The Alraune shrieks and both you and Brenda are freed from the trance. Then an elf hops down to the back right side of the Alraune. The elf then takes aim at the plant, well not exactly. He is aiming in the general direction of the Alraune at least, but his bow is incredibly shaky, and when he fires, he nearly hits Brenda with the arrow.
"Hey, where the fuck are you aiming at?" Shouts Brenda as she hurls her log spear towards the Alraune. The log spear pierces the monster and makes it burst into tiny pieces due to the sheer force of the impact. The elf then drops to his knees, looking absolutely distraught.
After a brief few moment, in which Brenda recovered her log spear and the elf didn't move, he suddenly jumps up to his feet and draws his bow towards Brenda. "You killed her! She was so pretty and now she is just a pile of tiny bits!"
Clearly this is Ned. And from the context just now, he likely had made this monster his "waifu" simply because of its feminine appearance. You shake your head in disbelief while Brenda raises her log spear and threateningly aims it at Ned. Ned, of course backs down immediately, as he actually wants to not die today.
"Damn it Ned! Your dumbass nearly hit me with an arrow, and now you try and shoot at me again? Maybe I should hit you once through the legs to remind you whose side you are on?" Says Brenda angrily.
"Wait, Brenda? Oh shit. Uh, sorry about that." Quickly apologises Ned when he realizes who he is talking with. You walk over to him as well, which obviously makes him look at you weirdly, given your attire and figure. "Hello, I'm Ned. You wouldn't happen to be single would you?"
This time Brenda does hit him, just with her fist and not her spear. He still drops to his knees while clutching his stomach and gasping for air. Apparently she knocked the wind out of him too.
You walk over to your crumpled "friend" and squat down in front of him, something which Brenda tries to politely stop you from doing as she doesn't realize that you are intentionally doing this. You pick up Ned by his head and look at him with a smile, which comes off as anything but friendly. "Ned. It's me, Lucas, and if you ever try and kill us to defend a monster again, regardless of if it looks female or not, then I will stab you to death myself and feed your corpse to a pig so you can't be revived. Understand? And don't even think about it. I am not going to be your girlfriend or whatever either."
Ned quickly got the message.
"So you found a sword, picked it up, became a chick with huge tits, and now can only wear a bikini for armor?" Summarizes Ned after hearing what happened to you. "Her boobs also went up a bit in size just recently too as a side effect of some medicine." Adds Brenda. The three of you have calmed down and now are traveling together.
Apparently Ned had also started out alone and had to make a crude bow and a few arrows by hand, which is why his aim was complete shit before. He had a small knife to start with, which had helped him out quite a lot apparently, before he had his "real" weapon. And the two of you are the first people he has encountered as well.