Not too many out of four

Warm water gushes out from the nozzle and washes over the body. The delicate and white foam is carried by the water flow down the surface of the skin, from the back, waist and buttocks, across the thighs and calves, and finally flows into the drain.

Together with the sweat stains on the body and a little bloody smell that can't be wiped off, the mist rises and blurs the vision and the small bathroom in front of you. Unlike the female bath, which is simply covered by a curtain, the bathroom in the mixed bath is The single room has a frosted glass door, which makes it hard to see clearly, and only vague figures can be seen blocking the door.

The water mist keeps rising to take away the air in it, and the warm water flow takes away the chill on the surface of the body, soothing the skin and dyeing it light and soft pink. Lijia propped one hand on the glass door and left small and hazy handprints, hesitating and apprehensive. move.

In order not to offend, even though they were worried about Lijia's safety, Nakahara and the others did not use the bathroom in the mixed bath, but went to the simple washing place erected in the soup pool. There is no shelter in the open air environment, and generally only for bathing The guests go up to rest and sit where they can rub each other's backs.

There is no complete hot water equipment and toiletries in the bathroom, which is reserved for both male and female baths.

They will choose to soak in the hot spring after taking a bath, mainly to relieve fatigue and relax their body and mind. Otherwise, they can simply wash their bodies and go back to the room without staying in the hot spring for too long.

If it weren't for the case in the hotel, Nakahara Chuya and the others don't need to be restrained by her at all, leaving someone to protect her, and they can freely enjoy the relaxing time of bathing.

If she had taken a shower and went back to the Japanese room, Zhongyuan Zhongya and the others would definitely follow her back, no matter how long the soaking time was, whether she was sleepy or not, and whether her spirit was relieved or relaxed.

Li Jia is actually very grateful that they put her safety first, but this also invisibly increased her burden and prevented her from acting at will.

Even if they knew that she was being selfish at this time and wanted to go back to the Japanese room for a rest, Zhongyuan Zhongya and the others would not blame her, or even show disappointment and resentment, but got up and left Tangchi to follow her back, and they would comfort her by the way Go to bed early and don't think too much about what you just saw in the lounge.

But it is precisely because of this that Li Jia can't willfully consume the relaxation time that belongs to Zhongya Zhongya and the others. She can't be willful and selfish and let them all accommodate her.

In fact, women who don't mind using mixed baths will not be affected even if the women's bath in the hotel is blocked, and they will not face the dilemma of Li Jia. They can freely enter and exit mixed baths freely, as long as they avoid crowded times.

Presumably most of the men in the hotel would not choose to disturb the mixed bath when the male bath does not affect their use.

After all, the mixed bath and the men's and women's baths are not in the same direction, nor are they adjacent to the pool.

It's just that Li Jia felt a little awkward in her heart, so she hesitated and did not act.

Her four Zhongye cats have only become human not long ago, or she has just accepted the fact that they have become human not long ago, and realized that they are actually males of her age and slightly older. A subtle and special feeling has been lingering around her.

Let Li Jia face the Central Plains in the cat form and they can deal with it calmly, and occasionally make some simple jokes as before, but the intimate movements of kissing the pads, the tip of the nose and the head are basically not done.

And in the Central Plains in human form, she can also live together as a family member, brother or even a special cohabitant, and she can care about, trust and even rely on them.

In just a few short months, her mentality has gradually changed under their pampering and pampering. She can understand Zhongyuan Chuya's strong desire to protect her, and she is willing to accept compromise with them and obediently stay in their defense range .

They will not leave without authorization and will not resist their arrangements willfully.

She has always been protected by her family when she grew up, but occasionally she also tried to think that she could be able to protect important people.

In the past, she set the objects of protection as the four cats she adopted. They are well-behaved, sensible, obedient and cute. Although they are occasionally a little willful, which makes her troubled and headache when cleaning up the mess, Li Jia has always been satisfied with protecting important things. The feeling of being.

This will make her feel that her existence is actually meaningful and valuable, and she is not a little girl who can only be protected by her family.

But everything takes a huge turn when the cats can transform into humans.

She has changed from a protector to a protected person. Her previous feeling of being able to protect the precious cats is just her wishful thinking. She doesn't seem to be able to protect anything.

On the contrary, Chuya Chuya and the others have been protecting her silently.

Fujimine Toshika is still a little girl who obediently stays in a safe and comfortable range and is protected and pampered by everyone.

She doesn't want to grow up forever, and she also has dreams of protecting important people and things.

Now Li Jia is no longer able to protect her cats in terms of force and safety, and there are very few things she can protect them. She has never known where to start in order to repay Chuya Chuya and them in the Central Plains.

Perhaps being obedient and obedient and not causing them trouble is the best reward for Chuya and the others, but she not only wants to do this, but if she is obedient, she has no growth at all compared to before.

Li Jia has no way of knowing whether a strong person will also have a strong heart.

After all, she was not a strong person from before to now, neither physically nor mentally strong enough, she was just an ordinary little girl living in Tokyo.

Li Jia would be envious of Mao Lilan's gentleness and strength, and she would also look forward to Suzuki Sonoko's self-confidence and pride. She deeply felt that they were like girls who would shine, with many, many beautiful qualities that people could not finish admiring.

She wants to work hard like them to make herself better, even if she will still live in the Central Plains in the future, under the protection of them and the Kudou family, she can become a good boy who is strong and brave enough.

If tenderness and tolerance can become an important haven for family members, a place where they can rest and relax, she is willing to work hard to become such a person.

Even if what can protect them is only a small effect on the mind, and the return to them is less than one ten-thousandth of what they gave her, she still feels that this is something worth working hard to persevere.

Toshika Fujimine has very few qualities, she is persistent and persistent enough, and can endure loneliness, which is probably one of her few precious qualities, so once she makes up her mind, she will unswervingly follow this path.

Compared with many external affairs that she doesn't value so much, being able to protect important family members is more important to her.

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Hold the wet dripping hair with your hands, wring out the moisture, and then tie it into a ball with a rubber band and tie it behind your head. Even if the hair is soft and slow to grow, one or two years is enough to change her when she first came to Tokyo. hair style.

Simply dry off the moisture on the surface of the body, and then wrap the body with a dry bath towel. Li Jia took a deep breath and pushed open the sliding door between the soup pool and the changing room. I had to come over and urge to see if she passed out in the bathroom in an accident.

The graceful and light mist rises, blocking most of the view on the water surface of the Tangchi. If the Tangchi is not an open-air environment, it may not be long before the room will be filled with fog and obscure all vision, and even oxygen will become insufficient.

The most comfortable thing about soaking in a hot spring is that the temperature of the water soaking the body is comfortable and pleasant, and the exposed shoulders and head will be blown away by the cool wind and the feeling of suffocation.

As soon as the door opened, "Mr. Zhongye" who leaned comfortably against the wall of the soup pool immediately opened his eyes, his pupils narrowed and looked over vigilantly. The moment his eyes touched Li Jia, his blushing face turned even redder. .

He silently submerged his body into the water, only showing a pair of eyes, and turned his back shyly, not daring to look around.

Apparently, Li Jia, who came from the bathroom and walked barefoot, did not let the four men who were bathing in the soup pool notice the familiar footsteps and breath, so they vigilantly showed aggressive and threatening eyes when the door opened.

Probably thought that the person who came in was a murderer or some other suspicious person. After all, the person who can throw the corpse in the female soup to obscure the time of death must also attack other soup pools.

"Zhongye" held the wide felt hat on his head and pulled it down to cover his face, which was so red that it was hard to see.

After being hesitant and anxious for a long time, she suddenly turned into amused after seeing "Mr. Zhongye" and "Zhongye" shyer than her. She suddenly found that as long as she didn't meet their eyes, she didn't need to be so nervous.

Not only did she come to the soup pool to accompany Nakahara Nakaya and the others to relieve fatigue, but also to relieve the tension and fear of witnessing Oshima Reiko's death in front of her, so she also came to the hot spring after bathing.

They all come to the soup pool to relax and relieve fatigue. In fact, they don’t need to be so nervous at all. They just focus on each other. As long as they find a small corner where no one can see them, they can naturally enjoy the beauty of bathing quietly. .

Carefully stretching out her feet to test the water temperature, soaking her body in the slightly hot hot spring to relax a little bit, Li Jia exhaled softly, and found that there were two people missing in the soup pool.

Although "Mr. Zhongye" and "Brother Zhongye" entered the mixed bath one step behind her, she lingered in the bathroom for a long time, and they should have entered the soup pool earlier.

She buried her neck in the water, only showing her face and soft eyes that were damp with water vapor, and asked in a low voice: "Mr. Zhongye, Mr. Zhongye, didn't they come in?"

The reason why I chose to ask "Mr. Zhongye" instead of "Zhongye" is because a certain boy who covered his face with a hat and pretended that he does not exist has quietly moved to a place where Li Jia can't see, hiding behind a rockery to reduce his existence .

"Mr. Zhongye" opened his mouth to answer, but he forgot that most of his head was submerged in the water, and his mouth and nose were choking so hard that he had to stand up and come out of the water, "cough, cough... "

"Mr. Zhong, Zhongye, are you okay?" The girl's soft whisper was particularly obvious in the special environment of the hot spring, with a moist and soft nasal voice and unconcealed worry.

The young man rushed out of the water with his back facing her, revealing most of his strong back. The thin muscle lines covered the surface of his body, and he looked a little green and thin. He waved his hands back and said in a panic, "It's okay, I'm fine. It's okay, don't come here."

"..." Li Jia quickly looked away, but still couldn't help but see the water droplets flowing from the young man's back covered with tight muscles, with some young sexy and seductive, and extremely eye-catching picture .

She raised her hand to fan her face, which was hot and steaming, and said in a small voice: "Relax, don't worry, I won't go over."

It's so embarrassing, this feeling, as if seeing some taboo picture, makes people flustered and overwhelmed.

"Mr. Zhongye" choked, he coughed a few times, and changed the subject: "Those two guys are steaming the room, and they probably won't come out so soon after entering."

Perhaps because they were worried that Li Jia would be nervous, they did not stay in the soup pool like the teenagers, but got up after a simple soak in the soup and entered the steaming room, which was equipped with steam cabins in every soup pool.

Li Jia breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that it was a little thoughtfulness of the two adults Nakahara Chuya, which made her not need to be so nervous and calm down.

"Mr. Zhongye" who had choked on the hot spring wiped his face, and there was no sound behind him, which made him feel a little nervous, and he couldn't help but start thinking wildly.

What was Li Jia doing behind him, why didn't she make a sound?

But his nervousness and scruples made him unable to turn around and face Li Jia at will, observing the expression on her face as usual.

The quieter Tangchi was, the more he couldn't help wondering whether he had just said something out of his composure that made Li Jia so embarrassed that he didn't speak out.

The gurgling hot spring water and the slight sound of the wind blowing through the cherry trees were amplified infinitely in the eardrums. He was tangled and awkward, but he still couldn't help breaking the deadlock: "Hey, hey, we've soaked for long enough, go up and rub it Back it up."

"Mr. Zhongye" desperately wants to escape this strange atmosphere that makes the heart beat wildly, so he bluffs and raises his voice to ask Silence to move to "Zhongye" behind the rockery.

Obviously, this non-referential name is also used in several other Central Plains people who are called family members.

For the time being, he still couldn't calmly call them by his own name, but just used messy pronouns, simply "Zhongye" and "Big Brother Zhongye" had the same ideas as him, and they just acquiesced.

The official address is only "Mr. Nakaya" will follow the name that Li Jia gave their cat form, and only then will they know immediately who they are calling.

"Zhong Ye" responded in a low voice, with a very low voice, trying to reduce his sense of existence.

I lowered my wide felt hat to block my sight and moved ashore towards the Tangchi. When I passed by Lijia, I didn't even look sideways, not daring to take a second look.

Most of Li Jia's face hidden in the water slightly lowered her eyebrows and almost laughed out loud.

Originally, she was very nervous and felt very embarrassed to come into the mixed bath, but after seeing someone who was more nervous than her, she slowly relaxed and stopped thinking about the mixed bath and the two dead people in the hotel.

The area covered by the bath towel is actually larger than the area that the swimsuit can cover. The reason for the nervousness is that the bath towel cannot give people a sense of physical security and shelter like a swimsuit.

After all, the soup pool is a special place that pays more attention to privacy than the swimming pool.

But seeing "Mr. Zhongye" and "Zhongye" shy and embarrassed, they hurried ashore to avoid her, Li Jia couldn't help thinking that maybe "Mr. Zhongye" and "Brother Zhongye" who stayed in the steam room were also because of shyness. Only then did he calculate that it would be almost time to avoid her and go in.

"What..." It turned out that she was not the only one who was nervous.

The innocent cats in her family were even more nervous than her, and never thought about looking around.

No one heard the small sound she spit out in the water. Li Jia poked her head out quietly and breathed out, lying on the side of the soup pool and looking at "Mr. Zhongye" and the others with a funny face.

"Zhongye" looked calm and calm. After leaving the soup pool, he raised his hat and did not continue to block his sight, but he groped around at random, and picked up the floor brush for cleaning the floor of the soup pool without even looking at it. His distraught.

Li Jia's eyes widened slightly, and she tried to stop her: "Wait, wait, that..." It wasn't for brushing your back.

The hard brush had landed on the back of "Mr. Zhongye", and it hurt so hard that the young man jumped up, blushing and shouting in disbelief, "What are you doing?"

"Zhong Ye" realized later that he had picked up the wrong brush, and said in a low voice in embarrassment: "...Sorry."

She still couldn't hold back, and burst out laughing.