"One swing, two swings, three swings... one hundred fifty-eight swings, one hundred fifty-nine swings, one hundred sixty swings!" Phew, such intense feeling, to have reached a new height.

"Hahaaha! A new limit!" I say happily outside while gasping for air, holding my hand up high while quenching my fist. Sweat dripping from my forehead down on my neck to my gray shirt.

"One day, I will reach that high," I say looking up to the thousands of stars, at the same time fire dancing around me.

"Well, better get up and start cleaning this mess up," I say sitting in a meditative state. I breathe in, and out, filling my light red mana core with mana, siphoning from the ambient mana around me, quenching the beautiful fire dancing around me.

"Well, better start cooking before she's getting home." I'm such a lucky guy, aren't I? Such a beautiful fiance. "Get home soon Aria," I say with a bright smile on my face. "Well, enough with the chit-chatting, better get in before I start freezing," as the temperature starts dipping below sub-zero.

As I waltz towards our house, our little castle, protection for the queen. I look towards the meadow beside, a road filled with gravel and I see a dark silhouette. With long black hair that fell down on her shoulders in waves and a figure that her tight clothes only accentuated.

"Ah, speak of the devil, the queen has arrived," I say lifting my 21 kilograms, steel sword clad in dark silver with a handle made out of Titanbear's leather.

"Hi, honey!" I hear beyond the wall. As she is coming further towards me I see her having a bright smile that warms up my heart, including a bright shine that radiates the world.

"So how was the doctor's appointment? Nothing serious I hope" I say while putting fried chicken into the soup with a pinch of garlic and chopped mushrooms.

"No, nothing was serious, I was just feeling quite feverish," she said as I saw her hiding something from me.

"Oh, that's good, but I feel that you are hiding something from me. That you are quite proud of, so what happened today?" I say with a smile and eyes that can scan her soul. 

"Eh, nothing much happened," Aria said quite nervously and hastily while looking for an answer.

"Come on, say" I affirm my question.

"Okay fine -" she finally answered after a while, "I actually, saved someone's life, I tried out my new theory of technique and I was able to save him. I was also praised for my technique by Elder Claire, a solid-yellow stage. A SOLID-YELLOW STAGE! She is like, stronger than half of us, the Windward Crew. Well her mana pool is larger than ours. And she praised me!" she responds quite happy but it feels like she is still hiding something from me because she is overreacting. But, I won't burrow further than this. 

"That's great honey! To test out your new theory and able to do it practically. You're so great, man I am lucky to have you in my life!" I yell out and put my hand on my face.

"And I am so lucky to have you in my life too" she responds with a bright smile. "So what are you gonna do now, after your training session?" She questioned me out of curiosity.

"I guess I am gonna take a shower, later go to the Drunkard-Man with Andrew and Fredrick. In the meantime, you might go out with Amber, Diane, Lilith, and Reinna. A boys' night out and a girls' night, how about that?" I ask proudly because of the smart idea I came up with, on the spot.

"That sounds like a wonderful idea! Let's contact them by the communication scrolls!" she said, surprisingly convinced. 

"Alright let's use the Windward Crew's rune communication scroll to reach all of them at the same time. It's been a while since we saw each other, two weeks ag-" Aria cut me short and held up three fingers "Three actually."

"Yeah, yeah, same thing." I retort, jokingly annoyed.

"What are you gonna do without me" while putting her palm on her face. 

"I would probably be in a dungeon," I say without breaking a beat. "Indeed... You would be lost in a dungeon together with Andrew," she said with a gentle smile, but with a jealous grin inside. "You know what, let me take a shower first," I responded hurriedly.

After my shower, cleaning up my body which was drenched in sweat, I looked into the mirror. "Man I need to shave." "INDEED!" I hear from downstairs, how can she hear me? "I JUST KNOW!" She responded to my thoughts, women are scary...

I hear some chuckling from downstairs. How can she know? Enough with that. I sat in front of the bucket and started to shave, brown hair, falling into the bucket. After 20 minutes of work and some blood spilled in the war against my own hair, I have come out on top and won. 

I made my way downstairs where Aria is working on putting up all the necessary things on the communication scroll. A mana beast core, some runes, a feather, and the representative of the Windwards Crew, Ethan Windstone, me. Aria proceeds to send out mana connections through the runes and the faces of Andrew, Amber, Diane and Fredrick, Lilith and Reinna's faces appear on the scroll. 

"Hi, everywone!" As I looked on the communication scroll I saw the faces of all the people who think the same thing. She bit her tongue. How cute.

I proceed to take over the meeting, "Hello everyone! I am here to inform you that we are going to do something fun, for the boys. We are going to have a boys' night out, while girls also get a girls' night out." As I conveyed this message to everyone, it looked as if Lilith wished to die, while Reinna stood there and clapped her hands.

"That's a wonderful idea!" I hear from the green blond-haired elf.

"Sounds good to me." from Diane and Fredrick.

"Hey, don't get pissed drunk now." I could hear from the image of a red-haired man "otherwise you're gonna lose".

"I won't lose this time Andrew, this time you are gonna pay me." I say with a smug face, I have been secretly boosting my alcohol tolerance, and this time, I won't lose- "Ouch, ouch my ear!" 

"Now, sweetie, don't drink too much, oh and girls, I-'' she blinks once, and then twice. I have no clue what that could mean, but the girls understood and did a thumbs-up, even Lilith who looked dead inside, looked up with a curious face and did a thumbs-up. 

"Alright it's settled, let's meet up at 9 o’clock, the men meet at the Drunkard-Man and we Ladies meet at the SweetWoods-café." Aria relayed the information, everyone did a thumbs-up. We then ended the communication scroll's mana fluctuation by removing the mana beast core. After removing the mana beast core the core withered and crumbled into thousands of pieces in ash gray color, it never ceases to amaze me, the crumbling feeling in my hands.

"It's settled, you will get to drink with the boys and I can speak with some manners with the girls. See you later honey." She comes closer to me and gives me a huge firm hug and kisses me on the mouth with her soft sweet lips.

"See you later, my beautiful queen." and I kiss her back, I might get more addicted to her soft lips.

As time looms closer I stride towards the Drunkard-Man, besides this time I am going to win, Andrew.