The girls spent some more time introducing Sari to Kel, and the little girl was utterly fascinated by the dragon, having the time of her life petting him while happily giggling the entire time. So, they spent the rest of the day doing just that before returning her to her parents, who had learned a lot about the world from Theo and Eve and now had a lot of thinking to do.

"Have your parents decided on moving here already?" About a week had passed since Lydia and Pete explored the capital, and Ari was curious about the current situation, so she went ahead and asked Sophia, who was with her in the entrance hall of the cottage.

"I think they'll need a little bit longer to make a final decision." The blonde shrugged. "They liked the capital a lot, though. Maya's parents did a great job of showing them everything."

"That's great to hear!" The jaguar smiled at her. "I hope they decide to move."

"Me, too!" She reacted with a big nod. "Anyway, are you ready to build our beautiful island resort?"

"I would've loved to get a new bikini first, but my old one from when we went to the beach in Mira's domain still fits, so we're good to go."

"Wait, what do you need a bikini for?" The tiger looked a little confused.

"Like you just said, we're going to build a tropical island resort, right?" Ari didn't understand her confusion. "Beautiful white sand, crystal clear water, palm trees, hammocks, fruity cocktails, super warm, right? All of that calls for a bikini as the dress code."

"When building it? I get for when it's done and enjoy our time there, but…?"

"Of course! After all, how else are we supposed to get in the mood?

"I guess?" Sophia then paused for a second. "Wait, why am I complaining about seeing you in a bikini? Let's go!"

"That's the spirit!"

"Though, I'm not sure if my bikini from back then still fits."

"Why? With how sporty you are, there's no way you gained any weight." The jaguar didn't understand her concern.

"Well, my top was already rather tight back then... and, uhh…" She then looked down at herself. "I have reasons to assume that hasn't gotten any better."

"…" The jaguar stared at Sophia's chest for a moment. "I hate you." Her cheery mood was gone.

"I love you, too~."

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Having decided on their work clothes, the two then quickly changed into their bikinis. Ari wore her black one with orange accents, while Sophia put on her white with gold accents. As it turned out, the blonde's top had indeed become a little tight, but since Ari had no complaints about it and only thanked her for the view instead, the tiger decided to go ahead with it, and the two went to their construction side.

"Ohh, wait, you already built an island?" The two took a portal to Kel's ocean and ended up on a big patch of land surrounded by water as far as they could see all around them.

"Yeah, I went ahead and borrowed a lot of sand from the desert and packed everything together so the island doesn't get washed away so easily." The blonde smiled at her before pointing up. "I also took an amazing amount of magic to color the sky above us blue. The default all-white nothingness would kill the mood, after all. Besides that, we can play around as much as you want to!"

"You're amazing!"

"Ehehe~." As usual, the tiger enjoyed being praised. "How do you want our island to look?"

"That's a good question." Ari tilted her head while looking around. "Before that, we need to up the temperature here a little more. This is definitely not tropical enough."

"You are so much easier to hang out with than Steph or Chloe!"

"Us cats know what's good, after all."

"True!" Sophia reacted with a hearty nod. "Sure, I can up the temperature a notch, but I think it would be best to decide on the final temperature once the island is fully done."

"Sounds good!" The jaguar liked the plan. "Anyway, for starters, I'd love to have the middle of the island overgrown with palm trees. It would be great if we could do that. Some more palms on the beach to give some shade while relaxing, as well! Otherwise, maybe a little hut with an ocean view?"

"You really want to go all out, huh?" Sophia smiled at her. "I like that!"

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"We need more beautiful, nice, and warm places, or else Steph and Chloe will flood this domain with frozen and cold nightmares! We can't let that happen."

"You are SOO right about that!" The tiger easily agreed with her. "A hut might take a while, but when I went and borrowed the sand from the desert, I ate lunch in the oasis city, and our guide from back then mentioned an ongoing beach renovation they were doing at the lake there. I snatched an old but super nice-looking outdoor beach bar for a good price we can use here."

"That's perfect!"

"I thought the same when I got it!" Sophia nodded in agreement. "Alrighty, let's go and collect some palm trees that I also liberated from the oasis and put them into my domain for safekeeping." Saying so, she opened a portal next to them.

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"That should be a good start, huh?" The duo spent about an hour going back and forth through the portal, placing a couple of dozen palm trees in the middle of their island and setting up the bar on the outskirts.

Additionally, Sophia took some mixers, glasses, and drinks to mix cocktails later. Ari then looked at the palm trees with a satisfied expression. "It would be great if they were a lot denser, but that can be fixed with magic, can't it?"

"That's the plan, yes." The tiger nodded. "That's also why we mostly used the smaller and younger palms for the middle because they'll grow and multiply, anyway. We're going to use the remaining big and nice-looking ones for the beach. After all, we don't want them to overgrow there and ruin the view, so don't use any magic there."

"True!" She agreed with her. "The beach should be mostly sand with only some palms here and there for some shade. Having some of them go a little over the water for the same reasons when relaxing in there would be nice, too."

"I like that idea!" Sophia smiled at her. "We'll definitely do that. I bet the shadows of the palm leaves on the water will look super nice and cozy, too!"

"Oh, I was just thinking about comfort, but you are so right about that!"

"Speaking of comfort, we definitely have to arrange some palm trees closer to each other so that we can span a hammock or two between them. Bonus points for it hanging over the water, too."

"You really know your stuff!" The jaguar sounded impressed.

"Well, I'm a professional relaxer and sleeper, so I obviously have some tricks up my sleeve~." She looked a little smug.

"That's quite something! Even more so because you're not having any sleeves right now." Ari checked out the blonde's bikini while saying so. "In fact, there are next to no places where you could hide anything."

"Extra horny today, aren't we?" Sophia lazily covered her chest with her arms.

"Shush." She rolled her eyes in return.

"Don't shush me when I'm right!"

"…" The jaguar went silent.

"Anyway, I think we also have to change the water a little." Changing the subject, Sophia got a little closer to the ocean and inspected it. "I love clear water, but this is almost a bit much for my taste."

"That is true." Ari walked over next to her to take a better look, as well. "It reminds me of the lake in Iridai. The water there was also extremely clear, but here, it's almost as if there's no water at all. You can see right to the sand beneath without any light diffraction whatsoever."

"I guess that makes sense, as both the lake and the ocean here were created by Kel. He seems to be able to create absolutely pure water with ease. As the lake already had fish and other life in it, it was a little less see-through." The blonde nodded a few times.

"It feels a little unnatural, doesn't it?" The jaguar tilted her head. "Is there anything we can do about it, though? Besides adding a lot of fish and seeing what happens?"

"I was thinking about using a little magic and simply adding a blue tint to it for the time being to make the tropical feeling perfect. If I only do the water in the direct surroundings of the island, it shouldn't be much effort at all."

"Fair." She shrugged. "That would definitely work."

"Hehe." Letting out a small chuckle, Sophia then concentrated for a moment before the surrounding water eventually changed into a slight bluish-turquoise hue. "That looks more like tropical water, doesn't it?"

"Absolutely!" Ari agreed with her. "I mean, I've never seen tropical water, but it feels like it's supposed to look like this!"

"Good enough!"

"I think this calls for a break." The jaguar looked around and was happy with the progress they had made so far. "How about we go for a swim?"

"You mean it's finally time to give the bikinis we've been wearing a purpose?" The blonde lightly rolled her eyes.

"They've always had a purpose!" Ari started pouting.

"Sure~." She smirked at her in response. "Actually, I have an even better idea! You don't really swim with such a scenery around you. You just lazily float around! In preparation for that, I got some inflatable floaties from my old world." Saying so, Sophia pulled a massive pink inner tube with many small white and darker pink dots on it out of her storage. "Wait, I thought I got more than one?"

"It looks like a gigantic donut?" The jaguar looked confused.

"Kinda?" She couldn't exactly deny that claim. "You put it in the water and climb on it to float around on the water and relax." Saying so, she went ahead and put the floaty in the water in front of them. "It should be big enough for both of us, huh? Normally, everyone has their own, but I guess I left the others in my parents' house? Anyway, let's give it a try!" She then climbed on top of it and got comfortable. "Come!"

"Okay?" Not exactly sure how to climb on it, Ari entered the water and made a little leap to join the tiger. Unfortunately, she slightly overshot the target and got way closer to the tiger than intended, and tried to use her hand to get to a safe place to regain her posture. Instead, she got a squishy place.

"Enjoying yourself?" Sophia first glanced at Ari's hand, which she had dug into the tiger's chest and was currently groping her right breast with great care, before she turned to look at Ari's face right next to hers.

"I can't say I don't, but that was just an accident because I didn't know how to get on this thing and got too vigorous."

"Vigorous definitely is the right word." The tiger glanced at her squeezed breast again, and just how deeply the jaguar's fingers had dug into her soft skin, and how she even managed to intertwine their legs with each other at the same time in the process.

"You sure have grown a lot." Ari's attempt to lighten up the situation was to give the blonde another hearty squeeze.

"You spend too much time with Maya and Steph." Sounding rather relaxed, Sophia lightly rolled her eyes while letting out another chuckle.

"Hehe."

Afterward, the duo relaxed a bit more and enjoyed their new creation, their very own tropical island retreat, for the rest of the day.

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