Chapter 69 – Being Hated

Aileen, who was lying on the floor due to the rampage of her Dragon Heart, opened her eyes.

“Am… I alive…?”

Aileen checked her physical condition, moving her limbs and wings. There was nothing wrong with her body.

“The Dragon Heart?”

Aileen, whose Dragon Heart had only just started to get better, focused on the beating of her Dragon Heart with a nervous mind.

Thump thump. Thump thump.

She felt the beating of the Dragon Heart rhythmically.

“Huh?!”

The beating of the Dragon Heart was better than she thought. Rather, it was much better than before it rampaged.

“How did this happen?”

Aileen checked the messages to know the situation when she fainted through the crystal ball.

And seeing the message [Tower Farmer Park Se-jun completed the quest.], Aileen recalled the fact that she had lost consciousness while calling Se-jun at the last moment.

“Ahem… it’s a bit embarrassing…”

Even though she was not hot, Aileen fluttered her wings and arms for no reason, diligently checking the messages.

“Indeed, the commendable human saved me.”

Aileen felt good that Se-jun had saved her. She felt sorry for her grandfather, but she thought it was a relief that Se-jun had saved her.

“Khehehe.”

Laughter came out for no reason.

“But… what is Honey Jelly?”

Aileen tried to recall the taste of Honey Jelly, but…

“Hmph! Because I ate it when I fainted, I don’t know what it tasted like.”

Aileen thought she would have to get Honey Jelly from Se-jun later to verify the taste.

“No!”

But soon she thought she shouldn’t do that.

“To think that as the great black dragon, I was saved and then try to get even Honey Jelly to eat!!”

Receiving something else without paying back her life debt was not something the great black dragon should do.

“Khehe. In that case, I can just pay it back!”

Thud!

“Opening the Pritani Collection Warehouse!”

Aileen kicked the door of the collection warehouse and entered. Then she began to search for items to gift to Se-jun, looking at the items collected by the ancestors of her family.

However,

[Demon Sword Apophis], [Gae Bolg], [Holy Sword Excalibur]…

“Sniff… I’m upset. There is nothing Se-jun can use…”

Among the items displayed in the collection warehouse, there was no item that Se-jun could equip with his level and stats.

At that moment,

“Ah!”

An item came to Aileen’s mind.

“Khehehe. Se-jun, wait!”

Aileen, who left the collection warehouse, ran to the garden of the Tower Administrator’s area.

***

When Se-jun, who blocked Aileen’s Dragon Heart rampage, finished harvesting cherry tomatoes and was eating dinner,

[The Tower Administrator says thank you for saving her life.]

Aileen woke up.

“Aileen, is your body okay?”

[The Tower Administrator says she got better thanks to you.]

“What a relief. Eat this. They say this will help you, Aileen.”

Se-jun handed over 3 Honey Jellies. Originally there were 5, but he gave 1 each to Mother Crimson Giant Bear and Cuengi.

[The Tower Administrator says she has no shame to keep receiving.]

“Shame? What was it so far then?”

[……]

[The Tower Administrator says she will pay back her life debt first.]

[A quest occurs.]

[Quest: Shout ‘Aileen’ loudly toward the sky.]

Reward: Something very big and good!

Upon rejection: Rejection is rejected!

“Something very big and good? What is that?”

While Se-jun was curious, reading the reward,

“Puhahat. I know what is very big and good, meow!”

Theo, who was eating Churu on Se-jun’s lap, shouted.

“What is it?”

“Puhahat. Chairman Park does not know the world of adults yet, meow!”

Theo climbed down from Se-jun’s lap.

“Hey!”

Although Se-jun quickly stopped Theo, feeling a sense of crisis that he would see something unpleasant for some reason,

“It is exactly this, meow!”

Theo pulled it out faster than Se-jun.

“…Huh?! Is that the world of adults?”

“Yes, meow! Only adults can eat such a large fish, meow!”

Theo took out a huge fish from his bundle on the floor and lifted it with both paws, shouting confidently. It was a yellowtail that appeared by several fish in the pond lately.

“Theo, have you ever dated?”

“W-why are you asking that suddenly, meow?!! Umeow! Oren! That bastard! I will definitely get revenge, meow!”

Thump! Thump! Thump!

At Se-jun’s question about dating, Theo, who suddenly recalled the past where he was deceived by Oren and confessed to Marie only to be humiliated, beat the ground and rampaged.

“I shouldn’t have asked. I’m sorry…”

“Oren, you bastard! I will punish you, meow!”

Thump! Thump! Thump!

While Theo vented his anger on the ground like that,

“Aileen!!!”

Se-jun shouted Aileen’s name loudly toward the sky.

[You have completed the quest.]

[As a quest completion reward, you have obtained the Very Big and Good Aileen’s 100th Birthday Commemorative Fountain.]

“Aileen’s 100th Birthday Commemorative Fountain?”

Thud!

With a giant vibration, a huge fountain was erected next to Se-jun’s brick house.

A circular basin with a diameter of 100m, made of luxurious black stone at a glance. And in the center of the basin stood a statue of a black dragon whose eyes were decorated with brilliant red gems.

The black dragon statue was roaring with its mouth open in a dynamic posture as if it would come alive and move even now.

While Se-jun was looking at the statue like that,

Flash.

The eyes of the black dragon statue shone,

Shhhhh.

Water squirted in a curve from the mouth of the black dragon statue, creating a beautiful rainbow.

And,

Creak.

The black dragon statue slowly began to rotate 360 degrees.

“Wow.”

Exclaiming, Se-jun approached the fountain and examined it.

[Aileen’s 100th Birthday Commemorative Fountain]

A fountain commissioned by the dwarf King and company at the request of the great black dragon Kaiser Pritani to commemorate the 100th birthday of Aileen Pritani.

Only black marble, a high-grade material, was used for all materials, and the black dragon statue was modeled after the appearance of the requester, the great black dragon Kaiser Pritani.

The two eyes of the black dragon statue used magic stones directly engraved with magic by the great black dragon Anton Pritani.

The fountain can produce water on its own or pull water from a water source within a 10km radius.

The strength, direction, and distance of spitting water can be freely adjusted.

Orderer: Great Black Dragon Kaiser Pritani

Creator: Dwarf King and company

Grade: S

Skills: [Water Production Lv. 50], [?????], [?????]

“There is no usage restriction?”

[The Tower Administrator says that because it is an installation-type item, there is no usage restriction.]

“Ah! An installation-type item?”

It was an item Se-jun had only heard of.

[The Tower Administrator says you will now be able to reduce the time spent watering.]

“Aileen, but why are the other skills question marks?”

[The Tower Administrator says she doesn’t know because her grandfather didn’t tell her.]

“Then how do you operate the water?”

[The Tower Administrator says if you place your hand anywhere on the basin wall, a control screen to adjust the water appears.]

“Like this?”

When Se-jun touched the basin wall of the fountain, a control screen appeared.

***

“Ahem… I don’t like it.”

The more Kaiser thought of Se-jun, the more uncomfortable he felt. His opportunity to see his granddaughter once every 10 years disappeared because of a guy named Park Se-jun.

“Father, please compose yourself. Didn’t Aileen’s condition improve thanks to that human Park Se-jun?”

Aileen’s father, Anton Pritani, spoke to Kaiser with a smile. Anton was considerably encouraged while looking at the activity record of the emergency system.

It was the first time that Aileen’s Dragon Heart did not worsen but rather improved after rampaging.

However,

“That is also insolent! Extremely insolent!”

Kaiser also did not like the fact that Aileen’s Dragon Heart, which showed no progress even when he stepped forward, improved with Se-jun’s help.

He wanted to hate him… but he owed him a favor.

But then, he didn’t like that either.

Like a pendulum, Kaiser’s heart swung back and forth between insolence and gratitude.

“Still, I must reward him…”

While Kaiser was contemplating what to give Se-jun as a reward for saving Aileen,

[The location of Aileen’s 100th Birthday Commemorative Fountain is changed.]

[Aileen’s 100th Birthday Commemorative Fountain is installed on the 99th floor of the tower.]

“What?! The 99th floor of the tower?”

Kaiser had put his heart and soul into making Aileen’s 100th Birthday Commemorative Fountain for his granddaughter who was alone in the tower. But to think she installed it on the 99th floor of the tower…

“Activate the video transmission system.”

[Activating the video transmission system of Aileen’s 100th Birthday Commemorative Fountain.]

To find out what was going on, Kaiser used the video transmission skill he had hidden from Aileen. The black dragon statue rotated 360 degrees, recording and transmitting the surrounding video.

In the video, many monsters such as cats, rabbits, Crimson Giant Bears, and Black Minotaurs were visible. And one human visible among them. Kaiser felt he knew who that human was as soon as he saw him.

“Grrr! You bastard! Park! Se! Jun!”

Kaiser’s pendulum swung to insolence toward Se-jun, who monopolized his granddaughter’s attention, and Kaiser raged once again.

Aileen, you kid!

Do you like that guy that much?! Enough to give away the gift I gave you?!

“Black dragon statue! Show that guy a lesson!”

Along with Kaiser’s shout, the gaze of the black dragon statue turned toward Se-jun.

***

“Oh. So this is how you do it.”

While Se-jun was watering the fields while learning how to adjust the water of the fountain,

Creak.

Bang!

The black dragon statue suddenly changed direction and began to fire water cannons toward Se-jun.

“Ugh! Why is it suddenly doing this?!”

Suddenly showered with water, Se-jun was flustered. Although it was not painful, he couldn’t understand the reason why it did that.

“I hate water, meow! Chairman Park, escape quickly, meow!”

Theo, who was showered with water together while hanging on Se-jun’s knee, shouted to Se-jun. Even while getting hit by water, he didn’t seem to have any intention of falling off Se-jun’s knee. I will stay with Park Se-jun’s knee until the end of the world, meow!

Bang! Bang!

Se-jun escaped the water cannons for now. Fortunately, the water cannons ended after being fired about 20 times.

“Phew. What was that?”

Se-jun used the fountain to water the fields again and went to bed.

And dawn.

Crunch. Crunch.

The Branch Scouts invaded again. Perhaps because Se-jun set fire to the western forest had an effect, the bodies of some Branch Scouts were charred black.

Unfortunately, he couldn’t receive Flamie’s flame buff.

It was said that Flamie’s leaves, which turned white and yellow after using the Flame of Purification and the Flame of Affinity, had to turn green again for the flame buff to be used again.

“Guys, let’s go!”

“I will slaughter them, meow!”

Ppyak!

Cueng!

Se-jun and the animals ran out to defeat the Branch Scouts.

However,

Kuwerng!!!

At the same time Mother Crimson Giant Bear roared toward the enemies, the battle ended. With a single roar from Mother Crimson Giant Bear, the Branch Scouts turned to dust.

Mother Crimson Giant Bear, who ate 1 Honey Jelly and had her talent strengthened. It was thanks to her talent, Mana Roar, which was near the end of growth, growing into Mighty Mana Roar.

“Uh… let’s sleep again.”

“Let’s do that, meow…”

Ppyak…

Cueng…

The four who couldn’t be active trudged back into the house.

And,

Kuong?

Mother Crimson Giant Bear scratched her head, thinking, ‘Did I discourage the kids too much?’ and lay back down in her spot.

And Se-jun, who didn’t fight in the dawn, woke up early in the morning for the first time in a while.

“Upsy-daisy! Aileen, tonight is okay, right?”

[The Tower Administrator tells you to just trust her.]

The 241st day of being stranded. Se-jun’s 9th Blue Moon was approaching.