“R-Reina!?”
“My Papa asked me to take care of Kenyya-kun. I’ll wash your back for you.”
Kenyya was in a state of confusion, the girl whose naked body he had just been fantasizing about was right in front of him. Unfortunately, she was wearing her military uniform, but if he had his way, she would have been wearing just a bath towel.
“N-No, that’s not it!! Reina!? Why are you here?”
“Papa always asks me to wash his back when he’s tired, you know? You were tired yesterday, so…”
(That old man, what is he making his high school daughter do?)
Suddenly, Zeke seemed like nothing more than a perverted old man.
I thought he was a strict soldier, but what a guy. I’m totally jealous.
“Now, please turn your back to me.”
Kenyya was forced to sit down, almost against his will.
The reason he couldn’t resist was probably because he was a little excited.
Having the girl you like wash your back is a man’s dream, and he was already worked up.
There’s no way he could get it up! You can guess the reason.
Then, Reina gently touched Kenyya’s back.
(Ah♥)
Having the person you like wash your back.
What a happy thing that is, he couldn’t help but let out a strange sound.
A gentle and beautiful hand, and then…
Scrub scrub, scrape scrape!!
(Owww!!)
Reina was scrubbing his back with such force that it sounded like she was scraping his skin off.
He even had the illusion that his skin was tearing off with the scraping sound.
“Papa’s back is big and hard, but Kenyya-kun’s is soft.”
(Don’t compare me to that muscle man!! My skin is going to peel off!!)
Zeke, a veteran warrior.
When I shook his hand before, I thought, what thick skin, a warrior’s hand.
Surely, it was a very sturdy back, soaked with much blood, sweat, and tears.
In terms of physique alone, he was no different from a pro wrestler.
On the other hand, Kenyya.
He was just a shut-in.
Baby skin, egg skin, white skin.
He wasn’t flabby, but compared to a ripped Terminator, he was cute.
He was confident in the beauty of his skin alone.
Why? Because he spent his whole life in his room playing games without being exposed to the sun.
NO damage, he might even have better skin than Reina.
Look at this fine-textured skin.
“How is it, Kenyya-kun?”
“I-I-It feeeels so goooood!”
Kenyya, with his pointless pride, couldn’t say it hurt.
He endured the situation with tears in his eyes.
“Well, I’ll go outside now. Oh, I’ll leave your change of clothes here. It’s a military uniform. And this is hair coloring. There’s gold and silver.”
Then, Reina left the bathroom, leaving the hair dye behind.
As Lord had told him yesterday, he would dye his hair to disguise himself as an Asgardian.
There were many half-Asians, so he would just be seen as someone with a bit more Asian blood.
“Finally, it’s over. Next time, I’ll just say it hurts instead of being stubborn. Is this the punishment for using the shampoo without permission…?”
His excitement had flown away somewhere, and he dyed his hair with the prepared hair dye.
He thought, what kind of delinquent dyes his hair silver, and would it suit a Japanese person?
A silver color with an ashy tone would probably suit a Japanese person better than bright blonde.
He hesitated between blonde and silver, but if he was going to do it, he might as well go with silver to match Reina.
That way, he’d look like Zeke-san’s kid.
“But why does Reina have silver hair…?”
Most Asgardians have blonde hair.
Or rather, that’s the norm.
So, Reina probably has some mixed heritage, but what is it?
I’ll ask Zeke-san later.
Kenyya soaked in the bathtub.
The hot water stung his fresh wounds, mainly the ones on his back that he had just gotten.
But these weren’t wounds from running away, but rather wounds from not running away.
The wounds on the back are a swordsman’s kindness!
…
“Thank you very much. I feel much better!”
“You’re out, Mitsurugi. Hmm, it suits you quite well. The silver, too.”
“Really? It’s a little embarrassing.”
“Many Asgardians have silver hair. Silver hair is common among half-breeds. Half-Asians often have silver hair.”
“Oh, is that so?”
So, Reina is probably a half-Asian and half-Asgardian?
Kenyya left the bath and went to the reception room.
Tanaka-san seemed to be taking a bath next, so they switched places.
“We match, Kenyya-kun. We both have silver hair.”
Reina twirled her hair and looked at Kenyya’s hair.
“O-Oh…”
Her gesture was so cute that Kenyya stuttered like an otaku.
Well, he was originally an otaku…, his spirit had grown through battle, but these parts of him hadn’t changed.
“Breakfast isn’t ready yet, is it? I’ll prepare it.”
Zeke, watching her back, spoke to Kenyya after Reina left the room.
“Reina has really become brighter… Is it because of you? The stimulation of someone the same age is very powerful.”
“Is that so?”
Certainly, when they first met, she was like a knife that hurt everything she touched.
Not in a chuunibyou way, but as if she had closed her heart off somewhere.
But when she met Kenyya, and KOG met an opponent stronger than herself, her heart was shaken, and the ice melted.
The current Reina was more like a slightly cold-hearted beauty.
Rather than an Ice Princess, she felt more like a cool character.
“I need to tell you about this, Mitsurugi…”
Kenyya was also curious about Reina’s past, so if Zeke was willing to talk, he wanted to listen.
Come to think of it, he didn’t really understand the relationship between Reina and Zeke.
Zeke-san seemed like a good father with a great personality, but Reina seemed more like she had closed her heart off rather than being cool.
She seemed a little brighter now, but when they first met, she was like, “Don’t talk to me, I’m not interested.”
“Do you know that Reina is adopted? Well, it’s quite well-known.”
“Oh, is that so… I didn’t know.”
It seemed that Reina being adopted was common knowledge.
Kenyya didn’t know, but it was famous in Earthgards, and it was a topic of conversation for a moment when that War God adopted a child.
“But this is not so well known. Reina was adopted at the age of 10, just when the war in Japan was about to end. That was almost six years ago.”
The war had completely ended about five years ago.
So, six years ago, it was almost over.
“Ah, actually, Reina is…”
Then, Zeke stopped, as if he was about to say something.
His expression was somewhat sad.
“No, I’m sorry. It was this country that picked up Reina. She was badly hurt by the war, and she had closed her heart off. I, who was here as part of the Asgard Army, decided to adopt her.”
It seemed that Reina was a war orphan.
Kenyya, who had seen hell yesterday, understood.
If a 10-year-old girl was thrown into such hell, it wouldn’t just be a matter of closing her heart off.
Her heart would be broken, and she might never be able to live normally again.
Moreover, it must have lasted for many years.
How much of a hell it must have been for a girl who had no power to resist and was just being trampled on.
She must have lost many important people.
Imagining Reina at that time made his chest feel like it was about to burst.
“I see… So she was a war orphan. But why an Asgardian?”
“No, that was quite common. It’s not like diplomatic relations were severed. There were also Asgardians living in Japan who couldn’t evacuate.”
“Is that so…”
Kenyya thought of Tanaka.
He had heard that Tanaka-san was also close to Asgardians and did research with them.
Even if countries were on bad terms, it was probably common for people to be on good terms with each other.
Kenyya also understood from the news that it was the same in his previous world.
“Ah, and then six years passed. She has finally reached her current state. It’s also thanks to you, but she laughed yesterday, didn’t she?”
“Yes, it was the first time I saw it.”
“Ah, that’s the same for me. I’ve lived with her for six years, and it was the first time I’ve seen Reina smile.”
“She was incredibly cute.”
“You’re saying that in front of her father… Well, it was certainly very cute.”
The two of them smiled as they imagined Reina’s smile.
Zeke was probably a doting parent, even though he said she was adopted, the Terminator was smiling.
Kenyya was just genuinely in love.
He had seen Reina’s smile, which she had never shown in the story.
“And so, before Lord-sama arrives, there’s one thing I want to confirm with you.”
“What is it?”
Zeke looked straight into Kenyya’s eyes.
His face was like that of a man who had made up his mind.
“Do you like Reina?”