novelGlobal Chapter 111 – Storage dimension
Chapter 111 – Storage dimension
Chapter 111 – Storage dimensionSophia had finished her and came back to the inn. Maya suspiciously eyed her for a while but said nothing. She was pretty sure that the tiger went instead. After all, the blonde's terrible at keeping a secret, but she decided against making a comment. Once they ate something, the couple left the city around noon.
"Any idea where we're going?" The cat-girl eventually addressed her partner while walking on a path that led them away from the city.
"Hmm... I want a place away from possible onlookers so I can experiment freely. Oh, how about that forest over there?" She pointed to her right at a vast group of trees. "We should find a nice place in there." Saying so, the two did just that and looked around in there.
"This seems nice." Maya found a small clearing and took a liking to it. "It even has a little river flowing through it."
"Yeah, it's perfect." They went closer to it and sat down on the lush, green grass near the riverbed. The couple looked at the scenery for a while before Maya shifted her attention to the tiger-girl.
"Do you remember what you promised me with your experiments?"
"Yes, ma'am! I won't do anything dangerous!"
"Good. Do you need any help?"
"Not yet, I guess. I have to change the space of my storage first before I can put an animal inside to find out if living beings can survive in there and, even more so, can get out again... Right now, they would most likely end up wanting to live there because all of our proviant is in it."
"Yeah, if you want to find out if living beings can get out on their own, this wouldn't be helpful." She understood the problem.
"But... to do that, I have to take a look inside..."
"You want to stick your head inside again, don't you?"
"Yes... I already did it before, and the only dangerous part was the lack of air inside the storage... but I fixed that since then."
"It sure looked scary, though..." Maya didn't like it. At the same time, she wanted to support her, though. "Be careful, okay...?"
"Of course!" Having gotten the permission, Sophia wasted no time. She created something that looked like a purple portal and slowly put her head inside.
"Ugh... it's already freaky when she only uses her hands, but this..." The portal was rather two-dimensional, so looking from the side, it seemed like Sophia had no head anymore.
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"Wow, it's gotten so messy in there!" About five minutes later, the tiger-girl's body was complete again. "Well, we bought a ton of stuff and just shoved it in there..."
"W-Welcome back..." Maya looked visibly relieved.
"Hehe."
"But, yeah, we did go kinda wild with shopping..."
"All the money from the golem eyes... and unlimited place to put stuff... In retrospect, that's a very dangerous combination."
"Y-Yes..." She felt a little guilty.
"I regret nothing." Sophia didn't.
"By the way, I've been wondering... Normally, you put your hand inside the portal thingy and pull out whatever we want. How do you even know where to get it if it's so messy inside?"
"No idea." Sophia just shook her head.
"Ehh...?"
"I just think about what I want to get, and I, uhh, get it..."
"Seriously?"
"Yeah... Like, if I want a fishing rod," After saying it, Sophia put her hand inside the portal and brought out a pole. "See?"
"Yes, I see that this magic might be too much for me to understand..."
"By the way, why do we have that?" The tiger looked at the fishing rod she pulled out of the storage.
"Because you saw that in a store in the capital and wanted it. No reason was provided by you."
"Sounds like something I would do." Sophia didn't doubt her explanation
"Can I have that rod? Watching you messing with the portal makes me kinda nervous... Trying to fish traditionally, without any magic, could be a fun distraction."
"Oh, I want fish for dinner!"
"I'll see what I can do."
Maya took the fishing rod and went closer to the river while Sophia got back to reorganizing her storage dimension. Almost an hour passed before the tiger-girl took another break because she noticed something rather interesting.
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"You know... now that I shoved all of our stuff into a corner, it kinda looks like the place where I always meet Canir."
"Eh...?"
"I wanted it to look like a warehouse... but it's actually just an all-white place that seemingly goes on forever. I'll never forget the first time I was teleported somewhere with absolutely existing as far the eye could see..."
"Scary." Maya only needed one word.
"A little, but after seeing it so many times... It's more boring than anything else if you ask me."
"Still, being able to create the same space… thing as a god... You won't get in trouble because of that, right...?" She got worried again.
"Oh, I actually asked Canir about my magic. He said that I should try not to destroy the world, but other than that, I can go wild."
"I'm not sure if I feel any better now." Maya had very mixed feelings.
"I wonder if I can change the design... If we use that place to travel, I want it to look nice and cute."
"Sophia, before you think about the design, it should work first."
"R-Right..." She noticed that she was getting carried away again. "How's the fishing going?"
"Not very good. I saw some fish, but they're not biting at all. Well, I guess I need some bait. I'll look for some insects or worms later."
"..." The tiger-girl went silent and looked away with a complicated expression.
"Seriously...?"
"..."
"How can a girl who started a war against an entire race be scared of bugs and the likes...?"
"I-I'm not scared! I just don't like their wiggling or all those extra legs many of them have... ..." Her entire body shivered.
"Really now...? Those spyders in the dungeon back then made you freak out a lot, though." She remembered the joke dungeon Canir made when the group traveled to the capital.
"S-Spyders don't count! They're the spawns from hell! Especially if they're half my size! Nope, just nope!"
"Doesn't sound very convincing~." Maya looked like she wanted to tease her some more.
"Hmm... Well, the only thing I still really remember from the dungeon is the graveyard area where a certain cat-girl almost wet herself from seeing some ghosts. "
"I-I am very sorry!" Her expression immediately changed. "Forget I ever said anything!"
Without another word on the topic, the girls went back to their tasks. Maya
"I, uhh, err... Anyway, it seems like it's working!"
"What did you do?" Maya wasn't fooled by her shoddy acting.
"W-Well, I might have thrown the rock at a slight angle... Instead of reaching the second portal... I slammed it into the wall next to it instead..." She looked very embarrassed.
"Wow... just wow."
"Y-Yes..." She hung her head in shame.
"Wanna eat something? I caught a couple of fish earlier." The cat-girl had the feeling that it was time for a break.
"Please..."
While preparing the fish, Sophia quickly started a campfire. Maya gutted and impaled the grilled fish with a stick before placing them over the fire. It didn't take much time or effort before the two could eat.
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"Better now?"
"Yeah... Food always helps. Still, why am I so good at messing up in the most stupid ways possible?" Sophia couldn't believe herself.
"Well, everyone needs a talent."
"H-Hey!"
"Hehe~." The cat-girl enjoyed teasing her. "So, what now?"
"Hmm... Alright, we know that it's possible to cross the storage dimension with portals. Now we must find out if living beings can do the same, preferably doing so without dying."
"That part is important if you ask me..."
"I saw a deer in the corner of my eyes earlier..." Sophia looked at the forest, and her feline eyes turned bigger as she focused on something there. "Yeah, it's still there... I didn't even need my detection magic. Wait, it's called teer here, isn't it?" She vaguely remembered Fen using this as their name. "I… could catch it and use it to… ." Her tail already started twitching in anticipation.
"Sure, go for it~." Maya could easily see that she just wanted to hunt it for fun.
"Alright!" The tiger's ears perked up, seemingly in full attention mode already, and her pupils looked even larger now. Using her tail to balance, she sprinted into the forest while keeping a low profile. Without making a single sound, she quickly advanced towards the teer she made out with her sharp eyes a while ago while disappearing into the forest.
"If I wouldn't know better and someone told me she wasn't born as a feline, I would call them crazy... She's more cat than any cat I ever met, myself included." The cat-girl watched after her with a warm expression. "God, I love that dork."