The hero's gender is yet to be determined after rebirth.

"Oh, really? I'm sorry, I took the liberty of soaking in the hot spring with you, I didn't expect you to be so uncomfortable." Kurara got up, wrapped in a large bath towel, and looked around. "I'll go soak over there."

She was about to walk to the other side of the artificial hill.

"Ah! Don't come from behind, come from the front!" Siruf suddenly exclaimed.

Since Sylph was facing the entrance to the hot springs and had already explored the area in front of her, Loren was definitely in a safe zone.

She hadn't explored a large area behind her yet, and she was afraid that when Kurala walked past from behind, she would be wading right into Loren's water!

Imagine faking a collision with a living, breathing person in the water… no, maybe they were half-drowned… but that would be incredibly embarrassing! And it would be impossible to explain; anyone would suspect something was amiss! Especially for Kurara, who harbors feelings for Loren, it would be a major scandal!

"Huh?" Hearing Siruf's exclamation, Kurara stopped in her tracks in fright.

"Ah, I, I meant you should walk behind me, ah, it's just... I dropped a hair clip just now, and I was afraid you'd step on it and hurt your foot!" Silph, quick-witted, came up with a near-perfect explanation, "It fell right here in front of me, so you won't step on it if you walk behind me."

"Ah, thanks for reminding me..." Kurara nodded. It sounded a little strange, but it seemed quite reasonable.

She nodded, walked past Sylph, and circled around to the other side of the artificial hill, saying, "Then I'll go soak in the hot spring on the other side. Hehe, it's not far away, we can even chat across the artificial hill... Ah!"

As soon as Kurala turned the corner of the artificial hill, she saw Loren, a boy wrapped in a large bath towel, hurriedly climb over the wooden plank and enter the hot spring area.

Eyes facing each other...

Chapter 135 The Triple Battleground of the Hot Springs, the Enchanting Dragon Enters the Sea!

"Lo...Loren?" Kurara covered her mouth, almost screaming.

Is it because she's a knight and her composure prevented her from screaming? Or has she been through this before and become immune to it? In any case, the embarrassing incident in the locker room resurfaced in Kurara's mind.

Kurara tried hard to suppress the scream that almost burst out, and was secretly glad that Loren was wrapped in a towel, otherwise she was sure she would have screamed.

However, Loren looked a bit like a girl wrapped in a bath towel. Oh well, I've never seen a man wrapped in a bath towel before, maybe all men are like that, and Loren does have a gentle, feminine feel to him. This thought only flashed through Kurara's mind.

Loren naturally saw Kurara as well, and his body immediately stiffened. As if in slow motion, he slowly slid into the hot spring...

Throughout the entire process, Loren's muscles were stiff, and he and the equally stiff Kurara kept their eyes locked.

Fortunately, Loren doesn't have a gun right now, otherwise, if he were to display his impressive fighting prowess under the towel, it would definitely drive Kurara into a berserk rage.

The two remained silent for a few seconds. The atmosphere froze, broken only by the soft sound of Loren sliding down into the hot spring.

"Ah, I'm looking for my hairpin. Where did it go? The hot spring water is so white and not transparent at all. It's really hard to find." Siluf's voice came from the other side of the artificial hill.

This was her way of covering up her earlier frantic search for Loren underwater, unaware that the person she was looking for had already appeared in the sight of the person she was trying to avoid...

"Hmm." Kurara kept her eyes fixed on Loren, not looking away for a moment, and unconsciously responded with a sound.

"I was fumbling around trying to find my hairpin, and it was really hard!" Sylph thought she could believe it herself, secretly admiring her own cleverness. She added, "Kurara, once you got there, I started talking normally again. I really am afraid of soaking in hot springs with people!"

Kurara looked at Loren in front of her and said as if talking to herself, "I...I'm scared too..."

"Hahaha, Kurara, why are you so slow to speak?" On the other side, Sylph was searching randomly underwater, trying to make conversation, afraid that the sound of her touching the water would arouse suspicion.

"Give me a moment to explain..." Loren took a few steps forward cautiously and said weakly, deliberately lowering his voice so that it wouldn't be heard on the other side of the artificial hill.

"You, you stay away!" Kurala quickly submerged herself in the water to reduce the area exposed.

At that moment, Loren's weak way of speaking reminded Kurara of Lorenvi. Her expression and delicate appearance bore a resemblance to Lorenvi.

However, in a place like a hot spring, where they met without clothes and only covered by large bath towels, Kurara never imagined that the two people would be the same person.

That's something only a lecher would do! If it were Lorenwei, she could have entered the hot springs legitimately. Didn't she just watch me bathe by peeking over the wooden fence yesterday? So Kurara didn't connect the two at all.

“We seem to have had a similar conversation before!” Kurara’s voice was also very low, but she was clearly gritting her teeth and holding back. She was extremely annoyed by the coincidence that Loren always appeared in sensitive areas.

But she still refused to believe that the boy she liked was a lecher!

Even if it's lust, it should only be directed at oneself. How could someone go to a hot spring to spy on someone bathing?! Thinking about this made Kurara furious!

"I don't know why this kind of thing happens so easily between us. But it's not because I'm a lecherous person who came to spy on us, I swear!" Loren quickly raised one hand as if to swear.

I'm not here to spy, I'm here openly and honestly! Loren wasn't worried at all.

“Swear an oath and I’ll hear it,” Kurara said coldly.

There's a chance! It seems she's still giving me a chance!

“I swear, if I was a lecherous spy, then let my dad…” Loren paused.

"..." Kurara frowned.

No, it's inappropriate to swear on my parents; Kurara dislikes that. And that guy Jason… Loren thought to himself, "Forget it." Although he always felt envious and jealous that she married someone as perfect as his mother, he was still decent to him, so he wouldn't swear on him.

Wait, as Loren, her father should have already passed away! Loren suddenly realized that Loren and Lorenwei's character settings were different.

Loren, quick-witted as ever, soon changed his tune: "Then let's have my dad's favorite mom..."

Kurala frowned in confusion.

Fortunately, with his usual talkative nature, he had long since honed his ability to quickly change his words, and Loren quickly corrected himself, "Then let my dad's favorite person be my mom's favorite person too..."

Kurara said irritably, "Aren't you tired of talking like that...?"

"I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to explain myself clearly with just one swearing and wouldn't be able to gain your trust, so I was a bit incoherent," Loren quickly explained.

Suddenly, a few thoughts popped into Kurara's mind: "Men become flustered and incoherent in front of women they like."

These words were from a book in Bordonna's collection. Kurara read them carefully and remembered many similar phrases.

To some extent, it was indeed Bordonna who helped Loren. After Kula thought of this, her anger subsided a bit.

Seeing Loren's flustered and hurried explanation, Kurara couldn't help but chuckle. For a pervert to act like this, he's such a coward.

However, it seems that he may really be wronged. I really want to hear how he explains entering the hot spring. After thinking about it, Kurara decided to listen to what oath Loren made first.

Loren noticed that Kurara was staring intently at him, and he felt a little uneasy. His mind raced, and he came up with a vow that sounded serious but was actually harmless: "If I'm here to spy on you out of lust, then may my 'o' tendons' disappear right now!"

"Hmph, perfect! This vow is fantastic!" Loren thought to himself, feeling utterly carefree and incredibly clever.

“You, you…” Kula blushed.

She understood what Loren meant.

Although she hadn't seen the actual object, she was, after all, a princess of the Grand Duchy, and the royal housekeeper and tutor had taught her about physiology. Noblewomen, after all, needed to learn the basics in this area; otherwise, who knew when a handsome man might accidentally... well, let's just say she was caught off guard.

"Well, is my oath enough?" Loren asked.

"It's...it's alright." The thought of actually using something like that to swear made Kurara blush even more. Luckily, they were at a hot spring, and everyone's faces were flushed, so they didn't notice such a detail.

Loren really dared to swear; it sounded like a vicious oath. His mentor had said that thing was very important to men, and that if anyone dared to get it on their body, he would punch and kick them hard, guaranteeing the man would suffer excruciating pain.

Kurara's belief deepened, and after listening to the sounds of paddling and touching things coming from next door, she figured Sylph wouldn't be coming over anytime soon.

Relieved, Kurara moved closer to Loren. "Come here and explain to me quietly."

Her face was still stern, but the fact that she took the initiative to approach meant that her anger had largely subsided.

"Hooray! Swearing to a woman is indeed a great way to gain her trust!" Loren thought to himself, "New skill acquired!"

Loren has fallen even deeper into the abyss of scumbag men, ugh, scumbag women...

The two approached each other, each wrapped in a large bath towel, like a couple making a secret rendezvous.

Kurara didn't understand how men should wrap themselves in bath towels, and Lorenwei's image of a woman was too deeply ingrained, so she didn't notice that her masculine image was wrong for her to wrap a bath towel around her chest.

"I... I don't know how to explain it, but I just happened to run into you guys," Loren said plaintively.

Kurara said softly, "Why are you here? How could you not know this is a women's bathhouse?"

"I really didn't know! I just wanted to sneak in a soak in the hot springs," Loren explained in a low voice.

"Trying to sneak into a hot spring? Forget about how you happened to be here, couldn't you have a legitimate reason to pay to get in?"

Loren thought to himself: Any man would be willing to pay to enter a women's hot spring! Of course, this joke couldn't be made at this moment...

“I come from a single-parent family, and my mother also thought that boys should be raised frugally, so I was quite poor…” Loren said, head down, as if embarrassed.

"Ah, I'm sorry..." Kurara felt extremely guilty, as she had actually stirred up unpleasant memories for Loren.

Kurala also recalled that at school, Loren had so few coins that he didn't even have enough to treat himself to lunch, which made him feel very embarrassed at the time.

But, even if part of the reason for helping the academy hunt down the Black Robe is to avenge me, shouldn't there be some reward? Kurara pondered.

Oh, right, Loren probably owed the academy a huge sum of money because of that flower-offering ceremony and those expensive bouquets, which forced him to leave his job and start working, even resorting to performing for money to deal with the Black Robe Organization...

The clever and intelligent Kurala began to picture the image of a poor but ambitious young man from Loren.

"Loren, you've suffered..." Kurara sighed. "From now on, you can eat lunch with us, or I can take you to the cafeteria."

Her hands, which were tightly gripping the large bath towel in front of her chest, relaxed a little.

Loren was completely baffled, not knowing that Kurara had imagined all sorts of scenarios, but he could tell that she seemed to have forgiven him!

Loren said smoothly, "That's good. I'll leave now to avoid embarrassing you. Otherwise, people will think we're taking a bath together..."

"Don't, don't talk nonsense... a... a bath together, it's not..." The moment she uttered the words "bath together," Kurala's face flushed red. "We're not at that stage yet, we're not engaged, it won't happen so soon..."

Don't mention being pregnant! Kurala jolted awake, reminding herself not to let it slip again!

But in that moment of shock, Kurara suddenly noticed a large red mark on Loren's neck!

"Ah! This, here—ah..." Kurara almost shouted out loud, then quickly covered her mouth to suppress the sound.

"W-What's wrong?" Siruf, who was on the other side of the artificial hill, asked somewhat guiltily.

She couldn't find Loren in the hot spring for a long time and was about to cry when she heard Kurara's exclamation and quickly asked what was wrong.

Sylph was worried that Kurara had discovered Loren's floating corpse...

"I...I..." Kurara panicked.

Loren quickly whispered in her ear, "She said she saw a figure climb over the wall and run away, and it gave her a fright."

As the whisper passed by, hot breath brushed against Kurara's ear, making her feel weak. But she gritted her teeth and quickly replied, "I think I just saw a figure jump over the wall and run away. It scared me!"

"Huh?! Is that so?!" Sylph was stunned for a moment, but quickly understood.

Ah! No wonder I couldn't touch Loren underwater. It must be that Loren got lustful and spotted Kurara on the other side, so he sneaked over to spy on her! As a result, Kurara discovered him and scared him so much that he jumped over the wall and ran away!

Sylph was furious: "That lecherous scoundrel! He doesn't even have what those men have, yet he's so horny! Especially since I was clearly in the hot springs, and you went to Kurara's place?!"

"And you even tried to attack me underwater!" Sylph grew angrier with each thought, and with a splash, she stood up from the hot spring, storming ashore to get dressed: "I'm going to catch that lecher!"

Hearing the sound of Siruf quickly walking away from the water near the artificial hill, Kurara breathed a long sigh of relief.

But soon, the princess's large, emerald eyes turned triangular as she stared at the red mark on Loren's neck and demanded sharply, "Is that a hickey?!"