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“Beth-chan, today’s bath was wonderful too. Thank you so much. But saying you want to enter the outdoor bath where the injured turtle you met in the forest was soaking, how amusing.”

Miria, who had become completely friendly with Beth, had predictably become captivated by Beth’s baths, and often came to visit like this to take one.

Of course, Beth’s baths had been very good for her neuralgia, but it also felt as though all the painful feelings and worries she had carried for many years dissolved into the hot water, and her heart and body came back to life.