"Mm-hmm~?"
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"I love taking baths. My skin feels so nice..."
?~(′?`*)
"..."
At night, in the women's bath on the Sunny, a shapely young woman stood completely naked on the smooth, mist-shrouded floor. Holding a stack of clean towels, she gazed with a complicated look at the little girl in the bath ahead of her, who had her back turned and was humming some nameless tune as she soaked.
After hesitating for a long while, she still didn't dare say anything. She simply unclenched her tightly balled fists, walked forward, and stepped into the pool. Kneeling in the warm water, she began carefully scrubbing the little girl's smooth back.
That's right. She was the female Navy officer, Captain Tashigi, who had been captured by the G-5 fleet!
Two afternoons ago, when she'd leaped from the top of the mast and attacked the Flying Fish as it dove and turned, she'd never imagined that the person riding on its back would be the brat herself. If she'd known, she surely wouldn't have acted so impulsively.
Of course, it was too late to say anything now. Having been captured alive by the brat and brought aboard the Sunny, she had no chance to regret her decision.
The reason she was here, meekly scrubbing the little girl's back, was that she'd become the brat's personal maid—and that had been her own choice.
Well, technically, she hadn't had a choice at all?
Because after the brat captured her, she didn't know what to do with her. So the other girl had simply given her three options:
First, wash herself clean and become a late-night snack for that vicious monster bear, Tibbers?
Second, get stuffed into a barrel, nailed shut, and thrown into the sea to feed the fish!
Third, become the personal maid