Do You Remember? (12)

“Ugh, I’m exhausted. I don’t even care about taking a bath anymore. I just want to sleep.”

As soon as Kagami was back inside the tent, he flopped onto the blanket he’d brought in.

“Dad... Get up. We have to go to the bath. You’re dirty.”

Pitta hurried over to wake him, but Kagami was still suffering from the backlash of the Limit Release Skill. With his face buried in the blanket, he let out a low, miserable groan.

“You don’t go bathe in water every day either, do you?”

“But... I want to try taking a bath.”

“...I’ll rest a little first. If we go right away, they’ll catch up to us.”

He hadn’t actually promised to go to the bathhouse, but faced with Pitta’s big, expectant eyes fixed on him, he couldn’t very well say, “I’m not going” now. With a sigh, Kagami gave in.

“I am looking forward to it as well. Though I know of baths, I have never taken one, as I have always made do with bathing in water alongside Pitta-dono.”

“I was wondering where you’d gone...”...