Chapter 400 - Bear-san, Jumps Off (2/2)

Moving on, I needed to put Ruimin in a good mood. So we decided to have dinner together at Rikka-san and Rojina-san’s house and talked about today’s events, stories from Crimonia, and the royal capital.

Then, Rikka-san wanted to hear about the elven village, so Ruimin talked about it.

[I also want to visit Ruimin-chan’s elven village and Fina-chan’s hometown.] Rikka

[Isn’t the royal capital also a good place to go?] Yuna

[Of course, I would like to visit the capital and check if Ghazal is doing a good job. But it’s too far away, so I can’t go there easily.] Rikka

I can easily go there because I have the bear gate. But that’s not the case for a normal person, it’s too far from here.

[How did Yuna-chan and the two of you travel from such a faraway place?] Rikka

[I have summoned beasts.] Yuna

[Summoned beasts?] Rikka

I can’t tell them about the bear gate, so I’ll answer with that. Well, it’s not a lie, because we actually rode Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear from the elven village to this place.

[Yuna-san’s summoned beasts are bears and they’re very cute. They’re also very fast, it took less than two days to get here from my village.] Ruimin

[Really? But I thought bears were scary.] Rikka

[Swaying Bear-chan and Hugging Bear-chan are so cute.] Fina

[Bear Summoned Beasts…] Rikka

Rikka-san looks at me.

[You want to see them?] Yuna

[They’re not dangerous, right?] Rikka

[Of course, as long as Rikka-san doesn’t attack them out of the blue, they’re not dangerous.] Yuna

[I wouldn’t do something so scary.] Rikka

Rikka-san shook her head from side to side.

I got permission from Rojina-san and Wyola-san, then we move to the room where Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear can be summoned.

I stretch out my arms and summon Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear.

[Bears!] Rikka

Rikka-san quickly hid behind Rojina-san.

[The black one is Swaying Bear and the white one is Hugging Bear.] Yuna

As I’m introducing Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear, Fina and Ruimin are already hugging them.

[Are you sure it’s safe?] Rikka

[It’s okay.] Fina

[They’re not going to do anything.] Ruimin

After being told by Fina and Ruimin, Rikka-san slowly comes out from behind Rojina-san.

Rojina-san and Wyola-san were surprised, but they didn’t seem to be afraid. Rikka-san carefully reached out and touched Swaying Bear.

[It’s soft. And it feels good.] Rikka

Swaying Bear made a small <ku~u ~ n> cry as if it felt good. Rikka-san was relieved that Swaying Bear doesn’t do anything and let her pat his head.

[And this one is a white bear. It’s white and beautiful.] Rikka

When Rikka-san found out that Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear were not scary, she stroked them around. Then, when I returned them to the bear puppets, she looked dejected.

We thanked Rojina-san and Wyola-san for cooking for us and returned to the inn.

[I’m really tired ~] Ruimin

Ruimin collapses on the bed.

[My legs are heavy.] Fina

Fina was also sitting on the bed, massaging and relaxing her feet. Well, Fina did her best to climbed up and down the stairs on her own feet.

[Well, let’s take a bath and then get some rest.] Yuna

[But the bath is at…….] Ruimin

[It’s okay.] Yuna

There was no bath at the inn and I heard that we had to go to a public bathhouse to take a bath. I don’t want to go there now and I don’t want to be unprotected in public. I locked the door to our room tightly and took out the bear gate. The only people here are the ones who know about the bear gate.

There’s no way I will not use it.

I opened the doors of the bear gate connected to the bear house in the Elven Village.

[Fina, Ruimin. Just wait a moment. We’re inside the sacred tree’s barrier, so we don’t know what will happen if Fina enters.] Yuna

I closed the door once and move to the bear house in the sacred tree. Once outside of the sacred tree’s barrier, I took out my bear house for travel from the bear box. I go into the bear house and move to the room where the bear transfer gate is set up, then open the door to the bear transfer gate at the inn where Fina and the others are. Then I take the two of them and move to the bear house for travel.

[Now then, I’ll get the bath ready and you two can just relax for a bit.] Yuna

[Yuna-oneesan, why did you choose the one in the elven village? I think the one in Crimonia would be good.] Fina

[Well, we’re going to turn on the lights, but by doing so, people would notice us in Crimonia, the Royal Capital, and Mereera. Here, it’s deep in the forest and far away from the elven village, so even if the light leaks a little, it’ll be hard for them to notice us.] Yuna

Besides, the village chief, Mumroot-san, knows about the bear gate, so it’ll be easy to deceive everyone with his help if something goes wrong.

Then we took a relaxing bath to unwind our tired feet after walking all day.

Bathing is a good culture.

Author’s Note:

We are now at 400 episodes. Thank you very much.

At the same time, volume 7 of the book was released. I hope you enjoy it.

To celebrate the release of volume 7, I posted a story about Karin in SS, so if there are readers who haven’t read it, please read that as well.

The publisher made a PV video of Kuma. It is written in the activity report, and I would be happy if you could watch it

Please take care of Kuma…