Event Quest:Money Makers!:Volos and the Resort

[Translation by Kukuru]

Spending time with Volos at the Beach Resort

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Location: Andva-Resort

There~! Now that I finished today's delivery with no hitches...

A few days after the watermelon splitting contest, Volos finished up his usual deliveries and headed to the beach alone where the watermelon bombs were exterminated.

Good. Looks like there hasn't been any bombermelon sprouts since. If there were any seeds left, it would spell disaster again...

3 options
Found you, Volos!	Yikes! It's a bombermelon!	Check out these huge melons right here!
Waah! Gosh, don't scare me like that, [Player]. Anyways, I take it you've been taking in a proper amount of potassium?	Geh!? Wh-Who's there... Oh, it's just you, [Player]... You think it's funny to see a reaction like that out of me eh? Gosh, you're such a mean little critter sometimes...	Ughya!! [Player], y-you scared me...! You're touching my bottom, not a watermelon!

By the way... I didn't see ya at the beach house earlier. I'm guessin' you're done with work already?

3 options (Same Response)
I finished work for today.	Today's my day off actually.	I've been waiting to hear from you...

Really? Since I had no more errands to take care of later today, I came by to check if there were any seeds left behind from the bombermelon the other day.

... Ah. H-Hey, [Player], I want to ask you something...

W-Well... U-Umm... [Player]... If you don't mind at all...

I... I'd like ya to lend me a hand in looking for any bombermelons hiding somewhere. How about it...?

3 options
Sure, I'd be happy to!	Alright, let's play together!	So you're asking me out on a date huh?
		W-What'd you say...!? A d-d-d-d-day... DATE!? O-Oh, no that wasn't my intention at all... But I suppose it might come off like that. Oh... that's right... i-it could happen again... So then, [Player]... Would you, um... would ya like to go on a date with me?

[Some time passes...]

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Awright! Photo-syn-the-size! Ahahah! Ain't that a clean hit, [Player]!

The mostly used as a pretext exploding watermelon search was quickly concluded, and the two of you enjoyed watermelon smashing using damaged watermelons.

Whew, I didn't even break a sweat. Here, do ya need a towel?

3 options
I'll borrow one, thanks!	This is what you wiped your sweat off with...	Smells like a watermelon...
( face) You wiped your face off with the towel Volos handed you. It's got a faint earthy smell to it.

Huh... Dah, my mistake! That's the one I used already! Don't use that!

Sigh*....This is how I am... I have to be attentive don’t I? Gosh...

Volos arranges the split watermelon and hands you a slice that seems easiest to eat.

Here you are, one watermelon slice. Oh, there will be some leftover if it's only the two of us...

While Volos hands out cleanly split watermelon slices to you, He sits down close to you and cools off in the shade.

Careful, [Player]. Some prickly flowers are bloomin' there.

On top of the sand, a shrub with vividly pink flowers has taken root there. Just like Volos said, there's sharp thorns growing on the branches behind the leaves.

Ahh, this is a hamanasu flower. It’s a durable plant that can grow in sandy soil. I wonder if it’s almost time for the flowers to drop off?

Hamanasu is written to read as beach eggplant, but it's actually a type of rose.

The flowers resembles the flowers for sand pears, which people say is how they've also came to be called beach roses. In Japan sand pears are called nashi, and association turned the rose into hamanasu.

When the flowers fall off they bear fruits known as rose hips, which you can dry and put into tea or make jam with...

3 options (Same Response)
Wow. You're as much of a nerd about flowers as you are with vegetables!	Okay, Volos, I get it!	It's a type of rose just cause it has thorns...?

... Yikes! I shouldn't do that... Sorry, [Player], I couldn't help ma self again......

Ahahah... Even if it's agriculture talk, I usually get bored of it. Let's see, what else could I talk about... Oh, I got it!

Not only that I can talk about fruits, but I know the flower language too! Hmhmhmhm~

A hamanasu symbolizes, let's see now... "A fun journey" and "sweet sorrow"--

...... Darn, how did it go again? Erm......

2 options (Same Response)
A fun journey, sweet sorrow...	Wasn't the saying, "a farewell to the journey is sweet sorrow"?

...... O-Oh, [Player]......

Volos lifts up his face to your nonchalant comment.

A-Ah, sorry, pardon me. You see... an old friend of mine also said the same thing to me.

To tell ya the truth... my old buddy knows more about them flower language than I do.

Volos smiles and glances over to the distant sky dyed by the evening sun.

He... was something of an artist who loves words and poetry. I learned the flower language from him.

Though he had a sarcastic side to him, he often calls me "fuzzy."

Whenever I chat with you... somehow I keep remembering about him.

I reckon... there might be something about ya that's resembles him.

Volos gives a faint smile and quietly brought his shoulder close to you. You can smell a faint earthy smell from him.

I can't go and see him anymore. The memories I have about him are very precious to me. But now... I want to make lots of memories.

Just like seeds left behind by a withering flower that sprouts anew once more. I want to witness more memories blooming in the future.

What happened then was like what's happening now. I'd be delighted if you're right by my side--

Volos brings his shoulders closer to you as he whispers something, although his small voice seems to get lost in the breeze blowing in the shade of the tree.

2 options
Kind regards, my new "friend"!	So... as a "lover"?
... Yup! I hope we'll be good buddies from now on, [Player]! ( face) Volos responds with a smile, like a flower that had just bloomed.	Eh!? Oh, well, um... mmm... W-Whew, sure is hot out today, ain't it? M-Maybe the summer heat's come back already!! Gotta change the subject, but how...... Ah! Aye... I remembered somethin'! It's what I was talking about earlier. Ya know, the flower language! I'll share another one with ya... ( face) Volos remembered that after a little while. However, he hesitated to say something due to being slightly embarrassed still. ....................... ( face) Volos looked down at his feet while smiling in embarrassment. ( face) It's another floriography of the hamanasu that he couldn't tell you. "I'm attracted to your charm."