Bear-san, Heads Out To Subjugate The Bandits
When the discussion for preparing the horses took place, one person refused.
“I don’t need a horse because I’ll be riding Swaying Bear.” (Ran)
Ran, a harem member of Blitz, said such a thing.
“No, I’ll be the one riding Swaying Bear.” (Senia)
Senia-san reacted to Ran’s words.
“I think I’d like a ride too.” (Lurina)
Lurina-san also joined in.
In addition, even Mel-san and Rosa-san participated in the battle for Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear.
The only woman who didn’t participate was Grimos, one of Blitz’s harem members.
“In that case, there can be at least two people each riding on Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear, so aside from Yuna and I, there are only two more spots.” (Ran)
Ran decided on her own.
“We are the ones who’ll ride with her.” (Senia)
“I want to ride too.” (Lurina)
Lurina-san echoed after Senia-san’s words.
The discussion of how to defeat the bandits took a weird turn into who’ll ride Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear.
The five people who wanted to ride Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear were: Mel-san, Senia-san, Lurina-san, Rosa-san, and Ran. However, only two people can ride each bear (although they might be able to ride if they squeeze themselves hard enough). Since I would ride by default, there would inevitably be three spots left, just as Ran had said.
However, the discussion has remained at a standstill.
Eventually, Guildmaster got mad and decided to settle it on a coin toss. As a result, the three people who would ride Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear were Lurina-san, Senia-san, and Ran.
“Deborane was good at this sort of thing.” (Lurina)
Lurina-san, the first to win the right to ride, told me with a smile.
Who is Deborane?
Perhaps Lurina-san knows someone good at coin toss games.
But is that something you can be good or bad at? If I do it myself, I guess I could adjust the rpm.
The next day, we gathered at the Adventurers’ Guild, then moved out of town together.
“Fufu, it’s been a while, Swaying Bear-chan.”
Ran hugged Swaying Bear. And Rosa-san, another Blitz’s harem member, was petting Swaying Bear’s head.
On the other hand, Hugging Bear was being petted by Jade-san’s party members, Senia-san and Mel-san.
Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear were very popular among women.
“Aren’t you going to pet him too, Lurina-san?” (Yuna)
I asked Lurina-san, who was standing next to me.
“I’ll pet him later. But Yuna-chan, don’t do ‘that thing’ since Swaying Bear-chan and Hugging Bear-chan are here.” (Lurina)
“That thing?” (Yuna)
“Did you perhaps forget? It was my first time being carried like a princess.” (Lurina)
……Pon.
Now I remember.
“Oh yeah, from that time.” (Yuna)
After I injured a goblin, one of Lurina-san’s party members, on one occasion, I was tasked to eliminate the goblins instead. Lurina-san accompanied me on that subjugation mission.
I didn’t have Swaying Bear or Hugging Bear back then, so I had to princess-carry Lurina-san.
Indeed, with Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear here, there was no need to princess-carry her.
But it’s actually not quite accurate to say that I didn’t have Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear back then.
“I couldn’t call Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear back then since they were in a different place at that time.” (Yuna)
Well, I wasn’t lying. I don’t know where they were then, but they weren’t with me.
“I see, so that’s why.” (Lurina)
Lurina-san seemed satisfied and did not pursue the matter any further.
Lurina-san and I hopped on Swaying Bear, while Senia-san and Ran got on Hugging Bear, then we departed to the mountains where the bandits were hiding.
“That’s the mountain.” (Jade)
Just off the road, we can see a little mountain.
“What are we going to do? Should we just keep going?” (Yuna)
“There should be a lookout, right?” (Lurina)