An Arranged Marriage

Your Quest is Complete

You grimaced as you felt spit get on your face from the monsters roar. Realistically you weren't actually sure you grimaced in the first place with how stiff you were right now. When you noticed it getting ready to swing its fist that's when you finally moved, you rolled out of the way and glanced at where his fist landed to see a small crater had formed there. 

When it got ready to swing again you quickly brought your sword up and blocked it with a grunt. You pushed against it and finally got it to raise its fist again, you got up before it could hit and held your sword in front of you. 

Before it charged towards you, you took a glance at your surroundings and noticed one of the swords a skeleton was clutching had patterns you recognized from somewhere. Thinking back you remembered some of the treasure from dungeons happened to be magical weapons. Hopefully, that sword would help you, but with the monster not leaving you alone you wouldn't have much of an opening.

Unless...

You glanced down at your hand and held it out, smiling at the small, white magic circle forming. Your summoning was interrupted, however, when you felt the monster slam into your sword. You grunted and tried keeping your ground, even as your bare feet slid against the cold ground. You winced and pushed back, ignoring your numb feet. 

You held your hand out again and watched as the circle slowly began to grow. "C'mon, C'mon," you grunted, feeling the hand clutching the sword faltering slightly. 

You groaned, "hurry it up!" You yelled, your hand finally giving in to the weight. You brought your hands up to shield yourself as you fell to the ground, feeling nothing you removed them to see an all too familiar animal. You sighed in relief and stood up, "keep him busy," you ordered.

You ran towards the sword and grabbed it, examining it. You swung it and watched as flames came from the swing, you smirked. You charged at it and swung with expertise as its leg. It stumbled back with a couple of steps and almost fell when your bear bit at its hand. 

It roared and tried ripping your bear from its arm before it could you swung at it again and sliced off his hand. Your bear and the monster stared at its hand, it growled in anger. You smirked and backed away from it, you took a running start and used your bear to propel yourself up to the monster's head. 

Once there you raised the sword covered in flames and thrusted it into its head. The monster roared as it began to melt into a puddle, you fell down into the puddle with a small grunt. Amidst the water and ice, you noticed a key floating there. You grabbed it and examined, you guessed it would be important and spent a minute trying to find a way to put it in your dress (you managed to make a pocket).

You sighed and glanced down at your sword, then at your numb feet. You lit the sword again and moved it near your feet to warm up. You managed not to flinch when you first looked at your feet. You felt a nudge against your side and noticed the bear with its snout near you. You smiled and laid a hand in its head, "thank you."

The bear gave you a small lick and laid down behind you. With the same smile, you laid back down against it and felt your eyes droop. You supposed a small nap would be fine. 

~~

Kougyoku huffed and held her practice sword in front of her, glaring at the dummy in front of her. She lunged and nicked its arm. It felt harder to practice without an actual moving target. She sighed and shook her head, she had to practice no matter what. Kougyoku wanted you to see how much had improved in these last two months. Which is why she kept going and swinging her sword at the dummy. 

While practicing she didn't pay notice to Kouen walking by and stopping to see her practicing. However, one person who did notice was Ka Koubun, who was busy smirking. 'This is perfect,' he thought to himself, 'at this rate Kouen will surely see that I would be far better suited at a higher rank.'