104 – 104 – Ninjas suddenly appear! # 1
104 – Ninjas suddenly appear! # One
I put my body into the hot water.
I felt like the fatigue of the day was flying away.
“Ah, that’s good.”
A man-like sound came out of his mouth.
Actually, since the man is right, what-.
And in the first place, nobody noticed.
Chabak, Chabak-.
Then I heard the sound of someone stepping barefoot on the wet bath floor.
When I turned my head, there was Tsubaki, who was slightly covering herself with a towel and her arm.
“Can I really come in with you?”
Tsubaki asked me.
It must mean “Can you take a bath with me, a man?”
I thought for a moment.
Tsubaki.
She may be a woman, but in her heart she must have thought of herself as a ‘man’.
However, even in this world of the 5th industry where nymphs and elves actually roam, unique people like Tsubaki must have been the target of attention and whispers in many ways.
Bath.
It was clear that he was trying to do things like taking a bath alone, away from the eyes of others.
I felt sorry for Tsubaki.
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“Come in quickly. The water temperature is just right.”
I decided to think of Tsubaki as a man.
Although he has big breasts and wide hips, he is a man.
Immediately, Tsubaki trembled.
“Yes, it is. There’s nothing wrong with men. Okay. I am… that… Because I’m a man….”
Shut-.
Tsubaki slipped her white feet into the bath.
I immediately plunged into it and got it all the way to my chest.
“… Am I weird?”
Tsubaki asked.
I thought what to say here so that it wouldn’t hurt Tsubaki.
“Is there anything strange about it?”
“Me, my body.”
Smooth-.
It was Tsubaki holding his own arm.
But I thought there was nothing strange about it.
That’s why I looked at it confidently without even peeking at it.
“You seem to have trained a lot. Envious. Do you usually exercise often? If you exercise, what kind of exercise do you do?”
“That, I don’t really exercise—.”
You don’t even exercise, but your body is that strong?
You seem to have good muscles too.
“Wow. What a blessed body. Are most body enhancement system awakeners like that? My dog squirrel, Kyeongkkong, is also of the Ganghwa family. He has a very strong body.”
“That, I see. What a blessed body. I’d never thought of it like that before.”
That was the end of the conversation.
……….
A quiet bath in many ways.
Should I also find something to talk about first?
“Are you getting engaged according to tomorrow’s game?”
“Huh? Ah oh. Well, that’s right. That’s right.”
Tsubaki’s face was very red.
Are you a person who is not good at hot water?
Japanese people like to soak in hot springs or baths, and I thought they were good at it.
It must have been my prejudice.
Tsubaki said.
“Is it strange? That I’m engaged to a woman….”
“No. Just. The fact of an arranged marriage itself is a bit unfamiliar to me. It’s a little strange that companies and companies or groups mate with each other’s children.”
I was a commoner.
In today’s world, common people’s marriages were usually love marriages.
Marriage is with people who like each other.
This is the person—you’re with the person you want, aren’t you?
It comes out like that in media like movies and dramas.
However, a marriage of convenience was a marriage that took place on the basis of a calculated calculation regardless of the feelings of the parties involved.
In the old days, everyone was married that way by their parents’ decision, but-.
As a 21st century modern person, I could ‘understand’ with my head, but I couldn’t feel the sensibility.
That said, marriage should be with someone you like-I didn’t even want to make a tedious admonition like that.
I didn’t deserve that, and I wasn’t a great person enough to say that ‘arranged marriage’ was wrong.
I was just curious.
How it feels.
Plop -.
At that time, Tsubaki soaked herself up to her neck in the hot water.
“… I hope you don’t laugh at me. I like pretty things.”
“Is that so?”
“Reiko and Yerim are both pretty. My ankles are thin and my waist is thin. The skin is also smooth. Like the dolls that children played with when they were young…. Her eyes are big and her eyelashes are long. You have high femininity.”
I see.
When I said that, it seemed that way.
Tsubaki likes pretty girls.
As a man, it was natural for him to like pretty women.
“Women are so pretty. Small and precious. It smells good too. When both Reiko and Yerim were young, when she did a play, she always took on the role of a princess. I play the role of a prince standing next to him….”
I see.
I seemed to know.
Living as childhood friends, I developed a crush on Seo Ye-rim and Reiko——it wouldn’t be strange at all.
Tsubaki immediately asked.
“Hail-do, the dog squirrel. What type of girl do you like?”
It was common for men to talk about women when they were trying to get closer.
I suddenly remembered what type of woman I like.
“I don’t have anything like that. If I had to pick someone who laughs well?”
I didn’t say I had an ideal type.
But I was weak against people who laughed at what I said.
My classmate in the 1st generation was like that, and Cathy was like that too.
When I just say “Gundam speaks Gundam-.”, Everyone explodes!
Of course, unfortunately, neither Yoo Ji-hyun nor Cathy could come true with me!
# # #
Pounding, pounding-.
Tsubaki’s heart raced.
Because it was my first time bathing with men.
“Let’s go out now.”
Chow-.
Haildo of the Dog Squirrel got up from his seat.
The man’s body exposed in this way was full of tension, like a statue roughly carved with his sword.
The scars everywhere were also quite dizzying.
‘… That’s a real man’s body… ! It’s the first time I’ve seen a man’s body other than my dad… !’
Haildo.
Rumors about the squirrels, honey ants, ghost spiders, and tiger owls he raised reached Tsubaki’s ears.
He was said to be a man who tamed great animals and used them for his power.
People said to Hail-do that “I’m lucky to make animals fight and be comfortable with myself.”
Tsubaki thought that was not necessarily the case as he was facing Hayldo’s back now.
‘This is a man’s…. It’s a warrior’s back…. This is the first crack in the world to open in Korea…. Is it the body of a first-generation Awakener—.’
Shut-.
Tsubaki rubbed Hayldo’s back with a foamed towel.
Woowook Koo-.
I tried pressing his back with his fingers, but it was a body that had been trained to the limit to the extent that it wouldn’t fit in the slightest.
It feels like several layers of hard steel bars compressed.
‘It’s a body that has been shaved to the limit.’
It was a body that felt ascetic and masochistic, even a kind of madness.
For what reason did he push his body this far?
Even if the body is trained to the limit, the level of the awakened people does not go up.
And the most amazing thing is—.
Swipe.
Tsubaki peeked over Haildo’s shoulder and peeked in front of him.
‘A real goblin… ! This is a real man… ? A fake like me… Inimitable…. How can a human body do this—!? Isn’t it heavy? It must be difficult to move!’
Anger-.
Tsubaki’s face turned red.
Tsubaki said that until now he thought he was masculine and not feminine.
It was because he thought he was weird since he was young, as he was compared to princesses like Reiko and Seo Ye-rim who looked good in one-piece dresses.
Tsubaki was tall and strong from a young age.
The difference becomes stark when entering puberty and when women become more feminine.
Because Tsubaki was strong and tall, he was called ‘Prince’.
He was much stronger than most men.
Even for Tsubaki himself, at some point, he wonders if he is not a woman but a man-.
He came to think so.
But it wasn’t.
It looks like it was compressed by tying several layers of thick wire together.
What was terrifying like this goblin’s bat was the real ‘man’.
The difference between Tsubaki and male Haildo.
It was much bigger, several times bigger than the difference between Tsubaki and sky-high women like Seo Ye-rim and Reiko.
There was literally a wall that could not be filled.
An insurmountable pillar towered high.
“Mr. Tsubaki. I guess I should do that now. I will push you now.”
Shut-.
The man turned around.
Tsubaki was startled.
“Oh, uh, yes! Because I’m a man… Okay. Huh-.”
Ssuk ssuk ssuk-.
A large, strong hand pushed Tsubaki’s back with a towel.
Tsubaki used to be like that, but now he’s more shy.
‘As expected, I… was a woman… !’
# # #
You wash my back and you don’t mind when I wash your back.
It seems that Tsubaki was a real ‘man’.
Becoming an Awakener is usually around puberty, when emotional tension dominates the body.
It wasn’t really strange that among those Awoken people, there were people who were confused about their identity.
“It’s done.”
Shut-.
I poured water on it one last time.
Our bath ends with that.
As I was putting my clothes back on, Tsubaki, already fully dressed, approached me.
“… It’s a very well-trained body. What kind of exercise do you do? As usual.”
Shut-.
Saying that, Tsubaki put her hand on my chest.
As a man, I’m envious of my well-trained pectoral muscles.
You have eyes to see?
When I was stagnant in D-class for a long time, I exercised every day until I fainted out of breathlessness just in case.
It became a habit, so I still exercise like that.
“I just do a lot of things. But if you do it like me, you won’t develop muscles. It’s because everyone’s itching is different.”
“I see…. After all, are real men different….”
Tsubaki blushes.
I was embarrassed.
Did I inadvertently hurt you?
“Originally, each person’s muscles are different. Mr. Tsubaki. May I touch your breasts?”
“Huh? Uh, what? Is it me?”
“It might be rude to touch each other’s body even though it’s the same guy because of cultural differences. However, if I touch my body, I can roughly grasp how to train.”
“Me, between men… between men… I am… uh, i…. That….”
Tsubaki was very flustered.
Tsubaki stuttered like a broken cuckoo clock.
“I, I am that—. Actually…. That… Is it a girl… !”
Pot-.
Finally, Tsubaki shouted.
And I felt the shock of the world collapsing.
“Are you a woman?”
“Yes! No matter where you look, you’re a woman… !”
Tsubaki was a woman!
You mean it wasn’t a man?
Then, have I been doing nothing but one-sided “s*xual harassment”? !?
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If Korea-Japan relations break down and World War 3 breaks out using this as an excuse, I will—.
It was then.
“Domo-. Tsubaki Award. Ambush Ninja Death-.”
Parbat, Parbabat-.
The lockers in the bath were opened one by one, and ninjas came out!
“Huh? Ninja? Why? Ninja… !? Eh?”
I was perplexed in many ways.
I wanted to know what kind of event it was.
All of this was like a hidden camera to fool me.
But Tsubaki clenched his fists as if he was used to it.
“Where are these ninjas hired! Did you attack me after knowing that I am Yagami Tsubaki, the successor of Dark Dragon Yagami!? They said there were suspicious beings on the island, so it was you guys!”