Chapter 7: The Little Garden Knight Makes an Entrance (Continued)

"Come to think of it, was Hakoniwa City's environment really this harsh? Even water was an extremely precious resource."

"Agreed."

Perhaps because she had grown up in the Far East and loved bathing dearly, the young lady Hisui Asuka nodded as well.

"Although I don't have particularly high standards for quality of life, I'd still have a serious headache if there wasn't even enough water to bathe every day."

Kasukabe Yao nodded too. As a girl who liked to keep clean, she could not stand a life of going without baths for long periods.

Listening to her companions' complaints, Black Rabbit, the pillar of No Name, suddenly stiffened.

In Hakoniwa City, water had to be bought, or fetched from a major river several kilometers away. In a land where securing water was grueling work, bathing was actually considered one of life's luxuries.

If one wanted to bathe every day, what one spent was not water, but gleaming silver coins.

The reason she had managed to stay so clean was largely because she had always worked as a judge, receiving supplies from the organizers before appearing, and because the clothes she usually wore had been given to her by that old pervert White Night Yaksha and carried all kinds of Gift effects.

"There's nothing to be done about that. This isn't the water-rich North Area or South Area, after all."

Possessing the authority of the Sea Emperor Poseidon, he naturally began explaining the matter to the three problem children, since he had no need to worry about water resources at all.

The East Area had never been particularly rich in water resources.

Among Hakoniwa's eastern, southern, western, and northern regions, each area had its own distinguishing traits.

The North Area had exceptionally abundant snowfall.

The South Area had a great river