Campione! - Volume 19 - Chapter 4.2

Part 2 

「Fuu. This is a nice kind of hot water……」 

*chupon* 

Aisha was whispering feeling warm and fluffy while soaking in hot water at a large public bath. 

「The night yesterday was miserable, but here my body and heart is revived……」 

This hot water was pumped up from natural hot spring 1400 meter deep underground. 

Similar like Aisha’s skin, the hot water was also brown. Inside that water Aisha sunk her naked body comfortably and her limbs stretched to the limit. 

「I have to recover my stamina firmly here and then work hard again.」 

Even her who possessed the authority of healing had one limitation. 

Actually, Aisha couldn’t heal her own body. 

And then this large bath appeared at that time. The large bathtub made from hinoki cypress was like a pool, wafting off the fragrance of wood intensely. 

This was Tokyo’s Odaiba, the Edo hot spring Park Land. 

It was a famous tourist spot that was introduced even at the Tokyo Guide Book that was intended for foreigner. 

Other than Aisha there were also a lot of visitors that looked like foreign tourist. As expected from the bathing facility that boasted of its largest scale even inside the metropolis. ……Last night, she painfully escaped from the “demonic forest” by her own strength. 

After that, it was midnight and even the train wasn’t working, but Aisha requested a person who passed through riding bike so that she could hitchhike, and she got sent until Shinbashi. And then she stayed for a night at a capsule hotel that was aimed at Japanese salary man that missed the last train. 

After waiting until morning came, she called at the owner of her part-time workplace. 

She explained that she had personal matter to take care of and she was able to receive day off for a while. 

After that she visited the nearby Tsukiji fish market and plentifully replenished her nourishment with gyuudon and boiled offal set right from the morning. 

Past noon she moved to Odaiba and began to have her fill for hot spring. 

「That’s right. I have to try out that service too!」 

After cleansing her body in the large bath, she went toward the changing room. 

However, it was still too fast for her to return to her maid uniform and red hood.  She changed into a pink yukata and went toward the footbath area. 

Her mind returned to a childlike innocence, her tanned bare feet kicked and splashed the hot water. 

Aisha was keenly feeling moved. The Tokyo Guide Book that she secretly brought finally became useful. 

「Now that I think about it, all this time since I arrived at Tokyo I was only holing inside the residence, or working as maid, I haven’t rest at all.」 

Of course she was not just relaxing. 

Till the end this was just a short break. There was various thinks that she should think about. 

「Something like dispute between us fellow godslayers happening everyday, I have enough of that already. What to really do from here on……?」 

While pondering, this time she went toward Thailand style massage that she had make reservation for beforehand. 

After having her tired body message and loosened up, Aisha took off her yukata once more and enjoyed open air bath, ultrasonic bath, and stone sauna. 

With a completely warm body and heart, she finally went out of the hot spring park. 

She took a stroll while walking leisurely toward the direction of the sea. By the time she arrived at the park of the wharf that commanded the view of Tokyo Bay, she had also already solidified her plan. 

「It doesn’t seem that Onii-sama and Onee-sama has the intention to respond to ceasefire proposal at all. As expected, let’s talk with the younger people!」 

Clenching her fist, she persuaded herself. 

「It’s said that a talk will connect easier the nearer the generation. Rather than uselessly negotiating with Onii-sama and Onee-sama, I should make the gentlemen whose age is not far from me. Yes. Forming a group of young person with fellow young person is the natural progression!」 

The sun had gone down much. The quick evening of late winter was approaching. 

The artificial island floating at the Tokyo Bay――the center breakwater’s reclaimed land could be perceived from the park of the wharf she was at right now. 

The setting sun and night view that was seen from here would surely be magnificent scenery. 

However, Aisha noticed a different problem and went ‘hah’. 

「The dinner tonight will be sukiyaki at Asakusa, but what to do about the inn!?」 

She received salary from her part-time at maid café per day. 

It was the kindness from the café owner toward Aisha who lost her purse. 

But the number of day she had been working was still few, so it couldn’t be said that her war funds was plenty. She wanted to economize her lodging charge as much as possible. 

Should she stay at the home of a person she became cordial with, or should she search for a cheap inn. 

Her backpacker live didn’t change even now or in the past that she traveled through time. Aisha began to calculate with her usual rhythm. 

Furthermore――she was right beside sea, so the sea breeze of winter was cold. 

Nearby the park of the wharf, there were a lot of warehouse and buildings related with logistics. 

She decided to quickly return to the direction of the hot spring and station. The moment she was going to start to walk, Aisha was suddenly called out. 

「I imagined that perhaps it is like this but……it’s just as expected. You seem to have a really elegant sightseeing haven’t you, Madam Aisha.」 

「Eh!?」 

「You are always like this. You won’t let any tension to persist for long, or rather you cannot. But, exactly because of that you can always act naturally……. Whether it’s good or bad, it’s the twos side of the same coin.」 

When she turned around, a noble youth wearing a black jacket was there. 

His popular name was Alec. Alexander Gascoigne. 

He was a young Campione with the nickname the black prince. Usually he was often wearing a sour look, but right now he was wearing a face like a young philosopher being absorbed in thinking. 

Just like a mathematician facing against an unsolvable problem, he was looking baffled. 

「Also, let me say my opinion for a bit. You who are likely to be born at the 19th century, with us the Campiones at the teens or twenties……cannot be considered as being near your generation by any means. Or else, a special reason that it should be considered like that――is there anything like that?」 

「Fueh!?」 

Aisha was flustered from being questioned with exceedingly calm tone like that. 

「Di, did you listen to my monologue!?」 

「Yeah. When I arrived here, it was right when you are muttering to yourself which I happened to hear.」 

It seemed that Alec rushed here when he knew of Aisha’s whereabout. 

The black prince Alec was an owner of nimble feet that was equal with lightning. Furthermore if he felt like it, he could even sever all sound and presence when he was using godspeed. 

But, for him to easily speak out something that was a major 

secret of other person like this which he came to know using that superpower―― 

(It, it has been many years since I last met him but, he hasn’t grown up at all-!?) 

That was the kind of youth he was. 

Aisha fully realized although it was at this late hour. If it was just his face then this young man was a distinctively handsome man. However the way he treated a female was to be criticized――or rather, it was like he was totally no good at it. 

With an unbelievable insensitiveness, this young man stepped in brazenly with muddy shoes into a woman’s sacred ground. 

Well, if the other party was Voban-oniisama or the young Doni, then she wouldn’t expect anything from them in the first place and so she wouldn’t even be bothered by whatever they said. 

However, the young Alec had a face this handsome with a nickname of prince. 

Aisha yelled with flood of emotions poured into it. 

「A, Alec-san, geez, as a man you are really someone disappointing!」 

「……? Why are you responding like that?」 

He tilted his head with a face that was not understanding anything at all. 

The black prince Alec crisply tightened his expression. 

「Well, no matter. Let me say this once again. I am different from the barbaric old people, so I don’t particularly have the intention of consigning you to oblivion but――. Even so in this battle of the devil king civil war, I think the existence of Madam Aisha is one that ought to be eliminated first.」 

「Eeh!?」 

「I will be grateful if you immediately surrender without any resistance.」 

「A, are you planning to imprison me somewhere, and then torturing me!?」 

Imagining herself being captured, Aisha was feeling terror. 

But Alec easily denied that. 

「Unfortunately, you are a woman that can slip out through a wall unnoticed even if I locked you in a prison. A measure more than that is necessary I think.」 

「Mo, more than that!?」 

「The fairy corridor……in the past, “that” also caused me to meet very bad experience. I’ll have you open it for you to travel at the super ancient times before the birth of humanity. Or else even without crossing through the age, I can have you crammed into a thick ice at Antartica so you can have a cold sleep……」 

When Aisha was about to complain about how cruel he was, 

Before she opened her mouth, a person appeared that called at the black prince in her place. 

「You are also really cautious against Aisha-san huh, Gascoigne?」 

Quite recently, she had passed a few months together with this young man in the ancient Gallia. 

Kusanagi Godou. The young Campione that made this Tokyo as his home was staring sharply at Alec while approaching slowly. 

Aisha twitched with her body stiffening from getting startled. 

All the godslayer she encountered was aiming for her, so as expected she became uneasy. 

However, the Japanese young man was―― 

「As for me, rather I’m in favor of Aisha-san’s opinion though. 」 

「Hmph. Are you planning to decide who will confront the hero Rama by talking it with each other? You can make that gamble but the talk absolutely won’t be settled.」 

「I also agree with that. But, there are also other better methods aren’t there?」 

The young Kusanagi decisively spoke when he arrived until nearby Aisha and Alec. 

「If you are going to have Aisha-san open that corridor, then you might as well gather all the Campiones other than the one who will be the representative to fight Rama――and send them off to some period somewhere. In that case the remaining representative can fight without reservation. After all Rama will become unable to use the great law of covenant then.」 

「!?」 

Aisha leaned her body forward. Certainly that method seemed like it could work well. 

However, Alec’s face changed as though he had bitten something bitter and he sighed wearily. 

「How shallow, Kusanagi Godou.」 

「Why do you say that?」 

「You are overlooking two important factors.」 

「Two you say?」 

「Yeah. I think you will notice the first reason before long so putting that aside……right now let’s talk about the biggest factor. Listen. The steering of sending six Campiones to another dimension――it will be left in the hand of Madam Aisha you know? Do you think that it will succeed without any accident? 」 

Alec was speaking only about the second point of his reasoning. 

The moment he heard that, Kusanagi Godou went「Aa―……」 in understanding. Seeing that, the wise black prince continued regretfully. 

「You know just what kind of person madam is aren’t you? In addition, she is a woman who is habitually saving a lot of mileage of good and bad fortune. I――am scared that she is going to perpetrate something preposterous at the critical time. I really cannot have any confidence in her.」 

「…………」 

「If you are planning to test this Campione time travel, then it should be used to make Madam Aisha travel alone instead. Because no matter what she perpetrated, it doesn’t change that the uncertain factor that will only throw the situation into chaos will be eliminated with that.」 

「Now that you say it, I think that there is also that method too……」 

「Ku, Kusanagi-san!?」 

Kusanagi Godou smiled a bit wryly hearing the astonished voice of Aisha. 

On top of that he took a big step forward and stood on the way of Alec, in order to shut out the gaze of the black prince and covered Aisha behind his back. 

「But, I have no intention of continuing the talk based on what if. Gascoigne, if you are planning to take away this person, then go only after defeating me first.」