Chapter 14
Chapter 14
On the way home, we walked leisurely through this harsh world, escorted by Harang's zombies.
Kwadeuk!! Kwadeudeuk!!
Beside us, a muscular zombie was tearing into and eating the head of a regular zombie,
[Experience Gained 5]
and a familiar system window popped up before my eyes.
Even though I was getting all the party experience, I was still level 8. I still had a long way to go until 10, but this comfortable leveling would soon disappear.
"The experience bar really is abnormally huge."
"Hm? I guess so. Let's see..."
Harang started clicking in mid-air.
"Oh~ You're already 8. Hunt hard and hit 10 quickly... My leveling is slowing down because of you!"
"This is based on a fair trade..."
"Tsk!"
Since I was in a position where I was making money and getting boosted, I awkwardly turned my head away.
Without much conversation, we arrived in front of the familiar iron gate.
Tang!
I used the key to open the main gate.
"I'm ho...?"
Mom...? Why are you talking to yourself in the yard?!
"Oh my? Harang-ssi! Welcome... Oh my, oh my! A young lady shouldn't walk around showing so much skin!!"
Mom, who had been talking to herself while wiping the leaves of the plants, welcomed Harang more than me.
"Hello, Mother~ Geumseul-ssi asked me to eat with him, so I stopped by for a moment~"
"Is that so? Well done, son."
Mom patted my butt with her dirt-covered hands and went inside the house with a smile.
"Harang-ssi... How did you seduce my mom...?"
At my question, Harang walked toward the front door.
"Hehe, that's a trade secret!"
She entered through the open door.
"Sigh... I don't know. I'll just eat."
I followed the two women into the house.
--
I headed to the living room so as not to disturb the two of them, and started to worry while taking out the fruits I had looted from Nop-hyung.
'Should I tell Harang-ssi about my abilities...?'
In the kitchen, Mom and Harang were chatting away while cooking.
'No... Let's just tell her about my Disassembly and Information Check abilities. Even that is cheat-level...'
It seemed better to keep it a secret rather than revealing abilities that even Mom didn't know in detail, which would just make things uncomfortable.
"Oh my! Honey! What is all this?!"
Harang, who had come out to the living room for a moment, was surprised to see the fruits I had taken out.
"Son, what did you bring... Is that fruit?!"
Mom, who followed behind, was also surprised to see the fruit.
"I went to Nop-hyung today, and maybe because the basement is dark, it hadn't been looted."
Harang sat next to me and linked her arms, as if showing off to Mom.
"Wow, Honey, that's amazing! How did you pick out only the good stuff in that darkness?"
I turned my head to check Mom's face, and she nodded with a proud expression before going back into the kitchen.
"Harang-ssi... You would have been a good politician..."
"Hm? Is that so? Hehe. Anyway, how did you really get these fruits?"
Besides the fruit, I took out drinks and snacks.
"Thanks to the items I got after killing the Remote Control Zombie last time, I gained night vision. It's blurry, but I can see."
Harang tucked my arm between her breasts, subtly seducing me.
"As expected of a Mutant Zombie~ I haven't seen a single one yet, you're so lucky~"
"Uh... Harang-ssi...? It feels good, but it's uncomfortable..."
Chu
Harang gave me a light kiss on the cheek, then picked up the plastic-wrapped fruits like strawberries and plums and stood up.
"Hehe~ Mother! I'll go wash the fruit Honey brought~ Let's eat it after dinner~"
"Thank you, Harang-ssi."
Is this what married life tastes like... If only I could eat that body as I pleased... Slurp
I shook my head to clear my distracting thoughts, then went up to the second floor to organize the Peanut Butter and other items I had collected.
"The convenience of automatic synthesis when farming is good, but... storage is the real problem."
Fortunately, due to the game system, the butter didn't spoil, but I couldn't just keep it piled up in the warehouse forever.
"I need to find an NPC Village quickly and buy a butter bag..."
Back in the days of the Ruined Game, there was a trading post in every NPC Village, and there was a bag specifically for currency that could only be purchased there.
Despite its small appearance, it was a magical bag that could hold 10,000 Peanut Butters. Back in the Ruined Game days, making money was harder and more annoying than it is now, so no one had ever filled it with 5,000, let alone 10,000.
'If I play my cards right, I might become the first user to hit 10,000... Hehe.'
Finishing up the organizing, I calculated that I currently had a total of 573 Peanut Butters.
'Just looking at it makes me full... Hehehe.'
As I was satisfied looking at the butter containers filling the wall, I heard Harang's voice from outside.
"Honey!! Come eat!!"
"Yes! I'm coming!"
--
When I went down to the kitchen, I saw not only the fresh green lettuce I saw in the morning, but also several side dishes made with the vegetables I had brought from Nop-hyung.
"Son, come eat quickly."
I sat facing Mom, and Harang sat next to me.
Mom smiled happily at the sight again. Sigh... I don't know.
"I'll eat well."
As I said that,
"I'll eat well, Mother~"
Harang also said it after me.
"Hohoho, it's not much, but eat a lot~"
Harang nodded with a bright smile at Mom's words, and at that moment,
[Hey! Mother seems to have Farming and Cooking skills, so if there are any side dishes good for the mental category, introduce some.]
There isn't much land to farm, so there aren't many varieties yet, but...
I nodded at the seductive voice that echoed directly in my head, and checked the information while eating the side dishes in front of me one by one.
However, there were no buffs related to mental state, so I placed the cucumber salad, which helps with vitality regeneration, on top of her rice bowl.
Mom smiled happily, and Harang pinched me under the table with an expression that said, "Cucumber again?"
"They say cucumber is really good for vitality regeneration, hahaha."
"Oh my, is that so? Son, you should eat a lot~ Harang-ssi, you eat a lot too."
"Yes, Mother~"
Starting with the side dish I gave her, Harang finished her meal with the food that had no effects.
--
"Mother, I'll do the dishes~"
"Oh my, why would I make a guest do the dishes? Just go over there and play with my son."
Am I a three-year-old baby...?
Despite that, Harang put on the spare rubber gloves nearby and did the dishes with Mom.
"Oh my, I only had that son of mine, but it's so nice to feel like I've gained a daughter~"
"Hehe, I'll come visit often, Mother~"
Well, look at that?
Shaking my head at the two's display of affection, I went up to my room on the second floor.
"Sigh... Mom has already become Harang-ssi's prisoner..."
I lay down on the bed.
Well, we're in a party,
[Level Up! You have obtained new Free Points.]
...and I'm getting free level-ups... and it's not bad to be close to her, so
I manipulated the system to open my status window.
[Status Window]
Name: Kim Geumseul
Level: 9
Free Points: 3
Hmm... I'm already level 9 and have 3 Free Points.
Thanks to the party experience dump, my level was now on par with Harang's.
'How should I spend these points so people say I used them well?'
While I was pondering this and that,
Ah, damn it! I didn't copy!
I remembered that the cooldown for the copy ability of Manmulcho had ended.
I hurriedly took out the Magnifying Glass of Confirmation from my inventory and used Copy, but the magnifying glass created in mid-air fell onto my face.
Thwack
"Argh!!"
"Ugh... This hurts more than when I dropped my smartphone on my face back in the day..."
I put the newly created magnifying glass into my inventory and opened the skill window.
[A] Blessing of All Things Max
[P] Low-level Spearmanship
[P] Low-level Stealth
'With about 3 points, it wouldn't be bad to learn a new skill...'
At that moment, one of the strategy guides I had seen in the past came to mind.
[Title: Hey, You Can Screw Them Too, Zombie Girls Part 7]
If you ever find a zombie that really suits your taste, what would you do?
Learning Zombie Control for just one zombie makes you an exhibitionist, and cutting off their wrists and ankles makes black blood flow and dirties your house!
So I recommend it! Construction Skill!! (Ta-da!)
Build a prison in your My Home and imprison them there to screw them for the rest of your life!
If you level up the skill to max, your My Home will become an impregnable fortress!
"Right! Learning construction to expand the house was also a good way to survive!"
I immediately moved the Free Points to an empty space in the skill window,
[Please click the skill you want to learn]
Singing Ability
Tickle Resistance
...
Construction
...
Mind Control
...
There were many bizarre skills, but there were also many that seemed useful from time to time.
I pressed the Construction button firmly,
[Confirm consumption of Free Points. You have obtained a new skill.]
[A] Construction: Allows basic construction by consuming materials.
'But you can't build a house with just Construction...'
Like when I learned Construction, I used Free Points to learn a new technique.
[A] Disassembly: Disassemble items to obtain materials.
'Disassembly is a skill called a pair with Construction.'
And I used the remaining 1 point on Construction to raise the skill level.
[A] Construction +1: Allows general construction by consuming materials.
It feels like I'm becoming a jack-of-all-trades... but let's call it an all-rounder rather than a jack-of-all-trades...
I was a bit anxious that I didn't have many attack skills, but since safety came first, I didn't regret this choice.
The moment I got up from the bed to check my newly learned skills,
Burst!
"Honey! Eat some fruit!"
Harang opened the door and came in.
"Whoa, you scared me... Yes, I'm coming down."
"Yeah, come quickly!"
She just delivered the message and hurriedly went down to the first floor,
I'll have to test it later.
I went to the warehouse, packed 100 butter containers into my bag, and followed her to the kitchen.
Mom and she were already sitting at the table eating the strawberries I had brought.
"Son, come eat quickly. It tastes even better since it's been a while."
"That's right, Mother~ To think we'd be eating strawberries in a world like this. Honey is truly amazing!"
"Hohoho, I'm glad my son is being helpful~"
I sat in the chair listening to the two women's chatter and put a cleaned, ready-to-eat strawberry into my mouth.
Crunch!
Since the strawberry I ate was one purchased from the shop, it wasn't mushy at all, and the juice that filled my mouth the moment I bit into it was excellent.
"Oh, this is delicious."
It was worth the trouble of smelling the rot.
Like that, we emptied a container of strawberries in an instant.
'Whew... I have to say it, right?'
It wasn't the right thing to say after a delicious meal and a perfect dessert, but
"Mom, you know Mr. Park's house downstairs..."
"Hm? What about Cheonho's father?"
"Well..."
As I opened and closed my mouth, not knowing how to explain it, Mom seemed to understand the situation and lowered her head.
"I see... Cheonho's father has passed away..."
"It seems like everyone else... has passed away too..."
At my words, the warm atmosphere in the kitchen instantly turned dark,
[Hey, you idiot! How can you say that now!]
Harang pinched me for ruining the mood.
I grabbed her hand that was pinching my thigh to stop her, then opened my mouth again.
"Mom, according to the system, that house no longer has an owner... It's not good to leave empty land abandoned forever, is it...?"
"What... what do you mean?"
"I want to buy Mr. Park's house and turn it into land where Mom can farm. And if I can put up other buildings, I will."
Mom lifted her head and stared intently at my face, then smiled awkwardly.
"Yes... You're right, son... Honoring the dead is important, but... in this world, the living are more important... Thank you, son..."
Seeing Mom smile weakly made my heart ache, but it was something I had to say eventually, and a mountain I had to climb.
Creeak
I immediately got up from the chair and headed to the front door.
"It'll be okay, Mother! So... damn it!"
Harang, who had been comforting Mom, seemed to realize she needed some time alone, so she approached me, acting irritated.
So we came out to the yard.
Thwack!
Ouch... System-ssi? Are you not working?
We were clearly in a party state, and since Harang was a guest, it should have been absolutely impossible to attack.
But Harang's palm struck my back.
"Hey, you idiot! Did you have to say that now?!"
"It couldn't be helped to survive..."
I can't figure out the system...
I shook my head, then went to the wall in the yard and reached out.
[Daegu Metropolitan City, OO-ro 6-gil 7-7]
My Home Owner: None
Purchase Available: 100 Peanut Butters
I took out the bag I had just packed from my inventory, then moved my hand and pressed the purchase button firmly.
[Purchase My Home.]
[Refunds are not possible after purchase.]
[Accept] [Decline]
When I pressed the Accept button, the Peanut Butters that were full in the bag were disassembled and disappeared.
[First My Home Purchase Reward!]
[The duration of all purchased functions is doubled.]
I was clearly depressed until just a moment ago, but seeing the reward pop up before my eyes, I couldn't help but smile.
Damn... I've adapted to this fucked-up world.
I immediately manipulated the system,
[Daegu Metropolitan City, OO-ro 6-gil 7-7]
My Home Owner: Kim Geumseul
Current Functions
Absolute Protection (13 days 23 hours 59 minutes)
Power Supply (13 days 23 hours 59 minutes)
Water Supply (13 days 23 hours 59 minutes)
Crop Growth Buff (13 days 23 hours 59 minutes)
...
Since 14 days were applied even if I only purchased for one week, I purchased a large amount of buffs without much worry.
Harang, who was watching from the side, was surprised to see the amount of buffs I had applied to the house.
"Hey! How do you have so much money?! Just the house is 100, and Absolute Protection is 30 per week!!"
The total Peanut Butter I just used was 170.
Harang had only obtained 100 in 3 days by making zombies work, but I had used 170 on the 4th day while buying a new house.
"Haha... There's a way for everything."
At my words, Harang smiled slyly and tucked my arm into her massive breasts.
"Hehe, Honey~ It seems like the electricity at my place is about to cut out~"
Swish
Whether I had gotten used to it after being subjected to it a few times, or because the issue of money made me cold-headed, I pulled my arm out of her breasts.
"Harang-ssi, you make money well, don't you? Buy it yourself."
"Damn it... Hey! Be a little generous!!"
"We'll see how you behave~"
Tang!
Laughing at the voice behind me, I opened the main gate and headed through the alley to the house I had just bought.