Sending their convoy back to the demonic kingdom, Freya and her wives were forced to make their way to the bathhouse on foot. But even so, nobody dared to lay a finger on them, despite the provocative nature of their clothing. Dressed casually in light gowns, they were strolling down the paths. The gazes of many men were brought and fixed on them, but one sharp look from Freya was enough to make them wince.
'If it weren't to find that accused library of heroes hidden somewhere in this kingdom, then I would've never agreed to wearing a women's gown.' Too late to change his decision, Haruki kept his woman wrapped around his arms to let the citizens know that they belonged exclusively to him.
Coming to a stop by the town square, their brief stroll ended right in front of a massive bathhouse. Much like the rest of the streets, the building was decorated with an inscription of a giant with protruding horns holding a ball of jade, and on the other side of the inscription was the image of a humanoid figure holding its bow in the giant's direction.
'Again, more stuff I don't know about. I need to find that goddamn library soon, so I can learn more about Atlas's history, even including stuff about Asmofia and the emperor.' Having only read brief mentions of the mythical library, Haruki was desperate to get his hands on all the knowledge it beheld.
Moving their eyes a bit lower on the board the establishment's name was written right under it, however, since it was in some foreign language, Haruki couldn't make out exactly what it said.
"I've heard Lamenia was founded on a giant's carcass, but what is all this?" Even though he'd spent countless hours in the royal libraries learning each and every mention of Lamenia, he could not recall the mention of a man with a bow slaying such a grand beast.
"Hmm, what are you looking at?" A voice trailed into Haruki's ears, making him jerk to the side and bump into Margarette's breasts. "Oh, I'm sorry I didn't mean to scare you."
"Get away…" Taking out the blades strapped to her thighs, Riley instantly moved between Haruki and the woman who'd just walked up to them. "Or I'll slit your throat until your tongue falls off."
The sudden threat took a moment to register for the silver head beauty. But as she realized that she'd walked into someone important, she took a step back and tipped her massive witch's hat.
"Are you guys going in?" She asked, looking at the whole group up and down. "Seems like you are."
Turning to the girl, Haruki decided to give her the same treatment. Wearing a green mage's outfit with the giant green hat, she appeared like a nymph who could've easily been mistaken for a subjugation monster.
"Come on, I said sorry," carelessly throwing her hand in the air, she urged Riley to put down her weapons.
"Riley, put down your weapon," not wanting to seem hostile, Haruki had Riley put the weapons down.
Although it made him feel uncomfortable, Haruki didn't want to attract any attention from the adventurer's parties around the kingdom. Finally, as Riley's weapons were put down, the strange lady grabbed Riley's arms and gave off a smile.
"What are you doing?!" Riley asked.
"Come on, I can see you guys are new, let me take you in!" Without another word, the woman began dragging Riley into the establishment.
A bit amused by the sight, Athena and Alice chuckled while the other two were slightly more concerned. Deciding to follow the girl in, Haruki marched inward and made his way to the women's section of the bathhouse. There, before taking off his clothes in front of the witch, he made sure to mask his genitals to be the same as women's.
Once inside the bathhouse, he was greeted with the sight of numerous women, both young and old soaking themselves in a massive spring of steaming water with a clear view of the night sky. The sight of the stars alone was enough to make him forget about any threats that the strange woman might pose. Instead, wanting to dip his toe in the water and relax, he was reminded of the booze the owner promised him.
"Alice, go tell the reception that they can bring in the booze now," being told that the reception had it all ready, Haruki sent off Alice to get it delivered right to the bath.
"OI! OI!" Breaking his chain of thoughts, the silver-haired witch was waving her hand at him from the pool of water. Squeezed tight against her pink-nipped breasts was Riley struggling to get out of her hold.
"Fuck it, everyone jump in!" Throwing all caution to the wind, Haruki ran forward and jumped right into the water.
The splash that followed annoyed the other guests a little, but paying them no heed Haruki swam up to the silver-haired stranger.
"That was aggressive," said the woman.
"What's aggressive is this!" Biting her tit, Riley made the woman finally let go of her.
"Aghhhh!!! That hurts!" She cried
"Lonesome widow!" Disappearing from everyone's vision, she escaped back toward Margarette and Asuka who were slowly making their way into the bath.
Watching the whole thing unfold, Freya couldn't help but laugh. As for the bystanders, having witnessed someone disappear in front of their eyes, drew them in for gossip. Even the young woman couldn't help but want to know more about who these newcomers were in their city.
"I'm Freya Thunderbird, councilmember to the Larian Duke Snow frost," introducing himself with a proper title, Haruki began introducing his companions under false names, that is except Moriyana and the Demi-cats in his party "And all six of them are my wives."
Stumped by the last line, a surprised uproar echoed throughout the bathhouse. The cause for the reaction wasn't who Freya was claiming to be, but the fact that she had multiple wives instead of a husband, which was, to them, a foreign concept.
'This is too good, ahaha.' Looking at their surprised faces, Haruki couldn't hold back his laughter.
"How is that possible?" Blushing bright red, one of the younger girls asked.
"And how did she disappear?" Asked another.
The questions kept piling up, and Haruki intentionally made things even more confusing for them to grasp just to mess with them further.
"Because I wanted wives that's why it's possible," wearing a cheeky smile, he continued. "And Ray is a demi-human half-ghost half-human so she can disappear."
Even his servants couldn't help themselves from laughing, but that finally blew off the lies. After a while as the questions died down and the ladies began leaving, Haruki was surrounded by his wives doting on him. Being called his wives had made them wanna pamper him with love, but given that the silver-haired lady was still watching they had to settle for kisses and hugs only.
"My name's Laura, by the way," finally introducing herself, she extended her hand toward him. "I'm an adventurer, my party's mostly women but since they're kinda beating up at the moment I clung onto you guys as company, sorry about that."
"You didn't have to be that honest, you know?" Nuzzled up onto Haruki's neck, Asuka said to Laura with a side glance.
"Elves, don't lie silly," those few words grabbed everyone's attention. "Anyways, as I said, my party is beaten up, and I kinda need some help."
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