I was Transported to Another World and Became a Yuri Heroine!
Six
Scribe watched in a certain degree of stunned disbelief as the ogre hammered at the young woman, but seemingly couldn't hurt her. The mostly black armor looked formidable, but somehow even striking her bare head did nothing!
Devas blinked, "The cursed Black Rose armor!"
"Cursed?" Scribe asked her.
"It reduces all your other abilities to zero," Devas explained to them, "but it also makes you completely invulnerable."
While the monsters were distracted attacking her, another woman, using twin knives, attacked and slaughtered the ogres, dodging every blow. She fought like a dancer, dodging and weaving gracefully then attacking powerfully.
"I don't think they need any help," Sinon the Archer noted wryly.
The two women noticed them, and they watched as the armored girl SLOWLY walked towards them. Apparently the armor curse even crippled her natural walking speed. Her friend walked along with her, smiling wryly.
"Hello! I'm Maple!" the girl beamed cheerfully.
"Sally," the other woman said a bit warily.
"I was watching that thing hit you," Scribe had to ask, "are you all right?"
"I'm fine! Totally fine!" the black clad girl beamed as she explained, "My armor protects me from everything."
"It's cursed, though," Devas noted, "have you tried to remove it?"
"She can't," Sally sighed, "which let me tell you is VERY inconvenient."
Both Sally and Maple blushed.
"Oh HO," Sinon murmured.
"I'm sorry to say I don't think my Magic Sword can help," Gabrielle admitted, "not without hurting you, anyway."
"It's okay," Maple shrugged, "I'm happy just being able to protect my teammates."
"Speaking of teammates, we should go meat Kasumi and the others," Sally noted.
"Right!" Maple nodded.
Without another word Sally swiftly picked up the other girl, then jogged off much faster than Maple could walk.
"Well, that's a thing," Scribe murmured.
"All right, we're heading for Crimonia to look into that demon bear we head about," Gabrielle said seriously.
"Let's go," Devas agreed.
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Most cities in this country had Adventurer's Guilds, which came in handy. You could go in and receive monster hunting quests, claim rewards and so on. They also, generally, were pretty good sources of local gossip.
"Welcome!" the clerk at the desk smiled, "My name is Helen. How can I help you?"
"Hello," Scribe smiled, "we're looking into stories of a demon bear..."
"Demon bear?" Helen repeated, the oddest look on her face.
"Demon bear?" a adventurer behind them murmured.
"The Bloody Bear is at it again."
"I mean, I could totally see the Bear being a demon..."
The teller just ignored that as she said, "Well, yes we have a bear adventurer. I wouldn't call them a demon though."
A background adventurer snorted loudly.
Helen continued, "You're not going to hurt them, are you?"
"If they're not a demon, it should be fine," Scribe answered.
Helen nodded, though she still looked a bit dubious. "Well, the bear comes in once a day to check the quest boards, and hasn't been in yet, so..."
"We'll wait then," Scribe said.
"I've been talking to a few adventurers, the bear is supposed to be pretty scary," Sinon noted.
"Yeah, they apparently beat down other adventurers, and is very powerful magically too," Gabrielle said, nodding.
"So she could be one of my escapees," Devas noted.
"Or... possibly not," Sinon noted, seeing someone enter the building.
The figure was actually sorter than any of them... and was dressed in an odd looking baggy, bear styled garment.
"It's bear pajamas," Gabrielle blurted.
"Miss Yuna!" Helen called, "These people were looking for you."
The young woman looked at them a bit warily but said, "Hello, my name's Yuna. How can I help you?"
Everyone exchanged awkward glances. "You wouldn't happen to be a Demon Bear, would you?" Devas asked.
Yuna blinked, "That's a new one. No, not at all."
"I wonder how that rumour started," Gabrielle sighed.
"Well, some guys tried to bully me when I first became an adventurer," Yuna admitted, "so I beat them up. And that kind of got exaggerated in the re-tellings..."
"And she defeated a hundred goblins AND a goblin king," one adventurer added.
"And the forty foot long black viper."
"And the Kraken."
Everyone kind of looked at Yuna, who shrugged. "I keep busy," she said simply.
"Anyway," Devas nodded, "you're not one of my demons, and therefore not our problem."
"Demons?" Yuna asked, curious.
Scribe explained about the demons fleeing the demon kingdom and their attempting to round them all up.
"I... might have killed one of them," Yuna admitted after a moment, "I was actually bringing it in to have someone identify it."
They went outside and Yuna took the monster out of her magic storage.
"How did that even FIT?" Scribe blurted, looking at the massive giant.
"Yup, it's one of mine," Devas said with a twinge of regret. "He was a good guard... I guess once he was up here, he didn't know what else to do but fight."
"He did attack me first," Yuna felt the need to say.
"Thank you for stopping it," Gabrielle told her.
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"Wait, you're NOT going to write up Yuna for your chronicles?" Sinon blinked.
"Yes," Scribe admitted.
"Because she doesn't want to be famous," Sinon clarified.
"Yes," Scribe repeated.
"BUT SHE RUNS AROUND IN THAT BEAR OUTFIT?" Sinon blurted, exasperated.
Scribe just shrugged helplessly.
"Ugh," Sinon stalked off.
The group was in an inn in Crimonia, as they were in town anyway, they decided to be comfortable. They would set out the next day, as the mountains not far away supposedly had 'demonic' monsters. It was worth checking anyway.
"Can we retire to our room, soon?" Devas purred. "I'm looking forward to us sleeping comfortably."
"Not that I expect much sleeping," Gabrielle noted.
Devas just smirked.
"Keep the noise down though," Sinon noted as she passed where they were sitting in the common room of the inn.
"No promises," Devas chuckled.
"You know, I wonder if Yuna is from where I came from?" Gabrielle mused aloud. "The bear pajamas look like something from home."
"Other people in your world wear that?" Sinon tried to imagine Gabrielle in them.
"Yes, but just to sleep..," Gabrielle noted.
"Aww," Devas pouted. "You'd be cute!"
To be continued...
Notes:
Maple, Sally and Kasumi are from BOFURI, I Don't Want to Get Hurt So I'll Max Out My Defense.
Yuna is from Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear.