My thoughts kept going back to that meeting this morning.
Holding a bow larger than the norm, and carrying a pair of small game on my back, it was supposed to be a regular trip to the mountains.
You see, every spring in the mountains nearby the village, many bears appear after coming out of hibernation.
Had they come out yet? I didn’t know, I hadn’t seen any yet.
Selling the materials from bears nets a good profit.
It’s fun hunting, and I get gold out of it too, so it’s the perfect pastime for me.
From the moment I woke up this morning, my body was aflame with energy.
Today was going to be a good day, I could feel it.
Funny enough, almost immediately after I entered the mountainous area, I found a bear bigger than any I had ever seen.
It hadn’t seem to have noticed me yet.
More precisely it couldn’t have noticed me, it was busy glowering at some girl carrying a bunch of mountain-plants.
Why would you come to the mountains now of all times?! What a stupid girl.
She didn’t even have any weapons on her.
The bear fixed the girl’s figure in its gaze, and swooped down on her with the full momentum of its size.
I drew my bow.
This was a mighty bow, so mighty in fact, that it took me two years of training before I was able to use it properly.
In the village, there is nobody strong enough to use this bow other than me.
…or so I say, but right now my arm was screaming in protest to the bow’s tension.
The arrow I took out was drawn to the bow’s limit.
Along with the fact that the arrows are considerably heavier than normal ones, this would definitely be a deadly shot.
Focusing on the moment that the bear moved, I released the arrow.
Slicing through the air, the arrow let out a sharp ring as the beast was struck.
Right in-between the eyes.
It’s a simple thing if you focus enough.
That’s good, we’ll get to have some good bear this year.
As a bonus, I even got to save a damsel in distress.
‘Thank you for saving my life, as thanks take whatever you want’. ‘Then don’t mind me as I help myself!’ Something like that maybe? Well, I’m fine with anything though.