Chapter 10

Chapter 10

3rd POV

"These little guys can really protect us?" Asks a skeptic Gian.

"Why don't you try something if you don't believe it." Doraemon and Nobita laughed.

"Okay! I'm doing it. Don't complain when I break it." Says Gian with a confident grin plastered on his face. He turns towards Suneo and raises his hand to hit him on his head.

Seeing Gian about to hit Suneo, Shizuka looks away, while Suneo became scared about getting hit by Gian's punch.

However, only a scream was heard.

"Ouch, ouch, ouch…"

Suneo's bodyguard robot flashed in front of Gian in an instant, and the long wooden stick was aimed at Gian's head.

"Ouch… it hurts!" Gian kept shouting holding his head where he was hit with.

With that, they all slept soundly with a grumbling Gian in a corner saying something about 'not being ready at the time.'

....

The night was dark.

In the room, the sound of breathing gradually sounded. In particular, the snoring of the Gian was the most prominent one.

In the chat group, it is also very quiet today.

The group friends who usually talk a lot of nonsense seem to be busy with their own affairs.

Nobita turned his head and looks towards the ceiling of his room with a thoughtful look on his face.

However, after a moment, he heard the sound of sliding of a door.

Getting out of his futon, he looked for the one opening the door and noticed Shizuka looking a bit embarrassed with a slight blush on her face.

Fortunately, it was night, so he couldn't see clearly.

"Shizuka, haven't you slept yet?" Nobita asks quietly. 

"Um...a little sleepy..." Shizuka said softly.

"Hmm… are you still worried about that guy from the magical world?"

"No… its… because I didn't take a shower." Shizuka blushed even more, but didn't lie.

'Can't sleep without taking a shower?'

Nobita then remembered that Shizuka seemed to have a habit of bathing regularly—once in the morning and once in the evening, whenever she could.

He even saw her do it a few times with his own eyes.

"Then, why don't you take a shower?" He inquires

"...But everyone is already asleep; it might disturb them."

Shizuka was a little embarrassed. There were many people before, so, she didn't mention about her bath.

"It's okay, let's go quietly, but don't make too much noise." He says without thinking much.

"...are you coming with me?" Shizuka looked at Nobita with a strange expression.

Looking at her expression, Nobita was confused at first but soon understood her meaning.

"No... I mean, you go take a shower, I'll just stand outside the door." He replies quickly while waving his hands erratically.

"Its okay! I can manage just fine for today." She says with a reassuring smile.

" Come, It'll be alright, I'll just wait outside the door waiting for you, don't worry!"

Saying that, Nobita quietly pulled Shizuka downstairs with him.

Shizuka blushed, and the two went to the bathroom downstairs on their toes.

"Go! I'll stand guard for you!" He reassures.

"You are not allowed to peek, okay?" Shizuka warns him with a stern look.

After all, Nobita already had a criminal record this morning.

"Shizuka, I'm not such a person! I never watch other girls take a bath!" Nobita patted his chest and promised!

Shizuka was a little skeptical, but accepts that he won't do it knowingly.

After a while, the sound of water and a soft hum of melodies came out.

Nobita too, just sits quietly outside.

In the bathroom, Shizuka, who had finished pouring water, walks up to the bath tub and enters in it.

Feeling the warmth and comfort of warm water. Her little face couldn't help showing a contend smile.

But when she thought of bathing so late at night with the danger of a magical creature lurking in the shadows, she became a little nervous.

"Nobita... Are you still there?" she asks quietly.

"Reporting for duty, ma'am! Private Nobita is still at his post, standing by and ready for further orders!" he declares with exaggerated enthusiasm in quite tone.

Hearing Nobita's response, Shizuka couldn't help but chuckling softly to herself.

"Pfft~".

'Nobita has really changed, but it's a welcome and refreshing difference.' she thinks to herself with a small smile on her face.

Shizuka wiped away the dirt that didn't exist on her body.

"Even though Gian and Suneo often bully Nobita and he is ready to ignore them, but in the event of danger, Nobita is still willing to protect everyone." Shizuka says out loud, for Nobita to hear her thoughts.

"Nobita is a very good person." She concludes.

Outside the bathroom, listening to what Shizuka thinks about him , Nobita became embarrassed.

With a nervous laugh, Nobita began, "Ahaha… When you thought I was missing and went to them for help, honestly, if I hadn't seen it for myself, I might have thought they didn't really consider me a friend and would just ignore the fact that I was gone. But instead, they were so willing to search for me—and even fight for me if something had happened. It really surprised me…"

"Although they have their fair share of flaws—their tempers aren't exactly mild, and they have some bad habits—they don't exactly come across as model children."

"At the very least, they're not bad friends. Their teasing might not be pleasant, but it's not driven by any malicious intent to harm me."

What Nobita said was also from his heart. Originally, Nobita had a bad impression of Gian and Suneo. Even if he knew a bit about from the Doraemon cartoon/anime.

One is irritable and prideful, and the other is selfish and shows off.

However, when he overheard Gian and Suneo in the clearing, vowing to avenge him because they believed someone had harmed their friend—even though neither of them fully understood the situation—he was deeply moved.

He didn't find them as unbearable as he thought they were. Even if he didn't like them so much, he would still help them when necessary.

"I feel very happy to see everyone helping each other." Her voice was soft.

"Shizuka… why are you so... so cute?"

In that moment, Nobita couldn't help but feel that Shizuka's character was simply irresistible and endearing.

"Nobita!!"

Just when Nobita was still sighing over Shizuka's cuteness.

From the bathroom, Shizuka's shout alert him.

"What's going on, Shizuka?" Nobita was also taken aback.

Without thinking, he pushed the door and walked in quickly.

He finds a small shadow rushing towards Shizuka.

"Be careful!"

Nobita hurriedly jumped up.

"Bam" "Oww"

A crisp sound echoes in the bathroom.

The shadow was slammed by the little bodyguard robot who appeared in front of him instantly.

With one hit, the shadowy figure let out a scream similar to that of a wild cat.

Seeing this scene, Nobita breathed a sigh of relief! Finally there is no problem!

However, just when Nobita was about to take a serious look at what was coming.

A purple ray attacked again. This time, the target is Nobita!

Nobita was startled, and in an instant, his reaction was quick with his enhanced physique.

He hurriedly rolled to the side.

The speed of the purple light was extremely fast, and even if he rolled over quickly, he couldn't avoid it completely.

Seeing that it was about to hit Nobita's shoulder. Nobita's bodyguard robot also appeared instantly!

"boom!"

After a while when the smoke was cleared the loyal little bodyguard turned into dust!

"What the **** was that?" Nobita was startled, he was a little scared in his heart.

Would he be okay if he was hit by whatever that ray was?

"Nobita! What's happening there?"

His friends who were upstairs also heard the commotion also quickly came down to check the situation.

"Sigh"

Nobita could see it clearly now, the shadowy figure was like a weird little devil?

It's not big, but very aggressive, and it's the size of an ordinary house cat.

It seems that he knows that the support of Nobita and several people is coming.

The little devil glared at the two of them viciously. He gritted his teeth and made a threatening expression.

 And before his friends could enter the bathroom, it quickly flies away.

Following the direction of the little devil's departure, Nobita vaguely saw a figure who seemed to be controlling it?

And the others also entered the bathroom.

"What happened Nobita? Is Shizuka alright?!"

"KYaaahh"

Shizuka, who was currently not dressed, stood in the room, the bathtub visibly damaged from the recent attack.

She quickly hid behind Nobita.

Even tightly clinging to Nobita's back.

"Everyone go wait outside for a moment!!" He quickly instructs.

Everyone who came down rushing became confused but seeing that the situation is under control for now and a Shizuka hiding behind Nobita, they understood the situation and said simultaneously.

"Sorry!!" And quickly rushes out of the damaged bathroom.

In an instant, Nobita's surprise that he had been attacked immediately disappeared and the naked Shizuka standing behind his back comes to his mind.

This feeling... Nobita's face becomes red.

"Cough cough..." He quickly coughed twice to hide his blushing face.

He quickly reaches for the towel in the bathroom and gives it to Shizuka without turning back and says, "Sorry, Shizuka, it was an emergency." And he also steps out for the moment.

As soon as he steps outside, he turned serious and starts explaining.

"Something hit us both just now and ran away."

"What!? It must have been that magical creature who followed the future us before."

Doraemon looked serious.

"Fortunately, bodyguard robots were present there, so nothing happened to us."

"However, my bodyguard robot is broken. It turned to ashes, taking the damage in my place."

"Thank god! We made preparations, otherwise Shizuka and you might have gotten hurt." Doraemon sighs in relief.

"Damn! It seems the attacks were quite powerful."

"Mom, I'm scared."

Gian and Suneo were also startled. Thinking about the damaged bathroom which they just saw.

All of them looked serious.

"Huh? Why was Shizuka there without any clothes on?"

"Nobita just now said that monsters attacked them both..."

Gian and Suneo quickly discovered something was strange!

Why didn't Shizuka wear clothes? Why are two people staying here late at night without sleeping?

Were they???

Gian looked very serious, contemplating the situation while supporting his chin with his hand as if he were Sherlock Holmes clearing a mystery.

"Hmmm…."

"Nobita?? Were Shizuka and you doing laundry so late at night?"

Doraemon, "???"

Suneo looked at Gian as if he was a gorilla doing ballet.

…

After Shizuka wore her clothes back, they returned to Nobita's room and stared at each other again, while Shizuka spoke slowly.

"At least no one was hurt except Nobita's bodyguard robot... Uncle and aunt also did not wake up."

[E/N: I don't know how they did not wake up from the sound of their bathroom getting destroyed.]

Nobita also responded, "Yes, yes, but it doesn't matter if there is a monster spying on us all the time."

Doraemon began to rummage in his pocket.

"Got it!"

"House Robot!"

This is a model of a small house that looks like a play house toy.

"With it, our security will be much greater!" He says happily.

"A house toy?" Suneo couldn't understand what a toy house would do for their safety.

"Its not just a toy house! This is called a house robot! Just like this... put it on top of the house..."

Saying that, Doraemon took out the bamboo copter and flew up to the ceiling of the room. The house robot was buckled upside down on the ceiling plate.

"Now, it's fine! Nobita's house has become a robot. With this, we could even fly this house anywhere like a plane!"

Hearing this, Nobita's eyes starts to shine!

He remembers this gadget.

A house robot is not as simple as turning a house into a robot. The house itself hasn't actually changed. Not turning the house into a mechanical structure is full of robotic hands like this.

Instead, it lets the room itself become something similar to a smart housekeeper. The smart housekeeper can control everything in the room.

Make clothes fly out of their drawers and washing themselves.

Let the trash find its place on its own.

It's like having a pair of invisible hands that control everything in the room, doors and windows and the like.

Even more amazing, the one controlling the house can change a it's structures however they want.

It's like Inception, and Doctor Strange's mirror dimension. They can extend a corridor indefinitely, twisting everything around them.

"Then our safety is up to you!" Doraemon says towards the ceiling.

"Please rest assured to sleep~ I am here!" In the room, there was a metallic reply.

With this house robot gadget, everyone's safety is temporarily guaranteed.

Even if the house robot can't destroy the attacking monsters, at least it can hold them off when they try to invade again, giving them time to prepare.

Everyone went to sleep again.

There is so much going on today.

Everyone is tired.

Even Nobita was exhausted.

With that, silence prevailed throughout the night.

...

When the next morning arrived, everyone woke up one by one.

Everyone was stunned.

"Everyone, get up for breakfast!" At the door, Nobita's mom woke up the sleeping people.

And in her hands, she was holding a bowl. The chopsticks in the bowl were automatically stirring the egg liquid,

"Is the house robot doing this?"

Just when Nobita thought so.

The next thing he saw quickly shattered his guess.

In the kitchen, his mom flicked her fingers and flame was being projected from her index finger. It ended up on the pan of fried eggs.

"Magic!"

Everyone looked at each other and shouted excitedly.

"Wait, I seem to have a lot of stuff in my head!"

Nobita dad, Nobisuke Nobi said suddenly.

Then casted a strange spell to the chair.

"Floating Charm!"

Seeing Nobita's dad doing magic, Suneo also tried doing similar actions which made the chair slowly float.

"I can also do magic." He exclaims in wonder.

Gian also excitedly tried making his chair float with magic.

In the end, even Shizuka tried the "flickering spell" lightly.

Seeing everyone's excited faces, Nobita was stunned.

"Why can everyone suddenly do magic so easily?"

"I made it happen, but I don't feel anything different."

He was the one to use the What If Telephone Booth to make magic real, but why does everyone seem to have learned magic when they woke up, but not himself.

"Nobita? Why don't you give it a try too."

Everyone looked at Nobita expectantly.

"I can't do it." Nobita shook his head.