"Goblin Slayer!" The Priestess shouted to her traveling companion as she was waiting on a wagon.
"Yes?" Goblin Slayer asked.
"Did you get everything? This trip will take us six hours to go back home."
"Yes."
"Did you clean the remainings on your armor?"
"Yes."
"Did you pay to the bartender for using his barrel of liquor for our mission?"
"Yes."
"Did you remind the others we will be waiting for them here?"
"No."
"Why!?" The Priestess yelled at the specialist.
"I was busy doing the errands for the trip."
"But I told you to do that too. Now we will have to wait for them a little more." The Priestess sighed on her absent-minded companion, but it wasn't that big deal at least. "Oh, they are here." She said as the rest of the party arrived.
"Sorry for the wait; we had to stop for breakfast." The Lizard Priest apologized as he was putting everyone's equipment in the wagon.
"Don't apologize, Scaly. You were the one who suggested that nice place, one more bite and I wouldn't be able to move another inch." The Dwarf Shaman said as he was rubbing his belly with satisfaction.
"All dwarves are always thinking about food, aren't they?" The High Elf Archer said sarcastically to her companion as she was boarding the wagon.
"Don't act so high and mighty, Long-Ears. You were the one who ordered more entries than me."
"T-that's not true!" The elf replied with a hesitant tone while her face turned red.
"Ahahaha, see? Even elves can't hold themselves when it comes to food. What do you think, Beard-Cutter?" The dwarf asked Goblin Slayer, to which he replied with a simple nod. "Heh, he even agrees to that." He kept laughing at her, but she looked at the Priestess while ignoring the old guy.
"Come on, said something!" The elf asked the Priestess.
"Well with all honesty…" The young girl said while looking away. "You sometimes do that."
"Seriously, you too? Why is everyone against me? I didn't overeat."
"There's nothing wrong on that." The Lizard interjected on the conversation. "As long it gives you enough energy for the whole day, it isn't a bad thing."
"Thank you, at least someone understands me." She said while looking at the rest of the group.
"Tomayto, Tomahto, you can't deny you enjoy food as much as everyone." The dwarf walked to the rider's seat on the wagon, getting ready for the trip with his fire wine next to him.
"In any case, is everyone set up?"
"Yep, I got some supplies and wrote the report for the guild." The Priestess said while packing everything in her handbag.
"What about you, Orcbolg?" High Eld Archer asked the armored guy.
"Everything is fine." He replied in his usual monotone voice.
"Alright, let's go." The dwarf said as he hit the road with the wagon. The Priestess, Goblin Slayer, and High Elf Archer were sitting on the cart while the Lizard Priest was next to the Dwarf Shaman while praying for a safe trip.
They began traveling as they were admiring the green fields on a windy day of spring. Finally, they were done with a request to help by protecting a farm from mysterious black creatures roaming lately. The Goblin Slayer wasn't interested at first. Still, the Priestess convinced him to tag along as goblins around the same area as the farm. She sometimes wondered if he would ever be interested in fighting something other than goblins for once in his life.
"Hey, Mr. Lizard." The Priestess asked Lizard Priest. "Do you know what those creatures we fought yesterday were? I never saw them before."
"Those creatures are called Grimm, and those are from another continent." He informed the young girl as he pulled a notebook with drawings and notes about the Grimm. "They are made of negative emotions, at least that's what I been learning since they aren't common on this region."
"Creatures being created from negative emotions? That sounds scary." The Priestess commented as she was reading the notebook.
"There's not much explanation how exactly are they come from, but surely isn't much of a problem since they are usually weak." The High Elf Archer commented while adjusting her bow.
"Now, how they got in this side of the land? We don't know, but at least they aren't much of a problem now that we dealt with them." The Dwarf Shaman said while taking a sip of his wine. Goblin Slayer was staring at the notebook as he got curious about the strange creatures.
"Is there something wrong?" The Priestess asked the armored guy.
"Nothing." He replied bluntly.
"Okay." She kept reading the book; it was curious that her companion, the ever-obsessed goblin-killing machine, was suddenly interested in those vile creatures. Of course, he would typically think about killing the next goblin, but not this time.
"Hey, you said that you want to study more of those Grimm, right?" High Elf Archer asked the Lizard Priest.
"I would like to understand them a little bit more, why?"
"Because I think I saw some out there in the distance." The archer pointed out the direction as everyone, including the Goblin Slayer, focused their sight on the horizon.
A pack of Grimm was fighting against four female adventurers next to a different wagon from what they were seeing. Dwarf Shaman turned the group's transport to exactly where those fighting adventures were. As the Priestess and Lizard Priest examined the adventurers' fighting styles, they noticed how fast and fierce those four girls were performing.
The first was a girl with a red hood and scythe that went at high speed like lightning. She jumped and slew some Grimm's heads by vertically spinning. As for how the fight went, she had a big smile on her face, almost enjoying it too much.
The next one was in elegant white clothes, who covered the hooded girl from a distance by shot fire and ice projectiles. She used a rapier as both long and close-distance combat, piercing a line of Grimm on the ground. Her fighting style was the most refined of the group, as similar to the nobles.
The third girl had cat ears and a black outfit; she wielded a katana and a tanto on each hand. She threw the shorter blade at one of the Grimm's heads and pulling it back with a ribbon while cutting it into pieces. Then, she vanished in a flash and appeared behind some of the creatures to backstab them.
The group's final member looked like the strongest because her fists and kicks were enough to send Grimm flying. She had blond hair, bright gold, and her ruthless fighting style was enough against everything in front of her. Each punch she landed caused the Grimm to lose body parts.
Their movements were synchronized to the point that they tossed the creatures at each other to finish them off, one by one.
"Man, they got the nails for it," Dwarf Shaman said with admiration about that group of girls.
"I never saw such close combat techniques; they looked well-trained," Lizard Priest commented. He had his finger under his chin.
"They don't need much of our help; I guess we can continue on our way," High Elf Archer said, only to get the Goblin Slayer to shake his head.
"Hold on," he spoke with his calm voice.
"Is there something wrong?" Priestess asked her companion.
"Look at their wagon," Goblin Slayer pointed out; everyone did as he said. They noticed the girls' method of transportation got one destroyed wheel. It was clear that they weren't fighting for recreation. Even though the group of female adventurers was doing pretty okay, they had no way to go to the nearest town without someone's help.
"Keen eye, Beard-Cutter," the dwarf complemented to the armored guy's attention to detail.
"Well, let's wait for them at the moment. I'm starting to enjoy the show," the elf said while looking meticulously at how the girls were dispatching of those creatures.
As heads were rolling, the girls started to make one last move for the remaining Grimm. The hooded girl told the other to go into position. They spread over, and the catgirl threw her shorter blade at the blond fighter as she caught it with one hand. The elegant girl stretched the ribbon long enough, ready for the hooded girl to be in front of it. "Alright, ready, GO!" She shouted as the girl in white released the ribbon, sending her flying while spinning at a ferocious speed.
She cut all the Grimm in half in one send, making them vanish into a black mist.
"Hooray, good job team!" She started to do high-fives to the blond fighter and the cat girl, except for the sophisticated one who left her hanging. "Come one, don't leave me like this."
"Sorry, but this is your fault for attracting them," she replied coldly.
"Awww, but we did great, isn't that enough?"
"No." She gave the cold shoulder to the hooded girl.
"It doesn't matter; we need some way to reunite with the others." The cat girl commented as she grabbed a replacement while from the transport. The blond girl lifted the wagon to change the wheel without much problem. But, unfortunately, even if it looked good as new, their horses ran away, leaving no way to pull the cart.
"So, are we going to do some smoke signals or something?"
"That won't be necessary." The friendly Lizard replied to the blond fighter as they were approaching the group. "Needing some help?"
"Thank goodness. I was afraid that we wouldn't see any huntsmen around."
"Huntsmen? We are not huntsmen. We are adventurers." The Priestess replied with confusion.
"Adventurers? I don't understand who you are referring to. We are huntresses." The hooded girl was acting the same way.
"Huntsmen, Adventurers, aren't they the same?" The Goblin Slayer pointed it out, as everyone looked at him as if they were surprised by his words.
"Quite insightful of you, Sir Goblin Slayer," Lizard Priest commented. "They are indeed the same."
"How can you be so sure of that?" High Elf Archer asked.
"I remember reading that on some documents, but it is usually referred on a different place. So I don't remember the name of that land."
"You say, Scaly, they are not from here. I already suspected of it," Dwarf Shaman said while closing one eye and stroking his beard.
"Oh no, we are not from here. We have been traveling from the continent of Remnant," the cat girl informed about her group. So they were far from home.
"Remnant? Now that makes sense!" the dwarf commented.
"Do you know that place?" The Priestess asked.
"Sure I do, I been there years ago. The drinks aren't great, but the food was nothing of this world."
"Alright, I guess we got enough of cultural exchange, but aren't we forgetting about our problem?" The elegant girl said in desperation.
"My deepest apologies, let us help you with it," Lizard Priest asked the Goblin Slayer to tie both wagons with a rope. The armored guy took the rope and started to make a node, strong enough to drag both means of transport without a problem.
"Well, would you like to present yourselves who you are?" High Elf Archer asked the group of girls.
"Sure thing," the hooded girl said with youthful radiance, but she let the sophisticated girl go first.
"Hello, I am the Elemental Fencer," she said while standing straight, a typical gesture of nobles.
"I'm the Cat Ninja, nice to meet you."
"Hey, I'm the Ferocious Brawler!" the blond girl greeted with a smile.
"And I'm the leader of this party, Grimm Slayer!" she said it proudly as the other group looked at her with tilting their heads. They stared at her and Goblin Slayer in rapid succession. They were wondering if they were distant relatives or something.
"What?" The armored guy asked his traveling party while still attaching both wagons.
"Nothing… So, you are the Grimm Slayer, huh?" Priestess asked the hooded girl.
"We also call her Baby Sister."
"Or Little Red."
"Or Dolt," the Brawler, Ninja, and Fencer said in that order about the many ways they call her party leader.
"Oh please, don't call me like that! I'm 15 already!"
"Don't feel embarrassed, no matter how old you are, you are always my little sis," Brawler said as she was patting Red's, much to her disconcertment.
"It is done," Goblin Slayer said. Then, he returned to his seat without saying much.
"Alright, don't worry; we will take you to our town," Priestess said to the Huntresses.
"I appreciate the help, now if you excuse me," Fencer said as she went back to her wagon. The rest of the team followed her, but Red sat on the rider's seat instead.
With everything wrapped up, they departed from the fields and returned to the road. It was entirely a surprise for both parties to cross paths. While the huntresses were curious about this new land, the adventurers couldn't stop thinking about those Grimm Creatures. Whatever is the case, this is just the beginning of their latest adventure.