“Why so sudden Kuma?”

“Y-yeah… What’s wrong Kuma-chan?”

Oh, they looked more surprised than I thought they would.

“It’s nothing new… I had been thinking about this ever since my first time living with you two. Ah, don’t get me wrong… it’s not like I don’t like living with you or anything…”

On the contrary, I love it.

“I just want to go around the world and see all the wonders with my own eyes. And now that I have a human body, it will makes things much easier for me.”

And I have to collect the 7 treasures too.

“So… yeah, thank you for taking care of me these past years.”

I stood up and bowed in front of them to show my gratitude.

“Come on Kuma, you are already like a family to us… so please raise your head.”

Nanda smiled, then he direct his eyes outside the window.

His eyes widen for a second but it changed back shortly after, it was only for a short time but I didn’t missed it.

“Anyway… when will you leave? We have to make sure to party before then.”

“I’m still thinking about that…”

Hm? Come to think of it… Eris became silent all of the sudden.

“Eris? Are you okay?”

“…ma…”

Ma?

“I’m going to go with Kuma!!!”

He?!

“What are you saying!?”

“If Kuma is leaving then, I will go with him! If I do that then Kuma won’t be lonely and I won’t be lonely too! It’s like killing two birds with one stone!”

“Don’t be unreasonable! What about me?! Won’t I be lonely?! Anyways You can’t trouble Kuma by coming with him. Besides what can you do? Aren’t you still scared of monsters?”

“Then I will get over my fear! As long as I can go with Kuma then I’ll do anything!”

Slowly I walked toward the window. Then while gazing towards the trees I sipped my tea.

In the end, Eris and Nanda kept quarreling for almost a half an hour. I manage to settle them down by saying that I will stay here for a couple of weeks while I train and geting used to my new body.

And then, 5 weeks had passed.

“These past weeks went by so fast…”

“Yeah, it did.”

“Kuma-chan wait for me okay! Don’t forget about your promise!”

“Ah, yeah. There’s no way I would forgot the promise I made with my little sister.”

“Ehehe…”

Eris and I spent a lot of time together these past weeks and now we have become closer… just like siblings. Not only that… I have come to an understanding about Eris’s desire to be with me. It seems its love at first sight… well she is still young, she will surely forget about that fleeting feelings and move on to her true love. Though that lucky man must first defeat me and Nanda in a battle first before he can take our dear sister’s hand in marriage.

I spent most of my time practicing and learning more about my ability and sword arts. Plus I was given datas prepared my Mii to help my training in hope that It would got smoother, and it did. And addition to that I also did a lot of mock battles with Nanda, and he is unbelievably strong. I only won 10 out of 34 matches.

“You kept surprising me with your sword technique you know? This is from the Sword Saint himself so there’s no way you will lose to your run of the mill bandits and thieves!”

“Yeah, of course I won’t!”

Nanda was smiling while Eris grinned as I patted her head. Lately she always asked me to pat her head a lot… does it really feel that good?

{Make sure everything is ready Kuma! Don’t forget anything behind!}

‘I know, what about you? All ready?’

{I’m ready from the moment I was born! …I don’t have any luggage anyway…}

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‘Ahahaha! yeah I always forgot that you are only voices in my head, you act too human for an artificial intelegence, Mii!’

Other than fighting skills, I also improve my knowledge by learning from Mii. Be it this world… ’s knowledge, or otherworldly knowledge that may come to be useful for me. To survive and collect all the 7 treasures I have to make maximum use of all the assets that I can get!

“Well then… see you guys later!”

“”Take care of your self Kuma(-chan)!””

While still waving my hand towards the two siblings, I walked to the north… to the port city !

——-

It’s been 3 days since I left Nanda’s and Eris’ house, right now we are in the roadside of the highway, resting.

There were some monsters that tried to attacked us, but I successfully drove them away, and by us I mean Mii and my self.

{Hey Kuma, you promised Eris to meet in the right? but why are we heading to the port city in the west?}

“That’s because Eris still has to finish her training with Nanda and she also still has her last year in primary school. So I decided to pile up experiences first before finally meeting up with them at ”

I decided to head west and board a ship heading to the . From there I planned to go to the the place where most of the people from the race or more widely known as the reside in. I’m going to search for a party member that will accompany me to , one of the reason is to make our journey easier, but the most important one is to help me keep my sanity. 

You see… talking with Mii all the time will definitely scrape my sanity bit by bit… sure I think of her as a companion but she is still part of me so that basically counts as talking to my self and that is lonely.

From we are going to head to and take a ship to . All in all it will take about a year. Just the right amount of time to fulfill my promise with Eris. 

Eris is going to enroll in the and if I can I will too, though I will act more like a guardian than a student. Apparently Nanda went to too when he is younger, and I also have the recommendation letter from Nanda. I was told to give the letter to the head master… he said it will help me a lot later.

{Hey, are you really sure to use 5 years of our 39 years limit for school?}

“It’s okay isn’t it? It’s not like I won’t get anything out of this right?”

{Well yeah… but…}

“Just calm down… you had counted everything right?”

We have only found 2 out of 7 dungeon. And we only have one clue for the other… ‘it’s under the famous cities in the world’. 

Mii had counted every existing and ancient famous city in Shura and ancient continent. It roughly take 40 years to go to all of them… give and take… not enough time… sure, but we don’t have to go to all of them, and if a dungeon is discovered then the news will spread fast.

The first one is in the place where I fought Lucy and next is in , we have to search for the other five. As I am now I’m not strong enough to conquer even one dungeon, so I ask the goddess about time limit when I met her for the third time.

I still remember what she said that time perfectly…

‘I have done everything that I could to help you. I wanted to say that I will tell you the truth, but sadly I can’t. You have 39 years… use that time wisely… this… may very well be the last time I will be able to talk to you like this… take care…‘

Back then, I thought I saw tears falling down her cheeks as she smiled before she faded away… I wonder if it’s just my imagination…

Nevertheless her divine aura felt weaker and it felt more nihilistic…

I held doubt against my evaluation of the goddess, so I asked my self…

‘does she really what she appear to be?’ 

‘Does her desire to destroy the world real? Or was it fake?’

But no matter how hard I think I can’t come up with an answer… so I thought I will follow this game of her to the end, to know her real intention and get rid of this bad feeling in my chest.

{Kuma we should get going, I think it’s going to rain.}

“Ah, is that so? Let’s go then.”

Ah crap… my mood is turning bad… every time I think of the goddess, my mood will always turns bad. I wonder why…

—-

Just like what Mii said last time, it really rained.

I’m currently under a big tree near the .

Why don’t I run to the city if I’m really close to it?

The answer is… 

I… forgot to bring my other clothes…

{That’s why I told to not forgot anything! And you forgot to bring your change of clothes!}

“…well… I’m sorry…”

I can’t refute Mii this time around… this is all my fault… why can I forgot such an important things?!

{Fufun~ now it’s my win!}

While on the way here Mii and I debated about the applications of my ability , and how can it be used in combat other than to mimic swords.

The result is I beat her reasonings 9 times and she beat mine 10 times, though the last that she won had no relation with my fighting capabilities whatsoever. 

I’ll let her bask in her glory for now, and I’ll erase that smug face later…hehehe…

…well not like I can see her face.

“Waaaah! It’s raining like there’s no tomorrow nya!”

Oh? There’s someone running here. She’s a ? The cat one huh…

“There’s someone here nya!”

When she looked at me she quickly get to an alarmed state, she cautiously get close to me while watching my movement.

Her clothes are all wet, it looked expensive… maybe she is a daughter of a rich merchant?

She looked older than me, but she is short. She’s barely taller than me by a head! Though I must admit… that brown drooping ear looked cute, her tail is too but… its standing straight now.

“Are you a bad person nya!”

{What’s with that question?! Kuma! This cat is weird!}

That’s rude Mii… though I must agree with you.

“Um… no I’m not.”

“Really nya?”

“…really I’m not.”

“Ok nya! My name is Myuleinn nya! Nice to meet you!”

“Uh… yeah name is…”

Hey Mii my name, what should I say?

{Why don’t you just say Kuma?}

It sounded more like a nickname rather than a proper name…

{Hmm… what about this? Kū Maliaren}

Kuu? Ok then…

{Not Kuu, its Kū… Ah nevermind…}

“I’m Kuu Maliaren, nice to meet you too.”

“Kuu? So Kuma-chan then! Where are you going Kuma-chan?”

It… changed back to Kuma… 

“Ah… I’m going to .”

“We are the same! I’m going there too! Hey hey! Do you want to go together?”

{She invited us Kuma!  I think there’s profit if we accept!}

Really, okay then.

“Then we… uh I mean I accept your invitation.”

“Yaay! A friend! I’m finally not alone~!”

She suddenly jumped at me and hugged my arm. She is abnormally happy about this…

I thought of telling her to stop rubbing her face with my arm.

But I stopped and let her do it when I saw her forlorn face…

Hah… just what happened to her?