Chapter 11: 11

Bear and Brat

Isn’t it pretty amazing that there’s still room in the item storage?

I also have about ten rocks in there for attacking. I don’t plan to attack anything, though.

Yesterday evening, my mom asked me if I could put away a set of cupboards because they were in the way of cleaning my room, and I was afraid to store them, but they ended up fitting.

……..The item bag I saw at school would never fit like this. I’m not sure how to make an item bag out of a time stone. Well, in my case, it’s been taken in by the Crown Gear, so I guess there’s nothing I can do about it.

Anyway, as a person who will be moving soon, I’m very grateful for this ability. By the way, I haven’t tried the degree of time passing in the item storage yet. ………It takes a lot of courage to put something like a lunch box in and watch it slowly decay. It’s not a problem if you eat it quickly.

Preparations for the trip to Donios are progressing slowly. I’ve put towels and other daily necessities into the gears, and I’ve gotten to know most of the characteristics of the gears. I have a limit to how many large gears I can produce. I can make a lot of small gears. As the rotation speed increases, the movement slows down. Also, gears can be fixed in space.

It’s not as powerful as fire or wind magic, but depending on your ideas, you can do a lot with it. I could make twin tails in an instant, and I could mix eggs. This morning, I put a spinning gear in the bottom of a large cup and stuck some vegetables in it, and made a smoothie. It was pretty tasty. ……What am I doing?

After finishing my secret training in the mines, I went to the entrance of Cardiff and found something noisy. Some merchants, residents, and a gatekeeper in leather armor were gathered there talking.

The familiar gatekeeper was in our cafeteria too.

«What’s wrong, old man?»

«! An, where have you been!»

«What? Well, I’ve been to the old coal mine…….»

«You’ll be all right there…… but you shouldn’t go outside the city for a while.»

«What’s going on?»

«The merchant said he saw a Berg Bear on his way here.»

«A Berg Bear!!»

I’ve heard that wolves and goblins are occasionally seen deep in the woods around here, but a Berg Bear is many times more dangerous than those. It’s a bear demon with a lot of crossed batten patterns on its belly, and its claws can take a human to the other side in no time.

«The merchant wasn’t attacked, but I heard that there was a big one in the bushes of the forest along the road, 400 meru from here. The merchant was not attacked, but the story goes that there was a big one in the bushes in the woods along the road 400 meru from here. (Tl note: «Meru» it’s part of the novel metric and time system.)

«What’s that? It’s…… right there.»

«Yeah, it’s been making a lot of noise. The gates will be closing earlier than usual today. I don’t want you going out there tonight.»

«Okay, I understand.»

I’m not kidding. There is no way that a cafeteria girl who can’t even use proper magic can defeat a bear. Fortunately, Cardiff’s city gates are made of splendid interlocking log gates for a small city. If they were closed, they would be safe at night. As I read in my classroom textbook, monsters hide in the woods during the day and rarely come to the city. The scary part is at night. When they do, they sometimes leave the forest and come to the side of the city where it is dark. The city gates of Cardiff have some fresh scars left by the demons.

«I don’t want to die when I haven’t done anything yet.»

It seems that the gatekeepers are wondering whether to send a request to the adventurer’s guild in Donios to take out the monster with a fast horse from the agency……. I guess this means that tomorrow’s training is cancelled.

I leave the gate and enter into the city.

It seems that everyone has been informed about the Berg Bear, and the topic is being discussed everywhere. I hadn’t seen this kind of buzz in the city since the Wolf invasion four years ago.

«If the gates stay closed for days, our cafeteria might have to stop stocking ingredients…….»

When I was thinking about those things…….

«There’s no way you’re going to be able to defeat the Berg Bear!»

«Shut up! You don’t know until you try!»

«Hey, hey, hey! Let’s not do this!»

I heard the voice of a child, something very familiar.

……It seems that the owners of the voices are at the back of this house.

Sighing, I walked towards the noisy one.

«You can’t beat it with a sword made of wood like this!»

«What are you doing?»

«Hey, stop fighting!»

Poi, Garan Garan.

Uh…… apparently the usual Hero’s sword has been thrown on the roof.

Poor hero, you’re already unarmed.

………I’ll stop thinking about stupid things and stop the fight.

«Koraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!»

«»»Uwaaah!!»»»

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«Huh, you guys need to stop fighting. I told you not to do that.»

«No, because he said he was going to beat up Berg Bear»

«He never calls us friends.»

«How dare you use my sword!»

Anna, Log and Uta are the most famous kids in the neighborhood.

I may be a brat, but these guys are even more annoying brats.

Anna is a quiet girl with red hair.

A small, fat, Log.

And then there’s Uta, who’s always carrying the «Hero’s sword».

«Log! You don’t have to throw anything on the roof. Don’t you feel sorry for him?»

«No! That is just a toy for the Berg Bear! I don’t need it.»

«Kisama!»

«Don’t say kisama, you idiot.»

Pashi~tsu

«Ow!»

«Are you okay?»

Anna, if you’re too nice to this little brat, he’ll only get worse.

You should hang out with more decent people than the one who wants to be a hero.

«This is nothing for a hero!»

«Oh, you want more?»

«Ugh!»

«Heh, look at that! If you can’t beat Gold Glitter Anti, you can’t beat Berg Bear!»

«Don’t say «gold glitter», fatty.»

«Fatty?!»

Log is holding its own belly and kneeling down.

«Huh~…… go borrow a ladder from the uncle across the street.»

«Ugh…….»

«What?»

«You know, a while ago… Log and Uta were playing, and Uta’s sword hit the board Log was holding, and the sword fell onto the roof. At that time……»

«Ana, don’t say anymore than t─…….Mogoh?!»

I covered Uta’s mouth with my hand.

«What happened?»

«He asked the uncle to get it for him, and the uncle got really mad!»

So you’ve got a…… criminal record…….

You failed to be a hero, Uta.

«Oh, uncle wasn’t scary!»

«Lie, you were so scared!»

Anna, please stop.

 

 

 

(Tl note: Sorry if the chapter is more difficult to understand than the others, it was pretty hard to MTL this time.)

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