I Was Just Having Fun With The Time Limit – Chapter 51

Chapter 51

Ultimately, Yuri blossomed with a new talent.

It was a talent she herself didn’t know she had.

If she was a prodigy in mathematics, she was a genius at making desserts.

She possessed such tremendous talent that it would make most geniuses feel a sense of despair.

Having spent the past six months pondering what kind of desserts Isabel would like every day, she had become a full-fledged pastry chef.

She was the youngest pastry chef in the Imperial Palace.

‘I hope Her Highness will like it……’

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White steam carrying a sweet fragrance rose up.

She bit her index fingernail, waiting for the dough to be fully cooked.

Finally, the golden-brown baked waffle revealed its beautiful form.

Isabel’s eyes widened.

“C-Could it be, th-this is……!”

Isabel was once again filled with happiness.

Yuri, with a heart pounding with excitement, briefly explained the dessert she presented today.

“I put croissant dough in a waffle pan and baked it.”

Isabel’s eyes sparkled.

It was the dessert she had only seen on SNS but never actually tasted.

“Although it has the form of a waffle, it has a layered structure, so I tried to create a texture that Her Highness would really like.”

Yuri felt happy.

Isabel was quite serious about desserts.

The person who enjoyed and ate the bread Yuri made the most deliciously in the world was Isabel.

The fact that she could offer a new dessert to that Isabel made her happy.

“I made the outside crispy and the inside moist.”

“Yuri-unni. I have a favor to ask.”

“Just say the word.”

“Add whipped cream to this.”

Ruruka, who was watching from the side, chimed in.

“Your Highness. It already has a lot of sugar syrup on it.”

Ruruka thought it was a big problem that Isabel loved sweets so much.

So she decided that she must make her control herself today.

“Nanny. Even though it looks like this, I have the body of a Bilotian, you know.”

“……”

“I’m super healthy until at least twenty-one, so don’t worry. My brothers are fine even if they eat poison.”

Ruruka was speechless.

Indeed, although she couldn’t learn swordsmanship, the fact that Isabel had inherited the blood of the Bilotian Imperial Family was undeniable.

Isabel said with a sincere expression.

“It has to be animal-based whipped cream!”

“Yes.”

Yuri happily prepared the whipped cream.

It was milk whipped cream made sweetly with her own recipe.

Mmm, mmm, it’s really, really delicious.

I’ve never had such a delicious waffle in my life.

Isabel ate the new waffle with pure admiration.

Yuri smiled as she watched her.

‘I guess I was born to do this.’

Yuri said.

“What should we name this dessert?”

“Can I name it? Shouldn’t the pastry chef name it?”

“I’m a pastry chef for only one person.”

“Hehe.”

Isabel didn’t think long.

“Croffle!”

It was the moment a new snack, the croffle, was born in the Bilotian Empire.

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Yuri had focused on mathematics for her livelihood. Nevertheless, she was called a genius in mathematics.

Now, she had found something she truly enjoyed, not for her livelihood.

This wasn’t simply the realm of a genius.

A genius above geniuses.

A girl who had never experienced desserts due to poverty, and thus didn’t know the profession of a pastry chef, was now walking the path of a pastry chef.

This was a small change brought about by Isabel.

However, the change Isabel caused wasn’t limited to Yuri.

Another change also happened to Narmore.

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Narmore. Nineteen years old.

He was lying down and being lazy in a shabby house in the slums of the Bilotian capital.

“Stupid establishment bastards.”

Until just three years ago, he was a boy full of dreams and passion.

That boy had now become the laziest person in the world.

“Sigh, forget it. Let’s just be lazy.”

He had dreamed of becoming a successful businessman.

But that dream was shattered by the Rossild family.

This was the small flap of Isabel’s wings.

A few months ago, Narmore, whose embers of passion had not yet been extinguished, visited the Rossild family every day.

It was because of Isabel.

Narmore was deeply impressed by the news of Isabel, who was living her best life despite being terminally ill.

‘Don’t give up!’

So he kept visiting Rossild. To borrow the funds he needed for his business.

Don’t give up and keep going until it works.

‘Like Princess Isabel, I’m not giving up and creating a beautiful process.’

It was something that wasn’t in .

Inspired by Isabel, Narmore burned with even greater dreams and passion.

‘I have to keep visiting. If I keep knocking, a way will open. I’m showing my passion.’

But around that time, Rossild’s temper was quite short.

Not only was Rossild’s only daughter, Reina, in a bad mood, but an incident occurred where the Bilotian Imperial Family ignored the Rossild Dukedom – taking in Yuri, the thief, as the princess’s maid.

The sparks of that anger flew everywhere, and one of the big sparks landed on Narmore.

‘Don’t kill him, just chase him out! How dare a scammer like him come here!’

Narmore was subjected to all sorts of beatings and hardships before being kicked out of Rossild.

The process was harsh enough to shatter his dreams and passion.

The bigger the dream, the higher the fall.

He despaired much more than in the original, and it completely shattered Narmore’s self-esteem and dreams.

The only thing that supported him was the friend he made here.

Although he was a much younger, immature friend, he felt at ease when he was with him.

It felt quite good to return to his childhood.

“Let’s ride the rocket swing.”

“Are you going to break the swing again?”

“Hehe. I’ll control my strength this time.”

The name of the friend he made in the slums was Michael. He was a guy with a monstrous physique.

Did this guy also not have parents? His appearance was very dirty and messy.

He was a strange guy who disappeared somewhere and then reappeared when he was bored.

“You said you’d control your strength last time too. But you still broke the swing and got scolded a lot by Mr. Charles.”

“It was fixed the next day, wasn’t it?”

“That’s why Mr. Charles must have had such a hard time.”

“Mr. Charles didn’t fix it.”

“Then who fixed it?”

“Me!”

“As if.”

Narmore lay sprawled on the ground and giggled.

“He has the same name as the prince, but he acts like a complete wild child…… Huh?”

He was already flying.

It was because Michael was carrying him and running.

The speed was so fast that it felt like he was flying.

“Hey, hey, hey, w-w-wait!”

When he came to his senses, he was already sitting on the swing.

Michael shouted with a wide grin.

“Runaway Rocket! Launching!”

Michael became serious.

“Let’s go, to the sky!”

The swing headed for the sky.

Strangely, the swing had become very sturdy.

It seemed to have been newly made with very good materials.

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I opened my mouth wide.

“You said the name of the friend you made is Nar?”

“Yeah. He’s ugly.”

Forgotten memories began to resurface one by one.

It wasn’t something from the novel, but something from the setting book that the author briefly revealed and then made private again.

『Name: Narmore（Nar）』

『He had a very brief period of wandering in his childhood. At that time, he used the alias Nar.』

It wasn’t something dealt with in the novel.

So I couldn’t recall it, but when I heard the name ‘Nar’, it suddenly came to mind.

‘He changed his name.’

The Narmore I remembered was a very successful businessman.

I couldn’t imagine ‘Nar’ rolling around in the slums.

‘No wonder Sir Viaton couldn’t find him!’

I told my brother.

“Please let me meet Nar.”

“Why? He can’t even fight.”

“There are things I really want to talk to him about.”

“With a kid who can’t even fight?”

“I’ll give you this.”

Bribing my brother was very easy.

My brother, who was munching on a piece of croffle that Yuri made, experienced a new world.

“I’ll introduce you. But you have to change your clothes.”

“Huh?”

“It’s the rule there.”

Instead of a luxurious dress, I wore a scratchy cotton T-shirt and shorts.

Instead of the finest leather sandals, I walked barefoot.

“Hehe.”

My brother rubbed my cheek with his hand.

There was clearly nothing on his hand, but my cheek became as black as if squid ink had been splattered on it.

“……This works?”

“Isn’t it amazing?”

Even though he’s not a mage.

“Doesn’t your body secrete poison?”

“That’s why I tested it on Honey.

“Yes, yes?!”

“Don’t worry. He was fine.”

“Honey is a fragile animal!”

“He eats the venom of a King Cobra monster.”

“……Huh?”

“Well, he fainted for a bit, but.”

“W-what did you say?”

“He got up again and ate it deliciously.”

“……The venom?”

“If it were me, I wouldn’t have even fainted. Anyway, it’s pathetic.”

I gave up on having a sensible and normal conversation with my brother.

Anyway, I arrived at the slums with my brother.

I was a little surprised that a village with such an environment existed within the capital.

‘I’ve really gotten too used to luxury.’

I came to live a life far removed from poverty.

So there were things I couldn’t see.

‘A place like this…… existed.’

Those unseen things started to become visible.

A young child, wearing tattered clothes, was leaning against a wall and looking this way.

He had hollow eyes and looked very hungry.

At that moment, my brother grabbed my wrist.

“Why are you walking so slowly?”

My brother dragged me along almost by force.

I looked at my brother’s face as I was being dragged.

“Brother?”

My brother’s expression was somehow strange.

And I learned things I never expected.