Mixed Bathing in Another Dimension: The Hero of the Unlimited Bath

by Nagaharu Hibihana

  “Huh? What’s this?”

  I saw that there was something red in the corner of the changing area, so I went and picked it up. It turned out to be the bright red panties that Clena had been wearing when I’d healed her burns. Apparently, she’d forgotten to put them back on, and since I’d only been using the Unlimited Bath to take out water and soap, I hadn’t noticed them either.

  “Hey! Give those back!”

  Clena was fine with bathing together, but this seemed to be too embarrassing. Red in the face once more, she pulled them out of my hands. She tried to hide the panties behind her back, but I wasn’t going to have any of this.

  “Hold on now, Clena. Show me those panties once more!”

  “What?! But...”

  “Why did you leave those in here?!”

  “...Huh?” Clena looked absolutely dumbfounded.

  “Up until now, I’ve always made sure there was nothing left in here before I closed the door.”

  “Uhh... Why?”

  “All the hot water I drain out goes back to my MP pool. If you left your panties here, it might have gotten converted to my MP as well.”

  “Um... That’s, uh...” I could understand how awkward it made her feel. I’m not even sure how I felt about someone’s panties becoming my MP. I didn’t understand how it really worked, but I’d always made sure never to leave anything inside other than what was originally there, so I’d actually just performed an impromptu experiment with her panties.

  “Hmm, judging by how stretched they are, I’m positive they’re Lady Clena’s panties.” Roni’s appraisal confirmed that the panties were indeed Clena’s.

  “Don’t call them stretched!” It appeared that both her butt and her boobs were both right in the middle of a growth spurt.

  “...I’m sure we’ve all got a lot on our mind now, but how about we just get in the bath already?” I suggested.

  “Yeah. By all means, let’s go.” Clena was probably just happy to see us stop talking about her panties, so she agreed with an exasperated face.

  First, Roni took off her clothes without any hesitation. I stared at her body from head to toe. Even though she was a lycaon, her nails didn’t look very sharp. Lycaons had tails, but they didn’t put holes in their pants, and instead had a string attached to a notch in their tail that they used to tie it around their waists. When she undid her belt, I noticed that she was wearing low-rise panties. Apparently in this world, low-rise panties were popular since they didn’t put pressure on the abdomen. They also didn’t get in the way of tails, which was a merit that only existed in a fantasy world like this.

  “Sir Touya, Lady Clena, I’m naked now!” Roni stood proudly in her birthday suit, without hiding a bit. At this point, it was just refreshing to see someone as open as her.

  Despite the fact that Rium had looked small for her age, she’d been rather mature psychologically. In contrast, Roni was the same age as Clena, yet stood a bit shorter. Her boobs weren’t large, but they were certainly protruding to a healthy degree. Her waist was thin, her butt small, and her form looked perfectly curvy for a woman her age. She also had long, slender legs. In other words, she looked physically normal for her age, but seemed a little bit childish on the inside.

  Either way, she was a sight for sore eyes. When I tousled her thick, shaggy hair, she squinted as if it felt good and accepted my hand. I could directly feel how she admired me, and her smile looked so radiant. She was just so cute, I couldn’t resist gently patting her on the head once more.

  “Huh? Lady Clena, is something wrong?” Roni asked.

  Clena was still fidgeting around, and hadn’t taken off her clothes yet. She had seemed fine until we got inside, but perhaps us talking about her body had made her more self-conscious than usual.

  When Clena noticed my eyes on her, she blushed and timidly asked me something. “Hey, Touya. Can I ask you a question?”

  “What?”

  “Do you think I’m... fat?” Her solemn eyes told me just how worried she was.

  I decided to answer honestly. “I think your plump body is really sexy.”

  “Umm...”

  “No, I’m being serious.”

  Clena looked a little miffed, but I really was serious. It was true that compared to Roni’s compact body and girlish features, Clena seemed plumper overall – I wasn’t about to deny that – but the curve of her waist and her thick body made her overflow with voluptuous charm. I simply thought it’d be rude to call someone like her ‘fat.’ After all, if she was truly fat, she wouldn’t have been able to travel all the way from Junopolis in the north down to the wasteland. Her body had to be well-trained, especially when you considered how it was able to support her bursting breasts so well. She didn’t look muscular, though – rather, soft and feminine. That was yet another one of her miracles.

  “...I guess that’s the gist of how I feel. What do you think?”

  As I finished my passionate monologue, Clena stood frozen, her face a fiery red. It seemed like she didn’t know what to say, but I had just done my best to answer her question honestly, so I hoped she’d cut me some slack.

  Finally, as if she couldn’t take it anymore, she let out a bellow. “F-fine! I’ll get naked! Go on, look all you want!!”

  As she energetically pulled off her top, her breasts revealed themselves with a large jiggle, enshrouded by a slip and an orange bra. Next, she took off her pants, allowing view of her voluminous butt and panties of the same color. Her skin was so white that her veins stood out, so it seemed that she preferred colored underwear, and had several differently-colored sets.

  “Well?!” In her undies, Clena crossed her arms and proudly revealed herself to me. She was clearly doing it in order to hide how embarrassed she was, and it felt a bit forced. “More importantly, why are you still in your clothes? Hurry up and strip!!”

  When Clena yelled at me with her bright red face, I realized at last that I was still clothed as well.

  “Allow me to help you, Sir Touya,” said Roni.

  “Oh, no, I’ll be fine. I can take off my clothes on my own.”

  Since I’d never had anyone help me undress before, the idea made me feel childish and embarrassed more than anything else. Rulitora and I helped each other put on armor since it was impossible to do on our own, but those were two different things. Roni looked at me in disappointment, but I withstood her eyes and took off my clothes. But maybe someday, when I become a successful hero, stuff like that will become commonplace in my life...

  Clena and I finished undressing at about the same time. Whether my words had helped her regain her confidence, or whether she’d simply given up caring, she was standing proudly with her hands on her hips, as if she had nothing to be ashamed of. Her face was red, though – which meant that she was embarrassed after all. Still, I couldn’t get over how huge she was. Before I knew it, I was entranced in her–

  “Sorry, but I think you should wear a towel after all. Both of you.”

  Realizing the impending crisis within me, I asked them to both wear towels – as I made sure to imprint their gorgeous bodies in my mind. I could easily imagine how things would go if we all decided to bathe naked together: I’d be too busy trying to stay calm to enjoy anything.

  “F-fine. Here, Roni, put this on.” Clena was acting disappointed, but she looked relieved.

  “Okay.”

  I knew Clena had been forcing down her embarrassment. As I saw how obviously more cheerful Clena had become, I realized I had made the right decision, and tied my own towel around my waist. Now, we were finally ready to enter the bath.

  Once I entered the bath with my towel on, I explained how to use the faucet, shower, soap, and shampoo. Clena and Roni had nothing but bath towels on as well, so it was pretty exciting, but I did my best to stay calm and explain things properly. People in this world knew how to use soap and towels, but everything else was completely new to them.

  “I know how to use the soap, but not the shampoo...” That
’s what Clena had told me when I lent them shampoo and soap a week ago. My soap was similar to the kind they had here, but they’d never seen a liquid like my shampoo, so I understood why they reacted that way.

  “How about I wash both of your hair, and you learn how to use it that way?” I asked.

  “...Okay,” Clena said.

  “I’ll go first then, Lady Clena,” Roni said with a solemn face, then sat down on the stool.

  She probably felt like she was about to become my guinea pig. It wasn’t anything that scary, but since it was a first time experience for her, I could understand how she felt.

  “Do lycaons have higher body temperatures than humans?” I asked.

  “I don’t think theirs is that different. Why?” Clena asked.

  “Just wanted to be sure about the shower temperature.”

  Usually, it was best to set the shower temperature just a bit higher than body temperature when washing one’s head, so I used the panel to raise it a bit. Then, I sat behind Roni, while Clena sat next to me on the edge of the tub. The bath was cramped, so there was no room to put any space between us. I told Clena to watch so she could learn, but she seemed really embarrassed, and would only give me a glance every now and then. That only made me more embarrassed.

  I tried to regain my senses and looked at Roni’s custard cream-colored hair, only to realize how much of it there was. It went down to her waist, but the sheer volume of it was incredible, and the fact that she was so skinny only made it seem like there was even more. On top of that, it was so frizzy that I’d be lying if I called it anything but unkempt. Her hair was wild and unruly.

  “First, you need to wet the hair,” I said.

  “Okay!”

  I let out some more warm water and wet her hair. Roni smiled, enjoying the feeling as warm water spilled all over her. When I was a kid, I’d helped my friend give his big long-haired dog a bath over at his house, and this sort of reminded me of that. Roni’s beast ears sat right where a human’s ears would have been, and a fluffy wolf tail extended out from her butt and slipped right through the gap in her towel. Clena had probably adjusted it for her. Even though I was focused on Roni’s hair, I hadn’t forgotten about her ears or her tail. When I let the shower wet her tail, Roni flinched, as if it felt ticklish.

  “Does it always pour out warm water at the same temperature? Wow...” Clena marveled as she looked between the shower and the control panel.

  I had never really thought about it, but this was much more than a rare curiosity to people from this world. Since there was so much, it took me a while, but I finally managed to wet all of Roni’s hair, then turned off the shower.

  “Hmm. Your hair feels damaged. We’ll have to start with the treatment product.”

  Since Roni’s hair was damaged, I first put some treatment on the hair that went down her back, then lightly, gently massaged it in.

  “What are you doing?” Clena asked.

  “This treatment product helps to beautify damaged hair. Normally, people use it after shampoo, but when you wash long hair, it’s better to massage this into the damaged hair first.”

  “Hmm... So it isn’t soap, huh?” Clena studied the treatment bottle. I guess it was more like a nutrient supplement than soap.

  “Now for the shampoo. Roni, close your eyes tight. If the bubbles get in your eyes, it’ll hurt.”

  When I spoke to her, Roni snapped back to reality and smiled. “Oh, so it’s just like soap! Okay!”

  As she spoke, Roni’s tail moved and tickled my stomach. Clena and I looked at each other and snickered, then I put some shampoo on my hand and lathered it on Roni’s head. Instead of using my nails, I made sure to use the balls of my fingers to massage it in and wash the scalp rather than the hair. The same went for her ears and tail. When I touched her ears, Roni let out a cute squeal.

  “Okay, now wait a minute with the lather on your head.”

  “This sure takes a lot of time...” Clena said.

  Afterwards, I added some water and used my hands to gently wash the suds off, then finished it off with some treatment based on how damaged her hair felt. Roni’s hair seemed to really be suffering, so I went with a full course.

  Once I finished washing her hair, I had to gently take care of her wet hair. In other words, there could be no rubbing or massaging – I needed to not ‘wipe’ her hair off, but rather ‘absorb the moisture’ from it. We were going to soak in the tub after this, so I lightly absorbed as much moisture as I could, then wrapped a towel around her hair so no more water could get into it. Since she had so much hair, it looked funnier than it should have.

  “H-how does it feel?” Clena asked curiously.

  “Phew...” Roni had gotten so relaxed that she couldn’t answer.

  It seemed like she’d really enjoyed it, so I made a little fist pump behind her. That was all it took for Clena to figure out how this would proceed. She stiffened her red face and gave me a look as if she had something to say to me.

  “It’s your turn next, Clena,” I said. “But at this rate, it looks like Roni won’t be able to learn anything...”

  “Can we just worry about teaching her next time? I want to wash my hair too, you know,” she replied.

  “Sure. Okay then, Roni, come over here and take Clena’s spot.”

  When I sat Roni down on the edge of the tub, it looked like she was just going to fall backwards, so I moved her behind me. Once she sat down, Roni drooped over and nuzzled up against my back. She had turned to mush. It was cute, and I was glad to feel her up against my back, so I silently let her do as she pleased.

  “Seems like it’ll be easy to wash your hair, Clena.”

  “Roni just has too much.”

  “True.”

  As we talked, I started to wash Clena’s hair. It only went down to her shoulders, so it didn’t take much time. When I touched it, I realized it wasn’t as damaged as Roni’s had been, so I decided conditioner would be the best thing to use. Boy am I glad I decided to make her wear a towel. If she was naked right now, I’d probably be too embarrassed to act so calm.

  I followed the proper steps and gently washed Clena’s silver hair. All I need to do is make sure I don’t look down, and I’ll be fine. Towels become surprisingly transparent when they get wet...

  “Hey,” Clena said, as I finished applying the conditioner and started to wash her hair.

  “Wh-what?”

  She didn’t seem as entranced as Roni had been, but her cheeks were flushed. “Can I wash your hair too, Touya?”

  “To practice?”

  She glanced at me and gave me a small nod.

  I couldn’t deny that my hair would make the perfect practice dummy. “Okay then, please do.”

  With that, I switched places with Clena. Roni was still out of it, so I made her sit cross-legged in front of me when I sat down on the stool. It was so adorable how she nuzzled her body up against me.

  I doubt you all want to read about a guy getting his hair washed, so I’ll skip that part. Clena was so focused on washing my hair properly that she’d push her body against me until her boobs touched my back, then pull away, over and over. Even though I couldn’t see her face, I could tell how panicked it was making her, which was really cute.

  Unfortunately, I had nothing to teach them in regards to washing the body. Clena and Roni were surprised to see how well my soap lathered up, but aside from that, everything went the same as it did in their world.

  First, Roni washed Clena’s back. They both looked like they were playing, and seemed to be having a lot of fun.

  Of course, they had to remove their towels in order to wash their bodies, and in that respect, I was thankful that the soap lathered so well.

  Clena finished washing her body first, so she put her towel back on and entered the tub. When she submerged herself, excess water gushed over the top. It was a small tub, so it was to be expected.

  Suddenly, Clena blushed, as if she’d finally noticed that I’d been starin
g at her with a toothy grin the entire time. Then, she used both hands to splash some hot water in my direction. I acted irritated, but I was secretly enjoying it deep down, of course.

  “You’re next, Sir Touya!” Roni waved with a smile.

  Apparently, she was going to wash my back for me. Obviously I had no reason to decline, so I switched places with Clena and sat down in front of Roni.

  After she washed my back, Roni got into the bath, which was too small for all three of us to enter at once. In other words, I had to wash the rest of my body on my own as the two of them soaked in the tub. I noticed that Clena kept shyly glancing at me, despite the fact that I’d removed my towel in order to wash my body. Of course, I’d stared intently at both of them the entire time they washed each other, so I couldn’t exactly blame her.

  After I took my time washing myself, I switched places with Roni. Just so you know, I wasn’t really happy to expose myself to them. I’d only taken my time in order to give Roni time to warm up.

  Clena seemed to want to soak for a bit longer, so I sat down next to her. Meanwhile, Roni picked up the washboard and stick and started washing the laundry. We’d taken turns soaking during my experiments at the temple, so it was my first time sitting in the tub with someone else. It really did feel cramped. Roni was slim, so she and Clena probably had been a good fit, but my male physique and Clena’s thick body left us with no choice but to nudge up against each other.

  In the end, Clena and I pushed our backs up to opposing sides of the tub and sat across from each other. There wasn’t enough space for us to stretch out our legs, so I opened mine while Clena sat between them.

  Clena... I understand that you might be too embarrassed to look me in the face, or maybe you don’t want me to look you in the face, but either way... Just don’t look down! I’m doing the best I can to withstand this, okay?

  On top of that, Clena’s arms were pushing her boobs up and creating some incredible cleavage.

  “C-can’t you do anything about how cramped this is?” she asked.

  “It’s always been this size... This is how big private baths are back where I live.”