Why can't humans do it too?

Having shaken off his previous state of not wanting to think about anything, he immediately noticed that the pool water was a light green color and not thick. His wounds, which he had been soaking in the pool water, had even skipped the scab formation process and started to heal directly in a tingling, itchy sensation. Some of the small cuts were now just pale white scars.

Forest Spirit Divine Medicine.

Sur swam enviously in the pool beside him. If humans could have these things, many of the people who were seriously injured might have survived...

However, humans will soon have it.

I have fulfilled my promise!

Thinking of this, Suer looked excitedly at Xinke, but then looked away immediately—the woman was stretching lazily.

"...Can't we just soak them separately?" Sul protested desperately, staring intently at the decorative rock pillars hanging overhead.

"Do you think there are many herbs with this effect?" Xin Ke scoffed dismissively, ignoring Su Er's unconvincing words. "The damage caused by the black ash cannot be healed by simple herbs. It requires extremely high-level magic to fully recover. And I will not allow those mediocre people to touch my beautiful body with their clumsy magic."

"...Beautiful?" Suppressing the urge to complain, Su Er felt that in this safe and comfortable environment, this woman was becoming more and more undisguised in her wicked nature.

"Isn't mere beauty just a useless vase? What about the corresponding beauty of etiquette?"

Xin Ke's beauty was so stunning that even Su Er, from a different race, couldn't help but praise it. However, beneath this beauty lay a personality that was as wicked as could be—wouldn't her forest elf fans cry if they knew what this woman truly thought? Or would they be even more captivated?

Putting aside her good looks, she nonchalantly soaked naked in the same pool as a male with whom she had no intimate relationship, showing no shame whatsoever. This could only be described as arrogance... Doesn't she completely lack any sense of inner etiquette?

"...How audacious! You dare say I lack manners?" Xin Ke's eyes suddenly turned dangerous. She said with a forced smile, "Are you implying I'm a pervert? Mr. Monkey, you're really overestimating yourself!"

Wow!

Without hesitation, Xin Ke decided to punish Su Er. She directly splashed the water in front of her and splattered it onto Su Er's face.

"..."

Her hair was directly wet, exuding a fresh, grassy scent as it slid down her forehead. Suer expressionlessly wiped the water from her face.

He absolutely, absolutely would not play water fights with naked people! Absolutely!

I always feel that doing something like this would completely destroy one's dignity as a human being.

"...In short, it would be great if your leg could recover," Suermu said, changing the subject with a blank expression, as if nothing had happened.

"Hmm? Could it be that if I can't recover, Mr. Monkey will feel guilty?" Su'er's uncooperative reaction made Xin Ke quite bored, but she perked up again after hearing the following exclamation.

"Well, I wouldn't say I feel guilty, but I do feel very stifled and like I'll always feel bad about it."

"..."

This unexpectedly direct answer left Xin Ke speechless for a moment.

A sudden silence fell between the two of them, and Suer felt inexplicably awkward, an awkwardness without any reason.

“Speaking of which… before I lost consciousness…”, recalling the few remaining blurry fragments of his memory, Su Er hesitated and slowly began to speak, “…I think I heard you call me, uh, just call my name?”

Suer suddenly tensed up, even subconsciously straightening his back. Asking such a question always gave him a very awkward and narcissistic feeling—what if it was just a voice in his hallucination?

This woman will definitely respond with sharp sarcasm, perhaps even adding a lot of forest elf slang and jargon... and the way she addresses people shouldn't matter.

The moment the words left his mouth, Suer regretted them.

But even the fragrance of flowers that he thought was a hallucination was real, so is it possible that he didn't mishear?

"Huh? Oh right~", Xin Ke answered his question without the slightest hesitation.

The answer is yes.

"..."

To be honest, neither her unremarkable answer nor her lightning-fast reaction, which didn't even give her time to think, surprised Suer.

"...Then why did you call me a monkey just now?" The words caught in his throat several times before he finally blurted them out. Su Er looked up at the sky speechlessly.

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"Huh? I thought Mr. Monkey would like such a friendly and affectionate way of addressing me? Well~ whatever, Mr. Monkey, could you come over here for a moment?" Xin Ke casually brushed aside the matter that Su Er was quite conflicted about and raised her hand to beckon to her.

“...Only a fool would like that kind of address,” Su Er rolled his eyes, remaining motionless. He hadn’t forgotten what kind of state Xin Ke was in over there. He just sneered and asked, “You can just say what you want to say.”

“Ah~, it’s actually very simple,” Xin Ke replied readily without any hesitation, “It’s nothing complicated… I just want Mr. Monkey to wash me up.”

Oh, that's really not a troublesome thing—bullshit!

Suer stared at Xinke's nose with eyes so wide they almost seemed to fall into the water. He was starting to suspect that this woman was trying to trick him into coming here and then strangle him to death... Was it really necessary to go through all that trouble?!

"Are you serious?!" Su Er felt his hands trembling in the water, he could hardly believe what he had just heard.

"Is there any need to joke around?" Xin Ke's voice was even more puzzled than Su Er's. "It's really too difficult for my injured body to be cleaned properly. It's all the better that Mr. Monkey woke up at this time. After all, even I, who am considered a standard of beauty, would find it hard to endure the pain of being unclean before..."

"..."

Any more words stuck in his throat. Whenever Xin Ke mentioned her charred, eroded thigh, Su Er fell silent. He even felt a sense of empathy – yes, such a beautiful forest elf, she must have paid a heavy price to maintain her beauty when she was the Flower Crown Lord in the forest elf stronghold.

Most women care a lot about their appearance and cleanliness, especially during this time when the feeling of knowing that their body is dirty but being unable to wash it must be very painful for a beautiful woman.

Suer has completely understood!

However, while I understand, this is indeed the reality...

"...Couldn't you wait two more days? Once those forest elves who came to rescue you arrive, you can have them help you cleanse yourself, right?" Su'er's voice lowered unnaturally, and even he himself didn't know why he was speaking so furtively.

"Two days?! Mr. Monkey, do you know how long you've been asleep?!" In contrast to Suer, Xinke's voice rose sharply, filled with disdain and contempt. Before Suer could guess, she gave the answer directly.

“More than three whole days!” Xin Ke raised her hand to show a number. “If my poor kinsmen could really be efficient, they would probably have arrived here by now, right? Am I supposed to continue waiting in this filthy state for rescue that they don’t even know if it will come?”

The above sentence is a simplified version filtered by Suer, removing many of the elegant yet sarcastic insults of the Forest Elves. It will not be released for the time being to protect the image of the person in question.

Also, did he really sleep for that long?

I don't know what Xin Ke added to the pool. Even though he had been asleep for three days without any food or water, Su Er not only showed no signs of hunger or dehydration, but was also very energetic.

Rather, he was simply too energetic, as if he had inexhaustible strength. The comfort and relaxation that followed his sudden safety enveloped him, making him much more active than before.

Hmm... Suer felt that the green grass and flowers surrounding the pool added to her mood, and the light source floating in the sky, shining on her like the sun, truly brought warmth like the sun.

No, now is not the time to indulge in this sense of security and comfort!

As she waited in vain for his affirmative answer, Xin Ke's eyes began to turn dangerous!

"Ah...it sounds really difficult..." Su Er stammered. What should he do? Should he make a loud noise to cover it up? No! What was he thinking!

The urgency he faced in an instant, which was not much different from a life-or-death crisis, caused Su'er's mind to start racing with wild thoughts.

Want to go there?

"Sigh, just thinking about all the filth on my body that I can't wipe off makes me want to vomit. How long will this go on?" Xin Ke suddenly let out a long, loud sigh. This woman's every word and action was so exaggerated that it was obvious to Su Er that she was acting.

However, even knowing this, Suer could not ignore it.

I don't see any of my clothes around. I can't just stand up and run away naked, can I?

"Okay, okay, turn around and lie down first," Suer said, his head throbbing so badly his temples were throbbing. His lifeless eyes stared at the dome.

"Oh~~~"

Unlike his helplessness, Xin Ke's voice floated up cheerfully.

"..."

despair.

But thinking about it carefully, if Xinke herself doesn't mind, and he won't suffer any loss, then what is there to be afraid of?

If this woman, still filthy, were to wait until the rescuer, the forest spirit, arrived, Xin Ke would probably turn her into a girl the moment she was freed from her restraints…

The thought of that possibility sent chills down his spine. Suer suddenly realized that this woman had unknowingly mastered a method of threatening him that was quite effective, even though he wasn't afraid of death.

He shakily stood up, bracing himself against the edge of the pool. The difficulty of standing up existed only in Suer's imagination. In fact, it only took him a few seconds to regain his balance. The cold and the heaviness and fatigue from the struggle had already left him.

As if breaking free of an invisible shackle, the muscle memory that had only recently appeared in his body was rapidly leaving him. Sur awkwardly swung his arms outward, trying to rediscover his body.

The situation was difficult, a different kind of difficult—Xin Ke was lying on the edge of the pool opposite him, a position that allowed Su Er to avoid direct exposure to the intense impacts, but to be honest…

Taking a deep breath, Suer's gaze fell on Xinke's charred leg. Only in this naked state could he clearly judge how serious the woman's previous injuries were.

Although the condition inside Xin Ke's body could not be seen, her leg, which was eroded by black ash, was noticeably missing nearly one-fifth of the flesh compared to her other healthy leg.

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The legs, which should have had even lines, were now concave in an arc. Just looking at them made Su Er's scalp tingle - how long had they been eroded to become like this?

How long did this slow, agonizing pain last?

He splashed through the water in the pool and squatted down next to Xin Ke. Not having to face Xin Ke's face made Su Er feel a little more relaxed, but to be honest, his current naked state was really drafty... He could only tolerate it if he wasn't seen from the front!

probably.

Running my fingers over the charred marks, I saw that even though they had been submerged in water for a long time, they remained hard and unyielding when I pressed them with a little force.

"Will it hurt if I press it like this?" Suer asked in a low voice, watching Xinke's reaction.

"Would it make Mr. Monkey feel guilty if I told him it hurt?"

"Obviously not."

Suer answered Xinke's question with lightning speed, and then saw the woman shrug indifferently.

"To be honest, I can't feel anything anymore. The nerves there must have been completely burned out."