Chapter 82 – Bear-san And Some Free Time (1/2)
Chapter 82 – Bear-san And Some Free Time
Author’s note:
I don’t know.
It’s a story linked with the trip to s.h.i.+nten.
(TL: A place near Hiros.h.i.+ma.)
The shop was now doing well even without me, so I didn’t have to go there recently.
The sales were great, Morin-san was trying to make new types of bread, and the children, who had gotten used to the work, were now doing it happily.
We also increased the number of new dishes.
Rurina-san and Gill also went back to their adventurer jobs.
The two of them left Deborane’s party and accepted jobs alone or made temporary parties.
They often came to the store as customers.
I didn’t have anything to do, so I decided to go to the capital using the transfer gate.
Even though the birthday party had ended, there were still a lot of people there.
I went to the castle to take pudding to Princess Flora.
When I arrived at the gate, the soldiers seemed to remember me and gave a relaxed greeting as I approached them.
「I want to go inside, is that okay?」
I presented my guild card to them.
There was a permit to enter the castle on my guild card, so that I could enter without any problems.
When the guard asked my reason for coming, I told him that I came to see Princess Flora.
As one would expect, I couldn’t just go see the princess alone, so he said that I had to wait until he called Eleanora-san.
「Yuna-chan, it’s been a while.」
「It’s been a while indeed, Eleanora-san.」
「You came to see Princess Flora?」
「Yes, it’s been awhile since I came here, after all.」
「You came from Crimonia just for that?」
「It seems that I won’t be able to come here for some time, so…」
「Well, it’s not easy to come here all the time from Crimonia, right?」
For some reason, when we arrived to Princess Flora’s room, the king was inside.
「Your Highness, are you ditching work again?」
「Eleanora, I am not you. I am just on a break.」
「That’s some bad mouthing. I am here as a duty guide for Yuna-chan.」
「I am talking about your normal behaviour.」
「My normal behaviour? I am a ma.s.s of diligence. And why is the king in Princess Flora’s room?」
「That’s because I heard a report that Yuna was coming, of course. I knew that if she was coming, she would go to Flora’s room.」
While the two of them were bickering, Princess Flora approached me.
「Princess Flora, it’s been a while.」
「Bear-san, you came?」
「I promised you, after all.」
I brought out the pudding from the Bear Box.
「I brought some pudding, so let’s eat them together.」
「Yes.」
I brought out four servings of pudding and neatly lined them up on the table.
Seeing this, Eleanora and the king approached too.
「Thank you for what you did.」
I thanked the king for what he said during the birthday party.
「What is it, so suddenly?」
「It’s about the pudding. It seems that you have protected my shop for now, so…」
「It’s about that, huh. I forced you to prepare the pudding, so doing just that was absolutely no problem. If something does happen, you can ask either me or the Foschurose family’s Cliff for help.」
「Of course, you can work him hard, you know.」
「Also, I will give you this.」
I gave a piece of paper to the king.
「What is it?」
「The pudding recipe. Make some for Princess Flora, please.」
「Is it okay?」
「I don’t know when I will be able to come again, after all.」
「Understood. I will thankfully accept it. To keep it confidential, I will give the recipe to only my personal cook.」
「You don’t really have to keep it a secret, so don’t punish him if it is leaked.」
I didn’t want him to be executed because of the pudding recipe.
「Do not worry. It won’t even leak to the other royal cooks.」