Both the beast and Bawl stare each other down, and Eonni watches the 2 from a high elevation far away.

“2 powerful creatures going head-to-head, incredible!” Eonni thinks to herself.

The two stare at each other, eyeing each other down.

“That thing he did, I did that before, I should do it.” Bawl thinks, thinking back to the times he caused different animals to faint so he could eat them.

They both do a soul release which causes a clash of aura and their willpower. The vicinity is blown away and cracked at their clash, and Eonni tries to keep herself conscious.

Bawl and the beast walk towards each other as they continue their clash of willpower. Bawl manages to win the clash of willpower and pushes the monster back a little. The monster steps on the ground, which causes multiple geysers to shoot out of the ground towards him.

“Oh, can’t block that.”

Bawl dodges the geyser and the beast notices. It attacks him in the air using an even stranger blast of steaming water. Bawl doesn’t reflect this and just covers his face. He is sent back due to the attack; the monster deduces that he can only reflect when on a surface.

“Why did it have to attack me from ground? I can’t block that.”

Bawl gets up from the rubble he fell into, bruises around his body, and runs back towards the monster, the monster jumps into the air and swings in fins, sending water slashes towards Bawl. Bawl reflects them all and jumps towards the beast, he counterattacks and sends the monster back to the ground. The beast dives into the ground to avoid hitting the ground, Bawl falls to the ground, but water slashes are sent towards him from below.

He manages to dodge them all by blowing around, he is inches before reaching the ground before a water slash hits him from below.

He is hit but no damage is dealt. Bawl destroys the ground in order to lure out the monster, which he is successful at, it jumps out of the ground.

Bawl runs towards the monster; he looks at his wristband and sees the time limit now at 3 minutes.

“Hmm, countdown I'm pretty sure, need to finish this fast.”

He runs towards the beast that continues to throw water and slashes his way, he deflects them back at the monster.

The monster is hit by its own attack, but it doesn’t do much damage, Bawl is inches before the monster, the monster tries to step on him, but he deflects it and counterattacks, he then punches the monster in the face.

The monster roars and flies back, summoning balls of steaming water. Bawl looks at his wristbands and sees he only has 2 minutes left. He dashes towards the monster, dodging and reflecting the water balls. The monster’s gills glow bright red, and it charges up an extremely powerful blast from a red ball that appears at its mouth, the water from the whirlpool goes into the ball at its mouth, and the water gets extremely condensed and spins extremely fast. Bawl sharpens his senses to have farther vision and sees how the ball is reacting. The area is shaking, and the gravity is shifting, some areas getting heavier and others losing gravity. Eonni is floating, using her straps to prevent herself from floating higher. Bawl looks at his wristband and sees that he only has 40 seconds left. Bawl jumps towards the beast and the beast releases its attack, turning into a large beam of red water.

Bawl manages to use his hand to slide on the beam and now flies on top of him, he clenches his fist, declares rock, and punches it in the face. The punch is incredibly powerful and sends it straight to the ground, causing a massive crater.

The monster turns into liquid and dissolves and so it reveals the monster, no longer large but now small, pet size.

“Did he, do it?”

Eonni runs towards Bawl and sees him near the monster.

“You...actually did it.”

“Of course I did.”

Bawl taps the monster on the face, trying to make it up, he knows he didn't kill, but he still held back quite a bit even when 2% of his power was released, his transformation seemed to end, and his skin returned back the light and his hair going back down and returning the color black, and he puts back on his headband.

The domain starts to disappear.

“Huh? What happened?” Belle thought to herself, flying back into the sky and seeing the large amount of water at the center. She flies towards it and sees Bawl and Eonni standing next to the monster.

She flies down and lands, she runs towards Bawl and grabs him, “Are you okay! Any injuries!”

Bawl shows mild bruises on his face and arms.

“Okay, nothing too serious, that’s good.”

Soldiers enter the area and surround it as well, preventing anyone from entering, Bawl is on the outside, being walked away by Belle.

“We’ll go to a good doctor I know, she’ll heal you right up.”

Eonni is on the rooftop following the 2, hidden from view.

The two reach a clinic that says [Grandma’s Love Spot].

“Wow, it’s still in peak condition,” Belle says.

The both of them walk in and it's much larger on the inside. They see it’s currently empty, so Belle walks to the counter and rings the bell.

The door behind the counter opens and a woman comes from the door.

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She’s a young slim Spanish woman and a bit muscular, has noticeable thighs, being quite thick, she has short light gray hair with 2 strands that have spiraling hair ties on it, her eyes are very narrow, so it seems they are closed and a pink tongue. She wears a white long-sleeved button shirt, white gloves, a dark blue long skirt, a yellow sash around her waist, black thigh-high socks, and navy blue heels.

“Oh, what do we have here, a little baby? Seems he has some bruises.”

“Yeah, I’ll need you to heal him up.”

“Anything for a friend, right this way.” The woman motions towards a hallway and walks with them to a room.

In the room is what you would find in a typical check-up hospital.

“Sit down baby.” The woman says.

Bawl knows he’s the one she means so he goes to the bed and jumps on, and Bawl sits in a chair.

“Lay down for me.” she says as she moves his body to lay down, “Let me see how many.”

She checks all over his body to see how many bruises he has from his fight. Some on his back, his arm, his face, and his stomach.

“Nothing major.”

She takes off her gloves and starts pressing on parts of his body, Bawl reacts a little to the coldness of her hands and feels a little ticklish.

“Alright time to check here.” She goes into his pants and checks his testicles. Bawl tries his hardest to hold in his laughter because of how ticklish he is.

“Is checking everywhere really necessary?” Belle asks.

“Of course it’s necessary, I’m a doctor, I need to make sure that I heal everything.”

She keeps feeling for a couple of minutes before stopping, “He’s healthy there, seems there’s only the bruises.”

The woman stretches her fingers and arms, “I’ll need to relax for what I’m about to do, okay baby?”

Bawl nods, understanding. She clenches her fist and veins appear on it, she punches Bawl in the stomach quite hard. Bawl reacts a little to this and Belle doesn’t seem surprised at what she did.

“There we go sweetie, all healed.” She picks Bawl back up and has him sit down on the bed.

Bawl looks at his body and sees all his bruises and fatigue are gone.

“Cool, who are you?”

“You can call me Grandma.”

“Okay, Grandma.”

Belle walks towards the two with a Sour Cream Sugar Cookie, “Here you go.”

Bawl takes the cookie and eats it.

“Oh? You normally don’t give you cookies for free, what makes this little baby special?”

“He’s just someone I felt pity for, he was nearly sent to jail.”

“He was the one sent to trial yesterday?”

“Yep.”

“Poor baby, thank goddess this baby was set free, these are our future, make sure to raise him like a mom.”

“What, no, I’m not a mom, I’m too young for that.”

“Being a mother isn’t stressful; I had 2 kids and 1 grandchild.”

“Yeah, by the way, did you ever find her?”

“Unfortunately, no I haven’t, she hasn't called me or anything, I think she’s still upset.”

A soldier rushes into the room, sweating and panting. Grandma walks up to him and knees him in the stomach, which removes his fatigue.

“What’s wrong dear?” Grandma asks.

“Ms. Clothrone, it seems that something was stolen from the vault!”

“What! What was stolen?”

“The Witch’s Rose, miss.”

“Alright, let's go, Grandma, can you keep Bawl with you?”

“Sure.”

Belle leaves the clinic with the soldier while Bawl stays with Grandma.

The soldier takes off his badge and presses on the symbol while putting his finger on Belle’s shoulder. They teleport to the Treasury of the Hero’s Past and see multiple guards stationed at the entrance, she walks into the vault towards the Witch’s Rose Section and sees that it’s really gone.

“Do you know when this happened?”

“Well, we assume that it happened during the monster attack, all guards were summoned to deal with the monster that invaded the city, so no one was present to guard the treasure, so we deduced that someone snuck in and took it.”

“I see, that’s bad.” Belle bites on her nails, sweating a little, the flower was an extremely powerful artifact.

“That flower was created by the space witch, and it granted you the powers she had when she was alive, if someone evil has it then it could cause some trouble.”

Another woman walks into the room. She has Latina skin, a curvy body, she has dark purple hair with a ponytail, and orange eyes. She wears a black dress, topped by a white overcoat-like garment with a high collar and a skirt-like garment, and black boots.

“Excuse me, I was told there was an emergency?”

“Oh, another one of the big 7.” A soldier thinks.

The woman walks to the room and towards Belle. “Hello, my name is Briana, we have met before during meetings.”

“Yeah, I know your name, don’t worry.”

“So, what was the emer-, oh”

Briana notices that the Witch’s Rose is gone, “So this is the emergency.”

“Correct.”

“Don’t we have cameras here?”

A soldier walks up to both of them, “We did check the cameras, but it seemed that the thief’s entire appearance was blurred so we couldn’t get any visuals.”

“I see,” Briana says.

It cuts to Bawl and Grandma playing with each other, Grandma treating him like a baby, and feeding him Sour Cream Sugar Cookies.

“So that’s what you have been doing so far, have you ever thought about becoming a raider?”

“Hm? What’s that?”

“You don’t know what raider is? It’s a person who raids the dungeons that appear all over the world and returns with valuable items and tools that could be used to progress humanity. How do you think we created technology that allows one to access their skills?”

Bawl shrugs his shoulders since he never knew any of this.

“Sounds cool, I want to become a r-raider.”

“Well, if you want to be a raider, you will have to take the raider’s exam so HQ can see if you’re qualified.”

“Awesome, I’ll do it, where do I go?”

“It’s actually going to start in 2 days; you’ll have to apply then.”

“Hmm, 3 big things.”

“You don’t have to take it this month, the exam happens every month.”

“No, I’ll do it, I’ll beat it and get super cool stuff.”

“That’s the spirit.”