Chapter 284 – Bear-san Returns To Crimonia & Marcus’s Perspective (Giving Thanks For The School Festival)
After I promised Noa to give her a copy of the picture books, she began to read the books on the table again. Fina also gave up and sat down to read them with her. Now, I was only left with the problem of finding a way to add Noa to the story...
Deciding to put that aside for now, I turned towards Tilia since I rembered I had another reason for visiting the castle.
「Tilia, would it be possible to et His Majesty today?」
I asked her as she continued to ride on Hugging Bear’s back. It would be a pain to et him, but I had promised to give him so cotton candy... It would be best if I did it today and be done with it.
「With Father?」
「Yeah I want to see him before I head ho. If it’s not possible, then could you at least give him a ssage?」
When I ca to see Tilia today, the soldier that let us in hadn’t dashed straight off to report our arrival to the king, which could have only been due to Eleanora-san telling him not to.
「I planned on giving him so cotton candy before I left, but if I can’t et with him today, I’ll bring him so next ti. So, could you tell him that?」
Since I had cotton candy machines in my Bear Box, I could make so at any ti. If he was unavailable today, I could just make it for him the next ti I ca around
「Hmm... Could you wait just a mont?」
Tilia gave it so thought before responding as such, climbing off of Hugging Bear, and leaving the room. She returned rather quickly, however.
「I just asked him to co, so I think he should be here in a little bit.」
So, basically, she went to call him over? Did she ntion I was here, or...?
「I can go find him myself if that’s better.」
「No, it’s fine. If he can’t co, he will just send soone to tell us.」
This most certainly wasn’t sothing that should be normally done. Calling the king over for so cotton candy... There was no way that was how it worked, right?
Yet, to my disbelief, the king soon waltzed into the room as if nothing was out of the ordinary.
「You’re in Tilia’s room today, huh?」
「Tilia helped out a lot during the school festival, so I decided to pay her a visit to thank her.」
「I see. Still, what exactly is going on here?」
Tilia, Flora-sama, and Shuri were playing with the Bears, while Noa and Fina enjoyed reading the picture books. This was definitely not what a princess’s room should normally look like.
「I wanted to see Yuna’s summoned beasts, so I asked her to call them out.」
Tilia, who was riding Hugging Bear again, backed up about the situation. The king gave up the issue after giving her another glance before turning to instead.
「So, what is it, then? I heard that you wanted to give sothing.」
「I promised you so cotton candy the other day. Would you like it now?」
「Ahh, that! I’ll have it now, yes.」
The king had only recalled it when I ntioned it. If he had forgotten it altogether, I would have just left the issue behind . Well, doing it this way was still better than ignoring it and having him pester about it at a later date.
I quickly began preparing all the things needed to make the cotton candy: I placed a cotton candy machine and so sugar on the table. When I took out the machine, the king looked at it with so curiosity.
「What’s this?」
「It’s the machine that makes the candy.」
I turned on the machine and started making cotton candy, with the king intently watching . After so ti, thin threads began to billow out of the machine, which I quickly began wrapping around a stick. It didn’t take long for the first cotton candy to be complete.
「Is this made from granulated sugar only?」
「Yes. It is sweet, so here, sothing to drink as well.」
I said and took out so tea from the Bear Box.
「You item bag can fit so many things inside...」
My Bear Box wasn’t like a certain unnad robot cat’s multi-dinsional pouch, so it only contained things I had put inside. Well, sotis God put so items inside without telling first. Luckily, he didn’t do it that often.
「Anyway, you sure do know how to make so strange things. I haven’t ever heard of candy being made from just sugar before.」
Well, he was the king, so I found it perfectly normal for him not to know about things like that. It was best that his chefs learned about all the new foods, so the king could focus on his own tasks.
As I pondered that, the king bit into the cotton candy.
「It’s quite sweet.」
「It is made of only sugar, so of course it’s sweet.」
「It’s interesting how it lts in your mouth: such a strange feeling.」
「Father, I want so too.」
The king gave so to Flora-sama as well, and she ate it happily. With this, I had fulfilled my promise, so hopefully he wouldn’t bother with it at a later date.
「That reminds , Eleanora isn’t here. Where did that woman go?」
「Eleanora-san went ho to pick up so docunts for work.」
I had completely forgotten about that and decided to keep the fact that she had started chatting with Shia a secret. After all, it had been my fault for suggesting that specific shop to them.
At this point, Flora-sama had fallen asleep after playing so much. In order not to wake her, we decided to leave the castle as I had already given Tilia my thanks and fulfilled my promise to the king.
「Yuna, please co again. Make sure to co when I’m ho, though.」
That largely depended on when I ca around next ti, but I also hoped that we would be able to et again. However, thinking back on all my visits up till now, it should be quite unlikely unless we arranged to et.
Back at the mansion, Eleanora-san returned in the evening and complained to us that the king had scolded her again.
「I just talked with Shia and her friends and discussed their dinner plans with Zelef before going back to work. Nothing he should get mad over.」
Didn’t that an she wasn’t working most of the ti? Part of that was my fault, but I still thought that an adult should be able to manage their ti themselves.
「Obviously, my daughters are more important to .」
Of course she would say that... Eleanora-san’s way of responding without thinking first was just like my parents, just the other way around, in this case. I kind of wanted to tell her that those issues weren’t of life and death, and her job should co first, but who was I to tell her that?
After dinner, I asked Eleanora-san if it would be possible to print out so copies of the third volu of my picture book. She could also directly pass all the volus to Noa, so I wouldn’t have to worry about it any longer.
「Mother, you’re an! You didn’t tell about the picture books.」
「I was sure Yuna-chan already told you about them since you both live in Crimonia, so I didn’t bother.」
「Even so...」
Noa pouted, not very convinced by Eleanora-san’s reasoning.
「Also, the one who drew the picture books was Yuna-chan.」
Now she was trying to push the responsibility onto . Yes, we lived in the sa town, so I was technically closer to Noa than Eleanora-san. Yes, the artist was . And...
Hmm... Now that I thought about it, I couldn’t really argue my way out of this.
「When I finish the next volu, I’ll give it to you as a present, okay?」
「That’s a promise!」
Noa made promise, so now I had to quickly think of so plot for the next picture book...
「Anyway, Yuna-chan, you’re heading ho tomorrow, right?」
「Yes, since we can’t stay in the capital for too long.」
I couldn’t drag Fina and Shuri around much longer, so we had already decided to head ho tomorrow morning. If I could use the Bear Gate, we could return to Crimonia instantly and could stay a while longer, but certain people were stubbornly against doing so.
「Okay, I’ll prepare a carriage to bring all of you to the gates of the capital at least」
「We’ll go together with Hugging Bear-chan and Swaying Bear-chan. Shuri, let’s ride together.」
「Okay!」
「Marcus and the others are coming to see you off in the morning, so make sure you wait for them.」
That seed rather unnecessary, but I couldn’t just tell them that we didn’t need the carriage or the send off.
Also, since both Noa and Shuri were looking forward to travelling, we couldn’t use the Bear Gate even though I wanted to. I had already given up at this point and decided to ride the Bears ho.
「Fina-chan, Shuri-chan, you can co and visit anyti.」
「Okay.」
「Thank you.」
「Noa, listen to Cliff, okay?」
「I will.」
「Yuna-chan, let know if this girl acts selfishly.」
「Mother!」
The next morning, we received many farewells, and I made sure to treat the girls to an extravagant dinner the first night on the road.
Marcus’s perspective:
Yuna-san had already set of to Crimonia, and the excitent from the festival gradually died down.
Since we had a break from school today, we had decided to invite our friends and classmates that had helped at our shop to a al. The location was at the brand new shop, courtesy of Eleanora-san’s invitation.
Only Shia knew where the shop was, so we all t up in front of the academy and headed there together.
「We’ve got everyone, right?」
Everybody arrived on ti, so we departed without delay.
「Marcus is really looking forward to this.」
「Yeah, I even skipped breakfast today.」
Yuna-san and Eleanora-sama both said that the food they served was delicious, and that was a part of the reason we chose the location they recomnded. Still, since I had never actually tried it before, I was a little bit worried about what it was like. Then again, the shop was commissioned on the orders of His Majesty, so there was no way the food was bad, right?
「Tilia-sama will be coming later, right?」
「Yes, she knows where the shop is, so she won’t have trouble finding us.」
Shia was still the only one here who knew where the shop was. Apparently Eleanora-sama had told her all about it, but when we asked her if she could share the information, she just laughed and played it off. Her expression clearly stated that she wanted to hide sothing, but I had no idea what it was.
Shia led us towards the shop, and despite the large size of the group, literally everyone seed excited. Once we arrived, our eyes were imdiately drawn to a pair of objects at the entrance.
「Shia, is this the place?」
「Yup.」
It was a grand, splendid building. Emphasizing the grandness from right in front of the building were two large bear statues. One bear was holding a giant spoon, while the other held a giant fork.
「What is that?」
「A bear?」
「Ah, I heard about this shop from my parents.」
「 too, I heard soone ntion bear statues in front of a shop.」
So of our group already knew about the shop. Well, at least Timor and Cattleya had no idea.
「Shia, could this shop be... 」
「Yeah, I think it’s related to Yuna-san.」
「Related to Yuna-san... 」
「In that case, the food will be fine.」
The food that Yuna-san gave us was always delicious and spot on... but did I imagine that shiver down my spine when I heard Yuna’s na?
「Anyway, let’s head inside.」
We didn’t object and followed Shia into the shop. A female chef ca to welco us.
「Welco. We’ve been waiting for you, students of the academy.」
「Sorry for keeping you waiting. We might be quite noisy, but please take care of us.」
「Being noisy is fine; I heard about the size of your group from Eleanora-sama. Please co this way and take your seats.」
Although the outside had bears standing guard, the interior of the shop had a high-class feel. I had been worried that the inside would also be bear-thed and was quite relieved that it wasn’t. We all looked around the interior as we followed the chef to our seats. There were many different delicious-looking types of bread lined up on the table.
「We’ll be bringing out other dishes shortly.」
The female chef bowed and left. Only once everybody but was seated, I looked around the group and spoke up.
「Um, everyone, I know that we our request for help was quite sudden, so we would like to thank you for your support. Because of you, we were able to win third place among the food stands. Please eat to your heart’s content today.」
We each took a cup and toasted just as the female chef returned.
「We will now serve the food.」
The food was delicious, just as Eleanora-sama had promised, and everyone seed to be enjoying themselves.
「Marcus, everything tastes so good.」
「What about paynt?」
「Don’t worry about it. Feel free to eat as much as you want.」
Everybody listened to my words and ate without holding back. We had managed to give Eleanora-sama so money for the food, even though she had initially refused to take any paynt.
「You really don’t need to.」
「No, we want to treat our friends who helped us, so we have to pay. Please accept it. Still, if it’s not enough, then please waive the rest.」
We had paid a sum, but would it be enough to cover the costs? Since this was His Majesty’s shop, it should be quite expensive, right? I was kind of afraid to know the total amount this would have costed us, so I hadn’t even dared ask Eleanora-san about it.
「So many things happened at this year’s school festival...」
「Yeah. To , the best was the case of the bear completely destroying prize stands.」
「Oh, that’s... 」
「I actually saw the bear hit one of the stands, and it was a girl wearing a bear costu. Every knife she threw hit a target dead in the center.」
「I only caught a glimpse of her, but her costu was really cute.」
「You know her, right, Shia?」
「Yeah, but I’m not allowed to talk about her.」
Eleanora-sama had warned us not to talk about Yuna-san. Well, even if we did talk, would anybody believe us?
「Still, your cotton candy stand beca quite a hot topic since you guys were selling such an unusual food.」
「I really thought that you were going to get first place.」
「The problem is that eating it doesn’t fill you up, and you get sick of it quickly. If we had a few different flavors, we might have gotten the first place.」
Yep, Timor was spot on there. When we had practiced making in, we all had to eat quite a lot of cotton candy, and we really did get tired of it quickly. Still, was it possible to add different flavors to it? If so, then we could maybe aim for first place next year.
「I think that Rutum-san’s match with that girl was simply amazing.」
I really wished I could have seen that. This guy sure had been lucky he got to see it. Well, at least I knew who the girl actually was, so I couldn’t complain too much.
「Such a cute girl was able to handle Rutum-sama’s attacks and even answer with attacks of her own. Simply amazing, I tell you.」
「Yeah, I get what you an. Her fluid movents were also beautiful, especially how her pretty, long hair swung back and forth as she moved.」
Rinea joined in, talking about how elegantly Yuna-san had supposedly moved. Well, Yuna-san did have long hair, so it must have been quite a sight.
「Her first match, the one against the knight, was also pretty amazing.」
「Yeah. She really showed us that girls can be strong, too. I gained a lot of confidence seeing her battle like that.」
The students who had seen the matches were all very moved, so they excitedly talked about them. I wasn’t jealous of those luckers, though. I had made a promise with that very girl to have a match with her, after all. It was much better to take part in a match than simply watch one, obviously.
「Still, we won’t be able to et with Tilia-sama’s friend again, right?」
According to Shia, Yuna-san actually ca to the capital quite often. It was pretty easy for her to do so because of those summoned beasts she had.
Yet, because so people watching the match had supposedly seen her panties, she vowed never to wear the uniform again. Even if she showed up at the academy, it would surely be in her Bear Suit.
As for her panties, I was sure most people had only gotten a glimpse, no more. I didn’t think that it should be such a big deal, but Shia and Cattleya had both scolded when I ntioned that, saying 「Any girl would be embarrassed even if sobody got only a short glimpse of her panties.」
We continued chatting about the festival as we ate, and after a while longer, the door opened. Tilia-sama stepped through, followed closely by..
「Father! I told you this many tis already, but please don’t get in our way.」
「I know. I’ll head back once I‘ve taken a look at your friends.」
The king just walked through the door! Why was he here?
I wasn’t the only one thinking that. Everyone quickly turned to Shia and , looking for an explanation. Shia simply shook her head, and I, of course, didn’t know about this, either.
「No need to worry yourselves over . I’m just here to take a look at you all.」
「You just used as an excuse to escape from work, didn’t you?」
「Don’t say such hurtful things. You will ruin my dignity as a king if you keep saying things that. Ahem! I actually ca to check up on the shop as it will be opening soon. So, what do you all think about the food here?」
The king asked us, but no one dared to reply. After his sudden arrival, we all stopped chatting and just quietly ate our food. Talking about the food of his shop with the king didn’t seem a good idea to us, no matter how interested he was in hearing our opinion.
As the al dragged on, Eleanora-sama appeared out of nowhere and proceeded to have an argunt with the king before dragging him away. What an amazing person she was; we all looked at her with respect. However, when we thanked Shia, she simply said, 「She’s not that amazing, you know.」
Because of Eleanora-san’s intervention, our al ended safely. The chefs asked us for our opinion about the food, but we weren’t really able to recall how the food tasted due to the king’s sudden visit, so we only give vague answers. I was sure all the food was delicious, though.
Before we left, the chefs brought out so pudding, which we were all able to really enjoy. This was yet another dish Yuna-san had created, wasn’t it?
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