When Chen Mo entered the hot spring, he had already swept the place with his Spiritual Sense and discovered numerous tattooed thugs in the large pool. As for whether Shochiku Jiro was among them, he did not care about that.
There were so many people anyway. He could just grab one and ask. As for whether those thugs would answer, that depended on whether they had any backbone.
But as Chen Mo approached the large pool, a woman in a kimono stood respectfully before him outside the partition and said, "Hello, sir. This area is not open to the public. Please forgive us. If you wish to bathe, I can show you the way."
At hot springs in Japan, the service staff were basically all women. Not only in the women's section or mixed bathing section—even in the men's section, the staff outside were women. Moreover, these service staff could enter the men's section and provide all sorts of services.
Japan's society was truly somewhat chaotic when it came to relations between men and women. There had even been news reports of daughters already in high school still serving their fathers during baths—not scrubbing their backs or anything like that, but bathing together. All one could say about that was, heh.
"No need. I want to go to the large pool here," Chen Mo said.
"Ah! Sir, that isn't allowed!" The woman was at a loss. This was truly the first time she had encountered a customer making such a request, and it gave her quite a headache.
However, Chen Mo did not want to waste time arguing with her. He drew upon his True Essence and cast an illusion spell on her.
"I'm terribly sorry, sir. Please come in!" In an instant, the woman seemed to regard the man