Enjoyment.

While Lena joins the cheering crowd she realizes how silent Trestina is being, she turns to face her to see that she is staring at a certain point so she too turns to face it.

A hole that pierces the wall of the arena and the ground under it is there. As if something unstoppable had moved through them and erased all that used to be there, there is no rubble nor leftovers its a perfect hole as if the wall was built around it.

Lena thinks back to what could've caused this and remembers the black orb beam thingy 10th shot out at the octopus who barely dodged.

She couldn't stop herself from questioning how the man would've ended up if he were to be hit with that.

"Lena, can you explain that?" Trestina asked.

"No..." Lena answered.

"Then do you have any idea about how we will get out of here?" Trestina asked another question.

"No..." Lena answered as the crowds of people were sitting down now ram into each other all trying to exit.

4 hours later.

They somehow made it through the crowds and walked back to the manor they were staying at after walking around nikolovia for a bit.

"I can't believe they removed the car testing ground on the day of the match!" Trestina complained.

"Yeah wouldn't you expect them to do the opposite since it would be the most crowded day?" Lena said.

"Right?! *sigh* what are we to do now... the only thing I was looking forward to after the match got cancelled." Trestina said throwing herself onto the bed in Lena's room.

"What about you sleep didn't you say you haven't slept all night yesterday?" Lena questioned the woman on bed.

"Well, yeah I guess I did... I don't know I just don't feel sleepy anymore especially after we had witnessed. It's as if it had woke me straight up you know!!!"

"Yeah I felt that too..."

"See! Even you understand the hype behind those matches!" Trestina said.

"What do you mean by that?" Lena quickly added.

"Is your rich friend going to visit today?" Trestina asked.

"Don't ignore my question."

"I was thinking that they would come to check up on the manor at least, but I guess some people are so rich they don't even care anymore."

"Hey..."

"What can we do now... I already did all the shopping I wanted and you seem quite uninterested in everything so I have no idea..."

"..."

"Oh right! they prepared the kitchen for us! I've never tried your cooking before so why don't you cook us something for dinner!" Trestina says jumping off of the now untidy bed,

"Isn't that still quite some time from now?" Lena said.

"We can go get the ingredients! You can choose them yourself so that you won't have any right to complain." Trestina said with a smirk.

"Sure." lena followed.

about 4 hours later.

with an exaggerated sigh Trestina puts the huge bag of ingredients on the counter.

"I should've expected the market to be this full..." Trestina says as she stretches her back.

Lena doesn't say anything as she puts down both the bags she is carrying.

"Don't you think this is too much?" Lena asks.

"Well we got to feed the 2 guards and the maid right?" Trestina says.

"The guard huh..." Lena says remembering yesterday.

"Oh right you told me about that..." Trestina says remembering Lena's story about yesterday.

While Lena was walking around the manor the day before she saw one of the guards outside in the spacious garden taking to what seemed like a walk to her. When she approached him he told her that it was patrol and that it's part of the job. Lena insisted that he is having fun walking around and that he has nothing better to do right now, so as such she asked him to spar with her. The guard told her that that would be a bad idea and that she should just go back in, but Lena insisted. The guard then agreed as he was told to follow all orders giving to him by Miss Lena.

A short 20secs Later Lena was on the ground almost unconscious, They had a fist fight which didn't end up in Lena's favor. The guard then apologized to Lena for overdoing it, but Lena just got up and left without saying anything.

"Please try not the make things uncomfortable at the table with your childish drama..." Trestina said.

"It's no drama I merely challenged him and got put in my place, That's all there is to it." Lena said.

As Lena and trestina talked the door had been knocked on.

Trestina went to answer when she was greeted by Mr. and Mrs. ladenwirg the owners of this manor.

Lena could hear some voices at the door and immediately knew it was kouko.

She decided to focus on her cooking for now so as such she did.

After a short bit Kouko walked in holding two bags full of groceries.

"Huh..." Kouko said looking at the already cooking Lena.

"Huh..." Lena said looking at the unnecessary ingredients.

"So... what are we gonna do with those?" Kouko asked giving them bags in her hands a slight raise.

"I don't know..." Lena said focusing on her cooking again.

Kouko sighes and placed the bags on the empty counter next to her and pulls up her hair.

"So you need any help?" Kouko asked.

"Nope I can do this by myself." Lena asked.

"Right... Then uhh... I will make tea..." Kouko said.

"Sure." Lena said focused on the work in front of her.

"So aren't you surprised?" Kouko asked.

"about what?"

"That I'm here?"

"Yeah, I am."

"You sure didn't seem that way." Kouko said with a sigh.

"Aren't you surprised?" Lena asked.

"About what?"

"That I'm cooking."

"Well It's why I'm here in the first place so I'm kind of relieved." Kouko said.

"I even brought my husband as I was very excited to taste your cooking again!" kouko said cheerfully.

"I'm surprised you would still want to eat that even though you've eaten stuff that tastes many times better living in such luxury." Lena said.

"Your cooking will always be my favorite! What's better than a mothers cooking right?" Kouko said.

"..."

And she then noticed her words.

"Oh god... I'm sorry..." Kouko said apologetically.

"Wouldn't you be the mother in case?" Lena says in a slight confused tone.

"...I'm your big sister!" Kouko said in a mad and relieved tone.

"Yeah sure old hag." Lena said teasingly.

"Oh shut up Palm tree."

"Look who's talking cow."

"Wow the cutting board is talking."

A moment of silence then passed before they both gave a giggle.

"Where is trestina?" Lena questioned.

"She was sitting down with Wagnon I'm pretty sure"

"So that's his name." Lena said.

"It's nice don't you think! Quite lively and cute!" Kouko said

"You are sick..." Lena said disappointed in the current state of kouko.

"S-sorry..." Kouko said blushing.

While Kouko and Lena enjoyed a lively chat Trestina was suffering as she sat with Wagnon in absolute silent too scared to start a conversation while Wagnon only smiled looking at the kitchen's direction.

Good for Trestina Kouko saved her a bit later when she walked in with the tea.

Once Lena was done and they all enjoyed a meal with the manor's guards and maid they all sat down and enjoyed Lena's cooking. Both Wagnon and Trestina joined the Lena cooking fan club that day.

Wagnon considered hiring her as a personal cook while Trestina felt a bit down as she was hoping to tease her. Kouko enjoyed it to her hearts content.

After that They sat down and talked a bit.

"Hahaha! you actually tried to fight thron! And you got beat up because of it too! HAHAHAHAHA!" Kouko couldn't hold herself and laughed leaving all manners behind Wagnon did try to calm her down, but he himself was too busy trying to stop laughing.

"Ahhh... I should've told you this before, but thron the guard you decided to spar with was actually an adventurer before, A custom gold adventurer too." Kouko said.

"A custom gold?!" Trestina broke out of her elegant character she was playing.

"Yeah, I don't remember what his carving was though..." Kouko said trying to remember.

"It was that of an armor's head piece." Wagnon completed.

"Yeah that!" Kouko said pointing at wagnon as he said it.

"An Armor's head piece?!?!?!" all that was left of trestina's elegant character disappeared.

"THE Armor's head piece?! What is he doing here?! Isn't he dead?!" Trestina needed answers.

"Haha It's a long story, but I found him somewhere and after some time he decided to work under me." Wagnon said with a chuckle.

"So his death was faked?!" Trestina asked.

"Oh that was merely a mistake taken by the general public, but as it had helped him get a more normal life he decided not to show himself publicly." Wagnon said.

"Then why are you telling us all that..." Trestina said with fear in her voice.

"Because it won't make the public anyway." Wagnon said with a fearful smile as trestina almost jumped to hide behind Lena.

"Hahaha you are an interesting girl, Don't worry about it. A friend of my dear Kouko is surely to be trusted with that information." Wagnon said sipping on his tea.

"Ha...haa...haaa...." Trestina laughed nervously alongside the man.

after quite the lengthy chat kouko and her husband finally take their leave after claiming to join them for dinner the next day too.

days pass and then finally Lena and Trestina make it back.

Lena was not able to sleep once while staying in the manor while Trestina was able to sleep pretty soundly after that.

Lena left Kouko a note before leaving and that was it. Trestina questioned her as of why not more which Lena replied with saying that was more than enough.