Chapter 245: Chapter 244: The Hot Spring’s Effects
Chapter 244: The Hot Spring’s Effects
After soaking in the gourmet hot spring, their bodies were left with a delicious fragrance. It wasn’t a greasy smell, and it would dissipate after a while.
"My skin is even whiter. The effect is really good!" Alice said, looking in the mirror. Coming with Erina was the right choice. Her skin tone was already very fair, but now it had the visual impact of "ice muscles and snow skin." Those tiny blemishes had also completely disappeared from her skin. Back on Earth, no beauty institution could achieve this level of effect.
"Stop being so vain. What’s the big deal?" Erina said, accustomed to it. As an old member of the chat group, she had long enjoyed the physical changes brought by gourmet food, so she wasn’t surprised.
"Erina, you’re a person with a full stomach who doesn’t know the suffering of a hungry one," Alice said, a few black lines appearing on her forehead. Damn it! You’ve been enjoying a gourmet feast for so long! I’ve seen how smug you are! Wipe that look off your face! If I weren’t unable to beat you, I’d make you sing ’Conquer’.
"Nom, nom..."
Erii hugged a giant meatball about her own size and gnawed on it. She didn’t care that her clothes were getting stained with grease. Her puffed-out cheeks were like a hamster’s.
"Erii, did anything happen after you went back?"
Kenji sat to the side, a light smile on his face. This version of Erii really was kawaii.
"Mmm... nothing happened. I can go wherever I want and see the sights I want to see. I’m very happy." Erii tilted her head and smiled sweetly, a shiny gloss of oil around her mouth.
She was no longer a caged bird. She was a free little monster.
Kenji reached out, his fingertip touching the Blessing of the Stars’ Grace bracelet on Erii’s wrist. The starlight rippled, transmitting information from afar.
"Heh..."
Kenji received the feedback. Someone who wasn’t afraid of death had triggered the bracelet and had been met with a counter-attack. They should have learned their lesson by now. Unless they had a thing for being slapped. A masochist was another story.
"This is my gift."
Erii took out a small yellow duck from under her dress. There was a small pocket sewn into her dress where she could put things. She handed it to Kenji.
Now this is right. Those 2D-space skirts that could pull out weapons were the exaggerated ones. What normal person pulls that kind of thing out from under their skirt? Pulling a weapon out of a pants pocket... that was acceptable.
"I’ll accept it."
Kenji smiled and accepted the little yellow duck. Although it had no practical use, the meaning was different.
"Wuhu! I’m so refreshed now!"
Shizuka Hiratsuka stretched lazily, her body more comfortable than after soaking in any normal hot spring. The difference was the nutritional content. The hot spring hot pot was a convergence of the nutrients of all kinds of ingredients.
"These hot springs have special effects, don’t they?"
Tony felt that he was in great shape now. The fatigue from staying up all night inventing was gone. He was back to being himself.
"Replenishing energy, beautifying the skin, eliminating fatigue..."
Kenji listed them one by one. This star system felt to him like an enhanced version of the Land of Healing, Life, from Earth. Whatever Life had, you could find here. Even things it didn’t have, you could find here. The closer a planet was to the Hot Spring Star, the better the effects of its hot springs. The special minerals they contained had magical effects. As long as you could withstand the water temperature, you would definitely benefit greatly.
"Then is there a hot spring that can change one’s gender?" Alice asked curiously.
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Erina looked at Alice, her eyes filled with disbelief. Sis, why are you asking this kind of question? Don’t tell me you want to soak in it yourself?
Of course it’s to push you in.
"I don’t know, maybe there is. If it’s gender-bending you’re after, I have something right here," Kenji said, taking out PAIR. One sip and you could experience the feeling of being the other gender.
"Good stuff! Give me a portion! You don’t mind, right?" Alice’s eyes lit up. She hadn’t expected such a thing to really exist.
"My dear sister, did you already drink this and become my dear brother?" Alice asked, looking at Erina with a playful smile. Thinking about it, Erina had known Kenji for longer. Maybe she had tasted it when she wasn’t looking.
Hearing this, Erina instantly performed a Sichuan opera face-change. Her entire face turned red. That kind of thing was really embarrassing.
Although she didn’t answer, Alice got the answer she wanted. This was just too interesting. Subarashii.
"If my world had this, Thailand’s gender reassignment industry would go bankrupt," Tony commented. A painless transformation into a woman, and a real one at that. After a normal sex change operation, once the anesthesia wore off, a wave of pain would wash over you.
"What, Tony, are you thinking of opening a specialized gender-reassignment medical institution?" Kenji joked.
"I think I’ll pass. I’m not short on that kind of money," Tony shook his head. His money-ability was completely sufficient at the moment. If he really opened some kind of gender-reassignment clinic, his peers would laugh at him.
"Lia, do you want to try again? Become the male King Arthur?"
"Don’t make that kind of joke. I don’t care about my gender now. I don’t need to become a male king," Artoria rolled her eyes. To abandon one’s existing gender... most people wouldn’t make that decision.
"What about that fellow?"
The person Artoria was talking about was Saber Alter. For her to be ruining her reputation all day... how could she stand it?
"On the train. She’s playing games right now," Kenji said, pointing to the train in the starry sky. With Streaming Light as a playmate, Saber Alter no longer watched TV. She was addicted to games and couldn’t extricate herself.
"Losing one’s ambition to trifles."
Artoria was speechless. As the King of Knights, how could she be influenced by external objects?
Saber Alter: Is the food supply guaranteed?
Artoria: But... then again...
"Kenji, my Chaldea is about to go to the Seventh Singularity. Do you want to come and play?" Ritsuka Fujimaru asked.
"No problem. But when you were in the Sixth Singularity, did anything happen?" Kenji thought of the Lion King. She probably wouldn’t be like she was in the game.
"Ah, this..."
Ritsuka thought about it and was still a little speechless. The moment they had landed in the Sixth Singularity, they had ended up in the middle of an encirclement by the Knights of the Round Table. It was as if they had known exactly where they would land and had been waiting for them in advance.
With so many weapons pointed at them, her little heart was trembling. What kind of decent person spawn-camps you at the beginning of the game?
Seiya: I have something to say.
There was definitely no running away. And so they were taken by the Knights of the Round Table to the Holy City, where they had met the Lion King. When they saw the teasing arc on the Lion King’s lips, they understood. It was an old acquaintance.
They had thought it would be an easy clear, that they could cruise through the Sixth Singularity. But the Lion King didn’t let them off the hook directly. She made them her free labor, assigning all sorts of dirty and tiring jobs, including cleaning the toilets...
As a Super Master who had resolved five Singularities, how could she accept such a grievance? Just as she was about to argue, she saw the highly-raised Holy Lance and the Lion King’s smile that was not a smile.
Forget it, forget it. A wise person submits to the circumstances. After we finish cleaning, we can clear the stage.
Every other Singularity had been about fighting and killing. But the Sixth Singularity... it was about fighting and cleaning.