Editor’s note: As per request of our Kuma translator (and thanks to our dear readers Passingbear and Spookie for letting us realize), we are changing Terumi-san to Tirumina-san from here on out to match the manga and japanese RAW better. I hope it won’t confuse you too much.
Past chapters will also be changed to reflect this.
「What did you want to discuss?」
Tirumina-san looked at me and asked what I wanted to talk about as we walked.
I would prefer if she didn’t look at me as if I was going to do something that would bring her trouble everytime I sought her out.
Well, I couldn’t deny that what I was doing this time was indeed quite a bit of trouble…
「I was thinking of taking everybody working for us to the sea, so I wanted to discuss it with you.」
Tirumina-san looked at me with a I-knew-she-was-going-to-say-something-strange expression.
「Let me confirm something first. When you say everyone, exactly how many people are you thinking of?」
「When I say everyone, I mean everyone: Anzu, Morin-san, the workers at the shop, and of course, you and your family.」
Maybe I should take Noa as well?
Tirumina-san looked at me with her mouth hanging open, clearly dumbfounded.
「Yuna-chan, how many people do you think that is? What will happen to the shop in the meantime?」
Tirumina-san immediately pointed out the problem.
「The shop will be closed while we are away, of course.」
「What about the eggs? We have a contract to deliver fresh ones to the Commerce Guild every day.」
「About that, actually. A while ago, Mylene-san said that they were going to increase the production of eggs elsewhere, didn’t she?」
「Yes, she did.」
「And, based on my knowledge, she arranged for many people to come to the orphanage so you could teach them how to care for the cluckers, no?」
「Yes, but they aren’t here right now.」
That wasn’t really an issue, though.
「During that time, we will ask a few of them to help us. If there won’t be enough willing people, Mylene-san can also lend us some of her staff from the Commerce Guild. Well, that’s my current plan, at least.」
Tirumina-san kept silent for a while to give it some thought.
It should be a pretty good idea, no?
「The employees from Commerce Guild will be able to take all the eggs back directly, which will make things even easier.」
The value of the eggs might drop for the duration, but that was better than wasting them.
「That all makes sense, but do you perchance want me to arrange all that?」
「Please do, Tirumina-san.」
「Yuna-chan…」
It was best to leave the complicated stuff to Tirumina-san.
Yet, she looked at me in disbelief as she often liked to do.
「Okay, then when do you plan to have this trip? I can’t prepare everything immediately.」
「I want to go when it gets a bit hotter. I know there are a lot of things we need to prepare, so I decided to ask you now that we still have plenty of time. Would you be willing to discuss it with Mylene-san?」
If we failed to secure the required personnel, we would have to come up with another way to take care of things while we were gone. We could always have some people stay behind, but if we were going to take a group vacation to play, then we should all go together and not leave anyone behind, especially since we might break up some groups of friends if we did so.
If we split them up, everybody would only have half as much fun. People usually enjoyed themselves the most while being around their friends, after all.
I also had to prepare the swimsuits, since we couldn’t have people swimming naked or in their regular clothing.
Still, the biggest reason to delay this trip was that it just wasn’t hot enough yet. There was no point in going to the sea before the summer heat reached a certain degree, after all.
「Okay, but how will we travel there? There will be a lot of us, so it might be difficult to go as a group.」
I had completely forgotten about that issue. Maybe we could get carriages for everyone?
Well, I could easily create carriages with earth magic and have Bear Golems drag them, as I had done when I captured those bandits, but were such carriages comfortable to ride?
I had made them without thinking about comfort, so they most likely failed in that regard. If I put some more effort into it, though, could I make them more comfortable?
Hmm, what should I do?
「We still have time, so I will think of what to do about it later, but before that, can you check if there are people willing to take care of the birds for us?」
「Sigh… Okay, let me know when you decide on the date and time. I will go and take care of this in the meantime.」
Fina and Shuri looked quite happy seeing their mother agree to the trip.
Since Tirumina-san had now somewhat agreed to help me, I thanked her in advance and parted ways with them.
My next stop was the tailor shop where Sherry worked, so that I could ask her about making swimsuits for me.
As I entered the shop, Noll-san, who was working at the counter, quickly noticed me and spoke up.
「Welcome, Yuna-chan. I see you’re wearing your cute outfit today as well. Maybe I should try making it sometime.」
「Please don’t. If you do, I will have to destroy this shop.」