kuma Kuma Kuma Bear

Chapter 133

Bear-san And The Bear-san’s Diner Opening

A few days had passed since Sherry had been kidnapped by Mylene-san.
The preparations for the restaurant were advancing well, and everyone was doing their best to get everything ready for the opening day.
I was also doing my best!
I made bears outside the restaurant, made bears inside the restaurant, made bears outside the restaurant, and made bears inside the restaurant. It was something important, so I said it twice.
To make it look like a restaurant, I made deformed bears holding plates, forks, spoons, or chopsticks at the entrance. To point out that we would be serving fish, I also made a bear holding a fish.
Since I was sure that we would be getting a lot of male visitors, I made the interior design different than that of the “Bear-san’s Relaxing Shop”.
I carved out real bears on the pillars since it was important for the restaurant to look cool.
I used the bears I had met at the bee tree as a reference, since they would only end up cute if I made them with Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear in mind.

As for the ingredients, a lot of rice and seafood had already arrived from Mireera.
The seafood had been kept frozen by the ice magic stones I had procured from the snow daruma at the top of the Erezento’s mountain range. Sadly, normal adventurers couldn’t really climb the high mountain to bring us more.
I heard that you could easily procure some if you went north where there was snow. I had Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear, though , so I was able to climb the mountain easily, the feat which was impossible for normal people like Ranya-san and Damon-san, who were crazy enough to try.
No wonder there was no trade between Mireera and Crimonia until now.
With the tunnel finished though, trade had finally started to pick up.

I had given the ice magic stones I had gotten from Erezento’s mountain range to the Commerce Guild at Mireera. In exchange, they had promised to give me good prices and all the fish I wanted.
Mylene-san got angry when she heard about this deal since it put her Commerce Guild at a disadvantage, but she calmed down as soon as she heard about the tunnel.
Even though the tunnel was more or less managed by Cliff, the Commerce Guild would also profit from it quite a bit.
I would also be getting a part of the passage fee, but looking at the long term, those reduced prices wouldn’t really mean that much as the Commerce Guild was now selling both seafood and salt. Salt transactions were overseen by Cliff, who was acting under the king’s command, of course, but I was sure that the Commerce Guild also made some profit.

I didn’t know the exact method of making salt, but it was depicted as difficult in one of the fantasy novels I had read.
That was why, when I heard them talking about the salt, I asked them to not cause too much trouble for the people of Mireera.
If they were used under terrible conditions,

"The tunnel might end up being destroyed by some natural occurrences."

was what I whispered in Cliff’s ear.
I didn’t plan running the restaurant if it caused too much trouble for the people of Mireera, and Cliff also seemed to understand what I meant since he nodded in agreement.

The restaurant’s name had finally been decided as “Bear-san’s Diner”.
It seemed that, just like me, the women from Mireera didn’t have any naming sense.
Mylene-san complained that it had no impact, but when she couldn’t find a better name, the “Bear-san’s Diner” was set in stone.

"My job isn’t to think of a name, but to decide from one of the names you propose, after all."

She said as an excuse.
I shouldn’t be talking about others, of course, since I couldn’t think of a better name, either. It might be more correct to say that I didn’t think of a name at all, and more importantly, I honestly already thought that “Bear-san’s Diner” Anzu came up with was good enough, so I put my vote on that one.
Anzu and the others also voted for it, of course, and since almost everyone voted for “Bear-san’s Diner”, it was unanimously chosen. Mylene-san couldn’t really oppose it, and the signboard was ordered.