Chapter 469: Chapter 469 - Weeb
"It smells kinda sour, but I don’t hate it, it’s actually sort of pleasant. The scent is really strong though," Remarked Celestia, as she picked up a bud and sniffed it.
"Yeah, the smell is pretty hard to cover up, it tends to waft out even if it’s stored in a sealed container," I replied, as I hollowed out a stick with my tail.
About an hour had passed. After finally coming across some weed growing in the forest, I’d rushed out of the cave immediately after pinning the location in my World Map.
It has a GPS-like function that shows me the quickest route to the selected destination, but since I can fly, I only needed to head straight in the right direction.
After I located the plants, I uprooted several of them, put them in my Item Box, flew back and then re-planted them outside the cave.
Then I realized that I had nothing to smoke them out of, so I gathered up a bunch of wood and got to carving using my tail and blades. I’ve never actually carved wood in my previous lives, but I think I’m doing a pretty solid job for an amateur.
I’d hollowed out a couple of thick branches to make pipes, and I was currently making a bong. I carved a block of wood into a hollow container, and I was now hollowing out a stick using my tail.
There we go, that should do.
I then formed a small hole in the side of the container, before poking the hollowed out stick into it.
Next, I picked up a small bowl I’d carved, about the size of a halved tennis ball. I then opened my mouth and secreted a bit of my venom onto my fingertip, before spreading it around the bowl and pressing it against the end of the hollow stick.
My venom is pretty sticky, and I can manipulate its potency and viscosity. I made the potency as low as possible while maxing out the viscosity, essentially creating a powerful glue.
I then opened my Item Box and took out a bottle of water...I’d carved several of these a while back. There was a stream a couple of kilometers away, and Celestia had to walk there everyday to get some water.
To make things easier, I carved several large water bottles out of blocks of wood, along with corks to seal them. That way, she could gather up a bunch of water in one go, instead of needing to walk all the way there every time she got thirsty.
I then popped open the bottle I’d taken out, before pouring a bit of it into the bong, filling it about a quarter of the way before closing the bottle and putting it back in my Item Box.
There we go, it’s done! Not too bad, if I do say so myself. I then picked up one of the buds and tore it into small pieces, before stuffing it into the bowl.
"What’s with the water? Wouldn’t one of these pipes be enough to smoke that?" Celestia asked me, as she picked up one of the pipes.
"Yeah, but I put more effort into this thing, so I figured I’d use it first. And I don’t actually know what purpose the water serves, to be honest. But it makes a satisfying bubbling sound," I grinned sheepishly, before forming a small blue flames over my fingertip and placed it over the bowl as I raised the bong up towards my lips.
I then pulled on it as the flame lit up the weed, closing my eyes and suppressing my Total Immunity Skill as the familiar, sour taste filled my mouth, the bubbling of the bong echoing out across the cave.
I exhaled through my nostrils as I pulled away, letting out a content sigh. Wow, I’m feeling it already...guess I need to build up my tolerance in this new body.
"Wanna try?" I offered, as I held the bong towards Celestia.
"Sure. I’ve tried tobacco before, wasn’t a big fan though," She replied, before taking the bong from me and copying me, pulling on the bong as she put her lips around the end, before letting out a slight cough.
"Try pulling on it a bit slower. Have you tried any drugs at all? Or was alcohol your only vice?" I asked her, as she tried again, going slower this time.
"No, I never tried drugs. They’re illegal, and I didn’t want to risk losing my status as an Adventurer and get thrown into jail over it, or worse, executed. Plus, I’d seen how easily people get addicted to drugs, and how they change because of it, so the thought of trying any never particularly appealed to me."
"But you’re okay with trying this?"
"Huh? I mean, this is a plant...the drugs I’ve seen people get addicted to are, like, smelly powders and manmade rocks that melt into gross-looking dark liquids. An eccentric Noble invented them several decades ago, they were really popular but were then banned after tons of people got addicted and developed health issues," She informed me.
An eccentric Noble, huh? And the drugs she described sound like cocaine and meth. I wonder, was this Noble a Reincarnator? Maybe a former drug dealer or something who tried to strike it rich in this world by introducing drugs from my first world.
"Well, it’s true that this stuff isn’t nearly as dangerous and addictive as those are, and it does have some benefits too. That said, it’s not like it’s completely harmless either. Smoke is still smoke, after all," I replied, as I emptied out the bowl and refilled it with another bud.
"Huh? Sorry, I zoned out...what were you saying?" She muttered with a slightly dazed look on her face.
Her eyelids were drooping, and the whites of her eyes had a tinge of red in them, her expression a bit loopy. Wow, already?
"Uh, how do you feel?" I asked her, as I lit up the second bud and took a deep puff from the bong.
"Hm? Oh...I feel goooood. Hey, do we have any berries left? Wait...I want something salty," She grinned as she licked her lips.
"Sorry, but we don’t have any salty food. I have got some berries left in my Item Box though," I replied, before taking the berries out and handing them to her, along with the bong.
"Thanks! Mm...sho good," She hummed with her mouth full.
A trail of berry juice trickled down the left corner of her mouth as she picked up the bong and took a puff, before exhaling and letting out a slight cough as she handed it back to me.
She then flopped onto the ground, staring up at the ceiling of the cave and raising her hand, lightning crackling over her palm.
"Uh...whatcha doing there?" I inquired in bemusement.
"Chi...Chirodi! Hm? Wait, no, that didn’t sound right..."
"Are you trying to say Chidori?"
"Yeah, that! Chidori!" She exclaimed, the lightning over her hand intensifying.
Suddenly, she sat up as the lightning dissipated, before picking up one of her blades and pointing it at me.
"Uh..."
"Ban...Kai!"
"Maybe showing you all that anime was a mistake..."
"I wish I had a transforming weapon...that would be so cool," She sighed wistfully.
"I mean, I had one in my previous world. Its normal form was a whip with a dagger at the other end of the handle, and it could transform into a pair of daggers and a belt with two whips on it. That’s what my hands and tail in this body are based on."
"Wait...you had a Bankai? No fair!" She exclaimed indignantly.
"Er, no. It was called Soul Weapon Ascension, not-..."
"What? That’s stupid. Bankai sounds way cooler!" She huffed in response.
"...you don’t even know what it means."
"Do you?"
"Not a clue."
"Wait...what were we talking about?"
"Hm...okay, maybe that’s enough weed for you. Maybe a bong was a bit much for your first-...uh, what’re you doing now?"
"Ka...! Me...! Ha...!"
Yeah...maybe I’ll stick with showing her movies and shows for a while, I think she needs a break from anime...
