"Your sense of touch is more sensitive than mine."
Xia Liang turned her face and looked at her: "Just like a baby's skin is always more tender than an adult's. Perhaps the younger you are, the more obvious this feeling is. So, is it comfortable for and uncomfortable for you?"
"I'm older than you." Lin Xiaolu narrowed her eyes: "Don't think about calling immature in roundabout ways."
"Hmm? Is this considered 'scolding'?"
Xia Liang put on a thoughtful expression, then grinned: "No matter the age, from any angle, I am older than you, right?"
"Huh?"
Lin Xiaolu imdiately sat up straight. She was about to stand up and confront Xia Liang but then rembered she was still bathing and it was not suitable to make big movents, so she had to grudgingly give up.
"I also think this tingling sensation feels weird..."
Just as the two were about to start arguing again, Bai Jingxuan spoke up. Unlike Lin Xiaolu who might feel uncomfortable but still continued soaking in the hot spring, Bai Jingxuan directly stood up with a bath towel wrapped around: "Soaking in the water feels horrible."
"See, Bo Xue also thinks this feeling is really strange."
Seeing this, Lin Xiaolu felt as if she got support and her confidence surged: "Among us, you are clearly the odd one out!"
"There's nothing to argue about. After all, she is still in elentary school, indeed a child."
Xia Liang was non-committal, looking unperturbed: "You're two years older than her. Are you really comparing yourself with her on this?
"Hmm..."
Lin Xiaolu wanted to refute Xia Liang's skewed logic but couldn't find a counterargunt imdiately, so she looked helplessly at Erald Sparrow. Then, she saw Erald Sparrow sitting quietly, tightly wrapped in a bath towel, legs curled next to the edge, eyes closed, silent and still.
"Long Dan?" Lin Xiaolu tentatively asked, suspecting the other was asleep.
"What is it?" Erald Sparrow replied.
"Ah, oh, I saw you with your eyes closed not speaking, I thought you had fallen asleep."
Lin Xiaolu's tone softened, even gently asking: "How do you feel about this hot spring water?"
"What about the issue you guys were arguing over?"
Erald Sparrow still had her eyes closed, her head completely motionless: "From my personal sensory experience, the feeling of Magic Power blending into the skin with the water flow isn't very comfortable, but it's not unbearable."
She paused for a mont, then added: "Also, for you, this tingling sensation could actually be a sign of improved skin quality. If that's sothing you need, feeling numb while soaking might actually be a good thing."
Splash.
Slosh.
As her words concluded, two distinct sounds of entering the water followed, Lin Xiaolu and Bai Jingxuan almost simultaneously subrged their entire bodies into the water, even burying half of their faces.
The hot spring had suddenly beco a lot quieter. The juniors would still speak occasionally, making so noise, but at least there was no more arguing.
Everyone in the bath focused on the tingling sensation from the spring water, ensuring it truly had an effect on themselves. After a while, thinking the tingling sensation had dissipated, Lin Xiaolu finally spoke up again: "Um... Long Dan."
"Hmm?"
"Why have you had your eyes closed since you entered the bath?"
Lin Xiaolu twisted the tips of her hair, trying to squeeze out the water: "Is there so special reason for that?"
Erald Sparrow's shoulders subrged in the water hesitated slightly, fortunately, the spring water and the steam around hid this minute change.
She lifted her head slightly, her expression unchanged as if she was rely organizing her thoughts, then she responded: "It's for sensory compensation."
"What's that?" Lin Xiaolu was puzzled.
"When one loses a certain sense, the brain enhances the other senses to compensate for the loss of information."
Erald Sparrow explained seriously: "So close your eyes, keep quiet, and your vision and hearing will temporarily be disabled. This allows you to focus on bathing, feeling the changes in your body."
"Eh... I didn't know bathing in a hot spring required such considerations."
Lin Xiaolu believed Erald Sparrow's explanation but didn't imdiately try it out, because for her, today's bath was already over and she was not planning to focus further on it: "I learned sothing. As expected, Long Dan, you are impressive."
Erald Sparrow nodded, showing no intention to continue the conversation—having co up with a fairly reliable reason, she certainly didn't want to slip up by talking too much. She couldn't candidly say "because I have to avoid impropriety, I don't want to see your bodies" in her identity as Erald Sparrow, so it was best to quickly move past this topic.
Moreover, she felt soone fiddling with her hair.
Erald Sparrow's hair, being extrely long, was tied up at the back of her head before bathing; now, what she felt was soone tugging at the hair at the back of her head a couple of tis.
"What's up?"
After briefly sensing the direction and strength of her hair being pulled, Erald Sparrow deduced who the person was and directly addressed Xia Liang: "Is there sothing wrong with my hair?"
"Nothing."
Xia Liang didn't deny it, her voice did not have the embarrassnt of being caught in a prank, instead, she comnted with a hint of admiration: "Just wanted to say, Young Predecessor, your hair is really nice. Is this also one of the benefits of becoming a full-fledged Magical Girl?"
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