“Ahhhh♡♡♡~”
This slightly too-hot water temperature, the hazy steam, the sparse sound of dripping water…
This is what I’ve been looking forward to all along~
It feels like every pore on my body is trembling with comfort!
Holly narrowed her eyes slightly, slowly sinking her entire body into the water.
If I could take a bath like this every day from now on… how wonderful that would be~
Thinking this, the Holy Sword Bearer slowly lifted her head above the water, only to… see ahead of her, that unreliable senior, currently stroking her chin while studying something by herself.
“Hmm?”
Gulp! Before Veil could look her way, Holly immediately submerged herself underwater again.
However, the pool was only about one meter deep, so the Holy Sword Bearer could only assume a rather embarrassing position, lying flat on the bottom, observing Veil’s actions from below.
So tiny, yet so cute.
The Goddess Young Lady looked left and right, seemed to confirm no one was around, and slowly began her own business.
“Little Black swims… like this, right?”
This is… Holly blinked underwater.
Swimming? Dog… doggy paddle?
Pfft!
Gurgle gurgle!
As the Holy Sword Bearer couldn’t hold back her laughter, a stream of bubbles instantly rose from the water!
“Eh 😮?!”
The sudden movement in the water startled Veil.
“Wh-what was that!” She flailed to adjust her posture, her voice sounding frightened.
Right, she had just deliberately checked if anyone was nearby… Thinking of this, Holly, lying on the bottom, suddenly revealed a mischievous smile.
That unreliable senior had sold me out plenty of times before!
So now I… With this thought, the water ghost began moving swiftly along the pool floor!
“Wh-what in the…” Veil above the surface quickly looked around but found nothing amiss.
This made her slowly let out a sigh of relief.
Right, such shallow water, and it’s a bathhouse, how could there possibly be…
Splash!!
The next second, a pair of hands burst from the water directly beneath her! And in the next instant, they wrapped around her waist!
“Eekyaaaaaaa—!!”
“😮–!?”
“Pfft~ Hahahaha~ Veil, Senior! No need to scream so loud… Veil… Senior??”
Holly laughed as she rose from the water, but what she saw was… the Goddess Young Lady in her arms, whose legs she had lifted, now with her eyes rolled back, mouth wide open, her whole body limp and leaning back, her face still frozen in a scream…
“Ve… Veil, Senior?!!”
Swish swish~
On the other side of the bathhouse, Ileya was fulfilling her promise, using a towel to scrub Reliel’s back.
The girl’s shoulders were small, a bit narrow…
But her fair back, under the warm-toned light, revealed clear muscle definition.
Truly a girl who had been a mercenary since birth, this physique… is a model example among athletic girls~
Unconsciously, Ileya extended a finger, gently tracing it down from the nape of Reliel’s neck…
“Mmm…” The uniquely cool sensation of the Lady’s skin also elicited a reaction from Reliel, who was sitting quietly on the stone stool… a tingling, numbing feeling… kind of wanting…
“Lady.”
And right at that moment… Amisa’s voice came from behind.
Her tone carried a hint of helplessness.
“That scream just now was because Holly suddenly rushed out of the water and scared little Veil unconscious…”
“Those two…” Ileya shook her head helplessly.
“Don’t mind them, you go take a good bath too~”
I want the Lady to scrub my back too~
Or… I could scrub your back, Lady~
“Yes~” Amisa agreed on the surface, but in her heart, she was thinking, In my youth… I also scrubbed the Lady’s back.
But the Lady wasn’t as excessively pale as the young Lady… instead, her skin tone was more like Reliel’s, a bit creamy…
Swish swish~
Although she was a Lady who never lifted a finger, what surprised Reliel was that the other party scrubbed her back… quite meticulously, and the pressure used felt very comfortable.
Could it be she had scrubbed someone else’s back before?
And as if hearing her younger sister’s thoughts, the Lady spoke with a hint of laughter in her voice.
“I’ve only ever scrubbed Mother’s back before… Do you know Lady Shudrian?”
“Mmm, I’ve heard of her.” Reliel responded softly, her face flushed.
Of course she had heard of Lady Shudrian.
This Marquis’s wife had an excellent reputation, both in noble circles and among the common folk.
Rumors said that because of this beautiful Marquis’s wife’s generous donations, over a hundred thousand disaster victims were saved.
Even someone as wise as the Marquis himself needed to consult this Lady on some matters; she was a model among wealthy wives!
However, only now did Reliel suddenly realize, right… the Lady of such beauty and intellect from the folk rumors… was this Lady’s mother.
But… the girl couldn’t help but glance sideways at the smirking figure behind her.
Could such an excellent mother really give birth to this kind of… bad guy?
“Heh~ I can probably guess what you’re thinking~” Ileya chuckled helplessly, then flicked her finger, giving Reliel’s back of the head a light tap!
“Oof!” This earned another glare of anger from the girl, but… she didn’t retaliate like before, only letting out a light humph.
“I actually… am not much like Mother, not very similar in any aspect~” Ileya said softly as she continued scrubbing Reliel’s back.
“On the contrary, my younger sister resembles Mother more…”
Younger sister?
Reliel was slightly stunned. The Lady has a younger sister?
That can’t be right…
She remembered Ileya was the Marquis Household’s only daughter, hence the title “Eastern District Jewel”…
The girl felt a bit puzzled, wanting to turn around and ask, but just as she was about to speak…
“Mmm~ That’s about enough!”
As the Lady stood up, her jade-white body was fully displayed before Reliel.
Hmm…
For some reason, at this moment, Xiao Yaba suddenly felt her nose tip grow warm, as if something… was about to come out.
“How about… you scrub my back too?” Ileya looked at Reliel before her, the corner of her mouth slightly upturned as she offered the towel in her hand forward.
This bad guy, didn’t you agree to scrub my back as an apology?
Now you want me to scrub yours…
A flash of cunning passed through Reliel’s light blue eyes.
She slowly stood up, very naturally taking the towel from her older sister’s hand.
Hehe~ This counts as a profit…
In Ileya’s slightly smug gaze, Reliel’s fingers hidden under the towel slightly curled, then gave the pair of… little rabbits seemingly carved from white jade before her a quick flick!
Tap~ The white jade rabbits jumped up from the flick, then very naturally settled back down.
“Hiss…” The smile that had just been maintained on the Lady’s face completely cracked!
Ugh… this… brat… really is… petty…
But before Ileya could say anything, Miss Younger Sister quickly stepped forward at that moment!
Two pairs, four wounded little animals, pressed together at that moment.
In her daze, the Lady found her own hands also taken by the person before her, their fingers interlocking.
At this moment… Ileya actually felt she was at a disadvantage!
“We’re even.” The girl whispered, then quickly swapped positions with her older sister, pressing her down onto the stone stool she had just been sitting on.
The corner of her mouth, however, unconsciously curled up slightly.
“You… tsk…”
This confident, strategic smile… really does resemble Mother a bit…
If only your face weren’t so red, you’d look even more like her…
Hiss… that hurts…