"Phew, good thing My Lord didn't punish Sherry by forbidding her from eating this time. Hehe, this time I only got scolded by My Lord, but I also got an adorable little bear. Sherry didn't lose out!"
Watching Nalant leave, little Sherry stuck out her tongue, immensely relieved by the outcome.
After speaking, she looked at the little bear in her arms, unaware that the bear was feeling utterly miserable.
It had originally been hunting several dozen miles outside the dwarven settlement. Since spring had just arrived and it had quite the appetite, it had come here intending to hunt down more food.
Unexpectedly, it had suddenly caught a strange scent in the forest earlier. The smell immediately stirred its appetite, and it had followed the scent over.
Yet when it reached the place where the scent had originated, it discovered that the thing was gone.
Fortunately, its formidable strength was no mere decoration. Relying on the faint traces of scent lingering in the air, it had tracked its way here.
To avoid drawing the attention of those short human folk, it had deliberately transformed into its current form.
But by the time it finally found the thing that had drawn it here, one unexpected incident after another had interrupted its plans.
Even more frustratingly, by the time it wanted to make a move, it had no opportunity left.
First, that human youth of unknown origins had arrived...
Well, even now, the little bear still had not realized that the one who had made its heart tremble back then was the girl before it.
Then it had encountered two powerful figures among the short humans.
Of those two short powerhouses, the first one could not kill it, but the second could. It still remembered the terror of being dominated last