# [My Home Tower] 37th Floor - "Sparkling Water Hot Spring"
"Wooooooo!!! Where the heck is the elf noona?!!!"
In the previously quiet mixed bath, the excited roar of a 29-year-old muscular climber echoed throughout!
His name was Kang Muscle, class [Berserker].
Just a few days ago, he had challenged the 2nd floor trial, got blown up by a Bomb Rabbit, died, and was resurrected!
Usually showing off his wild charm with exposed abs, surprisingly...
He was still a virgin who had never even held a girl's hand!
Moreover, if he maintained this state until he turned 30, he could supposedly change to the legendary special class [Sage]!
The problem was that he was already on the warrior path! The [Sage] class requirements were completely useless to him!
For someone desperate to graduate from virginity, achieving the [Sage] class requirements felt like God mocking him, suggesting he'd never date a woman in his life!
Living such a painful(?) life, Kang Muscle recalled a conversation he'd overheard at a soup restaurant.
"Was it around 6 PM yesterday? When I entered the mixed bath on the 37th floor of My Home Tower, there was this absolutely beautiful elf noona... kyah..."
Believing this incredible premium information, Kang Muscle rushed to the mixed bath at exactly 6 PM today!
He entered the mixed bath with a thread of hope that while he'd failed with human relationships, things might work out with an elf noona from another world—!
"Elf... not here...?"
Inside the mixed bath... there wasn't just no voluptuous elf noona... there wasn't even a shadow of a person!
The bath was so empty that if someone saw it, they might think he had rented the entire place!
"Ugh... did I come too early...?"
Kang Muscle was greatly disappointed, but it was too early to give up.
The current time was 6 PM... there was no guarantee that elves always bathed at 6 PM, right?
So he decided to relax and enjoy the hot spring while waiting.
"Ahh... this hot spring is really nice..."
Though his purpose was slightly off track, the quality of the hot spring was definitely premium.
Just soaking his body for a bit, and already skin troubles and dead skin were gradually disappearing.
"My skin is already this clean... at this rate, I might be able to charm an elf noona...!"
As expected of a hot spring inside the tower, it had amazing effects.
Just then—
Splash...
Splash...
The entrance on the other side opened, and footsteps could be heard.
"...!"
No doubt about it.
That sound was coming from the women's entrance!
A woman had just entered this mixed bath—!!!
"Ohhh...!! She's here... she's really here!!"
Climber Kang Muscle trembled with tremendous excitement!
Honestly, it didn't matter if she wasn't an elf! Whether beast-kin or demon-kin, it didn't matter!!
As long as she was female!!!
Please!!! Anyone would do!!!
And so, after a brief wait that felt like an eternity, what appeared was—
An overwhelmingly large chest!!!
"Ohhh-!!!"
Smooth and firm skin!
"Ohh...uh..."
But, the skin color was... green...?
"...Huh?"
Something was off.
A height of at least 2.5 meters.
A muscular, angular figure.
Deep green skin.
Two massive tusks protruding above the jaw, hiding what would otherwise be a fairly handsome face!
She was... a female orc!!!
Her eyes met with Kang Muscle's.
In that moment, along with a feeling like electricity zapping through him... a chill ran down his spine.
She scanned Kang Muscle's fully exposed body up and down, then...
"Oh my, oppa, you're totally my type♥"
"—AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Inside the mixed bath,
A man's desperate scream echoed.
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# [My Home Tower] 80th Floor - "Subspace Warehouse"
Tricia finished working with Ju Ji-ye on enchanting and labeling over 200,000 bottles of holy water.
"Phew! This should be enough for a while, right? Good job!"
Tricia turned her head to look at Ji-ye with a bright smile.
But Ji-ye had already collapsed in her chair, bleached white like ashes that had burned everything away.
"Completely... burned out..."
Looking at Ji-ye with an apologetic expression, Tricia approached and...
"Want me to cast another buff?"
"Ack!! No! Don't! Please don't!!!"
"What? You seem fine to me."
Ji-ye, who works hard when needed but normally puts on a show of being exhausted.
Of course, Tricia knew exactly how to handle her.
"Anyway, we're done, right? Then I'm going home!!!"
With those words, Ji-ye dashed to the warp point and immediately transported to the 52nd floor.
Letting out a small sigh, Tricia muttered to herself.
"Phew... Today was busier than usual. Maybe I should soak in a hot spring for a change?"
Normally she would just wash up in her private bath on the 100th floor, but today she felt like soaking in the warm sparkling water hot spring.
While her body always maintained peak condition, her mind was getting tired like anyone else's.
Managing the tower, handling Tower Coin supply, dealing with government tax responses, and solving countless other problems that kept pouring in... she'd been having hectic days lately.
It was only natural that she would feel tired.
"Alright, off to the hot spring!"
Tricia immediately warped to the 37th floor, received bathing supplies from the counter, and entered the bath.
《 Mixed Bath 》
"Come to think of it, I wonder if there are any male climbers in the mixed bath right now? It would be fun to meet some~"
As usual, Tricia entered while making frivolous comments.
An outdoor hot spring with bubbling carbonated water came into view.
Although the space had greatly expanded after her home was classified as a tower, the hot spring facility itself remained exactly as Tricia remembered.
"But why is nobody here?"
Normally, various races like elves, beast-kin, dwarves, and demon-kin would be enjoying their baths, but today there was no one.
"Well, lately there have been climbers who stay in the mixed bath all day hoping to bathe with elves..."
So perhaps the residents were avoiding the mixed bath for now and only using the men's and women's baths.
Once all the women moved to the women's bath, the men had no reason to use the mixed bath either, so they went to the men's bath.
Thanks to this, Tricia could enjoy a quiet hot spring bath and entered a private tub with a good view.
"Ah, this feels nice..."
Carbonated water at just the right temperature—neither too hot nor too cold—enveloped her body.
After a few minutes, the water in the tub began to change into holy water, emitting a soft glow.
Tricia's tub was instantly filled with carbonated holy water.
"Ahh... even my soul feels healed..."
The effects of the carbonated hot spring water combined with the holy water greatly increased the whitening effect, making Tricia's skin so fair it seemed to glow.
After enjoying about 15 pleasant minutes of bathing, just as she was about to move to the cold bath—
*Slam!*
The door of the "Multi-purpose Rest Room" installed in the corner of the mixed bath opened, and someone appeared.
"Huff, huff...! Now's my only chance...! I have to escape...!!"
A naked male climber crawling on all fours!
"Oh, a climber?"
When Tricia looked down at him with an interested expression, the climber suddenly froze.
"...A, a woman?"
Climber Kang Muscle doubted his ears for a moment.
A heavenly voice like that of a goddess descended from the sky.
A feeling as if sacred energy was emanating from around her.
Kang Muscle gulped with great anticipation and slowly raised his head.
Before his eyes stood— a pure white angel wearing nothing.
"...?"
But soon, his expression subtly hardened.
Why was that?
Because she wasn't the voluptuous elf noona he'd been hoping for? No, that wasn't it.
Because he actually preferred a different type? That was even less likely.
Tricia smiled and said:
"Sorry if you were expecting a woman."
"...???"
Here comes the shocking truth...!
Tricia was actually... genderless.
Though outwardly female and referred to as such for convenience, she actually had no gender!
He stared at Tricia for a long time... then slowly opened his mouth.
"Um... uh... Angel? Are you... not a woman... not a man..."
Having not carefully read the tower's advertisements, Kang Muscle didn't know that Tricia was this tower's administrator.
On top of that, he couldn't figure out Tricia's gender at all!
"As you can see, I'm genderless."
Tricia proudly revealed her genderless nature while looking at the climber.
From Tricia's perspective, it didn't matter if people knew she was genderless, and even if this ordinary climber went around claiming it, without clear evidence, such rumors would quickly be buried.
"G-genderless...?"
Shocked by the word "genderless," the climber was trembling.
Wondering if something was wrong with his body, Tricia was about to offer some healing when—
*Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!*
*Grab!*
"Darling~♥ Where do you think you're running off to~?"
"HUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!"
A giant female orc appeared, lifted him up, and disappeared with him into the rest room!
"HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!"
As Kang Muscle was being dragged away by the female orc, he reached out to Tricia with a loud cry, but...
Tricia just waved lightly and said:
"...Have a good love life!"
Ah, love is such a wonderful thing.
