Several days have passed since then.

As gathering and construction efforts continue on, so does planning for each gender’s specific night together.

It was immediately obvious when the groups reunited that the boys were up to something and, since then, an information war has been raging on in the background.

Whether it’s Tabitha telling Rao that she knows some girls who would be interested in him—which is a lie—or Oleander cuddling up to Serra and trying to literally poke the information out of her, each group is trying its best to find out what the other is planning and when.

Spying is next to impossible given that Fenrir’s enhanced hearing is capable of hearing the girls whenever they try. Then, when it comes to the boys trying to spy, Fenrir is the only one capable of doing so but Nell is always able to sense whenever he is near.

The girls won’t even let Shogun around them when they’re discussing their plans, and the boys—as much as it hurts all of them except for Rao—won’t let Rock stay with them when they need to strategize.

And so, it seems as if the boy’s best chance at acquiring information really is having Fenrir fuck it out of his girlfriends.

“Cass Cass is a total sub, isn’t she?” Oleander asks Fenrir now that they’re alone.

“She’s that obvious, isn’t she?” Fenrir asks back.

“Oh yeah, def. Anyways, since she’s such a huge sub, maybe you could try domming her and getting the information out of her that way? Like, tie her down to a bed or something and then make her beg for more, then tell her that you’ll only untie her and fuck her if she tells you what you want to know?”

“That… sounds a bit too rapey for me, I think.”

“It’s not rape if she’s fine with that sort of play!”

“You’re not wrong, but still. I don’t think I have that in me.”

“Fine. Then what about telling Serra Berra that you’ll let her dom you and you’ll do whatever she wants if she tells you when it’s happening?”

“You know about that?”

“She’s like a less talkative and girl version of me, Fenny.”

“But aren’t you already a girl version of yourself?”

“Don’t ask questions. Anyways, I know she’s got that side to her. It’s my job as her bestie to know these things.”

“You’re her bestie now?”

“Duh. We’re all besties. Anyways, think that could work?”

“I’m scared about just how much control I would have to promise her in order to get that to work. She’d probably want me to be her slave for like… a month.”

“Is that a problem?”

“Listen, it’s rare for me to be in a submissive mood.”

“Then what about Nell?”

“Maybe… but I’m not sure. Nell loves her fantasies, so I might be able to come up with something like that. Maybe… if we roleplay her being my prisoner and me ‘interrogating’ her. I bet she’d like that, but would she break? I’m pretty sure she’d keep it secret just because she wouldn’t want to betray the others even if sex is involved.”

“Then there’s only one person left.”

“Y-yeah.”

“Have you done anything with her yet?”

“Not… not really.”

“So, you’ve only kissed and groped her?”

“Basically.”

“Haven’t you been together for like, over a week now?”

“Yeah.”

“And you haven’t even done it yet?”

“Do… do you think that one week is a shocking amount of time to have not had sex by or something?”

“Well, yeah.”

“Only you, Olly.”

“Only you, Fenny! Anyways, I think Aza wouldn’t want to spoil the surprise for the girls, but I can totally see her accidentally doing it without realizing it until it’s too late.”

“But then I’d feel bad. I mean, to be honest, I’d feel bad using any of them to get the information. Besides, they’re the ones who came up with having their own night first. Is it really right for us to try and take the boat out without them? We don’t even know if they’re going to want to take the boat, so we might—”

“They’re totally going to take her out.”

“Even so, they had the plans first, so aren’t we—”

“Fenny, are you trying to betray our bond as brothers? We’re men! Brothers! We have to stick together! Bros before hos!”

“To be fair, if anybody is a ho, it’s you.”

“And I’m proud of it!”

“Hey, you know what I just realized?”

“That you’re sexually attracted to me and want to join a harem with me and Corwin?”

“No.”

“Dang.”

“What I just realized is that… I have no idea if we’ve encountered a single person playing the opposite gender in-game yet. I mean, you have a dick in real life and still have one here, so not even you count.”

“I guess so. Hmm. Yeah, I don’t know. I’d be willing to bet a few of those super muscular guys back in Port Tugator were actually girls. Like, there’s being buff, and then there’s being bara.”

“Of course bara is one of the few weeb terms you actually know on your own.”

“You know it. Anyways, with how some of them acted, there were def girls in real life. Like, they couldn’t stop touching their own muscles and chest hair, and then they fangirled all over the others.”

“I’m… kind of interested now. I want to know what happened in that bar you went to. Wait, isn’t that where you met Corwin?”

“Yep. We met and bonded over our shared interest in watching really buff and hairy men do things. It was like bird watching but with giant guys and muscles.”

“Well, that’s one way to meet. Anyways, back to the plan. I don’t think I could actually be that much of an asshole. Plus, I doubt they’d be happy with me if I betrayed them like that.”

“But you’re betraying me by not betraying them!”

Fenrir sighs and flicks Oleander on the forehead. Then, as if the contact between Fenrir’s finger and Oleander’s forehead formed a physical connection between their two brains, they look at each other with light bulbs above their heads. “I have an idea,” Fenrir says.

“Same!”

“It’s still kind of betraying them…”

“But it’ll be fun!”

“I just hope they don’t—”

“We’ll be fiiiinnneee.”

“Alright, so what are we calling this operation?”

“Hmm. We’ll call it ‘Operation—Operation… F-Fenny, I think I’m out of operation names.”

“We’ll name it when we do it then. For now, it’ll be ‘Operation: Operation.’”

“Good enough.”