"Monster?" Xuna felt that something was up with the place as she brought her boat ashore, tailing after the middle-aged lady from far away, without alerting the other party.
From the shore, the middle-aged lady ran for a distance of two kilometres through a beaten path, arriving at a village by the mountainside.
There were around two hundred houses situated there, so it was a sizeable village. The middle-aged lady rushed into the village, shouting at the top of her voice, "Monster!"
"Monster? Another one?"
"Where is it?"
"Dammit, take all the children inside!"
The villagers clamoured in response as the able-bodied men among them rushed out, holding swords and spears.
'They are armed?' Xuna was pleasantly surprised. Typically, the villagers would have used tools like hooves or sickles as weapons in such emergencies, and not come out fully equipped with proper weaponry.