I'm a thankful fox in Tokyo

Chapter 243: Miko's Bath Water
It was true that he couldn't win, but he didn't lose the battle. Dong Yeyu snorted and said, "I think that demon is like a stake."

Ling Zhao was stunned for a second when he heard Dong Yeyu's arrogant words. He felt it was absurd. Even the fear of being in the divine domain was temporarily suppressed. He sneered, "Arrogant! My master has been a great ruler in Weiyuan China since ancient times. You, a kid, think you are ignorant of the world because you have some strength after practicing. How can you know how terrifying he is? You dare to talk so fast only under the protection of the gods. If you really stand in front of my master, you will be brave if you don't wet your pants."

"Shut up, fox." Dong Ye Yu kicked her mercilessly.

Don't be fooled by this fox demon's pitiful face. She has killed countless people and smells of blood as if she has been soaked in a pool of blood for hundreds of years. After interrogating Dong Yeyu, they are ready to execute her.

It would be a disaster if we keep this kind of demon, so it would be better to send her to death early.

"What?"

Fei Yi suffered from her lack of education. She could understand every word, but when they were put together it was a little confusing. She looked at Dong Ye Yu's profile with a confused look.

"You should read more books. It's difficult for an illiterate person to make any progress in cultivation. You can't even understand a Taoist scripture." Dong Ye Yu shook his head. A rotten tree cannot be carved.

It's just that you can recognize some words, why are you so proud?
Fei Yi curled her lips, holding back her anger, not wanting to bother with him. She turned around and walked from the rain- and mud-filled path to a gravel path nearby. Her petite figure gradually moved away from the halo of the stone lanterns and disappeared back into the guarded forest. She said in a cold tone, "I'm going to patrol the night, you can go up by yourself."

He is not very capable and his temper is not small.

Dong Ye Yu didn't tolerate her either, so he carried the fox demon and walked towards the shrine on his own.

The sound of the forest in the rain is different from that of the outside world. Countless raindrops hit the leaves, making a slightly muffled crackling sound, as if hitting the mirror lake in the heart, and the spreading ripples overlap with each other. It must be a great experience to stay at Yuko's house at this time.

Bright warm yellow lights, elegantly decorated Japanese-style rooms, faint scents of incense, and dry clothes
Thinking of this, Dong Yeyu quickened his pace. His wet clothes made him feel uncomfortable, and the books in his schoolbag also needed to be dried.

The shrine was empty, and most of the halls were hidden in shadows. There were only a few incandescent lamps emitting pure white cold light, but it did not give people a gloomy feeling. The copper bells hanging on the corners of the eaves made crisp tinkling sounds in the wind and rain, which made people feel at ease for some reason.

Higashino Yu ritually washed his hands at the hand-washing house, and in times of crisis, he had to maintain respect for the Inari god.

Then I walked to the front of the temple with an umbrella and wrung out the rain water from my wet clothes under the dry eaves, but I did not fall into the same hallucination as before.

Is Chunyuan not here?

Higashino Yu rang the bell, paid homage to the Inari God, then walked towards Iori's house and rang the doorbell at the gate.

Since the Iori family's courtyard is of medium size, the doorbell is sometimes not audible at the door, so the doorbell speakers are installed in the bedroom and study to avoid missing visitors.

Not long after, the sound of wooden clogs stepping on the ground was heard from behind the gate, and the gate was quickly opened.

"Ayu?"

Iori Tadamichi was wearing dark pajamas and holding a classical paper umbrella. He was a little surprised at first that Higashino Yu came so late, and then his eyes were drawn to the bell in his hand that was bound by the white talisman of the sunny doll.

"This is?"

"demon."

Upon hearing this, Iori Tadamichi's expression became serious and he nodded. Without asking any more questions, he just let Higashino Yu in.

It was raining heavily, and a lot of rain water was floating onto the waxed floor of the corridor, making it a bit slippery to walk on. Fortunately, there were two incandescent lamps at intervals in the corridor, so it was bright and I didn't slip.

Wow.

Iori Tadamichi opened the Japanese-style meeting room and pressed the light switch. At this time, Iori's grandmother seemed worried and came out of the bedroom. The light in Miko's room diagonally across the corridor also turned on.

"Ah, Ayu, where did you come from? Who is this?"

The old lady frowned as she looked at the bell in Dong Yeyu's hand. The woman had been caught in the rain, her dress was extremely messy, and her pair of long white legs were a bit dazzling under the pure white light of the incandescent lamp.

"The demon that Ayu caught. It's..." Iori Tadamichi explained and looked at Higashino Yu.

Dong Yeyu immediately understood and explained, "It was a fox monster that transformed. The outer skin is actually the skin of a victim."

"That's it"

The old lady nodded very calmly and didn't say anything more. Then her eyes fell on Dong Ye Yu, who was soaked all over. She was stunned for two seconds and her lips moved as if she was calling someone's name.

After a moment, she seemed to wake up and started to move, while commanding Dong Ye Yu.

"You're soaking wet. Go wash yourself in the bathroom and take a hot bath. It would be bad if you catch a cold. Miko just took a bath, and the water in the bathtub is still hot. Go quickly. Miko's father is about the same size as you. I'll prepare some dry clothes he left for you to change into."

In ordinary families on this island country, one tank of bath water is used for multiple purposes, probably because the fresh water resources here are not abundant. For a long time, the government has promoted the habit of saving water, which also saves gas and water bills.

The Sunshine Garden was even worse, with several children taking turns soaking in one bathtub's hot water, which was only replaced with new water when it got cold.

Dong Yeyu was very resistant to such a lifestyle at the beginning, but at that time his cultivation was low, he was small and not very strong, and the teachers in Sunshine Garden forced him to soak in the bathtub several times. Gradually, he got used to this somewhat overly frugal lifestyle.

When you are under someone's roof, you have to bow your head, so just follow the local customs.

Of course, the Higashino family will definitely not do this in the future. They don’t need the water and electricity bills.

However, the situation at the Iori family is a little different. The Iori family used to be wealthy and had three bathrooms, which were not shared. Miko had her own bathtub, so it would not be appropriate for her to use it alone, right?

Dong Yeyu smiled awkwardly: "Grandma Tomoko, this is not good, that is Miko's bathtub, I just want to borrow the bathroom and take a bath."

The old lady glanced at Dong Yeyu, then shouted towards the room across the corridor: "Yuzi, Yu wants to use your bathtub, do you mind?"

Yuko stuck her little head out of the window and was stunned for a moment, apparently because the rain was too heavy to hear clearly.

Grandma Tomoko then repeated it loudly again, and she finally reacted. Even from a distance she could clearly see that the pair of ethereal and dreamy eyes suddenly widened.

Her eyes fell on the soaking wet Dong Ye Yu, and she looked at Ling Zhao for a few seconds with a curious look on her face. She opened her mouth to answer, but her voice was drowned out by the sound of rain.

So she shrank back, and just when the three were wondering, she held up a large open notebook towards them. There were a few big words written on the off-white paper, and an exclamation mark at the end.

"The water is still hot!"

After the presentation, Miko quickly shrank back, put the notebook on the desk, and crawled into the bed as if hiding from something.

After a while, a rosy little face appeared from the quilt. A faint mist appeared in her amber eyes. She began to try hard to recall whether she had washed her body thoroughly before taking a bath.

If there is a layer of dirt on the surface of the bathtub, Dongye Nissan
When Yuzi thought of this, her fair face turned red like a steam princess, her expression was dull, and she seemed to have crashed. "Did you see it?"

"But."

"Ayu dislikes Yuko?" Tomoko's grandmother frowned.

How can this be called an accusation? Dong Yeyu quickly shook his head: "I'm afraid that Yuzi will dislike me."

"But you heard what Yuzi said just now. Don't just stand there and go take a bath. If you get wet in the rain and then get blown by the cold wind, even the strongest man will get rusty. Go quickly."

Grandma Tomoko pointed out the location of the bathroom to Higashino Yu, and then took small steps towards a few Japanese-style rooms that were rarely visited. They seemed to be the rooms where Miko's parents once lived.

Iori Tadamichi stood aside and smiled, "Listen to your grandmother Tomoko, go quickly, I'll watch over this place for you, the demons in the shrine won't dare to act rashly."

You really don’t consider me an outsider?

Higashino Yu complained in his heart, but he had just been caught in the rain chasing monsters and was facing the threat of the great monster Yangshen. Now, seeing the Iori family running around for him and treating him like family, he felt very warm in his heart.

"Then please help look after it for a while." Higashino Yu bowed slightly and asked Iori Tadashi seriously, then walked towards the bathroom.

Since no one treated him as an outsider, Dong Ye Yu was naturally not polite. They were already very close, so there was no need to reject other people's kindness.

The fox who wants to repay a favor must accept the kindness of others unconditionally, otherwise how can he repay the favor?

What's more, I really want to take a hot bath.

Seeing this, Ling Zhao, who was left in the corridor, narrowed his eyes slightly, thinking that the opportunity had come, but found that he took two steps and turned back.

What is he going to do?

Ling Zhao opened her eyes wide and saw him tapping her dantian. The force was not strong, just a slight touch, but a stream of magic power penetrated into her dantian when the touch occurred and sealed the magic power of the fox demon.

Now she couldn't even turn back into a fox.

Ling Zhao tried several times to break the seal, but the seemingly ethereal magic power seemed harder than the hardest diamond and more difficult to deal with than the most resilient ribbon.

Ling Zhao felt like the bird grinding on Diamond Mountain.

She fluttered around in the corridor for a few times, opened her pitiful eyes and looked at the old man in front of her, but found that he didn't even look at her.

The last hope was shattered, and Ling Zhao suddenly felt everything in front of her eyes go dark, as if the sky was falling.

Damn Dong Yeyu, a beast, worse than an animal!

Miko's bathroom is decorated in a very modern style, which is quite different from the decoration style of Iori's house. It is covered with pure white tiles and is equipped with a gas water heater, shower head, shower gel and shampoo.

Dongye Yu changed his clothes in the outer room, walked into the bathroom naked, turned on the shower head, tested the water temperature, and started a simple bath.

After building the foundation, my body has long been as clear as glass, but it does not mean that I can no longer enjoy the joy of taking a bath.

The off-white bath flower is hanging on the shower switch. It seems to be used by Yuko, and there is a faint fragrance belonging to her on it. Wait, damn nose, is it sniffing again?

Dong Ye Yu immediately blocked his sense of smell and did not use any shower gel. He simply put some shower gel on his hands and rubbed them clean, then went to the inner room of the bathroom where the bathtub was placed.

The room was filled with hot water steam mist, like a fairyland. The hot water in the bathtub was very clean, and a few little yellow ducks were floating on the calm water.

Want to go in?

Higashino Yu reached out to test the water temperature. It was the perfect temperature for a bath. Didn’t Yuko say she had taken a bath there before?
Wouldn't it have been very hot before then?
However, it is said that girls have higher body temperature.

Dongye Yu was thinking about a lot of things, staring at the water and hesitated for a while. Thinking of how Yu Zi usually treated him like a brother, he secretly scolded himself for being so procrastinating.

It's just bath water, it doesn't mean anything.

Dongye Yu got into the bathtub, and the warm and even hot bath water immediately wrapped around him. The temperature penetrated his skin and softened his bones. He couldn't help but let out a comfortable sigh and lay down with his whole body relaxed.

If there is anything regrettable about my previous life, it is that my parents did not install a bathtub at home, and we do not have the habit of taking baths at home.

But taking a bath is indeed a very comfortable thing. Even monkeys in this island country like to take a bath.

About twenty minutes later, Higashino Yu stood up from the bathtub, feeling refreshed. At the bathroom door was a men's yukata, probably belonging to Miko's father, and a clean white towel.

Dongye Yu wiped his body, dried his hair with the hot air blower in the bathroom, changed his clothes and left the bathroom.

It was around ten o'clock in the evening. The rain outside had become lighter and the thunder had stopped. Raindrops were dripping from the eaves, not as if they were about to flood the entire world like before.

When we arrived at the reception room, the Iori family was already there. Iori Tadamichi and Tomoko's grandmother were talking in low voices.

Miko was sitting next to the coffee table in her pink pajamas, her eyes fixed on Ling Zhao.

This demon hasn't given up struggling yet, and his pair of foxy eyes are rolling around.

After Dongye Yu entered the room, Yu Zi looked over and locked eyes with him. Her ethereal and dreamy expression revealed a clear smile, like the morning light penetrating the light morning mist.

She patted the seat next to her: "Dongye Nissan, sit here."

Higashino Yu smiled and nodded, first took out the sword from his sword bag, then sat down next to Miko, and bowed to the old couple to apologize: "I'm sorry, Grandpa Iori, Grandma Tomoko, for bringing such a filthy thing as a demon to Iori's house."

Iori Tadamichi shook his head: "Don't mind. My family has a great grudge against the demons. Ayu is slaying demons to avenge Miko's parents. I just hope that you will do it within your ability. If you can't win, just run back and don't try to be brave."

"If you're talking about running away, I'm a professional. You don't know, my nickname is Kusagami Tobi in Kyoto Shigure-dake."

Higashino Yu joked, and after a brief chat, the atmosphere became more relaxed, and then he started to get down to business.

"Then I'm going to start interrogating this demon, okay?"

Iori Tadamichi and Tomoko's grandmother nodded. They were all family, so there was no need to avoid anything. Seeing that they agreed, Higashino Yu made a seal with his hands, and the talisman that was sealed on Ling Zhao's mouth as strong as glue suddenly fell off.

(End of this chapter)