Chapter 224: Lying Flat Is a Kind of Wisdom, Want to Join the Axis Cult?

"So this is why you suddenly wrapped a scarf around yourself and came in to bathe with us?"

Darkness retorted.

"Yes, I've decided. I'll discard my unnecessary competitive spirit and integrate into our family from today onward."

Megumin admitted it.

"Don't force yourself."

"I'm not forcing it."

Megumin's face was as red as a steamed shrimp; after experiencing massive failure and setbacks, this Crimson Demon girl finally lowered her proud skull to reality, responding to Aqua's teasing.

"Megumin, welcome home!"

Yunyun was very happy, expressing welcome to Megumin.

"Miss Megumin, do you want a scrub? It's very comfortable, can relieve muscle fatigue in the body, although mine is from rigor mortis."

Wiz asked, lying on the scrubbing bed; after being infused with a large amount of life energy, her body had temporarily recovered to a living person's state.

Broly was sitting astride her waist, gripping her fair shoulders with both hands, helping relieve the rigor mortis in the muscles near her shoulder blades.

"I'll pass on this for now, I feel my body is still quite relaxed..."

Megumin's complexion was somewhat stiff as she refused, her gaze constantly fixed on where Broly sat on Wiz's lower back, somewhat worried the boy's mascot might suddenly turn into a giant eel and use a piercing skill on Wiz from behind.

"Heh heh, Megumin, you really are a pure-hearted little girl, but if you want to join our family, you must experience the step of being scrubbed and massaged by Broly.

Only by confirming the degree of physical compatibility can we guarantee everyone's future life will be happy.

Or is it that you never thought about taking the step of being made an adult by my disciple, merely forced by reality to come say nice things to us, and still want to repeatedly jump back and forth between becoming a wife and not becoming a wife?"

Aqua lay at the edge of the bath, looking up at Megumin's pomegranate figure wrapped in a scarf, narrowing her eyes as she asked.

"That's not true. Although my repeated jumping back and forth before was indeed my fault, right now I've made my resolve."

Megumin hurriedly rebutted; only those beaten by society can understand that the kindness of people who are good to you is never a matter of course.

"Then prove it to us — your resolve!"

Under Aqua's pressure, Megumin, clutching her scarf, still lay down on the scrubbing bed, becoming the fifth female in this world to be scrubbed by Bathing Master Bu, after Yunyun.

The girl's face was red, buried between her arms; her shy reaction was about the same as Yunyun's when she first experienced scrubbing. Broly applied shampoo and familiarly began scrubbing.

Megumin being scrubbed was no different from the others; their mouths would all emit strange endurance sounds.

Once accustomed, they would slowly relax, the endurance sounds turning into comfortable light hums.

In the end, body relaxed, eyes hazy...

Until flipped over to scrub the other side, a cry of surprise escaped her mouth, her whole body tensing up again.

"Is this how it is every time you bathe? Even the front gets scrubbed?"

Megumin found it somewhat incredible.

"Relax. Anyway, once you become a wife, you'll be frank with each other; there's nothing wrong with getting used to it in advance."

Darkness comforted Megumin with a sentence.

"Breathe in deep, then breathe out; that way you won't be too nervous."

Yunyun passed on scrubbing experience.

"Are you giving birth or something?"

Megumin retorted, and actually relaxed a bit.

"Megumin, you should eat more normally; you're a bit thin."

Broly suddenly said; compared to the others' plumpness, Megumin's feel when scrubbed was somewhat meager — he could completely feel the shape of bones beneath skin and flesh.

Megumin: "..."

After a moment of silence, she burst out.

"None of your business; aren't you a tiny one yourself?"

Her body scrubbed clean, she sat angrily amid a group of plump-bodied women.

Seeing everyone around her was better developed than herself, she couldn't help feeling low, hugging her knees and blowing bubbles in the water.

"It's fine, Megumin; flat chests are also a rare resource."

Yunyun leaned over to comfort her.

"Ah, are you provoking me? So what if you have a plump body? Those two lumps in front are just excess fat, okay."

"Oh my, someone can't reach the grapes and starts saying they're sour."

Aqua mocked from the side.

"Bastard, I just haven't grown up yet; I'll definitely develop more in the future!"

Megumin immediately rebutted.

"But I recall Miss Weiwei seems to be flat-chested too."

Wiz delivered a fatal blow.

"Ah, you hateful big-breasted monsters, I'll fight you all~"

After a bout of horseplay, several "floating corpses" drifted on the water surface.

"Thank you all, for still being willing to accept me."

Megumin suddenly said.

"What's there not to accept? After getting along a long time, we're all already friends."

Darkness replied with a sentence.

"It's not that no one ever accepted you; it's just that your temper was too big, unwilling to get along friendly with everyone."

Aqua retorted.

"But that's not a matter of course, is it? Who would from the start be willing to share the other half with women they've met only a few times, and directly 'you good me good everyone good,' smoothly accepting the result of becoming a harem member?"

Megumin sat up and refuted.

"Then what about now? What made you change your mind? Was it a blow from reality?"

Darkness asked, hitting the nail on the head.

"Part of it is for that reason, but more importantly, I've gotten familiar with all of you."

Megumin did not deny that she had surrendered to reality, sank back into the water, and said: "Laying flat, relying on others—it feels great."

"Faced with a cruel reality, choosing the lifestyle that makes you most comfortable, laying flat, choosing to rely on others is a kind of wisdom. Want to join the Axis Cult?"

"Haha, I don't want to join the Axis Cult at all. Although I want to rely on Broly, that doesn't mean I don't want to strive and work hard myself."

"Megumin, do you know? The feeling you give me right now is just like those girls who want everything."

Yunyun said one sentence.

"Honestly, I feel that way myself."

Megumin did not refute Yunyun's words; she also felt she was somewhat lacking.

"So, Broly, do you still want me, someone like this?"

She looked at the boy climbing out of the pool, shaking his tail to dry off, and asked.

"Yes. Why wouldn't I?"

For this question, Broly had no hesitation and gave a definite answer.

【Huixi Happiness Branch increased】

"Then from now on, I'll be one of your wives."

Megumin glanced away, avoiding the boy's gaze, and said with a red face.

Although her romance wasn't very romantic, it was refreshingly blunt; even though she wasn't as outstanding as she imagined, the boy beside her seemed never to have changed his attitude toward her.

"Okay."