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It's time for Vice to clean himself up. Scouting out the bathhouse makes Vice also want to clean his ways. Whatever direction he's going in could be the wrong direction. With morning coming to a close, Vice wants to bring his residence in Magnolia to a close as well. The city life has some flavors, but Vice hasn't met anyone interesting enough yet. Playful and light quests aren't making Vice feel like he's progressing forward. Practically, Vice doesn't feel ready to do any world-shattering bouts, but he's at least able to operate above his current paygrade. Looking at the bathhouse brings a pleasant scent to Vice. Magic is good for doing some cleaning up, but Vice is looking for an authentic experience, and which doesn't consist of splashing himself with Void Magic. Drugged baths and flavor bombs of happiness is something Vice can withstand today. Bountiful trees greet the perimeter of the bathhouse, while Vice enters with a bounce in his step. As if guided by destiny, Vice brings himself to meet with the owner. IT'S QUEST TIME AGAIN.

Can Vice just get a school vacation arc in this bathhouse? Hargeon already had the swimsuit episodes, but now here Vice is again having to put relaxation with work. The ugly bunny called BELLA MISS is here to greet Vice, but he already knows everything about the quest! There's no surprise, or sense of adventure. Vice stares into a creeping sea of darkness, and this bathhouse owner takes subtle offense. What if, the owner is taking people's bathwater? Sucking up all the joys of this bathhouse gives Vice some energy. All the old people's energy that enter this bathhouse begins to cycle through Vice. There is a sad truth that if people are going to bath, they'd go to single baths like gyms, where it's safer to clean.

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Feeling pretty safe with peepy quest, Vice stills his body, in the lobby with the magical old witch. Appearing younger can be done in a lot of ways, but Vice is so comfortable in his young skin, he doesn't care about the bathhouse lady's whims. Applying preemptive aging cream every morning, Vice sometimes does that though. Vice doesn't know how old the requester really is, but it's best to avoid bringing it up, before the payment is completed. The bathhouse is apparently efficient, which is what Vice expects out of a magical owner. Anyone looking to make trouble is magically cast away. Imagine, someone daring to enter the evil bathwater, where the evil bathmaster drowns them. It's unavoidable that the bathhouse owner has met their match, in a peeper. Getting to the quest, Bella has been getting reports about a suspicious HUMAN figure outside of the bathhouse. What Vice gathers is that maybe non-humans are allowed to spy, but anyway, here in Magnolia there's this human peeper at the women's bath. It'd be fine if people were interested in the voyeur, but sadly business is starting to suffer.

The female owner has an issue with this Peeping Tom too, so, Vice has been called on to deal with the matter fully. Someone strong in general could take care of it, but Bella knowing magic makes her biased toward wizards perhaps. Lots of quests need magical solutions! Vice pities the non-wizards. Peeping at the quest info in his mind, Vice gets the general plot. The Peeping Tom is a boring man with too much free time and lingers around peeking at this bathhouse. Why not peek at books to learn? Maybe the pervert looks at other bathhouses, but Vice just wants this one to be safe. Any socially awkward man looking at this bathhouse will be dealt with. Vice doesn't expect the peeper to have much acrobatic abilities.

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Contesting a beatdown won't be in the cards for Mr. Peeper. Setting things up, Bella has closed the women's bath, and is allowing male wizards to ambush the peeper. While Vice enjoys the scenic smell of bathwater, he's here to focus, and transitions to such! Maybe the peeper shares Vice's interest, to still come with the bath obviously closed. On the outside, of course, nobody knows the bath is closed, and females coming in are staying inside temporarily on Bella's pay. To cut costs, Vice has come as close to evening as possible, and when evening brings the most reported peep cases.

"Nani?" Vice hears a surprised word he's heard in the great unknown. Knowing where this word comes from, Vice approaches the expected guest. Vice looks like he's nudish, but pulls off a black towel to reveal tight-fitting cloth. The guest expected more women, but Vice only has a woman's wig on the head. It's a trap! The hider being behind paintings, with a peephole, brings Vice to a dilemma. Should he ruin the painting even further? No, that wouldn't be nice. A casual scenario where Vice walks up and brings the painting off the wall could be done! The most prepared-for option is that Vice simply gets up, jumps out the window, and now faces the peeper outside. The peeper is more manly than Vice thought, and prepares a fighting stance. Not interested in a battle of the dignities, Vice just jumps inside the guard of this peeper. Swinging a kick up, it becomes a matter of whether magic should be used.

The blast to the peeper's crotch is done, and Vice just opts against magic. Disintegrating a peeper isn't nice for the bathhouse decorations. Why is the Peeper here, when they're so young, and with basic physical training? The beatdown doesn't need questions, and only needs Vice to make this peeper stay still. After depriving the peeper of his flower and HP, Vice waits for the magical owner of the bathhouse. All the rewards come to Vice with the nice requester bursting inside the women's bath. Peeping Tom goes to the authorities, to never be seen by Vice again. Breaking out from jail is a big pain. Excitement wells up in Vice, as Vice is brought back inside for a special bath. All the work to this day will make sense. There was a special treat! Magical herbs or the lady's bath water can improve Vice's mana! Would the requester lie?

Okay, they lied, Vice didn't get anymore mana. With Vice's pool, he's not that much in need of mana from bath water. Making a frown, Vice just walks away from the bathhouse. He's going to give it a bad review on that wizard newspaper, that Vice steals sometimes and poops in. Did the bath even have good water? Vice worries if the authorities that came brought the peeper away. Was everything a lie? It's too late, Vice consoles himself, as peepers are the flowers of life.