In the early morning of day two of the school festival, a few guests arrived at the mansion.
「Noa-oneesama, Yuna-san, Fina-chan, it’s been a while.」
「How have you been doing, everyone?」
Suririna-san had only told us that some guests had arrived, but who would have expected that it was Gran-san and Misa.
「Gran-san, Misa, why are you here?」
「I had some things to do in the Capital. We had some free time yesterday, so we took a look around the school festival and wouldn’t you know, the first thing we heard about was a girl running around wearing a bear outfit.」
「We figured Yuna-san might be here, so we came to see you.」
It seemed like the formula Bear = Me was now confirmed as accurate.
Shia had mentioned that I had stood out too much yesterday, and she might have been right…
「How did you know I was here, though?」
「We heard that the bear girl was with some other girls that were around my age, so we thought you might be visiting the capital together with Noa-oneesama and Fina-chan, so we decided to come here first.」
「Well the main reason for coming is to ask a favor. If you’re going to the school festival today as well, could you bring Misa along for me?」
I had no real reason to refuse, so I nodded in agreement.
「Thank you very much!」
「Let’s enjoy the festival together.」
「Okay!」
Misa beamed me a big smile then went to catch up with the other girls.
「If you don’t mind, Young Lady, I would also like to thank you again for saving Misa back at her birthday party. I still shiver every time I recall what happened to her.」
「I already told you back then that you don’t have to thank me so much. I only wanted to save my friend and beat up the guys who hurt Fina and Noa. You really don’t have to keep thanking me.」
「Haha, yes, you did tell me that. Still, I will do everything in my power to repay you, so ask me for anything you like. Well, except for the family inheritance. That already went to my son and his wife, so I’m afraid I can’t offer that anymore.」
Gran-san said and laughed heartily.
I had heard about this inheritance business from Eleanora-san before. Gran-san had already passed down the title of Mireera’s Feudal Lord to his son soon after the kidnapping incident.
「Well, thanks to them, I can now travel around much more freely. I’ve been having a lot of fun, going to all sorts of places with this newfound freedom of mine.」
He was like a grandpa having fun with his pension in his retirement, wasn’t he?
「I’m going to bring Misa to Crimonia next time, so please take care of her then as well.」
After entrusting Misa to me, Gran-san didn’t waste any more time and left the mansion.
Not long after he left, we also got ready to head to the academy. Everybody was wearing the clothes that Tilia had bought for them. They also picked some small accessories to go with it. At least they didn’t wear the eye catching hair pieces and other accessories that I had won for them.
Once we were all set, we said goodbye to Suririna-san and made our way through the capital.
Shia had already left earlier in the morning to set up the cotton candy machines I had given her. This time, we were planning on meeting her at their stand directly, instead of having her fetch us at the academy entrance.
Thanks to Misa joining in, I was surrounded by four young girls today.
「Misa, will you be at the Capital for a while?」
「Grandfather told me we’ll be leaving tomorrow.」
「You’ll be leaving?」
「Yes. I think that’s why grandfather wanted me to spend time with you today, instead of accompanying him.」
I was happy to see her smile. I had heard of kidnapping victims who were too afraid to go out in public after such incidents. I had been worried that Misa might be like them and hide herself at home all the time, but it seemed like I had worried for nothing.
Really, seeing Misa being able to smile like that made me very relieved.
If Misa had received such trauma from that incident, I would go and beat up that stupid noble family until her trauma went away.
Anyways, it seemed I could relax and enjoy myself with the girls. Fina and Noa were very happy to see Misa again and chatted nonstop. They also made sure to include Shuri, who had met Misa for the first time. On the other hand, I was stuck walking behind them all alone. Well, I didn’t really mind. Watching the girls chatting so energetically was enough for me.
When we reached the academy, we received another piece of paper to choose our favorite attractions. Visitors got one for each day, it seemed. Yesterday, we had voted for the shop we had bought these cute western clothes from. Tilia had told us that we could write the same number three times, so we did that as it was easier than picking two additional attractions. If we came around again next year and the shop was still there, I would make sure to buy something for the girls again. I had decided on that as I had written down their name yesterday.
As for the ballot boxes, they were located in various areas of the academy, so we were able to submit our votes anytime we wanted.
We made our way towards Shia’s stand, and as we were walking, the passing crowd all turned to look at me like always. Howerer, the things I was hearing were different than normal.
「Is that the rumored bear from yesterday?」「It’s that bear from yesterday.」「What’s with that bear?」「Didn’t you hear? That bear was amazing.」「Let’s follow the bear.」「We might be able to see something interesting.」
Many people started to trail behind us.
「Yuna-oneechan…」
Fina looked very uncomfortable and grabbed onto my Bear Hand tightly .
Noa, Shuri, and Misa luckily didn’t notice and continued to chat happily.
「Fufu, it does feel quite nice being called Misa-neechan.」
Misa commented with a smile.
At first, Shuri had called her Misa-sama, just like Fina did. However, Misa had soon noticed Shuri was using Noa-neechan for Noa, so she had asked Shuri to call her Misa-neechan instead.
I had been the only one who noticed Fina’s face going pale when she had heard Shuri agree to it. Well, Misa had personally requested it, so Gran-san had no reason to get angry at Shuri for being too chummy with a noble. Still, while Gran-san wouldn’t be a problem, we had to make sure that Shuri understood not all nobles were as nice as Noa and Misa.