Chapter 56: Learning to Fly
Natsume recalls the squirrels at the zoo that his teacher used to take her to visit, using her fluffy tail to act as her own parachute. Natsume decided to use her equally fluffy tail to slow down her windswept body, both of which should be about the same as big fluffy tails, right?
I tried hard to put my tail behind me, which had just grown out not long ago, and was not very skillful, and controlled the hair on the tail to explode. The fluffy tail exploded behind Natsume, and from a distance, it looked like a furball hanging behind Natsume.
After the tail is fried, it is a good way to alleviate the frequency of Natsume's dancing in the wind, but it still can't solve Natsume's current problem, and Natsume still can't move freely in the air. Natsume leaned on his tail and swayed in the air like a parachute, fluttering around in the wind.
Natsume also thought about changing the current situation in the past, sliding on four feet in the void to be able to walk freely in mid-air as Inari did before, but in the end, he was just like a kitten in the water, fluttering in the water but useless and still calm.
Until a chance encounter, the muscles on Natsume's tail control the soreness of the fried hair, and when he didn't pay attention, he relaxed the control and the hair on the tail returned to his original state of obedience. Without a parachute to control the speed of falling, Natsume spun around in the air like a rag sack in a washing machine, and both eyes turned into vertigo mosquito coils.
Under such circumstances, Natsume discovered a situation in which the speed at which he fell in the air increased significantly after the hair on his tail retracted. Then it was lightly blown away by the wind, and when the wind was about to dry up, Natsume's speed of moving forward with the wind slowed down significantly. The moment this wind dissipated, Natsume lost the interference of external forces, and fell vertically down until he was caught by the next wind.
Seizing this fleeting inspiration, Natsume felt that he was about to find a knack for flying freely in the air, and in order to verify this idea, Natsume gave up his resistance to the wind and let the wind blow along with him in the direction of the wind.
In the process of drifting in the wind, Natsume found that if he waved his four feet while drifting, trying to maintain balance or struggling to move forward, he would cause instability around him, causing him to start spinning and rolling in the air.
If you are steady, spread your limbs and follow the wind without disturbing the surrounding air, you will be able to glide steadily for a long distance until the wind dissipates.
After practicing again and again, Natsume finally mastered the basic essentials of aerial gliding, but there was a huge shortcoming waiting for Natsume. Gliding with his limbs spread, his tail hanging behind him, his soft belly exposed to the air, and the wind blowing through the cold Natsume got goosebumps. (Although there is too much hair to see) even some hidden unspeakable parts are exposed to the air nakedly, allowing Natsume to have a good experience of what it is: It's cool without pants. Of course, Natsume can't solve this problem for a while, so I can only think about it next time.
The problem of gliding has been solved for the time being, but there is also a problem of transferring wind power that has not been solved. There is always a time when a gust of wind blows out, and at this time, you have to consider changing to a stronger wind-carrying wind, but Natsume can't freely switch the object he wants to be carried.
In the end, this little problem was solved (⊙_⊙)by Natsume B, and if it wasn't solved, it would be tormented by the feeling of uncontrollable weightlessness falling again and again. In fact, it's very simple, Natsume just needs to flexibly control when the hair on his tail explodes and when he takes it back.
When the tail is fried, it spreads its limbs and flies slowly with the wind blowing, but when the tail is not fried, but only keeps its balance, it is accelerating in the wind. When changing wind, you should gradually blow up the hair on your tail to slow down, and then turn your body to the direction you need to change to the wind.
Then retract the hairs on the tail and dive towards the target, quickly complete the lane change, and then blow up the hairs on the tail to prevent the acceleration from rushing out of the predetermined range too quickly.
Natsume who mastered the flying mode skillfully in the heart began, and it was a great goal to travel the whole ship alone. With the wind blowing in the Tianhe River and the gusts of upward and downward winds blowing from the flower sails, he walked freely through the air, so fast and slow, very comfortable, Natsume gradually fell in love with this sport, cool and comfortable.
Natsume was attracted by the smell of fried food, and flew over Amaterasu, who was sitting in the bow of the boat, and Amakasu waved a piece of crispy chicken cutlet with a crispy exterior and juicy inside, which he held in his hand with an iron tong. The chicken steak is also coated with a thick layer of salty and delicious cheese sauce.
Amaterasu shouted at Natsume, who was hovering over the scent above her head, "Natsume, do you want to try the freshly baked chicken cutlet?"
Natsume waited for this sentence, circling in the air a few times, looking for a suitable place to land. Find an open deck and get ready to land. Natsume gathered the fur from his tail and landed on the deck.
The first time he practiced landing, Natsume couldn't control the speed and posture of his fall. "Bump" slammed face down on the deck, the round face smashed into a piece of cake, the two hind legs kicked in mid-air to pull their faces off the deck, and the short two front legs were also working hard towards the deck.
With a "poof" sound, he finally pulled his fat face out of the deck, Natsume was depressed, when did he have such a heavy head? So hard? Can he actually smash a hole in the thick deck? Is this the engineering tofu scum of the deck or is there something wrong with his own head? Natsume sat cross-legged in front of that big hole, and a faint sadness filled his body.
At this time, a piece of chicken cutlet that fell from the sky rescued Natsume from trouble, and Natsume instantly resurrected on the spot and rushed straight to the cooking table placed on the open space on the deck.
Inari was already standing next to the barbecue grill, holding a big chicken leg and eating it with a mouth full of oil, and greeted Natsume, "Natsume, come on! This chicken leg is so fragrant!" After speaking, he put the chicken leg on his nose and sniffed it, putting on a salivating expression to tempt Natsume.
Natsume, who was gray-headed and dirty, rushed towards the birthplace of the fragrant smell, the fur on the back of his neck tightened, and he suddenly felt that his four legs were in the air, and he didn't move a step forward after running wildly for a long time. When I looked back, I found that it was Amaterasu, and I saw Amaterasu's forehead with blue tendons and said to Natsume: "Natsume-kun~ Before eating, you have to wash your hands!"