Bear-san Tracking the Knights
Primme had gone to the mansion alone, and Noa and I were about to return to the inn when Noa spoke to me in a small voice.
“Yuna-san, a knight has come out from the shed.” (Noa)
I looked towards the mansion grounds and saw a single knight on horseback heading towards the gate from a shed.
He then spoke a word or two to the knight at the gate and rode away from the mansion on his horse.
“Is he going to hunt monsters?” (Yuna)
“I don’t think so. He’s going alone.” (Guild Master)
I saw the knights fighting with monsters before, but they were fighting in a group of several people.
Even for the captain who noticed my magic, it was unthinkable that he would go alone to defeat monsters.
“Then, is it just a normal shopping trip or something?” (Yuna)
That line of thinking was possible, but riding around on horseback?
The town was big, so at first glance it didn’t seem abnormal, but there was also the possibility of him riding out of town.
Hmmm…what to do? Should we follow him?
We wouldn’t get any new information if we stayed here after all.
I couldn’t follow Primme into the mansion, and even if I waited for Primme to return, I would still need to find out when she would return.
So, I decided.
“I’ll follow him for a bit… Noa…” (Yuna)
I needed to decide whether to have her wait alone at the inn, or stay with Carla-san at the Adventurers’ Guild, or use the Bear Transfer Gate to get to a safe place.
I was thinking about what to do.
“If you don’t mind, can I come with you?” (Noa)
Noa said a little reservedly.
What to do?
Noa was staring at me.
“If I think it’s dangerous, I’ll ask you to evacuate.” (Yuna)
“Yes!” (Noa)
Noa replied happily.
Noa and I decided to follow the knight, but my outfit was so conspicuous that I had to keep my distance, or he would notice us.
My outfit was unsuitable for tailing, as proven when I followed Jubei-san in the Land of Wa.
“Yuna-san, he will be out of sight.” (Noa)
“If we leave now, they will notice us, so we will move when he is a little further away.” (Yuna)
“But if he keeps going like this, we’ll lose sight of him and…” (Noa)
“Don’t worry, it’s going to be fine.” (Yuna)
I have already marked him with my detection skills. But that didn’t mean it was a point-on-point tracking since I was only following his marker on my map.
Unfortunately, my detection skill was not sophisticated enough that I could add a specific tracker per individual, so I was making sure I did not lose track of him.
I would love to have a tracking function, but that would turn it into stalker skills. But well, I would be able to stalk people and say, “I see you’re here now.” or “Maybe you’re at another woman’s place.” without actually following my target physically.
Well, even if such a tracking function were added, I wouldn’t use it for such things.
Once we had confirmed that the knight had left, we chased after him.
“Noa, let’s go.” (Yuna)
Noa and I followed the knight from a distance so that we wouldn’t be noticed. He was on a horse, but he was not galopping, so we could catch up with him if we ran at a short pace.
“Yuna-san, I don’t see him, but do you know where he is?” (Noa)
Noa asked me as I made good progress despite the Knight being outside our sight.
“Yes, well, you see…” (Yuna)
I told her that I was following him using detection skills.
“Is that what Yuna-san was looking at a while ago?”
I glanced at the map from my detection skill that Noa couldn’t see.
Probably, it looked to Noa as if I were looking at an empty space.
Fina had already confirmed this. The display of the detection skill was visible only to me.
“And so, by magic, I can tell where that knight is.” (Yuna)
“You can also do that with magic…” (Noa)
Noa didn’t even question my statement, she just agreed with me.