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"mouse?"

Harada sat up from the tatami.

"Mrs. Kondo, haven't we killed all the rats in the test hall today?"

During the daytime today, Abi led Saito and Harada, who were very free, to search every corner of the test hall, and counted and culled more than ten mice until they were no longer heard from the gaps in the ceiling and walls. Don't stop until there is any abnormal sound.

"I found the fish that slipped through the net! It's on the ceiling of the dojo! The sound is very soft, there should be 2 or 3!"

Ah Bi tightly clenched the broom in his hand with a serious face.

"You can't ignore these few fish that slipped through the net!"

"If we ignore it, these few fish that slip through the net will turn into dozens in a few months! All our efforts today will be in vain!"

"The ceiling of the dojo is too big, I can't clean it alone, if any of you are free, please come and help!"

Yongcang, Saito, and Harada are all diners who live in the testing hall. The hygienic conditions of the testing hall are closely related to his living conditions.

Killing the rats in the test hall is tantamount to ensuring the cleanliness of one's living environment.

Regardless of the very material reason that "killing the rats in the test hall is good for you", the Kondo family's willingness to let them use the test hall as their home is enough to make them obliged to accept the test. It's not a troublesome little job.

"Okay!" Harada jumped up like a spring, straightened his legs the moment his butt left the tatami, and sat upright, "Then let's go and get the remaining fishes that slipped through the net." Bring it to justice!"

"I've said it all... justice is not used in this way..." Saito slowly raised his upper body lying flat on the tatami like a dead body.

Hijikata, Nagakura, and Kubei stood up following Harada and Saito, silently expressing their willingness to do their part for the "rat eradication operation".

Except for Qingdeng who was taking a bath with the chief executive, all the residents among the diners swarmed to the dojo of the testing hall following Abi.

After arriving at the dojo, they saw Zhou Zhu, Kondo and Inoue who had been waiting here early in the morning.

"Master." Tufang asked, "Do you want to catch mice too?"

"Hohohoho." Zhou Zhu rubbed his bare chin, "The dojo in our test guard hall is so big, naturally, the more people who can come to help, the better."

The area of ​​the dojo in the test guard hall is around 100 square meters, and it is not a small workload to thoroughly check the ceiling of a place with such an area.

"Father, mother, Mr. Kubei, let us young people do the work of climbing the ceiling." Kondo patted his extremely strong chest muscles vigorously, "You can help us with ladders and tools. good."

Kondo's proposition was unanimously agreed by Hijikata and others.

Zhou Zhu, A Bi, and Jiu Bingwei are all gray-haired elderly people. Logically speaking, they should not be allowed to do such dangerous tasks as climbing the ceiling.

"Can you guys do it?" Zhou Zhu asked a little worriedly.

"Hahahaha, leave it to us with confidence!" After laughing boldly a few times, Kondo took a wooden ladder first, and climbed along the wooden ladder to the place closest to the ceiling.

As soon as he pushed the wooden board above his head away, Zhou Zhu saw a small cloud of dust falling down along the gap where the wooden board was pushed away.

The ceiling of the test hall is only cleaned when the New Year approaches.

After more than half a year of accumulation, the ceiling of the testing hall has long been covered with thick dust and a lot of disgusting spider webs.

Kondo stretched his neck, put the ceiling on the wooden plank, poked half of his head into the ceiling, glanced roughly at the dust and cobwebs that overflowed the entire field of vision, and couldn't help but smile wryly on his cheeks:

"It looks like... after killing the mice, I have to go to Qianxun House to take a bath again..."

...

...

It is necessary to strictly separate the two areas of "bathroom" and "bath".

The "bathroom" is generally a fairly large room without partitions, where everyone collects water to wash their bodies, and they have to wash their bodies clean before going to the bathtub for a bath.

When taking a bath, you can only soak in it, you can't swim in it, and you can't wash your body in it again.

Logically speaking, no one would be so disgusting to use this kind of bath water that has soaked countless people to wash their bodies.

All of the above are the rules that must be followed when taking a bath in the bathhouse.

At this moment, in the bathroom of Qianxun House, Qing Deng cast a puzzled look at the chief.

"Okita-kun, what are you doing sitting so far away?"

Perhaps it was because he had realized that he could not escape Qingdeng's grasp tonight. After being dragged into the men's bath by Mr. Qingdeng, he seemed to accept his fate and didn't struggle much anymore.

The chief commander, who was stripped naked like Qingdeng, was sitting quite far away from Qingdeng with his back to Qingdeng.

It was the same when he undressed in the undressing room just now, the chief took off his clothes while standing far away from Qingdeng with his back to Qingdeng, and after undressing, he rushed into the bathroom alone.

The chief executive slipped into the bathroom very quickly. At that time, Qing Deng, who had just had time to take off his upper body clothes, turned his head according to the general director's sentence "I'll go in first." In the bathroom.

"I, I, I, just sit here..."

As the chief executive said this, he "shrunk" his body a little smaller.

The general's current posture is completely curled up.

Keep your legs together, pull your shoulders and arms toward your chest vigorously, and only use your right hand to scrub your body with a wet towel.

Because the chief executive tightened his limbs, from Qingdeng's perspective, he could only see the back of the chief chief's head, back and buttocks.

Ever since he entered the bathhouse, the chief executive behaved strangely...Qingdeng couldn't help staring at the back of the chief chief's head and back with eyes that became more suspicious.

The director's secretive attitude made Qingdeng uncontrollably suspicious:

——The chief is because I forced him to take a bath with him who likes to take a bath alone, so he got angry and didn't want to get close to me?

——Or...is he the kind of person who is not good at "being honest" with others?

This kind of people is quite common, and there are often such people in bathhouses: they don't like to "be honest" with others, especially they don't want others to see their private parts.

Whether the general manager is such a person, Qing Deng doesn't know.

Qingdeng only knew that the chief executive had been extremely weird these two days.

He only regarded the abnormalities shown by the chief executive after he entered the bathhouse as an extension of the chief executive's strange behavior in the past two days, so he didn't pay more attention to the various weird behaviors of the chief executive, and silently withdrew his gaze.

Neither Qingdeng nor the chief executive spoke... only the two of them were in the huge bathroom, and there was only the sound of wiping their bodies with towels one after another.

The speed at which the chief minister washed his body was as fast as the speed at which he undressed.

"I, I'm done washing!"

From entering the bathroom to the general manager yelling "I'm done washing"... According to statistics, less than 2 minutes have passed.

"Have you finished washing?"

Surprised by the speed of the director's bathing, Qingdeng subconsciously turned his head to look at the director, but he couldn't see the director—the director had already rushed through like a rabbit before he turned his head to look over. Pass through the pomegranate mouth and enter the bathing place.

——Okita-kun... really weird...

Qingdeng's eyes were fixed on the pomegranate's mouth, his eyelids sank slightly, and the bewilderment that had just faded away rose again in his eyes.

...

...

Test hall, dojo——

"Finally, I succeeded in bringing you to justice..."

Harada triumphantly carried a fat, lifeless mouse upside down.

Saito, who was standing beside him, was too lazy to correct Harada's idiom usage.

"This should be the last one." Kondo took the fat mouse from Harada's hand, and threw it into the dustpan at his feet.

Including the fat mouse newly caught by Harada, there are now three dead mice lying quietly in the dustpan at Kondo's feet.

"It should be the last one." Hijikata said, "We searched every corner of the dojo's ceiling. Even if there are still fish that slip through the net, they should have fled away."

"Hohohohoho, thank you for your hard work." Zhou Zhu walked over with a broom in his hand, "The mice in the dojo should be gone... let's call it a day for tonight."

"Wow, likes and dislikes!"

Suddenly, Yongcang let out a scream.

Everyone turned their heads to look, and saw Yongcang peeling off a complete spider web stuck to the back of his head with a look of disgust.

"Such a big spider web sticks to my head... There should be no spiders running into my clothes..."

Yongcang crumpled the spider web into a ball, flicked it with his fingers, and threw it into the dustpan that held the dead mouse. Then he concentrated on flipping through his clothes to check whether there were any spider webs on his body or those that had escaped into the clothes. spider.

Kondo looked at Yongcang with a wry smile, then turned his gaze to the others: "Everyone is in a mess..."

Everyone climbing up and down the ceiling looked like they had just come out of a coal mine.

The face, hands, and clothes were all blackened by dust.

In addition to the dust, there are also a lot of spider web residues all over the body.

The body is dirty, and it is extremely uncomfortable. If you sneak into the room to sleep like this, it will only stain the room and the quilt.

"Why don't we go take a bath again?" Yongcang first proposed.

"I agree!" Harada immediately voted for Yongcang's proposal.

"Is the Chihiro House still open?" Hijikata asked back.

"The door is still open." On the side, Inoue nodded, "The Chihiro House is still open, and it's not yet the time for the Chihiro House to close."

Kondo and his party, whose bodies were all dirty, couldn't wait to get their bodies cleaned quickly.

There was almost no discussion, and everyone reached a consensus - everyone went to Qianxun House to take a bath again...

...

...

Chihiro House——

The bathing together with the chief executive tonight came with a mission.

Therefore, Qingdeng didn't have the leisure time to wash himself seriously.

After roughly scrubbing his body, he strode through the pomegranate opening connecting the bathtub and the bathroom, and entered the bathtub.

The air in the bath was filled with thick water mist.

Stepping here is like being in a fairyland.

Qingdeng swept his eyes, and soon found the figure of the chief director - he was sitting in a remote corner of the bath with his back facing the pomegranate mouth, with his knees tucked in his arms.

The headmaster soaked very deeply, the parts below the neck were submerged under the pool water, and his chin was close to the surface of the water.

Under the cover of the pool water and mist, the body under the water surface of the general manager was as hazy as the moon in the water, and it was difficult to distinguish the detailed appearance.

Hearing the sound of Qingdeng passing through the pomegranate mouth, the chief hastily turned his body, changing his body from facing away from the pomegranate mouth to precisely facing away from Qingdeng.

Qingdeng, who was in a hurry to start questioning the general manager, was too lazy... No, it can't be said to be "lazy", it should be said that he didn't want to spend more energy to pay more attention to these weird behaviors of the general manager.

Silently presuming in his heart that the chief minister should be the kind of person who doesn't like to "treat each other honestly" with others, Qingdeng strode into the bath, and sat cross-legged not far from the chief minister with his back to his back.

"Okita-kun. I think you should also know why I have been pestering you today...how is your talk with your sister?"

Although the general manager occasionally shows a stupid side when doing arithmetic problems and in some situations, he is generally a person of normal intelligence.

Qingdeng thought to himself: the director must have guessed the reason why he dragged him to the bathhouse with such a strong posture for a long time.

Since everyone is a sensible person, there is no need to make any detours. Qingdeng went straight to the point, pointing out his reason for coming.

"Ah, ah ha ha ha ha..."

The general manager's tone was generally steady, and it could be heard that he had already been mentally prepared for this question from Qingdenghui.

After a few dry laughs, the director said softly:

"Mr. Ju, you really have the perseverance...to ask me this question, you even chased me into the bathhouse..."

"Because I'm worried about you."

Qingdeng said without thinking.

"I didn't want to meddle too much in your housework at first... But your current state really worries me. You're still in such a trance that you hit the wall today."

"The negotiation between you and your sister...is it not going well?"

"..." The chief fell silent.

Qingdeng was not in a hurry, and calmly waited for the answer from the chief executive.

Time goes by bit by bit...

After a long while, Qing Deng finally heard the soft murmur of the chief executive behind him.

"...um...it's not going well."

"The day after you found out that my sister was forcing me to give up swordsmanship, I found my sister and had a serious talk with her."

"I really tried my best to convince my sister."

"In order to impress my sister, I almost took off my clothes and gave my sister a standard 'full fruit soil to sit down'."

In Japanese culture, undressing has the meaning of "I am the same as the outside and the inside, and there is no double heart".

"But no matter what I say or do, my sister just won't let it in..."

"Her determination to 'want me to give up swordsmanship' is as firm as my determination to 'don't want to give up swordsmanship'."

"No one is willing to give in... She and I are having a very unpleasant fight now..."

The director's tone was full of frustration and loss.

"...Okita-kun, actually...you don't need to pay too much attention to your sister's opinion, do you?"

Qingdeng couldn't help but said.

"You are you, she is her."

"Since you don't want to give up swordsmanship and want to continue to study swordsmanship in the trial guard hall, then you can ignore her and stick to your own opinion."

"No matter how much your sister objects to your sword learning... Could it be that she still has a way to bind your hands and feet so that you can no longer hold a sword?"

Wow...

As soon as Qingdeng finished speaking, he heard the sound of pool water being swirled behind him—this was the sound of the chief executive hugging his legs even tighter.

"That's right..."

The director buried his head a little lower, and the tip of his nose almost touched the surface of the water.

"But if possible... I want this incident to end with a satisfactory result for everyone..."

"My father died of illness when I was less than one year old."

"After a few years, my mother passed away and was reborn in the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss."

"I have no father and no mother, and I was basically brought up by my eldest sister."

"For me, she is both my eldest sister and the mother who raised me..."

"I can really ignore my sister's opinion and continue to study swordsmanship in the testing hall."

Speaking of this, the general manager laughed dryly "Ahahaha" a few times, and the tone of the laughter was full of bitterness.

"But if you do this, my sister will definitely feel sad..."

"I... don't want my sister to be unhappy..."

The chief executive's parents died young, and he was brought up by his two older sisters...mainly by Okita Hikari—Qingdeng had heard about this matter briefly from Kondo and Hijikata before.

Although he knew the specific relationship between the chief executive and his sister, Qingdeng underestimated the chief executive's feelings for his sister.

"Is that so... Sorry, I made a stupid suggestion."

"fine."

The boss shook his head slightly with a smile on his face.

"Next... I plan to continue trying to convince my sister."

"Water drops can still penetrate stone."

"As long as I persevere in showing my sincerity and determination to 'never put down the sword' to my sister, maybe I will be able to impress her."

There was an optimistic smile in the director's voice.

Infected by the smile in the chief executive's voice, Qing Deng showed a faint smile.

Knowing the result of the negotiations between the chief executive and his sister, a question in my heart was answered...but soon, a brand new question emerged in Qingdeng's mind.

The scene where the chief executive kept trying to avoid him in various ways today quickly passed before Qingdeng's eyes.

"Okita-kun, why have you been avoiding me today?"

Qing Deng quickly put forward his new question.

"Even if the negotiation between you and your sister is not going well, and the result of the negotiation is difficult to tell me, you don't need to avoid me all the time today, right?"

"Well... this, this..."

I don't know if it's Qingdeng's illusion.

He always felt that there seemed to be a vague sense of tension in the voice of the general manager Shicai.

Because Qingdeng is sitting with his back to the head now, Qingdeng didn't realize at this moment that the head behind him was lowering his drooping head, as if he wanted to put the whole sheet of paper on his back. It was as if his face was buried in water.

He secretly turned his head and glanced back. The moment his sight touched Qingdeng's figure, his sight was immediately retracted as if he was electrocuted, and his vision was refocused on the water surface in front of his chest.

I saw that at the moment when the chief executive withdrew his gaze, a faint blush flew onto his cheeks.

When outsiders saw the red face of the chief executive, they might think that the chief executive had soaked in the bathtub for too long, until his face was steamed red by the heat of the bath.

But only the chief executive himself knows—the blush on his face...was not steamed by the heat of the bath.

"The reason why I have been avoiding you today... is not because of the negotiation result with my sister, it is difficult to tell you..."

"Huh? Why is that?"

"Well... this..."

The blush on the chief executive's face spread.

"This...it's not convenient to tell you at the moment..."

"It's not convenient to tell me again..."

Qingdeng couldn't help showing a self-deprecating wry smile.

Last time I asked about the main reason why Hikaru Okita insisted on asking the chief executive to give up swordsmanship.

"Okay, since it's not convenient to tell me, then don't say it."

Convincing my sister not to stop me from practicing swordsmanship... This is certainly important, but daily life and sword practice in the dojo are also very important.

Because of being scratched by the pressure exerted by my sister, I feel muddled and distracted every day... This really shouldn't be.

Just when Qingdeng wanted to remind the chief executive aloud that he should think about it in the future and pay more attention to it, so that he wouldn't look out of his wits every day because of his sister's affairs——

...

Yongcang: "It seems quite cool to take a shower late at night, it's very quiet, and no one can disturb you."

Inoue: "Come to the bathhouse late at night to take a bath, it really has a special charm."

Harada: "Huh? Don't you think that if the bathhouse is not lively, it will be boring to take a bath?"

Hijikata: "I don't really like coming to the bathhouse too late. If you come to the bathhouse too late, the water temperature in the bath will become lower."

Saito: "...Yongcang-kun, there is a spider on the back of your neck."

Yongcang: "What?! Really?!"

Saito: "Ah, sorry, I was wrong, I took your mole as a spider."

Yongcang: "Damn, you scared me to death."

Kondo: "Okay, stop making trouble, have you forgotten what Granny Tang said just now? The bathhouse will close in a while, hurry up and take a bath."

Harada: "It's all here. After washing our bodies, let's go to the bathtub for a dip."

Yongcang: "Do you still want to take a bath?"

Harada: "Yongcang, are you stupid? We each paid 2 cents to get in. Wouldn't it be a loss if we don't try our best to get our money back?"

Yongcang: "That's right..."

Tufang: "If you want to take a bath, I have no problem."

Inoue: "I have no objection either."

Kondo: "After taking a bath, let's take a dip in the bathtub together before leaving."

...

Outside of Shiliu's mouth, the voices of the friends from the testing hall suddenly came.

"Um?"

Qingdeng blinked his eyes towards Pomegranate's mouth in surprise.

"Haven't Kondo-kun and the others already taken a bath?"

The sudden arrival of Kondo and his party only made Qingdeng a little surprised.

Qingdeng's calmness... was in stark contrast to the reaction of the chief executive behind him at this time.

Crash!

The loud sound of water waves being pushed away from behind made Qingdeng turn around involuntarily because he was attracted by the sound.

As soon as he turned his face to the back, Qingdeng saw the chief executive who was still facing away from him, and changed the way he put his arms from "encircling his knees" to "hugging them tightly to his chest".

"He, he, why did they suddenly come to the bathhouse at this time? And they still have to go into the bath to take a bath...!"

The chief executive looked around in a panic as he spoke.

"No, I can't! I have to, I have to find a place to hide!"

"Okita-kun, what are you doing?"

Whether it was the general director's hastily looking around, or his words, the second monk Qingdengzhang was puzzled.

Ignoring Qingdeng's questioning, the general manager rushed towards the corner of the bathing place in a posture of half-slouching and continuing to hide in the water from the neck down... He seemed to want to go there to see if there was anyone who could hide The place.

"Hey, wait, Okita-kun, be careful, the pool over there is very deep."

In order to allow people of different heights to have a good bathing experience, Chihiro House's baths are specially divided into "shallow water area" and "deep water area".

The deeper you go into the bath, the deeper the water becomes.

In a hurry to find a place to hide, the chief commander hurriedly moved to the depths of the bath, ignoring the changes in the water.

He stepped into the "deep water area" suddenly, and accidentally stepped on the air.

With a "plop" sound... the entire figure of the chief executive disappeared from Qingdeng's field of vision.

The chief who fell into the deep water area plunged into the pool water, his whole head and the parts of his body below the neck were submerged under the water surface...

"Woooo...! Puwa! Gululululululu..."

There was a place where circles of water patterns burst out crazily, and there was a lot of sound of bubbling...

When Qingdeng saw this, his face turned pale, and before he could utter a scream, he hurriedly pushed aside the water blocking in front of him, and ran towards the place where a lot of foam was spraying out of the water.

Although it is unlikely to drown in the bath, it is still urgent to salvage the chief.

If water is accidentally choked into the trachea, it is also life-threatening.

"Okita-kun! Are you alright?"

Qingdeng rushed to the side of the chief executive in three steps at a time, stretched out his hand into the water, and groped for the chief executive's body under the water like a blind man groping through the hazy mist that blocked his vision.

At this time, the chief's head resurfaced.

"Cough, cough! Orange, Orange-kun...?"

The moment his mouth and nose left the water and his ability to speak was restored, the chief director immediately opened his eyes wide, staring at Qing Deng who was so close to him with astonishment, and shouted to Qing Deng in a panicked tone. Deng's name.

The general manager can still speak normally... This made Qingdeng heave a sigh of relief. It seemed that the headmaster's trachea was not choked by the pool water.

Although the chief executive seemed to be fine, just to be on the safe side, Qingdeng decided to fish the chief executive out of the pool as soon as possible.

"Come on, boss, I'll help you."

Qingdeng's hands continued to search for the body of the chief under the water.

"Stand still, don't fall again."

"Wait, wait, wait! No, don't...!"

Suddenly, the chief executive suddenly began to struggle violently.

As if wanting to stop Qingdeng's hands from continuing to approach, as if trying to stay away from Qingdeng's side.

The violently swinging hands splashed out handfuls of water and waves.

If there was a third person present, seeing this situation, they would definitely think that Qingdeng and the chief executive were playing and playing in the pool right now.

The director's sudden resistance made Qingdeng go in without knowing it.

Qingdeng didn't even have time to ask the chief why it happened suddenly.

The chief executive who was struggling like a fish accidentally jumped onto the land made the scene extremely chaotic for a while.

Suddenly... an accident just happened.

The chief who frantically swung his hands, his left elbow accidentally hit Qingdeng's chest.

The unexpected "attack" caused Qingdeng's body to fall backward due to his unstable center of gravity.

Although he relied on the "cat turn" and quickly stood up in the pool water, his palms were still instinctively grabbing anything that could be used for grabbing.

Qingdeng's left hand caught a hole in the water,

But the right hand managed to grab something...

At this moment, time seemed to stand still.

The chief didn't struggle anymore, his thumping hands froze in mid-air.

Qingdeng also froze in place as if he had been petrified.

At this moment, the positions of Qingdeng and the general manager are that Qingdeng is behind and the general manager is in front, Qingdeng is facing the general manager, and the general manager is facing away from Qingdeng.

What Qingdeng grasped with his right palm came from the chief secretary.

To be more precise, it is from the chest of the chief executive...

Qingdeng's right arm wrapped around the chief's right shoulder, stretched out to the chief's chest, and grasped something... It filled and stretched all the finger joints of his right palm, something that a man should not have ...

Time seems to have passed by 1 second, and it seems that 1 year has passed.

"Let, let me go..."

It wasn't until he heard the groan-like prayer from the general manager that Qingdeng finally let go of what he was holding and took two steps back as if he had been electrocuted.

After widening the distance from the chief executive, Qingdeng stared at the beautiful young man in front of him in a daze with astonishment as if he had lost focus.

No……

Now it should be called a beautiful girl!

"Chong, Okita-kun...you, why are you a girl...?"

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