Author's Commentary: Let's begin our Free Time Arc!
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The moment they all got batches of Hirara ores, they left the cave and took a long, one and a half days of journey to the Free City of Custom, passing through between Kanra and L'Zille.
Between their journey, they fought several groups of monsters before having Willis, Rance's contracted Level God, increase the levels of the troops Rance has (that also included Kanami).
Surprisingly, the Soldiers have a high level cap of around 36-62 through Rance using the high-level Intel Magic, [Reading Iris] on them. Currently, they're all around Level 35, which was actually good enough. Bridgette was the strongest in terms of potential, though.
Through jogging for hours, and sometimes resting, they arrived at Custom, with most soldiers, except Sill and Rance, becoming tired and exhausted.
"Is this what you vall training?!You're.... *cough* .... just killing us!" Bridgette complained, grabbing her knees
"Ummm.... You'll get used to it soon!" Was Sill's sole response, as if she had been through this.... several times.
Said soldier only groaned in pain, trying not to believe that someone like him could be like this.... she fears what would happen to her fellow soldiers when they eventually get to that type of training/torture.
But, enough of that, their leader gestured them to follow him, so they did.
"Maria! You here?" Rance asked the moment he entered a certain building. Rapid footsteps began to approach his position, and Maria was now there.
"I'm right here! Now tell me, did you gather Hirara Ore like I asked? That would be essential for our secret weapon!" Maria spoke with excitement all around her, smiling.
"A lot of it, in fact.... bring them here!"
With that command, the soldiers entered the building, carrying a lot of Hirara Ores for her.
"There's so many of them! I mean, we could use the rest for the [Tulip 1]s, but aside from that... Thank you, thank you, thank you!!" Maria was giddy and excited, but right now, Rance had something else to do.
"Maria, call me back here a once your secret weapon is ready. I have.... some training to give my soldiers first."
Maria nodded with a serious and determined look, her eyes gaining conviction as her fist had been clenched.
"I understand, and to be honest, I need to check every part that my secret weapon has and give it some adjustments. Fufufufufu~ this is gonna be great.... Tulip No. 3 is almost ready for battle!" She nodded afterwards, before Rance left.
He did spend several days in L'Zille training his soldiers by making them to 20 minutes of stretching before 200 Push-ups, Sit-ups, Squats, and around 15km of laps around L'Zille. In weights.
They were also instructed to do this 1 time a day, for six days, and on Sunday they would rest.
If his soldiers are dehydrated, there's an endless amount of water that he could make. If they are tired, they could choose to rest.
The Leazas Soldiers also included themselves in said training regime with Rance knowing at the third day, though they had a harder time than the Helmanians.
Truly, Helmanians were well-suited for combat.
At the night of the fifth day, Rance was in the room reserved for him, when suddenly, Kanami hopped down from the window outside.
"Shouldn't you be watching for any strange things outside?" Rance asked, expecting her to say no.
Kanami glanced at the floor, before she looked at Rance.
"Yeah." She replied, rubbing her shoulder while deep in thought "Do you remember?"
"What?"
"That time, in almost a year ago."
Rance's mouth formed a grin.
"Ah yeah, maybe..... Between the time I went to rescue Hikari mi Blanc, right? You kept being tied up in humiliating positions by me most times we met, remember?"
Suddenly, Kanami's cheeks flared up in embarrassment and Rance began to laugh.
"Hey! I never liked them, you know!" Kanami shot back, shaking her head sideways. "By the way, what will you do after you rescue Her Highness and Leazas?"
Leaning back, with head resting on his palms, a shorter grin formed on Rance's face.
"I'd have sex with her and Maris." He replied jokingly, "Because I'd take a short rest at Leazas before eventually proceeding further into my adventures. Also, why don't you have a seat.... beside me?"
Kanami did as told, reminding herself that her cheeks are still reddening. She brought this to herself right?
She put her hands on her knees, before she felt a hand on her shoulder that brought her closer to Rance.
"...." Her heartbeat became faster. Yet she could not help but try to relax when with a glance, she noticed Rance's gentle smile directed towards her.
Was this.... love?
"I'm taking your virginity in BDSM fashion."
"..... Huh-?!"
Kanami's virginity was taken, though she also had time getting used to his [Hyper Weapon], and the fact that she switched positions a few times before she admitted that she became in love with him.
The next day, someone from Custom asked Rance to go to Maria.
The time was probably now.
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