Chapter 266: Petition
After a quick stop at his room, Vahn teleported to a private VIP lounge attached to the resort's casino. He wasn't fond of gambling, but since it was an exceedingly useful way of increasing their inflow of Tower Coins, he allowed one to be constructed by popular demand.
"Hey, lizard breath, over here...!" exclaimed Bonney, waving her hand from the interior of a circular booth with a recessed floor. Seated alongside her were three beautiful women, one with a markedly mature figure with long, dark blue hair fixed into a distinct twin-tail hairstyle with red animal ear or horn-like attachments, while the other two were comparably lithe but still captivating cat girls—one with white, slightly pink-tinted hair and narrow, mischievous brown eyes, and the other with long, messy, soot-black hair, an inordinately long tail, and large, dark blue eyes.
Making his way over to the booth, Vahn lowered himself into the seat next to Bonney and the woman or, more accurately, the girl with dark blue hair. She presently looked exceedingly mature due to Bonney's Toshi Toshi no Mi(Age Age Fruit), but anyone who had met her Edolas counterpart would immediately recognize her as Wendy Marvel from Fairy Tail. As for the two contrasting cat girls, they were Wendy's Exceed partner, Princess Carla, and Fran—having recently been recognized as a Sword Saint by Ghislaine.
"I'm relieved to see everyone is in relatively high spirits," remarked Vahn, taking note of Wendy's and Fran's smiles and nodding approvingly. Carla, contrastingly, sported a composed frown, but that was par for the course for her since she was obsessed with appearing mature and distinguished, a testament to her Royal heritage.
Though it was somewhat awkward with her current appearance, Vahn punctuated his words by habitually caressing Wendy's head, prompting her to narrow her eyes and smile contentedly.
"There you go, once again putting your hands wherever you please..." sighed Carla, her long, feline tail—adorned with a red bow—twitching as she closed her eyes and shook her head.
"He should be putting his hands on me..." asserted Bonney, grabbing Vahn's right arm and nestling against it as she claimed, "He is my man, after all..."
Producing a third arm, Vahn roughly tousled Bonney's pink hair as he reminded, "That depends on if you can behave yourself these next five and a half years. Hugging is fine, but you're drawing close to a line you shouldn't..."
"You're such a prude..." grumbled Bonney, puffing her cheeks before releasing Vahn's arm. Then, along with everyone else at the table, she abruptly deflated, going from a buxom twenty-something to a spunky-looking girl who wouldn't look out of place alongside Riko and the other members of the youth troupe.
"Back to reality..." muttered Wendy, placing her hands on her once full, now flat chest and exhaling longingly.
"There's no need to rush things, Wendy. Just continue eating well, and they'll come in naturally," remarked Carla, the only notable change to her appearance being her height and the shape of her face. Her human form was the result of very advanced Transformation Magic, so while it could be affected by Bonney's power, the original image she had in mind when casting it remained intact—giving her the appearance of a 13~14-year-old Magic Academy student.