CHAPTER 1466: CHAPTER 1465: A LITTLE BIT OF SOMETHING

Anput PoV

"Seriously, I’m telling you that I have very little idea of how glassblowing works, let alone how to do it effectively, efficiently, and quickly. I like banging things more than I like blowing them, alright?"

A bit of annoyance crept into my tone as I half glared at the Vampire, but that didn’t stop me from making her blush and helping myself to one of the reasons I could never actually get that mad at her... which was constantly being able to make her go all shy and adorable like this with just a few words.

"Listen, why don’t you go ahead and give it a try? You keep saying it shouldn’t be that hard... well, go ahead and blow to your hearts content."

Leone looked absolutely adorable with the way she puffed her cheeks out and glared back at me, only to look away when I smirked and raked my eyes over her plump lips; it was so easy to make her like this, and Goddesses be damned did she look even better like this...

"Also, just for your information, Kat wanted me to make a few pots, pans and utensils for her by tonight, so although I would love to help you solve this blowing problem of yours I am very much already busy and ’employed’, so you would have to take it up with Kat."

That got the Vampire to deflate a little, though she just began to hype herself up in her head as she stared at the pile of sand she had brought in for me, likely thinking that this couldn’t be that hard... which, it shouldn’t be, but she’s never done something like this before, so... yeah.

When she turned her focus onto me again in preparation to ask something I immediately said "Yes, I can make you a quick blowpipe thingy, and yes there is an adequate furnace right over there that can fit some crucibles and the like inside. We have a surplus of coal in that box there and an extra set of miscellaneous tools right beside it."

Answering most of her questions immediately made it easier for her to just get to it, and it freed me up to do whatever I wanted... which was to get Kat’s requested items forged up sooner rather than later because it would give me ’leverage’ for tonight.

Taking a break from the construction simply because we could and instead turning our energy over towards something that we actually wanted to do helped me come to the revelation that city building was one hell of a chore... and only a tad bit rewarding at each completed ’stage’.

That made it hard to stay extremely focused on it day in and day out, so now that we had been here for a decent bit I wanted to do my own thing for a little while, which was when Leone barged in and asked if I could make her some more glassware for her Alchemy.

It would be beneficial to learn and there was a plethora of reasons I should have done it, but at the same time the order Kat had placed took priority already, let alone when I was planning to use it to get more of what I wanted tonight.

Giving Leone her hollow tube and setting her free to do whatever she wanted, I stuck a few ingots into my own furnace and began to heat up some metal for the things I wanted to make, which were going to test some of my skills considering I had never made them before.

Forks, spoons and knives were simple enough - even with all the variations of them she wanted - so I wasn’t worried about that, but I was worried about the size of the pots and pans and ensuring that they were completely flat, smooth, perfectly sized and so on.

I was also going to have to consider applying a glaze of some sorts over the metal - if that was possible to do - or figure out some other way to make them less of a hassle to cook in and clean up afterwards.

Then I was going to need to make sure they could withstand the prolonged heat from Kat’s nice stove and oven she just made, so thickness was an issue as well but they couldn’t be too thick because then they would be too ’heavy’.

Or I could just not give a damn because we were strong enough to carry them without issue... though our cabinets might not appreciate that, and... yeah, I needed to make sure they didn’t weigh a lot either.

Working on the utensils first though, I hammered away for a bit before looking up when Leone asked "How do you feel about this?", the Vampire not looking at me nor showing me anything, which made me blink a few times as I tried to figure out what she was talking about.

"About the four of us."

"Ah..."

That clarification had me turning back towards the furnace as I stared at the flames, not certain of how to respond because... well, I didn’t have a clear cut answer to give to her; I don’t think I ever would because at the end of the day, being in a relationship structured like this would never be ’fair’.

Someone would likely end up being the favorite for however long before it shifted again, and with the eventual hope of making a large family kindling inside of all of us it would be hard to not feel a little bitter if someone else got to ignite that fire first.

It was complicated, but that was the ’con’ for having such an incredible set of people to be in a relationship with; if I was asked to just choose amongst the three of them to have as a partner for the rest of my life, the choice would never be easy.

Each of us offered something to the others that they wanted, so we kept one another happy, but the problem was... being centered around a woman who was tethered to one of us through ancient magics was definitely not fair, now was it?

"It’s not wonderfully smooth but I don’t have any big complaints. Definitely would’ve liked for Jahi to be more willing to spread her attention around more evenly on the individual level but each night definitely helps alleviate that ache a little."

Leone hummed in agreement as she watched the sand and limestone dust mixture melt together into a gloopy mass of liquid glass, her ruby red eyes sparkling with a mixture of emotions before she just blushed again at what I said next.

"As for the two of us, we don’t tend to get at it that often ourselves either, do we? Typically we pine after the lascivious Dogkin for hours on end yearning for just a ’crumb’ of affection, but rarely do we go for one another... Should we change that~?"