Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear

Bear-san Listens to Ronne’s Story

The man lying in bed was named Ryan.

He seemed to be the one who could see Ronne. Ronne came to this town at Ryan’s request, and then she met the Lord. After meeting the Lord, Ryan told her that they had been studying fairies and whether Ronne could help them with their research. 

The Lord had locked Ryan up and taken away his magical power so that he could have Ronne for himself. This situation continues to this day.

Ronne also explained how this room was giving magical power to Ryan. As well as why Ronne was depriving the residents of their magical power to supply it to Ryan.  Basically, Ryan would die if the magical power being supplied to him was cut off.

She also told us the reason for giving some of the knights power to defeat the opposition of the residents and monsters.

Ronne told us everything.

“Sis…” (Primme)

“Poor Ronne-san.” (Noa)

In other words, the Lord was jealous of Ryan being able to see Ronne, a fairy and went to such lengths to be able to imprison Ronne for himself.

I was appalled and could not say anything.

But there were people who would alienate, hate, and forcibly take away what they wanted from the other person if that person had what they wanted.

“So the magic circles in this room are for supplying magic power, then?” (Yuna)

The floor was fitted with magic circles and stones around the place where Ryan was laid down.

“Yes…” (Ronne)

“But how can it enhance the knights’ powers?” (Yuna)

“I don’t know how it works, I just know that the two of them have done some research and found out that it can be done.” (Ronne)

From what Noa and Cliff have told me, fairies have been considered dreamlike existences, and it was considered good luck if you could meet one. Because of this, not much was known about fairies.

Perhaps no one who could see fairies ever tried to study them in so much depth.

“Also, how do they keep Ryan-san’s magic power flowing to the Lord?” (Yuna)

I think it would be possible if they were near each other, imaginatively speaking. Even in the manga, they would say, “Use my magic!” and then hand over the magic power. But even that was only possible if they were close to each other and touched each other.

When I taught Fina and Noa how to use magic, I held their hands and let the magic power flow through them.

But as far as Ronne was concerned, the magic was still flowing from Ryan to the Lord at this very moment.

“Look at his body.” (Ronne)

I resisted looking at the sleeping man’s body, but I did as I was told.

He was so emaciated that it was a wonder how he was still alive.

“Noa, you don’t have to look at him.” (Yuna)

I told Noa, who was about to look at Ryan.

“No, I’m fine.” (Noa)

Noa answered emphatically.

Like Fina, Noa was strong.

“So, how will we know just by looking at his body?” (Yuna)

“Just roll up his clothes wherever you want.” (Ronne)

A 15-year-old maiden would be a little uncomfortable rolling up a sleeping man’s clothes, but we did as Ronne suggested and lightly rolled up his clothes.

“This is…” (Yuna)

Both Noa and I were speechless.

His arms, legs, and body were covered in what looked like magic circles.

“The magic circles on his body channel magic power to that man.” (Ronne)

After looking around the room, I looked at the man’s body again.

“So this room is for putting magic power into Ryan and those magic circles on Ryan’s body are for channeling magic power to the Lord.” (Yuna)

“If we carry Ryan-san away from here…” (Noa)

Noa noticed what I was thinking.

She’s quick-witted.

“If we took Ryan-san away from this room, he would no longer be able to receive a supply of magic power, but his magic power would still continue to be drained.” (Ronne)

It would have been easiest if taking Ryan out of this room would cut off the magic flowing to the Lord.

“What, what do you mean?” (Primme)

Primme was the only one who seemed to need help understanding.

“We can’t take him out of here. If we do, he might die. And Ronne can’t leave this place without him.” (Ronne)

So Ronne was at the mercy of the Lord, who basically treated her like a pet.

That made me furious.

“On top of that, my little body couldn’t take him out of here and run away.” (Ronne)

“…Sis.” (Primme)

Primme looked at Ronne, who had a sad expression on her face.

“I see. So, can we disable these unusual patterns?” (Primme)

Primme landed on the sleeping man’s stomach and began rubbing it with her small hands, but the magic circle never disappeared.

“Primme…” (Ronne)

I scrubbed the magic circle on his arm with my Bear-san puppet, but there was no change.

I may try using detergent, but I doubt it would work… I wonder.

There was no oil-based magic marker in this world, and I doubt it was a tattoo either.

“What did the Lord use to draw these?” (Yuna)

If we could figure that out, we could perhaps erase them.

If we could erase them, we could take Ryan out of this room.

“I think it was probably drawn by magic.” (Noa)

Noa said, staring at the magic circles painted on the man.

“Drawn by magic?” (Yuna)

“Yes. There are many ways to draw magic circles. Like the ones that dig trenches in the ground to get a long-lasting effect.” (Noa)

Ah, the pyramids in the desert were like that. Then again, Mumroot-san’s carpets would be the same.

“If it’s for temporary use, it can be drawn with a regular pen. But the magic circle on this person’s body seems to have been drawn using magic.” (Noa)

After saying this, Noa created light magic, and a pattern appeared on the ground. She placed the light magic on top of it.

“What is this?” (Yuna)

“It is a lighting magic circle. Simply put, it’s a magic circle that will continuously supply magic power to this light magic for a good amount of time. Usually, you would need like 10 units of magic mower when casting light magic to make it glow for 1 minute. However, with this magic circle, you may keep it glowing longer by only consuming as little as 1 unit of magic power, which means it can stay glowing 10 times longer than a normal cast. However, the brightness will be weaker in comparison.” (Noa)

“That is remarkable, Noa. I didn’t know you could do that.” (Yuna)

“Yes. I have been studying magic recently.” (Noa)

Noa looked happy to be praised.

“So, if it’s painted using one’s own magic, won’t it disappear?” (Yuna)

“I don’t think it will easily disappear, or it will be erased by just rubbing it off or something. It might only disappear if the magic power is completely erased.” (Noa)

“Then, what about breaking the magic circles with magic?” (Yuna)

“If it was drawn on the ground, we could have tried it, but…” (Noa)

Noa looked at Ryan, who was sleeping.

We couldn’t try it on people.

“You can’t do that! If we do that, Ryan will die.” (Ronne)

Ronne was right. It would be very dangerous to use attack magic to deal with magic circles on Ryan’s body.

Maybe I could do it with some recovery magic, but that’s the last thing I wanted to try…

“So I think Ryan-san’s magic circle will not disappear as long as the magic power used to create this magic circle persists.” (Noa)

The source of the magic power that this magic circle used was Ryan’s.

And he remained asleep. Despite being unconscious, his magical power still flew to the Lord. His supply of magic power was coming from this room.

If he was moved out from here, the supply of magic power to him would be cut off, but the magic power would still flow to the Lord. If this happened, his magical power would only decrease unilaterally, and the Lord would continue to drain him of magic power.

In such a situation, he would…

First, we have to break the connection between him and the Lord.

“If we move him farther away, will the flow of magic power to the Lord stop?” (Yuna)

“Come to think of it, I was once doing some research to see how far apart the two of them could be…” (Ronne)

Ronne started to say such things.

“Really? How far apart can you be?” (Yuna)

“I remember that guy being happy that he could see me even when we were separated from Ryan when he was outside this mansion doing some work.” (Ronne)

Was that the limit?

“So what about outside this town or even further away than that?” (Ronne)

If I brought him to Crimonia…

“I don’t know about that, we haven’t really verified going that far out.” (Ronne)

Well, I guess they simply didn’t think about it.

If it was something simple like, “How far does a walkie-talkie signal go?” Surely, one could easily find out.

They could look at the manual or ask the manufacturers.

“Well, then, let’s give it a try.” (Yuna)

If you don’t know something, just try it. That’s how people grow.

“What are you going to do?” (Ronne)

“I’m going to take him to a very faraway place and see if I can break the magical link with the Lord using that method.” (Yuna)

I also didn’t want to damage the magic circles in this room and make it unusable just for precaution.

“That man will notice us while we carry Ryan far away. Besides, we don’t know how far away we have to go to break the connection…” (Ronne)

“Sis, Yuna can use something like a fairy mirror.” (Primme)

“Prinne… well, fine, it can’t be helped.” (Ronne)

I brought out the Bear Transfer Gate and connected it to Crimonia.

Noa, Primme and Ronne soon followed when I went inside the door.

“Where are we?” (Ronne)

Ronne wondered while looking around the room where the Bear Transfer Gate was connected.

“Just think of it as an awfully far away place.” (Yuna)

I did not know the distance, but if Rosa-san and the others were right, we should be quite far from that town.

I made sure everyone, including Ryan, moved to the bear house in Crimonia and closed the Bear Transfer Gate. If the connection to the Lord were to disappear, half of the plan would be accomplished.

I laid Ryan down on the sofa of the bear house.

“How’s it going?” (Yuna)

“Maybe it worked?” (Ronne)

I thought, but it didn’t work out as we expected.

“Ugh!” (Ryan)

“Ryan!” (Ronne)

The man started to agonize.

The connection was not broken.

I opened the Bear Transfer Gate, returned to the original room, and laid the man on his bed.

The man started to calm down, as if his magic power had returned to normal.

From the result of the experiment, I concluded that he could not be moved.

My only choice would be to ask the Lord how to get rid of the magic circles.

While I was thinking about what to do, Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear squealed and looked toward the stairs where we had come from.

I used my detection skills.

There was a human reaction coming from the direction of the stairs.

Someone was approaching fast.

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