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

Just as Loren turned around, his back to Kurara and his face towards the tent half-covered by the towel, Meilan swam back like a mermaid.

"Dive down quickly, Meilan is coming!" Kurara hurriedly urged.

Loren quickly dived back down, and Kurala was slightly relieved. She casually laid the large towel tent flat and submerged herself back into the water.

The water was only chest-deep, so Loren had to lean slightly.

"Haha, do I really swim like a fish?" Meilan exclaimed as she reached Kurara, rubbed her face, and laughed, "Are you just going to play in the water like this? How boring!"

"I prefer to soak in hot springs quietly," Kurara said, trying to remain calm.

"Hehe, play with me!" Meilan shook her [fish tail], lunged forward, and reached underwater to grab Kula.

"Don't grab randomly!" Kurara exclaimed. Meilan's sudden lunge had brought her too close! She might very well grab Loren, who was standing right in front of her!

"Hey, Kurara, you really have those legendary long legs! I never imagined your calves were so thick!" Meilan laughed with her head above the water, but her hand was touching the water.

"Hmm? Hmm? Hmm?" Kurara blinked.

Oh no! I didn't feel anything at all! The long legs I touched, so close to Meilan, were Loren's legs! They said the calves were thick, could they be Loren's thighs?!

"Huh? What's that hard thing? It looks like a stick?" Meilan wondered.

Huh? She ran into the same person I just ran into? Kurara was taken aback.

Ah, could it be... no way... could it be... something that both the female tutor and the housekeeper mentioned... Kurara felt her heartbeat suddenly stop.

"!!!" Kurara suddenly shuddered in fright. If they weren't in a hot spring, her golden hair would probably have stood on end.

"That lecherous Loren!" Kurala angrily reached into the water, touched Loren, and pinched him hard.

Similarly, just like with Sylph before, her nails dug in hard!

Why is everyone treating me like this? Loren was wincing in pain in the water. Why does everyone like to pinch me like this...?

After fiercely pinching Loren, Kula wrapped herself in a towel and tried to leave.

"Huh? Kurara, don't go!" Melan also felt the thing in her hand slip away. "Huh? That hard thing has disappeared!"

Actually, Loren put the magic wand back into the spatial ring...

"If someone is here to spy on us out of lust, then make them disappear right now! Good riddance!" Kurara sneered, speaking in a language that Melan couldn't understand at all, "You have to bear the consequences of your own oath!"

However, just as Kurara was about to walk away, she noticed that Meilan wanted to touch something hard underwater to see what it was.

"..." Kurara grabbed Loren's arm and, with the strength of a knight wielding a giant shield, pulled him from underwater to the other side, away from Melanie.

My things shouldn't be touched by other women...

Then, Kurara gritted her teeth, angrily went over and pulled Meilan up, "Come on, we're not going to soak in the hot springs."

Meilan protested, "Hey? I haven't had enough fun yet, don't go!"

"We're going to cultivate!"

"I don't want to cultivate! I want to be a mermaid! Don't go!"

"Lorenve went to make afternoon tea pastries, or they'll be gone!"

"Let's go then!"

Kurara and Meilan left the hot spring, and Loren emerged from the water, face up, unwilling to move.

"What did I do? Why is fate so cruel to me..." Floating on the water like a corpse, the tragic former hero felt the two deep pains on his neck where he had been brutally strangled, tears streaming down his face: "This is too hard for me..."

Chapter 137 Sylph's Confession and "Wait Until I'm Sixteen?"

"Sigh, it feels like a lifetime ago..." Loren sighed. It was too tragic. He lamented for a few seconds in his floating corpse state, not daring to waste any time. After confirming that no one else was around, he quickly prepared to leave this dangerous place. He was almost traumatized by it.

"Oops?" Lorenwei stepped on something after taking only two steps toward the edge of the hot spring pool.

Lorenwei reached underwater and found it was the hair clip she had dropped earlier. Her foot hurt a little; she had almost stepped on it and broken her skin. What bad luck!

What bad luck! If I had found that hairpin back then, perhaps there would have been a different solution. Of course, I couldn't change my appearance in front of Kurara and the other women. Right now, only Sylph knows the secret of her ability to appear as both male and female.

In some of the Sevi history that Aisser told her, it seems that their ancestors, the Sevi, also had a male form after their sexual orientation. Although they didn't have real organs, they could maintain the appearance of a male through a kind of illusion. But it seems they never encountered anything good.

Why do boys suffer such misfortunes when they have the appearance of boys? Is the appearance of Sevi boys cursed in some mysterious way?

Lorenwei quickly removed the men's headband and put the girl's hair clip back on.

Even if they're scared, safety comes first, okay? Now that Lorenwei has returned to her girlish appearance, her inner thoughts are also beginning to take on a girlish form.

"Hmm?" Lorenwei took another step and noticed her headband just as she was about to step onto the edge of the hot spring pool.

I don't know if it was because of the mermaid in Meilan that the hot spring water pushed the headband floating on the surface of the water to the edge of the pool.

Sure enough, her luck improved after she regained her girlish appearance. Lorenwei concluded: Perhaps I also have a protagonist's halo, but the condition for achieving it is cross-dressing?

So, I'm a true cross-dressing master now. Others are called masters because they're skilled at cross-dressing, but I have to cross-dress to be a master. Lorenwei muttered to herself, lamenting her bad luck, as she quickly rinsed off in the shower stall.

After drying herself off, Lorenwei changed back into her original women's yukata.

Before she even stepped out, she quickly put the headband on.

However, her long blue hair was soaked with hot spring water. Lorenwei smoothed her long blue hair, tilted her head, and suddenly thought for a moment.

Stepping out of the shower stall, Lorenwei looked at herself in the long vanity mirror next to the lounge chair, bathed in sunlight.

The girl in the mirror had wet, blue hair that reflected the sunlight and clung to her light blue yukata. Combined with her cute and beautiful face, she possessed a touch of playfulness, but also a captivating allure.

Looking at the girl in the mirror again, her face showed signs of fatigue, which aroused pity in people. In addition, the two red marks on her neck made her look pitiful, and also made people think of her possible mischievousness.

If it were my former self, without considering breast size, I would definitely fall in love at first sight.

I think I actually quite like this type of girl. But if I end up dating a guy in two years, wouldn't that mean saying goodbye to this girl's appearance? I'm actually a little reluctant to let go...

Lorenwei stared blankly for a long time before suddenly shaking her head.

No, no, the fact that I was able to reincarnate as a Seville means that God gave me the option to be a boy. Otherwise, I could have just been reborn as a girl directly; why go through all this trouble?

At this moment, Lorenwei completely ignored the fact that it was her wish, made while completing the mission to defeat the Demon King as a hero, that led to her rebirth as a member of the Sevi tribe.

Looking in the mirror, Lorenwei encouraged herself. Wouldn't it be a waste to not identify her as a man, given how beautiful Kurara and the other women are? They're all prettier than the school beauties of that other world!

Lorenwei clenched her fist, determined to build a successful harem.

However, a thought suddenly arose in her mind: eating oranges and blooming lilies would be quite exciting...

Lorenwei cast a small healing spell on her neck, and the accelerated metabolism quickly healed the red marks from pinching.

Look at these gradually fading nail marks. They were pinched by two beautiful women. While treating the wound, Lorenwei sighed, wondering why women liked to pinch people with their fingernails.

Slightly reluctant, I left the mirror and walked back, where I happened to run into Sylph.

The beautiful elf, having searched for Lorenwei for a long time without success, was leaning against the corridor railing, sulking. So Lorenwei didn't see her black eyes, only the whites...

He steeled himself and walked toward Sylph, and sure enough, he heard the female elf say in a strange voice, "Is it pretty? Be careful next time you go to the hot springs, don't look too much, or you might drown yourself."

"Wasn't it you who pushed me into the water?" Lorenwei cried out inwardly, but dared not say it aloud. Of course, she had benefited greatly, so even if she was scolded a couple of times, it wouldn't be a loss.

"Wait, come with me." Sylph suddenly came over and reached out to pull Lorenwei along.

Sylph hesitated for a moment as she reached out her hand.

Her face flushed slightly. She was reminded again of the boyish appearance of the other person in the hot spring. Even though there wasn't that boyish thing between his legs, the feeling was...

As she gradually got used to the loss of her memories, Sylph's intuition about Lorenve was no longer just a special feeling, but she began to realize that the other woman was a man in her past life.

However, Sylph hesitated for less than a second before grabbing Lorenve's hand even faster.

Sylph pulled Lorenve toward the bedroom: "Come with me. I'm not here to talk to you, but to keep an eye on you so you don't go to the hot springs and take advantage of others again."

Lorenwei pouted, muttering to herself without saying aloud: "Just say what you want to say, are you back to your tsundere side?"

As she walked, Silph kept looking back at their clasped hands.

Both women had very fair hands, and they could feel the smoothness and softness of each other's skin. For a human girl to be comparable to an elf was extremely rare.

Sylph pouted, pulled Lorenwei back to the men's dormitory, and entered the room named after the former hero, 007 James.

She closed the door and said coldly, "What are you still standing there for? Take it off!"

"Huh?" Lorenwei's eyes widened.

No wonder she came here, avoiding Kurara and Melan. I never imagined that despite her tsundere nature, Sylph was so straightforward. Is she already heading towards yuri?

"Wow, the female elves really know how to play!" Lorenwei thought to herself, thrilled, though she wasn't quite ready. But right now, it can't be considered yuri, so what is it?

“You’re wearing a women’s yukata, so you’ll look like a girl, right? So take it off. I want to see what you look like in clothes that don’t distinguish between men and women. That’s the real you.” Sylph sat down on the tatami mat, and surprisingly, she even pulled her legs back, adopting the formal sitting posture of the Japanese.

She sat down opposite Lorenwei with a serious expression.

Sylph: "..."

Please, you haughty little elf, stop talking so loudly! This hero got excited for nothing!

"Take it off now!" Siruf snapped.

"Uh, if you just tell me to take my clothes off and I do, there won't be any atmosphere..." Lorenwei scratched her head, "How about you add some money?"

"What extra money?"

“Grandpa~ You’re going to make someone take off their clothes if you don’t give them a red envelope? You’re really stingy~” Lorenwei winked at Sylph.

Sylph, furious, threw a pillow from the corner at him: "Take it off now!"

"Okay, then I'll really take it off." Lorenwei thought for a moment and began to slowly untie her yukata.

"Don't be so seductive when you take off your clothes!" Siruf suddenly exclaimed.

"Huh?" Lorenwei was taken aback. "Where did I charm you?"

"If you're going to take off your clothes, then take them off. But you're taking them off slowly, so why are you swaying like that?"

"Uh... I used to watch too much of a certain kind of dance..."

"Ok?"

"I'll change it quietly; it's a little uncomfortable with you watching me." Lorenwei simply went to the closet and changed it.

“I’m not shy, so why are you?” Sylph turned her face away and said defiantly, though her face was already red.

Besides, Sylph found that closet to be familiar...

Lorenwei quickly changed into a somewhat androgynous martial arts outfit and came out of the closet.