Bear-san Fights the Tiger Wolf
The gatekeeper looked at me suspiciously as I departed from the Royal Capital, but I didn’t care. I left the Royal Capital and summoned Swaying Bear a short distance away.
“Well then, Swaying Bear, please.”
“Kuh~n.”
I straddled Swaying Bear, and Swaying Bear started to run.
Fina and Tirumina-san might get worried if I was even slightly late, so I decided to defeat the Tiger Wolf pack quickly so that I could go home as soon as possible.
“Swaying Bear, let’s hurry up.”
“Kuh~n.”
Swaying Bear accelerated at my words.
Thanks in part to the fact that I took turns running with Hugging Bear and Swaying Bear along the way, I arrived in the village the man had told me about in no time.
“This must be it.”
I got off Hugging Bear.
I didn’t want the villagers to mistake Bears for the Tiger Wolf and be alarmed, so I unsummoned them.
I entered the village, looking around for any signs.
Some of the fences were broken, and the village was quiet.
I have an omnious feeling.
I used my detection skill to check.
There were signs of people.
“Thank God.”
I pat my chest in relief.
It seemed that they were hiding inside the house.
And there was no sign of the Tiger Wolf or any other monsters in my detection skill so far.
“Well then, I wonder what’s going on.”
I could go and take down the Tiger Wolf, but should I talk to the people in the village first?
They might know where the Tiger Wolf is.
No matter how good my detection skills are, I won’t be able to find the Tiger Wolf pack if they are out of my detection range, and I also won’t be able to find them if I go in the wrong direction either.
While wondering what to do, I heard a “squeak” sound.
I looked towards the sound and saw a window slightly open and a person looking at me.
“Are you a person?”
It was the first time someone asked me if I was a person.
Did I look like a ferocious bear?
Well, I know I’m not.
“I’m dressed like this, but I’m a person.”
I took off my hood.
“What? A girl.”
At a distance, with my hood up, how would they know?
“I don’t know what you’ve come to the village for, but I suggest you leave as soon as possible. There is a Tiger Wolf around the village. It showed up again this morning.”
So that’s why they stayed inside their houses.
Even though the Tiger Wolf had left, unlike me, they didn’t have detection skills, so they must have been hiding because they suspected that the Tiger Wolf might still be nearby.
“I’m here to take down this Tiger Wolf, can you tell me more about it?”
I asked the frightened man politely.
“A girl like you, a young lady, is hunting down the Tiger Wolf?”
What was the name of the man who came to the Adventurers’ Guild?
“Do you know the man who came to the Adventurers’ Guild in the Royal Capital?”
“Shreid?”
“Yes, Shreid-san.”
I remembered his name was something like that.
The man thought momentarily and then asked me to go inside the house.
Inside the house was a woman who looked like his wife and one boy.
“Are you sure Shreid asked you to do this?”