SSS-Grade Cafe in Front of The Dungeon — Chapter 22
Klang.
“Uh, I’m going to sleep more … uh, huh?
I opened my eyes because of the loud sound. I jumped to my feet in case something has happened again, but the sound came from none other than the television.
“…”
Mieum, who would normally scratch the floor for food as soon as I woke up, was calm.
It turned out that she was currently obsessed with the TV. On television, a daily drama rerun was in the air, and the actor entered the door with a bang, making a loud noise.
After returning from the tutorial dungeon yesterday, I immediately watered the branch. And after filling my stomach with the leftover gimbap, I fell asleep quickly.
Now, I have a throbbing headache and a backache from sleeping that much. There was nothing I had done other than walking around in the dungeon, but I must have been unexpectedly tired.
Right now, I have to go check if the branch has grown well. This time, it must have taken root properly without withering.
But even after I washed up and came out from the bathroom, Mieum remained seated. I’ve never seen this cat so quiet.
“Mieum-ah, let’s go see the branch.”
“…”
“Mieum, aren’t you hungry? Would you like some food?”
“…”
“Mieum, is it that fun?”
“Waeeong, this is a very important scene right now. It is about to be revealed that the villain swapped the heroine’s child. The abandoned child awakened as the youngest hunter and was adopted by a wealthy family, but he can’t remember his mother due to amnesia. He almost met his mother in the last episode, but his path was crossed by the villain’s scheme….”
“Ah, yeah….”
Mieum-ah, I’m glad you’re happy….
Somehow, I ended up listening to the entire story from the beginning to the end of the drama. It was only after the last scene and the next episode’s trailer was finished that Mieum stood up.
“Do you like that drama?”
“Kyaoong! I just happened to see it.”
“The next episode will air at two o’clock in the afternoon.”
“Who said I’d watch … it’s two o’clock in the afternoon.”
What an easy cat to understand.
I came down to the first floor with Mieum and headed to the space. But as soon as I passed through the blue door of the wall, I hit my head with something.
“Ugh.”
What the hell did I bump into? I rubbed my sore forehead with my palm and lifted my head.
“….Ah.”
It was a large branch that hit my head.
No, a tree. The branch was the size of my body.
The tree was the size of my body, and the trunk was so thick that I couldn’t hug it all even with my arms wide open. Each branch bore a reddish-brown fruit.
A tree big enough to fill this space greeted me.
Although it was written in the status window that it would grow in one day, I didn’t expect it to grow this big overnight.
If we can grow trees in this way, I think the global warming problem can be solved quickly.
“…”
It’s a little, no, quite absurd, but….
Anyway, it’s time to make coffee.
[Congratulations! You have completed ‘Sub-Quest: Our Blue River and Green Mountain’.
Please receive the reward.]
[You have obtained 3 Golden Draw Tickets.]
The moment I checked the Branch of Yggdrasil, which had grown large, a quest completion notification rang.
The name of the quest was strange, I guess it was because it was a tree that grew this big.
A shiny golden draw ticket entered my inventory. I wanted to draw right away, but I left it as it is for now. This is because drawing must be done with a reverent heart.
“It’s the first time I’ve heard of such thing, meoong.”
Mieum, who heard my words, said that it was nonsense.
“It was a stormy night….”
“What are you talking about all of a sudden?!”
“I was approaching the number one spot in the game rankings that day.”
“It has nothing to do with the storm!”
Pak, the front paws flew to me.
Ranked No. 1 as a F2P player. It was a very difficult and lonely road.
From selling personal information to viewing s and grinding … I collected free goods by doing all I could do.
A precious cafe raised by my infinite labor.
However, I was not able to take the first place because I failed to get the ‘Platinum Royal Gorgeous Teacup Set‘ until the end.
Should I give up like this? At that moment of despair, I accidentally pressed the draw button.
With that said, you can guess the ending. At that time, I pulled out a set of the platinum teacups and eventually won first place.
“….this has taught me something.”
“What is that, meooong!”
“The draw must be done in a state of mindlessness. In addition….”
“In addition?”
“If you spin it until it comes out, it’s 100% guaranteed.”
“….”
I felt a bit of a crisis as a human being because I got cold stare from a cat.
Anyway, I tried to turn off the notification window, but I heard a ringing sound again.
[Achievement: ‘Guardian of the World Tree‘ has been achieved. Reward will be applied.]
[Achievement: Guardian of the World Tree
The World Tree, Yggdrasil, has been saved safely.
The World Tree expresses its gratitude to you.
Reward: Strength +10.]
The new achievement notification made me feel better.
It’s not necessarily because of the reward. To be called ‘Guardian of the World Tree’ is somehow cool. I felt like I had done a great job.
What’s more, the reward is pretty good because my strength is increased by 10.
In the tutorial dungeon, Ki Yoohyun defeated the boss that caused me to reach level 5 at once, but because of the staggering rise, I still have only 10 strength.
Now I have 20 in the strength status. It’s doubled thanks to the achievement. How strong have I become?
I rolled up my sleeve, exposed my forearm, and tightened my arm. However, no matter how hard I tried, there was no muscle.
Mieum, who could not bear seeing me like that, murmured from the side.
“That’s not how it works.”
“….is that so?”
…. I received a cold stare from the cat twice today.
After lowering my sleeves in shame, I approached the tree and picked a piece of fruit from the open branches. It has a round shape that resembles a cherry, a reddish skin, and even this unique smell … when I took a bite, it tasted sour and sweet.
It’s really a coffee fruit.
It has a huge name, ‘World Tree Yggdrasil‘, but it’s a coffee tree. I’m not sure if it’s an insignificant thing or not.
So now I have to make coffee from this fruit….
‘Ether-Wiki.’
[Checking your eligibilities … Completed.]
[The Eligible: Your rights have been confirmed…..]
‘Skip.’
I skipped the feast of letters that were listed in a row without any regrets and opened the ‘How to Make Coffee Beans’ section.
《How to Make Coffee Beans》
Type: Food, Beverage>Coffee
Description: Describes how to make coffee beans from fresh Yggdrasil fruit.
How to:
1) After washing the harvested fruits with water, remove the flesh and leave only the seeds.
2) Dry the seeds well in the sun.
3) Complete in about three days.
That’s easy, right?
Related Topics: Roasting
The explanation was simpler than I thought.
It doesn’t look as easy as it seems, but … let’s try just a little bit.
I went back to the store and picked the fruits in a bucket of moderate size. The bucket full of fruits was heavier than I thought, but it was easy to lift thanks to the increased strength status.
Ah, maybe that’s how it works?
Do I have to do a lot of work from now on?
Eh, no way….
However, considering the bucket full of fruits and the rest of the process, I think that is correct. Is it the mercy of Yggdrasil, The World Tree, for me to die because of this?
Next, the fruit was washed in the sink to filter out impurities. Then I returned to this space with the vinyl sheet I found in the warehouse.
“Huk, huuk….”
In a corner of this space surrounded by a dense forest, where the branches did not reach, a vinyl sheet was laid in places where the sunlight was reflected and the fruits were poured on it.
The heavy fruit was twice as heavy because it was wet, and sweats began to form on my forehead.
Now it’s time to separate the seeds from these fruits.
But how?
I read the Ether-Wiki again, but there was no detailed explanation except for the phrase ‘remove the flesh‘.
First, I decided to try peeling the flesh by hand. When I pressed it with my fingertips and gently peeled it off, only the green seeds inside came out.
All right, I can do it this way.
“Waeooong….”
Mieum also helped peel the coffee fruit with her claws. Perhaps thanks to its jagged claws, she is quite good at peeling fruit.
However, doing it by hand has a limit. Even after the two of us peeled off the fruits for a long time, it didn’t seem that the remaining fruits would shrink at all.
I wonder if I can finish this today. As I focused on the small fruit in a bent position, my back and waist also hurt.
It’s so hard to drink an Americano….
“This isn’t it….”
“Kiyaooong! What are you talking about all of a sudden?”
Something felt wrong.
Where did it go wrong? This isn’t it.
… Why am I working so hard?
I returned, quit my company, and decided to open a cafe here. It’s a life where I can work less and rest more. In terms of time, I decided to work two days a week and take five days off a week.
No, I almost lost my original intention because I was tempted by that wicked system.
To seduce an innocent cafe owner with a golden draw ticket….
‘Scary system guy….‘
If it’s a system, shouldn’t there be a way to solve it all at once instead of doing it manually?
When I searched on my phone, I found a machine that automatically peeled off the flesh.
‘Oh, I wish I had a machine like that.’
However, it is difficult to obtain it in Korea, which is not a coffee producing country, and there is no place to put it. Besides, I want to open a cafe, not a coffee farm.
Still, I did not have the energy to remove the remaining flesh by hand.
“Let’s take a break for now.”
I sat moderately on the trunk of the Yggdrasil’s tree. The cool breeze cooled the sweat a little.
Oh, come to think of it, I brought sugarcane from the tutorial dungeon. Is there a place to plant it?
I opened my inventory and tried to take out the sugarcane from the dungeon.
But … there was a red ball in the inventory that I saw for the first time.
Huh, did I put this in there?
After awakened and got an inventory, I put this and that because it was convenient. Wet tissue, band-aid, hand cream, leftover coins and receipts, earphones, and so on … but I don’t remember putting a ball like this.
I took the red ball out of my inventory. As soon as I took it out, the ball got bigger and landed on the floor.
“Kkyuu.”
I heard a familiar cry.
“Kkyuu, Kkyuuu.”
A translucent body resembling red glittering jelly, and this cry. Even the bouncing motion of the body elastically.
It was the red slime I met in the tutorial dungeon.
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Translator’s Corner:
Back in the earlier chapter, it was already stated that Rieul’s status are on the average. I’d like to point out that it’s the average of ordinary people, since F-class isn’t much different from an ordinary people, not Hunters. Hunter is supposed to be far superior than ordinary people. That’s why Ki Yoohyun would naturally judge that she’s weak━because it’s true.
Oh, and F2P shorts for Free-to-play. As a F2P player, Rieul played the game without spending any money. It must be a familiar term if you play games like the popular Gensh*n Impact.
And here’s our cutie slime.
