Fina looked very embarrassed to walk around in her brand new clothing. We kept telling her it looked great on her, but that seemed to have only made it worse.

At least she didn’t have to worry about going around the festival in stained clothes.

Tilia had bought the clothes for them, so I decided to buy some handkerchiefs I noticed were sold in the shop as well.

I wanted the girls to pick for themselves, but Noa beat me to the punch by saying, 「Yuna-san, please choose one for us,」and the other two agreed with her. I didn’t have any fashion sense, but I somehow picked out what I thought matched the three of them.

The three of them received the handkerchiefs happily, but when I thought about the complicated outfit picking process from earlier, I worried whether they really were happy or not. Shuri’s expression seemed genuine, though, so I had done just fine, right? If Shuri didn’t like it, she would have surely said something like 「Yuna-neechan, this is not cute at all,」straight out. She had received my gift happily, so she must have found it acceptable.

「Tilia, you sure you don’t want one?」

I wanted to buy one for Tilia, too, but she had refused.

「If you really want to give me a present, then the bear plushies will do.」

Afterwards, we won a couple more prizes that Shuri and Noa wanted, and ate some food from the food stands. Time quickly went by, and before we realized, we were informed that day one of the school festival was over. All the shops began cleaning up, and the visitors slowly began to leave.

We considered returning to Shia’s stand but quickly decided against it as we might get in the way of their cleaning and disrupt the flow of people leaving the academy.

「I will let them know, then.」

Tilia would stay at the academy for a while longer, so she returned to Shia to tell her we were leaving without her.

「Thank you for accompanying us today, Tilia.」

「I had a lot of fun today, so no biggie.」

「Tilia-sama, thank you for purchasing these clothes for us.」

「Thank you, Princess.」

「Thank you very much, Tilia-sama.」

「Don’t worry about it. I bought them because I wanted to.」

Tilia said, smiling at the three girls.

「Okay, I will give you the plushies, then, just as promised.」

I took out a set of Swaying Bear and Hugging Bear plushies, and passed them to Tilia.

「Uwah, you’re really giving them to me?」

「I promised you I would, didn’t I? Also, you brought us around for the entire day, so this could be considered my thanks to you.」

「Well, I will gladly take them, then.」

「Yes, and please take good care of them. I will ask Her Highness if you do.」

I would be very sad if she used them as practice targets for throwing knives or something.

「I will take good care of them, of course. Should I place them in the palace’s treasury to keep them safe?」

「I would feel bad for the plushies, so please don’t do that.」

「Fufu, I’m joking. I will keep them safe in my room.」

After we said our goodbyes, Tilia embraced her plushies and walked towards Shia’s stand while we headed straight back to Eleanora-san’s mansion.

When we got there, Fina handed the wolf meat she had received for her dismantling to Suririna-san, so she could use it for tonight’s dinner. Then, she asked where she could wash her dirty clothes, but Suririna-san took them from her.

「If it’s laundry, please leave it to me.」

「But…」

「This is my job, so I can’t let you do it. While you are at this mansion, you are our guest, Fina-sama.」

Fina still looked troubled.

「Fina, you should let her do it. I’m sure you wouldn’t like it if somebody else tried to do your job, would you?」

Well, if somebody tried to do my job, I wouldn’t complain, but that wasn’t the point here. Fina was too serious and tried to do everything herself. While that was one of her good qualities, it also made her very inflexible when it came to letting others help her.

「Yuna-oneechan… Okay. Suririna-san, please wash it for me. I got blood on it, so you can wash it off with-」

「Fina-sama, you don’t have to worry and leave it to me. I will clean it properly.」

Once Fina finally let go of her clothes, we returned to our guest room. We just had to accept that we would be taken care of here. Yes, we could have stayed at my Bear House, but Shuri wanted to stay here, so there was no way I could just drag her and Fina off into the sunset.

Well, I had actually let both girls decide as I didn’t really care either way, and it was Fina who had let Shuri have the final choice, hence we ended up staying at Eleanora-san’s mansion.

Back to the present:

「Fufu, I will place down the Ten of Water.」

「Okay, then I will put down the Four of Fire.」

「Alright! Three of Fire!」

The three of them played Sevens all the way until dinner time.

I didn’t play with them and instead collapsed on the bed. My body didn’t feel tired, but I was mentally exhausted from all the stares and whispers I