Fwoosh!
Tp! Tp! Tp! Tp!
On her toes, the sound that her feet made were mitigated by the improved form.
'Damn, this is uncomfortable.' But she couldn't do anything about how it felt. She just had to train more and more with the form.
The now 50 meter distance between her and the monster shrunk quickly. Almost immediately, Moon started looking into her inventory, preparing to equip her sword.
'Mm! Where is it!?' This being her first time reequipping in the midst of battle, she took longer than she intended to find the weapon. There were about two seconds until she made contact with the Hobgoblin.
'Come on! Come on! Ha! There it is!'
Fsh!
"Grah?"
The Hobgoblin, hearing a noise out of nowhere, started to swivel his body around.
PCHK!
"Graa-!?"
But it turned one movement too late. The dirty monster blood began to ooze out of its mouth onto the blade piercing its abdomen. But, it wasn't dead.
Moon knew. But, she was prepared this time around.
"Haah!"
Still holding onto the sword with both hands, she brought up her leg and kicked the monster's body, dislodging it from her stained sword. The monster falling back from the strike, she took her chance.
"Warrior's Strike!"
The white light dashed across space, cutting everything in its way in half, including the monster. The split body succumbed to the encroaching grey light, and it disappeared.
[You have defeated a Hobgoblin.]
[15 gold has been acquired.]
[Hobgoblin' Mace has been acquired.]
[60,000 experience has been acquired.]
"Huff… huff… huff… I.. I did it. Finally." It took her two tries, but she completed the ambush successfully.
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"Now that's what I'm talking about!" God yelled out with a fist pump. "That's how ya do it!" He ran down the dune, slapping Moon on the back over and over again.
"Bruh! That was a nice move, I gotta say! I get that ya couldn't kill em off in one move cuz you're too weak, and everything. So seeing that stab and press back was great dude!" His jubilance was exploding, rubbing off from him with every slap on the back.
"Hey hey hey! I get it! Now stop slappin' me: You're killing me." She shoulder-rolled his hand off.
"And anyways, I don't take too kindly to comments like that, got it!" She stabbed her finger up to his chin. She tried to keep her eyebrows as arched as possible to show her annoyance, but the small smile on her lips betrayed her intent.
"Yes yes… Kekeke!" He swatted her finger away gently. "I gotta admit man: You learn quickly, don't ya?"
She turned around and crossed her arms. "Well, when you don't have nothing blocking off you're future, then you can do anything, ya know?"
"Oooh, how prophetic," he replied sarcastically. "Where'd ya read that from? A fortune cookie?"
"Tch. Dumbass."
"Kekekeke!" His giggling continued.
But then it stopped.
"Hey. Moon."
She turned around to face him.
"You know what I've noticed lately?"
She raised her eyebrow--- which was barely visible--- in response.
"You've stopped being so formal with me lately, haven't you?"
Moon's face immediately flushed as she spun her head away, but that did nothing to escape Godspeed's eye.
"Aa~h, what's this? You embarrassed about getting all cozy with me?" he asked teasingly, poking her in the side. "What? You scared about warming up to a stranger like me, bruv?"
"Whaa—I-I don't even know what you're talking about," she stuttered.
"Wroo~ng. When I first met you, you almost never used contractions and stuff in sentences."
"I'd never---"
"You just did it again!" He began poking her again, even more aggressively than before. Over and over again he jabbed his finger into her side, where the leather part of the armor barely covered.
Squish, Squish.
Huh?
'Huh? Why is he so soft?' Godspeed wondered. He kept poking Moonshine's side, but his mind was somewhere else.
'Why is he so soft? Even with the resistance of the armor, its just too tender.
Wait. Don't tell me—-!'
Although he couldn't see her due to the bangs, moon's face was the same shade as a candy apple. She was completely embarrassed by God's touch, and probably would of attacked him if he didn't stop.
"…"
"…"
The cheerful atmosphere from earlier was nowhere to be seen. Only awkwardness filled the air.
"Hey, Moon—"
"Y-yes!?" Her voice cracked.
"Uhm, I got a question for you."
Her face flushed two more shades.
The inevitable question was here.
"You don't workout, do you?"
Or it should have been. Those bangs do too good of a job.
"W-what?" She asked, taken aback by the unexpected question.
"Your belly's soft. Satisfy replicates all of your body, excluding hairstyles. Knowing this, I just gotta ask. You've got a lot of fat build up there bud. Do you not workout?"
She blinked once. Then twice. And again.
"Puack!"
[Critical! You have suffered 80 damage.]
Moon gave him a good hard right and knocked him off his feet. Although it didn't do any damage, it was enough.
"You do not ask people about such subjects. Learn your place in a relationship." Her formal-ness came back full swing.
'Damn… Since when did guys get so sensitive about some tummy fat? Have I really been away for that long?'
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Moon's training ended with a short conclusion for everything she had learned that day. If she forgot something or misunderstood, she would get a whack on the head that would take away a third of her health
She was already on her last leg. One more hit and she would disappear. And she already has, once.
"Now to finish: What were the most important things you learned today?" He asked, his weapon ready to bonk her head.
"I'm not sure." She rubbed her head in the spot where she was last hit.
"Be fast, possibly?"
'Nope.' He began raising the weapon.
"No wait! Maybe it is being fast, and being smart?"
'How dumb," he said both out loud and in his mind.
The blunt end fell quicker.
"T-Then how about being fast, smart, and precise, huh?"
'See, you're getting somewhere.' Him saying that, the weapon fell even faster.
"Alright! Fast, smart, precise, and predictive! How 'bout those!? That's all I've got, okay?!" She closed her eyes and braced for impact.
'Wow. This weapon is falling awfully slow.'
Boop.
The blunt end of God's weapon tapped Moon's head softly.
"Huh?" She opened her eyes one after the other. All she saw was the devious smile of a sadistic man.
"Keke. I see you're using contractions again."
Her face blushed even harder than before.
.....
"Guuah!"
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