Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Water and Earth. Enjoy the 900-word chapter. I don't own DM, Coolkyoushinja and a few others do.
(Arthur's home, Saturday, 2 days before Arthur's work day.)
Arthur leaned on the counter while he looked at Elma and Kobayashi before he turned to look at Tohru who continued to look to like she was ready to stab him.
"So… Do you guys know each other?" Elma asked, Arthur turned from Tohru to look at her.
"Honestly? I work in fixing the computers Kobayashi uses but we haven't met… I work in another part of the building… I do know from fixing the computers that coding is either super easy… Or it sucks worse than falling off a mountain." Arthur said before Kobayashi turned to look at him.
"We haven't met." She flatly said before Elma glared at Tohru who looked ready to stab Arthur.
"If you touch him, I will rip you apart, Tohru, Arthur is the reason I even have a home here after you blasted me halfway across the city… He's been nothing but nice to me." Elma hissed while Kobayashi looked at Arthur.
"You found Elma after that?" She asked while Arthur shrugged.
"She was in a lake and I invited her to stay here. She's my roommate, she's trying to get a job here so we're both contributing… Why, how you'd meet the one-woman army who looks ready to barbeque my face?" Arthur asked before she shrugged.
"Pulled a magic sword out of her back." She said flatly before Arthur shrugged.
"Considering I've seen Elma turn from a water dragon into a human with a horn I had to get her to hide? I'm open to believing anything." Arthur said before he suddenly snickered.
"What?" Kobayashi asked, Arthur turned to look at her.
"Sorry, I just remember the 'Harmony Dragon' here ended up bulldozing through your wall and I'm picturing it, I'm sorry. I will gladly pay for it; I just have that mental image in my head." Arthur said before Elma blushed and started punching him in the arm over and over while he laughed and blocked her punches.
"Oh, come on, water woman, that's funny!" Arthur stated before Elma huffed in annoyance and stepped back.
"I know you can probably hit me hard enough to break bone, but your tickling me. Geez, that doesn't hurt as much as you think it does." Arthur said before he turned to look at Kobayashi and Tohru.
"So, does she have to learn anything else or is that it? I'm not a coder… Also, she's probably going to throw me into a wall when you leave." Arthur asked, Kobayashi looked at Elma who glared at Arthur and then turned back to her.
"I'm not trying to be rude; I honestly don't understand coding… Just how to fix the computers and keep the lights and other things running…" Arthur stated, Kobayashi turned to Elma.
"When do you have to get to work?" She asked while Elma blinked.
"In a week or so I think, why? I don't remember what the man said." Elma said, Arthur sighed and then turned to Kobayashi.
"And I have to go back to work in 2 days which means I don't have any way to help Elma… She's going to be alone for like 10 hours until I come home… Then pass out because our work place is killer on my sanity…" He muttered only to see Kobayashi nod.
He sighed, if Elma was going to work, she'd need a lot of training.
"Ok, since you probably put in as much, if not more work as me. I can't tell, and the fact that while I feel bad for telling Elma to get a job and pay for stuff which isn't her fault? How about we do this: I will pay for you to come over and tutor Elma or have her go somewhere to learn coding for a week, and then if she still needs help, we go from there? I really feel like a jackass making someone spend their time doing something when their busy… That and I don't want Elma to end up failing at her job which I told her to get…" Arthur asked, Kobayashi blinked.
"You're the coder, I'm not, I can't teach Elma anything that isn't engineering and some other stuff… And she's my roommate, I want to help her… Plus like I said, I feel like garbage asking you to tutor her for free which is probably going to take hours… So, does that work or did you want to try something else?" He asked before Tohru glared at Elma.
"Why did you have to make Ms. Kobayashi…" She started to say before Kobayashi looked at Arthur.
"I'll do it for free if you can do me a favor." She said while Arthur shrugged.
"Name it then… I'd like for Elma to get the job and I'm not really concerned how we get there." He stated. He turned to Elma who blushed and looked at him.
Author Note
Phew, another chapter done! I want to point out that I know Tohru is obsessed with Kobayashi and Kobayashi is the stoic. Next chapter will be on Saturday or so and will show the final day before Arthur goes back to work and talking to Elma along with a little romance. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!