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Chapter 4. The skills of professional scrubbers are quite exquisite

Bathing was originally just a way to cleanse the body.But I don't know when to start to transform this simple 'cleaning process' into an 'enjoyment process'.

Mr. Shangjou doesn't have a lot of historical knowledge, so he knows that people in ancient Rome liked to take a bath.

But Kamijou, who always thought that taking a bath in the bathtub at home, was already the pinnacle of bathing, and then came to the bathroom in the 23 school district... No, to be precise, this entire building is a large bathhouse.Each floor is filled with various special bathhouses containing special medicinal effects, electricity, or ultrasound, and the rest of the space is filled with facilities such as shopping centers, amusement centers, or bowling alleys.Rather than saying that this is a traditional 'bathhouse', it is more like a play facility in the form of a bathhouse.

He just knew.

It turns out that bathing can also play so many tricks!

Taking a bath while driving, ah, refers to playing a real simulation racing car while being surrounded by a 360-degree ion bath, which simulates driving a convertible car in the heavy rain.

It feels like surfing, but it's a hydromassage pool.

It looks like an ordinary bath, but the bottom of the pool is actually a special material, and it is a bath that can relax the whole body through foot massage.

To bathe upside down in the bathtub.

It looks like the tub of a front-loading washing machine.

There are also many descriptions that say high technology, but it looks like a bath for torture rather than bathing.

While Kamijou was dazzled, he also kept his distance.After all, most of those strangely shaped facilities are marked with the words 'experimental'.

It's better to follow Guategawa and Walter honestly.

then.

I came to the retro-style baths that they both highly recommend.

There is a sign next to it, with a few big characters written on it.

'Master's shower room - a professional team with more than 20 years'.

Passing through the gate, you can vaguely see that there are muscular men everywhere, and they make quite philosophical sounds under the 'ravage' of the scrub master who is also a muscular man.

"Well, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah————"

The apparently small bath door now seemed like a huge black hole, spinning to devour everything.

Sorry, goodbye!

Kamijou grinned and was about to run.

However, the shoulders had already been clasped tightly by the other two muscular men.

"Wait, where are you going?"

Because shortly after entering the door, men and women were completely separated, so the men in this half of the building only wore an apron on their lower body.

Therefore, Guategawa and Walter beside them are also half-naked now.

These two guys, who didn't look muscular on the surface, but were quite philosophical when they took off their clothes, pinched Kamijou's shoulders from left to right.

"I, just, look at the racing pool over there, it's interesting, so I'm going to check it out (gritting my teeth hard)."

"It's okay, if you want to drive, I can stay with you for as long as you want."

While preventing Kamijou from leaving with a grip that almost swollen Kamijou's left shoulder, Furutegawa showed a very ferocious smile.

"But now, how about we go experience it together?"

"Well, you guys go..."

"Of course we will go together!"

Holding Kamijou's right shoulder with almost the same strength as Furutegawa, Walter Joyce also changed his usual style of painting, and pushed the non-existent glasses on his face seriously.

"In life, you have to try everything, Mr. Guataro."

"But this kind of attempt, I'd better forget it. Everyone's pursuit is different, so, you guys, can you let go?"

"What if you run away? It's no fun!" ×2

"Sure enough, you are just trying to trick me!!"

Kamijou struggled hard, thanking the first possessor for his relationship.Now Kamijou's figure has grown to the point where his abs can be clearly seen as long as he squeezes hard.

In other words, he is quite confident in his own strength.

but! !

The two next to me are 'beasts'.

"Let go of me! I want to go back! I want to go back to study!"

"This is also learning, Mr. Guataro."

"You just want to see me make a fool of myself!"

"Eh? Look at you making a fool of yourself! What are you kidding, are you looking down on me!?"

Furutegawa suddenly transformed into the tone of a bully in school, with a ferocious face, twisted his face and shouted at Kamijou.

"We went in with you. We will experience the cruelty you suffered together. Do you look down on me and Walter who are with you? Eh!?"

"No, but..."

"No, it's because yours is too short, so you don't dare to leak it?"

"..."

Crack!The sound of a certain nerve breaking came from Kamijou's brain.

However, Furutegawa is still outputting as if he doesn't think it's a big deal.

"Okay, I get it. I have a physical defect, so there's nothing I can do...I'll tell other people about this, otherwise it's easy to hit your sore spots."

quack!

"That, I'm sorry. Guataro-sensei, I don't know about it either. Next time, I'll make a statement in the manga, and say that Guataro-sensei has a physical defect..."

boom! ! !

"Damn it!!! Go and see who is bigger!!!"

It was as if a cannonball was stuffed into the brain and then exploded.

Kamijou, who can be insulted by others, but can't bear others to insult his body, took the first step towards a new world in order to prove himself.

then.

"Ah, no, there! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!"

The hog-like screams in the bathtub made Kamijou's hairs stand on end.

"I'm back!!"

"late!!"

Surrounded by two men, Kamijou disappeared into the bathroom vestibule.

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People who often run, especially long-distance runners, should have experienced a kind of "running excitement".Under normal circumstances, after half an hour of aerobic jogging, that is, two to four kilometers, the body will usher in a feeling of 'excitement'.

Some people say that this is the thrill after breaking through the limit, while others say it is the hypnotic effect of the brain.

But the reality is a combination of the two.

After breaking through a certain limit of the body, the human body will automatically secrete dopamine and endomorphine.This is a natural analgesic and stimulant automatically secreted by the human body, so it is harmless to the human body.

But this kind of pleasure is addictive.

And people will enjoy bathing, in fact, it is the same reason.

After the skin is exposed to high-temperature hot water or low-temperature cold water, the nerves will release pain signals and endomorphine will also be secreted.

So, in essence, the so-called enjoyment.

If we only pursue pure physical phenomena, perhaps the inner fulfillment is nothing more than pure electronic signals and chemical reactions.

But for Kamijou now.

This reaction is really addictive.

Well, Mr. Kamijou, who was still very resistant at first, is now drifting with the flow.

Chapter 5, the emergence of artificial abilities, and the past of anti-entropy

There have been many different abilities in human history.Magicians learned magic from myths, spiritual power masters mastered the magic of the soul when they realized the soul, mysterious practitioners in the East learned from nature and became invincible, and there are countless different types of people who use supernatural power.

These powers are either short-lived, or merged by other capable systems, or have already become legends and history.

But it was not until modern times, that is, when the Ability Person Administration officially appeared in the field of vision of mankind in 1910, that the concept of artificial ability person, which has influenced the supernatural world all over the world, was proposed by a man named Edward Alexander.

However, it has been nearly 50 years since the artificial ability user reappeared and was recognized by the ability person administration.

In other words, Kamijou traveled to this world 15 years ago.

What happened in the middle, no one knows.It is not known how many unknown skilled workers there were during this period.

But what is certain is that this man has changed the situation of the Ability User Administration, where the magic side is stronger than the science side.And using the power of artificial abilities, he divided the world into two without authorization.

Yes, the emergence of artificial abilities has directly affected technology.In particular, the explosive growth of practice technology.

Theory, data, tools.

The gap between the former two Academy City and Anti-Entropy is not particularly large, but in terms of tools.Even if Anti-Entropy tries its best, it can't catch up with Academy City's speed of turning theory into reality like a hacker with artificial abilities.

Just give a little example.

For example, the biggest problem encountered by controllable nuclear fusion is not a theoretical problem.Even this theory was put forward by Australian scientists decades ago, when the Ability Personnel Administration was established.

But the real realization of small-scale ignition and large-scale popularization was first completed by Academy City.

The reason is that when controlled nuclear fusion occurs, unimaginably high temperatures will be generated.Any metal material will be melted at a high temperature equivalent to that of the sun.

The tokamak device (magnetic confinement) proposed later, although it can be completed in theory, has always been difficult to produce due to various reasons.

Until Academy City appeared superpowers who could condense the heat generated by atomic fission energy.

This problem can be solved.

There is a big gap between theory and reality, and the emergence of artificially capable people has smoothed out this gap.

Therefore, Academy City will become the place with the highest level of science and technology in the world.

Of course, some people may ask, why not solve this problem in a magical way?Right, what kind of miracles will be born when magical magic and science are combined, just look at the power of the current ability user management bureau.

But why not?

This is a historical question.The resource conflict, the confrontation between the science side and the magic side, the world view conflict that is difficult to mediate between magicians and scientists... many reasons that even the Ability Personnel Administration cannot solve have led to this result.

Of course, the biggest reason is that the strength of the scientific side is generally relatively weak.

Even an organization like Anti-Entropy with Valkyrie troops can't play a decisive role.

Then, it is still an artificial ability user.Because of the appearance of an individual, it proves the value of the artificial abilities on the scientific side, and the value of the apex of artificial abilities.

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It can be said that it is worthy of Academy City.

Even in the more 'traditional' artificial baths, Kamijou could feel the strong smell of 'assembly line' after going through the 'baptism'.

Of course, the so-called assembly line is to separate the processing procedure of a product and have different people work at the same time.

Turkish bath, then manual massage, and finally entering the bath... the general process is like this, but in fact there are dozens of procedures during this period.

And Kamijou finally knew what happened to the person who screamed before.

In fact, it is just a super vigorous body massage. The tight muscles and tired nerves are squeezed and stimulated, and at the same time they are relieved.Also released a lot of pain.

To be honest, if Kamijou hadn't gotten used to the pain (crazy fracture and hospital admission), he might have screamed like a pig now.

Now, the three of them wrapped their scarves in the big bath for the last bath.

The decoration of the bathhouse is similar to that of a typical public bathhouse, divided into three baths according to the water temperature.The wall is not a huge mural made of paint, but a huge screen formed by chromogenic magnetic particles.

At the beginning, the advertising copy said that this is an epoch-making screen that can directly change the color of particles and express colors without using light, but because the price is too high and for ordinary people, there is no problem with the screens used in the past. Only some artists or movie theaters will buy it, which can be regarded as a tragic commodity.