Chapter 42 – Eh, 2m!....Bath is the Best!

I look at Usa and Kuuhi while eating dinner.

These kids are still small.

They are children after all.

But, will they be bigger than me?

I guess they will.

In fact, before I came back home, I was so worried that I couldn’t help but check them out.

The height and build of humans and beastkins of this world.

I wish I shouldn’t have done it but now, it’s too late for regrets.

「Why do they have to be so muscular?」

I am dismayed as I recall it.

The commoners of this world even cooperated with me to confirm that.

…to be exact, I suddenly disturbed them from the sky.

On my way out of the town, I saw humans and beastkins together so I tried to get closer and even get on the ground.

Up close, I found that they were much bigger than I expected.

I’m already riding Koa but our eyes are on the same level.

I even need to look up at some of them.

They are more than 2m in height.

While being in a state of shock, I compared the humans with the beastkin.

Beastkins seemed to have better bodies than humans but it might depend on the species of the beastkin.

Overall, the beastkins are taller but how muscular they are differs from what kind of beastkin they are.

In some cases, humans were even more muscular than others.

Women were more slender than men but they are also much taller than me.

There were no female beastkin so I’m not so sure about them but given the height of male beastkins, I don’t think they are smaller than me.

No, maybe there are some species that are shorter than others.

Some people may be shorter than average.

Though I don’t know if they are shorter than me.

I no longer want to get my hopes up.

Their eyes widened and froze when we suddenly appeared.

I feel bad about what I did but….it was something I needed to do.

I can’t communicate in words but I sincerely apologized to them.

I believe they understood my feelings.

Still, I’m shocked.

This shocked me more than anything else that has happened to me.

I’ve been through a lot since I came to this world.

I have a lot of things I want to complain to those three idiots.

However, this is something I’d like to complain about them the most.

Why do people in this world have to be 2m tall!

I think I’m more shocked now compared to when I was informed that I’m no longer human.

If I had learned about it before seeing the fact, I might have been less shocked.

By the way, does that mean that I’m a shortie by this world’s standard?

When I was in the lower grades of elementary school, I was shorter than those around me.

That was my dark history since I was teased a lot because of it.

My height has become a complex in my mind since then.

I wonder if I can grow taller from now on.

Maybe I should start doing exercises that can increase my height like what I did in the past.

….No matter how much I convince myself, I know it is impossible.

Haaa～.

「You okay?」

Kuuhi and Usa are looking at me anxiously.

Now I’ve done it.

What kind of adult am I to make children worry?

What’s with the height!

What’s with being muscular!

……….three idiot f*ckers!

「I’m okay, thanks.」

While I was thinking deeply, dinner was over before I knew it.

I don’t remember eating at all but my hands and mouth seemed to be working just fine.

How shocked am I?

It’s just height…..just height!

Alright!

Let’s take a bath to relax.

「Usa, Kuuhi, let’s take a bath to relax and after that, let’s go to bed.」

「Bath～」

「Bath bath～」

Hearing their energetic voices lightens my mood.

I cleaned up the head of the two and went to the bath with them.

Behind them, Light Blue and Fluff Ball in small form follow.

Dragons can freely change their size.

….I envy them.

「You guys really like baths, don’t you?」

Except for Marshmallow, the other dragons like to bathe.

They often enjoy bathing together with me.

These two, in particular, enjoy it a lot.

In the beginning, they were a bit confused with the concept of bathing.

But when they saw me taking a bath, they started soaking in the bath with me.

Fluffy was the first to get into the hot water.

That time, I was so surprised that I even panicked.

The bath during those times was just a small bath similar to a Japanese public bathhouse.

It was indeed too small for dragons who are around 2, big to enter.

When the dragons started taking baths, I hurriedly remodeled the bath.

Now it has been remodeled three times so it’s quite a big bath.

It’s even big enough to accommodate 5 dragons.

And there is a step in this bath.

One is deep enough for the dragons to soak their bodies to and the other is big enough for us to sit and soak our bodies to.

The depth of the part where the dragons soak is around 3 meters.

The depth was decided after consultation.

Is 3m the size that dragons find easy to transform to?

Given how many times we remodeled it, it is roughly as big as a house.

It’s great that my residence is spacious.

I clean my body with purification magic and take a hot bath after.

I also casted purification magic on Usa and Kuuhi.

The dragons can do it themselves.

To be honest, I don’t need to take a bath because of magic but I guess this is the Japanese way.

Japanese want to soak in hot water.

Perhaps because I take a bath every day that Usa and Kuuhi have come to like it too.

I no longer see them being scared compared to when they first arrived here.

Both of them are relaxing in the bath, stretching out their bodies.

My head is pressed lightly.

I looked over to see what was that and saw Light Blue with a cloth in its mouth.

I took the cloth and squeezed it lightly.

And place it on its head.

Satisfied with that, it moved its body to the deeper side and laid its face on the edge of the bath.

「Fufu～」

Light Blue and Fluff Ball are squealing.

They must be feeling food.

I stretched my body in the bath to get rid of my day’s fatigue.

Yeah, hot water is good.

I feel at home.

Ah, I should get to work to solve the problems left by the three idiots.

It’s a hassle but I feel it would be for the best if I do it faster.

I’ll do my best.