Chapter 29: Alpha Bear Showdown [1]
You ever get that weird and awkward silence after a big argument? Yeah. That was me and the Alpha Bear right now.
Except the "argument" was me exploding his friend’s face and the "awkward silence" was him staring at me like he was calculating how many bites it would take to eat my corpse.
His blackish-brown fur didn’t just look intimidating anymore, it was literally radiating with a blinding blue glow, like someone had shoved lightning under his skin.
And those cold brown eyes... they weren’t just looking at me. They were promising me a slow, educational death. The kind where you learn valuable life lessons like how many ribs you actually have and how quickly they can be snapped in half.
I looked around me.
Dense green forest with thick and towering trees that made everything feel smaller... covered us.
And somewhere among them were ten more traps I had set. Beautiful little death machines just waiting for a volunteer.
I could definitely force—ahem—ask the bear politely to volunteer. Most of them promised at least a serious injury.
But really... What’s the fun in that?
I’m a proud martial artist. So how could I possibly use deception to defeat my enemies? It’s totally against my principles.
As for the other bears I may have killed with traps and other "creative" methods... that was on them. If they had just kept things civil and come at me one by one without cursing in their weird cryptic bear growl, I would’ve fought them fair and square. Definitely.
But no, they had to be shitbags.