Rebuilding the Island: A Tropical Monster Girl Isekai Fantasy (Monster Girl Tropical Paradise Book 1) by Trevor Arctus

Author:Trevor Arctus [Arctus, Trevor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-01-16T05:00:00+00:00

Sixteen

Cleaning Cogs and Ends Out of the Nest

It was a lot to think about. It didn’t help that obligations kept stacking up. We were trying to build up the temple, the village, and the food storage, all while knowing we had a possibility of bringing the gods back. Not to mention I had to figure out what kind of life I wanted to work towards. Regardless of anything and everything, I wanted that decision to be my own, no matter what.

A few days later, Sejubae announced at breakfast that she wanted to head to Tapush’s Rook to grab the last things she had left at her library. It was a chance to get out and a chance to breathe, I wholeheartedly agreed to head out too.

“Don’t forget the fins swimming with you.” Fierceful stuck her tongue out at me.

“Couldn’t forget about you.” I pushed her with my shoulders and Fierceful grinned. “Think The Wooden Jewel might be docked now?”

The smile fell off her face instantly. She pressed her lips together. “...perhaps.”

“I, for one, thank the gods. Daniel. You’re a treasured lighthouse.” Flipping another iguana patty in his frying pan, Haidott pressed it down until it crackled and sizzled. “Can you get milk? Trade something for milk? I want to try making a cake with some of these nuts.”

Tameris beamed. “I’ll help!”

With a grimace, Haidott resumed cooking breakfast.

The ride on the dinghy, with all the foraged goods we’d crammed in to sell, was a lot shorter than I thought it would be. It seemed like as soon as I eased the treasure chest into my backpack, we approached the docks of Tapush’s Rook.

“Feels weird being back here,” I admitted and started stacking the boxes of watermelons. “Everything’s different now.”

“Why? Because you look different?” Fierceful asked and piled the containers of dry fish into her bag.

“I look different?”

“Look…” Fierceful gestured to me before grabbing the ladder. “Grander.”

“Grander?”

“Bigger,” she corrected herself. “More muscle on your bones.”

Did I? I hadn’t noticed. Fierceful busied herself with the items again and the three of us scaled up the ladder. At the top, she shrugged out a cloak and fastened it around her neck.

“Wear one too,” she urged me. “Ears tell.”

“You’re right, you’re right.” I wrapped one over my shoulders and put the hood up. It was a little colder out on the water, our wardrobe wasn’t that unusual. There were plenty of other merchants vying for fish with cloaks. And, down at the dock, a welcomed sight greeted us.

The old man grinned a toothless smile. “Back again?”

“You know it.” I slipped a coin into his hand and walked alongside Fierceful and Sejubae toward the marketplace.

With everything we had available, it wasn’t hard to find buyers. The only catch was that we had to hit the backdoors of businesses instead of doing anything legit. Watermelons weren’t just fruit from trees, they took quite a bit of water to grow. That would’ve raised unnecessary questions. We didn’t worry about the buyers though. Everybody was too excited about fresh iguana meat to wonder where the hell we’d gotten it from.

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