Seeing that the crab wants to go back to sea to either get rid of Alex or drown him.
Either way it was not something Alex wants to do but the crab being half dead was not something Alex wants to let escape.
Kuma also noticed the crab intention the go back in the sea was not ideal and seeing the crab was already making their way over to the sea he needed to either stop it completely or buy enough time for Alex to crack the shell and start hurting the actual body.
While this was going on Alex just decided to speed up with trying to get through the shell when suddenly a voice reached him.
"Jump off." The voice was female but still firm and Alex decided to trust it and jumped off the crab and Kuma made a bit more distance just in case.
A few seconds after he jumped of the crab the fire beam engulfed the crab and after it went away there was a dead crab it was almost charcoal with how black it was.
Looking for the voice he looked around and saw a girl with a red staff and a black cloak and black leggings walking towards him her blone hair in a pony tail.
"Hey good thing you listened i was afraid i would burn are you doing okay i looked a bit at your fight and well i noticed it wanted to go back to the sea so i decided to help you." The girl definitely was strong that much was clear but was suprised that she helped him he thought most people would just let him have his fight.
Maybe someone would step in if he was half way to deaths door but here was someone who just helped on without a clear reason.
"Not that i am ungratefull for your help but why did you help me?" Alex was curious most people do not help out of kindness or just because they could.
"Well i saw how much effort you but in trying to kill the Cannon crab so i thought it would be a shame if it went back to sea." The girl really only seemed to have good intentions and it was nice in a way.
Kuma who walked back to Alex was intending to get back up on Alex's shoulder but when the girl saw him she looked confused for a bit.
"Huh guess i was not seeing things a living teddy bear your so cute." The girl quickly came over het confusion and picked Kuma up and started cuddling him unaware that Kuma did not want cuddles.
(Let me go hey Alex tell her to let me go please this is not fun picking me up is one thing cuddling is another.)
Alex hearing Kuma's complaints decided to just free Kuma from his prison.
"Hey i would appreciate it if you could release my friend there." Alex told the girl when the girl heard that she apologizes and put Kuma down who went to sit on Alex's shoulder.
"So what is your name you never told us your name after all." Alex asked not sure if he should team up with her or not.
"Oh right i should introduce myself my name is Emma nice to meet you." Emma put het hand out so Alex could shake her hand.
"My name is Alex the teddy bear is called Kuma nice to meet you to." Internally Alex added i guess after his sentence but he decided to just keep it to himself not sure what to think of the girl but not wanting to be rude still shook her hand.
"So if you want you can have the crab you sort of saved me in a way i mean we will never know if it was needed but still thank you." Alex was looking to just continue on with his day hoping that if he just gave the crab to the Emma he would have no problems or favors with him.
"Oh it was no problem i actually have a question for you well maybe two depending on your answer." Emma told him and Alex had a feeling that if he walked away she would follow him to ask him anyway.
"Go ahead i have time." Alex just wanting to see what she wants decided to just agree since that was the faster way to maybe get her to leave.
"Are you new to being a adventurer?" Alex was not expecting this question he thought maybe it would be about Kuma or the crab but not this.
"I am why do you ask?" Alex decided not to lie in case she knows and just wants to hear it from him.
"Well you should know that when you get to D+ rank you need to go in a party because otherwise it would be suicide to the some of the good quests." Alex was suprised he did not know sure he saw that the quest where harder and a lot of monsters to kill but he was not aware of needing a party.
"Guessing by your expression and silence you where not aware well that does not matter i wanted to ask if i could be your party member?" Now Alex was confused why would a girl who he just met want to team up with him.
He was not sure if she just liked killing newbie adventurers or just robbing him so he was a bit on guard.
"Why me i am F rank it might take a while before i get to D+ rank." Alex hoped with this question he could see if she would say something that did not match her expression.
"Well i mean we are talking already and we could make a good team besides i am only F+ rank the only reason i could kill that crab was because you already had it half dead and i kinda want to party with someone i already know the abilities of then someone who just invites me."
Before Alex could answer her Emma continued with talking.
"Besides i could help you with your quest i might not know what your doing but i dont think you would be fighting the crab if you where not doing a quest here so please let me join i will pull me own weight." Alex realized Emma was dead set on becoming a party member and he did not see something that did would see if she was lying to him.
"Fine but if you do bad during the quest we will go out seperate ways." Alex answered and Emma was very happy nodding and was not intending to mess up.
"You are right i am doing a quest i have to collect red seaweed bassicly as much possible to get money and hopefully stay here a while." With this out the way Alex and Emma got to work.
Alex had maybe expected that Emma would complain about grabbing seaweed because it was not the most pleasant to touch but she helped him without complaints.
Together they got bassicly two bags full and went to the guild and when they showed what they got they got s total of 70 copper.
Alex gave Emma half of it which confused her.
"Why are you giving me half your the party leader so you should be in charge of the money." Hearing this Alex was confused he thought it was weird that the guild worker had given him all the money so he could distribute between members.
"Are you sure you dont want your own share i mean you worked for it?" Alex still asked because he did not want to be accused of not compensating her.
"Yeah your the party leader so you should be in charge of keeping the money unless you plan on kicking me off the party?" Emma asked him but she knew that Alex was not intending to kick her off after all she did not mess up so unless Alex was not a man of his word she had no problem with it.
"Alright if you want some let me know then and also when did i become party leader?" He was confused because he had thought that Emma might want to be party leader since she has a higher rank then him.
"I mean i wanted to join you not the other way around so it should be normal your party leader besides if i need something i could just ask for a bit since, you should be in charge you should know how much we have in total so, do you want to do another quest or are we calling it a day or do you need something i have been here for 2 weeks i could show you around." Alex was suprised by such a simple answer.
"I guess we could call it a day at which inn are you staying so its easy to find eachother when we need to meet up." He asked Emma intending to just rent a room at the inn she stays at.
"About that i might not have enough so i was planning on doing a quest but then i saw you and you know the rest but i can bring you to the one i stayed at it is not to expensive it is only 15 copper for one room." She told Alex and Alex could only sigh at how careless Emma is.
Kuma who was just observing Emma because Alex asked to keep a eye on her just in case was also just as suprised that a girl can be so careless.