As the sun began to peak over the horizon, Leo appeared in the clearing without more prey for the first time since they began.
He had started to travel further and further away from the clearing and even he was starting to get mentally exhausted.
When the sisters realized that they were going to get another break, they immediately fell back onto their butts and took deep breathes to relax themselves.
Amber looked at Leo incredulously after gathering her breathe.
"How can you possibly move like that for the entire night and not get tired?! We must have killed thousands of animals!
I'm already level 8 for crying out loud!"
Leo took a seat near the girls too before answering, "It's purely speculation on my part but I think my new physique basically resets my stamina the moment it drops below full?
Other than being mentally exhausted, I could continue this all day it feels like."
Amber looked at him with a lecherous side glance, "Oh? All day you say?"
"Oh? You seem to be doing just fine yourself, does that mean we can continue?"
Ambers little game quickly took a 180 degree turn and she started waving her hands back and forth in front of her, "Please no more! I need to rest!"
"That's what I thought." he said before he looked towards Robin, "And how are you doing Robin, you doing alright?"
"Aside from being covered from head to toe in sweat and being hungrier than I've ever been in my life, I think I'm alright."
Leo just nodded his head in approval and enjoyed the cool breeze of the morning.
After a few minutes of recollecting himself, he took out some of his camping equipment; mainly a stove and some pots and pans and began to prepare food for himself and the girls.
Although he didn't feel the least bit hungry, he knew that the girls must have been suffering after enduring the day and night without a proper meal.
Having lived a solitary life in his 'past life' Leo was quite the capable cook even when limited by the situation, so after roughly 30 minutes a large, sumptuous meal appeared before the two girls on a folding table that Leo had set up in-between cooking the dishes.
Seeing the spread laid out before them, the girls quickly took a seat in the chairs that Leo had provided.
Their were eggs, pancakes, toast, all different kinds of meats from the different animals the girls had cleaned, some fruits, and many others.
The girls disregarded all grace and decorum and began to eat as if the food would disappear at any moment.
Leo didn't mind their behavior in the least though, because he could remember what it was like to be so hungry it felt like your stomach was going to eat itself.
After pouring himself a nice cup of coffee, he too joined the girls at the table and began to eat, albeit at a much more measured pace.
Half an hour later, all of the plates were either completely clean or only contained a few pieces of scraps.
The girls were now lying on the ground on a blanket looking like they had just experienced nirvana.
Blissful expressions adorned their faces.
Leo couldn't help but smile as he cleaned up the mess that remained.
'I guess this isn't all that bad... If having them here with me means that I get to experience moments like this, then I am happy that previous-me made the call he did.'
Leo wasn't done though and after spending a few minutes setting up a few things he turned back to the girls.
"Hey, you two gluttons want to take a hot shower?"
Leo could have sworn the girls teleported in that moment because before he knew it they were both standing mere inches from him, gripping and tugging at his clothes, screaming at him.
"Shower?! YES PLEASE! How?! Where!?"
"I want a shower!! Do you want to join? The hot water must be limited so why don't we go together?"
Flicking Amber in the forehead for her crude joke, Leo flicked his head to the side, gesturing towards a makeshift encloser that he had set up.
Next to it was a portable water heater that he had picked up at the store with a massive 50 gallon drum of water hooked up to it.
"You two can enjoy a hot shower as much as you want. If we run out of water, I can just use some from the lake, so don't hold back.
Also, here are some towels for you to use when you are done. I'll be over by the lake so take as long as you want."
The girls immediately started to tussle and argue about which of them would get to go first.
After arguing for a few minutes, they decided to see who got first dibs by what level and how much experience either of them had.
Surprisingly, Robin won by a 53% margin, and got to have first dibs.
While the two were arguing, Leo had walked over to the side of the lake and stripped his clothes off and jumped into the water.
He had gone so long without a hot shower or luxuries that washing himself in the lake felt more normal than taking a hot shower.
The only reason he even had the portable water heater was so that he could use it as a trade item further down the road.
He had never intended to use it himself.
As he was floating in the water, he heard splashing from the side of the lake.
"Damn! That's cold! Why aren't you using the shower, Leo?"
Looking towards the source, Leo found Amber sloshing the water of the edge of the lake, with a towel wrapped around her midsection.
Clearly, she didn't want to lose another second when it was her time to use the shower, so she had prepared herself to jump in the moment she was able too.
"I like the feeling of the cold water on my skin. I'm used to it anyways; I've been bathing like this for years."
Amber looked at him with curiosity hearing his words, "You've been bathing in cold lake water for years? What kind of family situation did you come from for that to be the case?"
Leo, realizing his slip, coughed a couple times to give himself time to think of an answer, "Well.. my mom was pretty cheap, and we never had a lot of money, so I wasn't allowed to use hot water at home."
"Really? I'm sorry to hear that... our parents divorced when we were younger and we ended up living with our dad.. he was always working so he wasn't much of a presence in our house, but he always made sure he gave us everything we ever wanted..." Amber said.
Taking the chance to learn about their past, Leo asked the most important question, "Where is your dad now?"
Amber looked at the ground with a saddened expression, "He died a little more than a year ago..."
"Ah.. I'm sorry to hear that... if you ever need someone to talk too, you always have me now. Is your mom still alive?"
As quickly as humanly possible, Amber's attitude took a sudden turn and she looked up with a fire burning in her eyes, "That bitch? As far as I know she's still alive, but I swear if I ever see here again I'll..."
"Amber! I'm done! It's your turn!"
Interrupted by her sister's cheerful voice, Amber swallowed her words and quickly readjusted her attitude before turning towards Robin and telling her thank you.
"A story for another day I guess," Amber said as she walked away.
'That was one scary face she made just now...' Leo thought to himself.