"...Where are the towels?"
Izumi Sora surrendered and admitted defeat.
There was no helping it.
Faced with an unguarded girl devoid of any sense of shame, an ordinary person couldn't handle it at all.
What was worse, the other party wasn't even a legal loli. He could lose his qualification to be a human being at any moment.
"In the storage room." Yamada Elf's voice was crisp as she turned and returned to the bathroom.
"There's a box completely full of towels."
"Wait here, I'll go get the towel."
Izumi Sora quickly left.
Retrieving the towel and handing it to Elf, the crisis was finally averted.
"People without a sense of shame are truly terrifying..."
Izumi Sora exhaled softly and sat back down on the sofa.
Before long, Yamada Elf's voice sounded again:
"Idiot Servant, you brought the wrong towel!"
"Hmm?"
"After using the towel, my back feels all prickly and itchy, it's so uncomfortable. Hurry up and come help scrub my back."
"Scrub it yourself."
"It's because I can't reach that I'm calling you."
Asking a boy to come into the bathroom to help scrub your back, you really don't know what danger means, do you!
"Servant, come in quickly." Yamada Elf urged.
"At worst, I'll help scrub Servant's back later."
"I refuse."
"But it's really so uncomfortable..."
Yamada Elf's voice suddenly became pitiful:
"I can't reach it myself, I can really only count on Sora."
"..."
Izumi Sora's face showed hesitation.
He had a standard personality of being susceptible to soft tactics but resistant to hard ones.
If Elf continued to take a tough stance, he would definitely refuse one hundred and twenty percent. But facing Elf suddenly asking for help so pitifully, he couldn't harden his heart.
"Sora, please."
Faced with Elf's pleading, Izumi Sora ultimately agreed.
"I'm coming in."
"Come in quickly, come in quickly."
Izumi Sora gripped the doorknob and pushed open the bathroom door.
The fragrant steam mixed with shampoo and body wash wafted against his face, smelling quite nice.
Izumi Sora's gaze shifted downward, landing on Elf's back.
This blonde loli inherently had a slender build. Right now, sitting on a small bathing stool, viewed from behind, her waist was astonishingly slender. At its narrowest point, it looked only the width of an A4 sheet of paper.
Not only that.
Although Yamada Elf looked frail, her curves were surprisingly beautiful. They abruptly widened at the narrowest part of her waist, and there were even two shallow dimples of Venus.
"...It's truly a pity not to use cupping therapy on this."
Izumi Sora complained silently in his heart while carefully inspecting. He soon saw faint red marks on the shoulder blade area:
"Your back is indeed a bit red... What happened just now?"
"I don't know, after using the towel it just got super prickly and itchy." Yamada Elf turned her head and looked over pitifully, her voice aggrieved.
"Sora, hurry up and help scrub my back, it's so uncomfortable."
"It might be because the towel was stored for too long and isn't clean."
Izumi Sora exhaled softly, crouched down halfway, took the towel from Elf's hand, and began helping to scrub her back.
Fortunately, it wasn't long before Elf indicated her back felt much better, the prickling sensation rapidly disappearing.
Yamada Elf covered her chest with her right hand and sat quietly on the small stool. She didn't cause any trouble, but her mouth kept talking non-stop:
"Servant, Servant~ Have you ever scrubbed Sagiri's back?"
"Of course not."
Izumi Sora shook his head decisively.
It was only starting last month that Sagiri finally stepped out of her room. Before that, she always hid in her room and wouldn't come out. They couldn't even see each other, let alone help scrub her back.
Yamada Elf turned her head, continuing to ask curiously:
"Then have you helped Yanami scrub her back?"
"No."
Izumi Sora continued to shake his head.
He and Yanami had known each other since kindergarten. He remembered one rainy day, their parents happened to be busy and asked Yanami's mother to help pick them up. Their clothes got wet, and Yanami's mother gave him and 'Inmate Eight' a bath together in the bathtub.
Yes, he and Yanami had bathed in the same bathtub, but he definitely hadn't helped scrub her back.
"Then have you scrubbed backs with Mahiru?"
Yamada Elf's voice was expectant.
Izumi Sora shook his head: "Also no."
Angel-sama keeps herself clean and pure, she wouldn't ask a boy to help scrub her back like you did!
"So you haven't done it with anyone." Yamada Elf began to hum smugly.
"In other words, this is the first time Servant has helped a girl scrub her back?"
"Hehehehe~"
"I will reluctantly accept Servant's first time."
It's just scrubbing a back, what's there to be so smug about!
"Finished scrubbing. Hurry up and finish washing and come out, I'll go get you another towel."
Izumi Sora stood up and left the bathroom.
A moment later.
The freshly washed Elf finally came out, wrapped in a large white bunny pajama set, wearing slippers on her feet. She padded over to Izumi Sora's side, put her hands on her hips, her voice crisp:
"Servant, hurry up and lie down on the sofa, I'm going to fulfill the back walking reward."
"Be careful, don't fall off."
Izumi Sora agreed and lay down on the sofa.
"Heave-ho~"
Using both hands and feet, Yamada Elf carefully climbed onto Izumi Sora's back, then spread her arms and stood up.
"Idiot Servant, don't jinx it. If I fall off, Servant will have to take responsibility for the rest of his life."
"Isn't a lifetime a bit too long?"
"Not long at all. Sora's next life, and the life after that, will all belong to me."
Yamada Elf complained while starting to walk on his back.
Izumi Sora slightly narrowed his eyes. He had originally thought he would suffer from an 'orc trample', but surprisingly, it felt quite nice and very comfortable. He couldn't help but ask curiously:
"Has Elf walked on someone's back before?"
Yamada Elf smugly tilted her head: "What, is Servant jealous?"
"I am not."
"It's from my bridal training. I told Servant before, I got a perfect score on my bridal training graduation exam." Yamada Elf's voice was smug.
"Besides self-cultivation, a lot of the content was about how to serve the husband and make the husband more comfortable. It included the theoretical knowledge of back walking."
I see.
This Elf's theoretical knowledge was quite ample, so she wasn't just stomping around haphazardly. No wonder it felt quite comfortable.
Izumi Sora closed his eyes and comfortably continued to enjoy it.
Unfortunately, although Elf's theoretical knowledge was rich, her physical strength and endurance were severely lacking. She was a standard level-five weakling. Before long, she was panting slightly:
"I can't do it anymore, my legs are so sore, I can't step anymore."
"Let's stop here for today." Izumi Sora opened his eyes.
"Be careful when you get down, don't fall."
"I know..."
Before she finished her sentence, the girl's soft cry abruptly rang out, followed by a dull thump.
Good heavens, he had just reminded her to be careful, and the next second she fell!
Izumi Sora quickly got up and looked over. He saw Elf lying on the ground in a terrible 'wild goose landing on flat sand' posture, looking quite comical.
A flash of holy light quietly caught his eye.
Izumi Sora's gaze paused slightly, then quickly shifted away.
"Ouch, ouch, ouch..."
Yamada Elf groaned while sitting up. Suddenly remembering something, she hurriedly covered her skirt with both hands, her small face flushing red as she looked at Izumi Sora:
"Did Servant see everything?"
"If I said I didn't see anything, would you believe me?"
"I definitely don't believe you!"
"Next time you finish showering, remember to wear underwear."