Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear (Chapter 75-260)

Chapter 242

Chapter 242 – Bear-san Rushes to the Capital

Finished with drawing the third volume of the picture book, the next step should clearly be bringing it to Princess Flora. I drew the picture book for her, so it would be dumb to not end up giving it to her as soon as I was done with the next volume.
It had also been a while since I last saw Princess Flora, so she might have started to feel sad from not meeting me for so long. Still, should I maybe give the new volume to Eleanora-san first? She would probably want to print copies before I handed it to Princess Flora. If I passed it directly to the princess, Eleanora-san most likely wouldn’t be able to get her hands on it for a while.
Well, I could just discuss this with Eleanora-san once I got to the capital.

As I started to prepare for my trip to the capital, a large bird landed by my window.
Why on earth would a falcon appear all of a sudden?!
Only after looking at it more closely did I realize it was actually Sanya-san’s bird summon. Its name was Forg, right?
I opened the window, and Forg flew straight into the room, landing on the back of a chair.
If Sanya-san sent Forg over, maybe something happened over at the capital?
I noticed that there was a letter tied to Forg’s leg, so I carefully got it off .
Sanya-san might be watching through its eyes, after all.

「Thank you.」

I said after I was done, and it cried out 「Kuee!」before flying off.
I waved it goodbye and closed the window before unfurling the the letter to read its contents.

『Yuna-chan, a strange shop opened up in the capital. Do you know anything about it perchance?』

Just because a weird shop had popped up, why did she immediately assume that I was involved with it?
The only building I had constructed in the capital was my Bear House, and since the Bear House wasn’t a shop, Sanya-san must be mistaken, right?
The next sentence soon made things clear.

『There’s giant bear statues in the front, and the store sign even says: 「Bear-san’s Relaxing Restaurant」.』

I immediately connected all the dots together:
「A strange shop」,「bear statues」, and「Bear-san’s Relaxation Restaurant」.
Now I understood why Eleanora-san and Zelef-san had came here to look at my shop at such a time.
This store should clearly be the newly opened branch of my store in the Capital, which was to be built simply because they wanted to eat and share pudding. If perchance it wasn’t the branch, then this would mean someone was infringing on my trademark. If that was the case, I would go and destroy it in the middle of the night when nobody was around to see me.

『I was curious about it, so I sent Forg to deliver this letter to verify it with you. If it has nothing to do with you, then you can simply ignore the message.』

I didn’t waste time and just set the letter down on my table before using the Bear Gate to go directly to the Capital. I practically ran out of the Bear House and hurried straight to the Adventurer’s Guild.
I hadn’t asked Eleanora-san where she was planning on building the shop, so I didn’t know where to find it. At this moment, I regretted not asking her earlier.
Still, Sanya-san had seen this shop, so she should be able to tell me.

I barged into the Adventurer’s Guild in such a rush that everybody inside turned to look at me.
「It’s the bear.」「The bear’s here.」「Don’t look her in the eye.」「A cute bear came in.」「Is that the rumored bear?」「Don’t say anything else; you don’t want to get involved with her.」「She really is dressed like a bear, huh.」
All sorts of conversations about me began swirling around, but I ignored them all and went straight to the receptionist.

「How can I help you today?」

「I want to meet with Sanya-san. Would that be possible?」

「With the guild master? Do you have an appointment?」