Chapter 48
Chapter 48
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 48
Chapter Title: Sludge Monster and Bath Craze
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Variant magical beast, sludge clump.
A magical beast literally mixed with filth, flies, parasites, and all sorts of other things.
Just looking at its massive, profane form could bring serious illness to anyone who touched it.
It was an appearance no one would ever want to approach or touch...
- Ah lol, can't resist free mana dumplings
- Hygiene? You eat that?
- Why soak your body in water and defile your soul??
To medieval humans, it wasn't an issue at all.
[Title: Ah lol what are these free mana dumplings!]
(Caption: Sludge clump screaming in the middle of the city)
(Nearby knights, hunters, and soldiers laughing as they charge in)
(Sludge clump normalization caption)
Earned lunch money, total honey lol
[Recommendations 512] [Disrecommendations 52]
- Dude's solo honeying hard
- Ah fuck I wanna hunt one of those beasts too
- Aside from looking kinda gross, it's a grateful bastard handing out mana dumplings...
- How do you even catch that thing?
ㄴ The pic reeks of toilet smell
ㄴ Lol cleaner than my master bedroom
ㄴ Fr lol
"Ah right, this is the medieval era."
Medieval times, an era without hygiene.
Mr. Bacterium just saw it as a cute era.
Contrary to my worries, the variant magical beast that appeared in the city was straight-up normalized by the knights.
"My chest feels majestic."
Of course, in the process, filth splattered and dirtied houses and streets, but no one cared.
If anything...
[Title: Sludge clump, I'll eat you well]
Author: ColaLoveGroup
(Caption: Entering an inn)
(Caption: Picking up meat with hands covered in all sorts of sludge filth)
Not as good as chicken...
But edible enough lol
- Judak* your hands are filthy af
ㄴ Author) It's fine it's fine, it all goes in your body anyway
ㄴ Judak* Nah, sludge is shit
ㄴ Ah; don't talk about food while eating shit
ㄴ If it tastes good that's all that matters~
ㄴ Does hygiene feed you??
They were indifferent to an insane degree.
No, actually, hygiene was like that across the board.
Pouring booze into glasses others had drunk from and serving the next customer.
Roughly relieving themselves in the street and getting up without wiping.
Washing hands once every two days.
- Only wimps wash their hands ㅇㅇ
- Fr lol, washing hands just cuz some blood? Is that a man?
"No, don't they get sick like this?"
Even in the medieval era where only the strong survived, this was over the top.
Just as I wondered how they'd been fine this far, a new post popped up.
[Title: Ah fuck, burning up]
Author: ColaLoveGroup
My forehead's fucking hot, why is this happening?
Dizzy as hell, can't even walk straight;
Anyone know what's up?
- When'd you last bathe
ㄴ Author) A week ago, nah two weeks ago I showered ㅇㅇ
ㄴ What? That's super clean?
ㄴ Mr. Clean and still sick? Wtf?
- Just a wimp, weak af? Lololol
ㄴ Fr gets sick lololol
ㄴ Bitch! I haven't bathed in a year and I'm fine, nya
ㄴ Author) Ah;; got a party invite but too embarrassed to go out fr
"Well, it can happen the first time."
Up to here, I could chalk it up to ignorance—not washing properly and eating, leading to this.
But the problem came next.
[Title: Love Judak so much!!!] - 1 day ago
Author: ColaLoveGroup
Took cold medicine, Tylenol, head's better lol
[Title: Yeah that's my lunch menu today] - 12 hours ago
Author: ColaLoveGroup
(Caption: Boiling meat soup in water used to wash hands)
Fucking delicious lololol this is the X factor
[Title: Ah fuck; feels like I'm dying...] - 6 hours ago
Author: ColaLoveGroup
(Caption: Lying in agony)
Stomach hurts so bad, no idea why fuck
[Title: Love Judak so much!!!] - 1 hour ago
Author: ColaLoveGroup
Took stomach meds and it's better lol
Eating with dirty hands → getting sick → taking meds and recovering → eating again and getting sick, an endless loop.
In the end, I had no choice but to go to Galrum's latest post and leave a comment.
- Judak* you fucker
ㄴ ColaLoveGroup) ??? Why cuss me out
ㄴ Judak* Take a bath fucker
Season 4 curse restraint failed
I'd cursed out loud once again.
*
Baths had always been a luxury enjoyed by the upper class since ancient times.
People couldn't even imagine warm baths, settling at best for washing in cold streams.
- Bath?
- What's a bath?
- It's almost winter, bathing in a stream lol;
They barely bathed occasionally, and most had never done it in their lives.
In their memories, bathing meant washing in cold water—basically like punishment.
Busy as queen (forced), Evelyn was secretly browsing the gallery in her office when she spotted a new item.
[Folding Bathtub] - 26 mana dumplings
"What's this?"
A uniquely shaped tub, complete with an image of someone smiling and giving a thumbs-up inside.
Had Judak ever dropped an item that was trivial or meaningless?
Plus, ever since becoming queen (forced), mana dumplings had piled up more than enough.
Cheap price too—she set down her tuna can and ordered the tub.
[Delivery complete!]
Thud, a wooden box appeared in the office.
Opening the packaging revealed a small panel of unfamiliar material.
Fiddling with it per the instructions, the tub easily assembled.
"...Get in here?"
Of course, just having the tub wouldn't solve everything, or anyone could bathe.
To bathe, you needed water.
But that was solved by the tap water Judak had dropped during the last food shortage.
Filled it up with tap water from the market, tossed in heat stones the magic tower used for experiments and discarded...
Bubble bubble...
"Whoa."
Soon, steam rose gently from the perfectly hot bathwater.
Evelyn, even as a noble lady, had never enjoyed baths.
Mostly due to superstition—they believed diseases spread through water.
But with Judak's shop stocked with staple meds now, there was no reason to avoid baths anymore.
Evelyn quickly slipped off her dress and dipped a foot in the tub.
"Ugh. F-feels weird."
Soaking her body in water felt awkward just thinking about it.
But steeling herself, little by little, until she fully submerged.
"!!!"
Evelyn's eyes went wide.
An indescribable warmth.
A coziness hugging her whole body, melting away fatigue into pure comfort.
"Uwaaa..."
Evelyn's eyes began to glaze over.
She'd become someone who couldn't live without Judak's bathtub.
*
Can't live without Judak.
Actually, that was like a meme the galrums pushed.
- Fr can't drop a big decision without tuna cans
- How'd they live before Judak showed up?
[Quality Post: If you think now's better than pre-Great War, mega-rec lol]
(Thumbs-up frog icon)
Bold opinion: Galbungs who think now's better than before the Great War get mega-rec lol
Me first
[Recommendations 9999+] [Disrecommendations 2]
- Lol using the quality post cheat key
- Ah lol can't argue this
- Judak death = self death
- Judak is Yasuda I acknowledge
ㄴ Why you acknowledging that?
ㄴ (No lewd stuff! Con)
But the fervor now was unprecedented.
Previously, it felt like gratitude tied directly to survival.
Now, it was like blind praise for hobbies and fun.
[Title: You fucking bastard]
Author: ColaLoveGroup
(Selfie caption)
Why'd I doubt Judak?
Why couldn't I see Judak's will?
Why shun baths and embrace filth?
But me, now awakened.
(Caption: In the tub holding up a cola)
Cheers.
To Judak's foresight and my reason for living—baths and cola.
[Recommendations 1423] [Disrecommendations 42]
- Lololol what bullshit
- Ugh Judak simp spreading disease in the gallery again!!!
- No way baths are that good?
ㄴ Still haven't bathed?
ㄴ Half your life wasted, straight loss lol
ㄴ Yeah never do it~ So please normalize market water prices and tubs~
[Title: Dying happy!]
(Face flushed red as if about to burst caption)
10 hours into bathing.
Why'd I live without knowing this?
- Serious bath addiction case...
ㄴ Author) Pfft funny joke, laughing pfft
ㄴ ??? Wtf's wrong with this guy
ㄴ Brain melted from hot water vibes
ㄴ Fr serious, get out now
- Must-bathe EU...jpg
- Top 10 things to drink while bathing
[Title: Love big bro Judak!!!!!!]
(Caption: Bunnykin barely skirting the line in the tub)
> o<,,,
Now I get baths...
Judak he's a true god!
- O
- Heh heh
- Judak* (Thumbs-up elf icon)
ㄴ Lol always comments on these
ㄴ Author) So when you coming back to the bunny burrow~?
ㄴ Lol always dips without commenting on these
The late bloomers went wildest—especially exploding in popularity among Keliarton and bunny beastkin.
A mega-trend, synergizing perfectly with the cooling weather—no exaggeration.
The issue? Not everyone got curious about hygiene.
True to contrarian idiot moron sea cucumber anemone fuckwit galrums, if one side cheers, the other rebels.
- Why bathe and defile your soul?
- Ugh wanna get sick, insane?
- Humans are dumb. Don't they know disease spreads through water?
- Total fail!
Elves who couldn't stand humans happy— this time, elves were the extremists.