Strike the Blood, Vol. 5: Fiesta for the Observers by Gakuto Mikumo and Manyako

Strike the Blood, Vol. 5: Fiesta for the Observers by Gakuto Mikumo and Manyako

Author:Gakuto Mikumo and Manyako [Mikumo, Gakuto]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2017-01-24T00:00:00+00:00


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Kojou, wearing a sauna towel, sighed with admiration as he took stock of his surroundings.

“This bath ain’t big—it’s huge.”

Though not as large as a Japanese hot spring bathhouse might have been, it was such a fine bath that it almost made you forget you were on a ship. The water level was somewhat shallow, but you could fit ten people in with room to spare.

Even without the pompous ornamentation, the pure white covering the bathroom conveyed an air of high society. It wasn’t hard for Kojou to imagine a rich man in the tub, surrounded by young, doting lovers.

Thanks to indulging in such thoughts of excess, Kojou immediately imagined Vattler there, served by Kira and Tobias…and promptly went into meltdown. He suffered a surprising amount of mental damage from the image.

Even so, Kojou was pretty grateful for the chance to wash the grime away. His entire body was a mess from the sweat and blood from multiple bouts of combat.

Kojou had his own blood caked on him, and Yuuma’s too from when he was carrying her—

“…Yuuma…wait for me,” Kojou whispered to himself, as he scrubbed at the dried blood, losing it under heavy soap lather.

The image of his childhood friend, wounded and in tatters, sent pain through his chest.

Even if it wasn’t a race against the clock, that still left Yuuma hovering on death’s door. To save her, they needed to first save Natsuki, but Natsuki had lost her magical power and had the escapees after her, too.

He was worried that Aya Tokoyogi was nowhere to be found, as well. Plus, he had no idea when or where Vattler would run amok as he pleased. Kojou’s brain capacity was close to overload from the sheer number of problems. Even so, there was no way he was going to cut and run with Yuuma’s life on the line.

Calm down, Kojou thought, taking several deep breaths. It was precisely at times like these that he couldn’t just shove it all out of his mind. First, he needed to calm down and deal with the problems one by one, or—

Before Kojou could finish that unusually serious thought—

“Is the temperature of the bath to your liking, Fourth Primogenitor?” asked a girl’s voice.

“Uwah?!”

The sudden presence behind him ripped Kojou’s inner calm to tatters.

With a patter of bare feet, some unfamiliar young girls came into the bathroom.

There were five of them, each wearing a different color swimsuit. Their ages ran from the low teens to mid-twenties. They seemed like a bunch of sisters who got along well, but their races and body types had nothing in common. The only commonality was that they were all really good-looking. Each had a beauty to her like she’d been born to high society.

Of course, the bare-naked Kojou hastily wrapped a towel around his loins and stood up.

“Wh-what the heck?”

The beautiful brigade of girls in swimsuits surrounded him without mercy.

A blond woman, twenty years old give or take, leaned in close to Kojou as she spoke.

“We are a maid troop serving the Duke of Ardeal.



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