96 Episode 96 "Slave Girls Bathing and Her Request".txt (2/2)

So, Mr. Rafilia. Let's build a 'sandcastle'.

Yes!

Cecil and Raphilia sat down on the beach facing each other.

'Nagi-sama told me once. She said they usually build a 'sand castle' when they come to the sea.

I know. I'll mix in a game Master taught me.

Cecil is sitting upright on the beach. Raphilia is sitting with her legs spread.

The two of them are about a meter away from the surf's edge.

It's a position where they have free access to both sand and water.

'Nagi-sama, Master,'

We'll need to signal the start of the game, please!

When did you get to the game? ......

Well, it's a free day.

Doesn't the master complain about the way all the slaves play?

”Yes, sir.

At my cue, Cecil and Rafilia shovel the sand at the same time.

Cecil is wearing a white swimsuit that he showed me the other day.

When I'm on the beach, Cecil's brown skin looks so beautiful. Cute.

Rafilia is wearing a bikini type swimsuit. The color is cherry blossom blue.

There is not much fabric - or rather, when Rafilia wears it, she can't help but look like she has less fabric.

It's dangerous when you move too much, but there's no one to watch but me and my friends.

Cecil and Rafilia, the two of them work in stark contrast.

Cecil gathers the sand neatly, shaping it frequently and building it from the base with precision.

Rafilia brings water-soaked sand from the surf and picks it up, one by one. This is already the realm of playing in the sand, or rather, playing in the mud. My hand slipped and I covered my head with sand twice. The skin and bathing suit are covered in wet sand, and rather than a big-breasted elf, it is more like a big-breasted preschooler.

I thought Cecil, with his small hands, would be at a disadvantage, but Rafilia's clumsiness makes that handicap irrelevant.

Come to think of it, I thought you said this was a game.

How do you decide who wins or loses?

It's done.

The castle was completed at about the same time.

Cecil built the castle as a cube, precisely designed.

There are towers on all sides and even windows open for shooting arrows.

It's amazing how well they even built the castle walls.

'This area will be Nagi-sama's bedroom.

...... my castle.

Surrounding it is a room for me, Rita, Aine, Iris and Raphilia.

That's very specific.

It's a mix of dreams and aspirations.

But this castle doesn't have gates, does it?

It doesn't matter, does it?

Seriously?

You don't have to force yourself to go out there, because you just laze around and not work. Hey ...... Nagi-sama.

Cecil murmured as if to spoil it.

My slave seems to be planning to lock up his master in the near future.

Master! Look at mine!

Raphilia, covered in sand and muddy water all over, raised her hand.

How did that happen?

Mine is the Castle of Invincibility, Nagi-Castle. Yes!

It's a pile of sand.

It was cruelty-free.

Raphilia made a pile of sand, with a hollow center.

It's the kind of thing you'd expect to see when a little one is mindlessly playing in a sandbox.

”I imagined a dragon with its mouth open right up.

It doesn't look like that if you think of it as a super low-resolution JPG image.

This is the master's bedroom. This is my bedroom. This is the master's bedroom when he wakes up.

It seems that Rafilia sees something I can't see.

You don't need to go to ...... to think about winning or losing.

”The game begins here.

Huh?　Really?

Cecil and Rita slowly reached out to each other in front of the castle they had built.

...... I was underestimating you, Raphilia. You are quite good at it.

...... It's a gamble to have so much water in your system.

...... My castle is also watered down and hardened in the back.

...... will settle the matter, sir.

Cecil and Rita took out a small tree branch out of nowhere.

'This is Nagi-sama,'

Master.

With that, the two of them inserted a tree branch into the center of the castle.

'Which is the first move?'

Cecil, you first.

The girls braced themselves in front of the castle they built for each other.

I'm not going to be able to get to the bottom of it.

The game 'Nagi-sama Crisis' is about to begin.

What's that?

That's because I've talked about a game with a similar name.

How do you arrange it so that it looks like this?

I'm going. ”Furemu, yes!

Gusu.

The 'flaming arrows' fired from Cecil's fingers scraped away the outer wall of Rafilia's castle.

It's not so bad. Next, it's our turn to use the flaming arrows!

Raphilia's blow gouged Cecil's walls.

Wrong.

This isn't what playing with a sandy beach castle is all about.

'And if you're going to break down the castle, shouldn't you aim for the base of the castle?

What are you talking about? If the castle collapses, won't Nagi be crushed?

It's a game that we can play without hurting the master.

I thought about it based on what Nagi-sama had taught me in her book, The Geometry of the World.

It's a collaboration between us and the master, so to speak.

It was my fault.

By the way, the two of them came up with this game.

The Otherworldly Game ”Nagi-sama Crisis in One Piece”.

Cecil and Raphilia came up with this game to play on the beach.

They built a ”sand castle” for each other and embedded a tree branch in it that served as Nagi's role.

The winner is the one who shoots the Arrow of Fire and takes out Nagi without hurting her.

Required number of players: 2.

Tools you will need: Sand. Wooden stick. Low level attack magic.

Penalty: The person who burns Nagi will be spanked by her master later.

...... Huh. You're good at this, Rafilia.

...... You are the one who is reluctant to do this, Cecil. I'm losing my focus.

Ten minutes had passed since then.

Both Cecil and Rafilia were approaching their limits.

The ability to regulate magic power in order to narrow down the output and use the 'flaming arrows' so as not to completely destroy the castle.

The ability to concentrate to avoid hitting the tree branches (Nagi).

And the ability to continuously fire magic.

It was truly a clash of power and skill between the magicians and the replicas of the ancient elves.

The sand castle no longer retained its original form.

The Tree Branch (Nagisama) is more than halfway out of the sand pile, but it's still going to take some time for it to fall.

Cecil and Raphilia are both out of breath.

............ I think it's time to stop.

”This is Nagi-sama's world of 'geum'?

I didn't know the Master had to fight such an arduous battle.

'It's amazing, Nagi-sama: ......'

Very good, Master.

They both looked at me at the same time.

'In view of the size of that vessel,'

I need to ask you for a favor.

Join us and lend us your magic!

Rejected.

I pulled the two of them breathing on my shoulder and threw them into the carriage.

Aine and Reggie's turn.

You can skip Aine's turn.

What?

Aine's taking a day off, so she can go play.

Aine said as she sat at the exit of the carriage.

'Nay-kun, go play with the others.

You don't have to wait until now to be a big sister.

It's not.

Aine shook her head.

'It's my day off and so is your sister. Aine's just doing what she wants to do.'

...... Really?

Aine nodded silently at my question.

Aine, in her swimsuit, has her hair tied behind her neck.

She has a cloth in her hand and a Raphilia jowl. The cloth is filled with fresh water, and she's wiping Cecil and Rita's bodies, which are too tired to move.

Aine has a soft smile on her face.

Is that okay?

...... As long as he is happy with himself, fine.

I've decided that today is a free day.

Just because it's party policy doesn't mean you can't force him to play in the ocean, right?

That's just like a black drinking party where you force them to drink.

”Okay. Let me know if you need to play.

I took out my magic sword, Leggy, which I had left on the carriage.

'What about you?　Leggy.

”I'm enjoying it too.

Don't you have to swim?

I'm happy just to see those girls with their skin exposed and chattering. Just the thought of those innocents giving in to their instincts and drowning in the ...... ...... ............

Let's leave the ...... leggy's alone.

So it's Rita and Iris' turn again.

Rita practiced her water walking again. Iris learned the breaststroke of my world.

One last splash in the shallows, and our day's swimming is over.

It took us a little over four hours.

We left early in the morning and returned to the cottage before noon.

Then we ate the lunch we had prepared in the morning, and the rest of the day was over.

Gudda.

Cecil, Rita, Iris, and Rafilia were all in a state of sound sleep.

This reminds me of elementary school.

The fourth period was swimming, and our lunch break was like this.

Good night. Good night, Nah-kun.

I was sitting on the couch in the living room when Aine made me a cup of tea.

'I'm not tired. I was just watching everyone.'

Aine's fine, too. It was rather a nice day off.

Aine, wearing a dress from the commoners' guild days, sat down next to me.

''Hey, Nay-kun. What's about to happen?''

The future?

You're going to take the quest to the guild in town, right?

'Yeah. Like I said before, I'd like to find out what materials and stuff we could sell in this town and what we could sell.

The quickest way to do that is to do the material gathering quests.

You'll learn about the monsters, animals and plants around the town, and more importantly, the fact that there are collection quests means that those materials are needed.

I need to do quests and businesses until I can create the ”skill to live without working”, which is the ultimate goal, and after I can live without working, I plan to do some business with camouflage, so I'll need that knowledge either way.

That's why I want to do a collection quest or a simple quest to defeat them in this town.

''One more thing. I'm also going to look into what's happening in the 'Land of the Dragon's Seal' and 'Fort' while I'm at this recreation area. I'll need some help with this one. I'll be in touch with him later.

You have a lot of work to do: ......

Don't worry, you won't be a burden to anyone.

Where's Naya-kun?

'I'll take it easy too. Voluntary black work is not my hobby.

Yeah.

Aine and I sipped our tea together.

It's a quiet afternoon.

Everyone else is asleep on the living room floor. I covered them with blankets, but Iris was the only one who was properly wrapped up.

Cecil is tossing and turning and rolling around. Rita is in between the furniture before I know it, blocking the exit with a blanket.

Raphilia is sleeping in a ...... bridge position with only her upper body on a chair. Why do you sleep like that?　Is this an ancient Elvish ritual?

But it's nice to laze around like this, it feels like a holiday, isn't it?

It's a good thing I wake up in the evening and feel like I'm on a holiday. ......

I don't have anything else to do today, so I'm just going to take it easy.

No. Not really.

At my words, Aine shook her head.

''You know, Nay-kun. You're off today, right?

............ Yeah.

Aine whispered in my ear, and I nodded.

''Each of our roles are off, and we're off as adventurers too. I'm a slave, but ...... is it still good to be absent?

Of course.

So, ...... can 'sis' be off for today too?

Aine slowly stood up and looked at me.

'For the future, Aine wants to be more useful to Nay-kun, because she's ......

It was the first time I had ever seen Aine like this.

Her face turned bright red and she squeezed the hem of her skirt.

'Please. Strengthen Aine more, please. Make her your 'soul mate', please.

Close your eyes, hold your chest...

Shyly, Aine said.