Chapter 60: "Servant, Saber. True name Jason. I ask you, are you my Master?"
[Disaster With Women C, Activated!]
[Dice Result: E —— Check: Great Success!]
[Your disaster with women has become even more severe.]
At the very moment when success was least desirable — it burst out as a Great Success!
Eikou felt that maybe he was really done for this time.
Even before using the skill, his trouble with women was already serious enough.
Now that he rolled a Great Success, Eikou didn't even dare to imagine how terrifying that scene would become.
Could it be that these three French girls would both overflow with passionate feelings and ruthlessly execute him?
What the hell is going on with his luck?
Did he accidentally offend some goddess of fortune in his previous life?
No matter what, he didn't want to die in a place like this.
Eikou's mind spun rapidly, suddenly recalling something he had almost forgotten, as if grasping a life-saving straw, he immediately shouted in his heart:
'I want to use an Encouragement Dice, roll again!'
Previously, he had accumulated six Encouragement Dice through daily activities, which allowed him to reroll the dice.
Now was the time to change fate.
[You have consumed one Encouragement Dice, proceeding with the re-check.]
[Check successful, your skill Disaster With Women C takes effect.]
"Why did it succeed again!!"
[You currently have five Encouragement Dice left, do you want to use another one?]
Eikou clenched his teeth and chose "yes."
Another dice dropped down.
[You have consumed one Encouragement Dice, proceeding with the re-check.]
[Check - Great Failure.]
[Your disaster temporarily disappears, the girls present will not experience any horrific communication mishaps with you for a short time.]
"Perfect!"
Eikou finally breathed a sigh of relief.
[With no trouble from women causing interference, your actions become extremely smooth. Taking advantage of their confusion, you use the fog to sneak up to the shore, then quietly pull the entrance door, and finally slip inside.]
[You have successfully escaped.]
[Thanks to your strong adaptability, you have broken through the siege of the French female students.]
[Your abilities have been honed.]
[「Instinct C」 has been upgraded to 「Instinct B」]
Eikou slipped into the changing room opposite the hot spring.
His heart was pounding non-stop, his face still showing lingering fear, yet he couldn't help but let out a bitter smile after escaping death.
It was unbelievable that he actually managed to escape through the main entrance of the hot spring!
Completely naked, yet he still managed to get away right under the noses of the Queen of France, the Holy Maiden of Orleans, and the Paladin of Charlemagne, and even conveniently snatched Jeanne's hair ornament — this feat was enough to brag about for a lifetime.
...Forget it, better not brag about this, it's best if no one ever finds out.
After closing the changing room door, Eikou finally felt a little relieved.
"I swear, from now on I'll definitely reform myself, start a new life, and never peep at girls bathing ever again. Luckily I have so many skills, otherwise I'd really have died here…"
"No, wait, I never intended to peep at girls bathing in the first place, why do I need to reform myself…"
He quickly shook his head, sweeping away all those nonsensical thoughts from his mind.
The urgent matter now was to find his clothes in the changing room and get out as soon as possible.
Eikou quickly walked up to the locker.
The first thing that caught his eye were his clothes and those of the two Knights of the Round Table, still sitting inside the locker.
Just as he was wondering if he should conveniently take their clothes along as well, he accidentally glanced at the locker next to it.
Next to it was the heavy black armor that Lancelot usually wore.
Along with that was a slightly messy hanging schoolgirl uniform, and also a set of pink women's underwear, looking completely feminine.
Eikou couldn't help but freeze.
His first reaction was: Why is Lancelot's armor here? Could it be that he's here too?
But right after that, the second reaction was:
WTF, there's also a skirt and women's underwear next to it, could it be that our esteemed Sir Lancelot is the type who likes to wear women's clothes?
Could it be that under that pitch-black, thick armor, Lancelot usually dresses in these schoolgirl outfits when he goes to school? That's seriously perverted, turns out I didn't misjudge him after all!
"No, Lancelot might not necessarily be a cross-dresser, maybe he stole these outfits and kept them hidden…"
Eikou said.
"But still, that's really perverted."
Forget it, let's not bother about these random things for now, better focus on putting on clothes first.
But at that very moment, footsteps suddenly sounded in the changing room, very light, sounding exactly like the sneaky steps of a thief.
Eikou was startled, and in that brief instant, he really didn't know whether he should hide or put his clothes on first.
Hesitating for a moment, in the end, he followed his body's instinct — put on his pants first.
The other person emerged from the locker area opposite, cautiously glancing at him.
It was a girl.
Pale golden eyes slightly indifferent, long hair white as snow, and a beautiful, well-developed maiden's figure with soft curves.
The girl was wrapped in a thin towel, barely covering and yet not entirely hiding the body of a youthful girl in healthy bloom. In that changing room filled with warm, humid steam, the exposed skin of hers, along with her casually bare shoulders, all glowed with a faint pinkish hue, sensual and hazy.
That was…
Jeanne d'Arc Alter — none other than Black Jeanne.
Eikou's heart, which had just calmed down, instantly leapt to his throat at this moment.
"..."
"..."
The two stared at each other in silence, not saying a word, only the stifling atmosphere of extreme awkwardness spreading through the damp, misty air.
A cold drop of sweat dripped down from Eikou's chin.
After struggling so hard to escape from the encirclement of those three girls, in the end, he was caught by the Dragon Witch?
Thud!
Black Jeanne backed up two steps out of hesitation, but accidentally bumped into the wall behind her, and sat right down on the slick floor.
As for Eikou, he could only secretly feel relieved that at least he had managed to put his pants on.
"Umm… hello there, the moon sure is beautiful tonight, huh?..."
His brain immediately began operating at full capacity, trying to think of any reasonable excuse that could justify his presence in the women's changing room during the hours open for the girls — while outside that door, three girls were happily soaking in the bath.
This silence was… a little terrifying.
He cleared his throat, turned to face Black Jeanne sitting on the ground, and awkwardly spoke up:
"...Servant, Saber. True name Jason. I ask you, are you my Master?"
In the Holy Grail War, there had been cases where a Servant, upon being summoned, directly crashed through the roof and sat cross-legged on the sofa (EMIYA) — so it wouldn't be strange if a Servant forgot to wear clothes after being summoned, right?
Seeing that the other party gave no reaction, Eikou deliberately acted as if he had just been summoned, glancing around curiously.
"Honestly, what kind of Holy Grail War is it here? There's even a hot spring, don't tell me this is like that Singularity with the seven swimsuit-wearing swordsmen?"
"..."
"No response? Looks like you're not the Master who summoned me. Then, farewell, I must go find my Master."
After saying that, Eikou grabbed the rest of his clothes and immediately turned to run away.
Seeing that he was about to run, Black Jeanne finally remembered how to use her tongue and shouted: "Stop right there, Eikou!"
"Not Eikou, it's Jason!"
"Mochizuki Eikou!!!"
"Damn it, don't shout so loud!!"