Mixed Bathing in Another Dimension: Volume 4 (eBook)

The Ancient Seawater Baths

Nagaharu Hibihana (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
318 Seiten
Publishdrive (Verlag)
978-1-7183-0706-3 (ISBN)

Infos

To collect more goddess blessings and grow closer to defeating the demon lord, the hero Touya travels to Neptunopolis, a beautiful blue city by the harbor. Soon after arrival, he has a chance meeting with another hero, and then reunites with someone completely unexpected! Unforeseen events occur one after another, but our heroines don't forget to change into swimsuits and splash around at the beach as well. Now then, will Touya's Unlimited Bath have room for one more?

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First Bath – Neptune Under the Sea

“So there’s one here, too...” I sighed in front of the relief of the five goddess sisters.

It was a staple decoration in every one of the temples, but I knew that the sixth sister, the Goddess of Darkness, was missing from the bottom of every one. Or rather, she was traveling with me right now. I also knew how the reliefs looked nothing like any of the goddesses, having met them in my dreams.

In any case, we were now in the temple of light in Neptunopolis. To no one’s surprise, some clerics from the light temple were waiting for us outside the entrance to the city. The Heroes of the Goddess, Haruno and I, had unveiled the secrets behind Hades and Athena, so they didn’t want to worsen the relationship between us any more than it was already. I had no plans to worship at the light temple, but I didn’t want to make enemies of them either, so I let the clerics lead the way. We gave them a donation for our stay, though they tried to refuse at first. Now we wouldn’t feel guilty for accepting their hospitality, either.

Everything I had seen of Neptunopolis so far was very, well, ocean-like. All the buildings were a light pastel blue. The streets were more narrow compared to Jupiter, and the buildings taller compared to Ceres. Walking between all the blue walls made me feel like I was underwater.

We were currently in a guest room on the second floor of the temple. The scenery outside the window was almost like an optical illusion of being under the sea. I wouldn’t have been surprised if a fish swam past the window right now.

Rium, Rakti, Shakova, and I had stayed back inside the temple while the rest went out to sell meat and materials we had gathered from monsters. We had preserved food prepared inside the Unlimited Bath, as well as pelts processed by the craftsmen in our party—though it wasn’t their main trade. They were higher quality than what people could normally obtain this far south, so they should fetch a hefty price. The profit might be a drop in the bucket compared to what we could sell our treasures for, but money doesn’t last forever. It was still important to conduct honest business like this. And that wasn’t just my penny-pinching mentality talking.

The reason we left Shakova behind was to test how the clerics would react to a demi-human. He was the better choice over Pardoe, who might have just made things clumsy and awkward. Rulitora would have worked too, but he was the bodyguard of the group.

“So what are we doing nyow?”

“Let’s see... I’d like to explore their library.”

There was something nagging me that I wanted to confirm. I asked the clerics, who immediately gave us permission.

We walked down the hall toward the library and passed by several people along the way. As expected, Shakova was attracting the most stares out of the four of us.

“What do their expressions feel like?”

“Purretty normal, I’d say? Some of them look awfully curious, though,” Shakova answered.

“It’s rare for ketolts to travel outside of Hephaestus,” Rium added.

“...You’ve got a point there.” I see, so it was unusual for them.

“Nobody was looking at him disapprovingly, though.”

Rakti was right—nobody seemed like they didn’t want him to be there. This nation was booming with trade, with merchants visiting from all over. Many of them employed demi-human ravers because it was cheaper, so it’d make sense that they’d be used to seeing demi-humans around.

“So we’re probably fine for now.”

“I think so, too.” Rium agreed with me, then wrapped her arms around my waist. I lightly pet her cocoa-colored hair, and she happily looked up at me.

“Grrr...” Rakti stared at us with an envious expression. It looked like she wanted some pampering, too. She was quite the spoiled child.

“Uh, let’s wait until after we find the library.” We were in the middle of the hallway right now, after all.

“Mark used to be so spoiled when he was a kid too, mew...” Shakova mumbled, staring up toward the ceiling. Rakti and I recalled the current Mark, who was at the peak of his rebellious age. Rium looked a little confused.

Crissa treated Mark like a little brother, and he was making his situation even worse by trying to act like an adult. One aspect of it was honestly cute, but as someone whose rebellious phase was still fresh in my mind, I could barely stand the second-hand embarrassment. I’d unfortunately never had a neighborhood older sister to crush on, so I was a little jealous of Mark in that sense.

That moment, Rakti tugged on my sleeve a little reluctantly.

“Hm? What’s wrong?”

“Um... Touya, you were looking a little sad just now.”

“W-Was I?”

I wondered what expression I was making. I barely noticed it myself.

But Rakti was giving me a worried look. I decided to prove I was feeling fine by lifting her up by her armpits, then carrying her to the library. And now Rium was looking at Rakti with envy. Honestly, it felt like I’d gained two little sisters.

The library here wasn’t as big as the one in Jupiter. I had the other three assist me in my search, but none of us could find what I was looking for in the end. The only useful book was one describing the types of monsters living in the region.

“This isn’t what I’m looking for, though...”

“There really aren’t any historical books about the time before the first sacred king.”

Yes, I was looking for books that documented history from over 500 years ago.

“The demon lord was summoned first, and then the first sacred king, right?”

“That’s right... the first sacred king was summoned to fight the threat that the demon lord presented.”

“What threat, exactly?”

“...Who knyows?” Shakova cocked his head at my question.

The demon lord’s army attacked, so the first sacred king was summoned in retaliation. That was what I thought had happened when I was first summoned here, but now I doubted that the story was so simple.

The sword and shield with the Hephaestus family crest that we’d found in Hadesopolis tipped me off. The weapons had no vestiges of battle on them, which meant that Hades held diplomatic relations with Hephaestus back when the ketolts ruled the kingdom. But in the end, Hephaestus sided with Jupiter in the battle against Hades. And today, the reason behind that was just written off as the “threat of the demon lord.”

What exactly had happened for things to turn out that way? I wanted to explore this library to find that out, but unfortunately, it had no data on history before the time of the first sacred king.

“Do you remember anything, Rakti?”

“I’m sorry, my memories are hazy from back then.”

“I see...”

There was nothing we could do about that. It was about time for Clena and the others to come back, so we wrapped up our work here.

We reconvened with the rest of the party, then went to update our status cards before returning to our room. Clena and Roni were level 23 now, and Rium went up to level 19.

“We’re the same now, Lady Clena!”

“I used a bunch of magic in Hephaestus, but didn’t fight that much.”

Clena’s MP and MEN had grown a great deal because of that. Though her stats weren’t shooting off of the card yet, like mine were.

Rium had fallen just short. She was only one step away from being a first-class party member at level 20.

Rulitora unfortunately remained at level 30. He had fought plenty, but that wasn’t enough to level up at his rate. Things might have been a little different if he’d defeated the dragon-hippo, but that was in the past. We had no choice but to make it a one-on-one fight between the dragon and I back then.

Pardoe lead the ketolts at level 16, while Shakova was at 15, Mark at 10, and Crissa at 5. They were all lower than I’d expected. But come to think of it, the only times they fought monsters were for self-defense. I shouldn’t have been comparing them to us, who battled monsters as part of our daily travels and livelihoods. They had actually risen 2 or 3 levels during our expedition to the Flame Devil’s hideout. That made it clear just how differently we fought monsters, or rather the pace at which we fought them.

I had astonishingly risen to level 28. Four levels all at once. The Goddess of Light’s blessing made leveling up quicker for me compared to normal people, but the main factor must have been my fight against the dragon.

The only problem was that while I had almost caught up to Rulitora’s level, I still felt like I was far from being able to win against him. I might have been able to beat him using special equipment or spells, but he still had an overwhelmingly intimidating air about him. And I had not a speck of that.

But that was a veteran warrior for you. He was the former war chief of the Torano’o tribe, after all. That was an element of battle that simply couldn’t be measured with levels and stats.

All of my stats had gone up a bit, but they still paled in comparison to my overloaded MP and MEN. My STR and VIT had gone up a decent amount, but that was about it.

Lastly, Rakti remained at a measly level 1. She only laughed, saying,...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.7.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Mixed Bathing in Another Dimension
• Reihe/Serie: Mixed Bathing in Another Dimension
• Illustrationen: Nagaharu Hibihana
• Übersetzer: Nagaharu Hibihana
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Schlagworte: Alternate Universe • Fantasy • Harem • mixed bathing • RPG
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-0706-3 / 1718307063
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-0706-3 / 9781718307063