“Lan! Are you alright?!” [Enrica]

“Hm? Yes, of course… I’m quite confused though” [Lan]

“Hahaha! That was quite the spectacle! Our hot-blooded Iron took a critical hit!” [Ruin]

“…You’re overly enthusiastic about this, aren’t you Ruin…” [Shen]

“Haha…phew… are you alright man?” [Ruin]

“Grrrr, save me your pity Ruin… this ain’t over, got it?!” [Iron]

“Kekekekukuku” [Ruin]

…

Ruin is usually a responsible guy, seeing this side of him that’s laughing without a care in the world is new to me.

This dude that attacked me probably has a high status around here…. is he perhaps Enrica’s fiancée?

Husband?

Boyfriend?

…

I didn’t think this through.

There is a possibility.

Doesn’t this mean that my friendship with Enrica is hanging by a thread?!

“On behalf of my brother… I truly am sorry” [Enrica]

…

…

…

Fiancée = x

Husband = x

Boyfriend = x

Okay, none of those so the beat down was fine!

Wait… doesn’t that make this worse?!

“B-Brother…? I’m sorry for my rudeness, are you alright?” [Lan]

“Yeah, yeah, whatever. I’ll get you next time, you’ll never have my sister!” [Iron]

“?!” [Lan]

“B-Brother!!!” [Enrica]

“…” [Lan]

H-How am I supposed to respond right now…?

“Alright *clap* shows over, let’s get back to training” [Ruin]

Nice assist, Ruin! I didn’t really notice since there wasn’t any hostility around but a crowd formed around us

“The human was faster than Iron! The Iron!!”

“I could only follow their movements between pauses but that was dope!”

“T-That was electricity wasn’t it? So awesome!”

“Chupapi!”

“Munyanyo!” [Lan]

“”””!?”””””

I have no idea why I said that but I have no regrets.

* * * * *

After my little spar with Enrica’s brother, I watched their training.

Ruin asked me to give tips and stuff to the juniors but I’m not cut out for that.

I’m more of an instinct kind of person after all.

I didn’t want to bother them so I didn’t ask for a chaperone or anything like that.

They’re really thorough about their training.

They carry a huge and heavy stone overhead, control its weight; slowly lightening the load then after a few moments, placing maximum weight on the stone before passing it on to the next person.

The next person must accurately adjust the weight of the stone before it sets on their grasps or else, they get flattened.

How scary…

“Hey Lan, do you have any plans later?” [Ruin]

“No, not really, why?” [Lan]

“Well then, that’s perfect” [Ruin]

“…?” [Lan]

“Can you hold your liquor?” [Ruin]

“I’ve… never actually tried drinking alcohol yet” [Lan]

“”””HOOOOO””””

“Then who better to train you than us dwarves!” [Ruin]

And after that, Ruin set up a place and we’d meet up later tonight. I hope…

It’ll be alright.