Chapter 72: The Search

Wisteria Province

Miranda City Towers

Adventurers Guild

3 weeks before true present day

Felmina

I am at the Adventurers Guild waiting for information on my husband's whereabouts.

He's been missing for nearly 3 years after the Fall.

The liquid mind is finally almost filled to capacity.

I'm in the tavern part on the 4th floor of the guild headquarters.

I'm here with Roka and Milly.

I am dressed in full armor, with my helmet on, I can easily be mistaken for a man.

Roka has her chest wrapped with lots of skin showing, her shortsword at her waist. Despite this, the drunk adventurers are only bothering Milly.

She's sitting on the chair with her knees pulled toward her chest blushing, batting the onlookers away. She's hissing at them baring her teeth, like a startled cat.

Roka's not gonna do anything, in fact I think she's sleeping with her eyes open.

I sigh.

I get up from my chair. Everyone looks at me, including the ones bothering Milly. They turn away and continue bothering her.

"Little nee-chan you're so cute."

"Yeah have a drink with us."

I walk over and put my hand on the biggest one's shoulder.

He looks up at me scowling.

"What do you want? Can't you see I'm busy."

"Do you know who you're hitting on?"

He puts his hand to his ear.

"What was that, you her husband or something?"

He probably couldn't hear me with the helmet on.

I shake my head. Then I take it off, revealing my face.

They are stunned silent.

They all turn to me.

"Hey, you're pretty cute too. How about it, wanna play with us?"

A lust filled smile creeps across their faces.

I sigh again.

"Fine, but do you know who we are?"

"Should I?"

I point to Milly.

"Her name is Milinda,"

I point to Roka.

"her name is Roka... As for me..."

Just then a messenger comes running up.

He stops in front of me.

"Mrs. Kaijuu, the guildmaster will see you now. "

They all go white as sheets, then others that weren't directly involed, start murmuring.

"Kaijuu, as in... Demon General Kaijuu?"

They go even whiter.

A evil smile creeps across my face.

"Excuse us. Milly, wake Roka up, we need to go."

She jumps up and they melt away as she walks past.

"Then you must be?"

I look at the one who spoke. He's a part of their group but he stayed seated at their table.

"Felmina nee san, can we go now?"

I see Roka rubbing her eyes as she stands. Then yawns.

We start following the guide.

We asked the guildmaster to find the entrance to the Dragon Village.

We are going to collect the updated map from him.

The road leading to it constantly changes. The road, wherever it appears, only remains open for a week at most.

4 days later.

We arrive in the Dragon village.

David and the rest of the surviving bears are already here.

"Felmina nee-san. I believe Aniki must have lost his memories or something. Maybe he'll recognize you."

I see some kids run past us with wood collection backpacks on.

It's baically 2, L shaped pieces of wood with a few braces inbetween. It's empty.

I stop one of them, a little girl with red hair maybe about 6 years old. She looks up at me confused.

"Where are you going, little girl?"

She looks up at me with a smile so bright she could melt the sun.

"We are gonna go play Big man tag. Ah!"

She pulls herself free.

"I need to go. Whoever gets there first is the big man. Bye!"

She goes scampering off catching up with her friends.

I feel a hand on my shoulder.

It's Milly

"Shall we go? David lead the way."

David turns and heads in the same direction the kids ran off to.

We round the corner as we continue following David.

I hear the kids playing in the park to my right.

"I'm the Big man, I'm gonna get ya."

Milly and Roka freeze in place. I look over toward the voices.

This is probably the craziest shit I've seen in quite a while.

The kid that's chasing the other kids has this huge guy on her back sitting on the wood collection backpack.

This defies all common sense.

How can those kids run around carrying him?

A old man comes over and stands right next to me tapping his cane on the ground before speaking.

"We call him the big man, he loves kids... he's harmless though."

The big man is wearing a animal skin and has a massive build from what I can tell. His arms are the size of my waist He has a big, black bushy beard and really long black curled hair. It goes down half of his back He's not wearing any shoes.

The old man next to me continues.

"He's a mute, He arrived in this village a little over 2 years ago. And the kids started playing this game with him, after he saved one of them from being run over by the Demon General's Carriage."

We all immediately focus on the short old man.

I bend over as I grab his shoulders and shake him.

"What did you just say?"

He slowly opens his one eye, looking at me then casts his gaze to Roka and Milly.

I shake him again.

"Hey where is he?"

He shakes himself loose from my grip. Then he opens both eyes, looking at us with suspicion in his gaze.

"Who are you?"

He asks clear hostility evident in his voice.

Milly answers.

"We are his wives, we are desperately looking for him."

Roka steps forward putting her hand on the hilt of her blade ready to draw as she says.

"Tell us what you know old man, where is he?"

The old man glares at us. Then he spits on the ground.

"You'll find that piece of shit in the Hotel over there"

He points at the only 5 story building in town using his cane.

Then he spits on the ground again.

We found him. It doesn't matter how, but we finally found him.

"Thank you!"

"Fuck off!"

I'm so happy, I can't even be angry right now. I jump up and start dragging Roka off.

Her sword is now drawn, ready to kill the old timer.

With resignation she holsters her sword.

We enter the hotel lobby.

I spot him almost immediately.

I head over when I'm suddenly stopped.

I push through these massive gatekeepers like they're nothing.

"Wait, you can't just see the Demon General"

I ignore them. He turns to me as I cause the disturbance.

"Ryu it's me!"

He pulls his greatsword and gets ready to fight.

I look at him confused

"Don't you--"

Before I can take another step forward, David stops me.

He whispers in my ear.

"Something's wrong with him Felmina nee-san. He doesn't recognize any of the bears either. Let's play it cool right now. Something's definitely wrong here."

I look at David and point to him.

"But that's his Armor and his sword, I'd recognize it anywhere."

"I know, but-"

A booming voice behind me.

"I don't care who you are, but no one can see the General without paying."

...

"How much?"

Roka asks

The Massive guy gets a evil grin on his face.

"500 gold coins.".

"500!"

Milly chimes in

"What for?"

"The demon general will listen to any request you have."

We all stand there,0 flabbergasted.

David whispers in my ear again.

"Let's withdraw for now."

I reluctantly agree.

We all leave.

The following day, we came up with a plan.

We'll have Milly request a handshake from Ryu. We'll use this opportunity to confirm our suspicions about him having amnesia.

Me, Roka and Milly enter alongside the 25 surviving bears. One by one we all take a seat as we enter. When Milly enters, she walks straight toward the gatekeepers.

"How much if I want to shake the general's hand?"

Milly blushes. The 2 guys look at each other, then back at her.

"100 coins"

She claps her hands in delight.

Then snaps her fingers. David comes over and hands her the bag. She puts it on the table as she passes right by them.

She takes a seat in front of Ryu.

She holds out her hand. He reaches for hers.

She blushes again.

"Uhm... I was hoping to shake your real hand, not your glove. I need to touch the legendary general."

...

He nods as he removes his gauntlet.

She's blushing from ear to ear.

As soon as she takes his hand, she stops fidgeting, her blush fades almost instantly.

"Thank you, general."

She bows to him as she lets go. She heads over to me directly...

Something's off.

She looks a bit upset now.

Once she's behind me, she takes a deep breath, then yells.

"That's not my Ryu!"

Once the shock from this revelation fades a few moments later. We all get up as one as I snap my fingers. The fakes draw their weapons, including the impostor and the 2 gatekeepers, there's about 20 of them, fully armed, ready for a fight.

"David, subdue them, use Gregory and Megan."

The Imposter squad starts looking at one another and start laughing. The rest of us take a seat as I raise my hand apnd take a seat myself.

"Yes Felmina-sama. At your command."

The 3 bears take their weapons off and place them on the table behind them.

Once done, they step forward.

The impostor crowd starts laughing even louder.