After some time, I stopped gazing at the beauty and simplicity of the hot spring since I was feeling cold and wanted to dip my feet in some hot water, so I walked towards the entrance that was covered by a red curtain instead of the usual door.
Swish~
I pushed aside the curtain, expecting to see a cosy interior and have a rush of sulphur stream into my nose since this was a natural hot spring. But instead, I was greeted by the scene of a bunch of women gathering around the rather wide and spacious lobby, which was built entirely out of wood.
They all wore traditional Japanese yukatas, showing how much of Earth's culture this world possessed, almost as if it were modelled after it, and they were currently circling around the centre of the lobby while whispering and murmuring to one another with uneasy looks on their faces, almost as if a fight had broken out in the middle of the lobby.
I didn't expect a violent fight to start in such a peaceful and relaxing place, and I wondered if I should back away and come back another day.
But seeing as to how the crowd mostly consisted of middle-aged and elder women that all looked so nervous and scared at the moment, I sighed and went forward to see what the problem was since my conscious couldn't leave a bunch of pretty ladies alone like this, especially since I knew some of the women in the crowd.
"Oh, Kafka!...You're here too!" A rather plump middle-aged lady who was in the crowd called out to me when she noticed me approaching, and she looked a bit relieved to see me, as if my arrival brought her great ease in this high tension situation.
"Mrs Keller! It's lovely meeting with you as well on this lovely night, especially while you're wearing these traditional clothes! They simply look gorgeous on you!" I said in an enthusiastic manner towards the sweet lady in front of me, which made her blush shyly.
I had already met Mrs Keller in the sweet shop she owned a few days ago, and after a little talk with her, we became close acquaintances, who I always had a chat with whenever I visited her shop.
"Oh, you and your wily mouth!~ You just can't stop praising every lady you see, can you?~" Mrs Keller covered her mouth and giggled.
"I'm simply honest with my thoughts, ma'am. There's nothing else to it."
I sincerely said, which made a couple of other eyes peek over to see who was saying such flattering words, some even who I already knew, just like how I knew Mrs Keller. They too seemed to want to greet me but couldn't because of whatever was going on in front.
"Right now she's gone back inside the dressing room to see if all the girls in there are fine, and she'll be back soon to properly deal with those perverts."
"Can I go and see the shape of those boys that have been dealt with by the mighty hands of Mrs Nina?" I asked, wanting to see just how badly she fucked them up, to the extent that I could hear them moaning out in pain like their legs were broken ever since I entered the building.
"Of course!...Nina dragged them to the middle lobby so that they could be scrutinised by us ladies and be ashamed of their actions, so it would be a loss if you didn't take a look." Mrs Keller patted my shoulders and brought me along to take a look at the sorry sight.
She then joked with me as she looked up at me and said, "And don't be scared with how badly she's beaten them up since even though she may have a tough exterior that she's built up to run this business peacefully and protect us women, she's actually a sweetheart who's kind to everyone and treats all her guests to her utmost ability because of the pride she has in her work and in this little spot of hers."
"...Well, that is unless you start peaking at the girls bathing, so I suggest you not do anything of such Kafka unless you want to be made an example of by our guardian angel, Nina."
I gave an awkward smile and nodded my head as Mrs Keller parted the crowd, while at the same time quickly introducing me to the ladies who were looking at me with interest since they were surprised that she was talking so freely to a man they had never seen before.
I gave a quick greeting to them as well and also to the ladies that I had already met this past week with a bright smile on my face, which made them even more interested in me and looked like they wanted to talk to me a bit more. But unfortunately for them, Mrs Keller pulled me up front before they could ask me anything, and here I saw the sight that Mrs Keller was trying to describe to me.
And just like she had mentioned, Mrs Nina seemed to have some skill with the art of the mop and broom, as she had beaten the three colleges in front of me to a pulp, to the extent that they couldn't even get up and were crying for their mother while rolling around the floor in misery.
I almost felt pity for them after seeing the state they were in since their bodies were covered in bruises all over, with some of the wounds even bleeding, and their yukatas were also torn all over like they had just come back after wrestling with a tiger.
But knowing what they did, rather than pity, I wanted to put them out of their misery by breaking the broom in half and stabbing it through their necks.
And just as I was wondering what sort of fierce woman could've torn open these boys until they looked like they had just survived a war and what she might look like, as I don't expect her to look all petite and cute after seeing how capable she is, I got a message from the Gods showing that they were just as interested as I was as well.
Ding~
[The Gods are interested in the Proprietress of Paradise Hot Springs, Nina Valeria]