My House Inspection
Before my regression, whenever I heard about Rena-ttang’s infamous reputation and the trail of incidents she’d left behind in the communities, I always assumed it was all fabricated drama.
After all, you had to figure that half the posts that went up on those boards were pure fabrication.
Was this just some gallery full of nothing but Rena-ttang antis?
But the mountain of surviving video evidence eventually forced a realization on me.
Surprisingly enough, sometimes the truth really does sound stranger than fiction.
And if her very first step down that path had been the incident with Seo Ra-yeong… then maybe I was standing right in the middle of history being made.
Actually, when the My House scandal went down, it wasn’t just one person who got kicked. It was two.
The streamer who’d gone by the nickname Juda during the Wooga-dol audition.
After the Poco Server she changed her name to Yu Da-un and tried to make a fresh start—only to get booted from the Rena Server just the same.
Honestly, in Yu Da-un’s case there was a solid justification.
When Rena-ttang did the inspection, even the viewers were spamming chat saying it wasn’t a house so much as a glorified storage shed. On top of that, after the Poco Server she’d been taking frequent breaks, so her login rate in Rena World was abysmal.
She’d handed them a perfect excuse and a clean justification, so when the official notice went up later there was zero controversy about Yu Da-un’s expulsion from Rena World.
Seo Ra-yeong’s case, though, was a little different.
Her house was the kind of shabby beginner build that screamed “Minecraft noob,” but it still had two floors and decent size, and unlike Yu Da-un she actually logged in reasonably often.
If you set the bar high enough, sure, you could call a house like that a fail. It definitely wasn’t well-built.
The problem was that there were several other houses that were just as bad—or worse.
Those owners got to stay in Rena World without a peep. Seo Ra-yeong, on the other hand, was unceremoniously kicked to the curb.
No one knows the real truth.
You can’t exactly crack open Rena-ttang’s skull and take a look inside.
Even so, the things Rena-ttang said during that My House inspection were loaded with meaning.
“Looking at how you lined the interior with obsidian, I’m guessing you’ve been on a war server before, right?”
“Uh, no. No. I don’t know anything about servers like that.”
“Hmm, is that so? Funny, though—people who’ve been on war servers tend to use a lot of obsidian blocks.”
“No, it’s not like that. I just… I just like war, so I grabbed some and used it.”
Panicking so hard she didn’t even know what she was saying, Seo Ra-yeong just blurted out whatever came to mind.
Rena-ttang casually tossed out a “good work” and turned right around.
A few days later, still completely unaware of her fate, Seo Ra-yeong breathed a sigh of relief thinking she’d made it through unscathed.
A little sad, honestly. But well… she’ll do fine even after getting kicked.
Once Yu Seona opened her own Minecraft server to compete with Rena World, Seo Ra-yeong would end up joining that one.
From what I knew, she actually thrived there, picked up some regular fans, and started raking in a decent amount of Candy donations.
Maybe the outcome if she’d stayed in Rena World would’ve been even worse?
So for now, even though it was a little pitiful, I didn’t intervene.
Interfering could just ruin a future that was already guaranteed…
“When did you even build all this? Must’ve been a lot of work.”
“We’ve got so much love for Rena World that this much is nothing!”
The My House inspection didn’t make any exceptions just because we were a company.
All the crew members, plus Han A-yeon and Subnitti, had logged in early and were waiting in our village—V-City.
“But this place… is this Pyeongchang-dong? Hannam-dong? Why are all the buildings so shiny?”
“Ahaha, we put a little extra care into it.”
While most other residents had built with wood and stone, our V-City was constructed out of quartz and every color of concrete—materials that looked flashy just sitting there.
Even from the outside it was so perfect that an inspection felt unnecessary, but for Rena-ttang this was precious content time where she could tour around with the viewers, so she asked me to show her around.
“This first house is the Mayonnaise House.”
“……Yeah, you can tell just by looking.”
“Mayo thinks mayonnaise is reeeally good, geosida.”
On the roof of the flashy building was an outdoor billboard, and hanging there—made with an item frame—was a giant photo of mayonnaise.
Specifically, the Ottogi Gold Mayonnaise that Mayo loved more than anything!
“Still, the interior’s solid.”
“Right? Basically modern-house vibes.”
A two-story structure with quartz as the base.
The first floor had a living room, a wide hallway, a kitchen, and an item storage room. Climb the stairs on one side and the second floor opened into a bedroom, a big outdoor terrace, and a separate room for enchanting, repairing, and upgrading gear.
“Huh? There’s a ladder here. Where’s this go?”
“……There’s nothing down there, so how about we move on to the next house?”
“Suspicious. You say there’s nothing, but there’s a ladder going down? Hold on a second.”
Rena-ttang brushed off my attempts to stop her and climbed straight down the ladder.
A long stretch of pitch-dark tunnel followed.
Then light gradually began to filter up from below, and the moment Rena-ttang finally escaped the darkness and landed on solid ground, she shrieked in pure shock.
“W-what the hell is this?!”
A flat expanse so vast it was hard to believe it could exist underground.
Glowstone was set into the ceiling at regular intervals, casting a soft light, and the ground was covered in some mysterious red plant that gave off an eerie sheen.
“D-don’t tell me this is…?”
Startled, Rena-ttang reached out and harvested one of the red plants.
Its name was Nether Wart—the stuff that grew near fortresses in the Nether.
The raw material for drugs!
I carefully slipped up behind Rena-ttang and whispered right next to her ear.
“So in the end… you saw it, huh?”
“S-Seo-a…”
Was she terrified? The way Rena-ttang was trembling only made the smile hanging on my lips grow even wider.
“‘So in the end you saw it’ is informal speech, by the way.”
“Yes! I’m sorry!”
Not fear—she was pissed.
Ahem. The underground cavern was enormous.
Of course it was—we’d connected the basements of every single building in V-City to create this scale.
Across that vast land, everything from Nether Wart—the most basic potion ingredient—to carrots, onions, beets, barley, rice, potatoes, watermelons, pumpkins, sugar cane, and every other crop imaginable was growing.
Whew. Me, Mayo, Subnitti, and Han A-yeon—all four of us—had worked on this for two full days and the mega-farm still wasn’t finished.
That just went to show how brutal farming could be.
Still, getting it ready in advance like this was convenient.
Later on, the residents who’d gotten sick of mining would rise up like a swarm of bees demanding a new way to make money, and the alternative that got prepared for them was farming.
Rena-ttang had jacked up the sale prices of crops and cooked food by a huge margin.
From that point on, mining got relegated purely to Diamond CK, and farming became the new meta for making money.
The age of the miner was ending; the age of the farmer was beginning.
If you prepare everything ahead of time like this, you don’t have to scramble around later trying to overhaul the whole profit structure. Or you could just mass-produce ratatouille and stockpile it.
Keep it stored carefully, and once the sale prices get adjusted, just pull it out and sell.
Heh heh. This is what you call the strategy of a regressor who can see the future.
After that little shock, Rena-ttang and the Rena government staff climbed back up to the surface with me and toured the rest of the houses.
Lucy’s house was aquarium-themed.
Glass windows ran all the way along the interior walls, filled with water so the whole place felt like an aquarium.
Inside the glass walls swam every kind of fish and aquatic creature we’d caught from the ocean and deep cave lakes, while the floor was decorated with starfish, seagrass, and coral.
“This is insane. Insane. When did you even make all of this? How did you collect everything?”
“It’s all because of our love for Rena World.”
“Seo-a, I’ve been hearing rumors that your company’s workload is more than double everyone else’s. I didn’t believe it, but looking at this…”
“Ahem! Rena-ttang, that’s a misunderstanding. A misunderstanding.”
“Is it?”
“Yes. Everyone’s doing this of their own free will because they love Rena World. Of their own free will.”
Apparently wanting to verify the truth, Rena-ttang turned around and studied the faces of our company members.
I casually slid in behind her, out of her line of sight, and silently mouthed while making a face.
Everybody smile. You know what to do, right?
“W-we’re really satisfied. I-it’s so much fun. Ahaha!”
“Really? Well, that’s good then.”
Speaking as our representative, Miho revealed the beautiful truth.
The awkward laughter that followed afterward sounded a little tragic, but that was probably just my imagination.
Yeah… for real.