Chapter 72 – Bear-san, Baker GET | Part 1

The next day, after obtaining the eggs, I went to the capital.

With this, it would be okay for now.

While I was taking my time inside the Bear House, I heard a voice calling me from outside.

When I went out, Noa stood there imposingly with puffed cheeks.

「Yuna-san, did you go somewhere while leaving me here all alone?」

「Can I ask something too?」

「What is it?」

「I don’t understand, does Noa have nothing else to do? Aren’t there any courtesy greetings or preparations that need to be done as a noble for the birthday party?」

「There aren’t. It’s basically because mother lives here that there is no need for greetings. The only greetings needed would be ones in the hall, during the birthday party. I will be accompanied by mother and father for that; and since the leading part will be going to my big sister, I’m just a bonus. More importantly, I came with Misa yesterday. She wanted to see the bears.」

「Sorry, I had some business outside the capital.」

I couldn’t tell her that I went back to town through the transfer gate, so that was my response.

As an apology for yesterday, I will be Noa and Misa’s playmate today.

Well, their playmates will be the bears though.

As the days passed gradually since I came to the capital, the day of the king’s birthday approached.

Of course, as the day of the birthday party approached, Cliff and the other nobles were moving around busily.

Noa was no longer free to come to any more outings, and the times where I would go out with just Fina started to increase.

「Although I thought that there was a lot of people when we came to the capital, there are even more of them today.」

「This is the first time I’ve seen so many people!」

「Because of that, there are a lot of gazes.」

「Well, it’s because Big Sis Yuna’s suit stands out after all.」

The gazes of the people we crossed were always focused on me.

It had been a few months since I came to this world, and I had become accustomed to these gazes being fixated on me.

Although I would be lying if I said that it didn’t bother me, but human beings learn to adapt.

「Being bothered by it won’t do anything. Let’s enjoy the few days before the birthday party.」

「Yes.」

While buying, eating, and window-shopping at the street stalls, we walked around the capital.

The capital was too big, it was almost as if we wouldn’t have enough time to visit everything if we slowly took our time.

I even got various unusual things too.

「Ah, what a great smell.」

There was the scent of freshly baked bread coming from somewhere.

「Yes, it smells great.」

「It seems it is coming from the bakery over there. It’s just about time, so let’s eat?」

From where I could see, there was the signboard of a bakery.

It was a little shop, but a delicious smell was coming from there.

Inside the shop was a crowd of people.

All of them had been lured in by the scent just like us.

Fina and I lined up for the bread.

And after waiting for around ten minutes it was our turn.

「This bread looks delicious.」

A girl around my age was at the counter.

She seemed surprised by my suit, but she soon started talking with a smile afterwards.

「Thank you very much.」

「Then, I will take two pieces of bread please.」

「Yes.」

The girl gave us two pieces of bread that had just been brought out of the oven.

What a nice scent.

「If it’s good, I will come back!」

「Yes, thanks for the patronage.」

After buying the bread, we went outside to eat them.

「This may be the best bread I have ever had.」

「Yes, it’s delicious.」

It was fluffy bread.

It brought back the memories of the bread I ate back in Japan.

With this bread…making sandwiches or cheese toast…

Making all sort of things would be great, I bet.

Without forgetting, I decided to buy some before going back to Crimonia.

But…with all those customers…it would definitely be difficult to buy it…

Maybe if I came here first thing in the morning.

With that in mind, after taking into account the hour at which the bakery would open, I departed on the next day.

For now, since I didn’t have rice, bread would have to be the center of my eating habit.

If it had to be like this, I wanted to eat delicious bread.

Thinking that, I arrived at the bakery.

Ara, there was a lot of people in front of the bakery…

Was I too late?

「Please stop!」

From the opened door, a woman past her thirties was shouting.

Next to her was the girl that was at the counter yesterday.

They were most likely mother and daughter.

The mother protected her daughter by shielding her and resisting with all of her strength.

The people watching this scene didn’t try to help them…

「Hurry and get out! This shop is not your property!」

About three men were acting violently in the shop.

Because they were acting so violently inside the shop, bread was flying everywhere.

*Puchi*

(TL note: it’s the sound of a vein that is contracted on Yuna’s head: “Yuna angry!” feels like that…)

「But, we had an agreement that until the birthday party—」

「There are other people who want to do some business here!」

Not finished, the man stepped on the bread that fell and was rolling on the floor.

*Puchi*

「But, the agreement—」

「Agreement, agreement…Just shut up! If you want to work here, you have to repay your husband’s debt! If you want, you can repay it with your daughter’s body…」

The man grabbed the arm of the girl.

*Puchi*

「Let go of my daughter!」

The mother grabbed the man to save her child.

But the man hit her.

*Puchiーn*

I snapped.

I barged into the shop.

「What is it, you bitch!」

I punched.

「What are you doing?」

I kicked.

「You bitch, we are—」

I flung him away.

「Who wants to die first…?」

I asked the men that were collapsed on the floor.

「You think that it will end just like that?」

The man drew the sword he had on his waist.

「If you are drawing, I guess you don’t have any complaints about dying right?」

「Don’t fuck with me!」

I launched a Bear Punch into his solar plexus.

The man collapsed while holding his stomach.

「Who’s next?」

I looked at the remaining two guys.

「You bitch, I’ll remember those clothes. Don’t think that you’ll be able to leave the capital safely!」

The remaining two guys shouted while dragging the man who collapsed.

At that moment, an applause came from the audience.

「Are you okay?」

I approached the mother and daughter and asked.

「Yes, thank you very much.」

「By the way, that’s terrible.」

All the fresh bread was scattered on the floor.

From them drifted a really great scent, so I think I sensed even more cruelty.

It was bad, just looking at all the bread on the floor, my anger was welling up.

I should have punched them some more.

「Before, I think he said something about a debt?」

「Yes, it was a debt from when we purchased this store. But when my husband died not too long ago, they started to coerce us into repaying the debt.」

「But, with such delicious bread, you could reimburse the debt with no problem, right?」

「Yes, if we had the time, it would be possible. But there is someone who wants this land, and more precisely this place.」

That’s why the men started harassing them, so that they would leave this place.

Hmmm, what to do?

I wanted their bread, so I needed the bakery to continue.

Would this problem finish if I paid the debt?

「But, before leaving this place we wanted to earn enough money, so we could open our next bakery.」

「You will continue the bakery elsewhere?」

「Yes, it’s the bread that my husband entrusted to me after all. I want to continue the bakery until I die.」

What a wonderful love between this husband and wife.

I couldn’t stand doing nothing.

「Okay, I understand. Then, why don’t you work at my shop?」

「Your shop?」

「Yes, I was planning on opening a shop, but I am a bit troubled because I don’t have enough personnel to do so.」

It was the new shop I was planning on opening in Crimonia.

I wanted to let the children at the orphanage do it, but an adult was necessary if I wanted to entrust it to them.

Even more so when it was a talented baker who could bake delicious bread, which was needed in