ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 575 Part 1
ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 575: Ironman Nebu Ichiban, If It Is Cold and It Hurts, Try Heating It Up Part 1
It is a place that is called the Super Public Bathhouse “Floating Island”. Also, I should probably mention that I got here after following the map app I had installed on my mobile terminal, but even though I was guided here the road was pretty convoluted and complicated. There is no way that I would have been able to find this place on my own. By the way, since it has “Super” in its name, does that mean that this bathhouse is like…… super exclusive or something? Or maybe just crazy expensive?
Turns out, there was once a crisis in the industry in this neighborhood, and in order to avoid closure, many smaller companies and services decided to merge together and created this Super Public Bathhouse as a result. Now it was a Public Bathhouse where you could take a bath, have a meal, wash your clothes, go to the arcade, watch a movie or even go shopping…… I mean, yeah. It is certainly in the “Super” department, but isn’t that actually overdoing it just a little bit?
This is pretty much like those door-to-door salesmen who at the first glance only have one item on them, but once you start digging deeper and deeper into it, it turns out that those briefcases happen to possess literally everything inside of them. And sure enough, there were washing machines here alright, looking all fancy and hi-tech, even fancier than the one we have at home. And it seems that they have a drier build into them. Now, apparently they wash and dry super-fast, but it should be more than enough for me to actually soak myself in the bath for a moment, just so that I can warm my body up. And once I submit my body to the surface of the warm bath water……
「GUBOBABABABABABABABANUOOOOOOAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!」
Mission Failed! Mission Failed! Abort Mission! Abort Mission! We’ll get them next time!
What the hell am I even doing!? No, seriously, what the hell was I thinking here!? Just remembering what I did out there was enough to make me feel so ashamed and embarrassed about myself that I thought that all of the blood vessels inside of my head were about to pop all at once! God damn it! Who would have thought that using lines and actions learned in video games in real life could be so painfully cringey!?
And what’s more! More than anything else! Rei-san was watching! She was able to see it all! I did something so cringe-worthy in front of someone who I happen to know both in game and in real life! Gah! I could already feel my social status plunging to the depths of the dark abyss! I am sure that in the eyes of Rei-san I am even less than some sort of microscopic microorganism at the current moment!
「BOBABABUHGAGAGAGAGAGAHHH!!! I’M A STUPID MITOCHONDRIUM!!!」
※ Mitochondria is not actually a microorganism. Please bear that in mind.
Feeling a truly indescribable sensation starting to bubble up inside of my stomach, I opened the door to the sauna in a hurry, hoping that once I lock myself in there, my emotions are going to evaporate alongside the sweat……
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Since Rei had her own cypress bath at home, it was the first time ever for her to go to the public bathhouse. A completely new and fresh experience. Now, she decided to tag along with Rakuro and came here completely on impulse, but fortunately it was not a mixed bath, but the one that was properly divided in the men and women part. So, after washing herself properly, Rei sunk her body in the hot water, hoping that it would be enough to let her emotions cool down a bit……
「BYABABABABABABABABAHYAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!」
But as it just so happened, it was at that point that all of the emotions that Rei was keeping bottled up inside of her reached a critical point and happened to burst all at once right inside of the warm bath.
Oh, now I’ve done it! Oh, now I’ve done it! OH, NOW I HAVE ABSOLUTELY DONE IT!!!
Even though she knew a plethora of self-defense techniques, she chose to use the one that was the least suitable to use in front of a huge crowd of people! Something like that will most definitely not be tolerated! Even though it was that guy’s fault for not listening and being so persistent, but still! There was certainly a much better way in which she could have handled that situation!
But what’s more! More than anything else! She did that in front of Rakuro-kun, of all people! Now it’s all over! He must think that she is a brutal and violent woman after that shameful display! Just the thought of that was more than enough to make tears fall down Rei’s face, and they disappeared into the warm bath water as if they were never there in the first place…… At the current moment the despair, pain and sadness were making Rei feel that the best course of action right now would have been to dive to the bottom of the bath and just stay there.
But alas, her survival instincts would never allow her to do such a thing.
「BOBOBOBOBOBABABABAHHHH!!! A-AT THIS RATE……!!! AT THIS RATE……!!!」
In order to keep her emotions that were starting to dangerously spiral out of control here, Rei got out of the bath and made a dash towards the sauna, hoping that a good sweat will allow her to regain her composure……
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And just like that, one hour has passed.
「Uuuhhh, my head is killing me right now……」
Surely, going back and forth between the bath and the sauna was not the brightest idea to be had there…… However, thanks to that, the sea urchin that was rampaging inside of my stomach before finally managed to calm down. Ahh, it was pretty liberating of a feeling, if I do say so myself.
「And I mean, won’t you look at that! It’s already been about an hour since I came here!」
I must have made Rei-san wait quite a bit for sure. Now, just how am I to apologize to her for the wait? Hmm, maybe some coffee milk is going to do the trick here? Yeah, it’s at the very least worth a try.
Coffee milk is naturally a tasty treat, and when you are drinking it for someone else’s money it tastes even sweeter. That is why I buy a bottle of it, grab a hold of it and exit the men’s section of the bath, and head towards the entrance. And it just so happened that Rei-san at the same time……
「「………… Ah.」」
Just then, I happened to gaze sideways, and lo and behold! My eyes just so happened to lock with Rei-san’s eyes! Apparently she must have exited the women’s part of the bath at the same time that I did. What great timing…… But there was something else. Apparently, Rei-san was holding a bottle of fruit milk in her hand.
「…… Puh.」
「………… Fufu.」
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