"Right...I haven’t told you. You see, I died and got my soul weapon just recently."

"You died?!" Amygdala was shocked.

"Some monster killed me...it was...overwhelmingly powerful."

Amygdala became angry, "Where is this monster...I’ll rip off its head and shove it up its-"

"-It’s fine now! Haha...I’m alive now." He motioned his hands to calm Amygdala down. "Also, dying wasn’t all bad...you know considering I’m alive now and got a new weapon." Arthur smiled while rubbing his nose.

"Idiot! Don’t ever die again, you hear me? I want to spend your whole life with me, understand?"

"Yes ma’am!...Though I wasn’t planning to die again...Haha. After all, once I die, it’s over right?"

"Good! Let’s meet this Excalibur and see if this weapon is really worthy of my husband!" She proudly exclaimed with a smug face.

Arthur then stretched out his hands, "Let’s see...I think the words were..."

「Врата легендарного Экскалибура открываются и соединяют миры! Разделяйтесь!」

A swirling black vortex with surrounding particles formed instantly.

"Let’s go Amygdala." He opened his palm out to Amygdala.

She then held his hand and they both walked forward into the portal.

≡

Weapon World,

Excalibur

"I’m soooo bored." Excalibur lay flat on a completely white surface that went on as far as the eye could see. Above her was a clear blue sky with perfectly shaped clouds. She held a cute-looking teddy bear that she had formed herself. "When is that poop-haired human going to visit me? Ah right! Maybe I can go visit him instead-Hm?" Excalibur could sense that someone had gained entry into her world and immediately she could tell it was Arthur. However, she couldn’t recognise the other presence she was sensing and it felt somewhat ominous to her.

"That presence-it’s dangerous!" Excalibur then flew into the air and watched from far into the air, looking down on the black portal. She then slyly snickered, "Hehe-once they fully go through the portal I’ll hit them with one of my famous attacks!"

Arthur and Amygdala stepped through the portal. He then looked around the vast empty world while still holding hands with Amygdala. "I wonder where Exca-"

"-EXACALIKICKKK!!!"

Arthur looked up to see something coming down at him, "Huh."

Excalibur shot down from the sky and launched her foot first into Arthur’s face and it sent him back quite a distance. She then stood proudly with her chest out. Excalibur puffed out her chest and placed her hands on her hips, "Haha! Begone evil creature!"

She then turned to her side and looked at Amygdala, who stood there surprised. "Haha, Arthur I saved you from quite a strong foe! You can thank me now-"

Excalibur stared at her with completely thoughtless eyes.

"Hello...?" Amygdala tilted her head while waving her hand.

Excalibur started to sweat bullets, realising that she had hit the wrong person. "Aha...Hello.." She replied while weakly waving back and then stared forward at Arthur, who was face-first in the ground. "Lovely weather, right?"

"Ah! Right...I guess so..." Amygdala also stared at Arthur, who had now gotten up. He looked quite angry. "Were you aiming for me maybe?" She pointed to herself.

"That was the plan...from your presence...I thought you were some scary monster."

"I see."

Arthur came running at Excalibur.

"You damm idiot! What’s the big idea kicking me right in the face?!" Arthur curled up his fist and started twisting his knuckles on top of Excalibur’s head.

"Wahhh! Arthur stop it! I was trying to protect you!" She exclaimed while sniffling out her words.

"Good job protecting me you idiot!" He sarcastically replied as he continued to dish out his punishment to Excalibur.

"Aha...Arthur, shouldn’t you introduce me to your...weapon?" Amygdala asked, partially to stop Excalibur’s well-deserved punishment.

"Ah right..." Arthur then closed his eyes while furrowing his eyebrows, still annoyed by that surprise welcome kick he received. Excalibur started rubbing the top of her head, "That really hurt..."

"Excalibur! Meet the most beautiful goddess and woman in the whole wide world!" He then stretched out his arms high up in the air and smugly smiled, "My wife-Amygdala! Hooray!"

Amygdala couldn’t help but blush at that somewhat embarrassing introduction, "My~I wouldn’t say I’m the most beautiful..." She put her hand on her cheek, while resting her elbow on the palm of the other hand.

"You absolutely are and I won’t let anyone disagree with it. Not even you. If you do I’ll be super mad. Hmph!" Arthur folded his arms and turned his head away, slightly red in the face.

Excalibur’s eyebrow twitched and she stuck out her tongue. She had a disgusted look on her face, "Blegh! How cringe..." She said under her breath and thought to herself, "I don’t think I’ll be able to hang around these two..."

Excalibur was unfamiliar with this concept of love and after watching it firsthand she made up her mind that she’d never act in such a way.

≡

Vastos,

Some forest near Kagekawa’s house

Both Chronos and Kagekawa were walking together in the forest, in hopes of finding a big monster to slay so that Chronos would gain some valuable experience. They had caught onto a trail because they saw multiple branches cracked off trees or hanging broken off. However, there was no trail on the ground.

"Master! Do you know what monster it could be?"

"Haha! I have a slight idea but I wouldn’t want to give it away." Kagekawa grinned from ear to ear while walking slightly behind Chronos. He decided to let Chronos lead as a learning experience. For Kagekawa it would take mere moments to track and slay this monster.

"No fun..." Chronos had picked up a twig and was swinging from side to side while traversing through the path and bushes, doing his best to follow the trail of broken branches.

"I’d argue it’s more fun not to know and I can’t just give away anything or else it’d make it easier for you." He ruffled up Chronos’s hair.

"Yeah, yeah...Master, is there anyone stronger than you?" Chronos asked.

"Besides Sedah?"

"Yeah other than him..."

"Well..." Kagekawa crossed his arms and thought deeply while still following Chronos, who was keeping his eyes to the sky to find any cracked tree branches that he could follow. "Nope! Not that I’ve met anyway." Kagekawa confidently said. "Hmmm...ah! Maybe him!"

"Him?"

"Well, I’m not sure how strong he is now."

"Who are you talking about?"

"Ah right...he’s the head of Vastos’s guild-Voyage. I met him when he was just a teenager and he showed great promise. He’s still quite young. But anyways it seems he’s living up to that potential I saw in him...let me think. That’s it! He fought against this great sea creature that people named Kraken! I’m not sure how strong that monster is as I’ve never encountered it before but I’ve heard that it’s sunk many ships and taken the lives of many. Even an S-Class adventurer along with a few A-Class adventurers had died to this monster. He’s also travelled across the world to different lands and countries, finding dungeons and such. Truly, he’s the embodiment of what it means to be an adventurer! At a young age, he became the highest-ranked adventurer you can be, S-rank."

"Wow! He sounds amazing!"

"Doesn’t he? He became the head of Voyage at such a young age and that position only remains for the strongest adventurer. It seems he’s doing a great job in running the guild as well so I guess he’s not all brawn. Haha!...if there was to be someone else stronger than me now besides Sedah...I reckon it would be that brat."

"What’s his name?" 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

"Alberecht Leonhardt. I battled him when he was a teenager and so I naturally beat him. Ah! Don’t get me wrong! He challenged me to a fight...and it was an honourable match! I wasn’t just beating a teenager up, alright?!... Ahem! Despite his age, I could feel the power from his blows and it was clear that it was only a matter of time before he became famous around the world. Haha! I didn’t expect him to beat the previous head of Voyage so early in his life though. The previous head of Voyage was no joke!"

"Alberecht Leonhardt...if you were to compare his teenage self to Arthur-"

"-Alberecht would win." Kagekawa then thought longer for a moment, "That’s just my opinion though...you never know what could happen in a fight after all."

"GROOOWAAKK!!" A shriek suddenly filled Chronos’s ear, "Gah! What was that?!" He reflexively covered both his ears and looked around.

Kagekawa folded his arms and stood there completely relaxed, "A flukeycus..."

Flukeycus have a monkey-like build with blue fur all around their body and six green-coloured eyes on a red wrinkly-looking face. They have a small stature of around four feet but their forearms are disproportionately bigger than the rest of their bodies. They are aggressive towards humans and are known to attack unprovoked. Primarily, they swing from branch to branch using their hands or tail and live in the forest, eating fruits and berries. They are more intelligent compared to most monsters and will use their hands, feet or bite to fight.

As soon as the ear-piercing screech stopped, Chronos immediately reached for his sword that was strapped to his side. He pointed it upwards to the flukeycus

"Bring it, you damm monkey!"