Chapter 136: The Beach Episode

They began investigating my power more and more. We also visited Tortura to try to see if we could find any traces of the traitor. Each one was merely another dead end.

"This is annoying. I need a break."

"Cassiel, we haven't even been looking that long."

I snorted.

"I haven't slept for 4 days."

"Yeah, and that's your fault."

Marcus as a librarian brought us a lot of books. When he saw us all annoyed and tired he had an idea.

"Yo, Rose."

"What?"

"What's the one thing that most anime have no matter the genre?"

"I… don't know?"

"Beach episodes. Need a break? Go to the beach."

Michael looked confused.

"And do what at the beach, look for hints?"

"No, swim, build sandcastles. Stuff like that."

I looked at Marcus…

"Do you just want to see an angel in a bikini?"

"… I'll admit that the thought crossed my mind, but I genuinely think it would be a good break idea."

Cassiel snickered.

"Sounds fun, know any beaches?"

"Amazing one in this world actually."

Marcus took out a map and marked it.

"There you go. Very good place. Gethel used to… bring us there for our breaks."

I smiled.

"Thank you."

"No problem. I'll keep investigating things here."

"Are you sure?"

"Yep… I don't think it would be right for me to go there without the others, and Kalgero was never interested in it."

"I see, well, thank you again."

Michael sighed.

"Are we actually going to the beach?"

"Why not? Good destresser."

"Is that even a word?"

"It is now."

"Obviously not just us are going, so who else?"

"Luma, she needs a break."

"Good idea, Gabriel. Rose, any ideas?"

"Maybe we could invite Dallel."

I thought of Dallel in swim trunks and blushed.

"Okay, so your boyfriend and who else."

"HEY!"

We bickered and made a full list.

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"Never been on a beach vacation before. Thanks for inviting us, lass."

Mammon looked at the horizon, then thunder.

"Woah, looks like a sandstorm is up there."

"No, it's not."

Gabriel looked at me.

"Rose, it clearly i- what the heck?"

"Skill I had since before entering the system. Absolute control over worlds I control."

"That's a broken skill."

"Yes, yes, it is."

Dallel stepped out in his swim trunks. I blushed.

"So, what do we even do here?"

"Swim."

I did a triple backflip into the water.

Michael sighed,

"If anyone needs me I'll be reading under the umbrella."

Amanda, Erica, and Cassiel were already having a water fight.

This was fun.

_

Me, Jalad, Silas, and Mammon were at a loss of what to do. I decided to sit down in the sand and meditate.

It seems Rose had the same idea as there was a massive white glow from under the water and a massive presence that caught the angels and Amanda and Erica off guard.

"What is that?!"

"Th' lady's meditatin'. She does that occasionally."

I sighed.

"Hopefully she doesn't make an enemy or have another interdimensional journey."

"If her body starts floating, I call splashing water on it to make sure she's in it."

I looked at Jalad with a brow raised.

I then looked at Luma who somehow began swimming in the sky.

"How are you even doing that?"

"Am I doing it wrong? I was told that we swim here."

"I think you're supposed to do that in the water."

"… That makes much more sense."

I sighed. She was odd.

I saw Ausar looking at Amy. He was trying to figure out what she's doing.

"I'm sunbathing."

"I thought we were swimming in the ocean, how do you bathe on the sun. Especially this close to the water."

"It means I'm trying to give myself a tan."

"???"

"*Sigh*"

Celios was flying with the seagulls and doing flips.

Jalad joined the girl's water fight.

Mammon and Thalia created a massive sandcastle, and had taken up residence in there.

"Thalia, let me in!"

Elren was trying to get in.

"The barbarian is at the moat, send forth the beast!!!"

"GRAR"

Mammon threw a bucket full of piranhas at Elren.

"AHHH!!!"

"The defenses hold, HAHAHA!!!"

Alice and Doe were sunbathing, whatever that was, with Amy.

I was just sort of sitting there absent mindedly… surrounded in sand.

"What is this?"

At one point, while I wasn't looking, the girls and Jalad snuck up and covered me in sand. My head was the only thing sticking out.

"I'm not in much better of a situation."

"What?"

I looked up and saw Rose hanging upside down.

Luma created a sand hold. Rose was dangling by her legs.

"How did that happen?"

"Luma can also breath underwater, so that wasn't the best place to take a nap."

"Ah."

"MERGE THE SAND!"

Both of us froze.

"Heh?"

Luma loosened the sand and created a sinkhole next to me that Rose fell into.

When all was said and done, we were just two heads in a big mound of sand. Of course, that was what it looked like from the outside.

On the inside it was quite uncomfortable. She was essentially sitting on my lap.

Both me and her blushed.

"I don't think she-"

Luma smirked at us… she did that intentionally.

We glared. Then Rose sighed.

"Let me try to get out."

She began to shimmy, but she couldn't budge it.

"Luma hardened the sand."

"Crap. How are we going to get out?"

"I know."

Then she started vibrating. Faster and faster. It was like having an inferno on my legs.

"Hot hot hot!"

The sand began to melt around us and Rose got out.

"There we go Dallel. Dallel?"

Then she saw me and dragged me out of the molten sand and healed me.

"Go rest on a beach chair."

"Good idea, thanks."

There were four chairs. I certainly wasn't taking it from Amy or Michael. I wouldn't touch Alice's.

"Doe, it's my turn for the chair."

"Nah, I want to lay down."

"There's a towel over there, lay on that."

"Nah."

I flipped the chair with her on it.

"Woah!"

I sat down in it and smirked at her.

"You know what this means."

"What?"

"WAR!!! HAHA!"

Me and my sister began to wrestle for the chair.

It was certainly a fun day.