Sitting on a random boulder around the banks of the lake, the Hornbear Kou was gnawing on the meat shish he got from Karen. He felt the Hornbear’s conscious beginning to surface, but since he’s alone with Karen there is no way he can let go of his control.
Kou can only feel hunger from the host’s will; though he might not be able to faintly taste things, he knows that the act of ‘eating’ is needed to sustain life.
“Kuma-chan, just this much isn’t enough right?”
“Gro~oowl.”
The meat shishs Karen brought with her were the size of three adult male fists, one shish is enough to fill the stomach of an average adult male, but with the Hornbear’s body it was only a snack so it wasn’t nearly enough.
“Then, I’ll go catch some fishes.”
While humming Karen took out her assembly type portable bow and put it together, then she skillfully aimed her arrow toward the lake. ‘Can you catch fish with a bow?’ Is what Kou, who was watching over her thought. Then he confirmed that she was putting magic power into the arrow.
It’s an archery technique that skilled archers use. The arrow Karen fired went through the water ignoring its resistance and leaving behind a small ripple and splash, she accurately hit a giant freshwater fish at the bottom of the lake. A few moments later, the layer of magic power the arrow left behind on its path burst and the water erupted.
This archery technique forms a layer of magic power around the arrow which nullifies physical resistance the arrow would get, it possesses the effect of being less effected by rain or wind. Just like Karen did, even if you fired it into the water it wouldn’t be affected by the water’s resistance for a while. Of course, being this proficient in it isn’t something just anybody could do.
[So Karen was this good…]
“Kuma-chan, lend me a paw.”
Karen who had tried to pull up the big fish with her string attached arrow, asked for help since the prey was too big. The big fish Karen caught was about 133 Pale long. In units Kou knows it would be a giant fish of about two meters long.
Even with the Hornbear’s brute strength it would be hard to lift the fish if he didn’t put his waist into it and while he was picking the fish up, Karen had finished up the preparations for the fire by gathering twigs and leafs.
“Will it grill~ will it grill~, will the fish get grilled well~.”
[Vu~arfu~arufu~a.]
Karen was singing while evenly spreading the fire with a stick. While Karen was singing happily, Kou was able to somehow sing along. When he did, Karen began to laugh happily. A while later, the smell of grilled fish was spreading around.
[Something like this is heartwarming and nice isn’t it?]
Meanwhile, at the tavern in the city.
“I’m serious, without a mistake there was a Hornbear!”
“A big one like that, you can’t meet one if you don’t go deep into the mountains y’know.”
Three drunken adventurers or mercenaries came into the tavern and made a fuss about how there’s a Hornbear in the forest close by. In one corner of the bar members of Gaviik’s party heard them talking about it, every one of them immediately thought about the Hornbear that followed them from the rocky mountain and was liked by Karen.
Just like Gaviik’s party they were in a group of other adventurers or mercenaries, while Gaviik’s group sent them a skeptical look they started to talk.
“Now that I think about it, Karen went to the forest didn’t she.”
“It seems like she went over to bring the Hornbear some food… could she have been seen?’
Gaviik and Mandel were whispering with each other. Would it not be wise to send someone over to look after her, when the worried Triton suggested it, the voices of the three idiots which were still going on could be heard.