Hakai Me no Yuuri Chapter 42

I didn’t give myself enough time for this during the week, so I haven’t done a thorough proofreading yet. There may be inconsistencies and spelling mistakes. Pointing them out for me would be appreciated, and I’ll get them fixed at my earliest convenience. And now the chapter:

Author: Kaburagi Haruka

Translator: ShiroiKaze/Soyokaze Translations

2nd Arc, Chapter 42: Master’s Confession

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The dining hall… Actually this place is basically a restaurant.

It seems to be profiting by being managed like a high cla.s.s restaurant.

After taking our seats, a waiter came over to take our orders.

"Have you decided on your orders?"

"The lunch course. And the same for the lady."

"Certainly. We have either the beef or the fish course. Which would you like?"

"Beef?! Fish?!"

I raised my voice in slight surprise. Come to think of it, in the years I’ve been here, the only fish I’ve had were freshwater fish.

And the meat I’ve had was basically only boar, bear, snake, bird, and the vermin known as keratos… Also some pork purchased from the store.

"Hrmm, it’s been a long time since I’ve eaten beef… But it’s hard to turn down fish!"

"Haa, She’ll have the beef, and I’ll have the fish course please."

"Wha, I want to have fish too."

"I’ll share it with you, and then you can pa.s.s some of the beef to me."

"Roger that!"

When the food came, we let each other eat our meals, and stuffed ourselves on the lunch.

After the meal, my master ordered a slightly expensive distilled liquor and enjoyed himself with it. All there was in the village was a clouded local sake.

They started selling a distilled liquor in Mareba, the new product was called "clear" sake, and it rarely went to anyone besides my master who lives on the mountain.

There were a lot of orders for it too, so to keep things fair, mister Gusta denied my my master’s reservations of it. And there was also the portion that he put aside for himself.

"Burp… My belly is so full."

"That tends to happen when you devour two portions of desert."

"You know that girls have a separate stomach for deserts, right?"

I made a small, ill mannered burp while rubbing my belly. I guess I really did eat too much.

But when they brought out the frozen sweets, I was beside myself with joy. I liked sweet things quite a bit in my previous life too.

"Would you like a drink too Yuuri?"

"I’ll pa.s.s. I would just get smashed."

"You can break it down with "Adaptability," can’t you?"

"Then I wouldn’t even get a little intoxicated. There’s no point."

Even alcohol gets mercilessly disa.s.sembled by it. Moreover, if I disable my "Gift" to get drunk, then I’ll get completely wasted at mach speed.

"It’s both a convenient and inconvenient ability, huh."

"It’s a specification."

I return an expression that cuts off the topic. Filling up on desert, my stomach became a bit unshapely.

"Leaving that aside, I ate a little too much, so is it all right with you if I head back to the room and rest?"

"I don’t mind. I’ll head back after I finish this off."

"It’s the middle of the day and you intend on emptying a whole bottle, Master?"

With nothing to say, I present a very wet stare to my master, who made a remark reminiscent of a useless adult.

Isn’t this situation getting a little too far off track?

"Well, it was a long journey after all. I’ll take care of the check later, so go head back and get some rest."

Humming unconcernedly, my master orders seconds. He wasn’t really the type to drink a lot, so he’s probably in an especially good mood today.

I’m also worried about how Yig is doing after we left him in the room, so I decided to head back first.

"I’ll be going then. Please don’t drink too much, Master."

"Yeah, yeah."

In response to me putting my hands on my hips in an angry manner and warning him, my master makes light of it.

To the employees looking on at us pleasantly: could you stop that please?

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Upon returning to the room, an absurd scene awaited me.

Oh, the room wasn’t messed up or anything, that’s not what I mean… It was Yig.

It was my first time seeing a dragon soaking in a tub with a towel on his forehead, gulping down water from a cup.

"Y-you’re a surprisingly talented child, Yig."

"Ugyuu~"

"How long are you planning on being in there anyway… Isn’t it hot? Well, I guess compared to how hot your breath is, the water is nothing."

"Gaffu, Gaffu, Gaffu…"

"Where did that water even come… Nope, forget it. In any case, I won’t be able to use it like this."

This is also the first time I’ve seen a dragon dextrously holding a water jug to its mouth and drinking straight from the bottle. This kid seems to be growing in a very nonsensical direction.

But I suppose if I can’t use this bath, then maybe I should go to the open air bath?

I think the open air bath here is supposed to be mixed bathing… And as a little sc.r.a.p of a woman, I’ll need to be quite ready for that.

It’ll be a little scary if there are other people there, but… Moreover, I wonder if my master will go in too.

"No, my master is drinking in the dining hall right now! Actually, entering the bath together was supposed to be my big goal."

I tried to clench my fists to get myself fired up for it… But of course I’m still too embarra.s.sed. Since I’ve started being more self-conscious.

Therefore…

"… Maybe I should bring a nice big towel with me?"

Is the questionable line of compromise I decided to execute.

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Swish, went the sliding door, so unusual for this world, as I opened it will all my might.

Steam covered the area beyond the door in a haze, and before I knew it the Sealing Magic Mirror had clouded over.

But even though my visibility went to practically zero, it’s not like I can take them off. If someone were to enter, then it would turn into a catastrophe.

So that I don’t need to take them off, I wipe the gla.s.ses with the end of my towel, and regain my field of vision… Alright, n.o.body’s here.

"Whew… I got so nervous for nothing. This is why being outside the cottage is…"

Briefly looking around, the large bath is roughly the size of an average pool. Unflagging bare rocks are placed about, making a nice atmosphere.

The stone in the center of the bath has a sculpture carved out of it… Is that… A Manneken Pis?1

"Hey G.o.d, the previous world and this world must have some connection, right? But seriously, seeing such a large quant.i.ty of hot water gushing out from a Manneken Pis like this is… Y’know?"

The little urinating boy in the center is bursting forth an abundant stream of hot water into the bath. Whoever thought up this design; show yourself!

Ah, anyway… I’ll pretend I never saw that.

"Right, the question is how is the water. Not where it’s coming from."

I get some water to wash my body off, and use the towel to gather my hair up.

In exchange, my body was bare now, but since I’ve had it for 5 years now, I guess I don’t feel much from it?

"I’m totally flat and smooth anyway… If I had a more buxom body, then I wonder if I would have played with myself a bit?"

After washing off my sweat and grime, I submerge myself in the bath. The warmth of the water makes it feel like I’m being sucked in.

"Whew… This is fantastic… I think I understand how Yig feels."

I’m probably making an expression that I can’t show to anyone else right now.

It feels, plain a simple, amazing. This could be bad. It’s comparable to my master’s lap.

While I entered that entranced, defenseless state—Swish, went the sliding door as it opened… And my master entered.

"WHAA?! M-m-m-m-master, why—so suddenly!"

"Oh, yooou’re here too, Yuuri. Don’t mind mee."

"It’s occupied! By me! Please wait for a bit."

"This’ mixed bathin’, iiisn’ it?"

"… You’re kinda slurring your words. Are you drunk?"

"Yeeah, a bit."

On closer inspection, his face is bright red. Will he be okay going into the bath like that?

"Aahh, sheesh! Hold on a minute. You have to wash off before you go in the bath…"

"Whoops, sorryy."

I take my master’s hand and pull him over to the washing area.

Uugh, it’s shaking around… "What is," you ask? What indeed.

"Now that we’re here, let’s get your body washed. You understand?"

"Yeaah, you’re awfully considerate today."

My master takes a seat on the stool, and the towel… he didn’t bring a towel? It’s all I have, so I remove the one wrapped around my head and use it.

I rinse him with water for a while, then lather up the soap and wash his back.

"Since you don’t have any strength, you’re practically tickling me. But it feels really nice."

"… Well, good then."

Umm… I got used to washing his body back in Rahon, but with both of us naked it feels a bit different…

On top of that, I wasn’t ready for any of this.

—Co-conversation! I can gloss over this mood if I just start a conversation!

"Why did you come to the bath when you’re so drunk?"

"Hmmm? Solkalis is all about their hot springs, right?"

"That’s a pretty simplistic… It’s dangerous to get in a hot bath while you’re drunk."

"And I figured you’d be here too, Yuuri."

"Eh?"

I-in other words… This is exactly the kind of situation that my master was hoping for?

Being in the bath with me? That’s what my master wants?

"Why… are you acting like this?"

"I was worried about you, Yuuri."

"This is an inn. There’s nothing dangerous here."

"There’s that weirdo following you around, isn’t there?"

"Uu… But the entrance is being watched by the inn’s employees, right?"

"Then I’ll just say it honestly. I wanted to get in with you. Because I like you."

"Hwha?!"

Wh-what did he just say? Did I mishear… Wait, I’m sure he meant it in a family sense, or, you know, something like that.

Fufufu, you think I’d misunderstand?

While I came to a self-contained conclusion like that, my master took me into somewhat rough embrace.

I, who was behind my master, was pulled to his side and entwined with him as he hugged me tightly.

"I’ll say it once more, Yuuri. I love you."2

My master… by how he said it, I could tell that he was completely serious.

His words expressed how much he wanted me. There’s no way I wouldn’t be happy.

I embrace my master’s body in return, and tears flowed from me.

"Am I… Good enough for you?"

"You’re all I want, Yuuri."

"I’m a child, you know?"

"You just turned 15 a while back."

"Umm… But I can’t have s.e.x or anything? Because of the effects of "Sacred Treasure"."

"As long as we have these "rings," we’ll manage somehow."
"I can’t have children."

"We could always adopt. In fact, maybe we should adopt Alec?"

"Let’s not, please."

My master put on a joking air. However, he hugged me all the tighter… It’s almost like he was strongly hugging me to say he wouldn’t let me get away.

When I raised my face to look at him, he had an anxious expression. It was rare on my master, who was always calm and composed.

—Why does he look so worried…?

"So, umm… Will you… Give me a reply? Or perhaps you don’t like old people like me?"

"… Oh, no way! I wouldn’t… dislike that."

Answering such, I shift positions, and hug my master while sitting on his lap.

I rest my head in his arm… and bring my face close—

"If you’ll have me, then—gladly."

With a faint, sighing voice, I accepted his proposal.

After that, we exchanged our first kiss as man and woman—

"How did you like your first time in the bath, Master?"

"I couldn’t stop things from running their course."

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Author’s Note:

It was rather quick, but it’s the second arc’s climax.

Manneken Pis is a statue of a naked little boy urinating. It’s famous as a landmark in Brussels, but there are variants of it in many places, including one in j.a.pan. ↩ When Haster says "I love you" here, he uses the masculine p.r.o.noun "Ore" (俺 ) to refer to himself, whereas he had previously always used the gender neutral "Watashi." ↩