Poseidon in Arknights

"What did you buy?" Exusiai leaned closer and looked into the bathtub.

“A few soft-boiled eggs, and some snacks they recommended.” Texas released her grip, and the wooden bathtub floated in the water. “It’s on the owner’s tab.”

"Hehe, um, let me see~" When Exusiai heard that it was the Emperor's bill, she didn't stand on ceremony and went over. After wiping her hands with the towel hanging next to the bathtub, she casually took a hot spring egg from it.

"Let me see, let me see." Croissant reached out and grabbed the bathtub, pulled it over, took out a bag of dried fruit snacks from it, and pushed the bathtub next to Xiyue.

Just as Yuuki was about to reach for something in the bathtub, her hand suddenly froze in mid-air, and she sighed helplessly.

Then, a water arrow instantly formed and shot out from the pool, followed by an indescribable scream from a penguin.

"Really." Yuzuki shook her head, took two hot spring eggs from the bathtub, handed one to Kurenai, and then the bathtub automatically and slowly moved between Texas and Sora.

"What a suicidal boss." Exusiai shook her head after hearing the penguin's scream, casually cracked open the onsen egg, and started eating, completely ignoring the boss who had just made the scream.

"I knew this would happen~" Croissant shook her head and tore open the packaging of the dried fruit in her hand.

"...Sigh." Texas didn't want to comment; she just wanted to sigh.

"Well." Sora shrugged and casually picked up a pastry from the floating bathtub next to him.

“Actually, I feel that I should say something right now…” Xi Yue stroked her chin, “The Emperor has been assassinated… Time to heat the oil?”

Exusiai's eyes twitched, and she chewed the onsen egg in her mouth twice before swallowing it: "What do you mean by 'start cooking and heating oil'? The boss isn't a dish, and besides, isn't the assassin you, Yuuki?"

Xi Yue smiled with a hint of wickedness: "Anyway, I guess the boss won't care."

“That’s true.” Croissant nodded. “I even feel that if the boss were still alive, he might actually start cooking oil himself if he heard what Xiyue said.”

After imagining it for a moment, Kong added, "They might even ask us to help add fuel to the fire."

—————Men's Bathhouse—————

The emperor's eyes were lifeless, and he lay sprawled on the edge of the bath, his legs straight. The water arrow that Xi Yue had just shot out was still stuck in his head. His expression was a mixture of confusion, surprise, and even a bit of helplessness.

After a while, the emperor, with the water arrow almost completely submerged in his head, jumped up as if nothing had happened, patted off non-existent dust from his body, and then forcefully pulled the water arrow out of his head.

Thankfully, the entire hot spring resort has been booked by the Emperor; otherwise, this incident would have likely resulted in a symphony of screams tonight.

The emperor casually tossed the water arrow to the ground, and it turned into a puddle of water upon contact with the ground.

Then, out of nowhere, he pulled out two waterproof bandages and applied them to the wound on his head in a crisscross pattern.

"That was a quick reaction." The emperor shook his head. Just as he poked his head out, before he could even see anyone, he saw a water arrow flying straight at him.

Then, the last vestige of the Emperor's consciousness, filled with surprise and terror, felt his body fly backward and crash to the ground.

However, the Emperor only made a casual remark, after all, he knew he was in the wrong.

"It's a good thing that kid Is didn't come, otherwise, seeing this situation, I don't know what he would complain about." The Emperor jumped into the pool. "That way, I would have another embarrassing story in his hands. It's a good thing he didn't come."

Chapter 71: The Abruptly Ended Vacation

"Ah, after soaking, I just don't want to move at all~" Exusiai threw herself onto the sofa with a forceful movement, entering a state of lying down like a corpse, her whole expression becoming peaceful.

"Yeah, she looks all lightheaded~" Croissant's appearance wasn't much better, maybe only slightly better than Exusiai's corpse, at least her expression wasn't peaceful.

"Hmm..." Texas nodded. After soaking in the hot spring, Texas seemed to melt away from the heat and became languid.

He nestled on the sofa, a Pocky stick dangling from his lips, and reached into his bathrobe to scratch himself.

"Actually, we shouldn't have soaked for so long." Xi Yue touched the red head in her arms. "Look, you've all turned red."

"Hmm~" Red rubbed against Yuuki's hand, then jumped off Yuuki, looked around, and thought she had sneaked over to Texas's side.

"Sigh, we both blushed so badly~" Exusiai recovered from her lying-down state, looked up at the mirror on the table, and said, "Hmm, looks pretty good~"

"It's normal, she's been soaking for too long." Yuuki smiled at Exusiai. "Come on, Exusiai, don't lie down, make room for me."

Sora propped himself up on the sofa and looked at Yuuki: "But Yuuki, you've been soaking for the longest time, how come you haven't turned red? We've all turned red to some extent, haven't we?"

Of course, the prerequisite for your face to turn red when soaking in a hot spring is that you have blood and blood vessels. The problem is that you don't have either of these things now, so no matter how long you soak, it won't help.

"Perhaps it's because of my special constitution~" Xiyue waved her hand. "Hmm, by the way, why hasn't the Great Emperor appeared yet? Does resurrection take this long?"

"Who knew..." Texas was about to reply when she felt her tail being grabbed.

Texas sighed. There was no need to even look; apart from Red, no one would try to grab her tail at this time.

Texas turned her head and looked at Red, who was sitting next to her, hugging and stroking her tail, and rubbing her face against it. She flicked Red on the forehead and then pulled her tail back from Red's grasp.

"Xi Yue, come and keep an eye on her."

"Oh~" Yuzuki replied casually, but she didn't intend to get up. She just called out to Kurenai, "You have to ask for permission before you touch someone's tail, you can't just do it on your own."

“That’s not what I meant.” Texas’s lips twitched. Just as Yuuki finished speaking, Texas immediately felt the intense gaze from Red beside her.

“…Sigh.” Texas picked up Red, then stood up, walked to Yuuki’s side, and threw Red directly into Yuuki’s arms.

Hong raised her head, looked at Xiyue who was smiling, and buried her head in Xiyue's arms again.

Exusiai looked at Texas and Yuuki with a smile, then turned her head to Croissant, who was also smiling, and they looked at each other.

Exusiai said with a mischievous grin, "Since we're bored anyway, why don't we play a game?"

Yuuki turned her head and looked at the mischievous grin on Exusiai's face: "Is it Dark Game again? Look at that mischievous grin you can't even hide."

"It doesn't really count~" Exusiai got up from the sofa, took out two decks of cards from the bag she had brought with her, and placed them on the table.

Yuuki glanced at the table, raising an eyebrow at the two decks of cards, one red and one blue: "Is this Truth or Dare?"

“That’s right!” Exusiai nodded with a smile. “To prevent you from being chosen forever due to your bizarre luck, so…”

The angel then produced several more slips of paper: "Let's determine the winner directly with numbers, taking turns in order~"

"Even if you, Yuuki, have incredibly good luck, you'll still get it!"

Hearing Exusiai's words, Croissant seemed to get interested and sat up: "That's great! Of course we have to come. It's no fun if you always win against Yuuki."

"Aren't three people a bit too few?" Yuzuki smiled and then pointed to the others.

Has anyone signed up?

This is the least of Exusiai's worries. After all, the biggest tradition of Penguin Logistics is to have fun to the death. Besides, everyone is just killing time anyway, so she's not worried about whether anyone will come.

"I'll pass, I just want to lie down quietly for a while~" Sora shook her head and lay even more lazily on the sofa.

Texas thought for a moment, and since she had nothing better to do anyway, she sat up and said, "Since I'm just sitting here anyway, take me with you."

"Is Red coming?" Exusiai smiled. She knew they would never miss it, so the last one would be Red in Wo Xiyue's arms.

Hong shook her head: "Hong doesn't know how, so Hong won't come. Hong wants to hug her mother."

“Okay, let’s do it then~” Exusiai nodded. “Come on, everyone, sit over here. How can we play if we’re so far apart?”

Everyone got up and sat down in a row around the table, each holding a small table.

Exusiai folded the paper in her hand in half, then scattered the folded paper randomly on the table.

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"I'm fourth." Xi Yue spread her hands, showing everyone the contents of the note in her hand.

The crowd glanced at each other and then nodded casually. They were prepared for Xiyue to be the last one. Even if everyone had to go through a round, it was predictable that Xiyue would be the last one.

"I'm number one, so I'll go first~" Exusiai picked up two decks of cards from the table, stacked them, and shuffled them in her hands.

"To clarify the rules, each person draws a card. If you feel you don't want to do what's written on the card, you can pass and draw another card, but you can't pass on what's written on the new card!"

"no problem."

Once Exusiai felt the cards were almost shuffled, she put them back on the table, drew a blue card with the back of Truth from the top, and spread it out on the table.

Exusiai glanced at the cards: "My favorite food, need I say more? It's apple pie, of course."

"This is boring, Exusiai. I demand you draw another one."

"How could that be? Croissant~" Exusiai shook her finger. "These are the rules~"

Croissant shook her head and pulled out a red-backed card of the Dare card: "Wow, this one's a bit..."

Everyone looked down and saw that the sign read, "Hold the ice cube for 20 seconds."

"Is the weather not so good?" Croissant scratched his head. "Hmm, but the next one is still Truth or Dare. Hmm, Yuuki, can I have an ice cube?"

"Go grab a handful of snow, it should be the same thing anyway." Xi Yue smiled, casually made a block of ice, and tossed it to Croissant.

"Next~" Croissant took the ice cube and looked at Texas, who was fourth. "Looks like the next three are all dares, oh~"

"..." Texas calmly drew the card on the table, and after seeing what it said, her eyes immediately sharpened. She then stared at Exusiai, who was whistling.

[Play a Pocky game with the next player.]

"Don't look at me like that. You drew it yourself, and you saw me shuffling the cards." Exusiai turned her face away. The card was indeed specially made by her, and the content on it was indeed written by her, but she really didn't expect Texas to draw this card.

"I give up." Texas sighed. Although she was really looking forward to playing Pocky with Yuuki, she decided against it with everyone watching.

[Press the wall for ten seconds on the next player]

"..." Texas looked at the contents of the card, remained silent for a while, then raised her head and stared at Exusiai with a cold gaze.

Exusiai seemed a little guilty under Texas's gaze: "Texas, don't look at me like that. I took this from another Truth or Dare game. It's a generic one. I didn't do it!"

“…Sigh.” Texas sighed. She wasn’t so bad as to be completely unable to take a chance. “Let’s go, Yuuki.”

"Come on." Xi Yue shrugged. She didn't really mind. After all, it's just a game. Truth or Dare is how the game is played.

"Wow~" Exusiai and Croissant exchanged a glance. Although this was not part of their plan, the current situation seemed to be even better than they had anticipated.

So the two of them promptly picked up their phones and started taking pictures.

Texas blushed slightly as she listened to the camera shutters that the two people behind her seemed to have deliberately left on.

Seeing Texas blush, Yuuki smiled as well, but unfortunately, her current posture made it difficult to take a picture with her phone.

Sitting on the sofa watching the two people pinning each other against the wall, for some reason, he didn't know which one he should envy.

'No, no, I... I... Texas-senpai... But, Yuuki-san too...' Sora's mind was filled with memories of the helplessness she felt when facing the bomb at the concert a few days ago, and Yuuki's warm embrace at the end.

"Ugh..." Kong suddenly began to regret not participating in the game.

"Alright, time's up." Yuuki patted Texas's head, reminding her that it was time.

"Okay." Texas hesitated for a moment, then nodded, released her hand, and stepped aside.

As Xiyue walked over, she casually raised her hand to touch her head before sitting back down at the table.

"Let me see my grand adventure!"