Volume 3 Chapter 6: incredible

The maid dragged him toward the bath....

and then said,

( hey, you need to take a bath right now...)

Shin asked : (W~~What? What is a bath? What is that now?)

Maid said: (I knew it, i knew you didn't even have knowledge about what a bath is...

But, Don't worry because i will be going with you...)

Shin: (A bath... Is it like the shower from my head?

Or is it another small box where humans rest?)

Shin, who was completely unaware of adult matters, thought nothing of it

Maid also thought shin won't try any dirty thing on her so she throw him into the bath and got in by herself too....

The bathroom was a cathedral of white marble and rising steam.

To Shin, it was normal because he was as newly born kid who didn't know this...

He stood there, thinking what were the father and kid crying earlier, his eyes tracking the way the steam curled around the ceiling.

Yui Akari was blushing furiously, her heart hammering.

She was trying to be clinical and helpful because Shin seemed so helpless, but the reality of being in a bath with a man—especially one with a man who she suddenly got crush on...

Maid: (Alright... j-just do as I say

. Take off those your clothes.

We need to wash away the... the dirt.)

Shin didn't hesitate.

He didn't have the concept of shame.

To him, clothes were just outer skin that humans wore for a reason he hadn't downloaded yet.

Shin whispered: (If I remove these... will I still be shin?

Or will I become a man with no name again?)

Yui Akari was blushing furiously, her hands shaking as she tested the water.

She truly believed Shin was as innocent as a child, despite his towering height.

Shin: (You said... wear out the clothes. But these are the things that protect the skin.

If I take them off, am I not... finished?)

Yui Akari: (No, dummy! It’s called being clean.

Just... just turn around and do it.

I’ll scrub your back.

It’s... it’s what i am doing first time too okay....)

As the steam filled the room, Shin stepped into the water.

His body was perfect and clean not even a one scar....

His skin was like white porcelain—too perfect, too smooth.

It didn't look like it had ever felt the sun or a breeze.

The aura he was giving even being naked and vulnerable, the Lead Wall in his mind made the water around him vibrate.

Yui Akari froze for a moment when she saw him. She hadn"t expected to see such cool body or was it for her...

Because she had crush on him from the first time she meet him and he placed his jacked on her shoulder....

She was having this feelings first time in her life.....

As the maid began to scrub his back, shin was enjoying..

In this moment there was no lust pure love and about shin let's don't say about him....

Meanwhile shin: (I thought her body would be like me but she looked a different.... whatever i am enjoying this bath and that's all i want to think)

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Yui Akari was fighting a war inside her head.

On one hand, she was looking at a man who was full of mysterious on the other hand, she was looking at a man who was currently trying to eat the bubbles.

Shin: (Akari... why is the water wearing a white hat?

Is the cloud coming down to eat me?)

Yui Akari: (It’s called bubbles, Shin!

And don't put them in your mouth!

It’s soap! It tastes like... well, it tastes like regret!)

She began to scrub his back, her face so red she looked like a steamed lobster.

She was trying to stay professional, but every time her hand brushed his skin, she felt like she was touching a high-voltage wire.

Yui Akari’s Internal Monologue: (Focus, Akari!

He’s just a helpless, memory-less, incredibly handsome, perfectly built, mysterious stranger... oh no, I'm doomed. I'm definitely going to get crazy now)

Shin: (Akari. Your hands are vibrating.

Are you also okay? Do you have a Lead Wall in your chest that is malfunctioning?)

Yui Akari: (i am fine! I'm just... I'm just enthusiastic about hygiene! Now sit still!)

Suddenly, Yui reached for a small, yellow object floating in the corner of the tub and handed it to Shin to keep him occupied. It was a Rubber Duck.

Shin held the plastic bird with the same intensity he would use to kill his loved with once.

He stared into its unblinking, black eyes.

Shin: (This creature... it is yellow like the painting of the field.

But it is soft.

Does it have a Parent like that kid had?

Does it also have a Home like him?)

Yui Akari: (It’s a toy, Shin.

squeeze it.)

SQUEAK!

The sound echoed off the marble walls.

Shin’s eyes widened to the size of saucers.

He dropped the duck as if it had just made him remember something but he remembered nothing

Shin: (IT SCREAMED. Akari, why did you give me a screaming yellow creature?

Is this a test?

Am I supposed to fight it?)

Yui Akari: (IT’S JUST PLASTIC! Oh my god, you’re a man but you’re afraid of a bath toy?!)

She leaned over to grab the duck...(You are seriously idi~~~ot~~)

Suddenly, she slipped on the soapy floor.

For a second, gravity betrayed her.

She braced for impact, but Shin—with his mechanical reflexes—caught her instantly.

Everything was stopped for a split second.

She was pressed against his chest, the steam swirling around them.

Shin: (You fell. Is this also part of the Bath?

First the clothes leave, then the yellow bird screams, then the Maid falls?

Humans have very complicated rituals for being Clean.)

Yui Akari: (I... I... SHUT UP AND WASH YOUR OWN HAIR!)

She splashed a bucket of water over his head to hide how flustered she was, accidentally filling his mouth with more soap.

Shin: (Bleh... Akari... the Regret tastes like lemons.)

Yui Akari was currently undergoing a mental meltdown. She was scrubbing Shin’s back with enough force to polish a diamond, her eyes squeezed shut because looking at his perfect porcelain shoulders made her brain short-circuit.

Yui’s Internal Monologue: (Oh my god, he’s so close.

His skin is so soft. Is this a dream?

Is this where he turns around and says something incredibly smooth and—)

Shin: (Akari.)

Yui Akari: (Y-YES, MASTER SHIN?! I MEAN—SHIN! WHAT?!)

Shin: (I have made a discovery. My fingers... they have turned into small white sausages.)

Yui opened one eye. Shin was holding up his hand, which was completely covered in a thick layer of soap bubbles.

He was staring at them with a look of profound, scientific wonder.

Shin: (Look. They are growing. Are the sausages my new weapons?

Should I use them to poke the 'Parent' later?)

Yui Akari: (Those aren't sausages! It's just foam! Stop being a weirdo and sit still!)

She grabbed a bottle of shampoo

Extra Strawberry Scent

and dumped half of it on his head.

She began to scrub his hair vigorously, trying to ignore the fact that they were in a bath together.

Shin: (Wait. Akari. My head...

it smells like a fruit I have never seen.

Am I becoming a strawberry? Do I eventually become a jam?)

Yui Akari: (You’re not becoming jam! You’re just... ugh!

Why are you so calm?!

Don't you feel... I ~~I mean... nervous?

There is a girl! In the water! With you!)

Shin tilted his head to look at her directly.

His face was covered in pink strawberry bubbles, making him look like a very innocent and cool, very confused dessert.

Shin: (Nervous? No. I am Chilling. I heard this word from the father of that kid.

It means to sit in the soup and do nothing. Also...)

As Yui Akari scrubbed, her arms occasionally brushed against his back.

Shin tilted his head, feeling the warmth.

He squinted at her over his shoulder, his analytical, newborn eyes scanning her figure with the same intense curiosity he used for the paintings.

Shin: (Akari... something soft is pressing against me from behind. And I was thinking... your body is shaped differently than mine.)

Yui Akari’s hands froze.

She stopped breathing.

She was certain her heart was about to explode through her ribs.

Shin: (You have more... curves.

My vision tells me humans are supposed to be like the wooden frames on the wall straight and sturdy. I thought all humans were shaped like rectangles. Did you grow those to store extra soap?)

Yui Akari’s face turned a color of red that shouldn't be biologically possible.

It was a deep, volcanic crimson.

She grabbed a nearby sea-sponge, soaked it in cold water, and shoved it directly into his mouth to stop the logic from continuing.

Yui Akari’s face turned a color of red that shouldn't be biologically possible. She grabbed a nearby sponge and shoved it into his face to stop him from talking.

Yui Akari: (STOP TALKING ABOUT MY SHAPE!

Don't look! And don't analyze! They aren't for soap! It’s just... biology! It’s—oh, just shut up and get clean!

AND STOP TURNING YOUR HEAD LIKE A POSSESSED DOLL! IT’S CREEPY!)

Shin: (Mmph—glub—the soap-storage theory was more logical...)It is better than the charcoal ocean.)

Then shin looked at the large, gold-framed mirror across from the tub.

Because of the steam, the glass should have been foggy.

But in one specific corner, the frost began to grow—not steam, but ice.

The Vision Flickered: For a split second, the reflection in the mirror wasn't the girl which arrived last time. It was a woman with yellow eyes and half-blue, half-white wings.

Shin’s heart, which he was just beginning to understand, gave a painful, cold throb.

Shin: (Akari... is the water supposed to feel like needles? I saw a woman. She had eyes like ~~~ I don't remember.)

Yui Akari looked at the mirror. It was just steam. She laughed nervously, wiping her forehead.

Yui Akari: (You’re just seeing things from the heat, Shin. There’s no one here but us.)

Shin proceeded to slide down into the water until only his eyes and the strawberry bubbles on his head were visible. He looked like a very dangerous alligator made of candy.

Shin: (Akari... look. I am a submarine. Glub glub.)

Yui Akari: (I can't take this.

I am a professional maid.

I am a professional... oh, who am I kidding?

I'm going to have a heart attack before this bath is over.)

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After the bath...

The room was thick with the scent of jasmine and the warmth of shared space.

Yui Akari adjusted her maid dress, her face still a soft pink, but when she looked at Shin, she froze.

The Newborn glow was gone.

Shin’s face had shifted.

The abyssal bruises under his eyes had returned, darker than the shadows in the corner.

His gaze was no longer curious; it was starving.

Yui Akari: (Shin? Don't you want to... get dressed? We should go back to the young master.)

Shin: (Go back? No. There is another 'Window' in this room. The one that leaks. I want to see if the falling water can wash away the things I can't see.)

He didn't wait for her permission.

He stepped away from the warmth of the tub and toward the shower.

Yui Akari, sensing a sudden, heavy shift in the air

She left the room quietly, leaving him to the silence of the marble.

Shin stood under the shower head.

As the water began to drop, he didn't adjust the temperature.

He let it hit him—cold, rhythmic, and sharp.

He slammed one hand against the tiled wall, the sound echoing like a gunshot through the steam. His other hand covered his eyes, as if he were trying to physically push his thoughts back into his skull.

The sound of the water hitting the floor changed.

It no longer sounded like a shower; it sounded like laughter.

Suddenly, the mansion disappeared.

In his mind, he was standing in a place of light.

He was naked, and so was she—the Blur Girl.

But there was no lust, It was Pure Love.

They were playing, splashing in a sun-drenched stream, their bodies moving with a joy that Shin’s current self couldn't even comprehend.

The Vision (....): (Shin! Look! The blue flowers are growing near the bank! You said they would never bloom here!)

Shin reached out to touch her face, to finally see the eyes he was mourning.

But the water from the shower turned into Lead.

Shin Shouted: (WHO ARE YOU?!

WHO ARE YOU?!

WHY?!

WHY YOU ALWAYS APPEAR WHEN I NEED YOU?

WHY?!

WHY YOU LEAVE ME IN THE DARK?!

IF YOU ALREADY HAVE LEAVE ME BEHIND THEN STOP!!!! STOP COMING IN MY VISION!!! PLEASE I BEG YOU!!!)

His voice was a roar that vibrated the very foundation of the mansion.

Tears mixed with the shower water, indistinguishable and bitter.

Snap.

The vision shattered.

The warmth of the stream turned back into the cold spray of the shower.

Shin stood there for a long time, his hand still trembling against the wall.

Then, the Lead Wall in his mind slammed shut.

He stepped out of the shower.

He dried himself.

He walked to his room.

By the time he sat on the edge of the bed, the memory of the girl in the stream was gone.

The laughter was gone.

All that remained was a dull ache in his chest and a name he couldn't connect to a face.

Shin Whispered: (I... I took a shower. It was... wet. I think I am clean now.)

He had forgotten the most important moment of his day. The Glitch had protected him from the pain, but it had also stolen his heart once again.

What happened after maid said me to go with her i don't remember and also i think it wouldn't be so important anyways....

Also now its dark outside i heard from maid that after dark come i had to sleep or else she would kick me tomorrow..

Shin lay on the bed.

The silk sheets felt alien against his skin—too soft, too light.

To a man who had not sleep for many years because of what he did before but now don't remember any of that....

Shin Whispered: (The maid... she said if I do not Sleep, she will 'Kick' me.

Is a kick the way humans restart their machines?

I do not want to be kicked. I will... simulate the darkness.)

He closed his eyes.

Usually, for Shin, closing his eyes was about many years before like so much that are impossible to count....

. But tonight, the Glitch was active.

It was scrubbing his mind, wiping the steam of the shower and the warmth of the vision away.

Within minutes, his breathing leveled out. He wasn't just sleeping; he was powering down.

His body became as still as the old man in the Second Painting.

As Shin’s consciousness drifted into the Small Box of his mind, the temperature in the guest wing plummeted.

A thin layer of Ice began to coat the glass of water on his nightstand.

It didn't sound like wind; it sounded like the fluttering of half-blue, half-white wings.

A shadow detached itself from the doorway.

It didn't walk; it glided, leaving a trail of hoarfrost on the expensive rug.

The Voice : (...You look so peaceful, Shin darling. Like a doll waiting for someone to pull its strings. You forgot how you looked when you pointed that finger at me? )

She leaned over him.

Her yellow eyes glowed in the dark, reflecting in the "abyssal bruises" under Shin’s closed eyelids. She reached out a finger—cold as a glacier—and traced the line of his jaw.

Eslimya Whispered: (The others want to kill you. But I... I want to see if a God who has forgotten himself can still feel Lust.'

Sleep well, my little human,In some days the Home you found will start to freeze.)

She didn't stay.

She vanished into the shadows, but she left a gift behind.

half in the night, Shin’s eyes snapped open.

He sat up with a mechanical jerk, his neck cracking.

He looked down at his pillow.

Resting right where the voice woman had been was a Blue Flower.

But it wasn't a painting.

It wasn't a vision.

It was a real flower, frozen solid, its petals made of Unbreakable Ice.

Shin: (The Blue Flower... it came out of the window? whatever if it is a gift i will treasure it.

Also i need to go toilet)

He picked it up and placed it on the desk...

He was very sleepy so he walked toward the toilet very slowly slowly...

His room was very far away from the toilet..

Then after some moment he get there...

Some moments after toilet...

He walked some feet and then there was a room which he thought was his....

because his room was very far away

he didn't remember his room so he walked toward the door but it was locked...

Shin said: (It is locked... why is my room locked? whatever...)

He used his power to go through the wall inside without breaking anything.....

The room was dark....

he was unable to see anything...

So he just sleep there on bed he saw very difficulty...

Next morning,..

Yui Akari woke up feeling the warmth of the sun.

She felt comfortable, protected, and strangely heavy.

As a maid who values her freedom at night, she enjoyed the lack of chains (clothes).

But as she turned around, her professional world didn't just crumble~~~~it exploded.

Shin: (Mmm... the Home is very warm today.

The silk is... moving?)

He wasn't even awake yet.

He was just a perfectly sculpted, porcelain masterpiece lying next to her.

The sticker on his face (likely a bandage or a remnant of his regeneration) made him look ridiculously innocent despite the the fact he is naked right now still lingering under his closed eyes.

Yui Akari’s Internal Monologue: (ERROR.

ERROR.

SYSTEM FAIL

SHIN IS HERE.

IN BED. WE ARE BOTH...

OH MY GOD. I AM SLEEPING NEXT TO HIM BEING EVEN NAKED.

THIS IS COMPLICATED..

I CAN'T .... I AM ABOUT TO DIE.

BUT WHY IS HE SO CUDDLY?! NO! BAD AKARI!)

A scream come out of her mouth (Ahhhh!!!)

Then she covered her mouth as fast she could: (Holy shit! Why the hell did i screamed for?)

Suddenly, the father was the other side of door he destroyed he locked room with his powers.....

The door didn't just break; it atomized under the Father’s power.

He stepped into the room, his eyes glowing with authority, expecting an assassin or a monster.

Instead, he found a silent room filled with the scent of morning jasmine and absolute panic.

Under the heavy silk blanket, Yui Akari was experiencing a total system shutdown.

When the door exploded, her instincts kicked in—but they were the wrong ones.

To hide Shin, she had lunged forward, pinning him down beneath the covers to keep him out of sight.

The Position......

Yui was now directly on top of Shin, her heart hammering against his porcelain chest like a trapped bird.

Because she was free of her chains (naked), every inch of her skin was pressed against the cold, smooth perfection of his body.

The Father: (Akari? I heard a scream. Why is your room filled with frost? And why are you... hiding under the covers like that?)

The Father stepped closer to the bed, his brow furrowed.

However, realizing the maid was likely unclothed beneath the blankets, he stopped.

He began to back away with a forced, awkward calmness, his eyes fixed on the wall to maintain her privacy.

Shin: (Mmm... Akari? The Home has become very heavy.

And it is... soft. Are you doing the Cleaning again? Is the blanket al—)

Yui Akari’s Internal Monologue: (HE’S TALKING! SHIN, SHUT UP!

If the Master finds out you are under me like this, I’ll lose every bit of respect I've earned!

And why... why does he smell like strawberries and ozone?!)

Panicking, Yui didn't have a sponge this time. Instead, she used the only thing she could—she pressed her body closer, using her soft parts to effectively muffle Shin’s mouth and pin his head down.

She was burning with absolute embarrassment, her soul practically leaving her body from the shame.

Shin was finally waking up, his voice gravelly and deep.

He didn't understand the danger; he only felt the warmth of the girl on top of him and the sudden draft from the destroyed door.

The Father: (Are you... quite alright, Akari?)

Yui Akari: (M-Master! I... I just have a very bad cold! A sudden fever! Please, I need to rest!)The Father, sensing her extreme distress, nodded.

He raised a hand, and through his own flickering power a shadow of the creation magic Shin possessed

he reconstructed the door.

It provided the wall Yui so desperately needed.

As soon as the click of the latch echoed, the Father was gone.

Shin—ever the curious Newborn—decided he wanted to see what the noise was.

Without warning, he used his effortless strength to sit up.

He didn't just sit up; he launched both the heavy blanket and a terrified, naked Yui Akari into the air with him.

He sat there on the bed, the blanket draped over his shoulders like a regal cape.

Yui Akari was perched squarely in his lap, clutching the silk fabric to her chest for dear life, her legs tangled with his.

The sticker on his cheek was peeling off, and his abyssal eyes were wide and blinkless as he looked around the room.

Yui Akari was currently a statue of pure, unadulterated shame.

She was sitting directly in Shin’s lap, her skin—free of its "chains"—pressed against the porcelain coldness of his legs.

She was clinging to the blanket like a shield, but the shield was wrapped around the very person she was hiding from.

Maid whispered; (KILL ME RIGHT HERE....RIGHT NOW...

I DON'T WANT TO LIVE ANYMORE..

NOT EVEN FOR A SECOND...

THIS IS SO EMBRASSING AND ~~~~~)

Shin: (Akari. The Father has left.

The Cleaning' ritual... is it over?

You are very warm, but your heart sounds like it is trying to escape through your skin.

Is it broken?)

Yui Akari: (Hey, if you said anything stupid i will kill you too and It’s not broken! It’s... it’s... YOU IDIOT! How did you get in here?! This is a locked room! This is my room!)

Shin: (The door was a Wall. I decided that the Wall was not there.

It was more efficient than walking back to the place with the Blue Flower gift.)

He reached up, his fingers brushing against her shoulder as he tried to adjust the peeling sticker on his cheek.

To Shin, this wasn't "Ecchi" or "Adult." To him, she was just a soft, vibrating part of the Home that had decided to sit on him.

Shin: (Why are you leaking heat?

Your face is the color of the red fruit.

Are you sick?)

Yui Akari: (I'm not sick! I'm... I'm suffering from a total loss of dignity! Get out! No—wait! Don't get out yet! I need to find your and mine clothes first!)

Shin looked at her with a face unaware to what is she saying...

Maid said; (Don't say me.....)

Shin said: ( I had that in my ro~~om~~)

Maid shouted: (I knew it, you wouldn't any clothes here.....now hear me wear some of t-shirts i brought for myself and then get out of here without anyone noticing you...

And also. from today~~no instead from this moment now on i will teach you how to behave, what to do and everything)

After that shin got out from there without anyone noticing him...

As she teached her about everything days kept passing one by one

weeks kept passing one by one....

and then one year...

And then after one year he was now fully aware of how to behave and what to do....

They became friends from teacher and student...

Also maid realized as time passed that she just wanted to take care of a man who was unaware of the world...

It was not any crush or anything.....

Shin was now a completely matured and caring man....

From the bath scene he had never again had her or anyone else vision...

He was now living a beautiful life but still crying at night while trying to remember his past and also wanted the vision of that girl again but it never appeared again......

The afternoon sun was warm, the kind of light that makes you forget that monsters exist.

Shin was standing near Yui Akari, watching her admire the kitten.

He smiled—a practiced, gentle expression

but his eyes remained abyssal, deep pools that held no reflection of the current world.

Shin: (You really like them, right?

The small shapes that breathe...

they are easier to understand than the ones in the paintings.)

Yui Akari: (They’re just innocent, Shin.

Like you were when I first found you.

Though... you've grown up so fast.)

She looked at him, realizing her once she think crush but now as a friend had evolved into a deep, protective respect.

He was the pillar of the house now.

But then, the Ring Bell cut through the air.

It wasn't a normal sound; it was sharp, like a crystal glass shattering.

The temperature in the hallway dropped ten degrees in a second.

They both ran to the door.

Shin reached it first, his mechanical instincts flaring for the first time in months.

He pulled the heavy oak door open.

Standing there was a woman who didn't belong in this reality.

She was draped in a coat of shimmering white fur that seemed to breathe, but underneath, her presence was anything but warm.

The Eyes were a piercing, predatory Yellow—the color of a dying star.

They locked onto Shin with a hunger that made the air turn to frost

Her hair cascading waves of blue and white, like a frozen waterfall, framed a face of impossible, cruel beauty.

As she stepped forward, the wooden floorboards under her feet didn't creak; they cracked as ice crystals bloomed in her footprints.

Beneath her heavy coat, a faint, iridescent glow hinted at wings that were half-frozen blue and half-ethereal white.

She didn't look like a traveler.

She looked like a Queen returning to a conquered land.

Yui Akari shivered, her breath hitching in the sudden cold.

She felt a primal fear, the same tang of doom Shin used to give off, but this was directed, focused, and malicious.

The woman ignored the maid entirely.

She leaned in toward Shin, her face inches from his perfect regenerated skin.

The smell of jasmine from the bath was instantly replaced by the scent of Ozone and Ancient Ice.

The Woman : (My, my... look at how matured you’ve become.

You look so much more... delicious when you aren't pointing fingers at people, Shin darling.)

She smiled, and the frost on the windows of the mansion began to form the shape of Seven Flowers.

The woman: (I heard this was a Home. I’ve come to see if there’s room for one more...

Don't worry i am not any type of danger.....

I don't have any home right now so i thought maybe i could live with my shin

And also of coruse if you are giving me something i will also give you.)

Shin asked: (And what is that? would you not mind telling me this)

The woman said: (Helping you to recover those memories of your you want so badly...

And don't even dare to lie to me i know you cry for them at night regularly)

Shin froze, and then said: (Done... i don't know who you are, but if you can help me remember me those memories then its good)

The woman said; ( Sorry about this, how rude am i...

My name is Eslimya...

And i am a goddess who represent lust and and ice

Something ring inside your head by my introduction)

Shin said; (You can say that)

Volume 3, Chapter 6: END.

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