Chapter 109: Water Play is Fun!
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 109: Water Play is Fun!
“Is our Master going to be a movie star now?”
“Wow, wow! I’ll definitely go to the theater to watch it!”
“Shouldn't we have a party or something, Master?”
Whitey, Goldie, and Blackie were barking—metaphorically speaking—one after another. Even though the movie filming was over, my summer vacation still! Still! Hadn't ended. It felt like one person was missing today, but since the Black Witch Sister I use as a ride has zero presence anyway, I figured it was fine.
I was happy that I didn't have to see that girl, Im Su-yeon, but the sensation of my body slowly growing lethargic wasn't exactly pleasant.
On top of that, I wasn't in a good mood today.
I had been gleefully planning to spend the whole day rolling around at home after dumping Grasha at the daycare in the regional headquarters, but the problem was that the Pet Trio had dragged me out to a water park.
“Come on, Master. Your big sisters will play with you and make it fun! Why are you so grumpy~?”
“Do you need something to ride? Shall I, Youfei Lee, become your ride?!”
“Are you hungry…? Should I go buy something?”
Furthermore, my main grievance was that they were all wearing incredibly wholesome swimsuits.
There are plenty of swimsuits that can show off a figure, like a slingshot or a micro bikini, so the fact that they were all trying their best to minimize skin exposure was the reason I was so angry.
“Why are you all wearing stuff like that? Mom and her friends wore really pretty ones!”
The Pet Trio began to glance at each other. Goldie and Whitey started nudging the dark elf sister in the middle, Blackie, with their shoulders.
Lisar looked at the two of them with a face of pure annoyance before sighing deeply. She crouched down in front of me to meet my eyes.
“It’s just that we… have a lot of scars on our bodies. If we walk around in public wearing those, people might get scared, I guess…?”
Lisar avoided my gaze. I looked at Goldie and Whitey behind her. Those two also avoided my eyes. Come to think of it, even though these people were working for a service company now, their true nature was something like the Yakuza—cancers of society.
“Do you have tattoos on your bodies!?”
“A-Ah, no…! I don't have any….”
Since Lisar was a dark elf, I figured tattoos wouldn't even stand out much on her skin anyway. I looked at Youfei Lee and Aoi Takahara behind her.
“When I was in the military…. It’s a special forces tattoo, so th-this one is safe!”
I generally didn't accept tattoos unless they were womb tattoos or my own name, but since she said she was a soldier, I felt like I could be somewhat understanding.
I looked at Aoi.
“Me? I don't have any. Instead, I’ve got about twelve knife scars on my stomach! Oh, but of course, my womb is perfectly healthy—!”
“Aoi! I told you not to talk about things like that!”
Aoi Takahara was sharing some very, very important information, but a blushing Youfei clamped her hand over Whitey’s mouth.
“Then, since I won the rock-paper-scissors, I get to play with Master first, okay?”
Youfei Lee, also known as Goldie, grabbed me by the armpits and lifted me straight up.
“Eh? What? What is it?”
“I’m going to teach you marksmanship today! It would be better to use live ammunition, but for safety’s sake, let’s learn with water guns, shall we?”
“No, I already know how to shoot? I’ve even caught mountain rabbits in the Garcia Mountain Range, you know?”
“…Now, now, I’ll teach you about breathing techniques and mobile shooting!”
Goldie started pretending she couldn't hear me. Still, I figured Goldie, who had probably hit people quite often in the special forces, would be more helpful than some mage who just bossed around a group of private soldiers, so I didn't resist.
I couldn't concentrate properly because of Goldie’s massive chest, but for now, I crammed the basic theory she started explaining into my head.
Most of the content was the kind of stuff you’d wonder if a brat could even understand, but since I possessed a brilliant brain capable of taking second place in the Science Olympiad, I was able to process it, even if it was a bit difficult.
“Alright, it’s time for the survival game. Good luck! I’ll be watching and giving you feedback!”
Youfei, wagging her golden tail, waved her hand as she pushed me into a playground hosted by the water park where kids fought each other with water guns.
“What, you’re a boy?”
While the safety guards were checking the equipment, a strange girl glared at me with a scowl. Her brown bob cut was pretty, but looking at her prickly yellow eyes, she seemed to have quite a personality.
She wasn't my type. I like submissive women!
Since it was a team-based game rather than a free-for-all survival, she seemed dissatisfied that a weak male was on her team.
“What? You wanna go?”
However, I was a genius who knew how to use mana, I occasionally learned martial arts, and I was even picking up various techniques for beating people up among those mafia bastards, so I had nothing to fear.
“He’s crazy….”
The girl who had picked the fight shook her head and walked away. Pathetic.
—Alright, get ready…!
In the waiting area where the guide had led us, everyone was grinning as they repeatedly refilled their water guns. The girl who had picked a fight with me slunk over.
“Stay behind me. I’ll protect you.”
“…?”
To be acting like a Black Cow at that age… she was a child with a frightening future.
—Start…!
The children dashed forward with their water guns. Following Youfei’s instructions, I stayed behind the running kids and slowly scanned the formation to find a good position for evasion and attack.
***
There was no opportunity to use the content Youfei had lectured me on.
“St-Stop…! St-Stop, okay, I was wrong!”
“No, you gave me a sense of humiliation. Have some water. Dunking time!”
While I was looking for an opening to use the geographical features, the kids from the enemy team rushed me in a group to attack me just because I was a boy.
“Sh-Shouldn't we stop now…?”
“Quiet.”
The upper-elementary girl who said she would protect me tried to dissuade me, but in the face of my charisma, she couldn't even voice a proper opinion. I grabbed the girl I was holding by the hair and pulled her out of the water again.
“Waaaaah… I-I was wrong… I was wrong… Glub!!! Glub…!”
“Don't cry! You’re a girl! Don't cry and speak clearly! If you don't speak, I’m going to ‘dunk’ you again, okay?”
“Hic… hic… Ugh… Th-The golden cow big sister… that sister told us to do it… hic… hic… Glub!! I-I told youuu!! I told youuu..! Glub!!!”
I didn't know that what Youfei meant by ‘educating’ me would turn out like this. Thinking about the brats who had already tasted plenty of water and fled the arena sobbing, clinging to their mothers and wailing for milk, made me feel a bit better.
“Alright, do you know why you’re suffering like this?”
“Ugh! Ugh! Wh-Why…. Cough! Cough!”
It wasn't that I was a bad person; I remembered the water torture lessons I learned from Lisar perfectly, so there was almost no chance of water getting into the brat’s lungs.
Of course, I said almost no chance, not no chance.
“Because you hit my friend! Now, dunking!”
“Waaaaah! I-I was wrong…! I was wrong! Glub! Glub-glub!!!”
Hearing the bubbling sound, I grabbed her hair and lifted her up again.
“If I run into you again, next time I’ll teach you how to drink water through your nose.”
“Waaaaah!!! Mommyyyy!!!”
The brat ran away crying. Beside me, the girl who had been knocked down after taking a water gun shot to the jaw started picking a fight again, despite having plenty of grievances.
“Hey, you didn't have to go that far!”
The little brown-haired brat started throwing a tantrum.
“I wasn't even hurt that badly and we were just playing, but you were just bullying those kids!”
“Man, you’re so damn loud. You want a taste of the water too? The kids here probably pissed all over the place! Huh? You want to drink some water mixed with piss and bleach!?”
“Eek!? R-Really!?”
I liked the guts she had to come at me so boldly, but she was pathetic for a brat. It wouldn't really matter since it was mixed with bleach and we’d wash up afterward anyway, but the brown-haired brat scurried up onto a sloped panel.
“Of course! How much do you think the kids have pissed in this water!”
“So… you’re saying you did it too?”
“You crazy little brat, what do you take me for? Get over here!”
I couldn't tolerate her giving me such a sense of humiliation. Vowing to make that brat drink a liter of pool water, I stepped onto the ramp and charged forward.
“Kyaaaaaah!”
“If I catch you now, I’ll let you off with three gulps! Come here!”
The game of tag ended in five minutes.
It wasn't that I caught the damn brat with my great and superior mana application and trained body; it was just the conclusion that I couldn't do anything because the game ended and she hid behind a safety guard.
“Waaaaah, Mommy, Mommy, he! He did—!”
The brat wailed as she dragged her mother over. The mother of the brat was a slender sister who looked great with a bob cut—the kind of woman I hoped the brat would grow up to be.
Youfei looked like she was debating whether to attack, clenching and unclenching her fists. Fights between brats usually passed easily and simply, but since there was a high probability that adults wouldn't be able to just laugh it off, I tugged on her tail.
“Stay still, Goldie.”
“Yes… yes… M-Master….”
Goldie took a step back. It was great that my pets listened so well.
“Hello, young gentleman. I heard you fought with our Nadya? I’ll apologize first. Come on, Nadya. You should apologize to your friend.”
“No! No! He kept saying he was going to make me drink water…!”
I could hear Goldie snickering behind me.
“Are you her mother? I’m truly sorry. You see, our child….”
“No, no, it’s quite alright.”
When the mother of the brat called Nadya bowed her head in apology, Goldie started accepting the apology with a very kind face, as if she had become my mother.
“I’m sorry. Now, Nadya should apologize too, right?”
I didn't need an apology from the brat; I felt like I could forgive her even if she stabbed me in the back if her mom would just do a naked dogeza for me once, but it was just a bit heartbreaking that I couldn't say that out loud.
“I don't want to! He’s the one who did wrong?!”
“Nadya Polshen!”
“Eek!?”
It seemed the brat’s name was Nadya Polshen. The girl, who I felt I could forgive if she grew up to be just like her mother, had teary eyes as she hesitantly bowed her head.
“I-I’m sorry…. Hic… hic…”
“I’ll forgive you~! Nadya!”
“Oh my, our young gentleman is so kind. What is your name?”
“Yong-hwan! Jeong Yong-hwan!”
The lady nodded and stroked my head, then her hand stopped.
“…By any chance, are you Commissioner Degrain’s son?”
At the sight of the lady asking in a trembling voice, I nodded my head excitedly. It seemed she knew my mom.