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Last Embryo Volume 1 Chapter 8 Part 3

Translator: DarkHeartedAlchemist

Editor: Weasalopes

Great Tree of Underwood, Public Bathhouse Area.

When she regained consciousness, Suzuka couldn’t believe that a grevious wound she suffered as a result of the Minotaur’s attack has been healed so perfectly that it looked like it was never there to begin with.

「Oh wow, and here I was thinking I was a goner for sure when that attack grazed me. Gifts are nothing short of amazing, that’s for sure.」

「Y-Yes, you can say that again, but more importantly, are you really sure you’re alright, Suzuka? Maybe you should lie down and rest some more?」

「Don’t worry Aya, I’m fine, totally fine. Well, I might have lost a little too much blood for comfort, but since that aspect of my injury has been healed as well I feel as good as new now.」

Ayato was still worried sick about her, but Suzuka Simply got up and started to wave her arms around to prove that there was nothing wrong with her anymore. Ayato continued to be anxious about her overexerting herself, but as long as she was back to full health and was the same cheerful self she always was, then that was all that mattered to her. So now that she was up and running again, it was about time to bring her to the bathhouse, just like Homura advised Ayato to do.

Like that, they were now on their way to the Public Bathhouse Area. Unlike with the usual process of making traditional wooden baths where they were created simply by combining wooden planks together, this particular bathhouse has been created by carving out the inside of the Great Tree’s trunk itself without adding any artificially joined parts, which created an illusion that the entire bathhouse has been situated inside of a living organism. The entire bathhouse looked like it didn’t have any faucets for filling the bathtubs with hot water, but instead everything was arranged in such a way that water would flow down naturally from the tree’s trunks.

Heading inside this mysterious room, Ayato and Suzuka bumped into Kuro Usagi and Sharol Gundark at the entrance, as if fate itself has conspired for them to meet there at this exact moment.

「Oh, Kuro Usagi and… Miss Cat-ears? I’m sorry if that sounded rude, but…」

「Nyahahahaha, do not worry about it, I understand. The name’s Sharol Gundark, missy stranger. Thank you for going against the Minotaur during the Gift Game. It was definitely not the kind of opponent we could have taken on by ourselves.」

Sharol hung her head down in a bow, and her ears did the same. Suzuka answered her with a smile and a thumbs-up.

「It’s fine, really. In times of trouble we should all be helping one another, right?」

「Nyahaha, I like that overly manly reply! You know what, I like you! Let me wash your back for you!」

The two simple-minded girls shook their hands vigorously to cement their newly-forged friendship. Don’t tell this to anyone else, but Suzuka has always been good with stray cats, most likely because, as she herself claimed it, she was a lot like them in many ways. Looking at it with a wry smile, Ayato slowly unbuttoned the buttons of her white blouse and casted a quick look on her skin and underwear, which were both dirty from everything she’s gone through in the last several hours. Yeah, she could definitely use a nice long soak in the hot water to cleanse both her body of dirt and soul of the weariness. It would also be great if she could wash all of her clothes as well.

(I can’t say that I have that many fond memories when it comes to baths and hot springs… but it shouldn’t be a problem with those guys.)

Wrapping a bath towel around herself, Ayato walked towards the door leading from the changing room to the bathhouse proper… but at that moment her breasts have been strongly groped by a pair of hands that slipped beneath her armpits to attack her when she was least expecting it.

「Kyaah!」

「NYAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Good! Very good indeed! For someone with such a lovely face you look and act all docile, but you’re capable of letting out some rather nice sounds if the correct buttons are pressed, my little blonde beauty! Considering your age, you have such a wonderful pair of ripe fruits on you ready for the taking, and yet there you go hiding them behind that unsightly towel! This is criminal, a straight up crime against the bathing culture and all those who abide by it! Now, you don’t have to worry about a thing my dear! Just allow me, your dependable Big Sister Sharol to educate that delicious body of yours in the ways of the Underwood’s culture of *beep*ing *beep* and *censored in consideration of the reader’s sanity and mental health*!!!」

「Over my dead body! Aya is not to be lewded!」

Clad in a bath towel herself, Suzuka teleported behind Sharol (TL Note: Omae wa mou) and delivered a spinning roundhouse kick right to the back of her skull. (TL Note: Shindeiru!)

Under any normal circumstances, successfully launching such an attack would have required a lot things to be successful, like jumping into the air to gain momentum and kinetic energy from the subsequent fall, and then adding the rotation to the kick itself to be absolutely sure that the target will be sent flying without fail. It is a deadly attack with 100% mortality ratio that she came up with literally 3 minutes ago.

Even if Sharol was one of the tougher members of the Beastmen race, Suzuka’s attack was still incredibly effective against her. She collapsed on the ground while squirming in agony with her hands on her neck, and glared at Suzuka as if she jus found her mortal enemy.

「You… what the hell was that for, Suzuka are you betraying me?! Your friend?!」

「Shut it! I might be your friend, but above all else I am Aya’s dependable senpai! Didn’t your parents taught you that doing to others what you wouldn’t want to be done to you is an absolute no-go, you big dummy?!」

「B-But my older brother said that even if it hurts or doesn’t feel good at first, the pain will eventually turn into pleasure, making the scales of loss and gain even, so there will be no problems as long as it happens.」

「What in the actual… YOU CANNOT JUST GROPE PEOPLE OUT OF THE BLUE LIKE THAT!    Who are you, some kinda pervert siblings?! Look out everyone, we have a molester here, so be sure to stay as far away from her as possible!」

「Wha… I am not a molester! *HISSSS!!!!*」

「Yes you are, and a suss one at that! *HISSSSSS!!!*」

Both Suzuka and Sharol were hissing at one another like a pair of feral cats about to jump at each other’s throats. Looks like their friendship was a genuine, but also a short-lived one. Ignoring their little catfight, Kuro Usagi approached Ayato, who kept covering up her breasts with trembling shoulders and her head cast downwards. Seeing her like that, Kuro Usagi’s ears dropped a little.

「A-Are you alright, Miss Ayato? She… she didn’t hurt you, did she?」

「N-No, I’m fine, she just caught me by surprise, that’s all. That level of sexual harassment is something I can handle.」

She might have said that, but she still covered her chest and looked around nervously with her cheeks dyed red from embarassement. Kuro Usagi couldn’t help thinking that startled Kudou Ayato was actually kinda cute, just like a small animal. Normally she carried herself with an air of calmness and dignity, so seeing her in such a situation was something new and refreshing, but it didn’t make Sharol’s transgression any less of a crime, and for that, she needed an earful. Like right now.