"Deal," she raised her hand to play with her hair, "you said you don't belong here. So, you came from another tiny world? Do you plan to go back?"
"I'm going to," he paused, "but I have to do something before going there."
"Don't tell me you are going to kill monsters!" she seemed to still be attached to her previous identity as a monster.
"I'm going to kill monsters and humans alike."
"You hold grudges against both? Wow! You are very twisted in here," she pointed at her slightly bulging chests, before she realised the two lumps which weren't there before. For a reason she didn't get, she felt embarrassed, a weird heat that hit her body and blushed her face.
"That's normal," William noticed the change she struggled to understand, "you are a human now, a very good-looking lady on top of that. So… You need to understand that certain parts of your body are quite… Special…"
He couldn't believe he was teaching such matters to a monster who turned to a human. But he promised to take good care of her, and he planned to stick to his words.
"Humans are really weird," she kept muttering while they started to walk back to the city, "what are you doing by the way? Is this man's famous cooking?"
"Famous cooking?!" William turned to her and blinked in confusion. She nodded, while her eyes were fixed over the grenades he was making.
"Monsters just eat fresh meat and nothing else," she explained, "but humans… You do make lots of changes to any meat and other ingredients. Human food is a legend among high end monsters."
"Then try these," William took out some dried-out food, ones he still had from his time back at the guild, "these aren't the best, but they have good taste."
"For real?" she even drooled when she got the dried rations, making William believe she was sincere in what she just said.
He watched how she ate these rations, crying at some point, moaning in satisfaction and pleasure at other times. He couldn't bring himself to watch such a scene and turned to focus again on making his grenades.
She was indeed feeling something that William or other humans wouldn't appreciate or understand. It was like she said, monsters never enjoyed meals like humans did.
Tasting this food, even if it was just dried up and lacking lots of good taste, she was still feeling like she was in heaven seven.
William totally ignored her, ignored her repeated requests to eat more. He told her that eating too much isn't good for a human, for a fine-looking lady like herself with such an explosive figure.
She was stubborn, and he just promised her a much better meal when they'd return home. As for now, she'd stick to his eating routine, three times a day, the normal routine of any human.
They kept walking back to the city, while she never stopped complaining about his stinginess. At the same time, each time she ate a dried up meal, she'd show the same intense reactions, never getting used to this.
William felt irritated at first, but started to get amused by what she was doing. Slowly he got used to her by his side and decided to give her a name.
"You don't have a name?" This was something that was a bit surprising to him.
"Monsters don't need names, we are only famous by our bodies and abilities," she waved her hair, in a motion that told William she was trying to show off or something.
"Then I'll call you Karoline," he randomly picked her this name. And he never expected the weird response she gave to him.
"Wow! I like it! Karoline? Is that my name now? Human world is really weird and interesting, I love it!"
"..."
William gave her a weird look before deciding to continue forging his grenades. She was curious about everything he was doing, had unexpected reactions to even the simplest of things.
For example, when they walked for long, for two days straight, she suddenly started to yawn repeatedly. When she slept, she woke up, saying that she had a weird experience during her sleep, and saw things that didn't look real. She was fearing she got under an illusion or something, but William reassured her and told her these were dreams.
To his surprise, she told him that monsters didn't dream. She kept pestering him for the next day about dreams, how they happened, and what made only humans experience them.
Then she started to ask William to sleep, sleeping every night for long hours. William was speechless about this, and tried more than once to dissuade her from doing this, but he failed.
"I'll just forge more grenades then," as their advance speed got greatly decreased by her actions, he decided to make the best use of this time to make more grenades.
And when she asked him to sleep in the day as well, he threatened to leave her behind and go back to his world alone if she kept doing such weird stuff!
She resigned to his wishes, but wasn't totally agreeing with him. In her opinion, humans had to sleep more often, to experience the marvels of the dream world.
She kept fixed on this point for three days until William thought of a random excuse to let her drop talking about this. He told her that humans only gained access to that marvellous world once per day. So, no matter how many times they slept, they'd just dream only once.
"Then we shall sleep more hours then!" when he thought he already fixed this headache, her eyes shone brightly as if she realised something big, "let's sleep half of the day, or the entire night! Yes, sleeping the entire night is better!"
"You are already sleeping the entire night!"
"Then I'll sleep half of the day alongside the night then…"
"..."
"Yes, that's a good plan!"
"That's a terrible idea!"
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