"...It's about time." Hermes muttered as he looked outside the tent. He turned to Bell who was behind him and currently packing up the things they bought in Rivira when they went around it earlier, "Why don't you tag along, Bell-kun?"
"Eh?" Bell looked towards Hermes with a dumbfounded expression.
"It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that I came to the Dungeon for this." Hermes then suddenly gave Bell a big grin, "I've been waiting for the right opportunity. We're finally alone for this!"
While Bell was looking at him with a confused expression, a certain man suddenly appeared beside them, "Hoho~, that seems interesting~. Mind if I join in~?"
"Waah!!!" Both Hermes and Bell exclaimed when they suddenly heard someone speak beside them, especially Hermes since he was planning to do something not good.
"K-Kisuke-kun!?" Hermes exclaimed, "Since when were you here!?"
"Just now when you were inviting Cranel-san to do something. I think I know what you have in mind~." Kisuke replied with the same grin that Hermes had.
Smiling wryly, Hermes had no choice but to invite him too, "For now, let's go! I know a good spot."
Clapping his hands, Kisuke praised Hermes, "As expected of Hermes-sama~. You really know your stuff."
Hermes and Kisuke then started walking towards a certain direction while urging Bell to follow suit.
A few minutes later, they reached a certain tree and started climbing it. A few seconds later, a certain view displayed itself to the three.
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A few minutes ago, sometime after returning from shopping through Rivira, the girls decided to bathe together in a clean body of water that was claimed by the Loki Familia.
"Ta-da~!" Tiona showed off their bathing spot. It was a very beautiful body of water surrounded by walls of crystals with a small waterfall spurting out of a tall crystal. It was unknown where the water was coming from or where the water went, so that it didn't overflow. However, that wasn't important to the girls as they were happy that they could bath somewhere clean inside the Dungeon.
"Wow... Can we really bath here?" Naaza asked.
"We'll take turns guarding, so we should be safe." A human girl reassured everyone. Effy Colette then turned to her roommate who was currently feeling down, "Right? Lefiya-san?"
Because she skipped her duties to stalk Ais, she got an earful from Riveria and would be punished appropriately once they came up to the surface. Lefiya nodded dejectedly.
"Nothing to worry about with the Loki Familia watching our backs.", muttered Asfi as she looked around.
Tiona and Tione led the way. They then started undressing without a care in the world, "Taking a bath after we just got back from Rivira. It has become quite the routine, huh." Tione mumbled.
"Well, I mean, we're on the 18th floor after all. It'd be such a waste not to!" Tiona added before jumping in the water after undressing.
The rest also followed suit while commenting on how clear the water was and that they didn't expect to take an open-air bath on the 18th floor.
"No matter what I go through as an Adventurer, I'm still wary of doing this sort of thing outdoors." Asfi was the second to last to get in.
"Of course. After all, you don't know if there are any unscrupulous eyes watching such an open space." Yoruichi replied to her.
Asfi looked towards Yoruichi who was having a good time while resting her back on a smooth crystal, "A towel? It's not like anyone would have the courage to peep on the Loki Familia's top Adventurers or else they're just going to invite death."
Yoruichi repositioned the towel on top of her body which hid her important bits before replying, "You never know~." Ever since she got together with Kisuke, she couldn't easily show herself to others unlike before.
Asfi remembered the personality of her God after hearing those words, "You have a point." She too, took out a towel to cover her front while resting her back on the crystal wall.
Lefiya, Tiona, and Tione finally noticed that Ais was spacing out while undressing as she was the last one who still hadn't gotten in, "Ais? What's wrong?" Tiona asked.
Ais woke up from her deep thought and immediately replied, "...Nothing." Before hurrying up and getting in. Although a few minutes later, she'd return to this blank expression of hers again, as if she was deeply contemplating something.
"What happened to her?" Tione asked Lefiya as she already heard from others that she tailed Ais earlier.
"I-I don't know." Lefiya immediately shook her head, "However, she came to the Hestia Familia's tent earlier and stayed there for quite some time."
Tione narrowed her eyes and asked, "Who was in there?"
"The three who are unconscious... and Kisuke Urahara." Lefiya replied.
However, before Tiona and Tione could ask any further, a voice suddenly came from a tall tree near them, "AHHH!!!" A big splash was then created due to something falling into the water from quite high up.
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Once they reached a certain tree branch, while Bell froze in his spot, Hermes had an expression of appreciating a nice scenery and Kisuke was rubbing his chin while looking down on the girls taking a bath.
Bell finally got ahold of himself and hurriedly asked, "What are we doing here!?"
"Peeping~." Hermes answered with a relaxed smile.
"A straight answer!!!? And not even a shred of guilt!?" Bell retorted before sulking, "I thought you were gonna show me something important..."
Giving him a thumbs up, Hermes added, "I'm the best, aren't I?"
"Please don't be so proud of yourself," Bell muttered while covering his face.
Patting his shoulder, Hermes replied, "Bell-kun, this is part of a man's romance."
Bell froze again, "Man's romance...?"
Hermes then looked down again and commented, "Either way, Asfi-chan is such a killjoy, covering herself like that. Though, she must have copied your wife, Kisuke-kun."
Kisuke didn't say anything and just smiled.
Bell woke up again and started shaking Hermes, "No, no, no. I will not be fooled! Let's go back!!"
Hermes panicked and immediately grabbed a nearby tree branch, "Hey, if you move around like that...!"
And just as he expected, Bell slipped and fell, "Ah... AHHH!!!"
"!?"
With a big splash, Bell revealed himself to the girls.
"What!?" Lefiya and Elfy were startled as they were the ones guarding.
Bell resurfaced and he was greeted by the naked bodies of the Amazoness sisters, "Argonaut-kun?" Tiona muttered before happily asking, "What? Did you come to take a bath too?"
"I had pegged you as the quiet type... Not bad." Tione commented.
"!!!" Bell's face started to flush.
As for the rest of the girls, they hurriedly tried to hide their private parts with their hands, "Kyaah!?" A scream came from one of them.
But before they could react any further, another person fell on the water, making another big splash, "Fuah!!! What!? How did I fall!?" Hermes questioned himself before he noticed the glare which he was receiving from Asfi.
Kisuke created a string out of Mana to trip the escaping Hermes, making him fall into the same predicament as Bell, "Ah...! Bell-kun! It's time to bail out!"
With Hermes starting to run away, Bell soon followed suit, running even faster than Hermes, "Ah... BASTARD!!!" Lefiya shouted because her beloved Ais was seen.
"!? This kid's so fast" said Elfy as she tried to catch Bell, however, he easily evaded her. However, instead of coming after him, Elfy saw what Lefiya was doing. Lefiya had started chanting her spell. She was parallel casting faster than ever. The magic she was weaving was easily comparable to a Level 5 spell.
"Arcs-" But before she could finish, Elfy and the other guards hurriedly jumped on her, "Lefiya, stop!"
"What the hell are you thinking!?"
"You're gonna kill him! He'll burn right up!"
Realizing this, Lefiya stopped her spell in panic. The next moment, they could only see how he slowly disappeared among the bushes with Hermes behind him. "I'm sorrrrryyyyy!!!", shouted Bell as he fled.
Thanks to the commotion that Lefiya created, Hermes was able to take some distance, but before he disappeared, he suddenly pointed at the spot where they were peeping, "Kisuke-kun! We're discovered! Escape before they catch you!"
Far from helping Kisuke out, Hermes pointed out his existence because he had a feeling that Kisuke did something for him to fall too.
Ais was startled when she heard this and like everyone else, looked towards the direction where Hermes pointed at. There, they saw a man wearing a striped bucket hat and green eastern clothing as he stood proudly on the tree branch while looking down on them.
"You!!!" The already frustrated Lefiya exploded again and started to weave her spell again, but just like before, she was stopped by everyone else due to the over the top spell she was chanting.
With the same happy face, Tiona asked, "You came to join too?"
Tione, on the other hand, smiled wryly, "I already thought that you could do something like this, ...but in front of your lover?"
Everyone then looked towards Yoruichi, who, strangely enough, was still leisurely relaxing while watching everything unfold.
The Loki Familia girls who had stood guard slowly encircled the tree, where Kisuke stood on, intending to catch him and hand him over to their leaders, "You there! Although you're the guest of Loki Familia, we can't allow something like this! Surrender yourself and the punishment won't be as severe!"
Instead of replying to them, Kisuke first looked around, prompting the girls to hide in panic. When Kisuke's gaze brushed past Ais, she blushed fiercely, unlike when Bell and Hermes saw her and hurriedly curled down while hiding her important bits with her hands.
When the guards were about to jump on him, Kisuke suddenly spoke with a serious face, "I'm not peeping!"
"That's exactly what you are doing right now!" Lefiya retorted.
"I'm openly watching!" Kisuke proudly added with a snort.
"That's even worse!" Lefiya retorted again and ordered the rest, "Catch him!"
The guards hurriedly climbed up the tree so, in response, Kisuke jumped towards one of the crystals on the water. And with a slackened face, Kisuke continued, "Well, I've always wanted to say that. Hehehe~."
"Kyaah!!!" Instead of escaping, Kisuke had the gall to approach the naked girls which made them panic even more.
"You pervert! Behave yourself!" Lefiya shouted as she started weaving a small spell to immobilize Kisuke.
But in response, Kisuke only smiled awkwardly and said, "Well, I didn't expect you to catch me. I didn't think that Hermes-sama would rat me out~."
'You big liar.' Yoruichi retorted inside her head as she was wondering what he was planning.
"Enough with your words! If you have any excuses, say them later!" One of the guards jumped from crystal to crystal to reach where he was and she was soon followed by the rest.
However, before they could reach him, Kisuke suddenly shook his head, "I have no excuses, but how about this? As an apology, I'll give you an opportunity."
Tione signaled all those coming after him to stop, "Tione-san?"
Tione ignored them and asked Kisuke, "Opportunity?" She had a feeling that this would be a good chance.
"Yep~. An opportunity~. Within three hours, starting from now, whoever can catch me would have the right to ask me any three questions or request one thing from me~." Kisuke proposed.
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Editors:
28th00: Poor Bell-kun, he had no clue what was going on till it was too late! Ais is showing quite a strange reaction to Kisuke, hmm~? Also, that is such a loaded bait, it's absolutely going to work. Time to wreak some havoc!
Alexander: I can't wait for Loki's reaction, once she hears about this.