Chapter 628 – A. A ? ─ The Princess and Ceres Are on a Date.
“Young lady? What are you doing at this late hour…”
“It’s a place that any student of Niflheim can use, right? Regardless of time.”
Ceres arrived at a certain building with her princess.
‘This architectural style is definitely… I feel like I’ve seen it somewhere before… Where did I see it before? It’s definitely somewhere in my memory…?’
The princess couldn’t help but scratch her cheek as she saw the rectangular piece of wood suddenly rising. She had such a strange appearance that it was etched in my mind, but I couldn’t remember when, where, or for what reason I saw her.
“I’d like to ask you to watch a movie like this. Is that okay?”
“Yes… I understand. But, Lady? Who is next to you?”
“We are friends.”
The woman in black trousers and jacket with Ceres’ wonderful smile said, “Oh my,” Covered her hand in surprise, and glanced at her princess.
“Young lady has a friend…”
“Mary? Don’t say anything that might be misunderstood if someone hears it. Please play the movie I mentioned earlier. I will do everything else.”
“Yes, yes! I’ll tell you when I’m ready. Have fun with your friend.”
The woman with a slight wrinkle around her mouth smiled brightly, bowed her waist, opened the heavy-looking door, and went inside.
“Who is the woman just now? Is she your servant?”
“You really… Better not open your mouth in front of other people.”
“W-What are you saying all of a sudden?!”
Ceres shrugged her shoulders without giving her reason, then nudged the princess’s waist and pointed with her finger not at her door but somewhere else entirely.
“Did I tell you that movies are to be enjoyed similarly to opera?”
“Yes, didn’t you tell me that it was such a cultural life? Then shouldn’t you go and sit down?”
The princess smiles.
“It looks like this place is an educational institution similar to the Imperial Academy, right? Then I don’t think there will be any luxurious seats based on status like the seats for the royal family. Haha! I don’t care about such things, so please guide me comfortably!”
“If someone really doesn’t care, they won’t say that, right?”
After snorting at her, Ceres motioned for the princess to follow her and headed to the place where her long table was laid out.
“You can’t miss popcorn while watching a movie. If you want to eat other snacks, it’s okay.”
“Popcorn…?”
The princess had a strange expression because it was the first food she had heard of.
“You don’t know about popcorn, right? It’s a snack made from corn, right? Corn is definitely growing on the ground, right?”
“Oh, isn’t corn a plant that livestock like pigs and cows eat? I’ve heard of stories about poor people scraping out the kernels and making soup with them?”
“Oh… No. Even people can eat corn normally.”
Ceres looked dumbfounded and took a large container and shoved her hand into the square box in front of her.
“This is a machine that makes popcorn.”
“Where is this from?”
─Pong! Popopong! Pong!!
Pure white popcorn popped out of a small pot-like container with a fragrant smell.
The princess looked surprised.
“Is this a magic tool for making food?”
“It’s not a magic tool, it’s a machine that pops popcorn?”
“But the machine is Ceres. Isn’t it bigger than my body and your body combined?”
It was a princess who thought of a mechanical device that spewed out pure white smoke in Colonia.
“That can’t be possible. This is also a machine. It uses electricity… No, it would have been better to explain to you, a person on earth, that it is a magic tool from the beginning…”
Ceres muttered and placed her bucket full of popcorn in the princess’s hands.
“Try it.”
“Sniff… Sniff… It sure smells perfect… But is it made from corn?”
“Yes, it’s made from corn. The original taste is just savory and salty, so it’ll suit your taste buds.”
The princess blinks her eyes and then puts her face directly into the bucket holding her popcorn.
“Venus! What are you doing?! Popcorn is a snack you eat with your hands!”
“Well… If that’s the case, say it from the beginning!!!”
The princess, her face red, quickly grabbed her popcorn.
‘I can feel the strange warmth of this pure white guy… Well, the crops that livestock eat… No, but they are also boiled into soup and eaten…’
Although she was a strangely reluctant princess, she swallowed her saliva and carefully stuffed her popcorn into her mouth.
“Hmm…?! This… Ho… Just like it looks… It disappears in your mouth in an instant like snow in the middle of winter…”
With the salty taste stimulating her tongue, the princess quickly stuffed the popcorn into her mouth with her fingers, one by one.
The princess made a happy chewing sound and nodded.
“I understand why you said it was a snack… Haha! There is such a delicious way to eat corn, but you said it was food for livestock and all…”
“Well… There would be a normal way to grind it and use cornmeal…”
Ceres looked at the princess with a subtle smile and shook her head from side to side.
“I’ll have a coke too… Oh, I don’t know, of course.”
Ceres snorts at her and takes an elongated cup into a huge black box.
─Chrrrruk
“Oh… Oh…?”
The shape of the drink pouring out reminded me of a dispenser commonly seen at parties, but in the end, the appearance was subtly different.
“What is this… Black water? It looks like sediment.”
“Ha… Is this the difference between our perspective and that of people on earth… I was the only one who didn’t feel it when I was living on earth…”
Ceres twitched the corner of his mouth, poured a drink into his own cup, and drank it with his mouth normally.
“Drink it. Oh, don’t drink it too hastily?”
“What on earth… Um… Gulp…”
The princess drank cola softly and blinked her eyes.
“Hmm…? What does black water taste like…”
The surprised princess drinks her cola again? It was a natural reaction.
Beer has its own color. Wine has the color of wine. All tones in this world are imbued with colors that allow us to imagine the material.
Therefore, she thought that the princess would taste like ‘grapes’ at best.
“Similar to carbonated water… But incredibly sweet… Oh…”
While the princess was admiring, the woman who had opened her iron door earlier peeked out her face.
“Okay, I’m ready to watch a movie, so let’s go inside.”
Ceres gestured for the princess to follow her, opened her leather-padded door, and went inside.
“Hoo… What are these seats… Aren’t they incredibly debauched…”
“Is Her Majesty the Princess watching the opera from two seats saying that?”
“Don’t 20 people, including the general audience, see the opera?!”
Although the princess was shocked, she stared at the huge, pure white cloth in front of her.
‘The curtains look really strange…’
With such trivial thoughts in mind, the princess looked ahead when she saw Ceres sitting on a seat with a strange sense of distance from the pure white cloth.
“Isn’t the best seat in the front?”
“This is the best seat. Just trust me and sit down.”
“If you say so…”
The princess sat down in her chair. Ceres immediately waved her finger, and her chair instantly transformed into something closer to a bed.
“Ho… It’s so luxurious, there’s no match…”
“What, don’t royal family members watch the opera while lying down?”
“Are you crazy?! Do you need to lie down to watch the performance?!”
Ceres laughed while looking at the bewildered princess.
A bucket of popcorn was naturally placed between the two, and Ceres, taking off her black heels, comfortably placed her legs on the bed.
─Click
“Eh… Huh? Ceres? Hasn’t the fire gone out?”
“That’s the way it is. Opera is also… Ah, it’s different because it’s not a musical.”
Ceres smiled and held the hand of the princess who was looking around the dark space.
─Pow!
A light suddenly came on in the pure white tent.
‘Woah, is this illusion magic…? A movie is quite… A lot of work…’
Just as I was about to think that, various people began to appear in the white tent, accompanied by loud music from the left and right.
“Uh… Uhm…?”
The princess could not help but be confused.
I can hear a rather sweet song, but the orchestra playing it is nowhere to be seen.
The pure white tent was projecting images that were so colorful, accurate, and beautifully colored that you even forgot that there was a tent.
How on earth can a wizard of such great skill serve for this kind of ‘play’?
“It’s okay to waste magic like this…”
“Shh, don’t worry, let’s watch a movie. Eat some popcorn. You understand, right?”
Ceres smiled and took the princess’s hand to the popcorn container.
What on earth did that mean? I wanted to say something like that, but the princess was able to immediately understand the flow of the image in front of her.
‘Is this a play? It’s not an opera, but it doesn’t involve singing… But, there’s something… Really strange, isn’t it?’
Don’t you see a beautiful palace, a woman in a fancy dress and a female knight in fancy clothes talking…
Yonghwa was a truly unfamiliar cultural life, combining the theater and opera that the princess knew in a very lively way.
Fortunately, the princess was able to fall in love with this fun activity right away.
“Hoo… This… Wow, this is amazing magic… How were the actors… Not in the forest until just now?”
“Are you sure… No, this isn’t a video call or anything?”
“Woman, what is a video call…?”
Ceres was trying to explain something and shoved her sweet popcorn into the princess’s mouth.
The movie was enjoyable and entertaining from beginning to end.
It was a very typical story about a woman who became a princess’s knight to avenge her mother, and the woman and the princess fall in love and escape from the bondage of revenge.
“Now, wait a minute… Isn’t this too explicit…?”
“You’re kissing, right? Ah… I took off all my clothes. Still, it’s a bad scene like this…”
“Oh, no, no matter what, more than 20 people could see it…”
The princess belatedly covered her face with her left hand and took a quick glance at the embarrassing scene happening in front of her.
Ceres laughed because it was strangely cute.
There was an unexpected twist in the movie, but it ended surprisingly normally and interestingly.
─Pow!
The moment the dark place becomes bright again, the princess realizes that the movie is ‘over.’
“Hey! This thing called a movie is really amazing!!? Where on earth do the songs come from?! Is it possible to have actors act like this for hours without a break?!”
“It’s not what Venus thinks. Look… The actors don’t even come off the stage, do they?”
“Then what on earth… It was a truly amazing experience…”
The princess, smiling brightly, smiles without realizing it and continues her story.
“Well, by the way! Wasn’t Ceres also surprised in the middle of it? To think that the princess and the knight turned out to be her half-sisters… Is this okay?”
“It doesn’t matter, right? The fun of movies like this is that you can overcome even those differences and fall in love.”
“Is that so… The scripts here seem to be quite liberal. Apparently, many of the plays and operas produced in Holympia praise the greatness of Abama and the greatness of the empire.”
“That doesn’t sound like much fun, but you seem to be surprisingly interested in it?”
“If you don’t see it, you can’t even pretend to know it in conversations with nobles…”
The princess took a gulp of her cola and nodded.
“I have no idea how it was made or how it was shown to me, but I liked this movie.”
“How dare we, our princess, never see this on earth.”
“Wouldn’t it be nice if I could have met you now? The story was pretty good too. Hehe.”
Ceres smiled at the happy laughter he heard. Then she lowers her eyes slightly and looks at her crotch for a moment.
‘… Bad scene… This is really the first time I’ve seen it… If you were wearing something like that, you must have led a promiscuous life…’
Ceres swallowed his saliva with a gulp and touched the side of his head in embarrassment.
‘What are you thinking…’
Scolding herself internally, Ceres reached out her hand to drink her cola.
─Tap! Rumbling!
“Ah… I’m crazy…”
Ceres made his mistake. His coke was on the right, but while talking with the princess, he unconsciously placed his hand on the cola on the left.
Of course it was the princess’s cola. In order to share her story with Ceres, the princess simply turned her body and placed her cola next to the popcorn container.
She accidentally knocked it over with her hand, and the princess’s platinum dress instantly turned the color of cola.
“Ah… Really… Where do I put my mind…”
In embarrassment, Ceres takes out her handkerchief from her arms and wipes the princess’s thighs and groin.
“First..? I’ll get rid of the moisture. Let’s take it off as soon as we get home. Don’t think about staining it… That’s good. Let’s take it off and take a shower.”
Ceres just said that to deal with an accident that had occurred.
“Do you mean, let’s take a shower together…?”
The princess, completely misunderstanding her, asked back, and Ceres’ face turned red for a moment, and she swallowed her saliva.
“Well, since you’re from the earth… Sha, you don’t know how to use a shower or something? Oh, I’ll teach you…”
