Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear (Chapter 75-260)

Chapter 229

Chapter 229 – Bear-san Returns To The Elf Village

Since I noticed the elves were heading my way, I just waited for them to arrive. Soon, Sanya-san, Labilata, and some of the elves all exited the forest together with Swaying Bear.

「Yuna-chan, what happened here…」

Sanya-san asked, glancing at the surrounding area.
I took a moment to check as well.
The ground around us was full of holes and the rest of it was covered in countless red and black feathers. We had really gone a bit overboard, hadn’t we?
Two dead Cockatrices behind a person dressed like a bear amidst this carnage, had to be quite a sight.
I hadn’t really notice it before, but now that I looked at it from their perspective, didn’t this situation look quite preposterous?

「Why are you here, Sanya-san? Did you manage to take care of all the monsters?」

Could it be that she had rushed over after learning that there were Cockatrices here?
She arrived a bit late, but honestly, that was a good thing.
It would be difficult to explain the lightning magic to her.

「That’s right, we’ve dealt away with them without much of a problem. There were quite a lot of volcrows though, so it took us longer than I had expected.」

It seemed like they had managed to defeat all the monsters without any casualties.

Yet, if nothing was done about the Sacred Tree, monsters would most likely continue to gather.
The barrier which was supposed to protect the village from monsters was now calling them here instead.
If the situation kept escalating, the elves would no longer be able to live here.

「After we were done, we headed back to the village, but were met by people panicking because a Cockatrice had appeared in the village. Luckily, some of them saw Grandpa and you lead it away, so we knew the village was in no immediate danger at least. While we were discussing what to do, Hugging Bear-chan came out of the forest with Grandpa on its back.」

So, that was why they had rushed here.
I was glad Hugging Bear had managed to bring Mumuroot-san back to the village safely.
I would have to give it a lot of nice pats when I got back.

「Anyway, when we heard from Grandpa that you were fighting the Cockatrice all by yourself, so that he could safely escape to safety, we immediately headed here.」

It wasn’t like I had stayed behind so that Mumuroot-san could run; I had just gotten rid of him so that the fight would be less troublesome. Not because he would have been a burden or anything; I just didn’t want other people to see how I fight.

「Grandpa looked like he was about to cry, saying that you might die because of him only because he wasn’t strong enough to protect the village himself.」

I would prefer if he didn’t go killing me off in his mind.
Hmm, it seemed like he thought that I would sacrifice myself by staying behind instead of just wanting to get rid of him.
Hell no, doing something like that in real life would actually be pretty embarrassing.

「Well, I figured Yuna-chan wouldn’t die, but we still rushed over as quickly as we could, running into Labilata’s group on the way. For some reason, Swaying Bear-chan was also with them.」

Sanya-san glanced at Labilata and Swaying Bear.
Labilata then explained that while they were fighting against some Tiger Wolves, several other wolves managed to pass through the weakened barrier.
After taking down the Tiger Wolves, he chased after the wolves inside the barrier, only to find Swaying Bear already in the middle of disposing them. They proceeded to help it, and then followed it here, where they ran into Sanya-san’s group on the way.
I patted Swaying Bear to thank it for taking care of the wolves. It would have been very troublesome if they had interrupted my fight with the Cockatrice.