Li’s little sister was bursting with excitement in Li’s room.

Her voice was loud enough to spill out into the hallway.

“Big sis, this is so fun!”

Having completely fallen in love with the tabletop bowling set, Sonia beamed.

Li then brought out yet another game to capture her sister’s curiosity.

It was a board game said to have originated in Britain, one in which players flick pieces.

The board was a rectangle roughly fifty centimeters wide and thirty centimeters tall.

Low walls surrounded the edges and the center was divided by a wooden partition.

The key element was the rubber band attached at each end of the board.

Using the rubber band, players flick pieces similar to Reversi disks but slightly thicker.

The goal was simple—shoot the pieces through a hole in the center partition and send them into the opponent’s territory.

Each side began with eight pieces in their own area.

The winner was the first to transfer all their pieces into the opponent’s side.

In her previous life, Li had learned of this game and built one herself—only to realize she had no one to play with.

Forgetting that it was a competitive game had been a painful oversight.

So this time, Li decided to play with her sister.

She gave Sonia four pieces while keeping twelve for herself as a handicap.

“Ah!”

Sonia cried out when she failed to send a piece through the hole.

“Sonia, just keep shooting them across. Like this,” Li demonstrated, pulling back the rubber band with her thumbs and flicking a piece from its set position.

The disk slid smoothly through the hole in the divider and into Sonia’s territory.

“Amazing!”

Using all her fingers except her left thumb to ready the pieces, Li sent four through the hole in rapid succession.

“You’re cheating, big sis! That’s not fair!”

Li merely smiled at her sister’s protest.

“Sonia wants to try too.”

It was a heartwarming moment between sisters, but Sonia’s excited voice carried beyond the room.

Drawn by the noise, their mother and younger brother peeked in.

With more people now present, the activity remained the same.

Li introduced the games she had prepared and soon her siblings began competing.

High-pitched squeals of excitement filled the room.

“Big brother, you’re weak.”

“That’s because Sonia’s using weird techniques!”

“Big sis taught me!”

“That’s unfair! Big sis, teach me too!”

While that exchange unfolded, their mother was playing bowling with intense focus.

“Ah! The pins at both ends are still standing! Li, can I use magic for this?”

Since the bowling game involved only rolling the ball down the incline, it was impossible to apply side spin.

In other words, if it was a split, only one of the pins could realistically be knocked down.

But this was a world with magic.

It would be possible to control the ball using wind magic.

Of course, that would require precise control—directing wind only at the ball.

Too weak and it would not curve. Too strong and it would veer off.

Few in the kingdom possessed such refined magical control.

To be honest, Li had not thought that far ahead.

But she wanted everyone to enjoy the game casually.

“No magic allowed, please.”

“Li, you cheapskate!”

Grumbling, her mother carefully adjusted the angle of the incline and released the ball.

“Go!”

The ball traced a perfect line toward the edge—then slipped straight into the gutter without grazing a single pin.

“Noooo! Why?!”

It was the first time Li had ever seen her mother so flustered.

“One more time! Just one more time!”

Seeing her entire family completely engrossed in the board games, Li wore a radiant smile.

And this was not all she had created.

There were still more.

From sugoroku-style race games that both children and adults could enjoy, to balance games and even card games that could ignite fierce excitement.

When Li brought those out, everyone’s eyes gleamed.

It was a miscalculation on her part that even the household attendants would be drawn in and that a full-scale game tournament would begin.