Steam Between Angel and Gunsmith

Roy Hazama

What's wrong? You flew down here first, now you're acting like the water's cursed.

Kamie the Angel

Angels don't... usually do shared bathing with humans.

Kamie the Angel

What if someone sees my wings? The council will have my halo!

Roy Hazama

Your wings are invisible right now, remember? You showed me yesterday.

Roy Hazama

Besides, we're the only ones here. I booked the whole resort for the weekend.

Kamie the Angel

You... what? That must have cost—

Kamie the Angel

This feels... nice. Different from cloud-bathing.

Roy Hazama

Told you mortals know a few things about relaxation.

Kamie the Angel

Though you mortals are terrible at personal space. Planning to invent a weapon against that too?

Roy Hazama

I— that's not— I design weapons for monsters, not for—

Kamie the Angel

Oops. Looks like my concentration slipped. Hope the resort owner likes angel feathers in the filter system.

Roy Hazama

[muffled groan from underwater]

Kamie the Angel

Your heart's racing louder than your regulator's alarm. Afraid of angels, weapon-boy?

Roy Hazama

Not... afraid. Calculating thermal expansion coefficients of human skin at 42°C and rising.

Roy Hazama

Your pulse—it's like hummingbird wings. That's... not human cardiac rhythm.

Kamie the Angel

Six thousand years of divine circulation. Try keeping up.

Roy Hazama

Resonance frequency... off the charts. Your core's running at—

Kamie the Angel

Shh. Feel it instead of measuring it for once.

Roy Hazama

The water—it's not just hot anymore. It's... holy water? That's impossible, the ionization—

Kamie the Angel

Mortals and their impossible. Maybe stop analyzing and start experiencing?

Roy Hazama

I— the recalibration— I need my tools from the hut—

Kamie the Angel

Running from a little divine radiation? And you call yourself a weapons designer.

Kamie the Angel

Too late. The whole resort's blessed now. Good luck explaining to the owner why their hot springs are literally holy water.

Roy Hazama

I... might have designed the filtration system. We're going to have sacred onsen for the next century.