Over in the men's bath, the three men treated the enormous hot spring pool like a swimming pool and started swimming...
As they swam, Welt Yang realized...
This was actually kind of fun?
"Hahaha... Yang, what do you think? Isn't this fun?"
Xu Yanwu floated on his back as he spoke to Welt Yang beside him.
"Mm, it really is quite interesting."
Welt Yang himself had not noticed that a few more smiles had appeared on his face without him realizing it.
"Your expression looks pretty good right now..."
Xu Yanwu said, "It's much better than that perpetually grim look you usually have."
"..."
"That usual look of yours... It feels like you grew up soaking in a sea of bitterness."
Xu Yanwu floated on the surface, letting the water carry him along. "If you keep going like that, one day you'll suffocate yourself."
"But the responsibilities we bear are very heavy..."
"So what if they're heavy?"
Xu Yanwu asked in return, "They're heavy... but does that mean you stop living?"
"Even if the world were ending in a little while... you should still live happily."
That was what Xu Yanwu said.
"If life were nothing but bitterness, I couldn't keep living like that... People always need to find a little fun for themselves."
Xu Yanwu said to Welt Yang, "Life is so long... Isn't it better to live a little more happily?"
"From childhood until now... you haven't seriously played around much, have you?"
Xu Yanwu looked Welt Yang over and said, "Don't worry... Isn't it just having fun? When there's time, I'll take you out to have some fun."
Xu Yanwu clenched his fist and shouted at the sky, "No matter how bitter life gets, you still have to live a little more happily!"
"Everything... will get better!!"