Chapter 186 – Receiving a Wedding Invitation

The monitoring room of Halla Building. People were monitoring CCTV video feeds with dozens of screens.

At that moment,

Beep, beep.

An alarm indicating that the motion sensor was activated began to ring.

“Where is it?!”

“It’s the cleaning supplies warehouse, Room 315 on the 3rd floor!”

At the monitoring room manager’s question, the subordinate staff answered hurriedly.

“Appearance of the Golden Bat confirmed in Room 315 on the 3rd floor!”

Subsequently, the employee who was examining the CCTV on the 3rd floor shouted as they confirmed the Golden Bat’s appearance in the CCTV feed.

“This is the monitoring room. We confirmed the appearance of the Golden Bat on the 3rd floor. The guide staff on the 3rd floor, hurry to the cleaning supplies warehouse, Room 315 on the 3rd floor, and make contact with the Golden Bat.”

A moment later,

“Are you the Golden Bat-nim?”

(Yes. But who are you?)

The Golden Bat, who was looking around to find ramen, ran into the guide staff.

“We will guide you to where the items you need are. What is the item you need?”

(I need ramen.)

“By any chance, what kind of ramen?”

(I don’t really know. Se-jun-nim just told me to bring back a lot of ramen no matter what.)

“As much as possible? Understood. Please follow us. We will guide you to the ramen warehouse. Please sit on my shoulder.”

(Yes!)

When the Golden Bat sat on the man’s shoulder,

“Please eat this while moving.”

The man opened a fruit lunch box he had prepared for when the Golden Bat appeared and handed over a grape from inside.

(Thank you!)

Chup, chup.

The Golden Bat moved to the ramen warehouse while eating the grape. Currently, all offices that were occupants of Halla Building had moved out, and it was being operated as a logistics center solely for the Golden Bat.

Arriving at the ramen warehouse like that, the Golden Bat packed the ramen with the help of the ramen warehouse employees.

(Bat-bat. Thank you. Then, I’ll go.)

Flap, flap!

The Golden Bat, clutching 100 ramen packs with both feet, thanked the people who helped him and moved to the tower.

However,

Plop.

“Huh?!”

Except for one out of twenty bundles of ramen connected in groups of five, the remaining nineteen bundles of ramen fell to the floor. Ultimately, the ramen the Golden Bat brought back was only five packs.

***

“Hehehe. How many ramen packs will he bring?”

Se-jun planted cherry tomatoes while waiting for the Golden Bat who had gone to Earth. He had to bring back at least two ramen packs so Kkueng and he could share one each.

Though he had told him to bring back as many as possible, he didn’t have high expectations. Just being able to airlift outside goods like this was a piece of luck.

Even when the Golden Bat first went back and forth to Earth, Se-jun was greedy and tried to provide the Golden Bat with a subspace pouch to bring back Earth goods in large quantities.

However, Iona stopped Se-jun. Because moving dimensions was not easy, she said it was better to have as few variables as possible.

Specifically, she said in the case of subspace magic, which was space-attribute magic, it could cause interference during dimensional travel, causing the Golden Bat to move to another location or, in the worst case, get trapped in the dimensional rift.

At that moment,

Flap, flap.

(Bat-bat! Se-jun-nim, I’m back!)

The Golden Bat returned.

(I brought back a whole lot of ramen!)

The Golden Bat shouted in an excited voice toward Se-jun, but

(Huh?!)

since his body was lighter than expected, he hurriedly looked down at his legs. And he confirmed that he was holding only a single bundle of ramen.

(Baeng… I packed a whole lot of ramen… Se-jun-nim, I’m sorry.)

The Golden Bat flew to Se-jun with a tearful voice.

But

“Oh! Golden Bat, amazing! To think you brought back five ramen packs!”

Se-jun was losing his mind looking at the ramen the Golden Bat brought. He had thought it would be nice even if they could just share one each with Kkueng, but the Golden Bat brought back five ramen packs.

Moreover, the varieties were diverse. Three types of regular soup ramen, one Jjajang ramen, and Hell Chicken Ramen. It was the best result.

“Good job, Golden Bat!”

(Bat-bat. Did I do well?)

“Of course! Now, come here!”

Se-jun said, opening his palm.

(Yes!)

“Eat this.”

Se-jun handed a white cherry tomato to the Golden Bat who climbed onto his palm. It was an elixir-grade cherry tomato.

(Thank you for the food!)

Chup, chup.

The Golden Bat held the cherry tomato and began to diligently suck the juice.

‘As expected of Se-jun-nim, the fruit is the most delicious!’

Although the Golden Bat had just received fruit hospitality a moment ago, the fruit he ate on Earth was incomparable to this.

“Hehehe. I should eat it later in the evening.”

He needed time to digest Aileen’s Healthy Fist Meat pieces. Like that, Se-jun, who packed five ramen packs thanks to the Golden Bat, planted cherry tomatoes diligently to work up an appetite quickly.

And

[The Magical Cherry Tomatoes thank the farmer’s footsteps and add their strength.]

[The potential of the Magic Power stat increases from 105 to 106.]

Thanks to diligently running around the cherry tomato field, his Magic Power potential also increased by 1.

While Se-jun was working hard,

Kkueng! Kkueng!

[It looks delicious! Kkueng wants to meet Kkueng’s grandmother and eat Kkueng’s grandmother’s cooking too!]

Kkueng was drooling while watching his grandmother cook through the Bronze Mirror of Longing. It was Kim Mi-ran, who was not only unexpectedly turned into a grandmother but was also filming a cooking broadcast.

Munch, munch.

Kkueng was taking out raw sweet potatoes from his snack pouch and eating them while watching the cooking broadcast like that.

Kkueng?

[But what is second brother Black Rabbit doing?]

Suddenly, he missed the Black Rabbit. So, he infused mana into the bronze mirror and thought of the Black Rabbit.

Then, the Black Rabbit was visible in the bronze mirror. The Black Rabbit, with his squeaky hammer slung on his back, was approaching someone’s back while suppressing a laugh.

Kkueng?

[Whose back is that, which looks very familiar?]

But that back was quite familiar.

At that moment,

Pyak!!!

“Argh! What a surprise!”

From where Se-jun was working, Se-jun’s scream was heard along with the Black Rabbit’s roar. It was the Black Rabbit, who had played a prank on Se-jun as soon as he arrived on the 99th floor of the tower.

***

“Hey! You scared me!”

When Se-jun got angry upon seeing the Black Rabbit, who had suddenly appeared shouting from behind,

Pyak!

[Uncle, I missed you!]

Hop!

Rub, rub.

The Black Rabbit quickly climbed onto Se-jun’s shoulder and rubbed his cheeks against Se-jun’s face. Showing affection like this was foul play.

“Have you been well?”

Se-jun said in a gentle voice, stroking the Black Rabbit’s head. His anger had already subsided long ago from the Black Rabbit’s affection.

Pyak! Pyak!

[Yes! I came because of this today!]

Presenting.

The Black Rabbit took out a sheet of paper.

“Huh?! This is?”

It was a wedding invitation inviting him to the wedding of the Black Rabbit and Pyupyu, along with the national foundation ceremony announcing that the Red Ribbon Kingdom was newly established on the 55th floor of the tower in a month.

“Congratulations, Black Rabbit, and you worked hard!”

Pyak! Pyak!

[That’s right! I worked extremely hard!]

At Se-jun’s praise, the Black Rabbit immediately rubbed his head against Se-jun’s cheek again and began to whine. He probably found it difficult to act like this since he held a high status on the 55th floor of the tower.

While Se-jun was stroking the Black Rabbit like that,

Pyak?

[Uncle, you can’t come, right…?]

The Black Rabbit asked, looking at Se-jun with an expectant look. Although he spoke in the negative to avoid disappointment, his eyes were full of anticipation.

But

“Sorry… Black Rabbit, you know too.”

Se-jun could not meet the Black Rabbit’s expectations. To travel to the 55th floor of the tower, a waypoint had to be registered or the land deed of the 55th floor of the tower was needed, but Se-jun had neither.

It would have been nice if the Black Rabbit could simply issue a land deed, but the land deed item was different from land deeds for general use. The land deed item was something created by the tower, and even the dragon clan could not interfere with it.

Pyak…

[It’s okay…]

The Black Rabbit answered in a downcast voice.

At that moment,

“Black Rabbit, when did you arrive, meow?!”

Theo, who woke up from sleeping on Se-jun’s lap, discovered the Black Rabbit and greeted him.

Pyak! Pyak!

[I just arrived! I’m getting married in a month!]

“Congratulations, meow! I will give you a good gift for the wedding, meow!”

While Theo and the Black Rabbit were talking like that,

Kkueng!

[It’s second brother!]

Kkueng came running, calling the Black Rabbit.

***

The 2nd floor of the Black Tower.

“So now we can just go up the 2nd floor?”

“This is thanks to Gagel.”

Hunters who had just awakened with tickets spoke as they looked at the experience farm expanding endlessly on both sides.

Gagel’s experience farm gradually expanded its scale and dominated the entire 2nd floor of the tower, and the skeletons that were on the 2nd floor of the tower were turned into nutrients for contaminated cherry tomatoes and were completely wiped out.

Thanks to this, the hunters could comfortably ascend to the 3rd floor of the tower without fighting monsters.

As the hunters examined the experience farm like that and arrived at the waypoint of the 2nd floor of the tower, placing their hands on the red crystal,

[You have cleared the 2nd floor of the tower.]

The floor was cleared easily.

[As a clearance reward for the 2nd floor of the tower, you have obtained 5,000 experience points, 1 Tower Coin, and the Novice’s Sword.]

Moreover, even the clearance reward of the 2nd floor of the tower was given. If Se-jun, who had never received a floor clearance reward, had seen it, he would have felt wronged.

[The waypoint for the 2nd floor of the tower has been saved.]

[Moving to the 3rd floor of the tower.]

Thus, the hunters arrived at the 3rd floor of the tower.

“Oh! An experience farm is being created here too?”

The hunters discovered contaminated cherry tomatoes planted in the ground. An experience farm was being built on part of the 3rd floor of the tower as well.

***

“You use the treasures inside the treasure warehouse, Black Rabbit.”

Se-jun said, handing over the Guardian Rabbit Statue of the Treasure Warehouse, which allowed pulling out items from the Red Ribbon Kingdom’s treasure warehouse, to the Black Rabbit as a wedding gift.

From the moment he first obtained this, Se-jun had intended to hand over these treasures to the Black Rabbit once he married Pyupyu.

‘With this amount of treasure, our Black Rabbit won’t have to feel inferior!’

It was to boost the Black Rabbit’s spirits.

“Now I should work again. Black Rabbit, you eat some of this.”

Se-jun handed over five elixir-grade cherry tomatoes. The Black Rabbit, who would become king in the future. He needed to become stronger.

Pyak!

[I will eat well!]

After nourishing the Black Rabbit like that,

Step, step.

while Se-jun was working in the cherry tomato field again,

Chup, chup.

Pyak?

[What is this?]

the Black Rabbit, who was examining the items in the treasure warehouse while eating cherry tomatoes, took out a document and opened it unintentionally.

And

Whoosh.

the Black Rabbit disappeared.

Kkueng?

[Where did second brother go?]

Kkueng, who was eyeing the Black Rabbit’s cherry tomatoes, looked around in confusion.

Kkueng!

[Dad, second brother disappeared!]

Kkueng urgently called Se-jun.

“What?! Why the Black Rabbit?”

Kkueng! Kkueng!

[I don’t know! He rolled open a rolled-up document like Dad did, and then disappeared!]

“What?! A rolled-up document?”

At Kkueng’s words, the land deeds Se-jun had kept in the treasure warehouse came to his mind.

And

“Heck!”

he was horrified. The land deeds kept in the treasure warehouse were the land deeds of the White Tower and the Blue Tower.

“Why would he open that?!”

This was not something Se-jun, who had turned the 99th floor of the tower upside down by spreading open a land deed and traveling to the 77th floor alone, should say. Like uncle, like nephew.

“Kkueng, check if the Black Rabbit is safe through the bronze mirror first! I will try to ask the dragons for help! Aileen!”

Se-jun said to Kkueng and ran to where Kaiser and Kellion were while calling Aileen. If he went to the White Tower, he could at least request help from Kellion or Ajax.

Kkueng!

[Understood!]

Kkueng hurriedly checked the Black Rabbit’s condition through the bronze mirror. Since the surroundings were covered with pure white and sparkling rocks, the Black Rabbit’s appearance was very clear. Fortunately, there was nothing wrong with the Black Rabbit.

At that time, the Black Rabbit took out his squeaky hammer slung on his back and began to guard the surroundings.