I Was Just Having Fun With The Time Limit - Chapter 205

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One shocking revelation.
I wasn’t particularly afraid of those gun barrels and the masked strangers in black.
‘I suppose I really am living with terrifying people.’
To a Grand Mage from the Vilotian Royal Family, guns were hardly objects of fear.
A second shocking revelation.
The Professor was far more impulsive and courageous than I had imagined.
“What are you doing?!”
The Professor, with movements untrained in martial arts yet more desperate than anyone’s, stepped in front of me to shield me.
For ordinary people, guns were certainly terrifying weapons, but the Professor did not succumb to that fear.
I wanted to hide behind the Professor’s trembling back.
Or rather, I wanted to lean on the shadow of an adult protecting me, even if just a little.
A third shocking revelation.
Earth was not so kind to me.
It was obvious to anyone that I was their target.
Even though I hadn’t yet grown accustomed to Earth, the experience and knowledge I’d accumulated as a Grand Mage hadn’t disappeared.
‘I suppose I thought of Earth too casually.’
To be honest, this was close to my own mistake.
Because time was limited.
I was merely traveling to Earth, after all.
Such complacent thoughts had piled up.
The fact that pharmaceutical companies and governments would covet my potions.
And I hadn’t particularly minded that they would certainly try to monopolize them if they could.
Having lived as the Princess of Villorian for so long, I had unknowingly harbored an arrogant belief within me: ‘Surely no one would dare try to restrain me.’
Finally, a fourth shocking revelation.
We had nearly become murderers.
“Stop!”
Had I not urgently grabbed Beolkkot’s tail, our journey would have been recorded as a bloody catastrophe.
That I could now look back and say ‘our journey was like this’ was thanks to my timely intervention and stopping Beolkkot.
Beolkkot emanated a murderous intent so overwhelming it could be described in digital terms.
[Kill. Them. All.]
Unfortunately, the Earth friends lacked the ability to sense Beolkkot’s killing intent.
Though technology had advanced, such primal instincts had completely vanished from this world.
In any case, the Professor shouted at the masked assassins to protect me, and Beolkkot nearly committed mass slaughter.
“Thank you, Professor.”
A brief moment, if brief it could be called.
I offered the Professor a short word of thanks, then held Beolkkot tightly in my arms.
Beolkkot, whose body temperature was higher than usual, still hissed and steamed with fury.
“Capture alive!”
“Capture alive!”
Ropes with hooks flew toward me from all directions.
And Kim Beolkkot and I used magic to escape to somewhere in an instant.

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Just before fleeing, I used magic to leave a letter for the Professor.
[To my esteemed Professor,]
This letter began with a simple greeting, starting from England… no, that’s not right.
In any case, it was a letter where I briefly summarized everything that had happened to me.
And most of it was words of gratitude.
People often said it.
No matter how hellish This World becomes, if there’s just one person who is yours, then This World becomes worth living in.
Looking back, it seemed the Professor was that one person for me.
[The method for making mana potions is…]
I also wrote down the method for making mana potions.
Unfortunately, there was no one among Earthlings who could make mana potions.
After all, there was no one who could even handle mana.
Still, I held onto a small hope.
If a miracle ever occurred and someone appeared who could handle mana, perhaps someone could make the potion then.
[I’m not entirely sure how effective this mana potion is. It can be diluted in water to make more, but I lack experimental data on that. I ask this of you, Professor. Please ensure that as many people as possible benefit from it.]
I could probably save quite a lot of people.
By the way, I placed the potions in a bag with space expanded by magic.
I hid it in the Professor’s bedroom, so you should be able to find it in the not-too-distant future.
“It’s beautiful.”
I was flying while holding someone’s hand.
That someone was naturally Arun. The place we were flying through was the night sky.
Above a canvas of night where countless stars shone brightly.
We flew through the heavens with our fingers intertwined.
It was deep night, yet the sky was not so dark.
The glittering stars sparkled like diamonds scattered across a black sea.
There was wind even up here in the sky.
The night breeze seemed to whisper something to me.
It was as if Earth itself was offering an apology on someone’s behalf, saying that the world wasn’t so bad after all.
“I thought only the sky sparkled with light.”
Beneath the blanket of clouds, countless constellations built by humans were shining brightly.
Street lamps. Light leaking from building windows. Car headlights.
Countless lights gathered to form a sea of radiance.
Though each moved at their own time and pace, the city viewed from up here seemed frozen in place.
“The ground shines too.”
I couldn’t help but marvel at this beautiful sight, rarely seen in my world.
That world below my feet, surely filled with much noise.
Yet here, I heard nothing at all.
From a place untouched by the city’s noise, the view was serene and peaceful.
And Arun’s sweet voice pierced through the silence, reaching me.
“You shine brighter.”
“Huh?”
“No, never mind.”
Later, Arun would deliver an absurdly cheesy line: “You shine so brilliantly that I can see nothing else. All the light in the universe, even the orange glow of human civilization—they all fade to darkness before you.” But at this moment, he hadn’t reached that level of ridiculousness yet.
Arun spoke to me, his face slightly flushed.
“Weren’t you surprised?”
“I was a little surprised.”
“So that means—!”
Before Arun could get angry again, I quickly continued.
“Because of you.”
“What?”
“I was afraid you might hurt everyone.”
“….”
“And I was surprised by the Professor. He stood up for me without any power at all.”
Arun didn’t answer.
I didn’t know it then, but at that moment, Arun was thinking something like, “That was supposed to be my coolest moment, but some extra named Choi stole my spotlight.”
I lay back on the clouds.
“Earth is quite romantic.”
Clouds were essentially just collections of H₂O with no solid form, but for us who wielded magic, that posed no problem.
After settling into the cloud blanket, I ran my interlaced fingers through it.
Within the circular world where the clouds parted, the lights humanity had created sparkled.
‘It’s kind of like a massage bed, isn’t it?’
Anyway, this time spent with Arun was quite romantic.
But the time that followed was far from romantic.
The Professor had gone missing.
Along with the bag I had left behind.

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People from Earth seemed more goal-oriented and greedy than my memories suggested.
“I’ll do my best to persuade them.”
“If you kill them….”
“I understand. I won’t kill anyone.”
Arun made a pinky promise with me.
That he would never harm anyone under any circumstances.
I didn’t ask him specifically how he would manage it.
Arun would always present me with the right answer, as he always did.
It might sound somewhat dependent, but I trusted Arun completely.
It wasn’t because of the ‘objective fact that Arun cherished me more than his own life’.
Rather, I believed in Arun for reasons that weren’t objective at all.
Because somehow, I felt Arun could do it.
Yes, that was the reason.
Only now, quite a long time later, could I perhaps call that vague and irrational feeling ‘love’, but back then, I simply thought of it as irrational trust.
And Arun always responded faithfully to my vague belief and trust.
The Professor returned home safely, and under his active guidance, healing potions began to be actively introduced to the world.
Even now, I don’t know what method Arun used.
I’ll stop talking about my healing potion here, and instead tell you the real story of what I called my journey through Earth.

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