In the morning, Xiao Ming was shocked to find that...the little bear was back.
When the little bear had disappeared last night, she had thought that it would be the last time that she would see this little bear.
But when she woke up in the morning, she found that the little bear was sleeping in the same tent as her. She even had her arms wrapped up around it like she was hugging it while she was sleeping.
Naturally this caused a stir and everyone came to see what was happening.
They were all shocked to see the little bear again just like Xiao Ming.
All of this noise also woke the little bear up, so it looked up at everyone surrounding it and said, "What's the matter? Human children, why are you looking at me like that? Is it time for breakfast?"
No one was able to say a thing as they looked at this little bear in shock.
Finally, Xiao Ming had recovered enough to ask, "Um, what are you doing here? Didn't you go back to where you came from last night?"
The little bear gave a nod before saying, "I did go back, but there was a reason for me to come back."
Everyone looked at the little bear with strange looks when they heard this.
After a moment of silence, Xiao Ming asked the little bear, "What reason?"
The little bear just shook its head and said, "Forget it, there's no need for you to know." The little bear suddenly revealed a smile as it said, "All you need to know is that you have the honour of taking care of me for a bit."
"Huh?" Everyone gave an exclamation of shock when they heard this.
They looked at the little bear as if they couldn't understand what it was saying.
After all, not a single one of them would have expected the little bear to say something like this all of a sudden.
Xiao Ming revealed an awkward look as she said, "Um, I don't think that we're well equipped enough to take care of you. Perhaps you would like to find some other humans that are far richer than us to take care of you? I'm sure that they could give you better things."
The little bear just gave a stretch which looked quite cute before shaking its head to say, "It's fine, you'll do."
Everyone revealed bitter smiles when they heard this.
The way that the little bear said this, it was almost as if it wasn't giving them any choice in the matter. It was as if the little bear's words were the final say and they wouldn't get a chance to say anything.
But could they really say anything?
They had already seen just how strong this little bear was and if they accidentally offended it...
It would be the end.
That was the simple way of putting it.
There was no way that they would be able to resist if the little bear suddenly lost its temper with them and decided to vent that temper a bit.
It knitted its brows slightly as it looked at Xiao Ming, but after a minute of silence, it said, "As long as they aren't too powerful, I won't abandon you. If I'm in danger, then I'll leave you to your fate. I think that you can accept that, right?"
Xiao Ming was surprised that the little bear was even offering this.
After all, it could have just ignored them completely if they were in danger.
But now it was actually offering to protect them if anything happened, which was like gaining a free bodyguard.
This was without a doubt a very good turn of events for them considering what the situation was. If anything were to happen, they should be able to rely on the little bear to help them.
They didn't believe that the enemies would be stronger than the little bear and even if they were, it wouldn't change anything. If they were stronger, they couldn't do anything, but if they weren't, then the little bear could help.
So it was better than nothing.
Xiao Ming gave a nod in response before saying, "Thank you. We'll take care of what you need, so please feel free to ask."
The others could also understand what kind of promise Xiao Ming had just gotten out of the little bear. Understanding this, they were naturally more willing to take care of the little bear now.
The little bear gave a satisfied nod before saying, "Don't worry, as long as you're taking care of me, that means that you're under my protection. If anyone tries to cause trouble for you, as long as they aren't the strongest in your human world, I'll be able to protect you."
Everyone was caught off guard by what this little bear said.
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It was saying that as long as they weren't the strongest in the human world, it would be able to protect them.
Was it saying that it was in the legendary Rebirth Realm?
The realm that was right before the Tribulation Realm which was what the peak experts of the continent were at.
No, that was impossible.
There was no way that this little bear was in the Rebirth Realm.
It had to be that the little bear was just bluffing without knowing how strong the actual peak human experts were. It was just saying this without actually knowing that humans were far stronger than it could imagine.
That wasn't strange since this little bear had been inside of this Ten Thousand Beast Valley the entire time. Since it was the strongest in this enclosed space, that meant that it had gained an inflated ego by thinking that it was the strongest in the world.
Though it was a bit humble in saying that it couldn't beat the top human experts, it didn't seem humble enough.
So they didn't take the promise of the little bear seriously.
While everyone was lost in thought over this, the little bear's stomach suddenly grumbled.
Holding its stomach in a cute manner, the little bear said, "So, what about breakfast?"
The hearts of the girls couldn't help melting when they saw this and they quickly headed off to make breakfast for this little bear.
Since it had agreed to protect them, it was one of them for now.