Bear-san Becomes A Picture Book Author?
「Yuna-chan, how come your trip to the Commerce Guild ended up with you subjugating monsters?」
Terumi-san asked me while I was eating honey soaked pancakes.
「I just went with the flow?」
Terumi-san sighed and put on an exasperated expression.
「Thank you, though. I didn’t want to stop selling honey related goods since they are popular, so you really saved us. The children will be happy as well.」
「I’m happy that I was able to do something owner-like.」
「You’re always owner-like, Yuna-chan. Morin-san, the orphans, and I are all very thankful to you.」
I received Terumi-san’s gratitude, and then ordered pancakes and each type of popular bread.
「What will you do with all this food?」
「I will go out for a bit, so I will take it as a souvenir.」
(TN: Uses omiyage: a gift/souvenir you offer when you go and visit someone.)
「I understand. I will forward it to the kitchen then.」
「What about you, Terumi-san?」
「Rem-san isn’t here, so I will go to his place. I want to talk to him about the price of honey.」
Terumi-san called out to the kitchen, then left the shop.
After some time passed, the children brought the bread to me. After receiving them, I went back to the Bear House and used the Bear transfer gate to go to the capital.
I left the Bear House in the capital and headed towards my destination, the castle.
There were more gazes looking my way compared to Crimonia. Thinking about it now, I did feel that Crimonia had become easier to live in.
When I arrived at the castle gates, before I even showed my guild card, a guard said 『Please come in.』, and let me through. I thought that it was bad for the security to be this lax, but I had no reason to complain, since the troublesome check was skipped.
The only thing that concerned me was that one of the guards ran off after he saw me.
It was clearly for THAT reason, right?
I let out a small sigh of giving up before I headed towards my destination.
I went through the passage I had taken a number of times before. The number of people greeting me in the castle had increased recently. The number of surprised faces had decreased compared to outside of the castle, though. Did that mean that the Bear Suit had been accepted inside the castle?
When I arrived at my destination, I knocked on the door of a room. A girl’s voice answered from inside.
「I’m the adventurer Yuna.」
The door opened after I responded.
The person who came out was the caretaker, Anju-san.
She was a woman in the first half of her 20s.
「Oh my, if it isn’t Yuna-sama. Welcome.」
「Is Princess Flora here?」
「Yes, she is.」
She opened the door and let me through.
「Bear-san!」
Princess Flora rushed over when she saw me.
「Princess Flora, are you well?」
「Yes, I am!」
「Anju-san, I brought lunch, but is it okay?」
「Yes, there’s no problem. I will tell the head chef.」
「Could you please apologize to the head chef for me?」
The head chef was normally the one in charge of preparing lunch for the royal family, including Princess Flora, of course. I was being a nuisance to the head chef, so I had to apologize.
「I understand. I don’t think he will be too angry though, especially since you gave him that recipe.」
「I hope that’s the case. Give this to the head chef then. It’s our new bread product.」
「Okay, I understood. I will go talk to the head chef then, I leave Flora-sama in your hands.」
She bowed and left the room.
「Flora-sama, are you hungry?」
「Yes, I am.」
「It’s a little early, but we should have lunch.」
I lined up the bread on the table. They smelled delicious, since they were freshly baked.
「Waa, they all seem delicious!」