Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 367

Dave, a black pig, stepped onto the dusty ground of the Black Farm. The farm was eerily silent, devoid of any signs of life. The buildings stood empty, their windows like vacant eyes staring out into the desolate landscape. A sense of unease hung in the air, thick and heavy.

Dave looked around the place where the weasels usually lived, but they were gone. “Hmm,” Dave thought. “Could the rumor be true? That Yuren took money from ‘Tolt and the Kids’ and made them slaves?” It sounded crazy, but seeing the empty farm, Dave started to worry it might be real.

Yuren came from a family that was incredibly rich. They had so much money, they used a special currency called Topcoins. But Yuren was too kind and trusting. He often lent money to people and got tricked. He lost so much money, over one trillion Topcoins!

The older family members were worried. They went to Yuren’s father, Yuto, and complained. They wanted to make Yuto look bad so they could take his position as head of the family. But Yuto also worried about Yuren. He knew Yuren needed to learn to be more careful.

Yuto, as the head of the Damon family, announced, “Yuren, you are not to come home until you get back all the money you lost!” He pretended to agree with the elders, but really, he had his own plan. He sent Yuren away with nothing but the clothes he was wearing.

Yuto hoped that if Yuren had a hard time, he would learn to be more careful with money. He didn’t really think Yuren could get back all one trillion Topcoins. Yuto planned to let Yuren come home when he got back about 100 billion Topcoins. He would pretend to give in to the elders. Yuto was even ready to secretly help Yuren if needed. But then, something unexpected happened.

Yuren suddenly gained a magical ability: the Hand of Midas. Anything he ate turned into gold! This meant Yuren could make a lot of gold. But instead of making him smarter, it made him even more gullible. Because he had so much gold, he was even easier to trick! He lent out and got scammed out of even more money than before.

His father, Yuto, wanted to help, but Yuren was being tricked so quickly, it was impossible to keep up. It seemed like bad luck followed Yuren everywhere.

Ten years passed since Yuren was sent away. Now, to go home, Yuren had to get back 50 trillion Topcoins. His father, Yuto, had said he could return as a ‘master merchant’ – even though it was a lie. Every time Yuto heard that Yuren had been tricked again, he felt terrible and became sick with worry.

So, Yuto’s wife, Hamie, secretly hired Dave, a tracker. She wanted to know how Yuren was doing without Yuto finding out. “Finally,” Dave thought, “the young master is getting his money back! Hamie will be so happy to hear this news.” Dave, the black pig, rushed off to find Hamie.

Meanwhile, as Dave hurried to tell Hamie the good news, Yuren was falling for another trick. “I buried one ton of gold!” Yuren exclaimed, feeling proud. He had just buried the gold under a jujube tree, just like the gray skunk, Chiron, had told him.

Chiron smiled slyly. “Excellent,” Chiron said. “But gold only grows when the tree is alone. We should leave now and come back tomorrow morning. I’ll just trim these branches so the gold grows better.”

Of course, Chiron was planning to steal the gold as soon as Yuren left. Yuren, completely fooled, said, “Okay! Theo, let’s go! We’ll come back tomorrow!”

Just then, a voice called out, “Pfft! That’s far enough, nyaa!” *Thud.* Theo, a small creature who often made ‘pfft’ and ‘nyaa’ sounds, landed from the jujube tree. He had been watching from above and knew Yuren was being tricked again. He landed gracefully.

*Beep! Thud.* Bbyot, another small creature, landed next to Theo, trying to copy his pose.

“Pfft! Yuren,” Theo said confidently, pointing to the buried gold, “half of that gold is mine, nyaa!” Theo thought he deserved half the gold as a commission for saving Yuren from the scam.

“Huh? Why?” Yuren asked, looking confused.

“Pfft! Because you were tricked again, Yuren, nyaa!” Theo said. “Half of the gold is my commission for saving you, nyaa!”

“But… it’s not a trick…” Yuren started to say.

*Slap!* Theo quickly tapped Yuren on the cheek – not to hurt him, but to get his attention.

“Wake up, nyaa! This is a jujube tree! Gold doesn’t grow on trees, nyaa!” Theo shouted.

“Ah…” Yuren said slowly, “that’s right! Gold on a jujube tree… was I tricked?” He still wasn’t completely sure.

“Pfft! Yes, you were tricked, nyaa!” Theo confirmed.

“Tsk! Unlucky! I almost got away with it!” Chiron muttered. Seeing Theo, who was ruining his scam, Chiron ran as fast as he could. He was a skilled runner and quickly moved away.

“Pfft! You can’t escape me, Chiron, nyaa! Not from Vice President Theo!” Theo declared. “Bbyot, let’s go, nyaa!” In a flash, Theo disappeared. The next moment, he reappeared right in front of Chiron.

“Pfft! I caught you, nyaa!” Theo said, grabbing Chiron by the neck. This was Theo’s special fast-moving skill, called ‘Nyaanbo’.

“Eek!” Chiron cried. Desperate to escape, he used his last trick. *Poooof!* A cloud of brown, smelly gas shot out from Chiron’s rear.

‘Heh heh heh,’ Chiron thought, smiling, ‘no one can stand this smell!’

But ‘Pfft,’ Theo said calmly, even though Chiron’s smelly gas was right in his face. He didn’t even flinch.

“H-how?!” Chiron stammered, shocked that his trick didn’t work. “Is my smell not strong enough?” Just then, *Beeeeeep!!!!* Bbyot, who was behind Theo, coughed loudly and quickly backed away, waving his hands in front of his face. Chiron knew his smell was definitely strong!

‘This guy must have no sense of smell!’ Chiron thought. ‘Bad luck! To be caught by someone who can’t smell!’

“Pfft! This little fart is nothing compared to Chairman Park’s poop smell, nyaa!” Theo scolded Chiron, as if Chiron’s smell was just a tiny annoyance. Theo had spent a lot of time with Sejun, and Sejun’s smells were much, much worse. This little fart was nothing to him.

“What?!” Chiron exclaimed. “A smell worse than *my* fart?!” He was very proud of his smelly farts and couldn’t believe it.

“Nyaa!” Theo cried out. He raised his front paws to the sky. Suddenly, a swirling wind, like a small tornado, appeared around Theo. It whooshed away the smelly gas, making it disappear into the sky.

“Bbyot!”

“[Theo, here you are!]” Bbyot called out, flying over as the smell vanished. He handed Theo a contract. ‘Pfft. Stamp it, nyaa!’ Theo said. He firmly pressed Chiron’s foot onto the contract, capturing the scammer.

“Pfft. Chairman Park is amazing, nyaa!” Theo said, praising Chairman Park. Because Theo had been able to handle Chiron’s smell thanks to dealing with Sejun’s smells, he had easily caught Chiron. Sejun had unknowingly helped Theo win. But Sejun would probably be happier not knowing how he had helped.

“Pfft. Yuren,” Theo said, “this time, my commission is 0.5 tons of gold and 150 billion Topcoins, nyaa!”

“Yes, yes!” Yuren said quickly. He took out the money and paid Theo, already forgetting about being tricked. He was just happy to have his gold back. Meanwhile, Dave, the black pig, was hurrying to find Hamie, excited to tell her the good news about Yuren.

“Who’s next?! Lead the way!”

Theo, very happy with the money and excited, urged Yuren on.

“Yes!”

Because Theo encouraged him, Yuren took the lead and started walking.

Originally, Yuren’s next stop was the 31st floor of the tower.

He had planned to catch the man who tricked him into buying a stone for 50 billion Tower Coins. He said it would protect him from scams, but it didn’t work.

But seeing how good Theo was at getting money back, Yuren felt brave.

‘With Theo, I bet we can get the money back from those guys!’

So, he decided to visit the people he had stopped trying to get money back from.

‘Maybe I can finally go home!’

Yuren smiled as he led Theo.

‘Puhu-hut. I’m going to make so much money that I’ll spend a lot of time with Chairman Park!’

Theo, looking forward to earning money and spending a lot of time with Sejun, followed with a happy expression.

‘Ppeu-heut. Theo is smiling! He must be happy with my help!’

Bbyot smiled too.

Black Tower, 99th floor.

Sejun, after a bath, drinking banana milk, and a long, restful nap, spoke.

“Transport.”

[25,000 Fresh Life Mugworts and 20,000 Lush Magic Mugworts have arrived.]

He spent 8 million Tower Coins to get mugwort from the Green Tower.

“Kkuenga, squeeze.”

Kkueng!

[Understood!]

Bbyak!

[I want to squeeze too!]

Kkuengi and the Black Rabbit made mugwort juice.

After making 2.5 liters of Life Mugwort Juice and 2 liters of Magic Mugwort Juice,

“Here. Keep these and use them when you’re in danger.”

Sejun gave Kkuengi and the Black Rabbit ten bottles each of Life Mugwort Juice potion and Magic Mugwort Juice potion. He made them by mixing 17ml of mugwort juice with a little water so they could drink it easier.

Because Kkuengi was better at squeezing juice, they could now get back 6% of their energy and magic power for every 1ml of mugwort juice.

After giving them the mugwort juice potions, Sejun mixed mugwort extract into rice flour and kneaded it.

The mushroom ants were too small to drink the mugwort juice potions in glass bottles, so he decided to make them into pills with mugwort juice so they could eat them easier.

As he kneaded the dough, which turned red and blue from the Life and Magic Mugwort Juice, into small sizes,

[You have achieved the first feat of creating Life Mugwort Pills in the Tower.]

[You have achieved the first feat of creating Magic Mugwort Pills in the Tower.]

A cooking achievement message appeared. The cooking effect made the mugwort pills even better.

“Use these when you’re in danger.”

Kkeaack!

After giving a total of 2000 mugwort pills to the mushroom ants,

Kking!

‘Hey! Give me some too!’

Fenrir sat nicely in front of Sejun, barking because he wanted some.

“You want some too, Blackie?”

Kking!

‘Give it to me!’

“Alright.”

Sejun gave Fenrir some mugwort pills to eat later.

Chomp… Ptui!

Kking! Kking!

‘This is bitter! I can’t eat it!’

Fenrir tasted the bitterness, spat out the mugwort pill, and barked loudly. He couldn’t handle any bitterness.

“Heh heh. You’re still too young to know how bad things can taste.”

Sejun teased Fenrir, the oldest Apostle of Destruction, for not being able to eat bitter things, and then put a dried sweet potato in Fenrir’s mouth.

Chomp. Chomp. Chomp.

Kkihihit. Kking!

‘Hehe. The yellow and chewy one is the best!’

While Fenrir was happily eating the dried sweet potato, Sejun made dinner.

For dinner, he mixed rice flour with mugwort powder, which Kkuengi had made while making mugwort juice, to make dumplings.

Soon, Sejun put three mugwort dumplings on each stick, stacked them on a plate, and took them to the table.

Next to the plate, he put bowls of soybean flour and honey so they could dip the dumplings in whatever they wanted.

When dinner was ready,

“Ajax, summon. Veronica, summon.”

He summoned Ajax and Veronica, who always wanted to eat dinner in the Black Tower.

And

“Everyone, let’s eat dinner!”

He called everyone to eat together.

Kkueng!

[So, so delicious!]

“Sejun, you’re such a great cook!”

“I could eat this every day!”

“Yeah. Eat a lot.”

[Your soul is filled with praise.]

‘Hehe he.’

Sejun looked at the message and offered more food to everyone.

Kking!

‘I want to dip it too!’

Fenrir put the dumpling he was holding into the bowl of honey.

The dumpling fell in, and Fenrir put his face in the bowl to get his dumpling. His fur around his mouth was covered in honey.

Kkihihit. Kking!

‘Hehe. Delicious!’

Fenrir happily licked the honey off his face.

At that moment,

“Blackie, you need a bath.”

Sejun said, looking at Fenrir, who was very messy.

‘No! I already did!’

‘Bath’ was one of the few words Fenrir knew. Fenrir hid his face between the dumpling skewers, trying to hide his body.

Kkihihit. Kking!

‘Hehe. I won’t get caught this time!’

Fenrir thought he was hiding well because he covered his eyes and ears, but

“Hehe he. Blackie, are you hiding here?”

Sejun grabbed him by the neck and took him to the bathroom.

Kking?

‘I hid well, so why do I keep getting caught?’

Fenrir felt sad he got caught again, not knowing why he kept getting caught.