Chapter 217 – Bear-san Heads For the Elf Village, For Real (2/2)
「Could it be that something happened there? Was that why Ruimin went all the way to the capital to find you?」
How sharp. She didn’t know any of the details but was still able to figure out what had happened.
「It’s nothing serious; the village chief just asked me to return home.」
「Is that so?」
「I haven’t really heard any details, either.」
Everyone then turned to Ruimin.
「The chief only told me to bring Onee-chan home.」
The two of them had decided to keep the barrier problem a secret.
Well, it was a vital part of elven defenses, so it made sense to keep quiet about it.
Hmm, they had told me, though…
「Anyway, we plan on departing tomorrow if at all possible, so I would like to thank you again for taking care of Ruimin. If you ever come around to the capital please visit the Adventurer’s Guild. I would like to express my gratitude to you there.」
「You don’t really have anything to thank us for, but I promise we will definitely stop by if we ever head that way.」
Well, they were adventurers, so it would make sense for them to stop by the Adventurer’s Guild anyway.
I could maybe also meet with them if I were at the capital at the time, but it would most likely be hard, considering I wasn’t there often.
「Yuna-chan, do you live in the Capital as well?」
Erielle-san asked me. I didn’t really want her to ever come to my house, but Crimonia was quite a distance away, so it should be fine.
「I live in Crimonia.」
「Crimonia? That’s far.」
Yea, it was, so I really hoped she would never come to visit me.
「Well, please let us stay at your house if we ever come around.」
No, that couldn’t happen! I tried to just laugh off her request, letting Ruimin take over.
「Everyone, thank you so much. I’m really happy I got to meet you here.」
「But, we didn’t really do anything.」
「Yeah, that’s true.」
「No, it’s not! Everyone was very nice and welcoming to me. I was really happy when you helped me out.」
「Well, I’m glad to hear that. If any of you ever come past here again, let’s meet up and have a chat, okay?」
「Okay!」
We only finished chatting late in the afternoon, so Sanya-san decided to treat us all to dinner.
After it, we finally parted from Miranda-san’s party and returned to out room.
「Yuna-chan, since the boats won’t be able to depart anytime soon, I was wondering if it would be okay to ride your bears again.」
Sanya-san wanted to return to the Elf Village as quickly as possible.
I had already set up a Bear Gate in this city, so I had no reason in sticking around, either
The only regret I had was not being able to ride on the ferry boat.
Well, that was only a trivial matter, so I agreed to her request.
The next day, we left the city by the same gates we had entered.
The weather was nice today, so we couldn’t summon the Bears at the docks, much less walk across the river from there. That was why we had to walk a bit upstream this time around.
「This spot should be good.」
We had gotten quite a distance from the city, where nobody was in sight.
「Yay, we can finally cross the river.」
Ruimin said and immediately climbed onto Swaying Bear.
She was was excited for this after hearing that Bears could walk on water.
Earlier, she had kept asking stuff like, 「Are we there yet?」 and 「This is far enough, right?」
「Don’t get too excited once we are crossing. It won’t be my fault if you fall off.」
Even though weather was fine, the river was still flowing rapidly, so I warned her in case she got too excited and accidentally jumped off.
Once we were all set, Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear leapt onto the river and began running across.
「This is amazing! We’re really running across the river!」
Ruimin wasn’t going completely crazy, but she was making quite a ruckus.
「Ruimin, calm down.」
「But Onee-chan, we’re running on top of a river!」
「Yes, I know.」
Sanya-san tried to get her sister to calm down, but it didn’t really work.
Well, the crossing only took a couple of minutes, so we should be fine.
「The two of you are amazing!」
The moment we arrived to the other side Ruimin jumped off Swaying Bear and started stroking its fur.
Even though the crossing was already finished, it didn’t seem like she would calm down anytime soon.
I left dealing with the hyperactive Ruimin to Sanya-san, and slowly rode forward, hopefully in the direction of the Elf Village.
Author’s Note:
We’re finally going to the Elf Village.