The Otter Sin of Curiosity

Chapter 7

"That sweet girl just took out that hunk of a man with a single kick! This year's fighting festival is one to remember folks!" Love Helm says, everyone cheered, I grinned and hopped down from the ring, "Ow..." I landed on my face, "I swear, you can beat that guy but you can't land on your own two feet? So confusing," King looks at me, I rubbed my nose, "Hey good fighting out there," I saw Matrona, "Hey thanks and one more thing... HOW HAVE YOU SHRUNK SO MUCH?!" I screamed at Diane, "HUH?!" Captain, Ban and King rubbed their eyes, she took her hat and cloak off, "Well you see..." She explains her story, "That's amazing, it was most likely an Orengi mushroom, a variation of the chicken matango they're monsters that are timid by nature and rarely show themselves in the wild, but whenever they do feel threatened they release spores that shrink living things," King touches his chin, "Why didn't you say anything about this before?" Ban asks, "Well it's just..." Diane blushed, "I really wanted to surprise you Captain!" She jumps into his arms, King screams, "Ahh! Being swallowed up in your arms is really a dream come true, I've been jealous of Elizabeth for so long now!" She nuzzles her face against his, "But you were the one who threw yourself on me," Captain had a bored look on his face, "H-Hey get off him Diane!" King freaks out, "Oh right, put me down, hurry up, hurry up!" She giggles, "Just make up your mind," Captain puts her down, "Have a look Captain, ready to get naughty?" She lifts her skirt up to show her panties, King fell over with an aggressive bleeding nose, I squeaked and turned around, covering my eyes, "All the stuff you do to Elizabeth everyday you can do to me!" She smiles, "Sorry but it's not the same if you're told to do it," He turns around, "I get what you mean Captain," Ban lifts the back of my skirt up, "BAN!" I screamed and jumped away, "So today it's foxes today, you know if you wanted a fox in your pants you could have just said," He grins, "Good one!" Captain and him high-fived both chuckling, I turned bright red and ran to Diane. After a long and gruelling match between Diane and Howzer, he ended up taking home the win, "Hey it's fine Diane, I'm sure it's just because you're not used to being this size," I pet her back, "Hey you're right!" She lights back up again and pushes me into her chest, "Not... fair..." I cried and looked at my tiny chest, "Hey, I think it's enough, it's not like you're as flat as a board," Ban comes up from behind, I squealed and he laughed, "So jumpy today," He kisses my head, I huffed and blushed.

"The Third Match! Cain versus Old Fart!" Love Helm announces and everyone cheers, "My turn huh?" King says blandly, "Who in their right mind would make such a tasteless name like that?" Diane asks, "It was me," Ban grins, "Why am I not surprised, " She gives him the side eye, "Hey, come on you gave yourself a pretty weird name too. Where did Matrona come from?" He leans over, "Actually it's someone I used to know," She looks back forwards, "I'll hold onto Chastiefol for you," I held my arms out, he passes me the green pillow, "Go Old Fart, you go get 'em," Captain slaps him on the back, "Go Kin- Old Fart go!" Diane cheers, he turned into his fat form and gave her a thumbs up, "If that's his game face, makes sense," Ban puts me on his shoulders, "This is a perfect pillow," I fluffed it up and put it on top of Ban's head and laid on it, "Standing 5 feet, 5 inches tall and weighing 5 pounds, Old Fart!" King's face scowled, "He's a kid!" Someone in the crowd shouted, "Standing 5 feet, 1 inch tall and weighing 108 pounds, Cain!" He was still helplessly drunk, "You now understand what I have to deal with when you drink one too many?" I leant my head down to Ban's level and pointed at Old Cain, he grinned, "Alright! Let the fight begin!" Everyone was almost bored out of their minds, no one wanted to watch because they saw a kid and an old geezer. "I can't believe King's not fighting with a weapon, I've never seen him without one," Diane watches, "Guess it's twice for me now, it's something really to see," Captain stole the pillow from me, "It's that mind blowing? Is he even stronger?" I looked down at them, "Just watch and see my littler otter," Ban smirks, "It's really mind blowing, because without his weapon... he's super weak," Captain watches, King managed to trip on a piece of stray rock and tumbled forwards, the three of us fell on the ground in embarrassment, Old Cain went for a whack on King's head, it was a mere blow but King seemed to feel the pain 100 times more, "Man, he's tough," King held his head, the three of us fell on the floor again. "I saw him fight a cat once that swiped his lunch, he lost to it," Captain fluffed up the pillow, Cain went for a punch to the cheek, it blew King all the way out of the ring, Chastiefol caught him, "Man, that was so mean, I was only trying to use my Disaster power to make his rheumatism worse," He almost cries, "There, there," I pet his head. "Now, for the final match of the finals, it's Baan and Meliodaf!" The two of them looked up, I stood up tall, not that it would even reach anywhere near Ban's height, "Now you two listen to me, Ban, don't kill the Captain, he can't regenerate like you. Captain, don't do something that'll make him overexert his stamina, we're trying to conserve it here if anything happens," I pointed my finger at the two of them, they just averted their eyes and whistled, "Were you even listening to me!" I threw my fists in the air, "Just watch, we won't do anything too stupid," Captain walked into the ring, "What the Captain said, just keep an eye on the prize," Ban grinned and pointed at his chest, I giggled and shook my head.