At Crimonia, inside the bedroom of a certain bear-presenting girl, Yuna slept in the utmost optimal sleeping position (she's halfway off her bed with her head almost touching the floor) with her bear onesie in its white form. As Yuna peacefully slept, the door to the bedroom slowly crept open before Fina poked her head through the gap. Fina peeked over at Yuna. Fina pouted at seeing Yuna once again sleeping in. Fina shook her head and silently marched over to the sleeping Yuna.

"Yuna-oneechan...," Fina uttered cheerfully with an underlying angry tone. Yuna subconsciously flinched in her sleep, making her head bang against the floor and wake herself up in the process. Yuna disappointedly grumbled as she lazily opened one of her eyes.

"Morning..., Fina," Yuna mumbled as she rubbed the top of her head.

"Yuna... why are you always sleeping in whenever you're supposed to be somewhere?". Yuna nervously giggled while looking to her side.

"What do you mean? I don't have anywhere to be today," Yuna said as she retained her side glance which only increased in intensity as Fina glared at Yuna. Yuna eventually relented and defeatedly sighed.

"Fine... I'll go to the auction for the gold golems I defeated," Yuna mumbled. Fina smiled before she left Yuna to get changed.

"Mother Mode Fina gets scarier every time she appears," Yuna said mentally. Yuna rolled off her bed and hopped to her feet.

A few minutes later, Yuna (with her bear onesie in its black mode) exited her bear house. Fina waved to Yuna, and Yuna waved back.

"Be sure to be nice to Cliff Foschurose-sama if you see him," Fina said slightly pleadingly.

"I'll try," Yuna said cheekily as she gave Fina a big grin. Fina half-heartedly smiled and sighed as she prayed Yuna wouldn't cause a huge commotion.

Later, in front of the Adventurers Guild Building, Yuna sauntered her way up to the gathering of adventurers, commerce guild members and merchants around the six pristine gold golems. Yuna glanced around before spotting Cliff talking to the Ralock and Helen. Yuna mentally sulked as she trotted her way over to them. Helen noticed Yuna and whispered to the Ralock who quickly looked in Yuna's direction, followed by Cliff.

"Yuna, there you are. For a second, we thought you were going to be a no-show up," Cliff stated cheerfully.

"That was the plan...," Yuna mumbled to herself so that no one else could hear. Helen chuckled to herself.

"Well, the auction is being held rather early by Miss Yuna's standards," Helen remarked. Cliff and Ralock nodded their heads.

"True," Cliff and Ralock said in perfect sync. Yuna tilted her head to the side before half amusedly sighed.

"I don't know whether to be offended or proud that they think I'm lazy," Yuna remarked mentally. Yuna's expression shifted to alerted surprise as she heard the frantic footsteps of approaching adventurers. To Yuna's surprise, the adventurers turned out to be Lurina, Gil, Lanz, and hobgoblin Delorane. The party of adventurers hurried past Yuna and went straight to Helen.

"Good to see you lot back. What is the verdict?" Helen asked seriously.

"It's as the reports say, the monsters in the nearby woods are migrating in a circular direction from a certain location," Lurina stated exhaustedly.

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"I see... we'll have to put up a subjugation quest then. Did you happen to see the thing causing the mass migration?" Helen asked sternly. The group half-heartedly nodded.

"Sort of... we caught sight of some sort of golden thing, but it was moving way too fast for us to see as it tore through several goblin kings," Lanz explained. Everyone who heard what Lanz said gasped in shock while Yuna was filled with intrigue.

"S-several?" Ralock asked.

"It could've been more because the goblin kings were reduced to dust once the thing defeated them," Lurina added. As she listened, Yuna slowly gained a more deviously excited grin which she covered with one of her hands.

"I guess we better make it an emergency sub-.". Yuna raised her hand and waved it energetically to get everyone's attention.

"I'll go deal with it," Yuna said graciously.

"Are you sure? I know you're strong-". Yuna raised her hand.

"We've been through this song and dance enough by now, haven't we?" Yuna remarked. Helen defeatedly sighed and nodded.

"Yes, I suppose, but it doesn't hurt to worry," Helen said worriedly. Yuna gave the group a wink before she summoned Kumakyū.

"I'll only be doing some extra investigating," Yuna said while she made the heads of her gloves nod to mimic finger quotes as she said investigating. Yuna hopped on Kumakyū's back before they charged off for the forest. Yuna discreetly fist-pumped at getting out of having to be present for the auction.

A few minutes later, in the forest, Yuna parkoured between the trees of the forest as she checked her bear map. Yuna saw some sort of large pale yellow king cobra head icon with two horns ahead of her on the bear map.

"That must be it then," Yuna remarked as she dispelled her bear map as she drew closer to her target. Yuna heard a loud bang followed by many of the nearby trees shaking. Yuna put on a serious expression and giddily smirked. Yuna flexed her legs before zipping from tree to tree at an even faster speed.

Yuna bursted out from a tree and reached a clearing in the forest. As she descended to the ground, Yuna spotted a black tiger with its back to her as it snarled at something. Yuna giddily giggled at seeing another black tiger.

"If I can get this guy, I'll have an excuse for Fina to use her mithril harvesting knife again," Yuna mentally remarked. Yuna quickly booped the sides of her head to fix her concentration and told herself to focus on her quest for now. Yuna slowly walked around the black tiger and was a little surprised to see who it was in a standoff with.

The black tiger stared daggers at the shorter and slightly slender Solus as Solus stood nonchalantly while heavily/aggravatedly panting. Yuna inspected Solus and thought how his hood was positioned made it look like the head of a king cobra. A thought crossed Yuna's mind, and she reopened her bear map and compared the king cobra icon on her bear map to Solus' hood.

"They match; does that mean they're the one I'm after?" Yuna remarked. Solus tilted his head in Yuna's direction, and the black tiger took its chance to attack. The black tiger lunged at Solus. Solus didn't even glance at the black tiger before Solus coated his body in light mana. In a split second, Solus light dashed to the side of the black tiger. With light dash still active, Solus upward kicked the black tiger in the stomach, and football kicked it straight into the air.

"Was that offensive light magic?" Yuna remarked as she was barely able to keep up with Solus' movements. Solus light dashed straight upwards and appeared directly above the black tiger. Solus pointed a hand at the black tiger before flexing his.

"Serpent Flash!". A beam of light mana with the head of a king cobra blasted out from Solus' hand. The light beam pierced through the black tiger and reduced it to dust as the beam surged around it. Yuna blinked a few times before she hung her head and sombrely sighed.

"Man... there goes that idea...," Yuna murmured disapointedly. Solus landed on the ground without a sound before Solus strolled up to Yuna. Yuna raised her head and was eye-to-eye with Solus. Yuna tapped her face with her gloves to regain her mojo.

"Do you happen to be the cause of the nearby monster running all over the place?" Yuna asked. Solus opened his mouth to speak, but his cheeks turned bright red as he choked on his words with a feminine-sounding voice. Solus balled up his fist as a katana made of light mana with a king cobra hand guard and handle formed in his hand. Solus spun around and slashed an iron golem (covered in a teal glow) in half with an upward slash.

"Maybe...," Solus uttered with a higher-pitched female version of his voice as the halves of the iron golem slammed into the ground.