>>6338304Before leaving, he turns around and faces the cigarette man. "That wasn't a *party trick* by the way," he sneers, having adopted a slightly more normal tone of voice, "that was at *least* a three-level subspace. But I didn't have time to... prepare."
The man did not dignify this with a response, but only with a hand motion as if to say, "run off to daddy now."
Only now do you realize that the lanky wizard is sporting a pair of small, black wings on his back. What the hell, a celestian? And a wizard? Here? In this bath house?
You crawl out of the drained pool and look around the bath. It doesn't seem to have been damaged, despite the man's acrobatics. But some kind of dispute is brewing outside.
"Shaaaah!" The man lets out some kind of elated elocution and allows himself to fall ass-backwards into the bath, a kind of move that you're pretty sure is not allowed in bath houses. "Well, nice job! Now the place is ours for the rest of the month. Well, uhhh technically I won it for my Guild, but you obviously count as a guest."
His devil-may-care attitude is almost infuriating. He dragged you into a potentially lethal conflict for... bath house rights?!
>Tell him off>Try to play it cool