Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear (Chapter 75-260)

Chapter 247

Chapter 247 – Bear-san Accepts Shia’s Request

Author’s Note:
I finished writing early.
I wrote over 10,000,000 characters at this point!

Since the students had decided to make cotton candy at the festival, they just had to practice it.
Once I felt they got the hang of it, it was time for me to head off. I still had to give the picture book to Princess Flora, after all.

「Alright everyone, make sure you practice everyday until the festival.」

「Yuna-san, please wait!」

Just as I was about to walk through the door, Shia pulled on my arm and stopped me.

「Huh? What is it?」

「Um, if I were to request you as an escort, through the Adventurer’s Guild of course, how much would that cost?」

「An escort?」

Wasn’t the price something the client had to decide? Or, could a request really be done like this?
If I remembered correctly, escort jobs had a minimum fee set by the Adventurer’s Guild, and the price could increase from there depending on the job and the escort. If the client wanted someone of a higher rank, they would have to increase the compensation accordingly.

「Shia, is there somewhere you want to go?」

「No, that’s not it. If you’re planning on coming to the school festival, I want you to bring Noa with you. She will probably be enrolled in the academy once she is old enough, and she also mentioned to me last year that she wanted to go see it but wasn’t allowed to go on her own. As you come to the capital quite often, I hoped you could bring her with you.」

True, I did come to the capital quite frequently; it was almost like just taking a walk to me. That was all thanks to the Bear Gate, though.

「Also, you have your bears too, so I can relax if I know that you’ll be with her.」

Basically, she wanted me to bring Noa to the capital and stay by her side for the duration of the festival.
Since Shia didn’t know about my Bear Gate, she probably assumed that I came to the capital via Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear. I couldn’t blame her for having that assumption as it was indeed most logical without knowledge of the Bear Gate.

「In any case, I have a bit of money saved up, so I was wondering if you would be willing…」

What a good girl she was.
With such a motive, there was no way I would demand any compensation. I was against the idea of taking money from Shia in the first place. Not to mention, I didn’t know what the rate for bodyguards were and couldn’t remember how much I was paid the last time I had escorted them, either.

「In that case, I’ll pay for it in full, no matter the price.」

「Mother?」

Eleanora-san approved of Shia’s request but decided to bear the costs on her own.
Well, I would feel much less guilty taking money from Eleanora-san than from Shia.

「Yuna-chan, if you are coming to the school festival, can you please bring Noa with you? I will pay for all the escort fees. Oh, and could you also bring Fina-chan and Shuri-chan as well?」

「Fina and Shuri too?」

「When I came to visit your shop the other day, Fina-chan provided us with very good hospitality, so I want to repay her. However, if you only brought her, then I’d feel bad for Shuri-chan since she’d be left behind. I would like to thank them both by inviting them to stay at our home for the duration of the festival.」