Marked as the Tyrant's Daughter-in-Law - Chapter 25

“How about using a fruit other than Cramul?”

Ahem, as I cleared my throat and spoke clearly, all eyes focused on me.

The atmosphere became quiet as if cold water had been poured, realizing that a noble child had appeared, and I slowly took off my mask.

The servants and maids looked surprised.

“The Marquis’s daughter?”

“It’s the Crown Prince’s fiancée. Oh my.”

Quickly, the adults in the room bowed their heads to me.

‘It seems my face has become quite famous already……’

A middle-aged cook raised his head and said to me.

“I apologize, young lady, but this is a dangerous kitchen, you shouldn’t come in……”

“A fruit other than Cramul?”

At that moment, a younger cook blurted out a question to me.

“Jackson, shush!”

“But the young lady says she has a substitute fruit……”

These people were drowning, and they wanted anything that could save the situation.

“Yes. I have a substitute. Trust me.”

I said confidently with my hands on my hips, but doubt appeared on the faces of the cooks, servants, and maids.

If it were the people of Galnem village who knew about my resourcefulness that had reached a certain level, they would have trusted me without a word……

‘In their eyes, I must look like a clueless little kid?’

“I’m sure everyone will like it!”

Although it’s different from the precious cherry-shaped Cramul fruit, I knew a way to captivate the nobles’ taste buds.

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“This…… isn’t Cramul sherbet, is it?”

“What is this? It looks unusual.”

“I, I think I’ve seen this before?”

At the end of the masquerade ball, the nobles tilted their heads looking at what was in their glass.

Some frowned slightly, saying it didn’t match the formality.

But since everyone was wearing masks and they couldn’t know where the Emperor was, they dared not criticize the dessert served at the Imperial masquerade ball.

“……”

Briton also received a glass brought by a servant.

Unlike the Cramul sherbet, the pinkish sherbet in the glass was covered with something thin like snowflakes.

He picked up a spoon, scooped a bit of it, and put it in his mouth.

And a moment later.

“……!”

Briton’s eyes trembled gently.

He had tasted this before.

This ingredient melts in your mouth with a sweet and lovely taste, Arinel really liked it.

“As I thought……”

The boy’s whispered soliloquy flowed out with a deep smile.

And in the midst of the most crowded ladies in the ballroom,

“……Mmm!”

Lady Alens, who was the center of everyone’s attention, also expressed her happiness after tasting a spoonful of the snowflake beetroot sherbet.

‘It’s Arinel’s handiwork!’

To think we’d get to eat such a precious sherbet at a masquerade ball. Satisfaction welled up.

‘You decided on today, Arinel?’

Lady Alens’s cheeks flushed with satisfaction.

“Everyone, please eat, it’s amazing! Ho ho ho!”

At Lady Alens’s seemingly high praise, other noble ladies slowly picked up their spoons.

And they started to eat it one spoonful at a time.

“This was served at Lady Alens’s social gatherings too, wasn’t it……?”

“……It’s delicious! This is my first time trying it!”

“Oh my, could this dessert be the one Lady Alens was talking about?!”

The ladies expressed their impressions excitedly while eating the sherbet.

The taste is slightly different from Cramul, but somehow you can’t stop the spoon, this refreshing yet sophisticated sweetness that makes you keep eating, what is it?

“Oh, such a brilliant taste!”

“Oh my! Indeed!”

The cooks and servants stood there with bewildered faces.

They had just thought she was a naive young noble lady, and they had taken a gamble just in case, but the result was incredible!

“What exactly is this sherbet?”

“Lady Alens. Please tell us!”

“What is this perfect ingredient?!”

Lady Alens didn’t reveal the name of the dessert and only fueled their curiosity, and now that this dessert was served even at the Imperial masquerade ball, the ladies were going crazy with curiosity.

Some ladies were determined to sell all the jewels they currently owned to buy lots of this dessert.

“The person who made this dessert today isn’t me. It’s my disciple,”

People’s eyes slowly turned towards Arinel.

“Miss Arinel Mylar.”

Receiving their gazes, Arinel was calmly holding a small glass and eating the red beetroot sherbet.

“?”

“Gasp!”

At this unexpected name, people were surprised and opened their eyes wide.

This fantastical dessert with such a sophisticated taste was made by a young child who had just come up from the countryside.

“Is that true?”

“Yes, it is.”

Some nobles, unable to believe it, even asked the cooks standing nearby again.

Seeing their enthusiastic reactions, Arinel could guess.

It was a sign of a big business success.

Arinel, who was receiving people’s gazes, smiled brightly and began to speak.

“Actually, the identity of this dessert is……”

An incredible silence began to envelop the ballroom as people waited to hear Arinel’s words.

How expensive and precious must the ingredient be to produce such a sweet taste?

And the Minister of Internal Affairs, Lady Alens, had been keeping it a secret and not revealing it.

A few seconds later, Arinel opened her mouth.

“It’s red beetroot.”

Arinel’s clear voice rang out.

But even ten seconds after her words ended, no one reacted.

After a long while, the nobles began to whisper with bewildered expressions.

“What…… beet?”

“Isn’t beetroot something that livestock eat?”

“It’s bitter and astringent, not worth cultivating in the territory……”

“No way. It must be a joke.”

In fact, even this reaction was within the expected range.

This is usually the perception of beetroot. Thinking it’s a worthless ingredient, they never even tried to properly prepare it.

If Arinel had grown up in a noble family with abundant food from the beginning, she wouldn’t have even looked at beetroot.

Arinel smiled and added.

“If you want to know whether it’s true or not, you can ask the people who made the sherbet.”

At this, the suddenly quiet people shifted their gaze to the cooks who were present.

The cooks looked at Arinel and nodded with bewildered expressions.

“Is it really true……?!”

“……!!”

“What did you say?”

People’s eyes widened.

And seizing this opportunity, Lady Alens stepped in to solidify the ground after the rain.

“They say that the finest food depends on the skill and ability of the maker. When I first tasted the dessert Arinel made, I was incredibly shocked.”

She continued as if praising Arinel.

“The nobility that envelops the tongue, a dessert more aristocratic and perfect than this in the history of Albreon…… Oh….. is hard to find.”

Red beetroot. A common and cheap ingredient.

But as Lady Alens expressed, the sherbet Arinel made had a taste as luxurious as Cramul.

The special processing and blending method of beetroot was Arinel’s unique technique, something no chef had ever tried before.

“Isn’t it like finding a pearl in the mud?”

The nobles couldn’t deny it, and they didn’t dare to contradict Lady Alens’s words.

“Let’s toast to celebrate this great discovery.”

As Lady Alens raised her glass as if toasting and drank the remaining sherbet-like juice, other nobles followed her.

It was the moment when a new trend began in Albreon’s social world.

“Those who are curious about Miss Arinel Mylar’s special recipe, ho ho ho, would do well to pay attention to her future moves.”

A star of the social world that appeared like a comet!

Noble ladies and young ladies began to look at Arinel with admiring eyes.

This heightened expectation will create a good demand base.

‘Oh yes. Success!’

Arinel and Lady Alens exchanged bright smiles.