Chapter 140

Chapter 140 – Bear-san Dives Into The Mine, Part 1

The hero arrived at the mine to obtain the materials needed to save Princess Fina, who had been captured by the witch Eleanora .

A golem stood in front of the hero . As the golem launched its punches, countless pebbles flew through the air .

The hero dodged, but she couldn’t dodge every strike, and a few pebbles hit the hero’s cheek .

Petchi, petchi, petchi, petchi

It didn’t hurt, though . It was as if they were soft . Such weak attacks wouldn’t defeat the hero .

The hero ran at the golem while it continued to launch countless harmless pebbles .

Such weak attacks were of no concern at all, so the hero didn’t stop her assault .

Petchi, petchi, petchi, petchi

The pebbles continued to hit the hero’s cheek, but they still didn’t hurt .

Then, the hero, who was about to slice the golem with her sword, suddenly couldn’t breathe anymore .

What sort of attack was this!?

It felt as if something was pressing against her face .

She was suffocating……

‘So, I will die because of an unknown attack like this……’

The hero lost consciousness .

「Uwaaaah, I can’t breathe!」

Thud

When I woke up, something fell from my face .

「Hugging Bear?」

I saw Hugging Bear, tilting his head in front of me, and Swaying Bear next to him .

「Is it possible that the dream I just had was your fault?」

Those soft attacks from the golem and the suffocating feeling at the end .

I looked at the two, and they let out small ‘Kuun’ cries .

I looked around the room and saw that the sun was shining into it; they seemed to have woken me because it was already morning .

「Thank you, but you two should think of a way that won’t make me suffocate next time, okay?」

As a protective measure, I summoned Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear yesterday night .

I was never more defenseless than when I slept, after all .

I recalled them into their gloves, changed back into the Black Bear, and went to the dining room to have breakfast .

I was thankful that the bears woke me up, but I would like it if they stopped jumping on my face as they did it . I almost died of suffocation . If it had lasted any longer, I might have appeared on the obituary section of a newspaper . The title would have been,『A girl wearing a bear suit has died . 』

Well, it wouldn’t have been like this at all if I just woke up when Hugging Bear and Swaying Bear were softly hitting my cheeks . People didn’t easily wake up everyday, though . There were times when they wanted to wake up late, too .

Still, I had work this time around, so Hugging Bear had to wake me up . I should be thankful and just bear with it .

As I was thinking about Hugging Bear and Swaying Bear, Meru-san and Senya-san arrived .

I couldn’t see the two men yet .

「Good morning, Yuna-chan . 」

Meru-san greeted me, while Senya-san just lightly waved her hand .

「Meru-san, Senya-san, good morning . 」

「Yuna-chan, will you go to the mine after breakfast?」

「I will just check the situation for now . I can’t just stand around, after all . 」

I had to save the imprisoned Princess Fina, too .

「Then, how about coming with us?」

「With you guys?」

「We know your strength from the rumors, but… your appearance is…」

「I can only see a cute bear . 」

They started petting my head when they said that .

「We are worried, since you don’t seem that strong…」

「…So, the two of us talked about it and decided we should go together . 」

They displayed their worries for me quite firmly .

It was easier for me to move around on my own, though . Well, I did want to see how strong rank C adventurers were, so…

What should I do?

First of all, how about they stopped petting my head?

The two sat down next to me and ordered breakfast .

「But won’t it be a problem if you two don’t ask Jade-san first?」

「It’s okay, even if we don’t talk to him . 」

Meru-san said .

No wait, Jade-san was the leader, right? This was something you were supposed to discuss with him, right?!

While I was talking to the two of them, Jade-san and Toya-san came down from the second floor .

「You’re all early, huh . 」

「You’re just late . By the way, Yuna-chan will be coming with us today . 」

Wait… I didn’t accept it yet, you know!

Also, she said it like it was a done deal .

「Okay . 」

「I’m also fine with that . 」

Hey, were you two really okay with this!?

Shouldn’t you normally discuss it before agreeing?

In the end, my silent protests didn’t reach anyone, and I had to go with them .

There were many tunnels we could use to enter the mine .

I didn’t know how many decades or even hundreds of years the mine had been here, but it seemed ancient, and they made new tunnels every now and then .

The golems had appeared in the most recent one, which they had already been digging out for a few years now .

It seemed that there were two entrances you could take to get the first golem . It didn’t matter which you took, though, since they met halfway .

The Idiot Rangers always used the same entrance, so Jade-san’s party always entered through the other one .

It seemed that they did that so the Idiot Rangers couldn’t say anything about Jade-san’s party stealing their prey or the like .

This was the correct way of dealing with the Idiot Rangers; it was better to avoid the idiots than to crush them .

It was similar to arguing with stupid people . They were selfish, narcissistic, didn’t listen to other people, altered the facts to their liking, and acted rashly . When they failed at something, they blamed others for their mistakes . There had been many similar idiots in the game, and I had learned that it was better to stay away from them .

However, if an idiot came to me, I would crush them…

The entrance to the mine was a short distance from the town, and when we arrived at the mine, it was pitch black inside . Just as I thought that a magic light would be necessary, Jade-san stood next to the wall close to the entrance and put his hand on it, making light appear inside the tunnel .

It seemed that it had been made like the Bear Tunnel; the light magic stones were linked by magic lines, which lit the path when the switch was hit .

Well, it was the same lighting method used in houses .

The tunnel was large enough for a carriage to pass through without a problem, but I saw no mine wagons or even rails; it seemed that they didn’t use them in this mine .

Honestly, I didn’t even know if wagons existed in this world, but how were they transporting the ores without them…?

When I asked Jade-san, he told me that they first put them into cloth bags and then placed those in item bags .

As expected from another world . By putting the ore into an item bag, they made it easy to carry . Most likely, less people were needed to transport it when compared to using a wagon; depending on how much you could put inside the item bag, a single person would be able to transport more than a wagon .

Still, since big item bags were high-class items, they probably weren’t used at the mines, right?

When we entered the tunnel, I saw that it continued for a long time; I couldn’t see the end from the entrance .

I tried using the Bear-san Map, and it showed the entrance of the tunnel .

It seemed that I could even use it freely while underground . I wouldn’t get lost with it . Sadly, only the places I had already been to were shown, but it still automatically updated as I explored, so there was no real problem .

I tried using detection magic next and detected several golems in front of us, but since the area they were in had not been explored yet, I only saw their dots in the dark part of the map . I didn’t know if they were on our level or not .

Well, this was a good time to test my Bear Skills .

We moved with Jade-san in front, Meru-san and me right behind him, and Senya-san and Toya-san at the rear .

「We will first encounter Earth and Stone Golems . 」

「They are easy to defeat, but unfortunately, we can only sell their magic stones, and those don’t sell for much . 」

Earth Golems, huh . It might be a good idea to test them against my Bear Golems .

Just as I thought that, an Earth Golem appeared, right where my detection magic had spotted it .

It was about two and a half meters high and had thick limbs .

Being hit by such thick limbs wasn’t something that could just be brushed off; it would be dangerous for normal people .

Jade-san gave instructions to the party and ran in .

Meru-san instantly cut off the golem’s arms with wind magic . Did they always do it this way? It wasn’t enough to stop the golem, and it continued to advance towards us before Jade-san cut off its leg with his sword . The golem, with its limbs cut off, fell down where it stood . Senya-san jumped on golem’s back, made a hole around the golem’s heart with a knife, and took out its magic stone, making the golem crumble to dust .

The party had good coordination and teamwork .

Toya-san’s role was to keep an eye on the surroundings .

Hmm, would the golem stop moving if I broke its magic stone?

Since I didn’t care much for magic stones, it might be simpler to just destroy them .

Anyways, now that I had seen them fight, I understood how their party worked .

Jade-san used his big sword, Toya-san wielded a smaller one, Meru-san was a magician, and Senya-san used a short sword .