Serena and the Mysterious Labyrinth - Chapter 305

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305. The Labyrinth Flowing with Milk and Honey

In the lobby, people who had already heard from Hana about the trees bearing cheese and butter and flowing with milk were preparing for a party and waiting for it.

“Trees bearing cheese and butter! If not for this curse, I would have confirmed it with my own two eyes!”

Prince Willow genuinely regretted it as he tasted the cheese and butter the party had brought.

In fact, the quality of the cheese and butter from the milk tree was ordinary, yet Prince Willow closed his eyes tightly and savored the cheese.

“And butter too! Now we have new ingredients besides oil!”

All the oil used in the lobby until now had been oil magically generated by Prince Willow.

They processed this oil by soaking fragrant vegetables or fruits in it to prevent the oil from disappearing and used it that way.

Prince Willow greatly disliked the magically generated oil.

First, it tasted bad, and since it was originally magic created for attack purposes, it caught fire dangerously well.

When just a few drops of oil splattered and created a threatening fire show, one naturally became tense when using the oil.

So Prince Willow studied magic, which he hadn’t done before, to change the oil produced by his oil generation magic.

What’s this about studying magic all of a sudden, just for meal preparation!

Thanks to his diligent study while listening to Grey’s scolding, Prince Willow’s oil generation magic skills improved dramatically.

However, the quality of the magically generated oil didn’t change.

‘Olive oil, flaxseed oil, grape seed oil, canola oil, sesame oil, perilla oil, oil oil oil! There are so many different oils in the world, so why do I only generate this unidentifiable tasteless oil! Why on earth!’

Anyone else would have said where else could you find something edible.

But Prince Willow, as a prince of the Empire which was the continent’s dominant nation, had been raised with the education that he should move to obtain more rather than be satisfied with what was given.

Before such a prince, butter and cheese appeared. Prince Willow raised both arms high and let out a cheer.

“Miss Lavenda! Please bring out the Minotaur meat!”

“Yes!”

Lavenda also actively agreed with using the precious Minotaur meat they had saved.

‘Tonight’s dinner will be steak.’

Serena’s mouth watered in advance. Prince Willow also made a request to Serena.

“Your Highness Serena. I would like to use the alcohol-making medicine.”

The mysterious medicine that could turn plain water into sweet wine with just one drop. The prince requested permission to use that medicine, which was stored in the subspace stone box because Serena had prohibited drinking.

Before Serena could react, Olive, who had been nibbling on the cheese they brought, snapped her fingers.

“Wow. Prince knows good taste. As expected of a learned high-born person. Cheese is the best drinking snack.”

She agreed with having a party, but should they serve alcohol again? While Serena pondered internally, Prince Willow waved his hand.

“Not for drinking, but because I need it as a cooking ingredient.”

“Aw, Prince doesn’t know taste.”

The guide was so disappointed that she disparaged the prince.

“Cheese is surprisingly delicious with tea too.”

Grey found cheese that went well with the tea currently available in the lobby and recommended it to Olive. Perhaps because it was a recommendation from a fellow alcohol-loving old man, Olive accepted the unfamiliar combination without resistance.

“This isn’t bad either~ but it’s more delicious with alcohol~”

“We already have alcohol, so it would be nice if we discovered tea trees next time.”

“Tea is originally tree leaves anyway.”

“Without needing to pick leaves, dry them, and roast them, completed tea of various types would be hanging there.”

‘Rather than that, it would be faster to have a vending machine selling tea.’

Serena watched the vending machine, which had been active the first few times but lately had boring products.

‘The products seem poor lately.’

From the vending machine’s perspective, which had sold rice and barley to receive Prince Willow’s embrace, sold fragrant oil good for skin massage to make Lavenda smile, sold bolts and arrows to make Ying and Low purchase every time they were sold, and sold finished daggers to make Hana open her wallet, this was an unfair judgment.

But originally, people treat items they’re not interested in as if they don’t exist. From Serena’s perspective, the vending machine was a facility that wasn’t doing its job.

‘If it’s a vending machine, it should act like one and sell coffee or something.’

She was prepared to purchase reasonably if it sold cool carbonated drinks or coffee, so why wasn’t it selling them?

“This should be enough. Thank you, Mark.”

Prince Willow’s words of gratitude broke Serena’s reverie. The prince, who had asked the alchemist to adjust the alcohol content appropriate for cooking, began cooking in earnest. Lavenda helped.

Others tried to help, but were told to rest.

Of course, few people actually rested. Count Randy examined Sesi, and Grey discussed the perfect conquest of the 5th floor with Serena and Low.

“Is the current 2nd team’s strength sufficient?”

“Yes, Princess. We can manage without a teleportation room. If really dangerous enemies appear, we can use magic stones.”

Low pointed to the well-maintained magic crossbow. Magic stones were precious, but not more precious than life.

“Even without Sister Sesi?”

“Yes. However, if Sesi joins, we can pass through the 3rd layer faster, so we can save some time.”

Hearing the positive outlook, the princess and the old man nodded satisfactorily.

“Then the 2nd group conquest team’s next goal will be the perfect conquest of the 5th floor.”

“Leave it to us!”

The unshy hunter was a reliable deep labyrinth adventurer.

While some people had such serious conversations, there were also those who thought resting diligently was also work and rested earnestly.

“Huff, whoo. Huff, whoo.”

Count Alpha was diligently training his muscles in the gym using the exercise equipment that the Princess of Heuji had received from the Minotaur God.

Was this really rest? His head was resting, so it was fine. When seriously exercising like this, Count Alpha’s mind became peaceful.

Unlike Count Alpha, who emptied his head and focused on muscle training, Ralph was in a state where he couldn’t escape from the taste of the few pieces of cheese he had eaten.

‘Cheese on potatoes or bread would be delicious too. Since we have jerky, we could make jerky cheese sandwiches. Cheese fondue is also delicious.’

Living in the labyrinth with a fixed diet during his growing years when he should be eating well was quite difficult. Ralph’s head was filled with dishes he could make with the new ingredients.

‘There’s plenty of cheese like honey, so it should be okay to eat a lot, right?’

A revelation came to the young knight’s head as he pondered combinations he could eat to his heart’s content without considering others in the labyrinth with limited ingredients.

‘Plenty of cheese, butter, and honey? This is!’

Ralph carefully put down the dumbbell and said to Count Alpha.

“I think I need to go to the lobby!”

“Huff, whoo. I’ll come in after completing just 10 more reps.”

Since independent action was prohibited in the labyrinth, Ralph resumed strength training beside him. The young knight who returned to the lobby after completing 10 reps gathered butter, honey, and cheese together.

“What are you doing? Why are you mixing that?”

“It’s incredibly delicious when eaten together like this!”

Ralph offered the honey butter cheese combination to the Number Siblings, whose diet had been poor from wandering around.

“Mixing and stirring precious honey with butter and cheese. That’s strange. It seems ruined.”

Honey was just what they had sucked from flowers they picked while wandering.

What were butter and cheese? To the Number Siblings, who would have been grateful if they could eat their fill even with dried, twisted bread, the lump of mixed butter, cheese, and honey looked like trash that ruined precious ingredients.

“Cough. You shouldn’t play with food!”

“Yeah!”

“It’s not playing. It’s really delicious. It’s delicious eaten plain, delicious spread on bread grilled with butter, and delicious on potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes.”

“If mixing delicious things with delicious things made them more delicious, where would chefs be in the world? It’s delicious?”

Olive took a small bite of the honey butter cheese and opened her round eyes even rounder.

Perhaps because of the guide’s history of acting arrogant as a life senior and constantly trying to deceive them, the Number Siblings didn’t readily believe.

The Number Siblings came to believe Ralph and Olive’s words thanks to Philia.

Heuji Jeolmi, who had captured the Number Siblings’ hearts with beauty alone, immediately picked white bread from the bread tree and warmed it by the campfire when she saw Ralph mixing honey, butter, and cheese.

“Lady Serena, you like this.”

Philia quickly removed and discarded the burnt parts, generously topped the good bread with honey butter cheese, and offered it to Serena.

The butter and honey melted from the warmth of the heated bread and soaked into it. Duri sniffed at the sweet and savory smell spreading around as it melted.

Serena cut the bread into bite-sized pieces and put them in her mouth. The butter, cheese, honey, and bread harmonized in her mouth, presenting Serena with a sinful taste.

‘In my previous life, this would have been truly a sinful taste. Now I move around a lot, so is it okay?’

When she first purchased the bread tree in the labyrinth, the happiness that carbohydrates had brought returned. It was so delicious that Serena furrowed her brow and bit the bread.

“Show others the taste too. Since the prince is diligently preparing the meal, it would be perfect as a one-bite snack.”

The Number Siblings who tasted the honey butter cheese on bread were shocked.

“Wow! It’s really delicious!”

“I could eat this all day!”

“Cough. Is it okay to eat something this delicious?”

They were so shocked that they were as surprised as when they first saw Philia.

“Woong? Wooong? Woooooong!”

Duri especially seemed to love the taste, shedding tears like chicken droppings. Duri cried pitifully looking at the honey butter cheese bread that had disappeared in an instant.

Ralph, unable to bear watching Duri cry sadly like a baby bear looking for its mother, held out a bowl containing honey butter cheese.

“Please have a little more!”

Bears don’t know what modesty is. Duri grabbed the bowl and buried her face in it, licking up the sauce. Even after that, as if the amount still wasn’t satisfying, she cried pitifully again.

“Grroooowl. Grroooowl.”

“Sister Duri says she wants to eat more! I want to eat more too!”

“Oh, there’s no butter or cheese left now. We need to bring more from the 5th Floor.”

“It’s close to the Teleportation Room, so we can go and come back quickly.”

Among the sounds of beasts crying, the sound of crying from hunger especially tugs at people’s heartstrings. Just as Serena was about to go to the 5th Floor in response to the bear’s hungry wailing, Grey shouted sternly.

“No!”

Grey made the Princess, who had fallen off her chair, sit back on the chair, then waved his staff at Duri and scolded her.

“Brother Duri can transform into a bear, but you’re not a real bear! How long are you going to act spoiled like you’re a bear! Real bears are actually smarter than Brother Duri!”

“Grrowl.”

“It’s no use going ‘grrowl’ or ‘whine’! Sister Sesi is also trying to fix her habit of getting startled, so Brother Duri should fix what needs fixing too! You can eat a lot like a bear, but that doesn’t mean you have to eat that much! If you’re strong like a bear and the second among siblings, you should know how to consider your younger sibling and the weak!”

Listening to it, everything he said was right. This time it wasn’t even harsh words, so Serena felt slightly repentant.

‘I was too lenient with Duri.’

But what could she do? When she looked into those black, shiny eyes of that giant black bear, her heart naturally became generous.

‘I wanted to raise an animal.’

Whether it was dogs, cats, or mysterious animals from the fantasy world, Serena had wanted to raise animals.

When she actually got to raise a dog for the first time in both her past and present life, she was happy as if she owned the whole world.

‘…Chorrong.’

Chorrong died after eating the drugs that Crown Prince Kipan had dropped.

The Crown Prince consoled the sobbing Serena by saying he would give her a new puppy as a gift, but Serena realized that her damn household wasn’t an environment suitable for raising animals and refused.

‘I also got plenty of curses and insults for stopping Seraph from wanting to raise animals.’

Of course, as Seraph grew older, he realized what kind of family he had and stopped pestering about it.

Thus, the only animals the Pakling siblings could touch were the horses raised in the stable.

‘But now there’s a pretty, well-behaved bear! I want to love it, I want to pet it!’

Making excuses with her unfortunate past ends here.

As the Old Man said, Duri wasn’t a bear but a person who could transform into a bear. Serena suppressed her desire to pet Duri’s round head.

“Grey is right about that. Duri, you should also gradually learn patience.”

“Kyung.”

The one who was as big as a bear whimpered quietly like a small dog. But she didn’t cry anymore and lifted her head with dignity.

“Woong!”

“She says she’ll try to endure it!”

Duri licked her lips with a determined look in her eyes.

Even without feeding her mugwort and garlic, reason and intelligence were dwelling in the bear when Prince Willow’s magnificent voice rang out.

“Time for dinner!”

“Woong!”

A delicious smell wafted over. The reason and intelligence that had been dwelling in Duri disappeared.

“Woong!”

“She says she’ll just eat and then endure!”

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