Hot spring after a long battle was one of the nicest ways to relax. Nisha healed the last group before entering the hot spring. Elesis quickly relaxed herself in the hot water while Lu was still looking at Rena.

The elf lost herself. She went on her own fantasies, her face was too red. She was smiling and giggling creepily, imagining her dream stuff that wouldn't come true. "What happened to you?" Lu asked and rested next to her.

Ara smiled wryly and grabbed Lu over her shoulders. "She tried to strip Chung," she whispered.

"You what?! Why?!" Lu shouted in surprise and stood up in disbelief. The elf doing indecent things was the last thing that she wanted to see. But it seemed that after the Alter Ego potion, she didn't care about morals anymore.

Before Lu, Ciel, Raven, and Elesis finished their part, the others were gathering up in the middle of the town. They were proud of what they did, seeing the town seemed more peaceful than usual.

Rena stretched her body, smiling at the result of their hard work. There were injured people, but it wasn't their part anymore. They'd rather let the expert do it instead. "Can we go to hot springs?" Rena asked, but more like begging.

"What's a hot spring?" Noah asked with a confused look while eating his cheese sticks. Nobody knew when and how Noah got them to eat. They were fighting a while ago and he already got snacks somehow.

Because Noah didn't know what it was, they went to the nearest hot spring. They booked four rooms; two for girls and two for boys. Each of them wrote their data on the guest list.

The staff will guide them to their room first. It went fine until the group was about to part ways. "Sorry miss, the girl's room is this way," one of the staff smiled at Chung.

"I…" Chung turned silent and looked away, realizing he's still wearing his maid uniform. He wasn't sure how to prove his gender without taking off his clothes, since he's well aware that he was stuck with a feminine body. Wearing his armor wouldn't help now.

"It's a he! He's our friend!" Elsword shouted with a smile, trying his best to not make it awkward.

Rena's eyes sparkled in joy. A lot of ideas came to her mind in a second. "Show it!" she shouted and grabbed Chung's skirt to lift it up.

But Chung held her hand tightly to prevent her. His head felt hot from embarrassment, but he did refuse to change clothes in the first place. This didn't stop Rena; she grabbed Chung's right stocking and removed it from beneath his skirt with her free hand. He managed to stop her with his other hand, but she touched his thighs with her fingers instead. "Let's remove it slowly then!"

"Stop, stop!" Ara was finally able to approach the elf and grabbed her from the back by her arms. "Bad Rena! Bad!"

"No! Let me grab those thighs!"

"...And that happened," Ara forced herself to laugh. She wasn't sure how to react to this. Luckily there weren't any people around them when that happened.

"Rena…" Lu sighed and shook her head. After hearing what just happened, she wasn't sure how to react to it either. She was just glad the others were there to stop her.

"You guys don't understand! The… The beauty of crossdressers…!" Rena giggled and held her own cheeks with her hands. She recalled the moment she grabbed Chung's thighs. It excited her so much, she squealed at it.

"H-How was your battle, guys? Was it rough?" Ara asked the girls to change the topic. She was afraid Rena would get weirder ideas if the conversation kept going.

Lu sighed heavily and grabbed Elesis' arm. "Ciel and I were doing really badly. Elesis carried us."

"Hey, hey, it's fine! We were working together!" Elesis smiled and patted Lu's back. Even though she worked the most, she wouldn't call it carrying. "What's up with you? Maybe you'd work well with Chung now."

"Huh? What does that mean?!" Lu pouted and slapped Elesis' arm. "Ciel and I are the best duo! We had to work more, that's all!"

"Work harder. You're an internet memer now, you're washed up!" Elesis replied and splashed the water at Lu's face.

"I'll meme you!" Lu shouted and splashed water at Elesis. Now it became a splash fight between the two girls.

Eve blinked her eyes several times. During the Alternate Timeline potion, Elesis and Lu were best friends. She thought it wouldn't happen because it was a different timeline, but maybe she was wrong. Maybe they could be best friends.

She looked at Aisha. Maybe it was possible for her and Chung to go back together too? Aisha tilted her head a bit, looking back at Eve. "What's wrong, Eve?"

Eve shook her head, not wanting to say what she was thinking. "We did great today," she smiled and asked for a high five.

Clap!

Nisha smiled and leaned her body at Aisha. "You're doing so well. Laby praises you too."

"I've never seen Rena use her bow that much. Feels weird to me," Rose commented as she looked at Rena and poked her left cheek. She wanted her to snap out of her fantasies.

Rena sighed and narrowed her eyes at Rose. "We had no idea how to find the disguising demons! I'm grateful Noah is fast."

Eve shook her head. "Neither were we. Who knows finding demons would be harder than fighting the demons themselves?"

"Maybe we shouldn't divide the team based on our likings," Eve forced herself to smile. She didn't realize some people would be struggling too much.

Lu laughed at it and patted Elesis' back again. "Yeah, maybe give Aisha to us. She handles her magic pretty well!"

"Ahn~!'

They turned their faces to Aisha and Nisha. Aisha's face was bright red while she covered her mouth with both her hands. Nisha was behind her, groping her private area. "Hm? You like it? Laby likes it too," Nisha smiled and kept doing it.

"It's degen hour!" Lu shouted and groped Elesis from the back.

Elesis' body twitched at the touch, her face flushed red instantly. "Lu! What are you doing?!"

On the other side, the boys could hear the girls. They were loud enough for them to overheard some of their conversation by accident. Chung was facing away from everyone, not willing to talk or anything. Noah sat next to Chung, boiling some eggs in the hot spring and eating them.

"You're actually beta, Chung. Do you even have muscles?" Elsword asked and grabbed Chung's waist from the back. Sometimes he got curious about his friend's body.

Chung slapped his hand as lightly as he could to not knock him out again. "Are you gay now? I'm telling Eve we have a thing."

"Wha–Where did that come from?!" Elsword yelled and smacked Chung's back.

"Eggs!" Noah smiled and gave each of them a boiled egg.

Chung sighed and looked away from everyone again. "You could have digestive problems if you eat this many eggs, Noah."

"Not if I eat a lot of green vegetables," Noah smiled and cracked the egg. He ate it whole and smiled until he swallowed it. "It's salty! I did it!"

Chung glanced at Ciel. As expected, Ciel was surprised with the salty boiled egg. Chung looked at the egg in his hand. How did Noah even salt it in the hot spring? "I like it half boiled," he said as he put the egg back into the water.

Noah picked up an egg from the free space next to him. "Then this one!"

"T-Thanks," Chung smiled and cracked the egg carefully. Why did he even accept the egg?

"What's bothering you? I'll heal you later when my power is back," Noah asked with a concerned look. He didn't know people that much, but he was sure Chung was unusually quieter than usual.

"...I think I damaged the uniform. I don't want to get fired," Chung muttered. He hid half of his face underwater, thinking about what kind of punishment he would get.

"What else? Tell me," Noah smiled and patted Chung's head.

Chung stayed silent for a while. After what just happened, he got embarrassed with his own body. He was fine at their last hot spring, but not anymore. Elsword grew more into a man while he was stuck with his kid body. It's his natural body shape at this point. He was afraid of getting laughed at by the others, but maybe talking about it to Noah would be fine.

And fortunately, Noah listened to him without laughing. "I'll be with you for the night. I hangout with her too much, I think I know what she's planning tonight."

Meanwhile, Add was just chilling and staring into nothing. He was analyzing Eun using Ain's body the last time they went to a hot spring. He didn't feel relaxed by doing nothing.

"Hey Elsword, is that salty?" Ciel asked in curiosity and pointed at the egg in Elsword's hand.

Elsword was a bit confused, but he peeled it off and took a bite. "Yeah, it's salty," he said as he took another bite.

For some reason, Ciel got really depressed with that fact. His complexion turned really bad. "That's impossible!"

"Calm down. It's just Noah eating food like usual," Raven said and patted Ciel on the back.

"You died and came back to life by contract with a demon. How is boiling an egg and making it salty in the hot spring impossible?" Add asked and looked at Ciel. The logic seemed ridiculous to him, especially when everything in Elrios was mostly unreasonable.

Elsword approached Ain to discuss something. It was a bad idea, but he's sure the angel would help him. "Ain, I need your help. Cooperate with me."

Ain sighed and stared at Elsword. "Go on. What do you need?"

"I wanna be in the same room with Eve. Don't you want to be with Ara? We can gather in one room," Elsword begged with a smile and put his palms together. He never had a chance to be with Eve in the same room.

Ain thought about it and looked at the boys. If they were in the same room, there would be 3 rooms left with 6 girls and 5 boys. If Lu and Ciel were together, whoever was with them might be safe. What if the last mixed room got problematic?

But he wanted to be with Ara. "Alright. I'll help you."

"Rena, did you plan for another mixed room?" Ara asked with a skeptical look. It's like the hotel room, Rena probably planned something for the hot spring room too.

"Hm… I don't," Rena said with a smile and waved her hands as a sign of no. She actually didn't plan about the mixed rooms, but if it actually happened, then she would gladly go along with it.

Eve remembered what Elsword said yesterday. He could have planned something already, but would it happen now? It's not exactly a room for two people, so it shouldn't be happening. "I don't think so–" Eve stopped her words when she looked at the ring in Ara's finger.

That girl… was engaged with Ain. Elsword and Ain were close, probably close enough for Elsword to plan something and he would help. If Elsword ever planned to put four of them in a room… "I… reanalyzed my thoughts. It might happen."

Rena's eyes sparkled, her brain counted the group's number at high speed. She grabbed Lu's shoulders tightly with a smile. "Help me get Chung!"

"Wha–No! What are you planning–" Lu couldn't think properly anymore. Her heart loved the idea, but her mind said it's morally wrong. Then again, they already got kicked from a house because of an indecent act. She giggled and grabbed Rena's hands, thinking of something in her head. "Alright, let's do it!"

"Stop! Bad Rena!" Ara yelled and hugged Rena from the back. "He's a human, not a doll. You guys humiliated him enough!"

Nisha sighed and shook her head. "I knew it. You guys are perverts."

Aisha pouted and hit Nisha's forehead with her finger. "You said that but you started first!" she shouted and groped Nisha's private thing from the back, squeezing it with both her hands. Nisha let out a moan, her face turned red in an instant. "You're one of us~!"

Rose and Eve were staring from a distance. Both of them didn't know what to say anymore. They doubted they could even stop what was currently happening. "I… do feel bad for Chung, but you talked like Elsword might get you somewhere. I need someone to work with me," Rose commented with a sigh.

"I… I'm not sure, but if what I think is true, then Elsword and I will be in the same room with Ain and Ara," Eve uttered her thoughts. Her eyes widened in surprise, she just got a new solution in her head. "Unless we can make another mixed room with 2 couples, then everyone should be safe."

"Yeah… but there's nobody. Only Add and me. Lu is already affected by Rena, otherwise we could get her with Ciel," Rose forced herself to smile.

"Get Noah?" Eve suggested. Noah would be the most innocent of them all, so they wouldn't do weird stuff in front of him, right? He's still a kid too.

"I don't even know anymore. Let's just pray," Elesis said and put her palms together. She closed her eyes, praying the best for the gang.

It went exactly like Elsword wanted. Two couples were in the same room, leaving the rest looking at each other. It didn't take long for Rena to grab Chung's shoulders and stare at him with a lustful look. "Chung, come with me!"

"Yes! I'll come along too," Lu nodded her head at Rena's idea. She smiled, trying to convince Chung to accept the offer.

"Let me come too. I never stay in the same room with you guys," Noah said with a smile. He looked innocent and pure, Rena couldn't help but bring him too. She got more excited when Chung nodded his head. They quickly went to a room and left the others.

Elesis sighed and shook her head. "I tried praying real hard. Now they have two of them…"

"They'll be alright. What are you girls imagining anyway?" Raven asked and folded his arms. Sometimes he got a feeling that the girls would do any means necessary to get their loved ones.

"They're talking about… Actually, I'm not sure what's going on in Rena's head about Chung," Rose answered and looked at the direction they were going. Surely everything will be fine, right?

"If they're doing weird stuff to Noah, I'm destroying this place," Nisha said with an annoyed look. Laby will be sad if something happened to him, therefore she had to be ready to take action.

Add shrugged at the information that seemed concerning. All of this happened because of a single mistake by the staff. "It would be the other way around, but not my problem."

"Hehehe… come here, let me massage you. You must be tired," Rena smiled widely and cornered Chung. She was ready to touch every part of his body and she will enjoy it.

They're holding hands, their fingers were locked. But instead of getting feared, Chung was smiling. "I got you," he said with a chuckle.

Lu hugged Rena's legs tightly. "Noah, get her!"

"E-Eeeh?! Aaah?!"

In a short time, Rena's hands and feet were tied together. Lu laughed proudly at her idea–that was more or less the same as Noah's idea. "Now, now… What are we gonna do to you?" Lu giggled and moved her fingers in front of her.

Noah poked Rena's waist, making her giggled a bit at it. "W-Wait, that tickles!"

"Bad adult gets a tickle!" Noah smiled and tickled her. Soon the others followed, forcing her to laugh for a while before they let her go. They would tie her all day, but that would be bad for her, especially after tiring battles.

"I-I haven't laughed that much lately," Rena smiled, trying to catch her breath from too much laughing. Her jaw hurts from smiling too much. She laid down on the bed and faced the ceilings.

Noah opened a bag of chips and ate it. The eggs weren't enough for him. He sat next to Chung, who was looking out the window.

Lu approached them and raised her hands for a high five. "Well done, guys! We did it!"

Clap!

Rena got up from the bed and walked toward them. "You guys are so cute together!"

"It's weird coming from you. I'm calling the police," Chung replied, back to his usual monotone voice.

Noah turned around and smiled at her. "I can actually send you to jail, we're underaged!"

Lu sighed and shook her head. "We're a bunch of legal people with kid's bodies. You're the only underaged here, Noah."

Noah was in disbelief, but he accepted the fact. He still didn't know everyone that much. Lu looked at Rena, and this time, with a serious look. "What's wrong with you lately, though? Are you that lonely?"

Rena forced herself to smile. "No, I'm actually horny–"

"Run!" Chung ran away, followed by Noah behind him. They're gone in a second.

"Well done. Now they actually ran away," Lu said with a smile while Rena screamed in agony.

Knock, knock!

"Nisha, let's play!"

Nisha looked at the door in surprise. She never heard Noah asking to play before. Her mirror floated around in excitement, making Nisha unable to refuse the offer. She stood up and faced her friends. "I'll go with them. Don't wait for me," she waved her hand before leaving the room.

Aisha waved her hands and watched her leave. Today in the hot spring was weird, but now she felt lonely without Nisha. She wasn't even the best friend to talk to. They didn't have the same hobbies.

"I wonder if something happened already," Rose said with a concerned look. She only heard Noah's voice, so where's Chung right now?

Click!

Nisha came back and changed her hot spring robe to her normal clothes. "Bye again," she smiled before leaving.

"Should we be worried?" Rose approached the door and tried to eavesdrop something, but all she heard was footsteps.

"They'll be fine, they're not random kids. Besides, I prayed hard enough," Elesis said and laid down on the bed. "I guess Rena is being extremely weird so Noah decided to leave."

"But what about Chung?" Aisha asked, feeling worried that something happened to him. She still cared for him, after all.

Elesis laughed and slammed the bed lightly. "Aisha, please, I've been in the same room as him once. I'm sure he already left a while ago."

Knock, knock!

"Guys, dinner time!" Lu called them from outside the room.

They gathered in the dining room of the hot spring. Rena was really sad, she lost her appetite. She was just looking at her food and poking it with the utensils.

"Where are the others?" Ara asked as she counted everyone in the room.

"Rena scared them," Lu shrugged and glanced at the elf.

"Noah brought Nisha somewhere. I don't know about Chung," Rose added while trying to look at Rena. She was curious of what exactly the elf did until both Chung and Noah decided to run away.

"He's with them. Don't worry," Lu smiled and picked up her spoon. "Ciel, give me one of everything!"

Ara sighed heavily and looked at Rena. She knew this would be bad, but she didn't expect it to be this bad. "Rena… can you hold yourself for once?"

"I'm sorry but I'm done holding myself," Rena smiled and held her cheeks with her palms. She closed her eyes and imagined her stuff. "If you guys are that worried, I'll take responsibilities and find them–"

"No, no! Definitely not you!" Aisha smacked Rena's head lightly. "Stop being a predator. You'll be on the list in no time!"

Rena shook her head and looked at everyone. "It's alright! I'll find them and apologize–"

"I'll find them," Raven sighed and got up from his seat. "If they don't want to come back, I'll let you guys know."

Smack!

Chung smacked a desert sand seal and killed it without mercy. Nisha nodded her head and clapped her hands. "Let's eat this for dinner. What do you say?" she asked as she faced Noah, who was already staring at the seal as if it's a delicious food.

They started a fire after gathering wood from somewhere a bit far away and cooked the seal. "Where did you even get this tent?" Nisha asked with a confused look. They had a tent, not big but enough for them to sleep inside.

"We just bought it," Chung answered as he stared at the seal. Was this animal even edible? He didn't care anymore, especially after Noah said he'll heal all stomach problems at midnight.

"Laby likes camping. We should do this more often," Nisha smiled and grabbed an unused tree branch. She drew something on the sand; 3 stickmans with a floating circle in the middle. "It's us!"

Chung drew an oval next to the stickmans with his finger. "You forgot the seal."

Noah's eyes sparkled as he attempted to draw a weird circle with wiggly feet. "It's a cthulhu! I saw it in a children's book."

"It's not a children's book, wherever you find it," Nisha commented and drew a cloud. She summoned the pink cloud with a smiley face. "Look, this thing."

Tap… tap…

It was faint, but Chung could hear it. He narrowed his eyes and turned around. "Raven? Why are you here?"

"Raven, join us," Nisha smiled and patted the empty spot next to her, but Raven refused it.

"Everyone won't stop talking about you guys, so I said I'll check," Raven replied and looked at them having a small camping trip. He started wondering why Chung blended in with the kids.

Nisha shook her head. "Then what do you need as a proof?"

Nisha's mirror floated up and down, poking Nisha's arm several times. She nodded with a smile and picked up the pink cloud. "Take this."

Raven came back to the dinner place. His food was already cold, but it's still food either way. They were a bit confused why he brought a cute pink cloud in his hands. "Oh, that's Nisha's! They're fine," Aisha smiled and pointed at the cloud.

"Where are they?" Ara asked with a worried look. Maybe she should've declined Ain's offer.

"I'm not telling," Raven narrowed his eyes at Rena, who was already hoping for an answer. She got disappointed and put her chin on the table with a sigh.

"There, there. You need sleep," Aisha smiled and patted Rena's head. "A long sleep. Oversleeping is fine!"

Ain sighed and narrowed his eyes at the elf. "I should patrol in our house instead of outside."

Rena got startled by it. She forced herself to laugh and waved her hands. "N-No, no, I'll be a good person!"

"If one of them is crying to me, then I'm going to take action," Ain threatened and glared at Rena. The atmosphere was so tense, but only for people outside the gang. It's just typical Ain's behavior.

Add was looking at the gang while they were talking. Something was very odd, although it's probably not dangerous. He kept looking at Ain and Rena, then at Raven and Ciel. Rose noticed it and asked him, but he ignored her for the time being.

What was exactly the side effect of the potion anyway?

He looked at her girlfriend, but nothing was wrong with her. He looked at everyone again, staring at them one by one. It seemed that his suspicion could be correct. "Rena, who are you?" he asked and stared at Rena's eyes.

Rena tilted her head a bit. "I'm me. What do you mean?"

"You've been weird after the alternate timeline. You never harass people, even if it's your biggest desire. Especially to us," Add narrowed his eyes and folded his arms. He waited for Rena's explanation, but she didn't say anything. The others didn't say anything either. "You never get punished by Ain before. You don't have a reason to fear him after you literally tried to strip Chung in front of us. Why are you scared of him all of a sudden? Who the f-ck are you?"

"I'm me, I'm Rena! I just listened to my other self the other day, that's all," Rena answered with a pout and stared at Add.

Add sighed, showing one of Lu's contents on her social media. It was yesterday, when Lu recorded Rena and Chung on the second floor and said it was two wolves mating. Rena was patting Chung's head and hugging him. While Chung clearly showed happiness with his wagging tail, Rena's tail behaved differently. Add finally stopped the video and glared at Rena. "I don't know much about wolves, but you weren't actually enjoying it unlike Chung. Why did you act that way if you weren't happy with it?"

Rena forced herself to laugh. "All Adds are the same, huh? They're keen at stuff like this," she mumbled as she got up from her seat and spun. A light was blinding her, and suddenly, it showed a completely different person, but it's still Rena. Her hair was long and wavy without her usual braid. She wore a hat and the bow on her hand resembled a harp. "Greetings, everyone. My name is Rena, also known as Prophetess. I got here… somehow. Not sure where the rest of my friends are," she introduced herself once again with a more natural smile.

Special thanks to Astry for the idea~!

Ideas are always accepted. Thanks for reading!