Bath House

Bath House (セントウ, Sentou) is the eighty first chapter of the Nisekoi manga series written and illustrated by Naoshi Komi, published weekly in the magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump.

Summary
Raku heads to a bath house because his bath broke down. Chitoge coincidentally comes to the same bathhouse, as she has been interested in bath houses for a while. Raku and Chitoge go to separate bathing areas, but Chitoge calls over the wall to him and asks him for soap.

Around that same time, Marika and Honda show up at the bath house. When Marika recognizes Raku's voice, she scales the dividing wall between the bathing areas to say hello to Raku but is stopped when Chitoge climbs the wall to pull Marika back.

Raku hurries and leaves the bath, but as he leaves the washing area, Kosaki and Haru enter the girl's bathing area. The owner of the bathhouse asks Raku to watch the place while she runs errands. While watching over the place, two older women come and ask Raku to fix a faucet in the women's bath area. Meanwhile, Chitoge and Marika are both in the sauna, but refuse to leave before the other leaves.

To avoid seeing Chitoge and Marika naked, Raku blindfolds himself with a towel. The two older women give him directions to the faucet, however, he ends up walking right toward Kosaki and pinning her against the wall. As he is about to touch her chest, Haru flies in and kicks Raku. As Haru scolds Raku, he recognizes her voice and takes off his blindfold, at the same time, the faucet bursts and causes Haru's towel to partially fall off. Raku sprints out of the bathing area while Haru throws things at him.

After arriving back in the reception area, the older woman tells Raku that he has to help two girls who are passed out in the sauna. Raku finds Marika and Chitoge passed out, and attempts to help Chitoge out of the sauna. However, her towel starts to fall off as he carries her. Raku attempts to close her towel, but slips and falls. As the owner comes back, she finds Raku being cared for by Kosaki and Haru, and Honda carrying Marika out of the shop. Just then, Tsugumi and Paula enter the shop.

Character Revelations

 * Raku is implied to be a long-time customer of the bathhouse, although he has not come recently.

Trivia

 * A color page at the beginning announces that the Nisekoi anime will be produced by Shaft, and advertises for the short Nisekoimonogatari.
 * This chapter was adapted into an OVA for Bathhouse/Service.