Chapter 285 Relying on the innate divine strength of the Bacania Tribe

Chapter 285: Chapter 285 Relying on the innate divine strength of the Bacania Tribe

However, the weight of the axe was far beyond her control. Not only did she miss the center of the wood, but the momentum also caused her to stumble forward.

With a ’thud,’ she fell flat on the ground, and the axe rolled away to the side.

"Ouch... that hurts!" Ginny winced in pain.

"Ginny, are you okay?" Kuma hurriedly stepped forward and carefully helped Ginny up.

"I-I’m fine! This little injury is nothing! I’m the big sister!" Ginny said stubbornly, shaking her hand.

Relying on the innate divine strength of the Bacania Tribe, Kuma easily picked up the axe: "I just need to split it with this, right?"

"Right!"

"Thump!"

With a dull sound, the dead wood split upon impact, divided cleanly into two halves.

"Wow! It split! Bear Cub is so amazing!" Ginny immediately forgot the pain in her hand and cheered, circling around the split wood.

"Keep chopping! Bear Cub! Split all of these!" Ginny was full of energy, starting to organize the split timber while not forgetting to cheer Kuma on.

Soon, they had accumulated a small pile of chopped firewood. Ginny used some hemp rope she found to bundle them up, but there was so much firewood that she couldn’t carry it at all.

"Watch me!" Kuma hoisted it onto his back and then leaned down. "Ginny, hop on."

Kuma easily carried the massive bundle of wood with Ginny on top, walking with steady steps toward the town.

"Let’s go sell it!! For money!!" Ginny directed the way from his back, not forgetting to recite her principles.

"Remember, even if we have to scavenge through trash, we must never steal! We will rely on our own hands to buy food!"

"Mm!" Kuma replied seriously... While Ginny was trading with people, Kuma’s tall figure caught the attention of nearby children.

A few young boys who were playing gathered around, eyeing him curiously.

One of them, who looked like the leader, tilted his head back and asked Kuma in a slightly arrogant tone:

"Hey, big guy, you look unfamiliar. New here? How old are you?"

Kuma answered honestly: "Nine years old."

"Nine?!"

"Liar!"

"How is that possible!"

The surrounding children instantly erupted into a commotion.

Kuma’s robust physique, which far exceeded his peers and even surpassed many adults, made them both surprised and felt a strange sense of rejection.

Despite being the same age, the massive Kuma became an outlier among the children, directly facing their disdain.

"Monster!"

"Liar!"

A few children began to whisper, their gazes becoming unfriendly.

The provocative boy took a few steps back, exchanged a look with another companion, and suddenly bent down to pick up a few small pebbles from the ground and threw them at Kuma!

"Smack!" A pebble hit Kuma’s arm.

"Ouch!" Kuma instinctively pulled back his arm, but he wasn’t angry; he just looked at those children with confusion and sadness.

He didn’t understand why he was being attacked for telling the truth.

"Stop it—!!!" a sharp, angry shout rang out.

Ginny, who was only one-fifth Kuma’s height, was like an enraged lioness, spreading her arms to block the way in front of Kuma, glaring at the two children who threw the stones.

"What are you doing?! Why are you hitting him?!"

Seeing such a tiny girl dare to yell at them, the two boys were stunned at first, but then felt they had lost face. One of them said stubbornly:

"What’s it to you! He’s a monster!"

This sentence completely ignited Ginny’s fury. Though she was small, the shrewishness she had developed from struggling among Slaves and the courage to protect someone important instantly erupted!

"You dare call Bear Cub a monster?! You’re the ones who are rude little brats!"

Ginny screamed and charged forward. While Ginny was very weak compared to Kuma, to other children, a little girl who could lift an axe nearly as heavy as herself was an absolute monster.

The two boys were beaten back repeatedly, wailing and shouting, and soon several bumps appeared on their heads.

Kuma stood behind her, a bit at a loss. He wanted to pull Ginny away, but he also felt that Ginny was standing up for him.

Soon, Ginny’s "violence" was stopped by other adults who heard the commotion. The two boys, with heads full of bumps, were crying with snot and tears flowing.

Looking at their pathetic state, the kind-hearted Kuma felt quite bad.

He gently knelt down and reached out his hands with the paw pads.

"I’m sorry," he explained softly to the two crying boys.

"Ginny is actually a good kid... She was just too worried about me."

As he spoke, he gently placed his palms near the swollen bumps on the two boys’ heads.

A magical scene occurred!

Pink, translucent paw-shaped bubbles rose from the boys’ injuries following Kuma’s movements, as if being gently ’pushed’ away.

Immediately after, the red and swollen bumps on their heads receded and flattened at a speed visible to the naked eye, and even the sensation of pain vanished instantly!

"Huh?!"

"It... it doesn’t hurt anymore!"

"Those serious injuries just now!"

"They seem to have healed in an instant!"

The two boys stopped crying, touching their foreheads which were now as good as new in surprise, and then looked at Kuma’s magical palms with eyes wide open.

The other children and adults nearby also saw this scene and broke into exclamations of wonder.

"So cool! Kuma!"

"It’s Kuma’s magic! He made the pain fly away!"

"Bear Cub! Do it again!"

The children’s curiosity and admiration instantly replaced their previous fear and rejection.

They crowded around Kuma, shouting the name "Bear Cub" all at once, the previous conflict vanishing into thin air.

Kuma smiled somewhat shyly, patiently responding to the children’s curiosity.

Ginny looked at Kuma, who was surrounded by children in a friendly manner and looked a bit embarrassed but clearly happy. She put her hands on her hips and gave a huff, but a relieved smile appeared on her face.

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