Chapter 75：The Dungeon Lord takes the girls to bathe in the river.

""Hello, Plate!""

"Hello... Mr. Plate..."

"Tsc!"

The twins greeted me energetically, Alice did a shy greeting while Mad D- Michella just clicked her tongue in disapproval.

"Hello girls, how have you been?"

Instead of answering me, the Lil jumped directly to the point and asked:

"Plate, where can we take a bath here?"

Bath.....bath....BATH!!!!

I completely forgot about bathing!

Sneakily I try to smell myself and... nothing?

Maybe it's because it's my own body odor... but anyway, that's not good!

One can't just forget about bathing!

"Plate??"

Oh yeah! I got to answer!!!

"Sorry, right now there is no bathing place inside. The nearest place I can think of is the river bay, it's about one hour from here..."

"Oh! River bathing! Sounds great! Let's go!"

"Yeah! Let's go! Let's go!"

Lil and Tally grabbed my arms and started leading me to the entrance. Seeing this scene, Stone got stunned, not knowing what to do and behind me I felt some cold air passing through my neck but when I looked back I only saw Alice with a warm smile and the Ma- Michella with her natural death glare.

Although I couldn't find the source of the cold air, I still felt it was safer to just take my distance, at least until I understood the general situation, so taking a step back while freeing my arms, I turned to Alice.

"Hey Little Princess, do you want to come too?"

Alice's face went red and before she could answer Death Glare Michella appeared in front of her wishing her eyes could kill me.

"Hey! What are you trying to do! Keep you distance!!!"

"So, what do you think of taking a break?"

"Sure, no problem. Maybe getting some air from outside will fresh out our ideas, and there is no way I would say no for a chance of bathing with the ladies."

True, but I think you are expecting too much...

"All right everybody, let's go!"

Saying so I turn back to the entrance and start walking at a normal pace.

"Hey! Don't ignore me!"

""Yay!!!""

The twins commemorate and follow us in hurried steps to catch up.

"Hey you two..."

"..."

Alice sneaks out from Mad Dog's back and run after us.

"Princess as well!? Hey, wait for me!"

And Michella comes right behind us after been left alone.

...

"So, girls, what did you think of the trapdoor?"

"It's ok..."

"Nin nin, I feel like a ninja!"

"Hehe true! This is getting more and more like a Hidden Village."

"I'm glad you like it but there is still a problem..."

""What problem?""

"For light people like you, it's easy to pull you back, but for bigger people like Stone, even with two skeletons, its taking too long to pull us back..."

"Because Stone is fat? How about a diet?"

Ouch! I didn't expect that. It must have hurt...

"No way! These are my reserves for difficult times! And these are mostly muscles! Anyway, the problem is not just me, any time we need to take something heavy like armors and weapons it will be the same..."

Well, it seems like it was a miss, he doesn't seem to care... and he got a point. Metal Armors and Weapons will make any soldier heavy, no matter how thin he is.

"The how about adding a pulley?"

The one to give out the idea was unexpectedly our cute princess Alice.

"Pulley?"

As everybody looked interested at Alice, she started to shy away while muttering something...

"Yes...child...tree house...added one..."

""Oh!!! Alice's Tree house!!!""

Luckily the twins had nice hearing and figured it out.

""Alice's tree house?""

Seeing Me and Stone who were still confused, Tally started explaining.

"Well, when Alice was younger she was..."

As Tally started talking, Alice started to panic, not knowing what to do. Suddenly she tackled Tally, pushing both of them to the middle of a high bush, disappearing from our sight.

"What!?"

"Princess Alice!?"

"Tally!!"

Due to my surprise, I didn't know who to call, Michella called Alice's name in confusion while Lil called her sister who just vanished from her side. Stone? he was even more stunned that me and didn't voice anything at all...

Just as we recover and stepped forward to search for them the two came back with their hair completely messed up.

"Are you two OK?"

"Princess! Thanks the Heavens you are fine... Did you get hurt anywhere?"

"Tally, what happened?"

"Sigh..."

The explosion of concern questions started and took some time to finish after ensuring everybody was not hurt and well.

"So, Tally, what was that about the pulley and the tree house?"

Tally flinched upon hearing the question and answered in a trembling voice.

"N-nothing much...It's just that Princess had one in her tree house to lift the...dinner..."

Lil protested.

"What dinner, that was to- ouch! This hurts! Why did you kick me?"

"Shhh..."

Tally tried to sneakily sign Lil to keep quiet, but considering everybody was looking at her, it couldn't be more obvious.

Feeling the pressure in the atmosphere, I decided to leave this matter alone and ask some other time...

"I see, well the river is just ahead, let's continue."

"Y-yeah! Let's goooooo!"

"...? What is going on...." \(>_<)/

"Don't mind it... come on..."

Tally ran after me, leaving her sister behind. Lil was vexed but kept walking while Stone tried to appease her.

As for Alice, she acted like nothing happened and kept following with Michella right after her...

After another few minutes we finally arrived at the river and then, the true battle began...