So Ai makes a pun here which I find hard to translate. 頼りになる (tayori ni naru, to be reliable) becomes たおるになる (taoru ni naru, becoming a towel). Basically she makes it sound like she wants to be "reliable by becoming the towel" to dry the child she's talking to. Is there an English expression that sounds similar to "towel" which could be used to express "being reliable"?
So Ai makes a pun here which I find hard to translate. 頼りになる (tayori ni naru, to be reliable) becomes たおるになる (taoru ni naru, becoming a towel). Basically she makes it sound like she wants to be "reliable by becoming the towel" to dry the child she's talking to. Is there an English expression that sounds similar to "towel" which could be used to express "being reliable"?
Honestly, I tried to come up with something better for way too long, but couldn’t come up with anything. Towel really doesn’t rhyme well. Reliable doesn’t have the best batch of synonyms, and objects similar to towels (like bath robes) didn’t offer much either.
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