Although Li had received a small shock at the Academy, the application for the Rosenkreuz of the Rose Maiden Cross was completed without issue.

She had even received the male instructor’s assurance that “it will likely be approved immediately.”

And so, after all that, a day off arrived.

Li wanted a bit of a change of pace.

However, firing off magic at the Training Grounds would only repeat last time’s disaster.

It was true that she had discussed magic with the Headmaster afterward and gained new insights.

Still, she had not yet perfected the detuning of her spells enough to fire them freely.

So what Li chose for relaxation was what one might call a board game.

When she was young, video games had already existed.

But in her hardship-filled previous life, she had never really had any connection to them.

Even so, Li had loved board games.

They allowed her to think for herself and many could be played with nothing more than paper and pen.

She remembered crafting homemade dice and rolling them by herself.

The memory nearly brought a tear to her eye.

And so—

Li had been in her room, diligently creating games using alchemical synthesis magic.

Some were games she had been familiar with in her previous life and others were ones she had always wanted to try.

She arranged them so they would be easy to enjoy in this world as well.

Her younger siblings were still quite small.

Her little sister, in particular, was still of preschool age.

So she prepared simple games that even someone her age could enjoy.

She also made a few for adults.

“Big sis, what are you doing?”

Just as Li finished making one of the games, her little sister appeared at the perfect timing.

In her arms, she carried a stuffed toy resembling Chrysoberyl.

It was something Li had recently given her as a gift.

“Sonia, come here.”

At Li’s beckoning, her sister toddled over.

She plopped down onto Li’s lap.

Holding the small body close, Li invited her to play.

“Shall we play a game?”

“A game?”

“It means playtime.”

At the word play, her sister’s eyes sparkled.

Li took out one of the games she had just made.

“Sonia, this is how you play.”

What Li brought out was a tabletop-sized bowling set.

The wooden bowling lane and the beautifully crafted miniature pins were remarkable in detail.

There were guard rails so the pins would not scatter too far when struck.

Naturally, gutters were carved along both sides of the lane.

Li paid attention to such fine details.

She had even created a wooden perfect sphere ball using the full extent of her abilities.

There was also a sloped platform to release the ball, adjustable to various angles.

It was quite the elaborate tabletop bowling set.

Incidentally, Li discovered that even with her abilities, she could not create a mathematically perfect sphere.

The contact area with a flat surface never became truly zero.

Even so, the precision was exceptionally high.

She arranged the pins in a pyramid formation and set the ball in place.

Then she gave Sonia a simple explanation of the rules.

“You roll this ball and knock down the pins. Can you do it?”

“I can!”

Sonia rolled the ball and it struck the pins beautifully.

However, four out of the ten remained standing.

“Kyaa!”

Her sister squealed in excitement, an utterly charming sight.

“Sonia, knock down the rest on the next turn.”

Li removed the fallen pins and gave her a second attempt.

Fortunately, it was not a split.

Three pins were clustered together on the right end.

“Big sis, here I go!”

Sonia adjusted the slope and rolled the ball.

But she aimed too precisely.

The ball slid into the gutter.

“Nooo! Don’t go that way!”

Seeing her little sister so serious about the game, Li smiled in satisfaction.