The Strongest Couple

Note : For those who ask, yes I have read the light novel, up to volume 4 and I watched many spoilers volumes 5 and 6, so I know almost everything that happen in the scenario of the LN ^^ But I did not want to engage myself on a story that would contain spoils, therefore everything will still be invented with the screenwriting based on the animated serie.

I had a lot of fun writing this chapter. I hope you enjoy it!

Chapter 2 – Memories and investigation

On awaking the next morning, Fremy realized that she was alone. The cover was still wrapped around her but his companion was no longer present. She straightened up and took her gun and her munitions bag. The campfire was extinguished but the supplies' bags were still there.

It was unusual that Adlet leaves her alone while she was still asleep, after all any thief could seize their things. And since it would take some time to Fremy to wake up, take her gun and load it, they had agreed together that they never would sleep alone. If Adlet left then he must have a good reason, thought Fremy. She got up, adjusted her clothes and taken her riffle. There was only one place Adlet could be right left the clearing and plunged into the forest nearby. Not far away was a big lake where they had become used to bathe. Adlet loved relaxing in its clear waters.

Fremy began to hear sounds of swims, the more she advanced the more these sounds became present. He is here, she thought.

She came out of the forest and looked at the landscape. The lake was below a large mountain range in the distance. Fremy greatly enjoyed the view from here. Looking down she noticed his companion currently swimming. Despite his frail body he was still a muscular man who enjoyed physical exercise.

Fremy then felt a sense of nostalgia. While they were once inseparable, for months she had been completely alone. She had always denied the fact that she missed him because she was sure that the strongest man in the world would return to her one day. Yet seeing him here in such a simple moment that a swimming session in the lake, she realized how much she had missed him. In fact, she had missed Adlet more than anything. All these memories she had with him resurfaced.

Their travels, their training, their nights, their times difficult to talk about the past. During all these months she had put aside those memories. It's like his absence was both physical and mental. But now that he was back, she promised to never erase it from her memory anymore; their joy, their sadness, their adventures, and even the day they met ...

"- Fremy !"

The voice of his partner brought her out of her thoughts. A completely naked Adlet was making her a sign of the arm. She joins the lake calmly. Adlet smiled at her, he seemed in a good mood today.

"- You want to join me?"

While swimming with Adlet would have been welcomed, Fremy thought of their mission and other heroes who might be waiting for them.

"- We should rather hurry to join the others. Dress up and put us on the way.

- Hmpf, okay. "

She turned around and began to walk slowly towards the forest. She heard Adlet leave the water. It's strange, usually he would have done anything to convince me, thought Fremy. Suddenly she gasped as she felt two wet arms hugging her from behind.

"- Adlet!"

Adlet knew she was sensitive to the cold. His cool and moist hands rested on Fremy's stomach while she was trying to extricate herself of him.

"- Stop that !

- What ? I can't even hug my wonderful girlfriend? "said Adlet laughing.

Fremy lowered herself and rolled out of his embrace. When getting up she gave him an icy stare.

"- I swear I'll kill you someday.

- Hello to you too."

After having walked for several days, Adlet and Fremy were closing in their destination. On the way they met many people from the western part of the continent. It was natural that they seek to flee the area where the fiends were most present.

The trip was calm. Fremy did not talk much and seemed to be lost in her thoughts. This worried Adlet but he said himself that she was just thinking about the other heroes they would encounter. As Fremy do not easily approached socially other people, she must certainly have been trying to be prepared for that.

They were now on a path in a large forest. The sun filtered through the foliage and the day was rather hot.

"- Let's pause here, what do you think?" Adlet asked her companion.

"- It sounds like a good idea." Fremy answered.

Suddenly a scream from the forest next to them made them stop. A young woman and a man gushed from the bushes. The woman was holding a baby in her arms. Adlet quickly stepped toward them, Fremy just followed him behind.

"- What is happening ?" Adlet exclaimed.

The woman stopped and looked at him in horror.

"- Monsters are attacking our village We managed to escape but there are still some people trapped!"

Adlet turned back to Fremy. They nodded both in agreement the started running towards the village. Adlet quickly prepared his bombs and Fremy loaded her rifle. Leaving the forest, they saw the fiends that were attacking the inhabitants of a large village now in ruins. Adlet gritted his teeth and rushed to the monsters while taking his sword.

He lunged at three of these monsters to kill them and realized that a resident was chased by two fiends further. Adlet then put his sword in its sheath to bring out a small flute and run towards them by blowing inside. The sharp sound interrupted the monsters who turned to him. Adlet then took an anti-fiend blinding bomb and threw it on them. He took advantage of their confusion to throw at them with his sword and kill them.

"- Are you ok?" Adlet asked at the frightened man.

"- Huf, huf, it should be fine," the man answered.

"- Run away from here, we'll deal with them."

Meanwhile, Fremy eliminated the monsters one by one with her long-range rifle. She had massacred about twenty of them when Adlet came back to her.

"- How many there are left?" Adlet questioned.

"- It was a small group, I don't think there are remaining a lot of them."

Adlet nodded and turned to go explore the rest of the village. All the inhabitants had left the area, there were only dried blood spills with corpses of humans and fiends.

"- Well, it seems that there is nothing, are you ready to go?" Adlet asked.

As Fremy did not answer, he turned around and realized that she was no longer behind him.

"- Fremy ?!"

Adlet walked up the large stairs that provided access to a higher part of the village and saw a dog tied by a rope leash. It was barking at something further. Adlet then saw Fremy holding small puppies in one of her arms and approached the tallest dog.

"- Ah …"

Fremy had always been attracted to dogs. Adlet was therefore not surprised when she rescue one. He watched Fremy as she went forward the attached dog. She raised her available arms and gushed a flame from her hand to cut the dog's leash. Then she put the puppies down and watched them go.

When they turned to observe her, the adult dog barked, as if to thank her for having saved her puppies. Fremy then said to them:

"- The fiends only attack humans. Live in peace."

Fremy watched them leave for good and turned back to Adlet who was looking further. He sighed and walked toward her.

"- You're okay ?" he asked her.

"- Yes, we can go" Fremy said, nodding her head.

"- We'll rest a little farther, I don't want to stay here."

With that they resumed their journey, leaving behind them the ruins of a ravaged village.

A few hours later at the same place, the princess Nashetania and her bodyguard Goldov discovered the ruined village. Around the corpses, Goldov noticed something. He dismounted, walked beside a dead fiend and crouched. Nashetania came down too and joined him.

"What did you find?" asked Nashetania.

Goldov stood up and showed what looked like an iron ball. There was a fine powder layer thereon.

"- Ammunition. This certainly comes from the hero killer."

Goldov passed her the bullet. The princess smelled it and narrowed her eyes.

"- Let's go ! If the hero killer has been there recently she should not be far away" exclaimed Nashetania while regaining his horse.

"- Princess..."

She turned toward him to listen.

"- Don't you think we should join as soon as possible the other heroes ? After all, now that the six heroes have been chosen, the killer will inevitably head for the location of the meeting" Goldov explained.

Nashetania mounted her horse and put a hand on her chin to think.

"- You're right, but don't forget that she is using a firearm. If she can long range shooting without anyone sees there may be more deaths. The earlier we kill her the better it will be.

- In this case, if she goes over here we will have more chance to cross her on the way to the meeting point."

The Princess nodded and pressed her legs on her horse to move it forward at a gallop. Goldov did the same with his horse.

"- Hurry, we must stop her before she reaches the others!"