“What’s there?”
“A flowing river if I’m not wrong. Since we need to cross over to the highway we need to go over the bridge.”
The skillful vice-captain Mandel showed his knowledge of topography. Gaviik, who doesn’t understand what the Hornbear is trying to do, told everyone that they should keep their guard up, then he returned to checking how the carriages were doing.
Meanwhile, the Hornbear Kou who was nearby the resting place for the carriages was looking for food for the Hornbear while going through the bushes and trees.
Having obtained what is edible and what isn’t from the Hornbear’s mind, he looked for the ‘meat’ it preferred. After searching for a while, he found a flowing river. He got that this Hornbear’s favorite food is fish.
[Can I get some fish?]
Just what should he do while he didn’t possess any tools to get some fish. Kou tried to search through his memories about the techniques he learned from Elmel and the others about how to obtain food, but he only knew methods where he needed to posses some kind of tool. It’s hard to find a tool that could be used by the rugged paws of a Hornbear.
[Hmm? This method… is it knowledge from another world?]
Since he had a memory with an unclear origin about ‘the technique of bird catching fish’ he decided to try it out. Walking along the river for awhile he looked around for a bulging boulder. When he found a boulder where fish seemed to gather, he pulled out a sturdy-looking hammer from his dimensional pocket.
[One two~tsu.]
Easily wielding a two-handed steel hammer with one paw he hit the boulder with the Hornbear’s brute strength. With a resounding loud bang sound, cracks began to run through the boulder. In a moment the fish that were stunned by the shockwave flew up out of the water. Like that he safely secured his food by grabbing all of the fish.
“Yeah, should I just eat it raw?”
Answering to the Hornbear’s will about how it quickly wants to eat, Kou loosened a little of his control and began to eat. I don’t know if other monsters are the same, but it seems this one feels fear in regard with the desire to eat. The Hornbear was eating in a daze while Kou felt it was giving an atrophied feeling.
After that, the Hornbear went to other places and used to same method to catch fish and filled its stomach, since it was satisfied with its feeling of fullness his conscious went back to being dormant.
[So it’s a monster that just eats and sleeps…]
Not knowing if he could store the fish he tried, but it didn’t seem to work. It seems like he can’t put anything with a soul in his dimensional pocket.
Perishing and then having its soul depart, the fish that had died could now be put into the dimensional pocket. Since he didn’t know if it would spoil, he would check it out from time to time, since Kou finished his resupplying he went back to see how the others were doing.
After going the way he came he made it to the entrance of the mountain road, it was just in time since the others were preparing to leave.
“Captain.”
“Yeah, he noticed. I wonder how long he plans to follow us.”
Captain Gaviik just shrugged when he saw the face of the Hornbear that was glancing at them from behind a boulder and decided that they should just move out for now. At that moment the young magician Dis came over with a troubled expression.
“Umm captain….. I can’t seem to see Karen anywhere though.”
“Hm? Karen should have gone up on the carriage.”
When looking at Gaviik and the others carriage, on the guardrails Karen’s quiver and bow could be seen, but not their owner.
Karen is a genius female archer, a young seventeen year old woman with a cat-like loveliness with a charming appearance and a glamorous body, but she was a troublesome girl who got compensated by being an idiot on the inside.
“Where the heck is she prowling around this time?”
At that time, while they were looking around, something had climbed up on a tree or something.
“Ei, I got yo~u!”
“Guee?” [Eh?]
“H- Hey Karen!”
“Dis, call Triton and the others!”
Karen could be seen hanging from the Hornbear’s neck, which was hiding behind a boulder. The Hornbear Kou stood up because he got surprised when he didn’t sense her coming close at all. Naturally, Gaviik drew his weapon in a hurry and rushed out. Mandel ordered Dis to call the healers and went after captain Gaviik.
“Karen! get away.”
“It’s m’kay captain~. This one’s tame y’know?”
Karen, who totally ignored captain Gaviik’s tension when he tried to intimidate the Hornbear with his beloved sword the magic sword ‘Kazekiri’, she told him that while nonchalantly hanging on the Hornbear’s neck which was at least twice her size. Gaviik’s head began to hurt from this, but he decided to consider Karen’s words.