Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear (Chapter 75-260)

Chapter 180

Chapter 180 – Bear-san Learns About Zelef-san’s and Botts-san’s History

Since the troublesome conversation continued, I decided to just get up and leave.
I didn’t understand noble etiquette, so I found it boring.
Zelef-san felt the same way, so we promptly told them we had to start the food preparations and rushed out.
We then told Meshun-san we got permission to start, so she took us to the kitchen.
I wanted to see the girls first, but since I was holding onto the ingredients, I had to go to the kitchen before that.

「This is the kitchen. Feel free to use anything inside. I will fetch you some help now, so please wait a moment.」

Meshun-san said and left promptly.
Zelef-san had requested for some people to help him with some basic things like fetching and washing ingredients.
Gran-san had asked him how many people he needed, and Zelef-san had said that three people should suffice.
I had thought that only three assistants was a bit insufficient, but he had explained to me that there wasn’t that much he needed help with.

「Well then, Yuna-dono, could you bring out the ingredients?」

「You want me to take them out here? I can bring them out in the refrigerated pantry as well.」

Well, that might also just give him extra work.

「I will start the preparations immediately, so it will be easier to have them here for now. We can just put them away later.」

I started to take out the boxes of ingredients in the corner Zelef-san had pointed out to me while he checked out the cookware.
There would be about fifty people attending the party, mostly neighbouring nobles, merchants, and other influential people.
That was a lot of food to prepare, especially considering that the guests had high standards.
Just as I finished taking out all of the ingredients, the hallway in front of the kitchen got noisy.

「Botts-san, you have to rest!」

「Move! Gran-sama asked me to do this. I can’t just go back on my promise!」

「But, with your hands like that…」

「There’s no way I can leave the cooking to some random stranger.」

「If you’re talking about the chef who was brought here today, it’ll be fine. Gran-sama acknowledged that individual.」

「That’s for me to decide. Open the door!」

I heard coming from the hallway.
From what I could gather, it sounded like the head chef of this residence, Botts-san, was rather angry.
I guess nobody had properly informed him about the situation.
While I was thinking about what to do, Zelef-san walked to the door.

「Zelef-san?」

「Any chef would obviously get angry knowing somebody took their job. I will explain this to him personally.」

Zelef-san opened the door, so that Meshun-san and a man with bandaged hands could enter the kitchen.

「So, you’re the chef that…」

The moment the man laid his eyes on Zelef-san, however, he stopped talking.

「…Zelef?」

「…Botts?」

「Zelef, what are you doing here?」

They seemed to know each other.
Well, they were both high class chefs, so it made sense that they did.
Even more, Zelef-san was the royal head chef, so I was sure many people had at least heard of him. Well, this time around, Zelef-san also seemed to know this man.