Juu Sai Madoushi Chapter 28 Part 2 (Patreon)

Chapter 28 Closing In (Part 2)

「 Fufun... not quite there yet! The next step is to practice moving your hands! Just stand there and watch my example! I'll show you my spectacular crawl!」

With great enthusiasm, she arranged her hands above her head and dived into the water.

She was so busy trying to impress Ferris that she forgot about Jeanette.

She was thinking that she was the one who had to do it.

「Jeanette-san!? Jeanetteさ-saaaaaaaaann!?」

As she listened to Ferris's screams, Jeanette felt the sun from underwater was beautiful.

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「 Mou……I've never seen anyone go drowning with such confidence.」

「 Uu……Please don't say that……」

Jeanette was on the sandy beach, laying down on Alicia’s lap, dumbfounded.

Although she doesn't know why she should be on the lap of a rival, she would rather give Ferris a lap pillow, but she can't say anything too strongly because Alicia just pulled her up and took care of her herself.

And, as much as she hated to admit it because it was so frustrating, she didn't mind having her head in Alicia's lap.

「 The old you wouldn't have done something so stupid, but you must really like Ferris.」

「 Of course! I love her soooooo much! Got any complaints on that!?」

「 I'm not complaining. I love Ferris, too.」

Alicia smiled.

Looking at that smile, as if she were an accomplice, Jeanette felt a tingle in her chest and hastily averted her gaze.

At the edge of the waves, Ferris is running around kicking up water in a big hurry, falling down too fast, getting right back up and running again, jumping in lightly and thrashing around.

Eventually, Ferris came running up to Jeanette and the others, her cheeks flushed and excitement in her eyes.

「 I was wondering what she was doing, and she showed me how to play. Why don't the three of us play together!?」

「 What are we playing?」

「 First, lets play in the sand! You can build castles and towers out of sand! There are plenty of materials, and it's amazing how much you can redo! I want to build a house so big that everyone can live in it!」

「 I understand! I'll build one for you!」

Jeanette clenches her fists and burns with passion.

「 I don't think that's possible.……」

Alicia, being the realist that she is, doesn't like the idea, but she follows Ferris and Jeanette to the beach.

The three of them dug up sand from the ground and used the nearby seawater to harden it, creating the foundation for the building.

Ferris digs in the dirt like a dog digging a hole, just as fast as she can.

「 Ferris……That's really fast. It looks like it's going to lead us to some underground cavity somewhere.」

「 Ehehe, I've been a slave in a magic stone mine for a long time! I'm very good at digging holes!」

「 As to be expected! Ferris is a professional hole digger!」

Jeanette can't help but want to hug Ferris, who smiles shyly. She makes up her mind that she must give Ferris the best sandcastle as a gift, since he has never even played with sand before.

As the three of us continued to work, a little girl came running up to us.

「 Oh, that girl over there! Are you making a pit?」

Ferris replied as she continued to dig, plunging her upper body into the hole in the sand.

「 It's not a pit! We're building a big house! When it's finished, we'll have dinner together inside!」

「 Heeh, that's great! I'll do my best too!」

The little girl pulled her parents from nearby and began to play in the sand with her family.

「 I want to build a tower as big as those girls'!」「 Oh, my, that would be a bit hard.」「 Hmm, leave it to me……I'm still an architectural engineer!」「 Dad, you're so cool!」「 Fufufu……!」

Her father was strangely enthusiastic and built a magnificent spire.

Perhaps attracted by the momentum of the two teams, other people in the beach began to gather from all over the place and began to fight with the sand.

「 What's this, a special sand playground?」「 Eh……Was there ever an event like that?」「 Oh well, let's get on with it!」「 You're not a man of the sea if you don't ride this big wave! 」「 Hua, hua, hua, hua, I never thought I'd be playing in the sand in my nineties……Let's see what I can do with this old man’s skills!」

In no time at all, the area was filled with bathers playing in the sand.

Jeanette flinched.

「 Wha, what's going on here? Are they trying to compete with our project......If so, we can't afford to lose!」

「 I don't think you need to get so worked up about it!」

「 I’ll keep digging for sand, so please feel free to use it!」

Ferris pulled herself up from the hole in the ground, her face covered in sand.

When you are in the midst of a lively crowd, and playing in the sand with such a large group of people, you get excited.

It was a far cry from the days of digging in the mines by himself. Back then, she hadn't thought that her labor would be hard, but now Ferris felt a hundred times better than he had then.

That's when it happened.