Ch.52 Are Beautiful Men and Women What Everyone Desires?

I told them to be careful because I thought the two of them were actually women, but I wonder if my hunch was correct. That's what I thought based on their gestures, speech, actions, and atmosphere, so I think that's probably the case.

Well, either way, their avatars are female, so I guess it's fine to say they're female.

As long as they don't have any evil thoughts, that's all that matters.

"This is my first time at a public bath. I always go to the baths at some inns."

"I see. Well, a public bath isn't much different from an inn."

As 1 of us touch the door that isn't the type to automatically open when sensing a person getting closer, it slides to the side, and the rest of us are stepping inside.

Automatic doors and noren curtains. To me, it's a strange combination. When I think of public baths, I imagine doors made of wood and rattling noises. I've never been to one, though, just based on my imagination.

However, this is also due to the history that this game world has taken, and there may be some differences from common sense in the real world, but that is unavoidable.

Here, some things run on electricity, while others run on magical power. The existence of magical power changes the path you walk.

Looking around, there are stores with automatic doors, kiosks that don't even have doors, and there are also convenient technologies such as digital devices like smartphones and televisions that seem to be advancing the times by decades or even centuries.

The old and the new are truly combined into one. Towns and cities are made up of a perfect balance of the two.

As we move forward into the future, the old may be eliminated and replaced with the new.

"It's been a while since I've been here."

"So you've been here before, Vester. Are you staying at an inn right now?"

"No, I don't really need to stay at an inn right now. But I do have a desire to go in every day."

"Do fairies stay beautiful even if they don't take baths often? Well, it's best to take a bath, even if not every day, so you don't stink."

"Okay."

The inside of the bathhouse is quite spacious, with a kiosk on the left, a row of bookshelves on the right, and several long sofas and tables in the middle, where you can relax and eat something you bought from the kiosk or read a book.

If you go straight ahead, you will come to the reception desk. There are 4 entrances on either side of it, the 2 on the right are for men and the 2 on the left are for women.

The 3 of us headed to the reception desk to pay the bathing fee.

"Welcome. Would you like to take a bath?"

"Yes, 3 people. The price is..."

Mimia-san answers the receptionist.

The fare is 50 Monies per child and 60 Monies per adult, which is equivalent to 500 yen and 600 yen in the real world.

The amount charged varies depending on age, but avatars don't age, so a child avatar can always pay less than an adult.

"I invited you, so I'll pay."

"Huh? I'm fine paying for myself."

"It's fine. So how much for 3 people?"

Huh? I think it's fine to pay for ourselves. Why do you want to pay so much?

Well, if you say it's fine, I'll take you up on your offer.

I'll try to pay it back somehow. It feels a bit like borrowing and lending money, so I feel a bit uneasy.

"3 kids, that's 150 Monies."

"Okay."

Sakidori Midori-san gave a brief reply and put the money into a bag spread out on the reception counter.

Money is coming out from her sack with a jingling sound. I wish there was a way to mute it, but because it exists as a material object, the sound cannot be eliminated.

If you want to make as little noise as possible, the only solution is to not drop it from too high a position. That's just the only way I can think of.

But now that I think about it, I wonder how the receptionist knew we're all children. We didn't show any ID or anything... Is it just from our appearance?

Mimia-san looks like a young girl no matter how you look at her, and Sakidori Midori-san looks like she's in the prime of her youth.

Am I... a child? When I saw my face at the lake in the fairy forest, I looked like a young girl, or rather, someone who had just become a young girl. Well, I'm only three months old after all.

Or rather, as the tree grows older, will this body also become an adult? I'm curious.

I'd like to meet and talk with other fairies about it.

"Yes, I've received the payment. Please take your time."

After we're done with the bathing fee, the 3 of us head to one of the entrances next to the reception desk to take a bath.

"When I came here last time, it wasn't on this side ."

"If you were not on this side, then you must be on the side that needs a swimsuit. But we don't have one right now."

My muttering is picked up by Sakidori Midori-san.

Your ears are good. Maybe it's because you're a beastman.

"Did you say something, Vester-san?"

"Yeah, she said she wasn't using this side the last time she came, so I thought she went to the one that needs a swimsuits, but then we don't have a swimsuit in the first place."

"I see. Hmm... You do have it, but it's too small and doesn't fit, so you can't wear it, something like that?"

"Well, that's about it. It's just a muttering that you don't need to worry about."

Let's just leave it at that. It was in the past, in a previous life.

Following the 2 of them, I entered the entrance to the women's bath where no swimsuits were required.

Once we step inside the doorless space, we find yourself in a slightly long corridor leading to the changing room.

There were players and NPCs of all ages , and perhaps it should be mentioned that all of them were good looking.

People want to be beautiful, so they create them that way. I can understand.

All the players here have beautiful, radiant faces, and they've probably shaped their bodies to their ideal shape; none of them are plump.

Not everyone thinks the same way. That's impossible, though maybe those are not here.

NPCs are just like regular people in the real world. There are no equals of beautiful men and women, so some have normal faces. Or rather, there are more people with normal faces.

That's why beautiful men and women players are popular. But when I say popular, it doesn't mean that people will fall head over heels for them just by looking at them or talking to them.

It's just a normal conversation about how cool or cute that person is. Whether it develops into romance or not is up to the individuals themselves.

Even if you look good on the outside, doesn't mean you're good on the inside. If everyone is good-looking, then in the end it's all about what's on the inside.

The 3 of us went through the changing room and looked for an empty locker with a lock.

"Oh, there are 3 empty lockers available here."

"Oh, thanks. There are quite a few people here so it's pretty full."

The two of them immediately started taking off their clothes, but I didn't even touch my clothes and just floated in place.

If I take them off, it'll count as me taking damage and my clothes will just regenerate, so there's no point.

To begin with, there are three things that are different in this fairy body compared to when I was human: pain, hunger, and physiological phenomena.

As you know, the AI ​​doesn't feel pain, and the same goes for my main body. It doesn't feel anything even when an insect bites it.

Although, as the magic energy in the air is absorbed, my body gradually recovers, so it's possible that my body has recovered before I can feel any pain.

Either way, this works in roughly the same way as the fairy form.

As for hunger, the tree itself is my main body, and as you know, trees constantly eat through photosynthesis, so I think I never get hungry because of that.

Or, since this body is made of magical energy, the supply of magical energy sent from my main body may serve as a substitute for food. However, it's also possible that I never had a hunger setting to begin with.

However, this doesn't mean that I can't eat in this fairy form. The food I eat is simply converted into magical energy, so I can still eat.

Of course, because everything I eat is converted into magical power, the physiological phenomena that would occur to humans doesn't occur to me.

But strangely enough, saliva, tears, and sweat come out. And it's even stranger when the ones that are supposed to come out from bottom don't.

It's true that if the foods and drinks I consumed aren't being digested, nothing would come out.

As for saliva, tears, and sweat, I don't know if they're part of the race or how they work.

Is it like sap coming out?

The point is that this body does get dirty. To keep it clean, I either have to erase the clone and make a new one, or take a bath.

The only option at this point is to bathe while fully clothed.

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〘1st job, 2nd job, 3rd job, 4th job...〙

Each job has four names, and the name that comes before the job changes as you rank up.

[1st job] → [2nd job] → [3rd job] → [4th job]

Beginner → Novice → Intermediate → Advanced

Apprentice → Semi-professional → Full-fledged → Master

Lower → Intermediate → Upper-intermediate → Advanced

If you take on a job that is derived from your primary job, you will start immediately from [2nd job], and if you continue to do so without changing, you will eventually reach a [5th Job]. The name remains the same, and there are still 4 stages.

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