Chapter 12

Chapter 12

Thinking the results of Mark Two’s bodily fluids and Dokdok’s poison and the carrot sent through hyung Yeongseong had come out I came out of the dungeon and the contacts that piled up in a short while were displayed in a rush.

“What is it?”

The people who would contact me were at most only family. Hyung Yeongseong of Yongsan also doesn’t exchange contacts separately unless there’s something so I wondered what on earth.

“Huk!”

Checking the person who sent the contact the most eye-catching first was Predator Kang Hanul.

Whether he called quite several times missed calls had piled up and several messages were also left.

“Wh, what? Why did you contact so much? Didn’t we part yesterday?”

Another one eye-catching was hyung Yeongseong.

I naturally thought it was content about the analysis results but that wasn’t it.

“Can you obtain some tomatoes personally?”

Was it that delicious?

Of course I who ate it also know it’s delicious but because the reaction hyung Yeongseong showed at the time was subtle it was unexpected.

This time I checked Kang Hanul’s messages.

-Younger brother, are you busy?

-If you have time later shall we have a meal together?

-By any chance are there more leftover tomatoes or carrots?

-If it’s an item that can be bought I want to buy some.

Besides that he sent some ahjussi-like jokes or things that happened the previous day, and the recipe for braised short ribs etc.

“Why is this?”

Roughly skipping the messages that were a bit hard to understand in the end the point of what he wanted to say was one.

Bring more crops imbued with mana.

“Hmm.”

Just in time the tomatoes also finished harvesting and soon Leila can also be harvested.

It’s not asking for free and since he said there is intention to purchase for now it was something to worry about.

“If I get close with Kang Hanul it’s absolutely not a loss.”

The personality was a bit eccentric but he didn’t look like a bad person. Moreover Kang Hanul’s fame in awakener society was tremendous to the extent that people trying to form a connection with him were a truckload.

“For now send a message to hyung Yeongseong first...”

By the way hyung Yeongseong also fell deeply for the tomatoes.

There was nothing incomprehensible. Actually even when I ate it it was a feeling of a different dimension from tomatoes until now so...

I replied that there are more tomatoes so I’ll bring them and left a message to Kang Hanul too.

“Contact was late, sorry, I am, by any chance there is Leila, is that also okay? There are no carrots, there are some tomatoes. Send.”

In the past I typed on the phone quickly and well but 3 years of dungeon life distanced me from civilization.

Having sent the message like that while waiting for the reply I did web surfing to check outside news.

“Oh? Ara Hongryeon.”

Just in time news about the Ara Hongryeon Guild that Kang Hanul belonged to was visible. Clicking right away the content wasn’t that good.

-Ara Hongryeon Guild in crisis! Unable to resolve a mere grade 4 dungeon?

“Hmm!”

Naturally if the dungeon grade rises the danger also rises. Until when dungeons first appeared in this world grade 4 was a top dungeon but now it belonged to the middle axis.

“This is unexpected. To think Ara Hongryeon would fail grade 4 subjugation.”

Looking at the article content a bit more it said a new type of monster appeared.

Specific information wasn’t released but the fact that it failed even though the representative awakener of Ara Hongryeon Jeong Soyeon directly commanded the subjugation suggested big meaning.

-Lol now Ara Hongryeon is also washed up.

-Even though called top 5 guilds there’s a feeling they were included as courtesy because it was the first created guild. Now the true form is starting to be revealed.

-Ah, Jeong Soyeon would be better going to another guild. Recently in Terror Guild they often show awakeners on variety shows can’t she transfer to Terror Guild?

└Wow if she transfers to Terror Guild it seems a jackpot!

Comments also had many negative opinions.

“Um...”

Recently as guilds familiar to civilians sprang up like bamboo shoots awakeners started showing their faces in various media.

But Ara Hongryeon or some guilds still focused on dungeon subjugation and the opinions seemed to reflect that situation.

‘Ara Hongryeon is especially more so. Anyway because there’s the symbolism of being the Republic of Korea’s first guild.’

Honestly I couldn’t know the inner thoughts of Ara Hongryeon’s guild master Han Seokjun. But rather than fearing change isn’t it a feeling of trying to keep tradition and holding that place?

“It’s hard to say what the answer is but I hope this incident resolves well.”

I muttered alone and soon saw other articles. Most were articles related to awakeners.

“Park Suho is dating Kim Hyerin? Wow, jackpot.”

Gossip was always fun.

I also once dreamed of being a star awakener so every time I saw articles like this I felt a strange vicarious satisfaction.

Of course there were bitter emotions too but now awakeners like those celebrities felt too distant.

Ding!

Examining this and that news like that a reply came from someone.

It was hyung Yeongseong.

-By any chance can we meet now? This time hyung will go that way.

This hyung seems very urgent.

With this degree of reaction I could also know that it wasn’t the tomato’s taste that was the problem but something else.

“Because it’s an item? Or the efficacy?”

Whatever it is for now I made an appointment to meet at a cafe at the entrance of Obongsan and entered the dungeon again.

And seeing the amount of tomatoes that decreased a bit in the meantime I realized the power of these gluttons.

“I can’t bring a lot.”

Come to think of it I couldn’t confirm how much he wanted. If insufficient I can prepare more later, well.

Like that packing about 2kg of cherry tomatoes I headed to the promised cafe.

In terms of distance I was much closer but because the slime dungeon’s location was mid-mountain without a path considering the time to descend it seemed we would arrive roughly similarly.

“Wow, you’re already here?”

Still I thought I might arrive a bit earlier but I could discover hyung Yeongseong waiting having taken a seat inside the cafe.

“Sorry for calling you out suddenly, Gyuseong.”

“No. I also visit unannounced.”

As soon as I sat I took out the tomatoes in the bag first. Then hyung Yeongseong’s gaze didn’t leave my hand.

“It should be about 2kg. I wanted to give more but right now there aren’t many...”

“Gyuseong, by any chance are you the one cultivating them?”

Hyung Yeongseong said in a small voice so only I could hear. Anyway since there were no people inside the cafe there was no one listening but he was being careful.

“Similar.”

“Similar?”

“Yes.”

“I see.”

When I deliberately spoke vaguely hyung Yeongseong who noticed the intention quietly nodded.

“Ah! For now here the materials and items you entrusted last time. The carrot they left about half too.”

“Thank you.”

“And Ara Hongryeon Guild asked if more of this poison can be obtained but I postponed the answer. By any chance can more of this poison be obtained?”

“From Ara Hongryeon Guild?”

Suddenly why is Ara Hongryeon Guild coming out here?

Ah, thinking about it hyung Yeongseong seemed acquainted with Kang Hanul of Ara Hongryeon Guild too.

Maybe the place he commissioned the analysis of the items I sent is Ara Hongryeon?

“Ah, didn’t hyung say? Hyung used to work as a researcher at Ara Hongryeon Guild in the past.”

“Wow! Really? First time hearing!”

“I thought you would naturally know but it seems I never said it.”

Since he was doing a small shop in Yongsan I never imagined he worked at Ara Hongryeon Guild.

From when he always boasted of having many connections I should have looked into it a bit.

“The poison can be obtained more. I don’t know how much the amount will be.”

“You’ve become a complete natural person.”

“...Yeah. I’ve become a dungeon natural person.”

I never thought of it at all but when hyung Yeongseong said natural person it really felt like a natural person.

From crops to poison.

Later won’t other things come out too?

‘If it’s the slime’s random ability it might be possible...’

While blankly thinking alone hyung Yeongseong nodded and said he would tell the guild.

“Ah, hyung. As it was while checking the contact that came to hyung I saw contact also came to Mr. Kang Hanul.”

“That guy is originally meddlesome. Roughly deal with him.”

Seems they’re really close.

In the meantime I asked what I was curious about from when I received the contact.

“Mr. Kang Hanul felt like he was looking for it because it was delicious but did hyung also like this? That day it didn’t particularly feel like that so...”

“Um.”

Hyung Yeongseong made a hum for a moment then soon said lowly.

“My wife is sick.”

“Yes? Your wife is sick?”

“By any chance Kim Siyoung?”

“Awakener Kim Siyoung of course I know. Ara Hongryeon Guild...”

Having said up to there I looked at hyung Yeongseong with eyes of no way.

“By any chance the wife you just mentioned?”

“Yeah. Siyoung is my wife. And she’s very sick now.”

“Ah...”

There was no way not to know.

Because it was an incident with a ripple big enough that even ordinary people who weren’t awakeners knew.

The monster called the Seven Deadly Sins.

Even the dungeon’s name had that sin’s name attached.

‘Stinginess.’

It was a full grade 9 dungeon.

One of the dungeons with the highest grade among those that appeared until now.

And a dungeon that drove numerous awakeners to death at the time.

‘Having succeeded subjugation of a few among grade 9 dungeons and full of confidence the awakeners fell into despair in one go.’

In the world they were saying that at least the Seven Deadly Sins dungeons should be upgraded to grade 10.

“To think the husband of awakener Kim Siyoung was hyung I didn’t know. Then was asking for those tomatoes also because of your wife?”

“Yeah.”

To think there was such a story.

I understood why hyung Yeongseong came here urgently.

“By any chance was she poisoned?”

“Yeah. But still couldn’t detoxify. For the past few years I did all kinds of research but...”

Hyung Yeongseong lowered his head with a heavy appearance.

When the always refreshing hyung Yeongseong showed such a pitiful appearance my heart also hurt.

“Detoxification...”

I suddenly thought of the fruit and vegetable juice.

Clearly one of the efficacies of the fruit and vegetable juice was detoxification.

‘Even though the name ambiguous fruit and vegetable juice was attached?’

Maybe it can help?

But to help I had to reveal my liquid synthesis ability.

He would already be half guessing, um...

“Hyung.”

“Hm?”

“You’re guessing my ability, right?”

At my sudden question hyung Yeongseong flinched then soon carefully nodded.

“Anyway it couldn’t help but be specified. Because you always brought and sold potions.”

“Hyung, it seems like I might be able to help hyung with my ability.”

“...What?”

Just in time a half carrot remained.

An amount enough to make fruit and vegetable juice if I wanted.

And in the dungeon crops were still growing even now. To begin with the core of detoxification is the tomato so I can harvest tomatoes and make this and that more.

“Hyung, now it seems like it’s my turn to help hyung.”

“Gyuseong...”

Hyung Yeongseong’s sister-in-law?

I will definitely treat her.