Chapter 126

Bear-san Makes A Report Of Her Escort Mission

We arrived at the capital . With that, the practice training was now finished .

We passed through the gates and headed towards the academy . Like usual, the guard at the gates gave me a strange look when I showed him my guild card .

Today, I would finally be able to return to Crimonia after a long time and sleep in my house, all thanks to the Bear Transfer Gate, of course .

The carriage soon arrived at the academy .

A few carriages were already parked there .

I only saw our carriage when we departed, so this meant that those were all from the other students who already came back, right?

「My job is now finished, right?」

I got out of the carriage and stretched .

「We still have to check in with the teachers . 」

Oh right, Eleanora told me something like that .

So troublesome .

「Jigurd, you are also going, right?」

「Yeah, we are, but please wait a minute . 」

After we had joined up with Jigurd’s party on the road, we came back to the capital together .

There was no reason to split up since our destination was the same .

Also, it was less dangerous to travel in bigger groups .

If any monsters appeared, we would easily defeat them using our numbers .

If bandits were planning on attacking us, they would probably reconsider, just seeing the size of our group .

There were a lot of merits in traveling together .

Well, there weren’t any dangers like that around the capital anyway .

We entered the academy and went to check in with the professors .

When we got to the staff room, we were met by someone who shouldn’t have been there .

「Mother!」

Shia said with a surprised voice when she saw Eleanora-san next to her professor .

「Why are you here?」

「I told the guard at the gate to report to me immediately when you returned, of course . 」

Wasn’t that abuse of authority?

「I told him it was of a S rank priority, so he reported really quickly . 」

This person was the worst . You shouldn’t use your authority for something this trivial .

I felt sorry for the guard who had to run to the castle all the way from the gate .

「Your practice training is now finished . We will deal with the luggage you brought back, so you are free to leave and rest . 」

The professor told the students .

「Also, you will have to make a report on the practice training a bit later . Don’t think you can lie, though . We will talk to the adventurers about what really happened, after all . 」

The students started leaving the staff room .

「Yuna-san, thank you for being our escort . 」

Shia thanked me .

「It was a pain, but also fun . 」

「Yuna-san, please say goodbye to Swaying Bear-san and Hugging Bear-san for me!」

Cattleya seemed sad .

She had asked me if I could lend them to her for a while, but I had politely refused .

They weren’t something I could have just lent out simply, and I didn’t want to do it, either .

「Yuna-san, I will train a lot more and become a knight like you, who can protect people he wants . 」

I wasn’t a knight, you know…

「I learned something really important on this trip . Thank you . 」

Timor said and bowed .

They all thanked me on their way out .

「Ara, they were all so polite . 」

「What the hell is going on?」

The professor was tilting his head .

I didn’t know what they were like in school, but I somewhat understood his feelings .

「Well then, Professor, I will hear the report from Yuna-san, so please hear the report from the other two adventurers . 」

The professor nodded .

I couldn’t go back yet, huh .

「Please take care of this Bear Missy, then . 」

Eleanora-san and I moved away from the professor a bit .

It seemed like the professor would hear the reports from Jade-san and Meru-san .

「Yuna-chan, thank you for doing this for me . So, how did it go?」

「It was exhausting . I never thought that traveling with a carriage would be this exhausting . 」

This journey made me appreciate Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear all over again .

I went ahead and reported all that happened during the practice training to Eleanora-san .

「A Black Tiger, you say?」

「Don’t be too hard on the students, okay? I’m the one who was responsible for that encounter, after all . 」

I didn’t notice the Black Tiger even though I was using detection magic .

「But, they undertook a goblin subjugation, huh . 」

「Will they lose points for doing it?」

「Considering their position in society, they should, but I believe that their decision was better than that of people who would just abandon the villagers . These children are responsible for the country’s future, after all . So, I don’t want them to easily choose to abandon people . If there is a life that can be saved, save it . But, you also have to give up if it’s impossible . I think this will be a good lesson for them . 」

Raising talented people was difficult in every world, huh .

Everyone had a different way of thinking .

Also, in this world, a lot of children succeeded their parents’ work . I honestly didn’t know if that was a good or a bad thing .

Still, the children from this world were looking up to their parents and trying their best to become like them, like Shia and Marcus did . I didn’t want Shia to become like Eleanora-san, though…

I looked at Eleanora-san who was standing before me .

「Yuna-chan, thank you for protecting those children . 」

「No need to thank me . It was my job, after all . I will refuse next time, though . 」

「That’s a pity . 」

She didn’t really seem disappointed .

I finished my report, so I decided to go back to Crimonia .

「Yuna-chan, wait a minute . 」

Eleanora-san stopped me .

「Here, take this . 」

Eleanora-san took a book out of her item bag and gave it to me .

It was the book I wrote for Flora-sama, 『Bear-san And The Little Girl』 .

It really became a book .

「Huh?」

I noticed something that bugged me .

Author’s name,『Bear』?

It was correct, but why did they use Bear?

While I was still staring at the author’s name,

「It’s better than using your real name, right?」

That was true, but it still felt weird .

「Or would you prefer that we use your real name in the copies from now on?」

「No . Bear is fine . 」

It was better than having my name spread around .

「You asked for ten copies if I remember correctly?」

One by one, she put ten books of each volume on the table out of her item bag .

「This picture book is quite popular, you know . It would be great if we could sell them to the whole country…」

「I absolutely have no intention of letting you do that right now, so…」

It would be a pain if they asked me to write the next volume after it became widely known throughout the whole country .

「Please tell me if you ever want to sell it . I will make sure it sells on a large scale . 」

「I’ll have to politely refuse . 」

「Really? That’s too bad… I will be waiting for the next volume, though . How about naming it 『Bear-san and Eleanora』or something like that?」

「Why should it have your name in it?」

「I mean, you’re the Bear-san, right? Then, isn’t it okay for me to be in it, too?」

「If I had to add a new character, it would be Noa . If I ever added you, it would be as a villain, who deceives the Bear-san . 」

「You’re horrible, saying that I deceived you! I would love to read a picture book with my daughter in it, though . 」

「I won’t be writing anymore for a while, you know . 」

「That means you will eventually write it . When the time comes, please draw Noa and me in cutely . 」

I ignored Eleanora-san and put the books into the Bear Box .

I would leave them at the orphanage the next time I was there . I hoped they would help the children learn the letters .

My report was finished, and Eleanora-san didn’t seem to have anything else for me, so I left the academy the same time as some students came back . Didn’t I have a really bad timing?

「It’s the bear from before!」「So, this is the rumored bear . 」「Cute!」「The bear is walking on two feet . 」「I wonder where these clothes are sold?」「What sort of a relationship does she have with Eleanora-sama…」「I want to hug her…」

Just like the last time, the students made an uproar about my appearance .

Being concerned with it was useless, so I just ignored them and left the academy . I thought about doing some shopping while I was here, but I decided against it .

I could come here whenever I wanted .

I went back to Crimonia through my Bear Transfer Gate at the capital .

It had been a while since I was last at my house . To relax after a ten days long journey, I took a bath and changed into the White Bear . White Bear, I missed you . I ate a meal and dove into my bed . I knew it, sleeping on a bed was the best .

It had been some days since I last cuddled with Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear, so I summoned them in their cub forms on top of the bed for some skinship . They were monopolized by Shia and Cattleya for a long time, after all .

I petted them, hugged them, and played with them .

Sleepiness started to assault me little by little .

I soon ended up in dreamland, with Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear at my sides .

Author’s note:

With this, the practice training is finished .

Will the next story be the arrival of Anzu? (The plot in my mind is changing every day . w)

(TN: ‘w’ stands for ‘warau’, which means laugh in japanese . Its english equivalent would be either ‘lol’ or ‘haha’ . )