Chapter 30 — The Little Dragons
Chapter 30 — The Little Dragons
Translation: Godtl
The alchemy tool displayed a speech bubble again. Then, cute young dragons appeared.
The young dragons gathered together, rolling around like cotton balls and squealing.
Lelia unconsciously reached out and pressed the screen. When she placed her hand over the alchemy tool, a recipe list appeared.
'This actually works... that's basically the same as the Philosopher's Stone really granting my wish.'
Though she hadn't entered the game itself, being able to have this with her was something to be grateful for.
She felt so relieved that tears almost welled up.
After realizing her past life, she had actually been afraid. A strange world, and the fact that she was born into a role that dies—vague terror had filled her.
If not for her friends, she might have truly met the same ending as the original Lelia.
'But they came with me too!'
Perhaps because she had lived holding onto this game until she died in her past life. It felt like meeting family again.
Come to think of it, they were practically family. After all, aside from relatives waiting for her death insurance money, she had no one.
"…."
Tears kept welling up. More tears flowed than last night, which had been so lonely and painful, soaking her sleeve.
'Stop crying. This isn't the time to act like a child. Calm down first!'
Lelia wiped her tears vigorously, took a deep breath, and examined the newly appeared recipes.
Dozens of unfamiliar recipes had appeared. Quite a large amount. The ingredients were also things she'd never seen before.
In the original 'Alchemy Lottery' game, the alchemy ingredients were brought by these young dragons.
The dragons farmed in the game's fields, gathered tree fruits, and mined ores.
'Are these ingredients the same?'
When she clicked on a grayed-out deactivated ingredient, a message appeared.
- [!] A new alchemical substance from another world. What kind of ingredient could it be? Look around your surroundings to find the ingredients!
'Is it telling me to find them in reality?'
After pondering for a moment, she pressed the back button.
Then she scrolled to the end of the recipe list. The final recipe, the Philosopher's Stone, was deactivated.
'I guess it's locked again since it's an item that requires all recipes to make...'
Lelia closed the recipe list and pressed the inventory icon.
'Surely I can use items too?'
Just in case, she clicked on the stamina recovery potion among the magic potions she had prepared in advance.
[Item Quantity Owned: 9999]
How many would you like to take out?
A message appeared when she pressed the screen before her eyes. She entered the number 1 and pressed the confirmation button.
"Wow...!"
In an instant, a magic potion bottle appeared in her palm. It was the same bottle design she had seen in the game.
"Oh my god. Oh my god!"
Lelia muttered in a strange voice and downed the recovery potion. It wasn't just her imagination—she really felt strength returning.
The efficacy was certain. Which meant....
Other items could all be used in reality as well.
Her entire body shivered with amazement.
Lelia checked her inventory window.
The inventory contained all the materials she had collected.
9999 9999 9999 9999 9999....
Material items came in bundles of 9999, and she owned about 20 bundles on average.
Seeing the endlessly aligned items ending with the same number brought peace to her mind.
Wow, this is why people must diligently collect items!
'Yes... diligence saves the world!'
She was so moved that tears almost came again.
'But how do I turn this screen on and off?'
Just in case, she touched the jewel on the necklace where the sound had first come from. Simultaneously, the screen disappeared.
"...Oh!"
When she touched the necklace's jewel again, the screen appeared. Whether it was fingerprint recognition or something else, she didn't know, but she liked it very much.
Lelia held the necklace in her hand and smiled with the corners of her lips raised.
The sorrow and despair that had tormented her last night were now forgotten, her mood improved to the point she couldn't even recall them.
Lelia put on the necklace and looked around the room.
Perhaps this necklace and pocket watch were gifts her mother had left behind. At that thought, her chest ached.
'Let's use this to get outside the Imperial Palace.'
Lelia touched the blue jewel of the necklace she wore.
When the screen appeared, she pressed the bag-shaped inventory icon. Then the list of items her past self had created rolled out.
'I need items that will help me escape.'
But most of the items she had prepared in advance were quest items sold to village residents.
Things like stamina recovery potions and antidotes.
Otherwise, there were sauces for cooking, glue, spirit water, herbal tea, and such things.... Though there were some strange things occasionally.
Things like cold medicine tasting like lizard tail, wound ointment smelling like garbage, useless things like mushroom-shaped erasers.
'Something helpful... this is it!'
Lelia discovered one thing. She hadn't made many, but 20 would be sufficient.
'Sleeping potion!'
Since her goal was to escape from the Imperial Palace without anyone knowing, it was an excellent potion for evading the knights. It was also in spray form, making it convenient to use.
Lelia took out several stamina recovery potions and sleeping potions from the item window and packed them in her bag.
'It's better to escape as quickly as possible rather than wasting time.'
Perhaps at breakfast later, Cedric and Damian might tell Emperor Perseus about her.
'Then the Emperor will be very annoyed with me. He'll want to chase me out.'
Moreover, since she had even created wounds on Julianna's body, they could hold her accountable.
'He wouldn't kill me...?'
Honestly, she couldn't be certain.
In the worst case, she would die, and in the second-worst case, they would try to chase Lelia out of the Imperial Palace as quickly as possible.
That method would be marriage.
Lelia shuddered and left the cottage.
And just in case, she walked toward the tower.
Even though she was hungry, she didn't feel weak or distressed at all. The recovery potion's effect was part of it, but with her mind reassured, the body's hunger felt trivial. All of this was thanks to this necklace obtained through the pocket watch.
Arriving near the tower, Lelia stood at a distance and looked at the place where she had spent her childhood.
Naturally, she had no memories from when she was an infant, but she had some memories from her early years.
The nanny who raised Lelia under Princess Iris's order was a kind person.
'Though she abandoned me and returned to her family.'
It wasn't that she couldn't understand. That said, she wasn't in a position to take young Lelia with her either.
When her parents were about to die, Lelia, who wasn't even the real princess's daughter, wouldn't have come into consideration.
'Still, seeing how she came later and confessed the truth... she must have felt some guilt.'
Lelia's true identity wouldn't be revealed until the nanny returned.
'If only I had resembled Mom even a little.'
Elizabeth, like the brothers of the Superion family, was a beauty with red hair.
But Lelia had silver hair characteristic of the imperial family.
'Plus, Princess Iris's husband had green eyes...'
It was natural that no one recognized Lelia.
That fact felt newly regretful and sorrowful.
'Emperor Perseus isn't enough, even my uncle can't recognize me... I guess I don't resemble Mom at all.'
It was regrettable. If she resembled Mom even a little, she would have been less lonely whenever she looked in the mirror.