Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear (Chapter 75-260)

Chapter 199

Chapter 199 – Bear-san Returns To Crimonia

After a few leisurely days, the inspector finally arrived from the capital and released Cliff from his work. Eleanora-san and Gran-san now formally took over to resolve the issue, meaning today was the day we could finally head back to Crimonia.

「Noa, listen to Cliff properly, okay? I will be coming home as soon as I get my next vacation.」

A few people had gathered to send us off, with Eleanora-san in front, making sure to say goodbye to her daughter.

「Okay. Mother, please tell Big Sister Shia I said hi.」

Eleanora-san would be departing back to the capital tomorrow, and Gran-san intended to join her, too. They were going to take the toad man and his son along with them, of course, as well as the black-clothed man. At the capital, they would finally be officially judged by the king.
A few of the servants working for the toad man would also be brought along while the rest of them would be sentenced by the town instead.
Their sentences would surely vary depending on who would be making the judgment, but I was sure they would be able to distinguish between those more guilty than others.
The only one I was worried about was the maid who had been taking care of the abducted children. Eleanora-san had told me that she had cooperated and confessed everything, so I hoped she would only receive a light punishment. Either way, she seemed like a nice person to me, but sadly, I would get no say in her judgement.
Eleanora-san patted her daughter’s head, then turned to Fina and me.

「Please continue to take care of my daughter. She can be a little selfish sometimes, but she’s a good girl at heart.」

We nodded in reply.
We knew that Noa was a good girl; she had become such good friends with a commoner like Fina, after all.
She did go a bit nuts over anything bear-related from time to time, but she was usually just a simple, kind child.
Looking to the side, I noticed that Noa looked embarrassed as if she wanted to tell her mother to stop.
With Eleanora-san’s goodbye all done, Zelef-san decided to speak up next.

「Yuna-dono, I would like to thank you for all the valuable experiences I received on this trip.」

「Sorry that it got a bit out of hand.」

「Oh no, I’m really happy that I was able to meet up with an old friend. There is nothing you need to apologize for, Yuna-dono.」

I was glad that he thought of it that way.
Zelef-san had really saved us this time around even though we had only ended up causing him a lot of trouble in return.

「It is unfortunate, however, that I will be unable to ride on Swaying Bear-dono and Hugging Bear-dono on the trip back. I would have loved to experience that again.」

Zelef-san looked rather glum.
Zelef-san would be taking a carriage back together with Eleanora-san, which was why he was so disappointed.
Since Zelef-san had taken his time to help us out, I decided I would make sure to bring him a new recipe next time I visited the castle.
After Zelef-san said goodbye to everyone else, the Faren Gramm family approach me.

「Yuna, thank you for your help. If you weren’t here, my family would most likely end up in ruin.」

Gran-san said with a bow.

「It’s fine. You’ve already thanked me plenty of times.」

Gran-san and Misa’s parents had thanked me so many times in these past few days that I had completely lost count.
Since they wanted to show their gratitude, they kept asking me if there was anything they could do for me, but it felt wrong to receive something for simply doing what I wanted. I most certainly hadn’t rescued her because I wanted a reward, so I had no intention of receiving money from them.
If I accepted it, all the anger and feelings I had felt when saving Misa would just be a lie.