Hearing it, it sounded plausible, and even Ariete was surprised. Just then, Crank looks back and gestures.
“crank! Hear what Carrot has to say! It seems that some great discovery has happened!”
“Rather than that, go to your room and wash up first. You can’t use the washroom with that body, so you wet a towel… … .”
“What a thing! you say! so insensitive! Carrot is about to have a great realization!”
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“sick. It hurts, don’t hit me. go wash it You should go to bed early.”
Crank urged, pushing away Ariete’s punches as if they were annoying. Reluctantly, she turned and looked back at Carrot. Carrot, who was surprised by herself while holding onto the ball and jumping around, suddenly grabbed Ariete’s hand as if nothing had happened.
“Yeah, how about that, let’s go wash up and go to bed. you stink.”
“what?! It smells!”
Crank gave a thumbs up to Carrot, who pushed Ariete, who started sniffing like a dog, into the room, then grabbed a towel and headed to the washroom alone.
“Pie, Bob… … !”
“You are sleeping now.”
When Lotte raised her fingers and said, Ariete and Carrot followed suit, placing their fingers on their lips and cautiously entering the room.
Since she was a maid who usually lived only in the mansion, she was not used to long-distance travel, so Pie was asleep as if she were dead.
“Um, if I move it over there like this… … .”
Ariete gave a strange look at Carrot, who sat on the bed and continued to stare into the air and careless.
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“Are you practicing for a long time?”
“Oh, I want to break that old man’s nose. did you hear I will make your wish come true.”
“A wish, that’s too vague a reward.”
Clap! Kirik, Giggik.
When Shion released the fixed skeleton and lifted Ariete and put her on the bed, he took the automaton prosthetic arm Lotte had prepared and put it on her arm. The rest of the prosthetic arm and leg were fitted by Ariete herself.
“Well, I’m glad I brought it.”
Ariete nodded as she moved her arms and legs, then took off the shirt and shorts she was wearing and began to simply wipe herself with a towel soaked in water.
Carrot, who stopped playing in the air while looking at the ceiling, turned his head and stared at Ariete’s naked body.
It was a very beautiful human body. That graceful curve was impossible to follow with the formative beauty of an automaton. Of course, there was a cheat key called soft skin, but I couldn’t help but admit the difference between artificial and natural.
Carrot, who had been staring at Ariete’s naked body in awe, immediately raised her hands and moved those little fingers in a very bizarre way.
“You look very soft. Can I touch your chest?”
“Ugh!”
Ariete, who covered herself with an automaton prosthetic arm, gave a blushing expression of bewilderment, but flatly refused.
“Oh no! The only people who can touch this are my future husband and children!”
“Hoho, is that crank on the rankings too?”
“Ouch! Caro-Clothes!”
Carrot laughed wahahahaha as the red-eyed Ariete closed her eyes tightly and screamed loudly.
“It’s a joke. give me a towel I’ll wipe your back.”
“Uh, um. Now, that’s a bit of a prank.”
Taking a towel, putting it in a bucket, rinsing it, and wringing it out, Carrot began wiping Ariete’s scarred back as she sat on a chair, while Venus and Lotte sat on nearby chairs and watched with interest.
“Wow, it feels like old times.”
“A long ago?”
“You always sleep when you have no limbs, and when you wake up, you are sweaty, so you wiped them often.”
“Ahh.”
It was last fall, so less than a year had passed. It was truly an experience of going back and forth between hell and heaven.
Fortunately, by her standards, it was heaven now. Ariete, who was holding her long hair forward, opened her mouth.
“I am always grateful to you guys.”
I looked down at the automaton prosthetic with melancholic eyes and muttered something, but Carrot’s funny laughing face came up over his shoulder.
“Oh, is that why you let me touch your breasts?”
“Ouch! You are tenacious!”
The reaction was funny, so Carrot often made fun of Ariete. At a moderate level, of course.
Ariete took the towel back and wiped her face, chest, stomach, and legs in that order, then wiped off the water with a dry towel, turned around her naked body with the towel around her neck, and nodded.
“It’s nice to have limbs.”
“Okay, get dressed quickly. It’s time for the crank.”
“hmm.”
While she packed her underwear and shorts, the automatons cleaned the area and removed the buckets.
When the bath was over, Carrot opened the door and called in the waiting Crank.
“It’s done. Pi is sleeping.”
Crank, topless, entered the room with a towel around his neck.
“It is still chilly at night. Are you done?”
“Um, you washed everything?”
“I washed up in the washroom outside. Let’s go to bed early, it’s better to get a good night’s sleep while you can.”
There are many adventurers who don’t wash well outdoors because they’re busy or annoying, but Crank’s party tends to wash his torch often.
“If you get dirty, you get sick. If you get hurt there, you could get tetanus.”
“I never imagined that I would take a hot bath every day while staying with you guys.”
Ariete, with all prosthetic arms removed except for one arm, spoke while lying on the bed. Carrot brought a chair and sat down next to him, pulling the blanket over her.
“How was it before then?”
“I tend to wipe it with a towel in moderation like I just did, but I also just slept.”
“It is terrible. To go to bed without washing.”
“What! you are so insensitive! You mysophobic!”
“I don’t want to hear that from an insomniac. Turn off the fire.”
As soon as I put a cover on the light ball hanging from the ceiling, darkness came. Ariete was a bit scared, but was relieved when she felt the presence of Carrot sitting next to her.
And fainted.
“It’s not even surprising. How can I fall asleep right away? that’s right. How was that my pillow doll before?”
Crank, who turned off the light and lay down, answered.
“Well, it turned out better than I thought. It wasn’t as good as it is now, but I fell asleep without any problems.”
“oh.”
And the crank is also off. In a narrow room filled with only the sound of breathing, the automatons sat quietly on their chairs and killed time.
Carrot, sitting next to an insomniac who was sleeping well in a darkened room, continued to make mistakes.
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the next morning.
On a busy morning, Carrot ran out of the room, saying she didn’t know how to clean the room, and found Viscount Boyd having breakfast in the same spot as yesterday and applied for a re-challenge.
Even during an early meal, Viscount Boyd gladly welcomed Carrot.
“A challenger who will make this body with less heartbeat pounding is always welcome. Have you been practicing? little doll.”
“sure! I’ll steal the tip of the viscount’s nose. hehehehe!”
Giggling at each other, Viscount Boyd played the checkerboard while eating.
Crank, who was looking for Carrot because he couldn’t find him, found two people playing chess just like yesterday among the people gathered at the restaurant.
“Were you here? Because I have to leave in a while. slowly… … .”
Carrot, with a stiff face, spread her palms. Viscount Boyd, who was sitting in front of me, looked up at me through his sunglasses.
“Amazing, what happened overnight?”
“Kekeke! I calculated! Viscount’s pattern!”
Carrot lifted the chess piece.
good!
The little doll with her head slightly lowered and her challenging gaze raised upward opened her mouth.
“General.”
Indeed, surprise spread across the face of Viscount Boyd, who had been threatened for the first time in a long time. He took out a cigarette without making the next move, lit it with a match, and let out a long puff of smoke.
“You have a knack for automaton subjects. I want to spend some time with you and fight slowly.”
“hahahahaha! Are you admitting defeat?”
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“Ugh?!”
As soon as he finished speaking, he moved to the next move, and Carrot began to look down at the checkerboard. And then he grabbed his head and screamed.
However, Viscount Boyd’s eyes were serious as he looked at Carrot.
“You must have a very high calculation ability. This little doll, if you do a little more, you’ll be a pretty fun opponent. Good opponents are difficult to find.”
Swoop-!
An automaton maid standing by her side put a small business card on the table and pushed it forward.
Viscount Boyd, wearing red sunglasses, pointed at Carrot with a cigarette in his finger.
“This is the address of my mansion. Even if you beat me, or if you hold out within the time limit, I will surely grant your wish.”
Quickly accepting the business card, Carrot looked at it and then raised her eyes.
“That’s what I mean. Do you really listen to anything? wish.”
Viscount Boyd, now smoking a cigarette, grinned, showing his teeth. A few of them were gold teeth, so it was a little funny.
“Even though I look like this, I am quite influential. There is enough money to rot and overflow. As long as it is not too far-fetched, it is possible to a certain extent.”
“Oh oh.”
Crank, who had been watching until then, slipped in.
“It’s getting close to departure time, so I’ll get up first.”
“Um, even if it’s not a long term, please listen to it at least once. In return for saving me, I’ll treat you to a meal. The mansion chef is good at cooking. You will like it.”
“thank you.”
Even while trying to figure out the number of people at the boarding area, Carrot was messing around while staring into the air.
Ariete asked.
“Didn’t you meet that chess demon king earlier? Are you still doing it?”
“huh! practice! They say that if you hold out for a certain amount of time, your wish will be granted.”
Ariete, who was listening, asked back.
“What do you wish for anyway?”
“Please save your brother.”
omg?!
Ariete and even Pi, who had been listening quietly, widened their eyes.
It was an unexpected answer. Then Ariete’s expression suddenly darkened. She lowered her head and began to mutter lowly.
“I, as an older sister, I hadn’t thought about anything… … . I don’t deserve Tinquet’s older sister.”
“Ariete, don’t beat yourself up too much.”
Pie, with a sullen face, put a hand on her shoulder.
Crank, who had been eavesdropping on the conversation while showing the conductor his tickets, did not ask when and where such friendship had suddenly arisen when he ran out of the house.
“It’s not a bad idea, but the difference in rank is too great. And it’s unreasonable to ask someone else to do that. get on it sooner than that depart.”
“I was wondering if I could at least say something.”
As I was getting into the car in turn, someone ran out. It was Louis, the human maid of Viscount Boyd.
“Wait!”
Louis brought a little boy to find Carrot. Carrot, who was sticking his head out the window, got out of the vehicle.
“oh! That chess demon king’s maid sister. What happen?”
Louis narrowed his eyes at the title that seemed to make fun of the owner he respected, but he said his business without protest. She pointed to the boy she had come with and said.
“Our master has been meeting you since yesterday evening. Because you overslept! I almost missed it.”
Viscount Boyd’s grandson Olcott, who had been looking up at the maid who was accusing the sleepyhead master with strength in his words, approached holding a children’s book to his heart. Her sleepy face slowly began to color with joy as she looked at the carrot in front of her eyes.
I was so excited that I stammered to the end.
“Me, me, me, maybe you! That, there, this, this!”
Alcott, her eyes tightly closed, held out the children’s book she was holding in her arms.
“Wow! Is this our story!? Crank Look at this! It’s our storybook! Wow!”