Chapter 832 These birthday gifts are still a bit too ahead of their time.
People cheered. Nora was tossed up and caught, and Monica even performed a six-handed pass. Hughes thought the cake would receive the same treatment, but the people of this world still cherished food. They carefully cut the cake into pieces, and everyone got a share.
Hughes's eyes twitched when he saw the cake with a fish head stuck in it.
Monica must have put this there. These banshees are great in every way, except their aesthetic sense is a bit bizarre. Making a Stargazing cake is one thing, but putting a fish head on the cake is another.
"Today is Nora's birthday, so I'm giving her this meaningful fish head cake." He casually placed the cake in front of Nora.
Nora was still feeling dizzy, partly from the unexpected birthday surprise and partly from being thrown around.
She groggily ate the fish head cake and mumbled, "You... um, are you all here to celebrate my birthday? Why is the lord here too?"
"Oh, I've come to pay my respects to the fallen soldiers on the front lines, and also to see the birthday presents they sent you."
"A birthday present!"
Nora's eyes widened instantly, her nose still smeared with cream, and she stopped eating the fish head she had half-eaten.
"Of course, there are birthday presents. I remember you have this tradition where you're from, right?"
"Yes, yes." Helena smiled and pulled out a bouquet of flowers from somewhere. "This is for you. It's called a five-petaled lotus. It blooms all year round. I hope you can bloom like a flower in the future."
As she spoke, she planted the flowers in the flowerpots by the window. They were small flowers, not very bright, but they had a vibrant life force.
"And mine too!" Nini squeezed through the crowd with difficulty. "Nini's magazines, articles, and novel collections—this is all the publications I've compiled, including some that were deleted or revised! It's amazing!"
That's really impressive. As soon as he said that, everyone in the room turned their heads. Zoe's eyes lit up and she was practically drooling. She just wished it wasn't her birthday.
Hughes looked at the gift, which was definitely a forbidden book, with a complicated expression. He knew that at least half of the main characters in it were himself, but after thinking about it, he shook his head and let Nini go.
Anyway, in Castel, who hasn't played Nini's lead role? Even the coyote has.
Birth and death, written into unofficial histories by Nini, are things that Castel can never escape.
Others also presented gifts. Gaia gave a jar of liquor made with nitroglycerin, which has a unique flavor and can be used to disinfect, explode, refresh, treat heart disease, maintain internal combustion engines, remove carbon deposits, and even be added directly to a car as fuel.
It also has a cleaning function and can be used as shampoo and body wash. This was an inspiration Gaia had after Nora fell into the wine barrel last time.
Hughes was very tempted by what he saw, and he decided to ask Gaia later if this thing could be mass-produced, as he needed such a multifunctional item.
It can be considered a Castelt medicinal wine; except for not being suitable as a hot pot base, it is practically an all-rounder.
It can even be drunk as alcohol.
Monica's gift was quite impressive; she gave her a statue of Nora, which was made of shimmering scales.
—Her own scales.
Every time Monica went to have her scales maintained, she would pick out a few of the most beautiful scales and keep them. Hughes thought she had some unique hobby, and the other banshees had also been guessing for a long time. They never expected that she would actually keep them as gifts for Nora.
Even Hughes couldn't help but be moved. Although Monica never seemed very reliable, he hadn't expected her to be so good to her friends.
The sculpture is quite realistic—meaning that this full-body statue of Nora only shows her head.
Nora stared at the glittering statue before her, her eyes sparkling.
Although she was only sculpted the head, she was still very moved. However, she was not good at expressing herself, so she just pursed her lips and sniffled.
"By the way, this statue also has a protective function!" Monica squeezed in, reached out and pressed on the statue. With a click of the mechanism, the entire statue split apart.
Monica solemnly lifted Nora up and placed her inside the statue.
Nora: "?"
As soon as Monica pressed the statue, the crack closed automatically, trapping Nora inside.
Everyone: "."
Hughes: "No... Nora trap?"
"What trap? This is a full-body helmet!" Monica was furious. "Nora told me long ago that the Sanctuary's Icefield Heavy Armor was poorly designed and prone to getting stuck in the helmet, so I specially designed this helmet for her. My scales are very hard, even better than steel in terms of protection!"
Helena, who was standing next to her, was taken aback and whispered to the priest beside her, "Is there such a defect?"
"It doesn't seem like there is?"
"I also use the Icefield Heavy Armor, how come I've never encountered it?"
"Shh, I know that. It only happens when you look up at a certain angle. Nora is short and needs to look up often."
Nora jumped inside the helmet, sounding a little confused: "Monica, your helmet is great, but how do I open it?"
"Oh, just press the button on top and it will open."
"I have no hands."
Monica: "."
Everyone: "."
Monica walked over somewhat awkwardly and helped Nora take off her helmet.
"Thank you, Monica. I will cherish this helmet." Nora sighed.
Indeed, it's not good to take it lightly. This helmet probably can't be taken to the battlefield; she can't even open it, so it can only be hung on the wall.
The helmet statue was made so realistically that it looked just like her.
There's a picture of Nora's head hanging in Nora's room as a decoration, which feels a bit strange.
"Make way, make way, the grand finale is here!" Chloe finally broke the silence, and with a mechanical whirring sound, a steel machine came into the middle of the crowd.
"Nora, this is a gift for you, a self-propelled wheelchair converted from a self-propelled artillery piece!"
Nora looked up at the square machine in front of her, and her eye twitched.
"Here's the thing, I felt that driving a self-propelled artillery around town was still a bit inconvenient, so I miniaturized it, removed the gun barrel, and added a robotic arm. You see, these ↑↓←→ are used for control."
"Don't worry, unlike Monica, I didn't consider the problem of you only having a head left. This button can be pressed with your tongue!"
This is the improved version that Chloe mentioned to Hughes before—she first modified it into a wheelchair.
Under Chloe's direction, Nini placed Nora's head on top of the wheelchair.
However, since the wheelchair was modified from a self-propelled artillery piece, it also has a somewhat similar shape.
If a self-propelled artillery piece doesn't have a turret, it has a boxy shape, and so does this wheelchair.
Combined with its size, it looks somewhat like a coffin.
A coffin with a head on top.
(End of this chapter)
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