The next morning, after having breakfast, we gathered in my room to discuss our next actions.
"I have completed my purpose in coming here. What about you girls?"
"Then let's go back to Melk tomorrow by foot. We can gain experience traveling on our own rather than taking a carriage."
"Although it may take longer, we can grow stronger by doing it."
"I guess this is the last day we're here. Then do whatever you want while you're still here. I'll say goodbye to Hill."
We will return tomorrow so I thought of telling Hill first. He's the only friend I made here so he need to know. Although we only met once.
I asked the guards patrolling and it seems like Hill overlooking the guards' training. So I went to his location.
As I reach the location, I was greeted by an amazing view. Bunch of muscular men are going shirtless and showing off their muscles.
"Hey, bro. Look at this biceps. How is it?"
"Amazing, bro. How about my chest muscle?"
"Good, bro."
Then someone come and talked to the two.
"Hey, hey! Look at my back, bro. Perfect, isn't it?"
"Nice, bro. But mine is better."
The view here… is men seeing other half naked men and touching each other bodies.
I thought that they were doing it to get further away from Hill, but in the end, they got closer instead.
I have to get to Hill quickly before the view poisoning my mind.
I saw Hill and his assistant sitting at the corner, pretending to read a book when he's actually checking on his men.
"Hill! Enjoy the view? Where's my gratitude?"
Hill looked at me with a joyous expression and run to me.
"Roy! My bestest friend! This is the greatest gift I've ever received! I will forever be your friend!"
"Glad to hear that. So? How did they ended up touching each other's muscles?"
"Well, one day a man suddenly show the result of your training set. He actually did more than it should be, but he's fine. That's when the others check on his body. And then… everyone become 'Hey, bro', 'nice muscle, bro', 'can I check it, bro'."
"I guess the training paid-off."
"Oh! And thanks to this, the numbers of newbies are risen!"
"Glad for you to make new friends with similar taste…"
"Some of them are women!"
They could be Victoria's friends…
"Anyway, I'm here to say I'm leaving. I am going to return to Melk tomorrow."
"Why so soon!? This is only our second encounter!"
"My business here is done so I'm going back home. Maybe in the future I'll come back here."
"Promise me, okay!"
I ignored him and gave him a notebook.
"What's this?"
"It's a new training sets. In case they want a body for battle instead of one for show like those guys."
I pointed at the men who's showing off their muscle.
"I can't accept this!"
He said as he rip the book into pieces. Where did that strength come?
"I have received a lot from you I can't accept this!"
"No, you already rip the book off."
"That type of knowledge should only belong to you!"
"You just want their body to stay like that, right?"
"It's sad that you have to leave. And I can't see you off. Goodbye my friend. I hope fate lets us meet again!"
He pushed my back and I was forced to leave. Did he really hate the book that much?
"Boys! My friend, the one who gave you the sacred knowledge of perfect body will be leaving! This will be our last meeting!"
Didn't I just say that we might meet again? Oh, wait! I see! So he's pretty smart.
I thought that way when I heard some men actually speaking in low voice.
"Look! Captain is pushing him away! He really hate muscle!"
"That's right! He even say that he won't meet again."
"Then we have to gain more muscle so we won't be his type!"
That's wrong, dude. Instead you become his type more and more.
Hill actually pushing my back just so he can show these guys that he pretend to hate my type. Instead it increase their morale and they will train harder.
Good one, Hill. Good one.
When I left the place, I met Angela and Kayla. Seems like she just said farewell to the receptionist and other hunters. After the event where Kayla kicked the thugs' in the crotch, both of them somehow get closer to other female hunters. While the men were crouching when they saw Kayla.
"Roy. Can we borrow Victoria? For the last day here, we want to make some memories and have girls talk."
Girls' talk? With Victoria? Now that she mention it, I often forgot that she was a human. And now she also can stay in human form for about one hour. This might be her first time in a really long time that she can play with other girls.
"Okay. Just don't let her corrupt you."
"Alright. Victoria, we will go to a restaurant. When we get close, we will find an empty area for you to transform into human. Just wait until we get there."
Angela hugged the slime and tell her to wait until they reach an empty area so she can transform. With that, she can stay longer in the restaurant.
And then we separate again. They went to the restaurant and I… there's nowhere else for me to go. I guess I'll just train in the forest or something.
...….
In the restaurant after Victoria transformed.
"Hmm… this is delicious! First real meal I've eaten in years!" said Victoria.
"I thought you don't need meal to survive."
"Yeah. I've never seen you eat once whenever we're together."
Angela and Kayla asked.
"I don't need to eat since black slimes are immortal, but I want to because I enjoy it. I thought I will never enjoy something like eating again. To be contracted to Roy is lucky!"
They were chatting inside the restaurant when some men approach them.
"Hey, girls! Wanna come with us?" One of them shamelessly flirted with the girls and sit at the empty seat.
"You want to kill your future and your present?" Kayla intimidate the guys.
"What are you talking about?"
Then one of the men whisper something to the guy who just spoke.
"Boss, they are the nutcrackers. The ones who kicked the boys from the Claw and put them into prison. Although the man who put the Claw in prison is not here, the two girls is the nutcrackers."
Nutcrackers is the nickname given by the male hunters to Kayla and Angela. It was from the day they kicked the thugs in the nut.
Then in fear, the flirting guy asked his subordinate.
"You mean she might kick me in the nut and I might be arrested and get my ass… stabbed?"
"Boss, let's run away before we provoke them any further."
The flirting guy suddenly stood up.
"Ah! Aaaah! The seat is extremely comfortable that I unconsciously sat there. Well, if I'm bothering you girls, then I'll take my leave."
And he run away.
"I guess you two become a celebrity in this city," said Victoria.
"It's great that no one is bothering us anymore. I hope it's the same in Melk. But the hunters over there is more gentlemanly than here. Except for the guys who tried to assault me."
They have finished their meals, but they still haven't left the restaurant yet. Instead they are having girls' talk.
"Hey, you girls plan to have boyfriends?" asked Victoria.
"Why ask?"
"I'm worried about you. The only man you're hanging out with is Roy after all."
"What's wrong with it?"
"Just an advice from your elder. If you plan to have boyfriend, and he's not Roy, you should leave Roy right away."
"Why?"
"Because if you meet other man someday, you will end up comparing that man with Roy."
"I see. Roy is a weird one after all. But I don't have any plan at all to have boyfriend after all. So I guess I can stay with him longer. What about you, Kayla?"
"I'm fine with having Roy as my boyfriend."
"What?!"
"I mean even if I meet another man one day, I don't think that he will be able to be compared with Roy. And I can trust Roy with my live."
"Are you serious?"
"He's someone who know the future. But instead of using all that knowledge to make him rich, or using it to do evil, he instead choose to fight evil. He might tell a lie or keep a secret, but in the end, he's just a good guy. Although he may end up with a harem because of how he live with a lot of girls in a brothel, I don't mind not being his number one."
"I see. What about you Angela?"
"Huh? Me? I never thought about it. He's a good guy, that's for sure. And he might be incomparable with any men out there. But I never thought of having a boyfriend at all."
"Well, we can take things slowly. With Sophie and other girls in the brothel get close to him, it's just a matter of time until he get himself a girlfriend. That's why I'm curious about your choice."
Then Kayla realized something.
"Wait! He's from the future, right? Then, did he has a girlfriend in his previous live?"
"I don't know. He never talk much about his previous life."
"Let's ask him later. We might also learn something about him."
And the girls' talk continued with them talking about Roy.