Boku wa Chiisana Maou-sama

CHAPTER 53 – BATHING

Dirkhert trains under Volsung diligently without missing his daily morning practices.
Usually, he would practice with the three stuffed animals, but because Chocola and others don’t have the permission to move, he trains alone. But, even if it’s boring, he trains together with Volsung.
As usual, after running, calisthenics, and practicing a bit of martial arts, he does light sparring with Volsung. The scene of the small figured, little Maou-sama punching and kicking the big Volsung is really adorable. Although his attacks are less powerful because of his small stature, he packs power much higher than children of his age, so Volsung receives a considerable amount of pain. This is also proof that Dirkhert trains diligently every day.
Then, when the two are wiping their sweat after the practice ended, Meluerina approaches.

「Dirk-sama, would you like to bathe?」
「Bathe?」
「Yes. There’s a river flowing nearby, let’s wash your sweat off there」

There are other women from the carriage behind Meluerina. It appears that everyone is going to bath.

「Un, let’s go~!」

Meluerina who already made preparations for Dirkhert’s bathing addresses Volsung next.

「Brother-in-law-sama, can I ask you to guard us while we bathe?」
「…… Why does it have to be me?」
「Because Brother-in-law-sama seems to be the person with least ulterior motives from the lot」
「I’m a man too, you know……」
「Besides, the women said they are okay with Elf-sama」

Doesn’t that pretty much mean that they are okay with me looking at them? Volsung accepts the guard duty from Meluerina while understanding her words to his own convenience.
But then, because Meluerina is bathing too, he knows that peeping will result in death. Above all, he’s not that interested in a woman body. For that very reason, Meluerina most likely asked him to be the guard.
Moreover, since Dirkhert is bathing together with her, being on a guard duty is given. He has no reason to decline.

「Vol is going too? Then, let’s bathe together~!」

The innocent Maou-sama who doesn’t understand anything said. If we do something like that Meluerina would kill me. Bathing together is seriously tempting, but he has no choice but to decline.

「I’m terribly sorry, but I’m a man, so we are unable to bathe together」
「Dirk is a man too. Then, let’s bathe together afterwards~!」

Saying that, he refused bathing together with Meluerina and clung to Volsung.
Naturally, Meluerina who thought they could bathe together glared at Volsung as if he was her hateful enemy.
Thus, being glared by such eyes, he told Dirkhert to bathe together with Meluerina, but the person in question refused, saying that he wants to bathe with Volsung.
In the end, it was decided that he will bathe together with them every time.
At this time, there were two people who felt grateful that Dirkhert loves taking a bath and bathing in a river.