We ate lunch, and I got back to butchering wolves. Yuna said she was going to sleep a while. Maybe she was tired from fighting the tigerwolf?
I decided to try my hardest, too. I’d work hard to get all the butchering done.
Once I wrapped up, I went to the second floor to go wake Yuna. I didn’t know which room she was sleeping in, so I knocked on the door of the closest room and ducked inside when I didn’t hear anything. There she was. She looked really comfortable.
I shook her awake. “Yuna, Yuna.”
She woke up.
When she got out of bed, her clothes were pure white, exactly like Kumakyu. She looked cute in her black bear outfit, but she looked cute as a white bear, too. I guess she can reverse her clothes to switch between being a black bear or a white bear?
After I told her I was done with my work, we ended up going home. Yuna made the bear house disappear. Magic sure is amazing. We went back on Kumayuru. Apparently if she uses just one of the bears, the other one gets grumpy. I think I understand how they feel.
The gate guard was so surprised. Anyone would be, seeing the three of us, but the bear was cute, so I didn’t think he should be too worried.
Since I was going to work the next day too, I went to Yuna’s place at the inn, but she apparently didn’t have anywhere to process the bodies. Since it would be a pain to have to leave town every time we needed any butchering done, she visited the adventurers’ guild to ask them about getting a space of our own. They told us to see the trade guild, so we ended up heading there.
It was becoming a really big deal. I started to feel nervous.
When we got to the trade guild, everyone looked at Yuna. That bear outfit sure does stand out. Yuna talked to the reception lady at the desk for a couple of minutes and walked away with a plot of land. The lady took us to the empty plot, and Yuna plopped down the bear house there.
No matter how many times I saw it, it was amazing.
I got to work right away. That day, I butchered tigerwolves. It was supposed to be pretty similar to working with wolves, but even a kid like me knows tigerwolf pelts are expensive. I had to be really careful removing them, or they’d turn out worthless. Still, I tried my hardest, and when I wrapped up for the day, I felt I’d done an okay job.
For a few days straight, I went to Yuna’s house and wore away at the pile of bodies.
Then, one day while I was in the middle of cleaning and separating meat, I felt dizzy for a second. Just when I thought I might be in trouble, I collapsed.
Unluckily, Yuna saw and ran over to me. She looked at my hand and got this really concerned look. I was bleeding. I must have cut my hand a little when I fell. It hurt some. Not that much.
Yuna touched the place where I was bleeding. I think she did something magic. It felt warm, and then it stopped hurting, and my cut even disappeared. It was amazing.
She took off the bear glove and put her hand on my forehead. Apparently, I had a fever. She told me to go upstairs and sleep in a bed in one of the rooms for now. When I was lying in bed, she touched my forehead again. That time, she kept her bear gloves on. It felt so nice and soft, and that feeling just got stronger and stronger, until I ended up falling asleep.
It was dark out when I woke up. She told me that she’d made me dinner, and that I should take it home and eat it. Then she told me that I should take the day off tomorrow. Yuna said I could come to her house two days later. She told me that, from now on, I would take a day off from harvesting every three days.
If I did other work on a day off, she told me she wouldn’t let me do her butchering anymore. She was worried about my health, so I decided to do as she said.
Chapter 31:
The Bear Goes to Examine
Fina’s Mother’s Illness
TODAY WAS A REST DAY. Like Fina, I was taking a break.
I’d been learning all kinds of things this past month, such as that when one of my skills leveled up, the new abilities kicked it right away. Right now, I had seven skills.
Fantasy World Language: Can understand the fantasy world’s language. (Life in this world would have been a whole lot more complicated if I hadn’t had this.)
Fantasy World Literacy: Able to read and write the fantasy world’s script. (This was how I could work at the guild.)
Bear Extradimensional Storage: Storage for anything other than living things. (Despite all my tests, I still hadn’t figured out a weight or size cap.)
Bear Identification: Able to see effectiveness of tools and weapons (Well, I guess this would be normal to have in any game).
Bear Detection: The ability to know the position of dangerous monsters and people. (Makes slaying monsters a breeze.).
Bear Map: Automatically generate maps of places I have visited. (An automatic mapping system, just like the kind you find in RPGs. Kept me from getting lost.).
Bear Summoning: Can summon bears from my bear gloves. (All-purpose bears for travel, fighting, or protection. The downside was I that I couldn’t walk through town with them.)
In addition to skills, I had magic. According to the rules of this world as I understood them, you could learn magic through hard work, but in my case, I could easily use magic by channeling mana through my bears. On the other hand, I couldn’t use magic without the bear gear.
Shaping a spell around a mental image had a direct impact
