Under the clear sky, the sound of three people’s footsteps could be heard.
They were stomping on the sandy ground, pushing forward steadily up a slope.
This place is called [Rogi Mountain], a place that even adventurers don’t often approach alone. The reason for this is the number of monsters.
Monsters that weren’t that strong individually would rush in such huge numbers that would make one feel dizzy.
For veterans, there is not much to gain from taking the time and effort to deal with every weak monster which doesn’t even offer much experience.
For beginners, however, it’s easy to get lost or die due to the large number of monsters and the complexity of the terrain.
This is not a place to enter lightly.
Three people had come to the mountain that everyone shied away from, to find what they were looking for.
“Oi, is it really on this mountain?”
Hiiro, who is feeling a little tired, perhaps because he has climbed for a long time already, says so to one of his fellow traveling companions – Arnold, who is walking in front of him – with an expression of disbelief on his face.
But Arnold seemed to be full of confidence.
“ Oi! I told you I was going to make you some delicious food for what you did last time. I’m a chef, so I can’t compromise.”
Hiiro doesn’t work for free. He is a give-and-take thinker who always demands some kind of compensation for lending a hand.
Arnold is a skilled cook. Hiiro, who has little knowledge of otherworldly cuisine, is making full use of Arnold’s knowledge and skills for his benefit, and as they are currently traveling together as companions, he gets to eat delicious food every day.
“B- But, uncle. It’s only a bunch of slime and goblins that have been popping up since a while ago, right?”
“Don’t worry, Muir! What we’re after goes much further!”
“I hope it is real.”
“Hiiro, can’t you stop saying stuff like that?!”
The three of them walked like that for a while, with Muir was scurrying around as if she was concerned about something.
Then Arnold asked.
“What’s wrong Muir?”
“Well, uh, about that……don’t you smell something strange……?”
Muir sniffles.
“Eh?”
Arnold focused his sense of smell in the same way.
There was definitely an unusual smell in the air, just like she said. Moreover, it was quite a pungent odor that made one frown.
“Na, what’s this strong smell ……?”
Hiiro also looks around, while covering his nose with his hand.
But Arnold’s eyes gradually sparkle and his cheeks begin to relax. It’s a look as if he’s discovered something to rejoice about.
“This is…! Oi, let’s go!”
“Eh? Uncle?”
Arnold quickly pulls Muir’s hand and runs in an instant. Seeing this, Hiiro lets out a light sigh. His shoulders droop at the thought of how he has to follow this strange smell now.
He couldn’t leave things like this, so he had no choice but to go after them while putting up with the smell that made his nose curve.
When they entered the large rocky area, each of them was impressed by the scene in front of them.
“Ahaha! Yup, as I expected!”
“Wow, I see, so it was this smell.”
“I see now. So, this was the smell of sulfur huh.”
What the three of them saw was a natural hot spring. The steam rose to the sky, and the heat of the hot spring could be felt on the skin.
And with the excitement of discovering the hot spring, before they knew it, what had been an unpleasant smell that made them frown earlier, now seemed trivial…… or rather, they had forgotten about it completely.
And all three of them were thinking the same thing.
“Yosh, let’s go in!”
“Un!”
“Well, this isn’t so bad.”
The three of them had a broad smile on their faces
They were fortunate to be able to refresh themselves after all the sweating in this heat.
“Muir, there is a bathing suit in this bag, so change your clothes.”
“Un, got it!”
After saying that, Muir took the bag from Arnold, scurried around, and then went into the shade of a large rock.
“Alright, we’re getting ready to – You already took it all off!”
Disregarding Arnold, Hiiro had already taken off his clothes on the spot. He also took off his glasses and is now ready to bathe.
“Well, that’s fine. But you’ll need to cover your front since Muir is there too.”
As he said this, Arnold took a towel out of the bag and threw it over to him.
Hiiro received it without dropping it and wrapped it around his waist and approached the hot water. The first thing to do is to slowly sink your right hand into the hot water and examine the temperature of the water.
“…… a little hot, but it should be fine.”
It’s probably about 43 – 44 oC. It’s slightly hotter than a normal bath, but he didn’t have a problem with that, so he slowly put his feet in the water.
“As expected, it’s hot~”, and even though he was gritting his teeth a bit, he doesn’t stop and lets his whole body fall into the hot water.
“…… haah~”
He couldn’t help but gasp when he was fully immersed.
It was the first time in his life that he had ever experienced a hot spring, but now he really wanted to do it as often as he could if it felt this good.
He looked around for a bit, but he couldn’t see any monsters. Maybe the smell of sulfur was too strong for them to approach.
”Oh! Muir~! How pretty you are~!”
Suddenly, he heard a foolish voice.
Thinking that it was annoying, he looked at the end of Arnold’s gaze, and there was-.
“…… ah …… that …… um …… I hope you don’t stare too much.”
For some reason, Muir was wearing a navy-blue school swimsuit. The fidgety figure holding both hands in front of the chest and rubbing the thighs together is reflected. Her expression is also dyed red with embarrassment.
“No, no, no! It’s already awesome! It’s a Tenshi! Ohh~ my Angel~~!” [ED: Tenshi = Angel. Damn it Translator, this is your job]
Rather than being a parental idiot, Arnold’s snorting no longer made him look like a simple pervert. Then Muir glanced at Hiiro.
“Hmm?”
Hiiro notices that she was looking at him and meets her gaze, causing her to suddenly look away in a hurry and then take a peek at him again.
……Huh?
Hiiro raised an eyebrow, wondering if she has something to say.
Muir gulps and clears her throat, a nervous look on her face.
“Oh, um, …… uh, that …… Hi- Hiiro-san?”
“What?”
“Um, ……That……, isn’t it strange……?”
Apparently, she’s asking if there’s anything funny about her swimsuit, but it’s more like a fit, and so fitting that there are no words for it. So fitting that it might even make some people drool for it.
“It’s not weird. If anything, you look too good in it.”
“Fue! Ah, ah, ah, ah, tha- thank you…..Vewy mauch.”
She hadn’t even soaked in the hot water yet, but she looked as if she were a boiled octopus.
She bit her tongue …… and then for her to be this happy to be told that she looks good in a school bathing suit ………… It’s probably a cultural difference.
Most of the women he has read about, and the women he has been around, are kids who want to be treated like adults, and they’ve been more offended than pleased by the fact that they look good in a school swimsuit, like the ones worn by elementary school kids.
Rather, I’m surprised that school swimsuits exist in this world……
For Hiiro that was just him giving out a plain impression, but to Muir…
“Awawawaw! He told me I look good! Wh- wha- what should I do? I can’t look at your face properly, Hiro-san~”
Muir, who mistakenly thought she had been praised, covers her face with her hands and writhed in agony while muttering in such a low voice that no one could hear.
Seeing this, Arnold shot a deathly glare at Hiiro.
“Muir is cute! She is cute, but I can’t accept this ………… ……”
Arnold also thought that Hiiro complimented Muir’s cuteness, so even though he admitted that Muir is the cutest, he can’t accept that Muir became happy and unnerved due to Hiiro’s words.
“Hey.”
“What is it, damn it?!”
For some reason, Arnold became teary-eyed even though Hiiro simply called out to him.
“The school swimsu – or was it a bathing suit? The one that she is wearing, is that a popular thing here?”
“Huh? That? It should be pretty popular. It was invented by a hero who was summoned to this world in the past.”
“………… Seriously?”
“Very so. Its name is ‘Sukumizu’ and I call it a bathing suit, but it’s supposed to be worn when you go into the sea.” (TL: EN: School Swimsuit -> JP: Schoolu Mizugi -> Edea: Sukumizu)
However, most people don’t enjoy swimming in the ocean because of the dangerous creatures in the sea. So, it is often treated as bathing clothes rather than a swimsuit.
Even so ………… what were the past summoned heroes thinking……?
He didn’t expect someone to come to another world and create a school swimsuit…….There had to be something more productive than that.
Thinking about it, he came to understand that that hero was definitely a person from Earth. He found out about something important, but for now, he was going to immerse himself in enjoying this wonderful paradise.
Haa~, that feels great…..
And then he spent his time at the hot spring, just relaxing.
…………*Japoon*
Wondering if a pebble had fallen from the top of the rock, his gaze naturally turned to it. Then he casually looks up at the top of the rock and squints to confirm that someone is standing there.
…… Who’s that?
He couldn’t see the person’s face clearly, probably because it was just backlit and he had taken off his glasses. He was gazing at the person as if he were looking into the distance, and then…….
“Huuu~”…………………………..*Japoon!*
That someone fell headfirst into the hot water.
”What the hell?”
Arnold also screamed in surprise at something that had suddenly fallen into the hot water.
Likewise, Muir’s eyes widened and she froze in fright.
And after a while, he stared at the figure that emerged from the hot water. Based on its height, it clearly looked like a child.
“………………Who?”
Arnold couldn’t help but mutter when he saw the child with a large spear in his hand.
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