Chapter 248 - Chapter 248 Mary’s First Visit To A Bath House

As Thomas arrived back at the inn Lily stared at him excitedly and asked "Is it true?" Thomas stared at her for a moment and asked "Is what true?" Lily pointed at him and said "You have one of those crystals Daisy was talking about." Thomas pulled it out of his pocket and said "You mean this thing?" Lily nodded and said "Yeah, Daisy said it makes people stronger." Lily stared at it and asked "Have you used it yet?" Thomas stood there and mumbled "I'd rather not." Lily continued to stare at the crystal as she asked "Then what's the point of having one?" Thomas handed it to her and said "If you wanna learn how to use it I'm sure Daisy will teach you, you can use this one for now if you want." Lily held the crystal and said "I had Daisy teach me about them while you were gone, but she said that yours is stronger then hers." Lily glanced at him and said "She also mentioned you hiding your magical aura, and she's right, I can't see yours." As Daisy and the others walked into the room Thomas held the book up and said "I found what you wanted." Daisy grabbed the book and said "This will be sure to help Mason." As she left Mira glanced at Thomas and said "Me, Lily, and Daisy are gonna do some quests tomorrow, do you mind watching Mary?" Thomas nodded and said "Sure no problem." Mary stared at Thomas excitedly and said "It's been a while since it was just me and papa." Thomas glanced at her and asked "Anything you wanna do?" Mary glanced at Lily and said "Lily told me about a bath house." Thomas stared at her and said "I can just create one in the subconscious." Mary stared at him and said "No, I wanna go to the one in this town so I can experience what everyone else does." Thomas nodded and said "Okay then we can do that tomorrow." As Mary climbed into bed she said "I'm gonna go to sleep right now then!" Mira smiled and said "She seems like she'll have fun tomorrow." Thomas glanced at Mira and said "I don't know why, it's just a bath." Mira nodded and said "Yes but it would appear that she's looking forward to it quite a bit." As Morning came Mary pushed on Thomas's chest and shouted "Come on wake up!" Thomas opened his eyes and stared at her as he asked "What's the rush?" Mary climbed up onto the bed and said "Come on we gotta go to the bath house, you said you'd take me." Mary began to push him more and more as she said "Come on wake up." As Thomas sat up he said "Just give me a minute." As Mary walked over to the door she said "Lily is right, you should take better care of yourself, you ended up staying up late reading those books." Thomas stared at her and yawned as he said "You shouldn't worry about that too much, I'll be fine." As Thomas walked over to her he asked "Are you ready to go?" Mary nodded and excitedly said "This is gonna be my first visit to a public bath house." As they left the inn and began to walk towards the bath house Sarah stumbled upon Thomas and said "We need to talk." Thomas glanced at her and asked "What for?" Sarah glanced at Mary and asked "Are you busy?" Mary nodded and said "Yeah, he's gonna take me to the bath house." Sarah glanced at Thomas and said "Good then we can talk there." Thomas stared at her with a blank expression and asked "But didn't you just ask if we were busy?" Sarah nodded and said "Exactly, we can talk in the bath house." Thomas stared at her and asked "But doesn't that qualify as busy?" Sarah shook her head and said "Of course not, while bathing your at least fifty percent free." As they arrived in the bath house Thomas stared at the signs and said "I'm glad Ocis thought me how to read." Sarah grabbed Thomas's hand and said "alright, we'll go into the mixed gender baths so we can talk." Mary ran ahead and said "This is so different from the one in the subconscious." Once they were all in the water Sarah glanced at Thomas and said "Okay then, now we can talk business." Thomas glanced at Sarah and said "But I thought you were gonna deal with the guild and stuff?" Sarah nodded and said "Yes and I've been taking care of things around the guild, however we have a lot of people who have signed up and we need a method to pick the very best." Thomas glanced at her and asked "What does this have to do with me?" Sarah stared intently at him and said "It's simple, I told them if they could even lay a single hand on you that I'd allow them to join." Mary sat down beside Thomas and said "This water is nice." Thomas glanced at her and said "Yeah, it's nice and warm." Sarah stared at Thomas and asked "Are you ignoring me or did you just not hear me." Thomas glanced at Sarah and said "I heard you, I just don't care." Sarah alley out a sigh of relief and said "Well that's good to hear because one of them was an extremely powerful assassin and I told him that he could attack you whenever." Thomas glanced at Sarah and asked "Are you serious?" Sarah nodded and said "Unfortunately yes, and he sent a messenger to get information on you, however because of this I cannot tell you how he looks and haven't even seen him myself." Mary glanced at Thomas and asked "Does this mean your in danger?" As a knife flew past Thomas's head with a note they all glanced at it as Sarah nodded and said "I do believe he's in a great deal of trouble." Thomas grabbed the note and opened it up as he read "Your head will soon be mine, you were warned tread carefully, the next breathe you take could be your last." Thomas tossed the note aside and said "They made it so ominous, what an annoying message." Sarah stared at the knife and asked "Aren't you concerned about how they sent the message?" Thomas glanced at the knife and said "Yeah I seen it." Mary stared at Sarah and said "I'm sure papa can beat that assassin no problem!" Thomas yawned and said "Just ignore him, I'm sure he'll give up eventually." Sarah stared at Thomas and said "Your taking this too lightly, this man may actually try to kill and could be using what I said to do so." Thomas glanced at her and said "I don't think they'll be able to." Mary stared at Thomas and said "I just realized something, your not wearing the blindfold like Mira mentioned." Thomas nodded and said "Yeah, people normally complain when I wear it." As Sarah stood up and wakes away she said "I'll be taking my leave, I'll also be keeping watch from a distance." Thomas grabbed three knife from the wall and tossed it past Sarah as he said "Watch it." Sarah glanced at him and asked "What are you doing?" Thomas pointed towards the door and said "There was a piece of string there, I'm assuming that once you walked into it a trap would've activated or something." Sarah glanced closely at the side of the door and seen barely visible pieces of string as she asked "How did you see them?" Thomas shrugged and said "Just happened to see it." Mary stared at Thomas in amazement and said "That's so cool." Sarah began to walk away as she said "Well whatever, just be careful." Thomas glanced at Mary and said "I'm sure this assassin nonsense will go away pretty soon." Mary stared at Thomas and said "Right, but until it does please be careful." Thomas nodded and said "Alright, but I don't think this assassin is gonna actually try to kill me." Mary stared at him and said "You heard Sarah, you can't be to sure, he might still try." Thomas yawned and said "Then I'll just deal with them quickly so you can stop worrying." Mary stood up and said "Alright then." Thomas glanced at her and asked "What, are you ready to go?" Mary nodded and said "Yeah, now I wanna go look around the town." Thomas stood up and walked with her out of the bathing area as he said "Guess we should get a move on then." Mary nodded and said "We can also keep an eye out for that assassin Sarah mentioned." Thomas stared at her and said "I already told you not to worry about it, if push comes to shove I'll be sure to take care of it quickly." Mary smiled and said "I know but if you get hurt I won't be able to go around like this with you."