Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear (Chapter 75-260)

Chapter 183

Chapter 183 – Zelef-san Gets Mad, Zelef’s Perspective

Author’s Note:
I usually only write about four thousand characters per chapter, but today I wrote about seven thousand.

One day, while I was in the middle of doing my regular kitchen duties, His Majesty and Yuna-dono entered the kitchen.
What an unusual pairing, I thought. Well, them coming to the kitchen was even weirder.
Anyway, they were here to request me to make food for the birthday party of Sheelin’s feudal lord.
Normally, I wouldn’t make food for other nobles, but this time it was on Yuna-dono’s request, so we would depart for Sheelin with His Majesty’s permission.
I was sure we would go by carriage, but since there wasn’t much time left before the party, Yona-dono told me that we would ride her summoned beasts.
Summoned beasts? Oh, she was talking about her adorable bears she could summon. The ones Princess Flora often played with. I had watched them play together just the other day.
I had never seen the bears in their adult forms, but from what I heard, they were big enough for people to easily ride them. Knowing I would have to ride them was kind of scary, but I also looked forward to it at the same time.
We quickly packed up all the necessary ingredients and departed immediately.

Once outside of the capital, Yuna-dono summoned her bears from her bear-shaped gloves.
Wow, they were quite big. Big enough for people to ride on them, indeed. They had the same gentle expressions as when they played with Princess Flora, so I knew there was nothing to be afraid of.
Yuna-dono asked which one I wanted to ride first, and I decided on the white one.
If I remembered correctly, the black bear was Swaying Bear-dono, and the white bear was Hugging Bear-dono.
I approached Hugging Bear-dono, which cried softly, and lowered its back for me to get on.
What a smart bear.
Even though I was on the heavier side, Hugging Bear-dono stood up without a problem once I was on it. Yuna-dono’s bears were simply amazing.
We headed off, and I immediately noticed how quick the bears were.
They were even increasing their speed as we went, but, holding onto Hugging Bear-dono, I somehow knew that I couldn’t fall off.
This was the power of summoned beasts, huh.
After we traveled for a while, we took a break and switched bears.
I asked Yuna-dono why we had to switch, and she explained that Hugging Bear-dono would start to sulk if she only rode Swaying Bear-dono all the way.
Of course they would prefer having their master ride them rather than an old man like myself.
Not arguing with her explanation, I rode the next part of the journey on top of Swaying Bear-dono.

We set camp in the evening and arrived at Sheelin at noon of the next day.
That was way too quick, considering we had departed just shy of noon the previous day.
As expected of Yuna-dono’s summoned beasts…

We met with the star of the party, Gran-dono, and quickly asked to borrow the kitchen as I had to begin the food preparations immediately since the party was right around the corner.
I was in the middle of setting up in the kitchen, when the residence’s chef made a commotion in front of the door. He sounded angry about something; I had heard that he was injured, but he seemed to be doing quite fine.
I opened the door to speak with him and immediately recognized the person in front of me.
It was Botts, a chef who had worked at the same restaurant as me before I had become the royal head chef.
Even though I hadn’t seen him in a long time, I would never have guessed that Botts was the working as a chef here.
We didn’t really have time to reminiscence about the past, however, so I quickly explained him why I was here.
Botts then briefly summarized how he ended up here himself.
Luckily, His Majesty had given me permission to take some time off from my duties, so we should be able to have long chat after the party was behind us, but right now, I had to get back to my food preparations.

Just as I was about midway done for the day, Yuna-dono entered the kitchen and told me she wanted to make some pudding, and I naturally allowed her to do so.
Botts, however, got mad at her. Well, he didn’t know Yuna-dono, so I couldn’t blame him.
The first time I had heard of Yuna-dono had been when I had been told that I hadn’t needed to cook for Princess Flora because Yuna-dono had already prepared food for her. I had gotten quite mad that time myself. What a nostalgic memory.