183 . Urina Combe 5



 The next day, I asked Foldente to give a message to Sarah in Liberty, and when I saw her transition to Liberty, I went around the streets of Urinacombe with Riknas.
''Oh no, you've saved my life. The knights of the royal capital joined the night patrol, so our guards only needed half of them. That allowed us to give a lot of our men a break yesterday.
 Riknas said that and bowed to me.
 However, Rikunas himself seemed to have taken the initiative as usual to be a night watchman, and as usual, a large bear was spreading under his eyes.
 Riknas, a few of Urinacombe's guards, and everyone I had brought along with us went around the city in the carriage Riknas had prepared for us.
 The scene I could see from the carriage was even worse than the one I had seen from the front of the mansion yesterday.
 Nearly half of the stores along the street were unoccupied, and even for those that were open, the number of items sold in the stores was very small.
"Because Urinacombe is located in a mountain basin, there's only one wide road in the east and west that wagons can use to pass through... and since magical beasts and brigands began to appear on the roads and attack the wagon teams, there were no more merchants to risk coming all the way to Urinacombe,
 Riknas had a self-deprecating smile on his face.
''Moreover, there's even a giant magical beast appearing on the scene, and since the city walls were destroyed by that thing, even the city's functions have been paralyzed...''
 As I listened to Riknas' words, I continued to stare out the window.
 At the back of the street, there should be a castle wall that should be rising up, but like Riknas said, I couldn't see a structure that looked like a castle wall anywhere.
(This is in worse shape than I thought it would be.)
 I continued to frown as I compared my surroundings with the map at hand.

 After spending half a day circling the city, we returned once again to Riknas's private residence.

 In the carriage, Riknas told me
''I'd appreciate it if you could help with the reconstruction as much as you can.......well, I'm sorry to ask you to do this at a time when your city is busy doing this and that to promote itself to a frontier city.......''
 As he said this, he bowed his head repeatedly.

 Riknas himself only had experience of helping his father, the current lord, unofficially.
 For that reason, it seems that he has no contacts or connections anywhere.
 The current lord, who is the father of Riknas, was also a puppet ally who was controlled from behind by the charming voice of darkness until not too long ago, and moreover, everyone involved in the surrounding cities knows that fact.
 Therefore, one could only wonder, ''Have they really been freed from the control of the Dark Charming? It seems that all the surrounding cities are looking at me with skepticism, and all of them have decided to wait and see what happens when Urinacombe asks for cooperation.
 It seems that all the cities have decided to take a wait-and-see attitude towards Urinacomb's request for cooperation.

 As I spent nearly a month with him during his training in the frontier city, I know well that he is not the kind of person who would try to deceive or betray people with such a thing.
 
 I'm not going to tell him.
I'll help you in any way I can.
 He popped his shoulder as he said that.
 At those words, Riknas smiled happily and nodded repeatedly.

 Then

"R-Richnas, Master Ricknas, we have a problem! There's a huge magical beast approaching towards the city!
 The guards rushed into Riknas' private residence in a panic.
''d*mn it, they're here again.
You mean that giant hexenbiest you've been talking about?

 Riknas said that in an abominable manner and ran off while clicking his tongue.
 I, along with Unja, Chias and the others, will be chasing after them.
''I'm going to take care of the giant monster opponent narao!
 Dodona, the golem tribe that was chasing after me, said that while putting all her strength into her body.
 Then, the body quickly became huge and changed into a monster beast form that was at least five meters tall.
 It is true that with this form, it looks like it can fight against giant monster beasts.
 Around them, Cornes and Chias are running alongside Dodona with swords and bows at the ready.
 We ran up to the ruins of the city wall with Riknas and the guards who were leading the way.
 In front of them, just as the guards said, there is a huge demonic beast figure, which is coming towards us at great speed.

 It was at that time.

''Ah, lord bear!''
 I thought I heard a voice from that demonic beast that sounded like I heard it somewhere else.
''My lord~! Korok bear! Here comes the bear!
 ...Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's Korok's voice.
 Why do I hear Korok's voice when I'm supposed to be in Liberty? With that in mind, I took a closer look at the demonic beast coming towards the city, and that demonic beast is the Salamander that Sarah is changing into.
 And on its back, I can see Korok and Tiree riding on it. Next to them seems to be Foldente as well.
 While me and Unya were stunned, Sarah in salamander form came near the ruins of the castle wall and put aside something she was holding in her mouth and transformed her figure into a human form.
''My lord~!
 Korok and Tiree got off their backs and ran in a straight line towards me.
 Korok continued to hug me.
"My lord, we missed you, bear, we're here to help.
 He rubbed his cheek happily as he said this.
 Tiree seemed to be happy to see me too, and began to lick me with his colock in a frenzy.
 This is Tiree's way of expressing his affection for me, but when he does this, I always end up drooling all over him.
 Sure enough, in no time at all, me and Korok were soggy with Tiree's drool.
 Sarah and Foldente walked up to us.
''Lord, you're late. We were taking down a beast that attacked us on the way.
 Sarah said, and pointed to something she had been holding in her mouth when she was in salamander form.
''Wait a minute, you're lying...''
 Riknas, who had been staring at the tips of Sarah's fingers, rolled his eyes in disbelief.
 The same goes for the guards around them.
 You can also have a look at the same thing.
''What's the matter? What's wrong with that beast?
But what's wrong with that giant hexenbiest who ruined this city is the Unicorn Gryphon and you took it down, didn't you?
You people wanna talk about how that little blob of crap can ruin a city?
 At Riknas's words, Sarah gave a bare, stunned voice.
 Contrary to Sarah, the guards of Urinacombe, including Riknas, cheered in unison.
''Yay, that big magical beast has been exterminated!
This is going to cut down on the number of Hexenbiests that come into town.
Hooray.
 The guards cheered from mouth to mouth.
'You're exaggerating on this level,'
 Sarah continued to stare at all of them with a dumbfounded expression, as usual.

 While the guards surrounded Sarah and shouted their thanks and cheers
"Do you have a minute?
 Foldente spoke directly to my brain with thought waves so that everyone else could not hear.
I've been trying to get the story out of him, but Sarah crushed the entire base.
 I couldn't help but chuckle while listening to the content of Foldente's thought wave.
 The group that Sara crushed, based on the story, seems to be the Hand of the Dark Winning Hand who were trying to hurt the magical beasts in Urina Combe.
 It means that Sarah, on her way to Urina Combe, not only did she defeat the griffon, their ultimate weapon, but she also killed the group.
 I don't know if the group is all of the dark charmers who were attacking Urinakombe, but with this, they should not be able to do anything to Urinakombe.
 Thinking about that, I chuckled again.
 Korok was looking up at me with a nod of his head.
"Lords, are you happy to see Korok?
 That's what Korok says, but for now, after I showered Tiree's drool off of her, I'd better ask her why she was following me on her own... I thought.