Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 83

Aileen popped the honey jelly into her mouth.

The moment it touched her tongue, the honey jelly burst, filling her mouth with a unique blend of peanut flavor and sweetness.

[You have consumed Peanut Honey Jelly from the Poison Honeybee.]

Peanut honey jelly helped magical talents grow, just like cherry tomato honey jelly. Aileen had been eating both kinds, switching between them each day.

“Hee hee hee. Delicious.”

As Aileen enjoyed the honey jelly,

[Talent: The hardened Dragon Heart is slightly strengthened.]

[Talent: The hardened Dragon Heart has exceeded its limit.]

[Talent: The hardened Dragon Heart grows, becoming softer and more responsive.]

Aileen’s talent, boosted by the honey jelly, had improved.

“Hee hee hee. Yes!”

Thud thud… Thud thud…

Aileen jumped up and down, feeling her Dragon Heart beating softly.

“Grandpa! My talent has grown!”

-Of course, my granddaughter! Grandpa believed in you!

“Then teach me how to Polymorph now!”

-Poly… Polymorph, why?!

“Hee hee hee. I’m going to Polymorph quickly and play with Sejun!”

-No! That rascal… Ahem! Granddaughter, fortunately, Polymorph is still difficult with your skills.

“Still?!”

-Still a long way to go! Let’s start with what you can do now.

Kaiser calmed Aileen, helping her understand her Dragon Heart’s new abilities. Kaiser explained that Aileen needed to get used to her new, stronger Dragon Heart before learning anything else.

Whirr.

Whirr.

Kkwehn!

[Smell of meat!]

Smelling meat, Kkwehn punched at the approaching Poison Honeybees, using his magic.

Wham!

Kkwehn’s fist created a powerful blast of air ten meters ahead, stopping the Poison Honeybees in their tracks.

Sejun picked up the stunned Poison Honeybees.

“Poison Honeybees, from now on, you must only eat honey. Got it?”

Whirr.

[Yes.]

The Poison Honeybees obediently answered Sejun. Sejun offered the Poison Honeybees honey from Kkwehn’s snack bag, teaching the eastern Poison Honeybees the taste of honey and convincing them to give up meat.

Of course, Kkwehn resisted, but agreed when Sejun promised to give him twice as much honey when they returned.

[The wild Poison Honeybee has decided to follow you.]

“Good.”

Sejun felt proud as he looked at the 302nd Poison Honeybee that he had converted.

At first, he planned to eliminate all the eastern Poison Honeybees, but then he had another idea.

‘If I can only make them know the taste of honey…’

He suddenly realized that converting the Poison Honeybees would greatly help his farm. Sejun had been feeling the lack of Poison Honeybees as his fields grew.

So, he caught a Poison Honeybee to test his idea, taught it the taste of honey, and coaxed it. It worked! The Poison Honeybee, having tasted honey, easily joined Sejun’s side.

After all, Poison Honeybees are still honeybees. As soon as they tasted honey, they immediately gave up meat.

“Good. Let’s try to get 1000 Poison Honeybees to join us today!”

Ppyak!

Kkwehn!

The Black Rabbit and Kkwehn happily shouted, agreeing with Sejun. They were both happy as long as they were with Sejun.

While they were converting the Poison Honeybees,

Ppyak!

The Black Rabbit pointed to a giant Poison Honeybee hive, a towering structure of honeycomb that loomed three meters high.

“I wonder if that will work too?”

Sejun approached carefully.

“Kkwehn, shake it!”

Kkwehn!

Following Sejun’s instructions, Kkwehn picked up the hive and shook it roughly.

Whirr.

Whirr.

The Poison Honeybees inside the hive came out to attack Kkwehn, but

Kkwehn!

The Poison Honeybees’ stings were only slightly ticklish to Kkwehn. A few hundred bees weren’t enough to pose a threat to Kkwehn.

Ppyak!

Bbyok! Bbyok! Bbyok!

The Black Rabbit stunned the Poison Honeybees with his hammer, stopping them from reaching Kkwehn.

“You guys! Doing great!”

Sejun cheered for the Black Rabbit and Kkwehn from afar.

“We are!”

When Sejun started the slogan,

Ppyak! (One!)

Kkwehn! (One!)

The two shouted the rest of the slogan. Their teamwork was getting better and better, especially because Sejun always encouraged them to work together.

As the Poison Honeybees inside the hive were stunned by Kkwehn’s shaking, Sejun took out the Poison Honeybee Queen.

“Queen, wake up and eat this.”

Sejun woke up the Poison Honeybee Queen, fed her honey, and asked her to join his side.

“If you come with me, you can eat this every day. Want to come with me?”

Whirr. Whirr.

[Okay. Please take care of me.]

[The wild Poison Honeybee Queen has decided to follow you.]

[1295 Poison Honeybees led by the wild Poison Honeybee Queen have decided to follow you along with the Queen.]

[You have acquired the hive possessed by the wild Poison Honeybee Queen.]

“Oh!”

He had gotten more than 1000 Poison Honeybees in one go.

Kkwehn!

Kkwehn cheered at the increase in Poison Honeybees that would make honey.

“Hehehe.”

Pyaaak!

Kkweehng!

Having achieved such great results, the three were moving the Poison Honeybee hive near Sejun’s farm, singing their songs with joyful hearts, when

“Kkyut kkyut kkyut. Mr. Sejun!”

Iona called out to Sejun as she approached quickly.

Ppyak…

The Black Rabbit, seeing Iona, groaned and clutched his heart.

“Black Rabbit, what’s wrong?”

Ppyak! Ppyak!

[I think I’m going to die! My heart is beating too fast!]

“No. You’re not going to die. That’s…”

Sejun said, looking at the pure white rabbit carrying Iona on its back. Spring had come to the Black Rabbit.

“Is it love, perhaps?”

Saying it was love felt a bit cheesy. Honestly, Sejun didn’t really know the feeling either.

Ppyak?

Kkwehn?

“What is love, you ask? Love is…”

Sejun, who had only learned about love from TV shows, started to explain it to his friends, who also didn’t know much about romance.

“Just remember this. Love is a straight line. It’s not running away from your feelings. And we are?!”

Ppyak! (One!)

Kkwehn! (One!)

“Go, Black Rabbit! We’ll cheer for you!”

Sejun clenched his fist. He felt nervous for some reason.

Kkwehn!

Kkwehn didn’t know what it was, but he clenched both fists and cheered for the Black Rabbit.

Ppyak!

The Black Rabbit, cheered on by the two, stepped forward.

“Iona, what’s going on?”

“Kkyut kkyut kkyut. I’m going to get samples for magic research on the 99th floor of the tower for a while.”

However, Iona’s gaze was fixed on Sejun’s lap as she answered.

“Really? Iona, can we talk for a moment?”

Sejun called Iona aside to give the Black Rabbit a chance to talk to Ppyu Ppyu alone.

The Black Rabbit approached the white rabbit who came with Iona.

Thud! Thump! Thud! Thump!

His heart hammered against his ribs as he got closer. His uncle said this was love.

“Hello! I’m the Black Rabbit!”

The Black Rabbit, cheered on by Sejun and Kkwehn, approached and said confidently.

“Yes. I’m Ppyu Ppyu!”

Ppyu Ppyu answered brightly. She had heard from her teacher, but Ppyu Ppyu was so happy to see another rabbit.

“Ppyu Ppyu, I love you!”

The Black Rabbit confessed to Ppyu Ppyu out of the blue.

“Oh, um… thank you, but I’m very busy right now with rebuilding my kingdom.”

Ppyu Ppyu refused gently, but firmly.

“It’s okay. Then I’ll make time for you. What can I help you with?”

“I have to rebuild Red Ribbon, the rabbit kingdom on the 55th floor of the tower.”

“Really? Then let’s date when you rebuild Red Ribbon!”

“Do you think rebuilding a kingdom is that easy?”

“I don’t know. But I’m going to do it! So let’s date!”

“No. Rebuilding a kingdom is not that easy…”

“So let’s date when I rebuild the kingdom!”

His uncle said love is a straight line. It’s not running away. The Black Rabbit was going straight ahead without stopping.

A nursing home in Kobe, Japan.

Creak.

The door to a private room opened, and a man came in carrying a box full of leeks and sweet potatoes.

“Honey! I’m home!”

The man said, looking at his weak and thin wife, Toda, lying in bed.

“Kotaro… Welcome home.”

When Toda reached out her arm, Kotaro carefully hugged her.

“I finally got the detoxifying leeks. Just wait a moment.”

“Yeah. You didn’t overdo it, did you?”

“Don’t worry. I’m a hunter from the Royal Knights Guild.”

It had cost almost 400 million yen, a secret Kotaro kept from his wife. He would have spent even more to save his wife, who had very serious liver cancer.

He only regretted not getting as many detoxifying leeks as he wanted. To completely cure her, he needed 100 detoxifying leeks, but Kotaro only got 50.

The auction sold detoxifying leeks in units of 500, so the bidding was too high. So, the guild won the bid using the guild’s money and then distributed them to the members.

However, there were few detoxifying leeks, and many guild members wanted them. Most guilds sold them to patients with the worst symptoms first to reduce conflict.

Instead, they only sold enough to reduce the symptoms, not to cure them completely.

Swaaaa.

Kotaro washed 3 detoxifying leeks and 1 power sweet potato and put them in a steamer. Studies showed that eating 3 detoxifying leeks per meal worked best.

“Chew slowly and thoroughly.”

Kotaro cut the cooked leeks and sweet potatoes and began to feed them to Toda.

“Yeah.”

Toda carefully ate the leeks and sweet potatoes.

“Sweet potatoes are said to help with bowel movements.”

“…Yeah.”

Toda answered quietly, as if she was embarrassed. The sweet potato worked so well that she had to go to the bathroom 30 minutes after eating it. After that, Toda always ate leeks and sweet potatoes together.

A few days later, when she visited the hospital,

“This is a miracle! The patient’s cancer has completely disappeared!”

She was diagnosed with a complete cure.

“Yes? Really?!”

Toda couldn’t believe it because she had only eaten 30 detoxifying leeks. It wasn’t just that her stage 3 liver cancer was better; it was completely gone!

“Yes! And all liver values are above average.”

Toda went to other hospitals just in case, but all the results showed that there were no cancer cells.

After that, a doctor who heard about Toda’s case announced that the power sweet potato increased the effect of the detoxifying leek by 5 times, and similar cases were reported in other hospitals.

It was an amazing effect. It meant that very serious liver cancer could be cured with only 20 detoxifying leeks if you had the power sweet potato.

Hunters who bought power sweet potatoes hoping to increase their strength were flooded with calls to buy sweet potatoes, and other hunters waited for the next auction.

“Ah! Let me introduce my disciple! Ppyu Ppyu!”

Iona, who was talking to Sejun, called her disciple.

Ppyu Ppyu!

The white rabbit ran at her teacher’s call, and the Black Rabbit followed. They didn’t seem very close.

‘Did the talk not go well?’

“Mr. Sejun, this is Ppyu Ppyu, the princess of the Red Ribbon Kingdom. Ppyu Ppyu, say hello. This is the great Black Dragon, Mr. Park Sejun.”

Ppyu Ppyu!

At Iona’s words, Ppyu Ppyu bowed.

“Princess?”

The white rabbit that the Black Rabbit liked was a princess. I need to make something for our Black Rabbit so he doesn’t lose heart.

“Let’s go to the farm first.”

Sejun took the group back to the farm.

The right-hand man of the great Black Dragon?

Chairman Park’s bodyguard?

Black Hammer Ppyak?

While Sejun was thinking about the Black Rabbit’s status so that he wouldn’t feel inferior to the princess,

Holding hands.

The Black Rabbit and Ppyu Ppyu were holding hands and following.