Chapter 27

Chapter 27 – The Rumored Bear Girl

Xant: TLC done by Estelion

Author’s note: Volume 2 will start from here .

Several days after the Bear House was built, it had become a famous landmark .

Before anyone noticed, a house was built in the vacant lot . Many were surprised that the house was shaped like a bear, and even the person living inside looked like a bear .

Around the Bear House, there were a lot of spectators observing from a distance .

For that reason, I haven’t gone outside at all recently .

On the first day, I went outside for meals, but now I’m making and eating my meals at home .

「Big sis Yuna, I’ve finished dismantling today’s portion . 」

Fina came by every day for her dismantling work, so I’ve been giving her one day off for every three days she works .

Furthermore, her dismantling quota was five bodies a day .

For that reason, she was normally finished in half a day .

「Thank you, be careful on your way back home . 」

「Un . Big sis Yuna, aren’t you going to work?」

「I’ll go…eventually . 」

Certainly, I’ve been acting like a hikikomori recently .

At this rate, it’s only going to get worse, huh .

Tomorrow, should I go to the guild first thing in the morning?

The next day, for the first time in a while, I woke up early and headed to the guild .

「Ah, Yuna-san! You finally came!」

Helen shouted as she caught sight of me .

You’re being a nuisance to everybody!

「Good morning, Helen . 」

「Geez, what have you been doing? I was waiting for you . 」

「You were waiting for me?」

「Yes, there is a designated request for you . 」

「A designated request?」

「Yes, the request came from Cliff Foschurose-sama . 」

「…Who?」

I don’t know a person by that name .

「You don’t know of him? Count Foschurose-sama is the honorable Feudal Lord of this city . 」

「Honorable Feudal Lord?」

「Yes . 」

It seems like it will become extremely troublesome .

If you were to ask me what I thought about nobles, my opinion would be based on the royalty from manga or light novels, where they were an existence that invited trouble .

If possible, I don’t want to get involved with them .

So,

「Pass . 」

「Eh-」

「I refuse . 」

「Eh-」

「I’m going home, bye!」

「H-hey! Hold on a second!」

Helen jumped over the reception desk and grabbed onto my bear clothes .

「What do you want?」

「What, do you really plan on going home?!」

「I want to sleep, so I’m going home . 」

「I-it’s still morning . 」

「It’s fine for me to sleep whenever I want, right?」

「In that case, please listen to the request, because although Yuna-san doesn’t come to the guild very often, Foschurose-sama has come many times for this request . 」

「That has nothing to do with me, right?」

「If nothing else, please at least listen to the request!」

「Don’t wanna . 」

「Please~ I’m begging you!」

「Is it okay to refuse after listening?」

「Why are you so against this?」

「My grandmother’s dying wish was for me to stay far away from nobles and royals . 」

「What is that supposed to mean?!」

「It means that nobles and royals are the kind of people who will immediately kill or imprison someone that they don’t like . Upon seeing a beautiful woman, they’ll demand her body and threaten her if she refuses . They’ll condemn innocent people without proof or extort money from commoners . They’re the kind of existence that lets their money do the talking, always getting away with whatever they want . Furthermore, their children are arrogant, boastful, selfish and self-important, right?」

「What is with that biased way of thinking?」

「Am I wrong?」

「It’s true that the nobles Yuna-san described exist . 」

They do exist .

「However, Foschurose-sama is different . He’s a gentleman . 」

「Have you met him in person?」

「I haven’t . 」

「In that case, you wouldn’t know for sure . 」

「I haven’t heard any bad rumors like that though . 」

「If people were killed secretly, you wouldn’t know . After all, dead people can’t talk . 」

「Why do your thoughts go that far?!」

I couldn’t say that it was due to the influence of mangas and novels .

「Oi! What’s with the ruckus on such a crowded morning!」

Muscle Daruma = Guild master has arrived .

「Guild master!」

「Helen, you know it gets crowded in the morning . What in the world are you doing?」

「It’s not my fault! Yuna-san has a designated request from Foschurose-sama but, because she has a strange prejudice against nobles, she won’t even listen to the request . 」

「Prejudice?」

「She was saying things like nobles will kill people they don’t like, demand women’s bodies when they see them, or that their children are arrogant and selfish . 」

「Yeah, that’s true . 」

「As I thought . 」

「Guild master!」

「Ahh, my bad . Of course, those kinds of aristocrats do exist, but Foschurose is different, so you don’t need to worry . 」

「Absolutely?」

「Aah, because he’s an acquaintance . 」

Certainly, it’s not strange for the Adventurer’s Guild’s guild master to have personally met the Feudal Lord .

「Please listen, if you refuse, it will affect the guild’s credibility . 」

「U-un, fine! I’ll listen to the request, at least!」

「Thank you very much…though I say that, there’s not much to the request . It’s just a request for you to visit his house . 」

「The heck?」

「Perhaps he just wants to meet the rumored bear girl?」

「Bear girl?」

「You didn’t know? It’s Yuna-san’s nickname . 」

「I knew about Bloody Bear, but not that one . 」

It’s an unpleasant nickname though .

「The Bloody Bear is what the male adventurers call you . The female adventurers and children just call you Bear Girl or Bear-san . 」

I didn’t know .

「But, what are the rumors?」

「You look like a bear, defeated packs of wolves and goblins by yourself, defeated a goblin king, and completed a large amount of subjugations as a beginner . Then you summoned bears and even built a Bear House . Of course there would be rumors . 」

「What bear house?」

Apparently, Helen hadn’t heard about that .

「What, you didn’t know? This girl rented a plot of land and built a house, ya know . It’s even shaped like a bear . Moreover, it was built so quickly that nobody knows when it was built, which is why everyone has been talking about it . 」

「Is that what she did with the land from the other day? I had no idea . 」

「So, because I’m the rumored bear girl, the Feudal Lord wants to meet me?」

「Yeah, I guess that’s how it is . 」

「After all, everybody is reporting information about you, be it the Adventurer’s Guild, the Commerce Guild, the town gate, or the town guards . 」

「Information?」

「Ah, the Adventurer’s Guild reported about a promising rookie in a bear suit . The Commerce Guild reported that a bear girl built a Bear House without anyone noticing and the gate soldiers reported about the summoned bears . The town guards would have also submitted a report when you walked around town with that appearance . With so many reports about you reaching him, of course he would want to meet you . 」

What? That’s scary .

Is there no law like the Protection of Personal Information Act?

All I did was complete the Adventurer’s Guild’s requests normally, built a Bear House with magic normally, used magic to finish my subjugation quests faster by summoning a mount normally, and strolled around town in my casual bear clothes .

「Can’t I refuse?」

「Beats me . At the very least, the average adventurer wouldn’t refuse a commission from a noble . If they did, they would be skipping town . In any case, adventurers would normally agree to requests like this one and meet the noble . 」

「So troublesome . 」

「Don’t say that, he’s probably just curious . Why don’t you just try meeting him?」

「By the way, assuming I go meet him, when would be a good time? Since he’s a Feudal Lord, he should be pretty busy, right?」

「Yes, I received his schedule for the next few days . Any time tomorrow or in the afternoon five days from now should be fine . 」

Had everything already been decided, including the day we meet?

「Fine, whatever! I’ll go meet him!」

Reluctantly, I decided to meet him tomorrow afternoon .