LV999 Villager - Volume 4 - Chapter 14.10

Chapter 14, Part 10

Do you Remember?

「I’m glad everyone’s getting along, but would you mind doing that when we’re gone? It’s unpleasant」

Mary muttered in a harassed voice, perhaps feeling sorry she wasn’t a part of it.

「You say that, but I’m sure you just want to join them」

「Yuki, are you looking for me to shoot you?」

Yuki, as if she was watching her younger sister trying to get along with others without success, began to tease Mary, however, the smile on her face soon disappeared, being replaced by a pale face, at the moment in which Mary pointed her gun at her. 「For now…… they seem to be okay」, Kagami muttered smiling as he considered the future, and the fact that Mary and Yuki should still be feeling overwhelmed by the situation they are all in, Kagami began to feel relieved after seeing that they were still capable of acting so carefree.

「Let’s go back to Noah to rest. My body’s still kind of stiff, and……. I guess you guys are also exhausted after having been moving around all day, aren’t you? Making any move without being in our best state will only end with us being defeated, so let’s not do anything until after we have rested」

「But, my Lord, if Noah is the enemy’s base…… isn’t it a bad idea to wait until you get back there to rest?」

「No, we should be fine. I wouldn’t be so sure if it took us a couple of days to get back, but I doubt that whoever is behind all this is going to do something as risky as attack us immediately as soon as we get back. Also, my hiding place shouldn’t have been found yet, and …… I doubt that they will be able to discover exactly where we are inside Noah, I also don’t think they want to cause any big fuss that makes the other inhabitants start to suspect…… At least, I don’t think they are capable of doing something too flashy」

Oboromaru, who seemed to have been satisfied with that answer, muttered 「* Fumu*, in that case I apologize ‘de gozaru」, as they sat on Kagami’s head with their arms crossed, thinking about the possible dangers with which they could be bump.

「Hearing that is reassuring, it would be quite complicated if they attacked us with those relics, but it does not seem that they are going to try to use any flashy weapon inside Noah. We are also not weak enough to be defeated by anyone who tries to attack us. I may still be weaker the Master, but I have still trained quite a bit」

Yelled Rex, to ease Oboromaru’s fears. Unlike in the past, no one believed that Rex, who had grown considerably, was someone weak, and Kagami, who had easily realized that fact, said, 「Uh, indeed」, while nodding.

「I would like…… to be able to take a bath…… when we return」

Then Tina, who was lying on her back on the sofa, muttered that. Hearing the word bath, Alice, Palna and Krull, as if they had suddenly been struck by some kind of epiphany, began to yell, 「Yes, yes!」, 「That’s it!」, 「Right!」, At the same time, while pointing at Tina.

Immediately afterwards, the three of them turned at the same time towards Mary and Yuki.

「…… We have baths. Resistance has its own public bathhouse open to its members. There is usually a schedule to use it, however, I don’t think there is anyone in it right now, so…… We shouldn’t have any problem using it 」

「O~h……. I understand, but, water is a valuable resource here, right? Wouldn’t it be a problem to waste it just for us to bathe?」

「That won’t be a problem. Noah was built in an area where water streaks pass, so water is not a problem for us. We also have a water purification and reuse system, so you don’t have to worry about that kind of thing」

Due to the need to ration food, and the fact that Mary had to grow her own vegetables to give to those who had more difficulties, Takako believed that the situation would be similar with water, however, after receiving Mary’s explanation about the source of Noah’s water supply, she mutter, 「I get it」, while nodding convinced.

[What are you talking about? What will you do if we are attacked while taking a bath? Seriously…… Even on Earth Clear there were days when we couldn’t take a bath, even if nothing out of the ordinary was happening. Couldn’t you at least wait a day or two to start thinking about those things? 」

Rex said, with his hand on his head, thinking they were making a big fuss just over a bath.

「What are you talking about, Rex-chan? If you take a bath, you will do it every day, correct? No, wait, Rex-chan…… Don’t tell me you didn’t take a bath while going on adventure?」

Rex looked away nervously, unable to bear the gaze of Takako, who was watching him with revulsion. Rex, in a hurry, yelled, [Of- Of course I bathed!」.

「You say that, but you only did it once every four days, right? You always said things like 『No, a Monster might attack us while we are not alert. I’ll watch, so you guys go』, without even looking interested in taking a bath」

However, Palna did not miss her chance to intervene, saying those words while looking at Rex in disgust.

「No…… But, you didn’t bathe every day either. It wasn’t even possible to do it when there was no place with water nearby 」

「Even so, we did make sure to properly clean our bodies whenever we couldn’t take a bath, you know?」

Krull added, making it even clearer that Rex seemed to be the only one who didn’t care about that sort of thing. Rex slowly began to get impatient as he saw how he was being cornered.

「You may have been well dressed, but…… Rex-san, you were dirty. At that moment we didn’t want to say anything so as not to ruin the good atmosphere we had in the middle of our adventure 」

「As expected of Chikubiboy」

Tina and Palna said, expressing how they felt towards Rex’s attitude, as well as giving the final blows to his pride.

「Rex-san…… you should take a bath every day」

Immediately after Alice spoke those words, with a mixture of pity and loathing in her gaze, Yuki muttered 「Uwa~」 while taking a step back, Mary spat out 「Trash」 while looking at Rex in disgust, and finally, Pitta, who had been cleaning herself properly until now, so she didn’t stink at all, covered her nose, as if she had caught a bad smell, which finally caused Rex, who could no longer bear the damage he had received from all those words, to fell to his knees on the ground.

Kagami, to whom Rex’s opinion was pretty normal from the point of view of an ordinary adventurer, could only look at him with pity in his eyes after seeing how badly he was being treated.

「Rex-dono…… I’m on your side. People are completely unprotected while taking a bath, so it can be quite a dangerous situation. So it is normal not to be able to take a bath while in the middle of a trip. What’s more, Rex-dono tried to protect those who took a bath, so I don’t think it’s fair that you treat him this way」

Menou said, as he placed his hand gently on Rex’s shoulder. In response to Menou’s words, Rex seemed to regain some energy.

「Menou ……!」

「But, ​​both Menou and Kagami bathed every day while we were traveling.」

However, as soon as Takako said those words, Rex started looking at Menou with a betrayed look.

[Well, yeah. But I didn’t have any companion back then, and since I’m a Demon, I didn’t have to worry about any Monsters. Kagami-dono is also capable of fighting without problems even without weapons, so there really was no reason to be cautious while with it」

Hearing that, Rex fell to his knees again, while muttering 「I have no ally」. However, the rest did not care about that, and just rushed out of the abandoned house while saying 「It’s time to go」.

Only Menou and Kagami, who understood why Rex thought the way he did, looked at him with pity, after everyone else labeled him as someone 『Dirty』.