Chapter 147 – Bear-san Leaves The Mine
I decided to stop thinking about the two stones I had just obtained and headed back to the upper floors.
Bearmonite?
There was no use in thinking about sothing I didn’t understand, especially since it wasn’t sothing that important.
After going up a floor, I used detection magic to check if there were any golems remaining.
Hmm, there were.
They hadn’t stopped moving with their boss defeated, huh. Well, it was also possible that they had no connection to the Mithril Golem at all. I would be troubled if that was the case, though.
Even though it was troubleso, I had to defeat every golem that was here and see what happened.
They might not respawn, after all.
Still, doing this on my own would be really troubleso...
Just as I thought about asking Jade-san’s party to help , Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear nudged .
「Will you two help ?」
They cried softly.
「Thank you.」
I hugged them while thanking them.
「Well then, I will take care of the Iron Golems but leave the Stone and Earth Golems to you two, okay?」
The Bears nodded and ran down the tunnel.
「You two get along, okay?」
I only got a kuun from the distance as a reply.
The upper floors were going to be taken care of by Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear, so that left only the Iron Golems to .
The mine didn’t branch out a lot, so this shouldn’t take too long.
I still used detection magic to decide which path to take before storming off.
I crossed paths with the Bears once, and they seed to be properly disposing of the golems.
When I finished dealing with the Iron Golems, I decided to help them, but all golem signals had already disappeared.
I headed for the entrance and found Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear already waiting there for , happily sitting side by side.
Yep, they had dealt with them quickly.
「Thanks for the hard work, Swaying Bear, Hugging Bear.」
I thanked them and put them back into their gloves.
As I had expected, having to clean up all of the golems after defeating the Mithril Golem had left tired. I wanted to get back to the inn quickly and sleep.
On my way back, I noticed so people looking at curiously but decided to ignore them, and when I got to the inn, Idiot Rangers and Jade-san’s party were already there.
「Yuna, you’re late.」
「I thought you would be fine, Yuna-chan, but you made us all worried by coming back this late.」
Well, that was because I had to clean up the mine, you know.
「It got late while I was defeating the golems.」
「It’s useless to defeat them since they will revive tomorrow anyway.」
Senya-san bluntly said.
「About that, Jade-san, could I ask you to do sothing for ?」
「What is it?」
「I defeated all the golems including the golem at the lowest floor, so could you check tomorrow if they respawn or not?」
「...I’m sorry, what did you just say?」
「I defeated all the golems including the golem at the lowest floor, so...」
「...Yuna-chan, you’re joking, right?」
「No, I really defeated it, but I don’t know if it will respawn or not.」
I wouldn’t know until tomorrow at least.
「Hey, you, pet over there, stop lying! You’re telling us that a pet like you defeated a golem that the five of us couldn’t? Don’t joke around.」
Idiot Red approached us with a beer in hand. Had he listened in on our conversation?
While I had been cleaning the mine, I had experinted with lightning magic so more, and in order to see the results of my training, I hit him with a light Bear Lightning Punch.
「Ugya!」
Idiot Red let out a strange voice and collapsed.
「Babord!?」
Babord’s friends quickly ran to his body.
They called his na, but he didn’t answer.
He just lost consciousness and was still alive, right?
Hmm, had I made it a bit too strong? I had to practice it so more, it seed.
Well, it was just the right strength for him since he kept mocking and calling a pet.
I decided to try to deceive them for now.
「Didn’t he just collapse because he drank too much?」
I said and pointed at the beer that was now spilled over the floor.
Luckily, he had drunk most of it, so not much damage had been done.
「There’s no way Babord would be drunk with just that much...」
「He’s sleeping, though.」
They all believed that I had done sothing, but they had no proof without even knowing what it was.
Idiot Red’s friends didn’t say anything else and took his big body to his room, so I sat down and asked for a al.
「Yuna-chan, you really didn’t do anything just now?」
I tilted my head as if I didn’t understand what they were asking .
「Yes, Yuna-chan, you didn’t do anything, right? Babord only collapsed because he was drunk, right?」
l-san was nodding to herself.
「So, Yuna, is what you said before true?」
「Before?」
「About the golem.」
「Ah, about that, huh. I defeated all the golems, including the one at the final floor, so if it doesn’t respawn, we’re done here. It’s up to you if you believe or not.」
「You’re telling the truth, right?」
「Yuna was faster than us, huh.」
Faster than you, you said... You hadn’t even planned on defeating it...
「To tell the truth, we hit it off with Babord’s party while drinking yesterday. We decided to defeat the golem together since it would be better to split the reward rather than let the country have it.」
「We also decided to take today off and defeat it tomorrow.」
「But I was the one who took the kill, huh.」
I hadn’t known anything about that deal.
Hadn’t they all abandoned the idea of defeating it?
「In any case, you did well defeating it on your own.」
「Well, there’s a different thod to do it, after all.」
「Ugh, I wish I could have seen your fight, Yuna-chan...」
If you had been with , I couldn’t have used the transfer gate, though.
「Yuna, I’m sorry, but could you show us the golem? You have it with you, right?」
Hmm, even if they see it up close, they wouldn’t find out that it was mithril, right?
Since I had no real choice, I went outside and took out the Mithril Golem.
「Uhaa, it’s in a terrible state.」
They reacted to the crumbled Mithril Golem.
「How could you put the golem, which even Babord’s party couldn’t defeat, in such a terrible state...?」
「The bear’s strength is incredible...」
「Even if its strength is incredible, could it really put it in such a terrible state?」
When Jade-san tried to inspect the golem in more detail, I heard the innkeeper calling from the inn. My al was ready, it seed.
I answered the innkeeper and put away the Mithril Golem. Since I didn’t want them to inspect it too well, this was perfect timing.
I entered the inn, happy with this outco.
「Yuna defeating this golem might have had an effect on the other golems.」
「You’re right. We should check it out tomorrow.」
「We planned on going in with Babord’s party anyway.」
「True. If any golems still appear, we can just head straight to where the Mithril Golem was, or search the tunnels if they don’t.」
After the al, I went back to my room and considered going to the place where I had fought the Mithril Golem.
Even though people didn’t go there, I didn’t really want to leave a Bear Transfer Gate there.
I was tired and wanted to sleep, but if I go to Mireera during the day tomorrow, soone might see , and that would be troubleso.
I had no other choice but to go now, huh.
I could also do it tomorrow night, but sothing might happen in between.
Since I had no other choice, I installed a Bear Transfer Gate and transferred to the Bear House in Mireera. I looked outside, and it was already dark, which ant it would be easier for to move without being seen.
Also, it was great that my clothes were black! It was a Bear Costu, though...
I rushed out and disappeared into the darkness as if I was so sort of assassin.
Like the last ti, I left the city; it was really practical to have the Bear House near the city’s edge in such cases. If it had been at the center, I would have had a difficult ti moving undetected, even at night.
When I was far enough from the city, I summoned Hugging Bear and rode him to the Bear Transfer Gate. I put away the gate and returned to Mireera as quickly as I could, then transferred back to the inn, changed into White Bear, and dove into bed.
I had Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear with while I slept, of course.
The next day, Idiot Rangers and Jade-san’s party went to the mines.
I lied about still being tired from yesterday so that I could stay in.
By the way, Idiot Red didn’t rember what had happened yesterday at all. He actually believed that he had fallen asleep because he drank too much, it seed. Yep, it was great that he was an idiot.
I ate breakfast and went straight back to sleep.
I had done my best yesterday, so I should take it easy today, right?
I was sure that Fina had been enjoying the capital the last few days, so it was okay, right?
I had asked Eleanora-san to take Fina to the castle. We hadn’t been able to sightsee the castle at all last ti since we had been caught by Princess Flora. I really hoped she had enjoyed the castle tour.
Well, when I had called her with the Bear Phone, she seed to have been having fun, wearing beautiful clothes, and sleeping in a luxurious bedroom.
Eleanora-san had also properly showed her around the castle, and she even had the luxury of having a al with Princess Flora and the King, so the castle tour had been a great idea.
I had also asked Shia to show her around the capital since we had been here during the King’s birthday last ti, and the normal capital gave off a different feeling, so she should be having fun.
I had troubled Fina, after all.
She had to fully enjoy herself.
I woke up for lunch, and while I ate, the adventurers ca back.
「You guys ca back quickly.」
I said and took a spoonful of soup.
「Yeah, we couldn’t find any golems, so we just wandered the mine for a while.」
「I couldn’t believe my eyes... There wasn’t a single golem, even though there had been so many before.」
I didn’t know if it was due to the defeat of the Mithril Golem or the removal of the Bearmonite, but it seed that the golems weren’t respawning anymore.
「Did this pet really defeat that golem on her own?」
Idiot Red said while looking at .
Should I electrocute him again?
「You confird that the last golem wasn’t there anymore, right?」
「Yeah, but to take down the golem that the five of us couldn’t defeat...」
「We told you a lot of things Yuna had done before, right?」
「How she defeated the Tiger Wolves, Black Viper, Goblin King all on her own?」
「Well, normally you wouldn’t believe sothing like that, right?」
l-san seed to agree with Idiot Red’s logic.
I looked around and saw that it wasn’t just l-san; they were all nodding.
Well, it didn’t really matter, did it?
「Okay, so does this an the request is completed?」
I would head back today it it was.
「We have to report to the person in charge of the mine first and consult with him on what to do now.」
Oh right, there must be soone in charge of the mine. I had completely forgotten that they could exist.
Still, reporting to them would probably be a pain.
「Yuna, will you co to make a report with us?」
「It seems like it would be troubleso, so I will leave it to you, Jade-san.」
I tried asking him since I had nothing to lose.
「You’re really..., whatever, if it’s just the report, we can do it. You co too, Babord.」
Oh! I should really ask others to do things for more!
I was really grateful to Jade-san for this.
「Why too...」
「If you co with us, the report will be more credible, right?」
「You just have to take the pet that defeated it then, right?」
「Would you really believe if I told you soone like Yuna completed the request?」
Idiot Red looked at .
「...I wouldn’t」
「And that is why you have to co too.」
「There’s no helping it, I guess.」
Were they insulting , sohow?
It wasn’t just my imagination, right?
Well, they were going to do the troubleso report for , so I should forgive them this ti.
Jade-san’s party and Idiot Rangers headed to the person in charge of the mine, so I summoned Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear and took another nap.
I napped for a while, and then the outside got noisy. I opened my window to check, and saw Jade-san’s party and Idiot Rangers surrounded by the residents, who were thanking them.
Jade-san’s party had troubled faces while Idiot Rangers waved their hands.
Jade-san’s party then sohow managed to escape to the inn without the residents following them.
Thinking sothing had happened, I went down to the dining room on the first floor.
「Did sothing happen?」
「Yuna...」
「You see, they believe that we were the ones who defeated the golems in the mine.」
Jade-san’s party then proceeded to explain.
The residents had seen the nine of them on their way to the mine first thing this morning.
They had seen them on their way back.
Then, they had seen them reporting to the person in charge of the mine.
They had even seen that person thanking them.
The news of the golems being defeated then quickly spread...
Yep, I understood how the story went.
「So, that’s why they now believe that we were the ones who defeated the golems.」
「Not to ntion this idiot waving his hand as well...」
「Shut up, I only waved because they were thanking us!」
「We tried to explain that Yuna-chan had done it, but...」
「...No one even tried to listen.」
「We’re sorry.」
Jade-san apologized with a bow.
Hmm, the way this turned out wasn’t bad, right?
I didn’t want to be surrounded like they had been, and I didn’t want to be famous either, so there wasn’t really anything to apologize for.
Although, I still wanted to be the one credited for the subjugation at the guild, so I asked them about that.
「I will properly report it was you, of course. Babord, you’re okay with this too, right?」
「Of course. I wouldn’t stoop so low as to take achievents from others.」
「You say that, but you were waving your hand before, weren’t you?」
「I waved because they were calling out my na.」
Well, the request should be finished with this, but since it was late already, I decided to go back tomorrow. Fina was waiting for , after all.
I shared my plans with the others.
「About that, you see, it was decided that we should wait for a while longer.」
「......?」
「This is the first ti the golems didn’t revive over the night, so we don’t know if it will be the sa tomorrow or the day after, right?」
「So, it has been decided that we should stay here for ten more days.」
「Huh?」
I couldn’t stay here for ten days.
「Are you kidding ?」
「You can go back, though, Yuna.」
I was relieved to hear that; I couldn’t just leave Fina in Eleanora-san’s care for ten days.
「Since we will be staying here, could you please go to the Adventurer’s Guild and make a report?」
「But what will you guys do if the golem appears again?」
「Nothing. We will leave it to the country. If that golem keeps reviving even when we defeat it, our hands are off.」
Jade-san reinforced his statent by raising his hands into the air.
「Okay, I will go back to the capital tomorrow then.」
Author’s note:
I’m thinking of writing the second volu of the book soon.
I won’t stop posting, but the updates will probably be coming every three days rather than two. I hope you guys can understand that.
This makes recall when I did my best to update every two days so that you wouldn’t find out about the first volu. I almost went crazy back then. w
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