"Gritting teeth That Zephyr, how dare he only make me go through that training......"
It was the good ol' scene where the quartet had gathered after Zephyr had them working hard. It was the result of their devastating defeat in a certain guild battle and just because they slightly happened to let their mouth run, their training schedule had been raised to 2-3 times the usual amount. Every fibre of their body was crying in pain right now.
However their thoughts were, the result was quite favourable as the strength of Quartet has been improving at a visible rate. Zephyr's special training schedule was undoubtedly benefiting them.
So they know deep down they can't run away from it. And not to say he will pull Misato to his guild if they really did so — were the quartet's train of thought.
Though It's another matter they still don't know Zephyr has been already trying to pull Misato to his guild.
They had been on their way back with their gait looking slightly unsteady when a group called out to them.
"Sup, ‹Best of the Best, The Great Star›."
"You guys are... ‹Machos›!"
The one appeared in front of them were the students of same ‹Combat Department Year-1 Class-1› and also the members of the guild which is said to be one of the freshmen guild comprised solely of ‹Brawny Knight› job 一 they're ‹Machos›.
Saturn and the other three were bewildered for why they suddenly called out to them.
"What do you want?"
"Hahaha, it's not "what do you want", you know right?"
"Are you really going to play dumb? Just so you know, we already know."
So replied members of Machos at Saturn's question. That being said, the quartet themselves weren't aware of what they're talking about.
Nevertheless this had invisibly increased the pressure and the throbbing of Machos’s muscle. They were giving out air that they wouldn't forgive them for making an excuse.
"Wh-What are you talking about?"
"Fufu, seems like you have forgotten. And you, Tom?"
"This Venerable doesn't have any clue either. Aren't you having some kind of misunderstanding?"
Quartet cocks their hand in utter cluelessness.
The pressure released by muscles increased further at the air "Just what's their deal, give them a break" quartet were giving. Quartet's gaze reflexively shifted to their muscles.
The visual impact of the muscles hardened the expression in their eyes. The face of the quartet twitched slightly, mentally praying they just leave them quick.
Though their wish goes unanswered as Machos continued,
"Are you still going to play dumb?"
"I see, so they didn't even put that matter into their eyes huh. This really intrigues me."
"We also have an amazing method "training through bunny hopping" in our guild."
"It's our secret training just so you know. It will buff your muscles."
The quartet still don't get what's so good about that even if ‹Machos› teach them.
"We, we're already content with our current training schedule. Any further training is u, unnecessary."
"Fufu, indeed. Our body wouldn't be able to handle any more training."
"Y, Yeah. Brave's training is very hard to keep up with, you know. Even I found it hard. It would be in our, no, it would be best for both of us to not know about it."
"Same. To begin with, who even told you about our training? There shouldn't have been anyone else besides Zephyr or his guild at best who knows that he is training us "
"We heard it straight from Brave himself. He told us we're also welcome."
"Zephyrrrrrrr!" ×4
So it was the Brave, it was him who leaked that news to ‹Machos› and even faintly suggested training with them together. 一一Quartet's howled the loudest they ever had in their life.
"Hahaha, I got it, so it was a surprise."
"Oh, so that's why huh. I'm impressed by Brave's thinking."
"I know you wanted to keep the training method of Brave a secret but don't worry. We have received the words from Brave himself."
"Let's build our muscles together."
"Let's do bunny-hopping."
Legs of Quartet had already begun to quiver. Their legs quivered at the thought of ‹Machos› training on top of their current training amount.
It's not something beyond, but at least neither of them thought it's humanly possible. Rather, quartet even began to have doubt if ‹Machos› were really human just like them
"No need to hide it, tell us. Tell us the personal training method of Brave!"
The leader of muscle approaches the quartet while drawing his muscles.
Saturn was already shivering seeing the bloodshot eyes of the leader.
"I, I got it. I will tell you, so stop it! However I'm telling you beforehand, we're not going to join you in training!"
"There's no way we can let it happen. Brave had told us "joint training is a must if you want to know about my training method". We're going to train together!"
"Th, that can't be!?"
"Come on, let's begin our fun training together!"
In the end, the quartet were led away by the Machos.