Chapter 157 – Bear-san Goes To Fetch Her Mithril Knives
Author’s note:
I’m sorry for causing you trouble in the previous chapter.
The pastry shop had more and more custors, but it was smooth sailing thanks to Rurina-san and Gil.
If I really had to point out a problem, it was that the popular cakes disappeared in an instant. More often than not, custors couldn’t buy the cakes they wanted since those cakes had already been sold out. We could just call it the custor’s fault for coming too late, but I would prefer if they could eat what they wanted, no matter when they ca.
「Elena-san, could you please adjust which cakes you make more of, so that we don’t run out of the popular ones so quickly?」
「Can I really make that decision?!」
「Yes, of course. You also have popular foods at the inn, don’t you?」
「Yes. We make sure to stock up more ingredients for the foods that are ordered a lot. If we ran out of the ingredients, the custors would be dissatisfied. Most would probably just order sothing else, but so would surely decide to go to a different place, which would end up lowering our profit.」
「Well, it’s similar with the cakes. You should make more of the popular cakes and less of the others. If you have any questions, you can always talk to Morin-san and Terumi-san. Also, if you end up making too much of one cake, you can just tell the children to take it to the orphanage, where they will be happy to eat it.」
Over ti, it would beco obvious which cakes to make the most of. Even now, we could already guess it by which ones were disappearing first, and which ones were left over in the end.
It would be great if we eventually made just the right number of each cake, and they all sold out right at the closing hour, but that might be a bit too much to hope for. Well, I would be happy if we ca close to that goal at least. If we managed that, I could co to the shop to eat any cake at any ti.
I decided to leave everything concerning the shop to Morin-san and Elena-san and went to do sothing I had neglected: fetching the mithril knives from the capital. While I was there, I could also bring so cake to Princess Flora.
Like the last ti, I decided to invite Fina, but...
「Ehm, I will pass this ti.」
She declined my invitation.
This might be the first ti Fina had ever refused .
What was it, this pain piercing my heart? It was like the disappointing feeling I got when a pet ran away after I approached it.
I felt like crying.
「Big Sis Yuna?」
「Why? Did... Did I do sothing to make you hate , Fina?」
「Y-you didn’t! I don’t hate you, Big Sis Yuna!」
「Why don’t you want to co with , then? Is it because of my clothes?」
Did she finally reach the age where she found it embarrassing to walk around with in my Bear Clothes?
「Big Sis Yuna, that’s not it, so please calm down.」
Fina reassured before giving her real reason, clearly embarrassed.
「I don’t rember what happened after I t King-sama, and if I did sothing rude...」
Oh right, she had ntioned this before.
「Eleanora-san was with you, and she didn’t say anything about it, so shouldn’t it be okay?」
「Still, I don’t rember it at all, so...」
「I think that the King wouldn’t mind it anyway, and if he did actually have a problem with it, I will just have to knock him out.」
I said and threw a few Bear Punches into the air.
「You will be arrested if you do sothing like that, Big Sis Yuna!」
「Don’t worry, I will punch him when nobody is looking.」
「Big Sis Yuna!」
「I’m just joking.」
Well, if he really did sothing to Fina, it wouldn’t be just a joke anymore.
After talking with Fina for a while longer, I learned that it wasn’t just the king’s fault that she didn’t want to co with , but also Eleanora-san’s since she had treated Fina like a doll and had dressed her up in beautiful clothes, which had ended up traumatising her.
She couldn’t dirty or rip those high-class clothes... Such thoughts still seed to bother her young mind.
She would recall those bad mories if she went there, so she wanted to avoid it for a while.
Those clothes really suited Fina, though... Still, I understood her feelings. If I were forced to wear a pretty dress, I would sustain psychological damage as well. I sympathised with Fina because of that and didn’t force her to co.
She promised that she would accompany next ti, though.
Because Fina didn’t co with , I had to transfer to the capital all alone this ti around.
I had to pass by a lot of people on my way to Gazar-san’s smithy, and if Fina had been with , she would have diverted my attention from all the stares. Yet, she wasn’t here, so I covered my face with the Bear Hoodie and scurried to the smithy.
「Excuse !」
I shouted when I entered, and soon, Gazar-san showed up from the back.
「You finally ca, huh.」
「I’m sorry. A lot was going on, so I couldn’t find the ti to co here.」
「I don’t mind, really. You had to co all the way from Crimonia, right?」
Gazar-san said with an expression of: ‘You ca from far away, so there is no helping it.’
Sorry. In truth, I could have co here anyti because of my Bear Gate.
When I wasn’t at the shop, I was either napping or just playing with Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear. If I really wanted to co and fetch it, I could have co much sooner. Honestly, I was postponing it just because it was troubleso. There was no way I could admit that to him, though.
「So, did you finish it?」
「Of course. How many days do you think have passed since you have commissioned them?」
Gazar-san handed two things wrapped in cloth.
I unwrapped one, and a knife in a beautiful sheath appeared.
It had a splendid black handle, and when I looked at it more carefully,
「A bear?」
A bear head was carved on the handle, like so sort of a crest.
「It was a good idea, wasn’t it?」
「Did you engrave it, Gazar-san?」
「I didn’t plan on doing it at first, but since you didn’t show up for so long, and I had free ti, I just went with it.」
「I’m sorry for being late.」
Now I was really sorry for not coming to get it sooner just because it was troubleso. Sorry for myself.
「No need to apologize. I did it because I felt like doing it. More importantly, unsheath it.」
I did as he said, and unsheathed the knife.
I wasn’t Fina, but I still knew that it had a beautiful edge. I raised the knife over my head, and it reflected the light coming in from the window.
「So, how’s the grip? The black knife you’re holding right now is for your right hand. Please hold it with the Black Bear Glove.」
「Black knife?」
「The other one has a white grip and is for your left hand. It will be easier to differentiate them since the colors are different, right?」
I unwrapped the second knife, and it was another beautiful knife, with a white handle this ti. Of course, this one had a bear face carved into it as well.
「Thank you. How much do I owe you?」
「I told you that the golem was enough, didn’t I?」
「But, you also added this beautiful carving, so...」
「I did it just because I had ti, plus the golem was more than enough to cover everything.」
Gazar-san threw a look at the Iron Golem that was still standing at the entrance.
「You left it there, huh.」
I was sure that he would lt it down to make other things.
「It’s really popular with the custors, so I left it be.」
「Really?」
「No one had seen an Iron Golem in such a good condition before, after all. A lot of curious people co just to see it. They don’t buy anything, though.」
I had told him that it was okay to destroy it, but I was happy to see it still intact.
「Well then, can I try out the knives?」
「Yeah, and if anything doesn’t feel right, just tell . I might be able to fix it right away.」
I exited the shop and took out an Iron Golem from the Bear Box to check how well the knives cut.
「I just have to pour so magic power inside, right?」
「Yeah, its sharpness will improve depending on how much you pour inside.」
Well, it worked like that in the ga as well, so... ti to try it out here. If it wouldn’t work, I just had to figure it out later.
I gripped the two knives with my Bear Hands; I had used tantous a lot in the ga, so this felt nostalgic. I could move the knives very quickly since they were light; the only problem was that they didn’t have a big offensive power. Well, compared to big swords at least.
I gathered magic power in my hands just like I did when casting normal magic and then slashed at the Iron Golem’s right arm, which was cut off without any real resistance and fell to the ground.
「Ohhh... This is amazing! Gazar-san, the knives are amazing! I was able to cut it without a problem!」
I was actually a little moved.
「You’re the amazing one. Normal people couldn’t cut an Iron Golem so easily, even with a mithril knife.」
He praised .
「Still, a moving Iron Golem has a magic core which makes it sturdier than iron, right?」
「Yeah, but this is still the first ti I have seen soone cutting iron so easily with a mithril knife.」
「Isn’t it because the knives you make are incredible, Gazar-san?」
I put so distance between the Iron Golem and before charging at it and cutting it several tis as quickly as I possibly could on my way past it. The Iron Golem broke into a number of pieces and crumbled down.
This sohow made feel like a ninja.
It seed that I could beco a Shinobi when using my Bear Equipnt.
「Wow! I didn’t even see how many tis you cut it.」
Gazar-san approached what remained of the Iron Golem to inspect it and then turned to .
「Show the knives.」
After I handed him the knives, he lifted them up towards the sky.
「You cut iron, but there are no nicks on the blades. That much is enough to prove your strength. Be it your talent wielding knives or the flow of your magical power, I now understand why Gold said that you were an excellent adventurer. You really make an example for the proverb: ‘You shouldn’t judge a person by their appearance.’」
Nelt-san was the one who made him write it, though. What had been written in that letter, really?
Gazar-san returned the knives to , and I put them inside the Bear Box, happy with the purchase.
「Well then, thank you and have a good day.」
I thanked him and tried to leave, planning to head to the caste, which Fina feared so much.
「Wait, I will return you the leftover mithril, so just give a minute. Also, did you plan on leaving this wreckage behind?」
He pointed at the crumbled Iron Golem.
It was scattered in so many pieces that I had thought it would be a pain to put it back inside the Bear Box, so I had planned on leaving it here and fleeing the scene, but he had managed to thwart that plan.
「Gazar-san, want to give you a job?」
「What is it? This gives a bad feeling, though...」
「I will give you all the iron here, so could you please separate the mithril from the iron on the fake Mithril Golem?」
I didn’t quite know how much mithril I had since the golem was also made out of iron.
Knowing how much I had might end up being useful for sothing at a later ti.
「Oh, that’s what you wanted. If it’s only separating the ores, you are offering too much.」
「Emm... It’s troubleso to tidy everything up, so... I’m giving it to you.」
「You’re a real idiot, you know that? Even though you cut it into pieces, it’s still iron... How many weapons and tools do you think can be made from all of it?」
「You make so sense, but I have no intention of using iron in this crumbled state, so...」
「Just sell it, then. You will make quite the profit.」
I looked at the iron pile again. There were just too many pieces. Putting it back into the Bear Box would be too much of a pain.
「Like I already said, picking it up would be too much trouble.」
「Okay. I get it. I will buy it, then. It will be at a low price, though.」
「I don’t really need the money, though... If you really want to repay , just separate the mithril and the iron from the fake Mithril Golem.」
「That doesn’t work, you would be giving too much for the work I would do, missy. I would prefer for us to be on equal terms when we do business in the future.」
When he put it like that, I had no other choice but to accept his proposal.
「The mine is finally providing the ores for the market, so you wouldn’t be getting much from selling it to soone else anyway.」
「Oh, the ores are finally coming from the mine again, huh.」
Now that he ntioned it, I had completely forgotten to go to the guild.
Yep, it was all because of the commotion with the cakes.
Well, I just had to go there to record the achievent on my guild card and receive the paynt, so there was no need to rush; I could just postpone it for a while.
I handed over the fake Mithril Golem to Gazar-san, and finally headed to the castle to bring the cakes to Princess Flora.
Author’s note:
I have kind of been missing Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear recently. w
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