Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 224

“Ptooey, ptooey. Ugh… so bitter!”

Sejun finished the last of the bitter grapes and made a face. “Ugh… so bitter!” But he had to eat them because they made him stronger. Because he ate all the bitter grapes, all his stats went up by 23!

“Why did you make such tasteless grapes?! Huh?!”

Sejun gently stroked the grapevine leaves, still a little annoyed but trying to be kind.

Sejun stroked the grapevine, scolding it as if it were at fault. The grapevine was innocent, but he was angry that he hadn’t tasted the grapes he had been expecting.

After Sejun spent some time scolding the grapevine alone,

Munch.

Sejun, who had lost his appetite because of the bitter taste, ate Aileen’s meat for breakfast.

And then,

“I should cook.”

Sejun went to the kitchen to make breakfast.

Aileen’s eyes sparkled as she checked the tower conditions. A wide, happy smile spread across her face. She didn’t know what was good about growing the tower, but she just felt good.

“Huh?! But why did growing the World Tree change to a question mark?”

Aileen remembered clearly that it was marked as ‘Not Achieved’ when she checked it at Sejun’s request to confirm if Bulkkot was the World Tree. She was puzzled when,

An alarm appeared on the crystal ball.

“Khee hee hee. The divine object repair is complete!”

Aileen, wanting to quickly give the repaired divine object to Sejun, rushed to the equipment that repaired divine objects.

Aileen was able to confidently boast to Sejun that she could repair divine objects thanks to this divine object repair equipment, which came about as the Black Tower’s status rose.

Aileen held the repaired bronze mirror in her hand.

“Wait! Shouldn’t I also greet Sejun’s mother?”

Aileen felt a little pang of jealousy when she heard Kkuenge had greeted Sejun’s mother. *I want to be part of the family too!* she thought. *Just a quick hello…*

“Alright. I should only greet her briefly!”

Aileen quickly checked herself. *Okay, changed form, wearing clothes, face is clean. Ready!* She recalled Sejun’s mother, Kim Mi-ran’s face, and infused magic into the bronze mirror.

Aileen had watched Sejun and Kkuenge using the bronze mirror to see their family through the crystal ball, so she knew her face well.

A moment later,

“Mother, hello!”

As Kim Mi-ran appeared in the bronze mirror, Aileen greeted Kim Mi-ran politely.

“Oh my?! Who are you?”

Kim Mi-ran was taken aback, seeing a black-haired beauty suddenly appear in front of the mirror. She was so beautiful that it felt like she wasn’t from this world.

“Yes! I am Sejun’s girlfriend, Aileen Fritani!”

“Yes?! Our Sejun’s girlfriend…? Ah! Our Sejun’s girlfriend is said to be a beauty, and it’s true! Ho ho ho.”

Kim Mi-ran, who had been taken aback by Aileen’s answer, recalled Bulkkot’s words and rejoiced. *My son has such a pretty girlfriend! I’m so proud!*

“Mother, have you heard about me?”

“Yes. Bulkkot told me.”

“Ah. Bulkkot told you in advance.”

Aileen felt like she knew a little why Bulkkot was in a question mark state. It was because Bulkkot had left the tower, so the tower couldn’t make a judgment. *Look at this? She’s been pretending all this time?*

As Aileen was thinking that she should talk to Bulkkot later,

“Um… are you really Hyung’s girlfriend?”

Just then, Sedol, who was next to Kim Mi-ran, asked with an incredulous expression. *There’s no way my brother has a girlfriend!*

“Heh! Are you saying I’m lying?!”

Aileen, feeling insulted by Sedol’s attitude of not believing her, flared up and glared at Sedol. But still, he was Sejun’s family, so she restrained herself as much as possible…

When Aileen glared at Sedol, his breath caught in his throat. He felt like a tiny mouse facing a huge, angry dragon. His knees went weak.

“Ah… No! Aileen-nim, I’m sorry!”

Sedol immediately apologized.

However,

“The title is wrong!”

Aileen pointed out Sedol’s title and scolded him.

“Yes?!”

“From now on, call me Sister-in-Law.”

“Yes! Sister-in-Law!”

Sedol immediately corrected his title at Aileen’s words.

“Good. Let’s get along well in the future.”

“Yes! Sister-in-Law!”

Sedol answered with a voice full of military spirit, like a private. *Hyung’s girlfriend is so scary!*

At that moment,

Crack.

Fortunately for Sedol, the bronze mirror began to crack.

“Mother, I’ll greet you again later.”

“Okay. Take care, our Aileen.”

“Yes. Mother. Goodbye!”

Clang.

Luckily, the bronze mirror broke after they finished greeting each other.

“I need to repair it again.”

Thus, the bronze mirror went back into the divine object repair equipment just 5 minutes after the repair was completed.

And then,

“Bulkkot, let’s talk for a moment.”

Aileen called Bulkkot and had a quiet conversation.

Kkuenge!

In the afternoon, Kkuenge bounded back from the western forest. Sunlight dappled through the leaves, making patterns of light and shadow on his fur. He carried a bundle of kudzu roots, their earthy smell filling the air.

Kkuenge!

“This is for Daddy!”

“Okay. Thank you.”

Sejun received 10 blue kudzu roots from Kkuenge and stroked Kkuenge’s head.

Crunch. Crunch.

“Kkuenge, eat this.”

As Sejun was eating the kudzu roots and giving Kkuenge honey jelly,

Kkuenge?

The golden bat’s song, like tiny bells chiming in the breeze, drifted to Kkuenge’s ears. Sejun, with a hopeful heart, was fertilizing the grapevine and having the golden bat sing to it. It didn’t seem to have any reaction though.

However,

Boing! Boing!

A reaction came from elsewhere. Kkuenge, excited by the golden bat’s song, started shaking his body and dancing near the grapevine.

And then,

“Puhuhu. When it comes to dancing, I’m Vice President Theo!”

Theo, wanting to show off to his younger siblings, stepped forward and started dancing.

“Nya. Nya. Nya. Nya. Nya. Nya.”

Three times to the left, three times to the right. Theo wiggled his two front paws as he danced. He danced more plausibly than expected. And he was even cute.

“Everyone’s having fun.”

As Sejun was sitting under the shady grapevine, watching the singing and dancing animals with a pleased expression,

A voice reached Sejun’s ears. Or rather, it reached his mind.

“Huh?! What’s that sound?”

Sejun hurriedly looked around, searching for the being that had spoken to him.

At that moment,

The voice was heard again in Sejun’s mind.

“Grapevine? Did you just speak?!”

Sejun touched the grapevine and asked, focusing his consciousness.

This time, the grapevine’s words were heard more clearly.

“Unfairly treated?”

The grapevine said it was unfairly treated because Sejun had scolded it earlier.

“Sorry… I was too harsh earlier.”

The grapevine asked Sejun for help.

“Of course! I’ll help you!”

Sejun quickly replied to the grapevine’s words. Sejun also wanted the grapevine to make delicious grapes, so their goals perfectly aligned.

“But how should I help?”

The grapevine told Sejun what it had experienced. Sejun was able to hear more detailed circumstances through the conversation with the grapevine.

“So, the original owner modified you to increase the intake effect, and that’s why the taste became bitter?!”

To give up the taste to increase the effect! Is that something a farmer should do?! Sejun was greatly angered by the grapevine’s words. Moreover, it couldn’t even make seeds as a side effect.

“I know that feeling. I know. Reproduction is the instinct of all living things. Don’t worry. I’ll help you.”

Sejun, who had seeds but was as good as not having them, understood the grapevine’s feelings very well.

The grapevine felt grateful to Sejun for being angry and sympathizing with its story, and sobbed at the sorrow it had endured.

A quest had been generated.

“Oh! Good!”

Delicious grapes, exclusive cultivation rights for the delicious grapes, and even a relic item if he completed the quest. His motivation soared.

“So, what should I do now?”

The grapevine explained in detail so that Sejun could understand. If delicious grapes come out by grafting its branches onto other crops, then graft that branch back onto its own branch.

“Okay. Kkuenge, please break some grapevine branches.”

Sejun asked Kkuenge.

Kkuenge!

The giant Kkuenge carefully broke the grapevine branches and gave them to Sejun.

He grafted grapevine branches onto other crops.

Cherry tomatoes, sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, carrots, pineapples, etc. Sejun grafted the grapevine branches onto about 300 crops that he could connect to.

It had been 5 days since the nuclear missile fell on Niue Island. An American agent showed Han Tae-jun satellite images of Niue Island and said.

“But what was that silhouette?”

Han Tae-jun asked about the giant silhouette that was seen inside the mushroom cloud.

“We had many opinions about that, but we think it was a phenomenon caused by the locusts burning all at once. Anyway, as you can see in the video of the island, there are no living creatures left.”

“Yes. I understand for now.”

Not long after the American agent left, fish with their bodily fluids sucked out like mummies began to float to the surface in the Pacific Ocean.

And the corpses of the fish were stretching towards Hawaii.