Chapter 237 – Flexing?

“Why don’t you just give up? No reason to be shy about your true feelings, I’ll be sure to take care of you well~”

Armand winked at the woman that was standing on the other side of this training ground. While she wasn’t quite his type it didn’t take much to get him going. He was sure to strike a gallant pose to show off his muscles that had grown since he reached his second tier 2 class.

“What’s wrong with your head, you’ve been spouting nonsense the entire time! And you call those things muscles? These are muscles!”

Grisalde the barbarian was on the opposite end, the moment she saw her opponent flexing to show off their physique, she returned the favor. Her body wasn’t behind Armand’s in any way and she was also taller. When she was striking that double biceps pose the other adventurers started whistling.

“Damn, that woman is huge, isn’t she larger than Armand?”

“He’s got a bit more volume on her because he is a man… but she isn’t far behind…”

Some posing enthusiasts that were in the peanut gallery started giving their opinion while the two showed off their goods. Other people that were here to see a fight started to complain, but not like the two muscle brains cared. They continued to strike poses as if this was some kind of body-building competition.

They did draw in the attention of a certain guild leader. The bald man that was in a different weight category started rubbing his chin while looking at the two young adventurers. His eyes were drawn to Armand who used to be part of the faculty of the guild.

“He did improve a lot but he still has a lot to learn…”

“Guild master, what are you doing…”

“Oh, don’t mind me…”

Solana that was within the office tipped her head to the side while looking at her boss. Aurdhan who was of the Goliath race suddenly started flexing his biceps while looking out the window. The shouts of the other adventurers didn’t go unnoticed but it was not something that they weren’t used to.

“Please, pay attention and stop doing that.”

“Hah, can’t have any fun around here… maybe I should give that brat his position back…”

While the guild master was getting scolded by his secretary another group of people were looking dumbfounded at the ‘fight’. Roland had rushed towards the fence and almost jumped over it to stop the altercation but the two just continued the flex-off.

“I’m really glad that you two aren’t blood-related…”

“Yeah…”

Elodia nodded her head while looking away, her face was a bit flushed after having to listen to Armand make a fool of himself.

“…But now is not the time, let’s get him over to the Church.”

To everyone’s regret before any real action could take place, Roland along with Elodia rushed to the two muscle brains. He went over to Grisalde while Elodia had to contend with Armand and his antics.

“Wayland? What are you doing here?”

“Keeping you from doing… I guess It’s to late for that, just come with me and ignore that guy…”

“But he started it first, I won’t feel satisfied until I cleave his crotch in two!”

“You want to do it with that?”

Roland pointed to the damaged axe that she was holding, after the escape it had been damaged and needed to be repaired. Grisalde looked at her weapon and for some reason tried to hide the dented edge behind her back. As a heavy axe it probably could be used to deliver some blunt damage but against Armand who was a close combat specialist, it wouldn’t be that effective.

“Hey stop that, that hurts!”

While he was trying to convince the barbarian woman to give up, he heard Armand’s pleading voice from behind. There he saw a strange scene of a vast smaller Elodia yanking on the man’s ear. He looked truly pathetic with his shoulders and arms slumped forward. Even though the person pulling the ear didn’t have much strength, he was forced to move.

“Why do you always have to get in these stupid situations, I thought you’d mature after getting the gold rank, but it seems that you need to be scolded!”

Elodia shouted while tugging on his ear, the other adventurers burst out into laughter as they forgot about the bets that they made.

“Ha ha, Armand is going to get scolded!”

“Elodia, you’re making me look bad in front of the other adventurers…”

“You should have thought about that sooner, wait until you get back home, Armie.”

“Hey, I told you not to call me that…”

The people burst out in even more laughter after Elodia brought up a nickname from his past. It was clearly something that one would call a child and caused everyone to start shouting it at the man himself.

“I think Armie needs some milk from his mommy.”

“Hey look guys, Armie is going to cry!”

Some adventurers shouted out after getting some fuel. Armand was known around by many and had built up a bad reputation. There were many other men that disliked him for being popular with the ladies and this was the perfect time to throw in some jabs. They were safe in the crowd and confident of him not being able to tell where their voices were coming from.

“Hey, who said that… when I find you, I’m going to bash…”

“You’re not going to do anything, now start walking!”

“…”

Grisalde along with Roland continued to stare in silence at the scene that unfolded. Thanks to this strange performance before them it was clear that the animosity was dying down. He didn’t even need to repeat himself as she scratched her head before just walking towards the exit on the side. There Senna along with her two companions were waiting, all of them had stupid smiles on their faces.

“What are you looking at?”

“Nothing~”

The halfling just chuckled while Orson started mumbling something to himself.

“Hm, big muscles aren’t that bad…”

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“Hoh, did ye discover something new?”

“Perhaps I did my friend…”

Roland wasn’t sure what the two were talking about, but they were looking at the muscular barbarian lady that seemed more oily than usual. Their gazes were focused on her thighs that were probably thicker than even Armand’s.

For some reason, it seemed that the woman rubbed oil onto her body that made it shine even more than usual. Perhaps it was a plan to be more slippery for the battle with a hand-to-hand specialist. Yet this was not the time to ask silly questions as they needed to get the troublemaker to the church for an examination.

“Hey big sis, why did you do that, I had to give all the betting money away…”

It was their lucky day, suddenly out of the crowd emerged Lobelia along with the two young men from the thieves guild. Renny the one that was part dog beastman and Jasper who had fox-like ears. They were the ones taking bets and weren’t given their cut after the bout didn’t take place.

“Oh, do my elven eyes spy a famous Runesmith?”

“Good to see you Lobelia, grab that idiot, we need to talk.”

After a less than heartfelt greeting he pointed to the mad Armand that was shaking his fist at some of the other adventurers. Most of them would probably bring this accident up for the next few months to come. Soon all of them excused themselves back towards the tamer side of the guild where he was supposed to get Agni registered Before going through with that, he needed to give Elodia’s two siblings an explanation.

“What?”

“Hey, keep your voice down or I’ll keep calling you Armie.”

“Hey, that’s unfair.”

After going to a more secluded location Elodia gave a quick explanation to both Armand and Lobelia. Both of them were shocked at the thought of being infected by some strange type of disease.

“True, we could sell this information to the guild for a nice margin…”