Hm, quite the big names released at basically the same time, I sure can understand the hype for both...
Next poll, it's Valentine's!
And the next bit of the story finally deals with the long-awaited secret... what's gonna happen?
Enjoy!
“Is this the place?”
Airi asked the lesser spirits around her as she looked on at the signboard indicating the public baths nearby--still easily visible despite it being late into the night.
(That’s it alright, dude. Inside one of the private rooms.)
Flickering, the lesser spirit nodded.
“Very well. In that case, kindly stay put until I call for you.”
(You got it, dude.)
The pale orb flickered again, then vanished into thin air. From a distance, it was almost as if Airi turned off a lantern.
“Now then, how much is the bathing fee, hm?”
Airi murmured, heading for the entrance.
From the opposing roof, a single individual watched on as the guards looked to Airi before letting her in as a regular customer without complaint.
It was the masked woman in the priestess garb, the one who’d secretly watched Leina’s battle with the rotting swordsman at Logan’s inn earlier.
“If Airi’s here, does that mean she left things unguarded back *there*?”
The woman considered this for a moment, then smiled as she came to her conclusion.
“Guess now’s my chance then.”
Quietly talking to herself, she took a few soft footsteps back and disappeared into the blackness of the night.
***
“Hey? Are you okay!?”
Leina’s yells brought Fio back to her senses.
[I can’t afford to lose in a place like this.]
Fio hurriedly covered her crotch with an even thicker cloth.
[I can’t just keep sandwiching it between my thighs, everyone’s got their limit. And wearing the same bathrobe Leina and Tomoe are won’t help me any either, since it’ll just become transparent like theirs, so…]
“Oh?”
The move backfired however, as Leina finally caught on to the girl’s fidgeting and odd habit of covering her crotch that instant.
“What are you doing?”
“No… this, I…”
Fumbling with her words, Fio noticed the blonde’s eyes staring straight at her crotch.
“Any normal girl would be covering her breasts instead, wouldn’t she?”
“Breasts? What breasts?”
The dancer’s washboard chest was a sorry sight for any girl. Nothing to hide there.
“Ahaaaah. I see. Fio, you…”
A mischievous grin crossed Leina’s features.
*Throb!*
[She figured me out!?]
Fio’s heart began to pound.
As if in slow motion, Leina suddenly reached out to tug at the kid’s gown.
“H-Hey! N-No! Wait! Stop it!”
But before the dancer could tie down her robe to counter the clear intent in the blonde’s eyes, Leina quickly opened the hem of her bathrobe nice and wide.
“...Still haven’t grown any?”
[Being Fio’s age and not having hair down there would be pretty embarrassing. It’s not that big a deal though, plus we’re all girls here, so she shouldn’t have to hide it--]
“Huh?”
Leina’s composure only got her that far. Well, around the moment she opened up Fio’s bathrobe as a joke to be exact.
The secret Fio had tried so hard to conceal eagerly flopped down right before her eyes.
“Ah…”
Words failed Leina and her body went rigid at the very unexpected sight.
What Fio had growing down there was a little different than what she had in mind.
[I wonder when was the last time I saw one of these? When I last took a bath with Father? Or was it when I accidentally caught that Royal Guard member relieving himself?
Wait, that doesn’t matter! This is definitely not something that should be here! At least, not if Fio’s a girl, right!?]
“I told you to stop, didn’t I!?”
Fio yelled, hurrying to cover himself back up with his bathrobe.
“Fio… you’re… a boy!?”
“Yeah! Got a problem with that?”
[If it’s come to this, then I’d best stay on the attack.]
He stopped talking like a girl, pouting sullenly.
“Err…”
At a complete loss on how to react, Leina merely dropped down into a sitting position. Looking on at her, Fio swore he could see her face get redder and redder as the blonde remembered each moment she acted in an unguarded way around him, thinking he was a girl.
“It’s just a guy’s thing, no need to overreact you know.”
Turning away from the blonde he left shivering in shyness, he looked over to Tomoe next.
“Eek!”
And in doing so, let out a small surprised scream.
Unlike Leina, left frozen on the spot while blushing, the priestess had the faintest of smiles on her lips.
His heart almost stopped right then and there, seeing what he could only imagine was the foreigner’s sneer.
According to stories he’d heard, there was a precept among Hinomoto’s Warrior Priestesses, where they were not to reveal themselves to any member of the opposite sex before marriage, and in cases where they were seen, they could choose to either love the man as her husband or kill him…
[If the stories turn out to be true, then I sort of doubt she’d go for the first option. I even crawled under her hakama to exterminate those bugs earlier.
I’ll be lucky if she just settles with killing me…]
Closing his eyes, Fio reminisced to the scene from earlier that day: a single white triangle made of cloth, her soft butt and the slight scent of sweat…
[Hindsight is 20/20, I sure wish I could have touched it…]
Fio shut his eyes tight, preparing for death.
“Oh deaaaar, Miss Leina, what has you so flustered?”
As if nothing was wrong, the priestess simply walked by him and sat down next to Leina.
“Huh? Miss Tomoe… you’re not… mad?”
Although against his better judgement, faced with such an unexpected reaction, he couldn’t help but ask.
“Why would I be mad?”
Tomoe answered, a blank look on her face.
“Letting children see you is nothing to be ashamed of. Were a woman to think that, then she’d be unable to feed her infants after all.”
“C-Children…”
A different kind of shock hit Fio this time.
[So I’m only a ‘child’ to her.]
“Although, were you a few older and a proper gentleman, Fifi, I might have yelled too.”
Winking at him, Tomoe gently took hold of the blonde’s shoulders and shook.
“Please get a grip, Miss Leina. We have better things to do than be shocked at Fifi’s sex.”
“Y-Yeah! You’re right!”
The priestess’ words brought Leina back from her stupor.
“We need to defeat the people chasing after Fio.”
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