"Belligerent ", Marcus mused. Iris responded with "Tranquil". The five played various travel games to pass the time. As Filia was thinking she suddenly go pulled away at high speeds, "Amary? Would you mind explaining?" Amary just kept saying "No no no no no..." She suddenly stopped and surrounded them in a stone dome with a slit in it to see. "Goblins. Those little creeps came here."
'I guess every fantasy world has creepy goblins.' "So, Amary, why did we run and not kill them?" Amary looked bewildered, "I don't want to be near those things." After a couple minutes of Marcus and Iris killing them, a dozen new bodies covered in blood were on the ground. Amary collapsed the dome and they walked back. The two boys looked annoyed, "Why did you leave?! You could have helped us fight. You could both kill them in a single shot if you wanted."
"Every girl knows not to face a goblin." Amary explained. This answer clearly did not suffice for Iris, "Fine then, you face the next enemy group." Iris then continued walking with a smile of annoyance.
"Slime did you finish the skill analyses?" "Yeah, all 312 of them. How do you even discover that many? Most of them you just discovered by trying out everything you could think of. At least being a nerd helps you." Filia was a learning fanatic and would read any book she could get her hands on, and tried to get various artisans to teach her, but sadly most refused to teach her because she was to 'delicate'. They ended up stuck in holes, doused in water, or any other annoying thing she could think of.
Several minutes later a group of five vicious-looking wolves appeared. They stood nearly two meters long each. Amary flicked her hand in the direction of the wolves. Rocky spikes appeared from the ground and took out two of them and wounded another. Filia followed suit and snapped her fingers three times towards each wolf. After each flick a wolf flew back several meters.
They walked back to the group and Marcus sighed, "Great, what new monstrous spell did you create this time?" Filia shrugged, "I just improved the basic [Air Punch]. The spell is just pushing air forward with a large force." Iris looked near furious, "How overpowered is your new class?!?! Even a normal person with that class could be monstrous! In your hands you will overshadow the royal knights in a few years, at most!" He seemed more worried about the royal knights than Filia.
"It's not like it's my fault I'm so strong... oh, wait." Filia just realized that it kind of was her fault she became like this. Amary looked at her with pity, "You just now realized that? I'm sorry you weren't born with common sense." Filia felt betrayed, "I'm sorry okay! What's with those looks of pity?" They looked at her like one would look at a dying man.
While Filia was complaining, Slime shot a laser right past Iris's head. A sixth wolf tried to kill Iris. Iris fell to the ground and stared at the wolf, which had a coin sized hole in its head. "That was way to close, you almost killed me, Slime!"
"But it didn't. I was 84% sure it would be fine. At worst you would be missing an ear." Iris was almost crying and Filia walked up to him with the same smile they gave her. "Filia, wait, this isn't the same!" He complained as she crouched down and patted his shoulder. Teenagers could be quite petty.
Night came and they started setting up. "Hey, Slime can we have our tents now?" Slime shot out two tents, Marcus and Amary shared a tent. Filia was still missing her tent. "Wait, what about my tent?" "Oh, that, now that you forcefully put me into this body I need a tent too, so I took yours. Share one with your fiance. Marcus and Amary share one." Iris and Filia blushed. "What, no! They can barely hold hands in public. They are the very definition of cinnamon buns." Slime just jiggled in a shrug-like manner, "The two of you will be fine, just put up like a pillow wall or something. The tents are large enough that even four people could fit, albeit not very well."
After several minutes of arguing Iris stopped her, "It's fine, it's getting pretty dark." Inside the tent Iris put up a wall of pillows and plushies, all of them were tiny kittens, puppies, or any other cute thing.
"I like them, okay? There is nothing wrong with a man liking cute things." Filia nodded, "I agree, the most masculine thing is being comfortable with yourself, so stop blushing."
She grabbed a fluffy tabby kitty plush, "Ah, careful with Vinnie!" Filia grinned and held up several more, "Who are these?" Iris pointed at each one, "Ghost, Cedar, Delphi, Marble, Tim, Sage, Mace, Seraph and Kaiser."
Filia was flabbergasted, "How did you even come up with those names?" Iris stared back blankly, "painfully." Filia lied down and chuckled, "Okay edgelord. Let's go to sleep." Iris turned out the light and wondered what an 'edgelord' was.
Meanwhile Slime was scheming. "Yes yes, that should do it. There. I'll put my plan in motion tomorrow. Hahaha...*evil cackle intensifies*. " He stared of a few bottles of a mysterious solution. He needed the tent to prepare his plan.
The next morning they were walking through the forest again. Slime squiggled up to Filia and Iris. "I need the two of you to help me with something. The pact made is incomplete and I need your help." He had them stand side by side holding hands. Then, he splashed them with his concoction. "What the, what is this?" Filia shouted. "Don't worry, it's just magical glue. I'm bored and want to see more romance., so now you have to be sick together for 24 hours. Good luck." Filia and Iris looked at each other and both said "ball" and nodded.
They ran in unison and simultaneously kicked him. He flew several meters before hitting a tree. Iris grumbled, "Like that would work. We have fought each other in duels since we were children. Holding hands won't do much, come up with a better plan." They continued on their journey without waiting for Slime to recover.
A slime appeared and Iris went to charge forward and Filia went to fire a spell, causing them to both fall. "Iris, why did you run forward?" "Why did you pull backwards?" "I hate this. I want to get exp from a different slime." She stared at Slime who hid from her behind a tree.