Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear (Chapter 75-260)

Chapter 187

Chapter 187 – Bear-san Exterminates Some Moles

As Marina started to lead the way, Misa happily darted to her side.
She must really trust Marina, huh.
Well, I did find her party to be quite trustworthy as well. When they had been attacked by the orcs, they stood and fought without trying to run.
I noticed Marina was looking at Misa with a warm expression, too.

「Marina, where is the rest of your party?」

I asked her as we approached the gate.
When her party had been escorting Gran-san, there had been four of them. I couldn’t recall their names at all, though.

「Oh, Masurika and Euri are off doing something else. Bringing Elle here with me is more than enough for this request.」

Ah, without her, she wouldn’t be able to get the moles out from underground.
The fields came into sight a short while after we passed through the gate.
How vast. I could see several people working on them.
When we got close enough, Marina called out to one of the workers.

「Excuse me. We are here because there was a request for mole extermination at the Adventurer’s Guild.」

「Oh, you came for that? That’s great…」

The man turned around to look at Marina, but his gaze soon fixated on me instead.

「A bear?」

「Oh, you don’t have to mind her.」

Marina took a glance at me before telling him to not worry.
I wanted to thank her, but wasn’t that a bit cold?
Yet, the man got even more interested in me and kept staring at me for a while longer.

「Alright, what about these children with you?」

The man turned to look at the girls.

「They came here just to watch, so you don’t have to mind them either. Anyway, where did the moles appear?」

「Oh right. It’s right over there. They have already ruined a lot of crops, so please take care of them quickly.」

The man finally stopped staring at us and pointed to where the moles were popping up.
Marina thanked the man, and we started to walk in that direction.
I used detection magic just to confirm that there were no monsters nearby, and it turned out that Marina was right. It was just unfortunate that it couldn’t detect any moles, either.
Detection magic could only pinpoint monsters and humans. Since moles weren’t considered monsters, my detection magic didn’t work on them.
I was only able to detect the people working the fields.
I took another look at my map and realized there were quite a few people around.
I didn’t recall passing anybody, but there was a dot behind us as well.
I turned around to check, but couldn’t see anyone.
The dot was idling near a big nearby tree, so maybe they were resting or skipping work there?
Farming must be hard work.

「It must be somewhere around here. Elle, I’m counting on you. Also, please step back everyone.」

Marina gave her orders when we arrived at the spot.

「I will check the state of the area, then.」

Elle began walking around the field.

「There sure are a lot of holes here.」

I took another closer look as well and noticed that there were indeed many hole-like shapes.

「How are you going to find the moles?」

Misa asked curiously.

「Maybe I could use water magic to draw them out. Well, the easiest way would be to dig them out using earth magic, but I’m kind of bad with that. Okay, here we go.」