Chapter 59: Disaster With Women C
[A pair of men's underwear suddenly thrown into the hot spring has made the girls highly suspicious.]
[The girls decide to thoroughly investigate the hot spring area.]
[You hear the sound of water footsteps. They're starting to check behind rocks and hidden spots—they're getting close to where you're hiding.]
[If they find you hiding here… your life is pretty much over.]
[Your next options are…]
[1. Disguise yourself as the bronze statue "The Peeing Boy" (Requires skill 「Transformation A」)]
[2. Dive underwater and wait for a chance to escape (Requires Agility B, Luck A)]
"What the hell is the first option?! That's insane—could that even fool them?!"
Even if Eikou actually had 「Transformation A」, he absolutely would never consider the first option.
"Agility B, Luck A…"
He glanced at his status panel—just barely meets the requirements.
As long as the Goddess of Dice shows a little mercy, he still has a chance to escape.
"Gawain and Tristan, you two useless bastards! Couldn't even do anything right, and now you've left me with this gigantic mess!"
But since the girls have split up to investigate, this is also the best chance to rush straight out the main gate and escape this den of tigresses.
Gotta risk it!
Without a moment's hesitation, Eikou chose the second option, then dove into the water, ready to swim away.
Two dice clattered onto the ground.
[Agility Check: Success]
[Before the girls discovered you, you managed to dive into the water and quietly leave your hiding spot. The noise you made was extremely small and completely unnoticed.]
Good, keep this momentum going!
The other die has landed.
The number that appeared was—EX!
[Luck Check: Great Failure!]
[You've dived into an extremely scalding hot water area. Because the temperature is too high, you don't dare open your eyes and can only rely on memory to grope your way toward the main gate.]
[You've lost your sense of direction in the water.]
[Suddenly, you feel your hand touch something.]
[It's incredibly soft, with a clear elasticity, and the rebound sensation after touching it shocks you. It's as if this thing doesn't belong in the world of FGO but rather in a setting like NIKKE…]
[While diving underwater, you accidentally touched… Bradamante's butt.]
Splash!
"Waaahhhhhh!!!"
Bradamante, wrapped in a bath towel, let out a startled scream like a frightened kitten.
Eikou almost screamed along, scared out of his wits.
She didn't find him—he went and bumped into her himself?!!
Even in the boiling hot water, Eikou felt his whole body turn ice cold in terror.
This time it's really over. Completely doomed.
And not just any doom—this is social death at its most humiliating and despair-inducing imaginable.
All Bradamante has to do is bend down a little and reach her hand underwater, and she could pull him right out on the spot.
'I…'
At the brink of death, Eikou screamed in his heart:
'I want to activate my skill!!'
Any skill will do, as long as it can break this deadlock!
His mind began spinning at breakneck speed—what skill could be useful in this situation?
Charisma? Hero Creation? Protection of the Lake?
No good. Those skills only support allies—they're completely useless right now!
"I… I want to activate the skill 「Instinct C」!!"
The Instinct skill is quite versatile, because in any situation, it allows you to rely on intuition and natural instincts to handle problems. As long as the check succeeds, things will lean toward a positive outcome.
It's basically the handy version of Spider Sense inside Peter Parker's head.
[Please perform an Agility Check]
[Check Success – you immediately move away from Bradamante's position, giving her no chance to catch you.]
[You activated the skill 「Instinct C」, hoping to rely on instinct to find a way out.]
The dice rolled—and the result was EX.
[Check – Great Failure!]
[Your hand accidentally touches…]
"Another girl's butt, huh, you perverted bastard! Can't the simulation give you something more original?! Like boobs, for example!!"
[You accidentally touched… the head exoskeleton of Jeanne d'Arc and, without thinking… yanked it off.]
"This 'originality' is way too extreme!! There's no way this could come from 'Instinct'! And that's not the 'exoskeleton'!!"
(Note: for a moment I was confused, what the hell is a 'head exoskeleton'?! But then I remembered that Jeanne had a piece of armor on her head that looked like an upside down trident, I guess it was that.)
Spider Sense completely busted—this isn't Peter-tingle anymore; this is Bully Maguire mode!
If they discover him now, there's absolutely no way to explain it!
What the hell is wrong with the dice today? How can the bad luck be this outrageous?!
While still underwater, he could already hear the startled cries of the girls. One had her butt grabbed, another had her "head exoskeleton" snatched—now their alertness had been fully triggered. From here on out, escape will become even harder.
No more mistakes allowed.
"Activate the skill 『Instinct C』 again!"
[This skill cannot be reactivated in a short time.]
"Damn it…"
Eikou couldn't help but sigh—his available skills were still way too few.
Was there any other skill he could use…?
Maybe he could take advantage of their distraction, activate 「A Knight Does Not Die with Empty Hands EX」, and treat them like long spears… then just throw them all into the next bath?
No, that would be way too brutal.
"Let me think… is there any skill I can still use…"
While he was still undetected, Eikou frantically tried to come up with a strategy.
The skills he could possibly use right now… maybe only one remained:
「Disaster With Women C」
This was a skill that had only been unlocked after that one time he got drunk and ended up stuck between Carmilla and Morgan.
["Disaster With Women C": You become more prone to getting involved in social troubles caused by women, judgments from women will inflict more emotional damage on you, but the difficulty of judging women's situations is slightly reduced.]
So this skill basically means…
If the activation fails, he won't get dragged into trouble with women, right?
In other words—
As long as he rolls a Great Failure, all his romantic misfortune for this turn will be wiped clean, meaning he won't get involved with any girls tonight.
That way, he can climb ashore safely and escape this drama-filled place!
That reasoning… sounds about right, doesn't it?
Eikou wasn't entirely sure, but with no other options left, he had no choice but to gamble on it.
Every plan he could think of had already been used. Now, all he could do was pray for mercy from the Goddess of Dice.
Please, Goddess of Dice, I'll give you 5 QP—just spare my life this once!!
'I want to activate the skill 『Disaster With Women C』!!'
'I've been unlucky all day anyway. One more Great Failure won't hurt! I've already given up on life!!'
The dice fell.
[Dice Result: E —— Check: Great Success!]
"YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!! Why did it roll a Great Success at the ONE time I DIDN'T want it to succeed?!"