Chapter 118: I Have No Choice But to Ask a Favor

-Splash...

"...Mmmmmm."

As I sank into the warm water, I felt as though my body were melting into it.

When I washed at the hotel, even though I checked my surroundings with magic, there had been people I knew nearby, and I had been in Alice form, so I couldn't relax. Now that I'd finally returned to my original appearance and was washing, my state of mind was inevitably different.

-Pause

'...This isn't exactly a reassuring situation.'

-Rustle

"P-Please take your time washing...! Of course I won't peek...!"

...I never thought I'd live to see the day I'd wash in someone else's house. In a strange woman's house, no less.

It was something I couldn't even have imagined back then...