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The Fiance's Warm Water's ...type of Day Off

Since I felt bad for always making him follow my schedule, I thought I should follow his once in a while.

“Accompany me?” Wolfram asked, making his already big eyes wider.

“Yup. I’ve decided to accompany you for today. I mean, look, you always follow my schedule and I make you keep me company until the workday is over, so it’s not fair, right?

On your days off, when you're free from me, I wonder what is it that you do?

So I want us to experience the so-called ‘celebrity’ kind of day off together.

After saying this I patted his shoulders, and that's the reason why I'm now dipped in a hot bath, dyed brightly red.

“.... In my 16 years of life, I never imagined I would be in a bath with rose petals floating around.”

“The flower bath is relaxing, right? It just makes all the stress ’suuu~’, slip away, and it feels like all the stiffness in your body disappears.”

“Really?”

By the way, this rose bath really does suit Lord von Bielefeld, right? His white skin peeking out between the rose petals, and his wet blonde hair clinging onto his exposed neck, this is the kind of thing that would be a temptation to any healthy high school male student. But only, if the gender was different, right? Well no, actually, even if it's a male, roses and pretty boys are a perfect combination.

“But it doesn't suit me at all. This bath isn't causing any effects on my body~. Rose baths don't make build up muscles.”

“It’s not for the body. It’s for the brain. It relaxes your mind, right?”

“I wonder…”

Honestly, even if I the smell is all right, the feeling of petals sticking on my skin is kinda gross.

“I think it suits you, but for me, I think being in a yukata in a hot spring would be more effective.”

“You’re really uncultured, you know?”

“So what do we do after this? Will we be shopping today?”

Since I can't even imagine what a celebrity’s day off would be like, I'm just referencing the mental picture of Hollywood actresses. Beauty salons, shopping, nail salons, eating vegetarian food ........ uh..... then, what else? Going to parties and charities?

At any rate, I guess first is 'SHOPPING'. Like... buying stuff, I guess.

Although I would never go shopping with stylish people, I decided I would keep him company all day long, so it can't be helped. It would hurt my self respect if I go back on my words.

But you can't wear a jersey to a famous brand shop, right? Or sneakers to a long established store for the upper class! Upper class clothes, upper class nail salons!

By the way, what do guys do in nail salon?

“So, Wolf. What will we do after the rose bath ?”

“After the rose bath, we’ll go to....”

"We'll go to....?"

"The mist bath "

Huh?

When I heard him saying something that sounded like a song from the eighties, I stared at him blankly with a petal still stuck on my nose.

“In other words, a steam bath.”

“Steam bath… Oh, sauna.”

And so we headed to a private room filled with warm air. After a rose bath that had absolutely no effect, the following one was a sauna, which makes you sweat through your pores.

I think this one will certainly have an effect since, it can indeed detoxify the body.

However, it can only detoxify the skin.

Maybe that’s important for a pretty boy, but it's different for an athletic person like me. While thinking about this, I just wanted to finish the bath quickly and drink something to replenish what I had sweat.

Just like old men who love saunas, I think sports drinks are the best after a steam bath. Except old men prefer beers instead.

And although I'm hesitant about going shopping, I also don't want to see Wolfram leave the sauna with a big beer and toasting happily.

In the first place, doesn't drinking beer and eating grilled meat ruin the detox effects of the sauna?

And that's why I'd just rather go into a high class brand shop and be laughed at by an annoying store clerk.

“So, after sauna shall we go 'SHOPPING'?"

“Shopping? What’s that? Is it one of your baseball stuff again? I don’t do those ‘flamboyant’ stuff. After this, we're going to..."

"We're going to...?"

"The sand bath.”

“When you say 'sand bath' do you mean 'that'?”

“I don’t know what you’re referring to, but it’s a sand bath that makes you energetic. It's not only good for the mind but also for the body. The warm sand is good for back pain and joints; and it also heals old scars. I'm sure that you will like it."

And so we ended up in a room where sand was piled; a room where the air is so hot you can barely breathe.

There was a pro there that helped bury us in the sand and in a moment the two small hills were completed. I felt like a salted grilled fish. I feel suffocated and hot.

“.... S-so... your whole family likes this type of bath?”

“Well, if you were an experienced soldier with lots of old scars, you'd try the heat treatment for your wounds at least once, right?”

“Oh… by the way Conrad told me he goes to the hot spring every now and then. So that was for treatment....? But in a public bathhouse... no, I mean! So what about Gwendal, who's also been in a battlefield?”

“I often see older brother dazed and immersed in a bathtub made by Anissina.”

“That’s not bathing! Isn’t that him being used in one of Anissina’s experiments!?”

“Is that what that is!?”

You need to realize this kind of things sooner!

Anyway, this sand bath is really something. The heat can’t escape since I’m buried up to my neck. I feel so hot.

Suddenly I noticed that I've started breathing like a dying fish, with my mouth opened sucking in air. Sand bath might be good for healing old scars, but too much of it can be bad for you.

I'm sorry, I want to leave.

“U-Uhm… Wolf, sorry, I just want to ask you a little something. Once we're done enjoying this sand bath, what will we do?”

“Next is…”

Shopping! Please say shopping!

“Rock bath.”

Another bath!?

“In it you lie down on a big hot rock, it's a "It's hot, it's hot!" fatigue recovery method.”

Like I said, bath again!?

“Since it's good for blood circulation and healing injuries, it’s suitable for people like you, Yuuri, who get scratches during exercise.”

“Seriously, a bath again!?”

“What do you mean ‘again’? You've only tried 3 of them. There’s still the ocean bath, jungle bath, small fish that eat your dead skin bath, jellyfish bath, sea cucumber bath, etc.”

I wanted to sit up in shock, but the sand is restricting my movement and I can't move at all! This is dangerous! It's so different from Japan’s sand bath!

“You have to be kidding! If we go into that many baths, our sweat and minerals will be gone! Or rather what was that last one? Why would you ever make a sea cucumber bath !?”

“Isn't it obvious? It’s to feel slimy.”

“Sli…”

I was speechless as I imagined a bath filled with many weird-colored sea cucumber. Slimy… slimy… slimy… I’m feeling sick just thinking about it.

So I said in a pleading voice, “Wolf, let’s stop bathing and go shopping. Or rather, please let's go shopping. I don’t care if the salesperson rolls his eyes at me for wearing a jersey. I'll try my best because I'm accompanying you!”

“What are you talking about?”

Then, Lord von Bielefeld, with cheeks flushed and covered in sweat, said this with a face as if he wasn't that hot:

“Why do I have to go out just to buy clothes? The tailor should come over and make clothes that fit me.”

“The clothes… come to you…”

I didn’t know that. When people have a higher status, they have salesmen come to their home. Eh, what does this mean? So in other words, while you stay in your home ground, the enemy teams just come one after another to Tokorozawa? Wah, that sounds really convenient, I bet the percentage of winning would be high. Ugh… I feel dizzy…

The last thing I heard before passing out is Conrad’s voice.

“That’s terrible, Wolfram! His Majesty’s face has turned into a weird color! He looks completely exhausted!”

Let’s hurry to the sea cucumber bath already!

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