I Was Just Having Fun With The Time Limit – Chapter 125

Chapter 125

Instead of getting a room, I settled into the room Lieutenant General Armitel guided me to.

The Lieutenant General made things difficult for me for a while, saying, “I can’t let Your Highness stay in such a shabby place!” and tried to give me her bed, but I couldn’t let that happen.

“It’s unlikely, but if something happens to Asellia, I have to run to her, right? You should rest in the room closest to Lia.”

“But still…… that room is……”

It was an attic that was usually used as a storage room.

It was a bit messy, but there wasn’t much dust and it was clean.

It wasn’t spacious, but it was cozy and nice.

“The best part is that it has a skylight.”

I clasped my hands together as if in prayer, without even realizing it.

“32 stars are twinkling through this small skylight.”

“……Huh? Thirty…… two?”

“Ah, that……”

It seemed like a slight mistake.

Right, there’s no way there are 32.

“At least, that’s how many I can see with my eyesight.”

Human eyes can only see light in the visible spectrum.

Visible light is light with a wavelength range that can be perceived by the eye, and the spectrum of that wavelength is…… I didn’t go as far as to say that.

This seems like it falls under Earth Science, and I’m not very confident in this area, so I might end up conveying wrong information.

There was no need to make unnecessary mistakes.

“There are probably many more stars in the universe as seen through a specially made telescope. Hehe.”

“I, I see.”

Lieutenant General Armitel’s expression was a bit strange, but anyway, it was decided that Yuri and I would sleep here.

And as time passed and it was past 10 p.m., Yuri, who had been lying down, suddenly sat up.

“What……!”

“Shh. Speak softly. Everyone will hear you.”

At my words, Yuri lowered her voice.

“I can’t accept it. Your Highness’s hair is so beautiful.”

Yuri, who had heard that I wanted to cut my hair and give it to Asellia as a gift, clenched her lips as if she couldn’t accept it at all.

“……How, how could I possibly cut Your Highness’s hair?”

I had already anticipated Yuri’s reaction.

In fact, in this world, it was common sense for a noble lady to grow her hair long.

That’s the standard of beauty, so it was natural for Yuri to be so surprised.

“Yuri. Want me to tell you a secret? Come closer.”

When I beckoned, Yuri reluctantly crouched down and brought her ear close.

“It’s a secret, but you know.”

“……”

“I like short hair?”

“Short hair?”

Ah, there was no word for “short hair” in this world.

“Yeah, hair like Lieutenant General Armitel. Isn’t it super pretty and cool?”

“Lieutenant General Armitel is a soldier. But Your Highness is……”

“Yuri. Please. Yuri is so skilled, you can cut it beautifully. Even Libel, whom I messed up, becomes a pretty girl as soon as Yuri touches her.”

“But still, how could I possibly cut Your Highness’s hair……”

Actually, I could have just said, “It’s an order, cut my hair,” and avoided this troublesome process, but I didn’t want to do that.

Because Yuri and I are friends.

Friends have a way of talking to each other.

I wanted to treat my first friend in this world with care.

“Why don’t you like me cutting my hair, Yuri?”

“Th, that’s because, of course……”

Yuri couldn’t continue speaking.

Because there was no real reason.

“Why is long hair a given? I want to try short hair.”

“……”

“I believe I have the freedom to do what I want. As long as that freedom doesn’t harm others, right?”

“Bu, but still……”

“I want to do a lot of things I want to do. You know, Yuri. I don’t have much time……”

“St, stop! Stop it!”

Yuri’s voice rose. Then her face turned red.

“I’m sorry for raising my voice. I’m really sorry. I, I was so surprised……”

“No, it’s okay.”

It might have been a problem if it was a formal occasion, but this was a private setting.

I had no intention of blaming Yuri.

If it were me, I wouldn’t want to hear my precious friend say, “I don’t have much time.”

“I’ll do it. I’ll give you the prettiest short hair in the world. So please don’t say such scary things. Please.”

“Hehe.”

“Don’t laugh.”

“Why? Hehehe.”

“I want to be angry, but I can’t.”

“Then don’t be angry! Huh? Huh? Don’t be angry, okay? Okay?”

I wiggled my ten fingers and tickled Yuri’s side.

Yuri eventually couldn’t hold back and burst out laughing.

I felt sorry for using the fact that I was terminally ill as a sort of weapon, so I added a bit more logic.

“I’m the Princess of the Empire, and I think I have a duty to break people out of their narrow-minded thinking. There’s nothing that’s a given in this world. At least, I don’t think it’s a given that I can’t do what I want because of what other people think. What I want doesn’t harm anyone, does it?”

“……Bu, but still, many people will gossip. The world has a hard time accepting things that are a little different.”

“So?”

I laughed “Hehe” again.

“I’m the Princess.”

“Th, that’s true.”

Sometimes, it seemed like power was a good thing.

I started playing beauty salon.

“Please make it pretty, teacher. I want the length to be about this much. You saw the reference model earlier, right? I want hair like Lieutenant General Armitel.”

Snip━━

My hair started to be cut off.

I still looked pretty in the mirror.

‘What the?’

To be honest, it would be a lie to say I wasn’t scared.

But now that I’ve actually cut it, this look was definitely a cheat.

‘It’s all about the face……’

It was the moment I realized once again that the completion of everything is the face.

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Morning came.

My lower abdomen was warm, and when I looked, Honey Badger had curled up and was sleeping on my stomach.

Using the wig Yuri made as a blanket.

I slowly got up.

‘Huh?’

Thud!

Honey Badger, who had been sleeping somehow, fell to the side.

But the strange thing is that he didn’t wake up.

‘Well…… that, whatever, it’s fine as long as he’s sleeping well.’

I carefully picked up the wig.

To be honest, it might be a bit of meddling.

I wasn’t sure if it was right for me to want to give Asellia a wig as a gift.

However, if Asellia was really the same as my past self.

If she had the same thoughts I did, she would probably like this wig.

Asellia seemed like she would like it, but Lieutenant General Armitel seemed shocked.

“Your Highness!”

“Shh, you’ll wake Asellia.”

“Your Highness. What, what in the world……”

“Pretty, right?”

“……”

“Isn’t it pretty? Strange. There’s no way it wouldn’t be pretty.”

“……”

I poked Lieutenant General Armitel with my finger.

“It’s pretty.”

“……It’s pretty. Very.”

“Suits me, right?”

“It does suit you. But why……”

“I fell in love with you, Lieutenant General Armitel. I’ve decided to call this hairstyle a ‘short cut.’ I’ll talk to Sir Viaton later and have it registered in the dictionary.”

I took out the wig I had been hiding behind my back.

“Yuri made it, so the quality is really good. And although it’s immature, I’ve applied a restoration spell to it.”

Libel suffered a bit in the process.

I studied the restoration spell engraved on Libel and touched it this way and that, and in the process, the restoration spell formula broke.

That was a very sad thing for me.

It would be nice to cast the restoration spell again, but Libel’s physical durability didn’t seem like it could withstand it.

“I want to give this to Lia as a gift, but do you think she’ll hate it?”

“……”

I heard the Lieutenant General muttering something.

“Yes? I can’t hear you well.”

“Why……”

She clenched her fists.

It seemed like she might be angry, but fortunately, it didn’t seem like that.

“Why are you doing this for us?”

“I just wanted to try a short cut. And I was just thinking about what to do with the leftover hair.”

“I can’t understand why you’re doing this for us, what we are to you.”

Her shoulders were trembling.

It seemed like me cutting my hair was a huge shock.

I guess it’s quite unconventional by the standards of this era.

“Do you have to understand?”

“……Huh?”

“I don’t think you need to understand everything. You can’t understand everything.”

“But there must be a reason……”

There were many reasons.

It was true that I wanted to win over Lieutenant General Armitel, who might become a traitor in the future, to our side, and it was also true that I felt a lot for Asellia, who looked just like me.

And it wasn’t a lie that I was drawn to short hair.

When I got a new life, I made a promise to try everything I wanted to do before I left, since things had turned out this way.

This was part of that.

“I want to be a good friend.”

“……”

“I didn’t have any friends my age. But I got one. Her name is Yuri. She’s my best friend. She’s so precious to me.”

“……”

Even in my past life, I didn’t have anyone I could truly call a friend.

I was so envious when I saw my friends building friendships and having happy times.

“It’s so nice to have one after not having any.”

This was my true feeling.

Maybe it’s because I’m still young, but it felt like my friends were my whole world.

“I can’t be the only one to experience such great happiness, right? I’m the Princess. I want to share and teach people the good things I’ve felt.”

To a child who might be living the same life as my past self.

“I’m asking you because you know Lia best. Do you think Lia will like this gift?”

“That……”

And that day, a miracle happened in the small village of Calfoa.