Chapter 60
Chapter 60
It seems this ring is the medium that can summon Vroom-vroom.
I wanted to go outside right away and try summoning Vroom-vroom.
But it was too late, and there were too many eyes watching, so I decided to hold back for now.
I quickly slipped the ring onto my finger, afraid I might lose it.
It seemed to fit better on my ring finger than my index finger.
“Why are you wearing that on your ring finger?”
Cassis asked me immediately.
“It’s a ring I got together with my fiancé.”
Cassis’s pupils shook.
The atmosphere surrounding him sank instantly.
It was a bit strange, as there was no change in his face.
“What? Fiancé? Who’s the bastard?!”
Of course, Seiren didn’t hold back.
I shook my head.
“No, I just happened to get this.”
“Then why wear it on your ring finger?”
“Because it fits well there. It doesn’t mean anything. I don’t have a fiancé or anyone I’m dating anyway.”
Seiren’s face became quite moved.
She declared to Isiel:
“I want to buy a ring to wear on my left ring finger tomorrow too.”
“…Why you?”
“Because Father and Mother will want to marry me off quickly now.”
Isiel silently took out a checkbook from his pocket and handed over a blank check.
* * *
“Did you rest well?”
Yen greeted me cheerfully.
I waved my hand lazily, my body aching all over.
“Did you drink last night?”
“No, but I feel almost that bad.”
It was natural.
What’s the point of waking up late?
I met Isiel’s sister, Seiren, at the temple where I went for a short outing because of a quest. Then I visited the Lemiere mansion.
And I ended up making Seiren my sister…
I checked the ring on my ring finger again.
The small red jewel sparkled.
We also got our Vroom-vroom.
I haven’t properly summoned Vroom-vroom into the world yet.
The reason is simple.
When everyone went to bed, I went out to the garden for a moment and pressed summon, but I was startled by the sudden burst of white light and ended up going, “Aaah! Vroom-vroom! Go back in!”
Moreover, just from the silhouette, it was very big.
And it really was the silhouette of that food truck I knew.
‘What if I get mobbed and executed as a witch?’
[I’ll save you.]
‘How?’
[Come on, I’ll just descend once.]
Oh my…
Life would become quite arduous.
For now, I plan to summon my Vroom-vroom in the empty lot behind after finishing today’s sales. At least I need to figure out what it looks like, so I can come up with a plan, right?
“Yen, I’m going to try a different method today.”
I took out an iron container from my inventory with a thud.
Due to the temperature difference, the outside of the iron container was covered in white frost.
When I opened the lid of the container, it was filled with ice cream.
“Is it all ice cream?”
“Yes.”
“How?”
“I feel like I’m going to die.”
I woke up early this morning.
I caught Isiel, who was about to return to the Lemiere mansion, and asked him to put a spell on the iron container.
Isiel realized it was a container for storing ice cream and cast an appropriate spell.
<It should last about a year.>
<What about magical power?>
<You can use a medium-grade magic stone about the size of a fingernail. Put it in this groove here.>
<Thank you.>
And what I did was use the ‘Mass Production (A0)’ skill.
The unique point of the ‘Mass Production’ skill itself was that it could be applied to anything.
So, let’s say I’m ‘attaching doll eyes’ in real life.
If I apply the ‘Mass Production’ skill to what I’m actually doing with my hands, I could ‘attach doll eyes’ as if they were being produced in a factory.
I could apply it simultaneously with other production-related skills.
This meant I could use it together with the ‘Cooking Skill’.
However, the ‘Mass Production’ skill required a large amount of divine power.
Since it was a skill I had to try using anyway, I took a deep breath and gave it a try.
I activated the ‘Mass Production (A)’ skill and used the ‘Cooking Skill (B-)’ with the ice cream recipe applied.
The result was surprising.
Perhaps because the skill level of Mass Production was very high at ‘A’, using the skill just once produced about 500 servings of ice cream.
Thanks to this, I filled three containers I had prepared, thinking ‘Isn’t this too much?’
[SYSTEM | Skill cancelled due to insufficient divine power.]
Even this was interrupted due to insufficient divine power.
If this skill is properly activated, how much ice cream could it produce?
It truly lived up to its name of ‘Mass Production’.
However, the problem came next.
What happened to me after I used up all my divine power to use the skill?
[What do you mean, Irina was crawling on the floor.]
It was fortunate that I tried it at home for the first time.
I was throwing up since the morning, going “Uweeeegh”.
It was even more painful because I hadn’t eaten anything.
Seiren, who had been hovering around wanting to watch me use the skill, was flustered and awkwardly rubbed my back.
‘Sister, don’t die.’
My condition was so serious that Seiren even said, “Should we… call Rose?”
After turning the mansion upside down all morning and barely recovering, I crawled out just now.
Yen, hearing all this, asked if I was really okay.
“I don’t think I’m okay.”
“You don’t look okay.”
“I’m so cold…”
I came out wearing a coat because I didn’t have the Humbly mage robe that always accompanied me.
I used to think the cold in the capital was nothing compared to the North, but it seems that was just because I had the mage robe.
“Here… this container is all ice cream.”
“Yes.”
Yen looked at the huge ice cream container with a weary expression.
I gave him a round scoop.
For now, I brought a few things that could be used from Orsha Palace in the North, but later I think I’ll need to make one specifically for this.
“With this… if you scoop like this, it forms a nice round shape.”
“Oh, I’ll try it.”
Yen was able to scoop the ice cream into nice round shapes, following me without any trouble.
I gave him a ton of waffles too.
These days, our Apple is becoming a master of waffles.
To what extent?
Seiren, who had only been staying at this house for two days, even said, “His name is Apple? Not Waffle?”
In the midst of all this, he would often come to me for feedback, steadily practicing the ‘waffle cone’ I had mentioned before.
“Are you going to sell like this today too, Irina?”
“Yes. If I use my ability here, I might die.”
In the distance, the bell rang four times.
Yen and I tensed up.
And not long after, students in all sorts of uniforms poured out onto the streets.
They immediately came towards us.
The war had begun.
* * *
Clink!
[SYSTEM | You earned 3 jurang by selling ‘Ice Cream Waffle’, and now have 99,990,008 jurang left until debt repayment.]
Clink!
[SYSTEM | You earned 9 jurang by selling ‘Ice Cream Waffle’, and now have 99,989,999 jurang left until debt repayment.]
Clink!
Clink!
Clink!
[SYSTEM | You earned 30 jurang by selling ‘Ice Cream Waffle’, and now have 99,989,969 jurang left until debt repayment.]
[SYSTEM | You earned 3 jurang by selling ‘Ice Cream Waffle’, and (omitted).]
At some point, the debt repayment notifications changed from ‘ding’ to ‘clink’.
It felt good to see the money being earned in real-time.
The speed was incredible when the ice cream production step was removed from the sales process.
With the explosively increased demand (how and where did the rumors spread?), the massive supply that could handle it, and the excellent manpower – Yen – who could cover it quickly, dozens of ice cream waffles were sold in an instant even with little time passing.
“Wow, I really wanted to come here.”
“Me too, Sia was bragging about eating it last time and I was so curious.”
“The shop is super cute too.”
“Right! It suits the ice cream sister!”
Even while selling ice cream, I maintained the process of understanding how customers were reacting and how they found out about us.
[Right.]
‘Seeing it sell so well with my own eyes, I’m getting more and more greedy.’
I want to open a proper shop, and I want to have that shop all over the empire.
I want to be reborn as the ruler of a huge ice cream empire.
[At this point, paying off the debt doesn’t seem to be a concern anymore.]
‘To be honest, it’s not just about the debt, but I’m enjoying selling products and expanding my business like this.’
“Sister! I’m here again?”
“Jane, again today?”
“Yes, five today!”
“Alright.”
I’m grateful if they buy a lot, of course.
While I was busy scooping ice cream into waffles and packaging them, Jane chattered to me.
“Sister, why don’t you sell the ice cream itself to our house?”
“I’m sorry.”
“Ah, sister. I’m quite a precious young lady, you know.”
I smiled slightly.
“Yes, young lady.”
Jane carefully told her secret while looking around.
“Um… my brother is the Duke of Hellis.”
I thought she wasn’t from an ordinary family since she was wearing the uniform of the Imperial Academy, but it was much more impressive than I expected.
To think I’d meet all the people from the only two ducal families in the empire like this.
I quietly opened my mouth.
Then closed it again.
‘I think I’m really going to succeed…’
Originally, my plan was ‘Capture the public’s taste and then target the nobles!’ But the ‘how’ was blank.
Even if I thought about it, the best I could come up with was to promote through the best connections I could mobilize.
But without me doing anything, the Hellis princess is lining up to eat…
“What? Sister, it’s okay if you don’t sell to me. Instead, just tell me who you are.”
Jane’s point was simple.
Even if I suddenly disappear, she wanted a communication channel so she could find me and eat ‘ice cream’.
In principle, I should keep it a secret until I make my debut in the world under the name of Luwin, but since people who should know already know bit by bit, I left a slight hint to Jane.
“I can’t reveal my identity, and for the time being, I plan to appear only occasionally through ‘Ophelia’.”
Jane’s eyes widened.
She seemed surprised by the fact that I, a mere ice cream stand owner, was related to ‘Ophelia’.
