V7C151 (1/2)

(151) Steam-san, it’s your turn now

Translator: Tseirp

Measuring by eye, the water temperature was 55 degrees. However, measuring temperature by sight is a little awkward, as the only thing that can be judged is the amount of steam and that it’s a measuring method that can easily be overturned just by using dry ice. Actually, the amount of steam changes with humidity, wind speed and etc so there’s also a need to measure the surrounding temperature first but I believed that my prediction was roughly correct.

That’s why, I had to lower the temperature by at least 10, no, 15 degrees before we could enter the hot spring. I really wanted to toss dry ice into it.

Thus, I immediately used that.

“「Ice」!”

I tried using the 「Ice」skill I learned after reaching Ice Magic II. A huge icicle pierced the surface of the hot spring and floated up.

I described it as huge but its length was only about 3 meters.

Using that alone would be like pouring water on a hot stone.

“Fumu …. ”

At this rate, even if I continuously used 「Ice」, it would take quite some time.

If that’s the case, I used that skill instead.

“Magical Power Boost!”

Super boosted Ice Magic, to describe it in words, it was as if I released a spell capable of annihilating a company of enemy troops. I felt it rob me of my magical power from the depths of my body.

It was a contradiction to see that magical power accumulating when my magical power was being snatched.

I condensed the power within my hand.

If it’s now, if it’s now, I can use it!

“Boooooooooost Iceeeeeeeee!”

【Ice proficiency level increased to Lv2]

I collapsed as I heard the message that my ice proficiency went up. My magical power had been depleted.

Maybe because I was rushing to enter the hot spring, I forgot to switch my main job to Magician.

That’s why I immediately fell into magical power depletion.

Even so, the power was overwhelming.

Not only was there a huge piece of ice floating in the center of the hot spring, there was a thin layer of ice stretched across the water surface. Just like an ice skating rink. It was glittering.

“I, I overdid it …”

Or so I thought but the ice on the hot spring surface quickly melted and steam once again rose up.

… Oh?

I crawled closer to the hot spring and placed my hand in it.

Water temperature 43 degrees. It was slightly hot but it’s safe to enter.

The ice chunk in the center was still there so maybe the temperature would fall to about 38 degrees in the end?

“I, Ichino-sama, do you really want to enter a hot spring that badly?”

“Precisely by doing this much that it would feel better when I enter — Sorry but could I enter first?”

I said as I somehow got up to and maintained a sitting position before I started taking my shirt off.

” … Er, could Carol enter the hot spring now as well?”

“Carol … you.”

… That’s right, I knew about Carol’s feelings.

“I see, Carol wants to enter the hot spring too. But, I have to be the first to enter the hot spring after all — in Japan, Miri was always stealing the first place.”

Miri liked hot springs to quite a considerable extent. Just like a certain young lady from Genji.

“No, I wish to enter the hot spring together with Ichino-sama.”

Ah, hahaha, so Carol wants to enter together huh.

A male and female entering hot springs together, that’s already a mixed bath.

Mixed bath huh, that’s the dream of most men. A man’s romance.

Now that I think about it, last year, I went to a spa town with Miri. At that time, I heard that there was a mixed bath nearby (But the dressing rooms were separate and men and women could enter together but there was a boundary inside the hot spring that the genders could not cross) and I sneaked away from Miri and secretly went to the mixed bath (Like a crocodile lying in wait for young women to enter).