"It was just an idea! I mean, if it's going to be more painful to wear shoes that fit really badly, there's no sense in that." Usopp shrugged off the shoe idea. "But if they would fit it makes sense for you to wear them, 'cause I won't be getting very far if I try to go around kicking people, no matter how heavy my boots are!"
He didn't mind admitting that weakness, since it was obvious to both of them. As Sanji seemed to warm up to the idea of the grill, Usopp managed to stuff the rest of his dry muffin in his mouth hurriedly, and while he was chewing and swallowing that pulled out his trusty pad and pen. The truth was, he knew it was frivolous, silly even. But Brook had gotten a piano! Since when did their group stop just because an idea was silly? Even better if he could work out something to keep things that weren't immediately perishable cool so Sanji could at least have vegetables, flour, eggs, that sort of thing. And Usopp's mind just didn't work in logical ways sometimes. Flame thrower, ClimaTact Jr., gunpowder, stovetops... it all swirled together, to a degree.
"I can't promise that it'll turn out, but if we can find the materials, once we put it together even if we can only use it on occasions, it'd be pretty great, right?" Besides, he could use a smaller version of this for his own purposes, chemically. He started sketching. "So we'll need a base to keep the heat from the floor, and then something under it to hold what we use to heat it. We have some chemicals that we can mix that'll release heat, but that might be less reliable or harder to control than just using something flammable and setting it on fire, I'm not sure about that. If we have this base here, put some pipes or something else solid here, and then balance the heating element in between, we just need a wide flat space that won't melt and will conduct heat to go on top, right? Like a griddle? Since we're always having someone going towards the kitchen for something, maybe sometime we can pick that up. Ingredients too, at least anything that doesn't have to be refrigerated. It might be all done in one run, except." Usopp paused, then whispered. "I don't guess you know where we can get, uh, a lighter. Or matches."
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He didn't mind admitting that weakness, since it was obvious to both of them. As Sanji seemed to warm up to the idea of the grill, Usopp managed to stuff the rest of his dry muffin in his mouth hurriedly, and while he was chewing and swallowing that pulled out his trusty pad and pen. The truth was, he knew it was frivolous, silly even. But Brook had gotten a piano! Since when did their group stop just because an idea was silly? Even better if he could work out something to keep things that weren't immediately perishable cool so Sanji could at least have vegetables, flour, eggs, that sort of thing. And Usopp's mind just didn't work in logical ways sometimes. Flame thrower, ClimaTact Jr., gunpowder, stovetops... it all swirled together, to a degree.
"I can't promise that it'll turn out, but if we can find the materials, once we put it together even if we can only use it on occasions, it'd be pretty great, right?" Besides, he could use a smaller version of this for his own purposes, chemically. He started sketching. "So we'll need a base to keep the heat from the floor, and then something under it to hold what we use to heat it. We have some chemicals that we can mix that'll release heat, but that might be less reliable or harder to control than just using something flammable and setting it on fire, I'm not sure about that. If we have this base here, put some pipes or something else solid here, and then balance the heating element in between, we just need a wide flat space that won't melt and will conduct heat to go on top, right? Like a griddle? Since we're always having someone going towards the kitchen for something, maybe sometime we can pick that up. Ingredients too, at least anything that doesn't have to be refrigerated. It might be all done in one run, except." Usopp paused, then whispered. "I don't guess you know where we can get, uh, a lighter. Or matches."