In the end, Shien never did make those cliched speeches.
He really isn’t all that good at giving therapy. Now if it was provoking others, that’s a different story.
Crushing someone with words is easy as pie for him, but he’d have no luck with gentle persuasion.
Thus, Shien couldn’t say a thing on his way back to the Latrard home with Diere.
The entire way, Shien and Diere didn’t say a thing to each other.
Just as Shien thought that the two would just separate like that and each head to their own rooms, Diere suddenly spoke up.
“Did you already take your bath?”
The sudden question came out of nowhere, and Shien paused for a moment.
He unconsciously answered before he even fully considered or understood why Diere asked such a thing.
“I did, but I might go take another one in a bit.”
After all, having ran off after Diere in this trip, Shien had accumulated a bunch of dust and sweat.
In normal circumstances, Shien wouldn’t particularly mind that, but he’s already somewhat fallen in love with the Latrard home’s huge baths, so he didn’t mind taking the chance to go for another soak.
“Is that so?” Diere nodded and spoke evenly, “Then you go ahead first.”
“Alright.” Shien answered.
However, Shien froze a second later.
Wait…
“Go ahead first?”
What did that mean?
This was another question that Shien have the chance to think through.
That’s because Diere left a final statement.
“I’ll come find you in a bit.”
Then Diere left.
Shien just watched as Diere left, not reacting for some time.
After a few minutes later…
“Eh?”
Shien made such a dumb noise.
So, he could understand it this way right?
Diere is planning to come find him in the baths.
Why does she have to find him in the baths of all places?
Choice A: Share a bath with him.
Choice B: Share a bath with him.
Choice C: Share a bath with him.
Choice D: Still share a bath with him.
Which is the answer then?
“Is there a difference————!?”
Shien’s yelling filled the main hall.
The fanservice that he didn’t get before seemed to have now suddenly come.
…
Latrard home. The great baths.
This bath wasn’t just extremely large, but also unusually richly decorated.
The flooring of the baths are all made of shiny and beautiful stone tiles.
Beautiful statues were let all around the perimeter.
And in the center of the baths was a huge bath extending at least 20 meters. The waters in there are still steaming, filling the area with water vapors.
Based on the butler’s explanation, the baths also have eight separate underground pipes connected to it. Once it’s night, it will automatically drain and refill every so often, thus guaranteeing the cleanliness of the bathwater. The new water would flow out from the mouths of the eight statutes and fill the pool. Besides some cleaning, no other labor is required for maintenance of the baths.
Not even the heating for the water requires manual labor. It’s instead done by the magic item set under the pool.
A bath like this would cost thousands of gold just for the construction. As expected of the super rich.
At this moment, Shien was soaking inside while constantly chanting to himself.
“Calm down. Calm down. Things may not be what I imagined.”
Shien had been chanting that ever since he got in.
“She just said that she’s going to come find me later. It’s not like she said that it’ll be while I’m in the baths, right?”