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Chapter 49 - Taking a Shower.

It was a pristine white room with abstract triangles covered artistic ceiling that was glimmering in a dim but illuminatingly enough sky blue light. The room was 15-20 feet with a sectional sofa at the right corner while a queen sized bed was adorning the left corner, there was a square-shaped knee-length table in the middle of the sofa while another waist-length table was in front of the bed's legs side. There were no actual decors in the room and everything was white except for the black coloured sofa and blanket which was tightly tucked in the bed.

The enter-exit door of the room was at the right corner, a few steps away from the sofa, and at the right hand side was another door that lead to the bathroom with all the necessary things already placed.

"Good enough." Ivan muttered after Nu closed the door behind him as Ivan tapped his RC on the scanner to actually close the door. Ivan walked towards the bathroom and walked in after asking them to make themselves comfortable and they would talk after he walks out of the washroom.

He locked the door behind him, leaned his back on wall next to the door and instantly slumped to the ground.

"Phew....." He began to breathe loudly, closing his eyes as his forearms rested on his knees.

'It's harder than I thought....' Thought Ivan while also noticing that he was getting used to being informal.

He took a quick glance at the bathroom and noticed that there was a bathtub, a big enough shower space with a glass wall which separated the bathtub and the shower, on his left-hand side while a separate semi-transparent wall hid the commode and on his right-hand side was a sink next to him with an arm-length sized rectangular mirror above it.

Of course, here too, the ceiling was artistically abstract.

'They must be the exhaust and temperature regulators.....' Ivan assumed because the ceiling was the most glaring common point in the room and the bathroom.

He brought the [Catholic-RC] in front of his line of sight before he browsed on how to access the bathroom since there were no taps.

"Hmmm...."

TAP-!

With a tap of his foot where a white coloured ring lit up, Ivan stood up with the support of his arms before walking towards the bathtub where a golf ball-sized blue and red circles lit up, similarly in the shower space and even near the commode where a few additional rings existed.

He walked towards the lights next to the bathtub and since he didn't how hot the water would be, he placed both his index and middle fingers in the blue and red lights at the same time.

[Medium Hot]

A small holographic non-interactive interface popped up above the interactive inbuilt button sensors.

With a series of blinking arrow marks facing down, there existed a lock-like sensor which made Ivan drag down his fingers, allowing him to retract his fingers as the bathtub was filled automatically.

In front of door, on the wall, there was a palm-sized visibly lit up white ring, where he curiously placed his hand and clicked on the only option available which lead to the white wall turning reflective.

WHISTLE~

With a whistle of amazement, Ivan took a few steps back and gazed at himself in the wall-sized mirror.

In the mirror, a 7-foot tall man whose charmingly handsome face with pitch-black hair and parakeet green eyes was seen gazing at himself. He was adorned in black, sticky seeming bandages, that covered every inch of his body below his long and wide neck, with a rag-like pants, which were demon beast's hide, adorned over his bandaged lower-half.

His wrists and ankles were shackled with golden divine chains which were coiled over his power packed calves and large forearms.

"Hmmm...." Ivan gazed at his face which hid his tiredness and sighed under his breath.

'I did great by discarding the demon's skull from my shoulder.....' Ivan thought. He had thrown off the jawless skull that adorned his left shoulder after he returned to the civilization, thinking it wouldn't help in him being able to adapt into the civilization.

[Ungird] Ivan commanded his bandages. Though he didn't have the essentials, with demonic energy etched skins of higher ranked demons wielded and ameliorated constantly, gave birth to an unnaturally yet naturally formed artefact from hell, and for whatever reason was also a bound artefact that seemed to not want to leave him.

The bandages came loose which was then removed by Ivan who pulled them through the shackles and demon beast's hide pants before sweeping them with his feet.

[Conglomerate] Ivan commanded and the bandages instantly bounced up before forming into a 7 foot tall staff according to Ivan's will. The different layer of bandages that covered the entirety of his left arm was left alone, of course, though it seemed like bandages, it wasn't, instead it was actually a glove.

Now, on the mirror, Ivan's Greek God-like, perfect combat ready body was visible with a horrible and massive, vertical claw scar marring his chest.

He then removed his pants, uncaring for the horrible scar marring his perfect combat ready body. Standing naked in front of the mirror, Ivan gazed at his body for a few seconds to see if there were any visible changes after the last time he checked which was .2 million years ago.

With a deep sigh, he walked towards the bathtub and submerged himself in the hot enough water; since the bathtub wasn't big enough to fit him, he dipped his legs in the water before he let his legs rest on the ground while the rest of his body was uncomfortably submerged in the water below his neck.

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After fifteen minutes of resting in the bathtub that maintained the water's temperature, Ivan walked to the shower, leaving behind the murky nearly black water in the bathtub which was flushed after a swipe of his fingers.

He grabbed the bandaged-staff and cleaned it, together with himself, and also the unremoved left arm covering glove that regained its silvery colour with small, black coloured, light-devouring scales adorning it.

The staff also regained its ominous red, black, and reddish black stripe like patterned colours. While his pitch-black hair leaked dark, near gooey, liquid that trickled down on his face and body to the ground before dispersing into the drain.

The wide shower perfectly cleaned his body, before he used the settings and made the hot water soapy, cleanly washed himself as if he had OCD before he turned off the shower, walked back towards the door, on the other side, where a few sensors were present. He tapped and dragged on them as he had learned from the browser and obtained, a towel, a bathrobe, and a pair of bathroom slippers which were clearly not fit for his size. He wore the bathrobe after drying himself with the towel and walked out like that with water still trickling down from his legs.

He dried his feet on the mat outside the bathroom, walked towards the bed with the towel hung on his head before sitting on the bed with his legs spread wide. Thanks to the bathrobe being big enough, his naked genitals wasn't completely visible to the pair of blushing women sitting on the sofa in front of him.

Ivan tapped his foot on the ground before he browsed through the browser and learned how to block sounds from leaking to the outside. Without even glancing at other settings and services, he blocked the sounds from leaving the dorm.

"Your Ma.... Ivan. You wanted to see me. No, why did you want to see me?" Nu, who was thinking and trying her best to talk informally, asked after Ivan waved his hand at her.

".... Well, I wanted to let you know.... I was thinking of asking you to speak informally and other matters, but now that I have seen how things are going, my plans are put on hold. I only have a few commands for you guys currently, I want you to gain as much information as possible, don't be suspicious, but if anybody suspects you, you are to erase their existence without any trials leading back to you. Learn as much as possible, meanwhile I'll do everything to regain my strength, and of course, get even stronger with much more solid foundation, which not even the Gods themselves will be able to shake." Ivan said as his voice and eyes turned cold when he began to command Nu and Zilla.

"Is that clear?" Ivan asked in a horrifyingly cold tone.

"Yes!" Nu answered with cold sweat covering her back, while Zilla made a cute yelping sound of agreement.

"Go to your dorms and adapt to acting human. We'll use the [Worlds Academy] to learn everything they can teach as we advance together. And remember; do not flaunt your strengths and make political enemies. It'll get annoying since we don't want anything to hinder our paths."