I Became the Emergency Food Supply of the Bear Family - Chapter 35

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Episode 35

The three of them entered the Main Castle’s Lobby at once.
Anna spoke urgently, and servants came rushing out from all corners of the castle. The head cook and sous chef who had dined with Na Bom, along with other attendants, all gathered in the Lobby.
They all either embraced Rive or carefully took her hand.
As they spoke with Rive, tears streamed down their faces. Watching them one by one, observing their expressions brimming with emotion, Na Bom realized there was something she hadn’t yet understood.
‘The Countess’s curse is gone.’
But how could such a thing have happened?
Even in the original work, it was written that no cure for the Oath Curse had been discovered.
Of course, if the original heroine were an incarnation of Aoestre, she might be able to dispel the curse—but Eina isn’t here. And we’re not even at her entrance timing yet.
‘Then, could it be…’
Na Bom looked up at Pallas, who stood beside her, watching over the people gathered around Rive.
If Pallas, called the Great Mage and the Great Sage, had the power to cure the curse, it wouldn’t be impossible.
Yes, I had that strange dream before Humanization too.
‘And that dream must have been something that actually happened.’
The real tragedy that had befallen the Grizzly family in the past.
Since I was beside Pallas while he was curing the curse, I might have seen the past through the influence of his magic.
It all seemed to fit together when I thought of it that way.
Perhaps there was simply no detailed narration of it—maybe in the original work too, Pallas had removed the Countess’s curse.
‘Hm…?’
But then a sense of wrongness suddenly touched her, and Na Bom tilted her head.
Didn’t Theodore, who appeared in the latter half, seem far too gloomy for that to be the case?
The inconsistency bothered her, but Na Bom quickly shook her head and dispelled the thoughts. Then she tugged at the hem of Pallas’s Poncho, turning his gaze toward herself.
“What is it?”
“Well, it was you who cured the Countess’s curse, wasn’t it, Pallas?”
“…….”
As Pallas kept silent, Na Bom soon lowered her head and spoke.
“Thank you so much.”
“……Why are you thanking me? Have you already grown attached to Rive and her family? Or did you pity them?”
Even at Pallas’s characteristic sardonic question, Na Bom nodded readily.
“Yes. That’s why I wanted to express my thanks. I’m happy that the Grizzly family doesn’t have to grieve anymore.”
Now Loui wouldn’t cry for his mother in his sleep. The sorrow of losing his youngest daughter wouldn’t vanish, of course, but with other joys having arrived, it would be some comfort.
Pallas, looking down at Na Bom quietly, let out a soft laugh and then shook his head.
“No.”
Pallas’s palm came to rest on top of Na Bom’s head.
“It was all thanks to you.”
As Na Bom was about to ask what he meant, Pallas began ruffling the girl’s white hair vigorously.
The girl’s laughter burst forth, and the servants who had been lost in joy turned to look at Na Bom.
Anna offered a brief explanation, and this time everyone rushed toward Na Bom with tremendous enthusiasm.
“You’ve succeeded at Humanization!”
“Congratulations, Snowdrop!”
“What an honor to see such a lovely form!”
Wiping back tears that wouldn’t stop, bouncing on their toes in excitement, holding their hands over their mouths in emotion, they all congratulated Na Bom on her Humanization, so overwhelmed by the flood of kind words that she hardly knew where she was.
Na Bom shook her head firmly to collect herself and opened her mouth.
“Everyone!”
At Na Bom’s clear, bright voice, all fell silent and focused on the girl.
“Thank you so very much for all the delicious food you’ve prepared, for keeping my room so clean, and for taking such good care of me.”
Finally, she could express the gratitude that, as a rabbit, she had been unable to properly convey.
The servants watched Na Bom bow with satisfaction, then gently lifted the girl up, as if they were too honored for such courtesy.
Those gathered in the Lobby alternated between embracing each other and weeping, then laughing, for quite some time—until they grew tired and their stomachs began to rumble.

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It was already mid-February.
As spring air began to make itself felt, the Grizzlies were one by one awakening from their Winter Sleep.
When Loui opened his eyes, Anna was there as if she’d been waiting. He answered with a sleepy nod. With practiced hands, Anna wiped his face and helped him change into fresh clothes.
By the time he’d put on his socks, Loui’s mind began to clear.
‘I wonder how Snowdrop is doing?’
He wanted to see her small, cute cheeks and her alert ears perking up, and her hind legs tapping the ground whenever she got frustrated.
And, if possible, her form after Humanization as well.
The moment Anna’s hands left him, Loui bolted from the room.
He ran for some distance down the corridor.
At the end of the hallway, he caught sight of his brother Ferdi’s back.
“Brother! Did you sleep well?”
He waved cheerfully in greeting, but Ferdi didn’t turn around—either he hadn’t heard or he was lost in thought.
As Loui drew closer, he saw a small shadow in front of Ferdi.
A stranger, a girl…?
Loui froze, his eyes wide. Only then did Ferdi turn to him and rush forward, seizing Loui by the wrist and pulling him sharply.
“Loui, this way, quickly!”
As Ferdi hurried him along, he was beaming—as if no greater joy existed in the world.
Where Ferdi’s hand had led him stood an unfamiliar girl.
A child with hair as white as snow, cascading down to her waist, dressed in a bright yellow Dress.
The girl looked at Loui with an expression that seemed somewhat awkward, then slowly waved her hand.
“Oh, it’s been a while, Loui. I’m Snowdrop. Did you sleep well?”
But Loui only blinked blankly without answering, so Na Bom spoke to him again.
“Ah, perhaps that’s not the right way. Um, hello, Young Master Loui. I’m Snowdrop.”
“…….”
“I hope you slept—”
She was about to add another word to the still-silent Loui when—
“Snowdrop!”
Loui suddenly pulled the girl into an embrace.
No longer a fuzzy white ball with eyes squeezed shut, but a girl in human form that filled both his hands—he held her tight and cried out.
“Congratulations on your Humanization!”
At Loui’s congratulations, Na Bom stretched out her small arms and wrapped them around the boy’s back.
“Thank you.”
Na Bom answered with a shy, bashful smile.
Ferdi, who had been watching the two of them, stepped forward to join in, spreading his arms to embrace both Na Bom and Loui.
“I congratulate you once more too, Snowdrop.”
They held each other that way for only a moment before Na Bom suddenly uttered an exclamation as if remembering something.
“Loui, Ferdi!”
“Hm?”
“Will you come with me for a moment?”
Saying only that, Na Bom slipped free from their embrace and began walking quickly ahead down the corridor. Glancing back at the two of them, who exchanged puzzled looks, Na Bom added a word.
“There’s someone I want you to meet.”

Na Bom had led the two to Theodore’s bedroom.
As the door opened, Theodore and Rive sat facing each other on the sofa beside the bed.
At the sight of Na Bom silently lowering her head before the doorway, Theodore started in surprise and rose from the sofa. Na Bom quickly ushered Loui and Ferdi into the room.
“What…?”
The two brothers froze simultaneously as they caught sight of Rive.
Unless something unusual had happened, Mother never left the Separate Residence. Rather, if there was a matter, it was usually they who went to find her there, just as when they’d visited her room with Snowdrop.
What was wrong? It was as Ferdi and Loui exchanged worried glances that—
“Ferdi.”
A voice rang through the quiet room, and the two fell into stunned silence.
“Loui.”
At her soft voice, which came again, Ferdi and Loui walked forward as if entranced.
A voice that shouldn’t be heard here. That longed-for voice that could only be heard in dreams.
As the two sons approached her carefully, Rive could bear it no longer and rose from her seat.
Unable to endure even the short distance, she rushed forward and pulled Loui and Ferdi into her embrace.
Until now, unable to speak to her loved ones or even touch them, Rive hadn’t set foot outside the Separate Residence since entering it.
And yet now she had come to her husband’s room and embraced her children.
No proof could be clearer than this. The curse that had bound Mother was gone.
Loui wept first. Ferdi, who had been barely holding back, soon joined him in tears.
Na Bom watched silently as the three of them, entwined in each other’s arms, shed tears of joy.
Theodore too had been watching them, but he soon moved and approached the doorway. Standing before Na Bom, Theodore crouched down and met the girl’s eyes, then—
he drew her into his embrace.

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