Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 533

Kaiser watched the dragons admire Sejun’s cream cake, pleased with himself.

“Here, Aileen, you take this,” Kaiser said.

Kaiser simply tore off the entire top of the Black Tower cake, a tall, dark cake, and gave it to Aileen.

“Grandpa, thank you so much!” Aileen said, expressing her gratitude for Kaiser’s thoughtfulness.

Taking the best parts when guests are there is rude. But Kaiser did it anyway.

Kaiser loves his granddaughter so much he doesn’t care if he’s rude.

“Then let’s eat,” Kaiser announced.

“Yes!” the dragons responded.

The dragons, who had been eagerly awaiting Kaiser’s word as the host, began to devour the food before them, crunching loudly on the cake, bits of cream and chocolate flying everywhere, and the air filled with the sweet smell of chocolate and fruit.

“Hee hee hee. I should put it in the collection vault,” Aileen giggled.

Aileen, holding her chocolate sculpture, headed to the collection vault in the administrator’s area, a special room where treasures had been stored for generations.

And then, “Ancestor, I’ll use this space for a bit,” she said.

Clang.

With her tail, she pushed aside ‘Absolute Ice,’ a sword made of eternal ice, which was the collection of Oily Fritani, the previous leader, displayed on the shelf.

Thud.

She carefully placed her chocolate sculpture on it.

Next to the chocolate sculpture, a bag of ‘Budget-Washed Apples’ that Aileen had placed there before still sat on the display shelf.

“Hee hee hee. Pretty,” Aileen said, admiring the chocolate sculpture of herself.

“Huh? What’s this?” she wondered, noticing a message Sejun had left.

[To the most beautiful dragon in the world, Aileen – From Sejun♥]

Good heavens, a heart?!

‘Kyaaah! I love it so much!!!’ Aileen thought, letting out an internal scream, afraid the sound might leak outside.

“Hee hee hee. Later, I should tell our Sejun that he is the coolest in the world too. Ah. I should get going. I’ve been away from my seat for too long,” she thought.

Aileen calmed her excited heart and returned to where they were eating.

At that moment, she overheard the voices of other dragons.

“But Aileen is so grown-up, doesn’t she look for her mother?” one dragon asked.

“I haven’t seen her looking for her mother once. Doesn’t she miss her mother?” another added.

“If I were her age, I would have been crying to see my mom, right?” a third chimed in.

“Isn’t that just because it’s you? You’ve always been like that,” a fourth dragon teased.

“What?! No, I wasn’t! I was a very independent hatchling when I was young!” the third dragon retorted.

Halt.

Aileen quietly walked back to the administrator’s area.

I miss Mom too…

I missed her every day.

But I couldn’t show it.

Whenever she asked about her mother, her grandfather would look sad, and her father would look guilty.

So, she deliberately didn’t bring up her mother to avoid seeing those expressions, all to make everyone laugh.

But strangely, the laughter tasted bitter. She had never laughed sincerely, until Sejun came.

Thanks to Sejun, Aileen didn’t have to force a bitter smile.

“Kheu-heuk…” Aileen sobbed, burying herself in a corner of the administrator’s area and quietly cried so that no one could see, tears running down her face, her body shaking.

At that moment, [Black Tower’s farmer, Park Sejun, is asking what you are doing.]

Sejun, the man who would make Aileen laugh, spoke to her.

However, ‘Sejun, I can’t answer you right now. Sorry,’ Aileen thought, not wanting to be caught crying.

Black Tower, 99th floor.

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“Is she busy?” Sejun wondered.

I was going to say that Theo wrote it without me knowing…

Sejun, being pathetic to the end.

“Heueueut! Good,” he sighed.

He lay sprawled out on the outdoor platform, wiggling his arms and legs, enjoying a rare moment of leisure alone. The outdoor platform was sunny and breezy. He could see the Black Tower stretching below him.

Theo and Kkueng were at work.

Hehehe. I’m not going to do anything today.

He had been incredibly busy preparing food for the dragons for several days, so he planned to rest today.

Yes. I should take a day off.

Over the past week, Sejun had been busy traveling around various towers to find the fruits needed to make infused liquor that matched the attributes of the nine dragon races while cooking.

The Red Dragons already had a well-aged Extreme Flame Cherry Liquor that Sejun had made before.

The Black Dragons had cherry liquor made from dark darkness cherries, the Gold Dragons had kiwi liquor made from lightning gold kiwis.

The Green Dragons could make arrowroot liquor from the golden arrowroot roots of life, and the Blue Dragons could make watermelon liquor from drought-inducing watermelons.

But there were no fruits that matched the attributes of the remaining four dragons.

He could have satisfied the dragons enough with just the +1 enhanced Samyang liquor made from golden rice.

But I want to make it!

Sejun, who had already set a goal to make infused liquor that matched the attributes of the nine dragon races, became greedy.

‘And I need to make a good impression on Kaiser. Hehehe,’ he thought.

So, to find fruits with attributes, he called other tower farmers and began updating the plant encyclopedia of experienced farmers, which he had not been interested in before.

Since I’m doing it, I updated the information for all the towers.

In the case of Ophelia, whom he couldn’t meet directly, Sejun would leave the plant encyclopedia on the 99th floor of the Green Tower, and Ophelia would update it.

Sejun, having updated the plant encyclopedia in that way, found out the location of all the plants in the nine towers.

Fortunately, he was able to solve everything with the land deeds of other towers he had, except for the Silver Tower, which had no land deeds at all.

So, “Go! Kwinmon!” he commanded.

He had Kwin get the gale lemons from the 75th floor of the Silver Tower and made lemon liquor.

And Sejun moved directly with his party to the remaining three towers.

He obtained light-filled limes from the Lime Farm on the 55th floor of the White Tower to make lime liquor, and paralysis poison grapefruits from the Grapefruit Farm on the 89th floor of the Purple Tower to make grapefruit liquor.

And he obtained intellect-filled wild pears from the Pear Farm on the 32nd floor of the Brown Tower to make wild pear liquor.

“Ugh. I should never work this hard next time,” Sejun vowed not to work hard next time. He seemed to not know that it was his personality to work hard once he had something to do.

As Sejun continued to loaf around, Kkihihit! Kking!

[Hehet. Butler! Let’s play!] Kkuengi said.

“Okay. Here. Fetch!” Sejun said.

Kkihihit! Kking! Kking!

[Hehet. Butler! Look at this! I picked up something amazing!] Kkuengi exclaimed.

“Okay. Fetch!” Sejun repeated.

The Blackie family was excited because Sejun kept playing with them, and they ran around so diligently.

Kking… [Butler, sleepy…] Kkuengi yawned.

“Okay. Let’s sleep,” Sejun said.

Hop.

As if it were natural, Kkuengi climbed onto Sejun’s chest.

Kkirorong.

Eomrorong.

…

..

. It lay sprawled out and fell asleep.

Snore.

Sejun too fell asleep.

While Sejun and the Blackie family were asleep, “Puhuhut. The great Hybrid Park, Chairman, I have returned, Meow!” Theo announced.

Kkueng! [Kkuengi came too!] Kkuengi added.

“Puhuhut. Chairman Park, were you sleeping, Meow?!” Theo asked, seeing Sejun asleep, naturally climbed onto Sejun’s lap and took his place.

And then, Kkueng… [Dad, if you don’t work, we can’t eat anything, but Dad is not working…] Kkuengi whined with worry.

If this goes on, Dad won’t be able to eat today! This is a disaster!

Kkuengi, who thought it was a big deal to miss just one meal, was filled with serious worry as he watched Sejun loafing around.

But, “I cooked, though,” Sejun mumbled in his sleep.

Son, cooking is not an easy thing.

Kkueng! [That’s right! Dad worked! That’s a relief!] Kkuengi exclaimed.

Dad can eat!

Kkuengi was greatly relieved by Sejun’s words.

Kkuhehehe.

Kkuengi, relieved, then clung to Sejun’s side and showed off his affection to his heart’s content.

While Sejun was lying down with his party, spending a leisurely time, [The tower’s administrator is asking if you have anything to eat because she is hungry.]

Aileen spoke to him.

She had cried so hard that she had become hungry, feeling empty inside.

“Huh? Something to eat?” Sejun wondered.

Why? You have plenty of food over there.

Sejun was puzzled, but “Okay. What do you want to eat?” he asked, thinking there must be some reason, and jumped up to head to the kitchen.

[The tower’s administrator says she wants to eat something spicy.]

Is she depressed?

Wanting to eat something spicy meant she was feeling down.

Sejun didn’t ask why Aileen was feeling down and quietly started making food to soothe her depressed heart.

First, he started with spicy cheese braised chicken. He also added toppings like rice cakes, sweet potatoes, and sausages inside, especially since Aileen liked rice cake toppings, so he added three times the rice cakes.

While the spicy cheese braised chicken with plenty of rice cake toppings was cooking, he also made a sweet and sour cherry tomato juice to blow away the spiciness.

“Aileen, eat this first,” Sejun said, delivering the spicy cheese braised chicken and cherry tomato juice to Aileen and then continued to make other dishes.

He was going to make all the dishes that had been served at the dragons’ meeting today.

Sejun’s buffet, opened only for Aileen.

Just as Sejun was diligently making the fourth dish, [The tower’s administrator says she misses her mom so much.]

[The tower’s administrator says that her mom is in another place, so she can’t see her.]

Aileen began to talk about her story that she had kept in her heart.

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Sejun listened to Aileen’s story and quietly cooked.

Aileen’s mother was alive.

He had never asked about Aileen’s mother because the atmosphere made it seem like he shouldn’t ask.

Sejun quietly cooked and listened to Aileen’s story.

[The tower’s administrator says that 150 years ago, her mom descended to a place called Omid and was stranded.]

Halt.

She was trapped somewhere?!

Sejun stopped moving at Aileen’s words and listened carefully to Aileen’s story.

According to Aileen, when only one Black Tower of Omid remained, Aileen’s mother, who was the administrator of the tower at the time, descended to Omid.

But when Aileen’s mother descended, that magic was activated.

Dimensional magic that cut off all connections with other worlds and isolated itself, like putting it in a bubble.

An isolated world.

Due to this magic, Omid became a world that no one could find because all connections between Omid and other worlds were cut off, it was constantly drifting through dimensions like a raft adrift in the vast ocean.

“Aileen, don’t worry. I will definitely find your mother, my mother-in-law… I mean, Aileen, your mother!” Sejun comforted Aileen with a confident voice.

It’s not like he had a good plan.

He just felt like it would work out somehow.

Vice Chairman Theo will get the job done this time, right?

As Sejun looked at Theo with trusting eyes, he saw Theo diligently licking between his legs.

Hmm…

Is it not Theo this time?

Suddenly, his expectations plummeted.

At that moment, [The tower’s administrator says she saw your message.]

Aileen suddenly brought up the message Sejun had left.

“Ah… that…” Sejun, in a hurry, was about to make the pathetic excuse he had prepared earlier.

But, [The tower’s administrator says that she also thinks you are the coolest in the world.]

Aileen’s words were one beat faster.

“Hehehe. Really?” Sejun grinned at Aileen’s words.

And, “Meow?!” Theo exclaimed.

That’s the way, Meow! If Aileen’s eyes rot, Chairman Park’s rotten face will be cured, Meow!

Theo had a great realization.

The Sea of Dimensions.

Countless worlds floated like islands, and countless worlds drifted along the currents of the Sea of Dimensions, unanchored.

At that moment, [Hehet. I caught it!] Fire Flower tightly grabbed one of the flowing worlds with its roots.

The name of the world that Fire Flower caught was Omid.

It was Fire Flower who had done it.