Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear (Chapter 75-260)

Chapter 222

Chapter 222 – Bear-san Looks For a Place to Put Her Bear House

Talking about Sanya-san’s work took a long time, so I ended up being treated to lunch after it. I was served some mushroom soup and vegetable dishes, which were all delicious. The same dishes were sold in Crimonia, but they weren’t nearly as tasty as these. I wondered if they would sell me the ingredients if I asked them. Then, I could make things like mushroom pizza, plus all sorts of different dishes. Still, I didn’t know if the Elf Village would accept my money. Since they mentioned merchants were coming here from time to time, I figured it should be possible, but I should probably look into it a bit more first. If they wouldn’t take my money, then I could probably just trade other stuff I had for their ingredients, but to do that I would need the Bear Gate set up.

As for the other thing I thought about during the lunch: I really hadn’t thought my Language Of The Other World skill would be able to translate the elven language. Did this mean I would be able to understand the languages of all other races as well? I didn’t know how many foreign languages there were in this world, but the skill sure was useful. On the other hand, I was rather glad it at least didn’t work on monsters and animals. If I understood what they were saying, I wouldn’t be able to subjugate them. If they begged me for mercy, I would surely have buckled and let them live.

After we ate lunch, Sanya-san kept chatting for a while, and then we finally left the house. Sanya-san said that she needed to greet some of her acquaintances, and left me on my own soon after. Well, since she hadn’t returned home in ten years, that much seemed necessary.

「I’m worried about leaving you alone, so try not to disturb anyone, okay?」

Hadn’t she just told the Village Elder earlier that she believed in me? Also, I never tried to intentionally cause a commotion. It was always somebody else that brought the trouble to me, and I couldn’t prevent that from happening, so it wasn’t really my fault. On the other hand, she could at least warn them not to come after me.

After Sanya-san left me on my own, I simply wandered around the village for a while. It didn’t look like there were any shops around, so I couldn’t even buy any elven products. Well, the people living here looked like they were completely self-sufficient, and would only trade items if necessary, so it appeared that shops were quite unnecessary. I decided to head back to Sanya-san’s house while thinking of a place to put the Bear House. Once I got there, Ruimin and Luca were standing outside, surrounded by some elf children. I had a very bad feeling about this. Once the children noticed me, their expressions seemed to light up, but it could also just be my imagination.

「Yuna-san…」

Ruimin looked at me with a troubled expression.

「Um, Ruimin, what’s going on?」

「Yuna-san, I’m sorry.」

Ruimin took a deep bow before explaining the situation.

Ruimin had been boasting about Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear to Luca (something about how nice their fur felt and how cute and kind they were).
Luca had then passed that on to the other children (and somehow the explanation had got blown even more out of proportion).
That left the children desperately wanting to meet the Bears, so they had gathered here.

What were these siblings even doing…? Well, while it was indeed better than giving the children a negative image of the bears (like they were dangerous and scary), overpraising them was troublesome, too. Of course the children would want to meet my Bears after hearing that, and in no way could I send them away when they were looking at me like that. Well, it was probably good to leave a good impression of me and my Bears, so I pushed aside the Bear House problem for now and summoned Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear. I would prefer to have the impressions of adult elves improve, but having the children on my side couldn’t hurt. With them on my side, the adults should be less cautious of me and could maybe even teach me how to make the bracelet or let me set up a Bear House here permanently. They may even tell me more about the Sacred Tree… Well, that much might be impossible even if they all liked me.