a borderline stalker, but she was good at being sneaky. Serra, Nell, and Azalabulia are anything but sneaky. Nell has her tail and horns that give her away, Azalabulia has her bulias, and then there is Serra. Serra just doesn’t care about trying to be sneaky, so she stands out in the open while Nell and Azalabulia try to hide themselves.
Fortunately, the group has managed to get some work done. Tabitha and Rao set up the temporary docks for The Shoebill. The docks are as short as possible, only reaching out just barely far enough for The Shoebill to not run aground, but that is all they need. This makes transporting materials to and from The Shoebill far easier, and it gives them a more environmentally-friendly place to dock it rather than letting the anchor drag along the river’s bottom.
“That feels like it was a lot of work for just a little dock,” Fenrir says as he ties The Shoebill to the homemade cleats that Tabitha installed on the dock.
“Oi, keep in mind somethin’ like this probably would’ve taken way more work in real life, and it might not be workin’ as well,” Tabitha answers. “Be grateful, dog boy.”
“I am, I am. I mean, a city is supposed to take years and years to get built up, but I doubt it’ll take that long here.”
“If it’s just us it will. We’re going to need some new faces showin’ up and wantin’ land. The more workers me and Red here get to boss around, the faster this’ll all go.”
“Can’t we just have our own city without inviting anybody else?”
“Oi. Wasn’t part of you wantin’ to do this because ya want some goody-two-shoes home for AI or somethin’ like that?”
“You’re not wrong. Alright, alright. We’ll need to let others move here instead of finding a way to just clone ourselves.”
“I want to do some crazy stuff, but I don’t think clones are goin’ to help at all.”
“Is that even possible here?”
“With magic, but they’re only temporary.”
“So, if I get my girlfriends to learn how to use magic to make clones of themselves…”
“Do I need to send ya to go stand in the water some more?”
“No, please. I only just finished fully drying. Don’t make my fluff go away.”
“Bro,” Rao says, “what’s up with you wanting to be fluffy?”
“What’s up with you wanting to have spiky hair?” Fenrir asks back.
“Fair.”
“Exactly.”
“I’m done with both of you,” Tabitha says. “Oi, Red. Come on. Let’s get some plannin’ done. Can’t just build whatever we want wherever we want.”
“Alright. I already checked out some of the area on my own, and there shouldn’t be any problems building here,” Rao says, going more in-depth as he walks off with Tabitha.
“Guess I finally get a break,” Fenrir says.
He looks around.
Oleander is standing in front of Cassiel and holding her twintails, surrounding his face with them as the back of his head rests against her chest.
Fenrir is jealous. He wants to try that. If it was anybody other than Oleander, and potentially Corwin, then he’d probably be jealous jealous.
Alright, he knows what to do.
Find out what that suspicious trio is up to.
Azalabulia looks panicked as soon as Fenrir starts heading over in their direction.
“Wh-what about the plan?” Azalabulia asks Nell.
“Shh! Do not worry about it. We must wait for the perfect moment to initiate it,” Nell whispers.
Meanwhile, Serra just waves at Fenrir.
Upon reaching the group, Fenrir asks, “So… what have you three been talking about? I kept on seeing you looking at me, and if Nell is whispering things, it can’t be good.”
Nell actually looks surprised that she was caught watching him, as does Azalabulia.
Neither of them takes into consideration the size of some of their body parts.
“We were not talking about anything, my hero!” Nell answers.
“Ye-yeah! We were just talking about taking over the world and raising monuments in my glory!” Azalabulia explains.
“So, you weren’t talking about anything, but you were also talking about something?” Fenrir asks.
Nell and Azalabulia look at each other with panicked eyes. They aren’t on the same page at all.
“It’s secret,” Serra answers for them. “Shh.” She raises a finger in front of her lips.
“Yeah, I figured as much. Should I be worried?” Fenrir asks.
Serra nods her head.
Fenrir looks back down at the other two. “Just be safe and don’t do anything too crazy, alright?” he asks them.
Nell pouts while Azalabulia blushes and looks away.
Neither of them thought that just saying it’s a secret would be such an easy way of hiding the truth.
“Nell, you’re not planning anything involving monsters, dictator kings, alien invaders, tentacles, or feral beasts in the middle of their mating seasons, right?” Fenrir asks.
Nell starts sweating.
“Aza, you’re not encouraging her, right?”
Azalabulia sweats, too.
“Serra?”
“I’m encouraging both of them,” Serra admits.
Fenrir looks down at the other two once more and sighs. “Seriously. Stay out of trouble and be safe. I doubt I’m going to get you to tell me whatever it is you’re planning, so just be smart about it.”
“I can tell you,” Serra says before being swiftly grabbed by Nell.
Nell covers up Serra’s mouth and says, “Do – do not worry about Serra! She does not know what she is talking about.” Then Nell feels something. “A-ahn, Se-Serra! Now is not the… time for your skilled tongue work,” she moans.
Azalabulia turns bright red, Fenrir watches on with great interest, and both of them can tell just how smug Serra looks despite her mouth being covered up as she licks Nell’s fingers.
“You must really like being licked,” Fenrir calls Nell out on her fetish, causing her to perk up and blush.
“Because! It is so… feral,” Nell admits.
“Of course that’s why you’d like it.”
Nell squirms around and turns more red the more that Serra licks and teases the fingers over her mouth. That skilled tongue work of hers even manages to pull one of Nell’s fingers into her mouth to suck on, twirling her tongue around Nell’s finger as she wraps her soft, warm lips around it.
Fenrir is really enjoying this show, and he’s also jealous of Nell. He wants his fingers to get sucked on like that.
“Serra! This – this is, nngh, you – you really must not be – ahn, you must not be doing this wh-while around others!” Nell tries to say, but she does nothing to actually stop Serra. Her mouth says no, but her eyes, body, and her very soul all say nothing but yes.
Fenrir takes his eyes off of the sight before he gets too excited. There are still other things to be doing around here, and he wants to save the next time he does anything with his girlfriends for reality.
However, there is one thing – or rather, one particular person that he notices.
Azalabulia. She’s staring at him, but not at his face.
Fenrir looks down at where she’s staring.
He’s got a pretty obvious erection bulging up against his pants, and Azalabulia’s eyes are locked directly on it. She doesn’t even notice that he’s caught her, and she looks like she wants it now.
Fenrir turns away when he feels himself get even more excited.
“Darkness! Explosions!” Azalabulia shouts when she realizes what she was just doing. “Ba-Bahamut!”
If she was one of his girlfriends, he’d be comfortable teasing her about looking at him like that, but he’s worried he’s just going to stutter if he tries to say anything about it. He doesn’t want to make himself sound like some insecure virgin boy while dating three girls at once.
Nell notices Fenrir’s bashfulness and huddles with Azalabulia and Serra to whisper, “Now is our chance. We must not let this opportunity go to waste! Splendid work, Serra, even if you did use… a bit too much skill doing your part.”
“I got into it,” Serra admits.
“Is – is it time for the next phase?” Azalabulia asks.
Nell nods and says, “Operation: Big Bad Wolf begins!”
TFTC, just started binge reading this.
To be honest not really a fan of any of the girls outside of Cass. I'd rather the MC be monogamous with her and then Serra can have her harem of girls and boys off to the side.
Serra use to be cute with a little bit of pervyness but now it's just really over the top that I find her character becoming dislikeable. Maybe because she's not the MC we are not seeing the behind the scenes interactions between her and the other girls.
I dunno just me and it's your story, overall I'm enjoying it but some of the girls I'm honestly confused as to why the MC likes them (he feels like he is being forced to like them by his GF's and mainly Serra, (or just quick convenient love tropes).
I don't expect MC to be this alpha male pack dog leader of the harem and understand where you were going with this relationship. It's just kinda meh to be honest. Cass is the only one I can see that's really there for the relationship, she's the only one that's actively tried to change herself to better the relationship and helped him get better as well. The only one who actively wants to be with him and support him and love him and be loved by him. Plus she's already shown multiple signs of preferring a monogamous relationship with the constant jealousy and not wanting to share. Feels like she's being pressured into accepting more girls. (Mind break by Serra and Ness into this - like she couldn't be with him unless she accepted the poly relationship). Though I know she likes boobs and stuff but outside of perving we don't see much interest in others outside of Serra forcing herself on Cass and tormenting her and Cass wanting the MC. So really feels like mind break here haha.
Serra just wants to f*ck around and sleep with a bunch of people and MC is convenient for her to gather people, (feel like she'd cuck him and NTR all his girls kind of char, literally ugly bastard of the novel). Ness is just living a deluded fantasy and projecting that onto the MC so if he ever stopped being her "hero" it'd feel like the relationship would fall apart quickly. Then Aiko is literally in a mental institution with an unhealthy obsession for past MC. Then Aza is simply settling on him because he's convenient and she doesn't want to be lonely. Her character dimension is "because I can't get any other guy I'm getting this one so I'm not stuck with a bunch of cats!".
Really trash and unhealthy relationships in my opinion (that may be the norm though in this future), however it's not my character and I can't confidently say MC behaves like this because A. He's said in past dad was massive on monogamy but mum was all its okay to spread the love but I only love your dad kind of thing. So I'd see him having a bigger inkling towards monogamy. I guess he is just too weak willed and a massive pushover which is why he easily gets these new girls forced on him.
I dunno why I've made a comment this big but just wanted to spew out my thoughts. Due to how old this chapter is I doubt you'd even read it haha.
Also Olly & Cor are cute together and are some of my highlight. Viktor was an ass but I'd love to see his wife get online with him and drag him by the ear in front of them and make him apologise lol.
Tabs and Rao I could see where they might get together if she dresses up as a succubus to seduce him haha. Otherwise I think they'd make a great dynamic duo even without a relationship.
Hope my comment isn't super sucky but it's just my thoughts on the story so far and I appreciate you taking the time to write this and while the above things I am not happy about overall I have enjoyed it!
I agree whole heartily, Serra used to be likeable, but now not so much and in fact is really unlikable with seemingly no boundries nor care about the others.
Cass is simply adorable and has the most character out of all the girls.
While I personally wouldn't rate Alice as quite as badly as you do I can see your point and I will admit her delusions are better kept private and not broadcast in public, especially in such ways that imply Ryouta is a rapist.
As for Aiko.. Arkum Assilum.
Azal I have no major problems with simply because she hasn't been around long enough to get a proper feel for yet.
My mind is tellin me nooo~~
But my bodyy! My bodyyy! Is tellin me yeaaaaahhs~~!