Chapter 60: Welcome to the Kindergarten of Destruction! (60)/ 784 |
TL: Hanguk
PR: MiniPixelZ
A month had passed since the sports day ended.
During that time, there had been many changes at the Kindergarten of Destruction.
The biggest change was that among the Children of Destruction, Bongbong, Shyongshyong, and Jjongjjong awakened as [Children of Creation]. After watching the performances of Kongjwi and Patjwi, The Story of Sim Cheong, and Heungbu and Nolbu.
And then
“Teacher Sejun, it’s time for us to learn the Laws of the World. Please send me to the Golden Dragon’s territory.”
“Teacher Sejun, please send me to the Green Dragon’s territory.”
“I want to go to the Purple Dragon’s territory….”
“Alright.”
It felt bittersweet.
And so, the five [Children of Creation] spent weekdays at the dragons’ territories and returned to the Kindergarten of Destruction to rest on weekends, before heading back to the territories again on weekdays.
The [Children of Creation] had matured and no longer cried recklessly and troubled the dragon leaders as they used to.
The leaders still needed to experience more of the spiciness of the Children of Destruction.
So Sejun felt a bit disappointed.
Anyway, with five children gone, the number of kids Sejun had to manage, including Taecho, dropped from 26 to 21.
“Hehehe. Things are relaxed.”
“Puhuhut. It does feel that way, meow!”
“But it’s also a bit lonely….”
“Puhuhut. It does feel that way, meow….”
There was now extra time.
“Is there anything to do?”
As things became more relaxed, Sejun started looking for something to do. Being naturally diligent, he wasn’t good at just idly playing around.
“Ah. Maybe I should take this opportunity to expand the farm on the 10th Tower.”
“Puhuhut. That’s a good idea, meow!”
“Everyone!”
Having found a new task, Sejun called out to his companions.
Kuehehehe.
Kihihit.
Cuengi and Blackie came running over to Sejun’s call.
Once everyone had gathered, Sejun said,
“Door summoning.”
He summoned the gate leading to the 10th Tower in the garden.
Until now, Earth’s level had been too low to open a gate to the Black Tower from Earth, but now that Earth had reached level 6, it could withstand a gate to the 10th Tower. The same went for Paespaes’s dimensional gate.
“Well then, we’ll be off.”
“Okay.”
[Hehe. Sejun-nim, have a safe trip.]
As Sejun and his group entered the 10th Tower,
“Daddy, you have to take Taecho too!”
“Teecher-nim, take Huljeok too!”
“Kuku too!”
Taecho and the Children of Destruction followed Sejun and rushed into the 10th Tower.
Jjok. Jjok.
“Byabya.”
“Ungae!”
Jjokjjok, Ddaeddae, and Aaeeng also toddled and crawled hard to follow after them.
“Ah. I want to go too….”
[Me too….]
Aileen and Flamie, who had to stay behind and guard the Kindergarten of Destruction, couldn’t go along today either.
A little while later.
Sluuurp.
Aileen, lying on a sunbed, took a sip of cool watermelon juice through a straw.
“Khh. So good.”
She wore a happy expression.
[Hehe. Me too.]
Flamie, lying beside Aileen, also smiled contentedly in the warm sunlight.
Unlike Sejun, the two enjoyed doing nothing and relaxing.
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[You have arrived at the 1st floor of the 10th Tower.]
“It’s been a while here too.”
Sejun opened his mouth while looking at the empty land.
In the past, this space had been full of Destruction Devourers and Destruction Pioneers, but after the Destruction disappeared, they all migrated to Kamyeoldaeseong.
At that moment.
“Daddy! You have to take Taecho too!”
“Teecher-nim! Why are you going alone?!”
Following Sejun, Taecho and the Children of Destruction appeared through the gate.
“Ah. I was just planning to do some farming. Wanna join me? If you plant seeds in the ground, you’ll get to eat something delicious later. Who wants to try?”
“I do!”
“Me too!”
Thanks to that, Sejun now had novice workers.
“Hehehe. Alright then. Let’s first learn how to plant. Cuengi, come forward as instructor.”
Kueng!
[Everyone, gather in front of Cuengi!]
“Yep!”
“Yes!”
Taecho and the kids rushed in front of Cuengi.
Kuehehehe. Kueng! Kueng!
[Hehehe. Then Cuengi will teach you how to plant! If you slack off in the middle, you’ll get scolded!]
Cuengi began teaching Taecho and the Children of Destruction how to plant.
Digging the soil to make a hole, placing the seed into that hole, covering it back with soil, firming the ground where the seed was planted, and finally soaking the soil thoroughly with water.
Cuengi demonstrated the process naturally, like flowing water.
Hehehe. It feels like just yesterday when our Cuengi was planting the Piranha Head in the ground so vividly…
‘Back then, I was horrified.’
As Sejun recalled the past while watching Cuengi with a smile,
“Meow! Chairman Park, watch closely! I, Vice Chairman Theo, can plant well too, meow!”
Theo, trying to earn Sejun’s attention, was diligently planting peanuts in the ground.
Since he was at it, he planted peanuts that Iona liked.
Theo-nim, for me…
Iona was once again touched.
“I see. Our Vice Chairman Theo is doing well too.”
“Puhuhut. Of course, meow!”
As soon as Theo received Sejun’s gaze and praise, he immediately stopped planting and clung to Sejun’s lap again.
Kihihit. Kking! Kking!
[Hehe. Butler! Great Blackie is planting Extremely Delicious Royal Honey Sweet Potatoes! Hurry and look!]
Blackie also planted sweet potatoes to get Sejun’s attention, but
“Everyone, it’s time to pay rent.”
Sejun didn’t hear Blackie’s call as he was busy collecting rent from Patrick, Hamer, and Stella.
Kking…
Jingle! Jingle!
[Great Blackie-nim, I’ll look instead! You’re doing very well!]
Kkobangi shook the bell in place of Sejun to try to cheer up Blackie, but
Grrr. Kking?! Kking?! Kking?!
[Grrrr. You lot! While great Blackie is working, you’re just standing there?! Should we have a group mental training session?! Hurry up and start planting sweet potatoes?!]
It only made Blackie feel worse. Sometimes, staying quiet was the better choice.
Kkiruk!
[Kkobangi, you brat!]
Caw!
[Kkobangi, what have you done!]
Yol-yol! Yol-yol?!
[I’ll make sure the youngest gets proper training! Hey! Youngest! Don’t you know that flattery needs TPO?!] (TL Note: TPO = Time, Place, and Occasion)
Jingle…
[I’m sorry…]
With just one word from Kkobangi, Blackie’s subordinates all began planting sweet potatoes while berating him.
Meanwhile.
[Patrick, the God of Earth, says here.]
“Thank you.”
[Hamer, the God of Farming, also says here.]
“Hehehe. Thank you.”
Sejun received 5 drops of the Earth Elixir and 2 drops of the Enhancing Elixir as rent from the tenants.
[Patrick, the God of Earth, says this rent will be the last.]
[Hamer, the God of Farming, says it’s time for him and Stella to return as well.]
The tenants informed Sejun they would be vacating the rooms.
“Huh? Why?”
[Patrick, the God of Earth, says that with the Destruction gone, there is no longer any reason for them to serve as administrators of the 10th Tower.]
[Hamer, the God of Farming, says that now they must return to the Divine Realm to prepare to welcome the Creator God.]
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“I see… Patrick-nim, Hamer-nim, Stella-nim, thank you for everything.”
Sejun bowed his head and expressed his gratitude.
[Patrick, the God of Earth, has stepped down as the administrator of the 10th Tower.]
[Patrick, the God of Earth, has left the 9th floor of the 10th Tower.]
[Hamer, the God of Farming, has stepped down as the vice administrator of the 10th Tower.]
[Hamer, the God of Farming, has left the 7th floor of the 10th Tower.]
[The great Silver Dragon, Stella Hisron, has left the 7th floor of the 10th Tower.]
The tenants of the 10th Tower had departed.
“Then who’s going to manage the 10th Tower now? Should I do it?”
But how would I even go about doing that?
Sejun was now pondering how to manage the 10th Tower.
[Would you like to activate Administrator Mode for the 10th Tower?]
A message appeared before Sejun.
At that moment.
[Sejun-nim, no! Absolutely not!]
[If Sejun-nim manages the 10th Tower, your mind will collapse. Or the tower will collapse instead.]
[System Eok-Samchiri] quickly tried to stop Sejun. For someone like a sunfish to attempt managing a tower, it was pure nonsense.
I haven’t even tried it yet…
Sejun didn’t have the nerve to use administrator mode, but he didn’t want to show weakness either.
“What? Eok-Samchiri, are you looking down on me?”
He took his frustration out on [System Eok-Samchiri].
However.
[That’s not it.]
[There’s just a better way.]
“A better way?”
[Yes. How about appointing Aileen-nim as the administrator of the 10th Tower?]
[System Eok-Samchiri], having already anticipated narrow-minded Sejun’s reaction.
“Aileen?”
[Yes. If Aileen-nim becomes the administrator of the 10th Tower, within the 10th Tower, her energy cannot affect you, Sejun-nim, the master of the 10th Tower. Furthermore, within the 10th Tower, the power Aileen-nim exerts on you can be reduced to one-tenth.]
“Huh? That kind of function didn’t exist before.”
If that had been possible before, Sejun would have gone directly to Patrick and Hamer to collect the rent himself.
[Thanks to my hard work upgrading the functions of the 10th Tower, it’s now possible.]
“Oh. Really?”
[System Eok-Samchiri] had already prepared the option Sejun would like in advance.
Of course, this wasn’t something that could be achieved through hard work alone.
To make the impossible possible, what was needed was the force that moves the world, causality. In the end, it required money, and [System Eok-Samchiri] issued a massive amount of Sejun Company bonds to cover the cost.
The bond interest was, of course, squeezed out of Uren. Because Uren’s misfortune constantly brought about trouble even without doing anything, he kept getting charged higher insurance premiums, ensuring there was never a shortfall in interest, so long as Uren didn’t default.
“Hehehe. Good job, Eok-Samchiri.”
[Thank you! I will continue to work hard for Sejun-nim!]
[System Eok-Samchiri], having received praise from Sejun for the first time in a while, was delighted.
I should ask Aileen right away.
Just as Sejun was about to return to Earth to ask for Aileen’s opinion,
Creak.
Creak.
“Hm?”
What’s this?
He heard a sound of something rapidly growing.
Curious, Sejun turned his gaze toward the source of the sound,
“Hehehe. The corn I, Kkangkkang, planted is growing!”
“And the potato Shyongshyong planted too!”
He could see the seeds planted by the Children of Destruction rapidly sprouting and growing.
Kuehehehe. Kueng!
[Hehehe. It must be because Cuengi taught them so well!]
Cuengi was happy to see it, smiling brightly. Unfortunately, it wasn’t because Cuengi had taught them well.
A portion of the Children of Destruction’s energy of creation had seeped into the seeds as they eagerly planted them, and.
[The potato planted on the 1st floor of the 10th Tower is growing into a World Tree.]
[The corn planted on the 1st floor of the 10th Tower is growing into a World Tree.]
[The carrot planted on the 1st floor of the 10th Tower is growing into a World Tree.]
…
..
.
They had grown into World Trees. News that would have delighted Flamie.
[Hehe. The number of World Trees has increased!]
Actually, she already knew.
“Why isn’t the one Huljeok planted growing?”
“Hehe. But the one Mingming planted is growing big!”
Apparently, not everything the Children of Destruction planted would grow into a World Tree.
“Huh?! The one Chacha just planted worked, but this one didn’t?”
And not everything always became a World Tree either.
Like that, 15 World Trees had suddenly taken root on the 1st floor of the 10th Tower.
“Hehe. Daddy! The one Taecho planted is the biggest!”
Even the Sweet Potato Dimensional Tree.
Kihihit! Kking! Kking!
[Hehe. This sweet potato is extraordinary! Butler! Let’s make extremely delicious roasted and dried sweet potatoes from this!]
Blackie, who had run over at some point, charged toward the Sweet Potato Dimensional Tree,
Pababak.
He began furiously digging the ground to harvest the sweet potatoes.
However, the opponent was a Sweet Potato Dimensional Tree.
[How cruel! You want to roast and dry me to eat?! Even if you’re the older brother of the one who created me, I can’t forgive you!]
Slap. Slap.
The Sweet Potato Dimensional Tree moved its vines and smacked Blackie on the butt.
Kking! Kking!
[Butler! The sweet potato hit great Blackie! Hurry and scold it!]
Blackie quickly hid behind Sejun and tattled on the sweet potato.
Even though five children had left the Kindergarten of Destruction, Sejun’s life was still as hectic as ever.