"Come on, wake up!" Brawler was holding Grimm Slayer around her arms with an alarming attitude. "Say something, please." She tried to shake her from the shoulders gently, but the hooded girl wasn't responding.

"No use, she is still unconscious for the lack of oxygen."

"Yes, I see that!" The huntress replied to Goblin Slayer, she wasn't on the best behavior as for how worried she was. Her younger sister started to react with sounds and slowly opening.

"Sis…?" she asked with a quiet tone.

"I'm here." Brawler replied.

"Can I ask you…something…?"

"Anything, just tell me."

"Come closer." Grimm Slayer started to cough, much to her sister's concerns. She put her ear close to her mouth, hoping to get an answer. "Can we get biscuits with cream and milked tea when we get back?" Brawler reacted in confusion as she thought it would be something more serious. However, she was glad that wasn't the case.

"Sure thing." The blond huntress replied with a weak smile as Grimm Slayer fell to sleep.

"We still need to get the others out of that cave." Goblin Slayer said to the huntress with his usual emotionless tone.

"Oh right…could you carry her for me? My back is in pain after fighting that ugly thing."

"Okay." The armored complied to her request. Brawler carried to the hooded girl and put on Goblin Slayer's back for a piggy ride. The blond huntress took her sister's weapon and walked towards the light where the cave was.

It was an unexpected and terrifying outcome. Furious Brawler never thought that goblins, the weakest and unimportant creatures could give her a bad night. It was bad enough for not caring about the adventurers' warnings about those foul beings despite appearances. She wanted to thank Goblin Slayer for saving her on the niche of time, but she was ashamed of herself to do it. Brawler couldn't find the right words at the moment.

"I can see the cave." The armored guy pointed at the location where the others were trapped. Too bad they didn't have anything to destroy the obstruction.

"Do you have any ideas?" Brawler asked.

"We could use some explosion or power-crushing attacks. Too bad I wasted my flask of gasoline."

"Power-crushing attacks you say? Step aside." Brawler said while stepping in front of the cave's entrance. 'I hope I still have magic.' She thought while closing her eyes. She got into position while clashing both knuckles from her gauntlets. Her fists set on fire as she started to punch the rocks on away. It didn't take too much time on until she was able to reach the end of the tunnel.

The moment she destroyed the obstructions, Priestess, Fencer and Ninja were caught off guard with the sudden entrance Brawler did. "What in the world!?" Fencer jumped.

"Hello." Brawler greeted the group while looking at her surroundings. "Oh geez, what happened to it?" She asked while looking at the wall in blood.

"It was a Hobgoblin we had to deal with." Priestess commented.

"Hobgoblin? How many types of goblins exist?"

"That doesn't matter, just let us out of here already!" The Ice Queen said with a bossy tone. Brawler complied by making an exit, big enough for everyone to get through. They began walking one behind the other with the Priestess carrying the hostage on her shoulders, but she felt lighter than usual.

"Don't worry, we are getting you out of here." The adventurer girl said with reassurance. They were finally out of the cave and began looking at their surroundings as they saw corpses of goblins on the ground. "Goblin Slayer!" She called out. "What happened to her?" Priestess asked while noticing the hooded girl on his back.

"She tried to fight a Goblin Champion." He replied.

"A G-Goblin Champion!? Is she alright!?" She asked with worried eyes.

"She is, she didn't suffer any major injuries, but she just passed out. Are you alright?"

"I am, but we need to take the hostage somewhere safe." Priestess said. The huntresses were looking at Grimm Slayer being unconscious, and the trees painted in blood.

"What happened here?" Ninja asked Brawler.

"You wouldn't believe me if I tell you."

"Surprise me." Fencer said with the crossed arms.

"Not only we dealt with an ambush of goblins, but also Beowolves were asking for trouble."

"And that's not all." Goblin Slayer interjected on the conversation. "The goblins started to use Grimm as mounts and attack dogs." Despite sounding unsurprised, the armored guy's words were enough to shock the huntresses. They were dumbfounded and skeptical.

"That's ridiculous." Fencer scoffed. "There's no way Grimm can be tamed. Those creatures act on pure instinct."

"Yeah, I was thinking the same until I saw that big freak using an Alpha against this guy."

"How is that even possible?" Priestess asked.

"We can't be sure. This is the first time of hearing that." Ninja commented while looking at the goblin corpses. "If goblins are using Grimm, then we need to get clues of how they are doing that."

"I suggest returning to the Guild first. We might get some clues with the rest of our party." Priestess started walking with the hostage. The rest of the party were confused about the situation between goblins and Grimm. There was no use, they were tired to even think about it. Goblin Slayer was the first to follow his companion while still carrying Grimm Slayer. There were so many questions, but not enough time to answer all of them. The huntresses began walking while seeing how bleak the woods looked.

After that night, it became clear that nothing was like Remnant. They risked their skins for a girl who probably lost any will or soul by the foul creatures. The huntresses looked at Goblin Slayer while thinking for how long he was doing those kinds of requests. He probably saw a lot of things; his mind was an enigma. Even if they understood why he would fight goblins, it was difficult to determine if his mind was still sane at that point.

That didn't matter for them as the only thing they wanted was to return before the dawn.

"I'm tired." Ranger said while putting his face against the table.

"Tell me about. I'm hungry as well. Can we order something?" Valkyrie asked Spearman who he was sitting in between Paladin and Ranger.

"Sure thing, you guys earned it after a long day." He said while calling the waitress with a hand wave.

"Was it…interesting…for everyone?" Witch asked the huntsmen while smoking.

"It was great. Although, I wished that we didn't need to deal with more Grimm." Warrior commented as she was looking at her shield with nasty scratches.

"Speaking of that. What is exactly those Grimm you were talking about? They don't like the usual monsters or demons." Spearman asked. The waitress with wolf ears and paws brought drinks for everyone at the party. He began chugging his drink.

"We already explained you! Those are creatures made from negative emotions." Paladin said as he needed some sleep. He looked in the worst condition our of everyone at the party.

"Negative…emotions…how peculiar."

"Yeah, that gorilla-thing almost broke my skull with that jab. At least I know those things aren't from here either. Do you have any idea of why those creatures on are appearing The Frontier?"

"That is something we don't have a clue either." The redhead huntress pulled a notebook. She passed to the Witch who was next to her. "As you can see, they don't have a specific place where those can appear. It is a relief they can't do that on settlements, but it is alarming since Grimm are from Remnant." Warrior explained in great detail while the Witch was reading the notebook.

"Creatures… from far away… there must be… a cause." Witch wasn't too happy the further she inspected the note about the Grimm they fought today. As it was described, Grimm acted out of instinct, and nothing else.

At that moment, the Guild's front door was open with Goblin Slayer, and his party entered with Grimm Slayer still on his back.

"Welcome back." Guild Girl greeted with her usual smile. Her expression changed when she saw the unconscious huntress. "Oh my, what happened to her?"

"She tried to fight a Goblin Champion. She is alright but needs some sleep."

"Goblin Champion, that can't be good." The receptionist said with a grimace. "We have a guest room for her to recover."

"Thank you for that." Brawler said gratefully while Guild Girl gave a key to her. Goblin Slayer, Priestess, and Brawler went upstairs while heading to the room. They would expect Grimm Slayer to wake up at least after the long day. Fencer and Ninja saw their friends already sitting on a table. They went towards them to get something to eat as well.

"Oh, whehom bah!" Valkyrie greeted while eating a large piece of steak.

"Please, don't talk with the mouth full." Ranger said to his companion as he was enjoying some beef stew.

"How was the request?" Javelin Warrior asked her fellow huntress.

"It was tough, who would think that goblins were resilient?" Ninja commented while asking the waitress for a glass of milk.

"Goblins? What exactly goblins look like?" Paladin asked.

"Filthy imps. That's what we thought until we had to deal with one, they called 'Hobgoblin,' which was bigger than the rest of them." Fencer said while using a handkerchief to clean her seat.

"More than one type of goblin? I don't recall in the documents back at Beacon."

"The documents weren't complete anyway. And that's not all." Ninja replied Warrior.

"From what Brawler told us, they witnessed goblins taming Beowolves to fight us." Fencer's comment was enough to make the group of huntsmen act in shock. Spearman and Witch were surprised too as they heard the conversation.

"H-Hold on a second… There's no way Grimm can be tamed!" Paladin said with a hesitant tone. "We fought them a lot of time, but there's no way something like those can use them."

"Yeah, we couldn't believe it too at first. When we asked the Goblin Slayer about the details. Some goblins used Grimm as both mounts and attack dogs. We don't know how they were able to pull that off, but that can't be a good thing." Ninja said with her fingers between her chin.

"So…that's why Grimm Slayer was unconscious?" Ranger asked.

"Sort of. That dolt tried to fight a bigger goblin." Fencer crossed her arms. "At least, she didn't end badly injured or else."

"What about all of you? Which request did you take?" Ninja asked her friends.

"Weh haeed a traaahsue."

"What?" Valkyrie swallowed her food to reply to Fencer's question.

"We hunted a treasure!"

"A treasure? I thought we weren't allowed to choose another type of request aside from the ones they offered us." Ninja said with confusion.

"Yeah, we, but not him." Paladin said while pointing at Spearman.

"How?"

"He thought that killing rats or collecting samples weren't befitting for an adventurer of his category. In a way, we could get better requests if an adventurer chooses for us instead."

"How it went the treasure hunting then?" Fencer asked.

"Well…"

"Take him on the left!" Spearman ordered to his party while fighting a Beringel.

"Understood." Ranger replied while throwing knives at the powerful Grimm. It was distracted enough to make Paladin and Warrior attack the Beringel from blind spots. But it reacted quickly to launch Paladin against a wall with a punch. His shield at least protected him from the attack but wasn't good enough to withstand the attack.

"We need to restrain this thing!" Spearman said while blocking the Grimm's attacks.

"On my…way." Witch began reciting a spell. "Vines…" A green light came out of her staff. A bunch of vines came from the floor and wrapped the Grimm like chains on the ground. It started to tear them apart to free itself.

"Everyone, now!" Spearman charged towards the creature with his weapon impaling its body. The rest of the party did the same by stabbing the Grimm with their blades, hoping that would be enough to slow it down. "This is your chance!"

"Incoming!" Valkyrie wasted no time by jumping towards the restrained Beringel with her hammer at hand. With an overhead swing with her weapon, she crushed the Grimm's head like a watermelon. "BONK!" She shouted in excitement.

"…And that was pretty much it." Paladin tried to summarize their experience.

"Well, at least you get your treasure, right?" Ninja commented.

"Hah! Good one." Valkyrie laughed sarcastically.

"Wait, you didn't get anything after that?"

"The treasure… was cursed." Witch interjected on the conversation.

"Apparently, anyone who takes the treasure, a curse would fall upon the victims by turning them into living skeletons. I can't believe we almost fell for that thing." Spearman gave a disappointed sigh. "Well, at least we can't get any skinnier than him."

"Hey, I have muscle too, you know?" Everyone began laughing as Paladin tried to show his bicep. Spearman gave a refusal gesture.

"Not a chance, but we can put you in shape early in the morning." He gave a pat on the back to the blond guy. The mood became lighter as they were talking various miscellaneous topics while getting some dinner from the Guild's kitchen. The food was lovely, the ambient gave a relaxing feeling that made them forget about the tedious day.

Things escalated pretty quickly as Valkyrie challenged Spearman to a drinking contest. The adventurer had no problem, and they began chugging the liquor down his throat. The hyperactive huntress was no slouch as she was able to keep the pace too. They were finishing their glasses at the same time. The second round was slower, but everyone on the table was able to see how much they were holding themselves to finish first. The third round was the point where Spearman started to feel the booze kicking in. Valkyrie was able to finish it first, but she didn't look any better.

In mere seconds, Spearman passed out on the table with his face completely in red.

"I WIN!" Valkyrie yelled victoriously before passing out too. Ranger caught her before she could fall to the ground, snoring with a smile on her face.

"What a mess." Fencer smiled while looking at the rest group. However, she looked at the second floor, thinking if Grimm Slayer will be alright after everything on the day. At this point, this new land will become not so different from home.