Grim and the others woke up to the sound of loud thuds. They all were fluttering their eyes open to find out who was making the noise.

Grim looked at the room and saw that George wasn't in sight. He then opened the door and saw George having a hard time doing push-ups.

George was sweating profusely as his arms shook due to his tiredness. After a second, he then fell to the floor, creating a large thud. He then got back up again, planning to do it again.

Grim wondered why he was exercising for once since he hasn't seen him exercise the previous days. So, he asked.

"George. Why?" He asked in his normal voice, startling George who did not see nor hear the door open as he fell and made a large thud again.

"Training..." George muttered.

"We have work." Grim replied, he then put on his wig again.

"Ted told me that we're opening at the original time. So it won't be open for another hour." George muttered as he got into a sitting position.

"Oka-" Grim was interrupted after Tina zoomed past them and downstairs.

"I need to pee!" Tina shouted as she entered the bathroom.

The whole group was silent as the event occurred.

"Good thing I taught her how to pee." Grim mumbled, remembering the training he gave her on how to whilst in human form. He shivered at the memories. "Anyways...George. Why do you want to train?"

"I want to be stronger." George admitted. Grim just looked at him and sighed.

"Fine, just don't be too loud." Grim then went downstairs.

"Yeah, yeah." George said as he got back in position. He then proceeded to exercise for 30 more minutes before having to rest and ready up for work again.

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Working again for the second time was a little easier than yesterday. George and the others noticed that it was easier since they've worked for 8 hours and had since been used to it.

Cooking wasn't much of a difficulty for Ted, George, and Isaac. Though it was still hard, it was not as hard as yesterday.

Some of the customers from yesterday seemed to eat there again as well as new customers.

The dishes were being ordered left and right, and beer came after all the dishes were eaten.

It was a huge improvement for the tavern as many people came to eat.

Ted counted the earnings yesterday and counted up to at least more than 10,000 silver coins.

Though some were used to buying more ingredients, it still didn't change the fact that he was making thousands of silver coins.

A few hours had passed and customers were still coming. Many were allured by the maids as they ate. The customers were satisfied both figuratively and literally. Grim's break was nearing and he prepared by quickly taking a sandwich and hiding it somewhere.

Then, as he was still working, the three thugs from before walked through the entrance. They looked all over the room. Grim wasn't fazed at all by the three's arrival cause who would attack a maid when there's a ton of people there?

When the three saw Grim, they quickly walked toward him. Grim was calm, he knew that they couldn't do anything that would aggravate the customers.

Once they were near Grim, Brok took the initiative. Grim's back was facing the thugs.

"Remember us?" Brok spoke up. Grim then turned around with a cheerful expression.

"Yup. You guys are the people who wanted to rape me." Grim said, shocking everyone in the room. Emily, Mileena, and Yu gasped in shock. Tina was wondering what the word 'rape' meant. The customers were the most shocked, their eyes were filled with disbelief, shock, and most of all...

anger.

"HERETIC!" Some of the customers shouted as they stood up.

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"How dare you do such acts in this very territory!" An old man said as he stood up, staff in hand. "You three would very much be a good sacrifice for Borat."

"Yes, indeed." A buff customer said as he brought out a war hammer. "Your sacrifice shall bring a great harvest to all of us farmers."

The customers then proceeded to surround the three thugs, Grim just had a cheeky smile.

"Wait, Wait, Wait!" Brok shouted, halting the customer's advance. He then turned to Grim before bowing down, his head hit the very floor. "We are very sorry! We do not have the intention to rape you! We just wanted to play some poker!"

The statement shocked the customers and the maids, except for Tina. Grim just stood there, silent as he was dumbfounded.

"You just wanted to play some poker eh?" Grim asked before shouting. "You could've just said that!"

"Yes, yes, we are very sorry." The bald one said as he and the ponytailed one both bowed as well.

"Is this true?" The buff one asked the elder.

"Hm...yes, their heart says it all." The elder replied. "Anyways, back to my mashed potatoes."

The customers then returned to their seats as the problem was solved.

"What was all that?" Emily asked Yu.

"I think that was the Peasants Association." Yu replied. Emily raised an eyebrow. "They are a group of people who believe in Borat, the god of the harvest. In his teachings, it said to never do sexual acts like pre-marital sex, rape and other mischievous acts like it before marriage."

"Huh..." Emily muttered before going back to serving the customers.

"My break's going to start soon." Grim started, the three were still in front of him, bowing. "You guys wanna play poker?"

The three then stopped bowing and Brok spoke up.

"Sure..." Grim then gave off a sinister grin.

"Wanna bet?" He said, making the other three smirk.

"Bet your money?" The ponytailed one asked to which Grim nodded. "It's on."

"Meet me at the back later." Grim said before going back to the kitchen. The three thugs then left the tavern.

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After that, it was all quiet and peaceful again. Grim was at the back playing poker with the three thugs. Suddenly, a group of people wearing full leather armor entered the tavern. There were ten of them present and one of them had bulkier armor and was taller than the rest.

The leader then took a step before announcing.

"Who here wounded a member of mine..." The leader growled. All the customers looked at them before some of them pointed to Tina who was serving someone a mug of beer.

The leader then made his way toward Tina. The customers just continued to eat normally. Tina noticed that someone was behind her because of the shadow that loomed over her. She then turned around to face the leader.

"What do you want?" Tina grumbled.

"Did you punch one of my members?" The leader asked her.

"Hard to say, I punched a lot of customers yesterday." She replied, remembering the times she punched customers.

"Was there a person you hurt a lot?"

"Yeah, a brown-haired dude who kept saying 'harder mommy' every time I punch him." Tina said annoyingly as she remembered Grim.

"Anyone else?"

"One guy, black hair, brown skin, seemed to like being punched in the face a lot." Tina replied.

"Yup, that's Jonathan alright." The leader finally found out who punched Jonathan. "Well, because you beat him up, you'll have to fight me."

"Oh yeah?" Tina asked loudly.

"Yeah!" The leader said excitedly.

"Yeah?" Tina said louder than before, grinning in the process.

"Yeah!!" The leader said more excitedly than before.

"Can't, I've got a job to do." Tina then walked away, leaving the leader standing there, dumbfounded.

"H-hey! I challenge you to a fight!" The leader said.

"Dumbass, didn't I just tell you I've got a job to do!?" Tina shouted angrily at the leader as she turned around to face him.

"Just fight me!"

"Like hell, I would!" Tina was angry.

"Just hit me!" The leader shouted angrily.

"Fine!" Tina then slammed her right fist towards the side of the leader's helmet. The punch was powerful as it made the leader stumble a bit. It was also strong enough to make the head snap to the right.

"Ooohhhh..." The others in leather armor said in awe at the hit. One of them put their hand in the crotch area.

The members saw that their leader was silent and they could feel it rising. Suddenly, a customer entered the tavern and saw the leather armored people.

"Oh, the Masochistic Marauders are here?" The customer asked another.

"Yup."

Tina then realized what they were. The leader then let out a moan.

'Ah, shit.' Tina really regretted hitting the leader.

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It was now closing time, the customers were all leaving the tavern. That left the workers to clean up after them. Tina was exhausted while the others weren't. George asked her what happened and she replied with the simplest of answers.

"Masochists."

"Told you people would want to be beaten up by you." Grim chirped as he fixed the tables. Tina ended up beating all of the members that were present there. She punched them all so hard that they couldn't even speak. Of course, they still ordered some beer but after that, they left.

The entrance door then opened, revealing Brok and the other two holding a chest. They then placed it on the floor.

"Here you go Grim. You're earnings from the game." Brok told him before leaving.

The three got to know Grim better during the poker game. They found out that he was a he and not a she. He also won all of the games.

"Grim, what is that?" George said, looking at the chest.

"Oh, that? My prize for winning." Grim said bluntly.

"Did you cheat using magic?" George asked.

"Of course not! They don't call me The King of Vegas for no reason." Grim said with a smug smirk.

"What did you do in Vegas?" George asked.

"What happens in Las Vegas, stays in Las Vegas." Grim replied.

They then continued to talk more as they finished cleaning. Once that was over, they all went up to the break room to sleep. Grim carried the chest upstairs in the room.

"Hey, Ted." George who was still downstairs with Ted spoke up.

"Yeah?"

"You know, once the week is over, you'll have to hire some workers." George said.

"Yes, yes, I know that." Ted nodded. Only three more days left to finish the quest.

"Well, goodnight."

"Goodnight."