Bunker, You're Mine – The Dream of Homeownership Fulfilled
The moment my dream of owning my own home came true. I calmed my racing heart and opened the shop tab.
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We recommend specifying an installation location.
If there are living beings at the specified location, issues like getting stuck in walls may occur.
Warning! No installation location specified!
If no location is specified, the building will be installed at your current location.
The following are precautions:
1. If installing without specifying a location, absolutely do not lean against walls or objects.
2. If in an enclosed space, curl up in the center, as far from walls as possible, and lie on your side.
3. Installation will be accompanied by slight noise, intense light, loss of sense of direction, etc. Even if uncomfortable, absolutely do not open your eyes during installation.
4. Comply with items 1, 2, and 3.
The system is not responsible for problems caused by the buyer's carelessness.
Installation begins after 10 beeps upon purchase.
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"..."
I'd dived straight into the shop and clicked on the bunker, and this nasty thing popped up. My heart, which had been thrashing with joy, sank in an instant.
Intense light? Loss of sense of direction? Absolutely? This wasn't like the doctors' warnings of "alcohol is bad for your health~." It was more like: if possible, do it outside. Doing it inside could be dangerous. If you're unlucky, you die? You really gonna do this?
"I want to if I could..."
Just in case, I stood by the wooden door. Peeking through the peephole, the Four-eyed Wolf was still sitting outside the house. I hadn't even asked the gallery yet. Taking a photo through the hole was impossible. I'd considered cracking the door open to snap one, but it felt closer than before, making me too anxious to try. Whether the gallery had no info or even Sora couldn't tell me, I had no way to know.
In the end, I had no choice but to close my eyes tight and go for it.
"Sora, this isn't dangerous, right?"
If you follow the precautions, there will be no problem. However, you must follow them.
Info was scarce, but Sora's performance was as reliable as ever with her firm confirmation.
"Alright. Let's do it. No point overthinking." I shook off my anxiety and curled up in the center of the room, lying on my side.
The following are precautions:
1. If installing without specifying a location, absolutely do not lean against walls or objects.
2. If in an enclosed space, curl up in the center, as far from walls as possible, and lie on your side.
3. Installation will be accompanied by slight noise, intense light, loss of sense of direction, etc. Even if uncomfortable, absolutely do not open your eyes during installation.
4. Comply with items 1, 2, and 3.
The system is not responsible for problems caused by the buyer's carelessness.
Installation begins after 10 beeps upon purchase.
Proceed with purchase?
[ YES / NO ]
The precautions screamed danger, right next to the purchase button.
"Bunker, you're mine."
I mashed the YES button hard. The screen in front of me instantly turned blood red.
Construction is now proceeding at your current location!
Follow the precautions!
Alert sound will play upon construction completion!
Construction begins immediately after 10 beeps!
Kkiyaak! So scary! I curled up as tightly as possible, squeezed my eyes shut, and trembled.
As the 10 beeps ended, I felt my body lift into the air, and I braced myself.
Beeeep!
The noise started faint like tinnitus, then intense light pierced even through my closed eyelids, growing and filling the surroundings.
The path to homeownership was no joke. It was this harsh, painful, grueling road.
[ ♬♬♬♬ ]
While I'd been holding still with all my might, an alert sounded, and my floating body touched down on the floor.
"Is it finally over...?"
Opening my eyes, I saw a clean, cozy living room like from a modern home.
"Whoa, this is way too nice... Urp."
Maybe from keeping my eyes shut so long while floating? An intense urge to vomit hit me, and I clamped my mouth shut.
Vomiting on the living room floor on moving day? No way!
I jumped up and bolted toward what looked like a bathroom.
'Bathroom... please have a bathroom here...!'
Was it a gift from the gods after my ten days of hell? Luckily, I found one.
"...Phew. Went back down."
The rising contents settled back into my stomach naturally. Kinda gross, but it worked out.
Touring my new home with a filthy, unwashed body after ten days? Since I'd be cleaning it myself, I didn't want extra hassle.
First day in the bunker, first use! That glorious spot went to the bathroom.
No smell. I'm so happy. "Sob..."
Seeing you so happy makes me happy too, Rain.
Was she comforting my crying self? Sora's screen patted my shoulder.
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This was my reward after all that hardship! For someone who'd showered twice a day, ten days without washing was pure hell.
Splurging this little wouldn't get me hate.
I'll browse the gallery while getting clean.
"Sora, while I'm washing, can you auto-scroll through recent posts with 10+ recommendations on page 1?"
Of course. Now displaying posts from page 1 with 10+ recommendations.
An AI assistant auto-scrolling gallery posts while I wash? This is the taste of power...? My first taste of power was toothpaste flavor.
Saw that post about sharing jam at the orphanage, so I went to one near my house.
Honestly, survival's been so tough I've never helped anyone before lol
I'm a landlord's son near the Imperial Capital, but so what? Even harvesting from tenant farms is a bust every time; barely scraping one meal a day;;
The tenant farmers on our land starve, I starve helping out, Dad starves—total equality lol
But I exchanged old hoarded precious metals in the exchange system and bread poured out? We all smeared jam on bread in the fields, tears streaming down lololol
Can't hog this happiness, right? So to console the tenant farmers who left kids behind, I went to the orphanage they entrusted them to and spread jam around.
Familiar faces since they're blood of folks I worked with before lol
But I was always good to the kids from diaper-changing days—why so scared? Anyway, if you get some leeway, help out locals. That's why I posted (pic: kids happily smearing jam on baguettes with tiny hands) (pic: beaming dark, burly bearded uncle hugging scared kids)
Recommendations: 22 | Disrecommendations: 0
"Isekai Good Deeds Gallery. Not bad." As I watched warmly, it moved to the next post.
Brothers, behold!
Quite some time has passed since the Stone Dust Bread Project capsized.
Long days of agony without a new direction.
But! Thanks to the cheap grain distributed by the Moderator, we've secured crops!
(pic: emaciated dwarf with severely receded hairline cheering with arms wide in front of grain warehouse)
Our task is set. No dissent.
Time to brew ale—our blood, our lifeblood itself.
Brothers, what grains for what brews? Posting to set priorities.
Prioritizing dwarf brothers' opinions, but after we eat our fill, for trade too—speak freely.
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"Oof... they're really thirsty for booze?" I was shocked seeing the pic of the severely balding dwarf cheering. Hairline retreated almost to the crown—stress from alcohol deficiency looked brutal.
"How's the hairline at the scalp...?" Made me think about selling booze in the shop. Maybe I should?
The sole reason I'd been ultra-cautious about shop sales: worry over collapsing the world's economy.
Even before baguettes, I'd scoured the gallery cautiously.
Cheap, quality mass goods flooding a shattered world? It'd strip development potential, trapping people in eternal pre-ruin forever.
"Tough, so tough."
Too greedy, and the bosses pay a house call. Do nothing, and they still come. Gauge that middle line, and I finished my first bunker shower.