The Reincarnated Onmyoji Who Returned From Another World ~ I Was Reincarnated Into An Onmyoji Family On The Verge Of Decline, But Thanks To My Experience As A Hero Who Fought In Another World And The Magical Power Training I've Been Doing Ever Since I Was Born, This Life Seems Like It Will Be Easy ~ - Chapter 18: Bath

While the housekeeper was making dinner, I had come to take a bath together with Margaret-chan.

“Are there any itchy spots?”

“…No.”

Even though we were in decline, we were originally quite a large onmyoji family. In what could properly be called a luxurious bathhouse, I was now shampooing Margaret-chan’s head.

Perhaps afraid of the shampoo foam, Margaret-chan was adorable as she answered my words while keeping her eyes tightly shut.

“I’m done washing, so I’ll rinse it off now.”

I had asked the housekeeper about the key points for washing Margaret-chan’s long hair before coming here. Following those pointers, I carefully washed her hair and then gently rinsed the foam from her locks.

“Uuu…”

Making mysterious sounds while straightening her back and looking up, I cleanly rinsed the foam from Margaret-chan’s hair.

Here, vulgar people might say something like this: a boy and girl taking a bath while naked together?

But please don’t forget. I was three years old and she was five years old too. At this age, it was wholesome and quite common.

It was nothing more than a story that would be part of childhood memories in the future… Setting aside my mental age for now, my current physical age was three. While my mental age wasn’t completely dragged along by my physical body, it was considerably influenced, so I had absolutely no interest in such things yet.

It was thus a perfectly wholesome bath together.

Also, while I had overcome some things during harsh travels in another world, I was actually a bit bad with women, so I had difficulty viewing women sexually.

“All clean. Well then, could Margaret-chan get in the bath first?”

“Mm, my turn next.”

I had Margaret-chan get in the bath first while I tried to wash my own hair that I hadn’t washed yet, but she was completely intent on washing my hair.

“Well then, should I ask you to do it?”

“Mm!”

It was not time to worry about hair quality yet. It was too early to go bald.

It was still totally fine to have my hair handled carelessly.

“…”

I quietly let Margaret-chan wash my hair with her hands.

…

………

“Fun.”

I was glad if that was the case.

Margaret-chan seemed quite pleased as she scrubbed away at my hair.

But just a little…

“Margaret-chan. I’ve been wondering when to say this, but you’re washing places that aren’t hair too. My face is covered in foam.”

Margaret-chan had been advancing to places other than my hair for a while now.

Or rather, it would be fine to finish washing my hair soon. She was taking more time than when I was carefully washing Margaret-chan’s own locks.

“Ah… rinsing.”

“Ahh!?”

Suddenly hit with an intense shower spray, I screamed as the foam was blown off my head.

“Phew.”

“…Uu.”

After finishing rinsing our hair, Margaret-chan and I soaked in the bath in the spacious tub, sitting close together.

A three-year-old and a five-year-old.

My body was still much smaller, and so Margaret-chan had gotten behind me and was hugging me from behind.

We continued soaking in the tub in that position until we both warmed up.

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“Phew, that was refreshing.”

After getting out of the bath, I carefully dried Margaret-chan’s hair with a hair dryer.

Then when Margaret-chan tried to dry my hair next, it dried quickly because it was short, leaving her looking dejected.

After changing into pajamas, we returned to the living room where the housekeeper was waiting.

“Ah, you’re back. Dinner will be ready soon too. The master and the other two will be staying out again tonight. Let’s have dinner together, just the three of us today too.”

“Yeah, I understand.”

Recently, my parents hadn’t been coming home. Neither had Olivia-san.

Well… how should I put it… I had some idea about the reason for that, but let’s not touch on it for now.

“Housekeeper-san. I have some errands to run, so could you look after Margaret-chan? There’s somewhere I want to go by myself.”

Before dinner, I had something to take care of.

“…Will you be alright?”

“No, I’m just going to take care of some trivial errands. There’s nothing to worry about at all.”

“…I see. Well then, please take care.”

“Mm. Well then, Margaret-chan, please wait a little while.”

“…”

I sat Margaret-chan down on the sofa and tried to head toward the entrance.

“…Where are you going?”

“Hm? Ah, I thought I’d go on an errand Papa asked me to do. Recently, I got permission to go out. I’ve already done several errands where Papa asked me to buy something before he comes home. Amazing, right? Next time, let’s go to the shop I’ve been going to together, Margaret-chan.”

“Yeah…! I’ll go.”

“Yeah. But today I’m going alone. The housekeeper would be lonely by herself too. Well then, I’m going.”

Where was I going?

After answering Margaret-chan’s question about where I was headed to, I went to the entrance and then outside.