An Adventurer Mom, Who Awakened [Housewife] Skill Through a Login Bonus, Is Making the Most of Her Adventurer Life With the Weekly Flyers She Gets! - Chapter 75

“Yes. It is true, kero.”

Ann’s eyes sparkled.

“So it really is true? The story about losing one kilo!”

Faced with Ann’s intensity, Amakichi leaned back a little.

A bead of sweat trickled down his forehead.

“Y-yes, it is said that by soaking in all ten baths, excess fat will be reduced by one kilo, kero. However, at present, it seems only zero point nine kilos can be lost.”

“Eh, why is that?”

“Because the Tenth Bath, Daruma’s Bath, is currently closed, kero.”

“Araa, it is closed?”

“Why is that?”

Kachua and the others were about to ask the reason, but at that moment Rick, now recovered, came running up.

“I heard that at the Fifth Bath you can receive esthetic treatments and massages. Let’s hurry and go ahead!”

“That sounds nice.”

“Let’s go.”

So everyone decided to move on to the next bath.

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The Fifth Bath was Hime Ama’s Bath, where men could receive massages and women could enjoy esthetic treatments.

『I am Amami, in charge of esthetics』,『I am Nami』,『I am Kajika』

Kachua and her companions were each assigned to these frog girls.

In the hot spring, they wore bathing garments like swimsuits, which had the remarkable feature of drying immediately once out of the water.

However, because the fabric was thin, it felt a little cold and embarrassing to wear on its own.

When moving from one bath to another, the custom of the Detox Hot Spring Village was to slip on a yukata-style robe over the bathing garment.

The frog girls were wearing these robes, which seemed to be the uniform of women working in the village.

Kachua and her companions received their treatments together, and indulged in a blissful time with the frog esthetics.

“Ah, that felt wonderful.”

“Were you satisfied, kero?”

“Yes, my skin is glowing.”

“It was amazing.”

At the end of the esthetic session, they rested while drinking the Detox Hot Spring Village’s specialty beauty drink—a frog-branded blend of delicious hot spring water and green smoothie.

As she sipped the drink, Kachua suddenly remembered something.

“Um, earlier I heard that the Tenth Bath was closed, but why is that?”

“Kero…”

The three frog girls looked at each other with troubled expressions.

“We would not want you to be frightened, kero, but…”

Amami, who was attending Kachua, whispered gently to her.

“Yes, yes.”

Of course, Ann and Laura were listening intently, brimming with curiosity.

“The truth is, about a month ago, a human guest went missing.”

“Eh, m-missing?”

Nami spoke gravely.

“Yes, and what is more, two of them disappeared in succession.”

Kajika gave a firm nod.

“They vanished without a trace.”

“Eh, that is… impossible…”

“And those two, they still have not been found?”

Ann asked with a serious expression.

The frog girls nodded with gloomy faces.

“Yes.”

“This is the safe and secure Detox Hot Spring Village, Frog’s Bathhouse. Our reputation is at stake, so even Lord Gama, the master of the baths, ordered that the entire village be searched from top to bottom.”

“But they were not found, kero.”

The missing guests had vanished as though they were smoke.

“Among the employees, there is a rumor that it might have been a kamikakushi” Nami the frog girl said.

“Kamikakushi?”

Kachua tilted her head at the unfamiliar word.

“We use that word to mean a disappearance without a single clue, the kind that seems as if the person was taken away by the gods. That is how mysterious this case is.”

“In the end, all we could do was close the Tenth Bath, Daruma’s Bath, where the last guest vanished…”

“Old Man Daruma, the manager of Daruma’s Bath, took it so hard that he fell ill in bed, kero.”

“The two human guests who disappeared were both women. Please, all of you, take every precaution.”

They had just heard a most unsettling story.

“So that is why the Tenth Bath is off-limits.”

Though the fate of the missing women weighed on their minds, Ann also had to lose two more kilos to clear the team’s mission.

Not being able to enter Daruma’s Bath was a heavy blow.

It was only zero point one kilo, but even zero point one kilo mattered.

The frog girls called out to Ann, who was looking gloomy and dejected.

“W-what in the world is going on, kero?”

“Well, the truth is…”

Kachua explained that they had come to the Detox Hot Spring Village in order to lose weight.

After hearing the story, Kajika spoke.

“Well then, in that case, we may be able to help you, kero.”

“The course you just received was the Frog Smooth Skin Course, but there is also the Frog Diet Fat-Burning Course, kero.”

“Right now, since the Tenth Bath cannot be used, we are adding one extra esthetic treatment, kero.”

“After the Ninth Bath, we would like you to experience esthetics once more, kero.”

“With our own hands—”

“We will absolutely make sure you lose that zero point one kilo, kero!”

The frog girls declared with enthusiasm.

When Kachua and the others reunited with the men at the next bath, they soaked together and immediately began discussing the disappearance incident.

“Ah, we heard about that too,” Rick said.

“It is a mysterious case. To vanish as if into smoke” Og added.

“It is troubling. I hope they are found soon” Kachua said, but Ann shook her head with a grave expression.

“Sadly, it happened a month ago, did it not? By now, I think they must already have been taken away.”

“Yes…”

Laura also agreed with a dark look.

“But according to Amakichi, the missing guests should not have been able to leave this place at all” Bernhardt said, revealing something unexpected.

“Eh, is that so? Amakichi-kun?”

“Kero!?”

While guiding them and leisurely enjoying the hot springs, Amakichi was suddenly addressed and looked startled.

“Yes, that is correct, kero. The gate of the hot spring village is the one and only gate you yourselves passed through. According to the gatekeeper, from the time the guests went missing, not a single being passed through. After the incident was discovered, Lord Gama, the master of the baths, raised the gate’s alert level to the highest, yokozuna class, so no suspicious being can enter or leave this hot spring village, kero.”

“But for example, if someone stuffed a human into a high-grade magic bag, could they not easily be smuggled outside?”

It was said that immediately after the incident the hot spring village had been completely sealed, but now it was open for entry and exit.

“It might not be a pleasant thought but once the uproar had cooled, if one of the frogs inside had packed the missing guests into a magic bag and carried them out, the gatekeeper might not recognize them as suspicious and could be fooled, don’t you think?”

Ann posed the question to Amakichi, but he shook his head.

“No. At its current yokozuna-class alert level, the gate is as impenetrable as the royal palace of you humans, kero. Anyone with ill intent or suspicious behavior is absolutely not overlooked. Naturally, even the contents of magic bags are read.”

“Then does that mean the missing guests are still somewhere in this hot spring village?”

“Yes, that is the case, kero.”

“Then where in the world could the missing guests be?”

Rick’s question was only natural.

Amakichi scratched his head.

“That I do not know at all, kero. We searched throughout the entire hot spring village, but they were not found.”

“Hmm, it certainly is a mysterious case.”

“Well, as long as Amakichi is with you, please be at ease. I will protect you all without fail.”

Amakichi beat his chest as he said so.

To be frank, Amakichi did not look particularly strong.

Yet it seemed he was supposed to be Kachua and her companions’ bodyguard.

“Eh, Amakichi-kun, were you really that strong?”

Kachua asked without thinking.

“I myself am not especially strong, but with this proud throat of mine, if there is any irregularity I can immediately summon my comrades, kero.”

And with that, Amakichi’s croaking voice echoed all around.