Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 116

“Excuse me, Sejun,” Kaiser said. “Could you make just one more potato pancake?”

Kellion nodded. “Yes, me too,” he added. They both looked at Sejun, wanting more.

Kaiser started talking to Sejun in a more friendly way, without saying “you” politely. This happened because he loved the roasted sweet potatoes, sweet potato soup, and potato pancakes so much.

“No, I can’t,” Sejun said. “I need to work now.” He wanted to finish his job and reach level 51 quickly. Instead of pancakes, he gave each dragon another bowl of sweet potato soup.

“I should drink it with alcohol soon,” Kaiser said.

“More alcohol?” Kellion asked, surprised.

“Heh heh heh. I have the Fire Carrot Wine Sejun gave me.”

“What?! Fire Carrot Wine?!” Kellion was shocked. “How did you get that?”

Fire Carrot Wine was very special. It was made by the farmer in the Red Tower. The red dragons kept it secret and never let it out. It was almost impossible to get. Kellion had only tasted it once, a thousand years ago.

“Sejun held a harvest festival a few days ago,” Kaiser said.

“To have a festival, you need ten different crops…” Kellion sounded very jealous. He was envious of Kaiser because Sejun was such a good farmer.

Kellion thought about his own tower farmer and sighed. “Ugh…” His farmer was terrible. He had become a farmer for no good reason.

“Haha! Don’t worry!” Kaiser laughed loudly and flew to the fountain. He thought, “Being envied by Kellion makes the wine taste even better!”

“Damn it,” Kellion thought. “If I’m jealous, I lose!” He was very envious of Kaiser getting good food from Sejun every day.

“I should call my farmer and see how he’s doing.” After Kaiser left, Kellion went to the roof of Sejun’s house, sat down, and went back to his own tower, the White Tower.

Tap. Tap. Sejun kept picking cherry tomatoes for hours.

“Whew, finished!” Just as he put down the last tomato, Flap. Flap. The Golden Bat flew to him.

(Sejun! I think I’m going to Earth soon!)

“Really? That’s right, it’s been a week since you brought the ramen.”

“Golden Bat, are you practicing what I taught you?”

(Yes!) Scritch. Scritch. (Ramen, cola…)

When Sejun spoke, the Golden Bat saluted and started writing the words Sejun taught him on the floor, like a student studying for a test. Sejun took out some small wooden boards from his storage.

“Okay, take this.”

(Yes!) The Golden Bat took a small wooden board with his feet. Sejun had written words and a phone number on it.

“If someone finds this, they will get 10 million won if they call 010 – XXXX – XXXX. (Chairman Han Tae-jun, Korea Awakened Association)”

Sejun thought it would be hard to find out where the Golden Bat went, so he decided to leave a message with contact information. The phone number was Han Tae-jun’s. Sejun had already talked to Han Tae-jun about this and got his number.

Just saying ‘giving money’ might sound strange, so he used Han Tae-jun’s name to make it believable. Han Tae-jun was quite famous and sometimes appeared on TV.

“Theo, this number is Chairman Han Tae-jun’s, right?”

“Of course, meow! Don’t you trust me?!” Theo got angry because Sejun seemed to doubt him.

“Of course, I trust you,” Sejun said, patting Theo’s head. He was really hoping to eat ramen and cola soon.

“Of course, meow! Mr. Park, only trust me!” Theo purred loudly and snuggled closer to Sejun.

“Okay, let’s start.”

(Yes!)

“Golden Bat, what’s this?” Sejun showed a picture on the wooden board and asked quickly.

(Chicken!)

“Correct! And this?” Sejun quickly turned to another picture.

(Soboro bread!)

“Good! Great job!” Chirp chirp. The Golden Bat chirped happily because Sejun praised him. He didn’t know why he was doing this, but he liked getting praise when he was right.

Sejun kept asking questions, showing pictures quickly.

(Ganache cake!)

All the pictures were of food Sejun wanted to eat: pizza, hamburgers, jajangmyeon, and more. Sejun was not good at drawing, so it was impossible to guess the food just from the pictures. If the Golden Bat brought the right food, it was because he was very smart.

“You got them all right! Great job!” Sejun praised the Golden Bat.

Chirp chirp!! The Golden Bat felt very happy and excited because of Sejun’s praise.

When the quiz was over, (Sejun, I’ll be back!)

“Be careful!” The Golden Bat disappeared.

***

Flap. Flap. Plop. The Golden Bat arrived on Earth. He quietly dropped the wooden board and quickly hid. There were many people around.

Hiding, the Golden Bat looked around for the word ‘ramen.’ Sejun had praised him a lot for bringing ramen last time, so he wanted to bring it again.

‘Chirp chirp. I need to bring what Sejun likes.’

(It’s not here…)

The letters ‘ramen’ were not visible at all in the place he appeared this time. Fortunately, coffee was visible.

‘Let’s take that at least.’ The Golden Bat quickly moved and grabbed 10 coffees and hid in the corner.

‘Now I have to wait and go back.’ At that moment,

Creak.

When a woman opened a drawer, she saw a small box with a picture of a fish on it.

(Ah! Fish!) It was the fish that Theo liked. There were about 10 seconds left. He thought he could take it if he did well.

Flap. Flap. The moment the Golden Bat quickly flew and grabbed the box,

Poof. The Golden Bat disappeared and returned to the tower.

“Huh?! Am I not fully awake from drinking?” Kim Kyung-mi, an employee of Hanseong Bank, was flustered when the Black Fin Whale Snack she had put in the drawer suddenly disappeared before her eyes.

***

“Ah! Is it a waste of time?!” Assistant PD Bae Jeong-ho said, smoking a cigarette outside the building. He thought that if he looked at the CCTV report sent from the karaoke room, he might get a story for his show.

However, after installing a camera in the karaoke room and waiting for several days, he couldn’t get anything from the video.

At that moment,

“Hey, Mr. Kim, do you know that there are ghosts in this building?”

“Ghosts?!”

“Yeah. The building owner is keeping it quiet, but this place is famous as a building where golden ghosts appear.” The guards were talking with the new guard, smoking cigarettes outside.

Anyone else would have seen it as boasting, but ‘Ghosts?!’ To the PD of a show about strange things in the world, ghosts were good material. Bae Jeong-ho listened carefully to the guards’ conversation.

‘What?! The disappearance of items wasn’t just in the karaoke room?’ Bae Jeong-ho learned something new.

According to the guards, the golden ghost appeared in the building once a week and took things. The most favorite item was a sparkling tumbler.

But these days, his taste seems to have changed, and he ended by scaring the new recruit, saying that he might target people in the future, so be careful.

‘If I do this well, it could be a huge hit?’ Bae Jeong-ho smiled.

***

“Ajax, come here immediately.” Kellion, who had entered the management area of the White Tower, called his grandson.

After a while,

“Why did you call me, Grandpa?! Don’t you know I’m farming?!” A handsome boy with glossy white hair, who looked to be in his mid-teens, appeared grumbling with dirt all over his body.

“Farming?! Then can you show me even one of those great crops you’ve grown?”

“Sh…show you the crops?!” Ajax, who suddenly became flustered at Kellion’s words, used polite language. He looked very guilty.

“Sigh…” Kellion sighed at Ajax’s attitude. It was obvious without even looking.

“Then why did you insist on becoming a tower farmer?!”

“I thought I would do well because I am the great White Dragon…” Ajax answered sadly. Dragons were not at all compatible with farming. The dragon’s powerful energy killed all the crops.

So the number of crops Ajax harvested was zero. No matter how much he sowed the seeds, they did not sprout.

“Try eating this. It’s made from a crop called sweet potato grown by the tower farmer of the Black Tower, and it tastes good.” Kellion handed Ajax the sweet potato soup made by Sejun.

“Sweet potato?” Slurp.

“Ouch!”

“Oh! You have to eat slowly. Healing magic!” When Ajax burned his tongue, Kellion quickly used magic. It was too much healing compared to the injury.

“Hee hee hee. Grandpa, this is delicious!”

“Heh heh heh. Eat and try to cheer up again.”

“Okay!” No matter how much Ajax did wrong, Kellion couldn’t help but smile and have his anger melt away whenever he saw Ajax. If Kaiser was a fool for his granddaughter, Kellion was a fool for his grandson.

***

One minute after the Golden Bat disappeared, (Sejun, I’m back!) He returned from Earth.

“Oh! Good job.” Sejun’s expression brightened as he looked at the things held in the Golden Bat’s feet.

‘Oh?! Is that Black Fin Whale Snack?!” It wasn’t a snack he ate often, but he was so happy to see it here.

“Here you go.” The Golden Bat put only the coffee in Sejun’s hand.

Huh?! Where’s my snack? While Sejun was panicking,

Flap. Flap. (Theo, here’s what you like.) The Golden Bat handed Theo the Black Fin Whale Snack.

However,

“You fool! There’s no fish here, meow!” Theo, who instinctively realized that there was no fish inside, rejected the Golden Bat’s gift sharply.

(Really?)

The Golden Bat was disappointed at Theo’s words.

“It’s okay. That’s mine.” Sejun tore open the snack box held by the Golden Bat and took out the bag inside.

And Rip. As he tore open the bag,

“Mmm.” The artificial spice smell tickled Sejun’s nose.

“Looks delicious.” Sejun picked up one of the snacks inside and put it in his mouth.

Crunch. It was a taste and texture that was special.

“Golden Bat, good job.” Sejun praised the Golden Bat while eating the snack.

(Really?! I’m so happy that you like it!) Chirp chirp! Chirp chirp! The Golden Bat was happy and circled around Sejun.

“Now let’s go to the western forest. Kkuengi!” Sejun called Kkuengi, who was hunting in the pond to harvest the Ent’s seeds,

Kkueng! Kkuengi ran right over.

“Heave-ho!” Sejun got on the back of the giant Kkuengi.

Just before leaving,

“Huh?!” Sejun realized that his lap was empty.

“Where did Theo go?” Sejun looked around for Theo.

“Mr. Park, where are you, meow?!” Sejun found Theo with his head stuck in the Black Fin Whale Snack box behind the house, waving his front paws. He must have wandered around to the back of the house because he couldn’t see in front of him.

“Theo, over here! Come quickly!” Sejun called Theo.

However,

“Mr. Park! I can’t see, meow! Help me, meow!” He just needed to take the box off, but Theo didn’t think of taking the box off.

“You fool. Just take the box off.” Pop. Annoyed, Sejun pulled the snack box that Theo was wearing.

“Mr. Park! I missed you, meow!” Theo hurriedly clung to Sejun’s lap. Theo’s eyes were moist.

“He cried.”

Kkueng?

[Big Brother, did you cry?]

(Theo, did you cry?)

“N…no, meow! I didn’t cry, meow!”

“Yeah, right. You even have a wet nose.”

“No, meow! I really didn’t have snot, meow!” Sejun teased Theo and moved to the western forest.