Chapter 411 – Farm Story: Bespin Town
Seong-il makes some money by selling milk from Anne to Yuna. Then, someone opens the door of the store and starts to come inside.
“Ann! How are you doing?”
“Oh! Is Daddy here?”
“Yeah. I’ve been to Mineral City. The competition next week… Hmm? Who is that guy?”
The appearance of a middle-aged man with impressive broad shoulders. He finds out his holy day belatedly while having a thoughtless conversation with Anne, her daughter.
“Oh, that friend? It’s Han Seong-il! The grandson of Grandpa Lou, who passed away.”
“Ah… Are you the newcomer to our island? Nice to meet you. My name is Jack.”
“Nice to meet you, Uncle Jack.”
Jack finished greeting each other lightly. When he finishes introducing himself, he asks Seong-il with slightly greedy eyes.
“Seeing that you’re here, you’re already thinking about starting a herd? Sheep? Cattle?”
“Ah… Well… Not so much… A cow…”
“Ohhh! Are there any cows? Equipment? The barn… Well, there are some used ones, so it’ll be fine.”
“I have a cow.”
“Oh yeah?”
Jack asks Seongil’s answer with a nonchalant expression. He speaks to him with a triumphant expression on his face.
“It’s not like you bought a cow from our ranch… Do you think it’s a cow that was previously raised outside?”
“Yes. What is it?”
“Haha!! Then the milk must be of a lower grade? Have you ever tried our farm’s milk?”
Jack’s expression full of confidence. At his words, his daughter Anne looks at Jack with a slightly restless expression.
“Why do you think so?”
“That’s right! Of course, it’s because the milk from cows raised on pasture blessed by the Goddess is the best in the world, right? You haven’t drank milk from our ranch yet? Ann!”
“Oh… No, Dad. I ate him.”
“What?”
Jack doesn’t understand what his daughter is saying. According to his common sense, the milk of a cow from outside cannot surpass that of a cow raised in the blessed pastures of Bespin Town, so he is confused and does not understand the content of the conversation between the two.
“By the way, I also drank milk from a cow raised by that friend.”
“…Really? What rank is it?”
Jack’s expression hardens in a strange atmosphere. When he asks Anne about her grade, Seong-il replies instead of Anne as if intercepting the answer.
“It’s first class.”
“!!!”
Shocked Jack. Instead of answering him, Anne poured out a glass of milk she had brought for her holy day and handed it to him.
Gulp… Gulp…
“!!!!!!”
Jack, unable to understand what they are saying, drinks the milk Anne gives him. Then the fantastic flavor felt in his throat.
“Uh… How!!!!”
Jack thought that only the cows in Mineral City, located on the same island, could beat the cows raised in the pastures of Bespin Town. The milk given to him by Seong-il gives him a fresh shock.
“…Did you buy cows raised on the pastures of Mineral City or Bespin Town?”
“No? It’s a cow I’ve been raising since a very long time ago?”
“…Outside the island?”
“Yes.”
“Mah… That’s ridiculous!! How is that even possible!?”
Jack screamed with a frozen expression in shock. The answer of Holy Day was shocking to him, who thought that no cow in any region could surpass the cow raised in the pasture blessed by the Goddess of Harvest.
“You’re not lying?!”
“…Why do I lie?
“Mi… I’m sorry. It’s hard to believe. Did you put any additives in the milk by any chance?”
“Was it?”
“That…Then how?!”
Jack, the ranch owner, asks Seong-il about the secret with a puzzled expression. Seong-il sees his expression and answers him with a fishy smile.
“Ah! It’s because of the nutritional supplement I developed.”
“Nutrients?!”
“Yes. It was originally made for the purpose of nourishing tonic, but interestingly, it has the effect of making cow’s milk delicious.”
“!!!”
Shocking Seongil’s answer. Jack, who was stressed over the competition with Mineral City, asks him with an urgent expression.
“That… Can you give me a sample of the nutritional supplement? If the performance is good, I’ll buy it in bulk!”
“Well… It’s because it wasn’t a drug made for sale in the first place. It’s kind of like giving it away.”
“Ugh! Don’t do that! If it goes well, you can make a lot of money too? And…”
“And what?”
“…They say there’s a contest for the best milk next week! We’ve always been in second place behind Mineral City in recent contests. Can you help out for our village?”
Just in case, I tried toss it, and Jack blows Seongil’s rice cake. Seong-il tries to push and push with him to make the most of what has happened.
“I’m sorry, but what does winning the ranch have to do with the interests of the village, and why do I have to sacrifice for that? I don’t want to…?”
“Uhhh! Don’t do that…!! If we win and the dairy industry in the village shines, the unit price for your product, which is trying to start a dairy business in this village, will also go up! Then you will benefit too!! “
“Well… I honestly have no intention of doing dairy farming properly…”
“Please! Honestly, I don’t want to ask you this! I trust the kids on my ranch too! If I had thought I could beat Mineral City’s milk, or had I had enough time, I wouldn’t have asked for this. Going to be!”
“Hmm…”
“It’s like grabbing a straw. If you don’t like giving nutritional supplements…”
“Or not?”
Jack looks at Seong-il with a strange expression. He lowers his voice and asks him quietly.
“…Why don’t you lend or sell your cow to me, even just for competitions?”
‘It’s here.’
The farm story, the appearance of two optional events from the ‘Ann’ strategy. Seong-il knew that if he made this choice through gameplay, he would never be able to defeat Anne during gameplay.
‘In the original story, when Anne saw the main character and her father cheating on each other’s cattle, she became extremely disappointed in them, right?’
‘My respect for my father collapsed, and I came to hate the main character who was the starting point. After that, attacking became impossible. That’s why I’m going to FM!!’
After organizing his thoughts, Seong-il hardens his expression and speaks to Jack in a cold voice.
“…It’s disappointing. Isn’t that against foul play?”
“…”
“I’ll pretend I didn’t hear it. Then I’m done.”
Seong-il makes a cold expression and turns his back after glaring at him. He even secretly raises his internal energy slightly and then exudes a subtle life.
Flinch!
Jack, a normal person, is unable to do this or that and just stands still at the subtle threat of Seong-il, who has learned martial arts, despite his bear-like size.
‘Umm… It’s a little different from the gameplay and content… But it went roughly like this, right?’
As if in disappointment, Seong-il coldly turns his back and pretends to leave the store.
‘Shall we wait here for a minute? It would be nice if it went according to the game event…’
Seong-il, pretending to leave, sits outside the door and spies conversations inside the store.
“Dad. Are you really unbeatable?”
“…Yes. I went to Mineral City today and secretly tasted the milk of a major competitor. It tastes subtly better than the milk from our ranch.”
“…”
Anne’s expression hardens at Jack’s words.
“Haa… Since the appearance of a young dairy farmer in Mineral City, we keep losing market share! If we don’t achieve meaningful results this year and lose our customers again, we might have to sell some of the cows at a bargain price.”
“Dad! What are you talking about! We can definitely win!!”
“Haa… I think so too, but I don’t think we’ll be able to win in the next week…”
“…”
At Jack’s words, Anne puts on a bitter expression and lowers her head lightly.
“But!! I’ll try my best!! Dad, let’s go and check who’s in the best condition!!”
“Yes!! Dad!!”
‘Oh! Shall we go in soon?’
As their conversation seems to come to an end, Seong-il goes back to their shop as if he doesn’t know anything.
“Oh! Are you here? Maybe you’ve changed your mind…”
“No? I just left my hat there.”
“Ah…”
“Enough then.”
As if there is nothing to see, Seong-il creates a scene about to leave the store.
“For a moment!!”
‘Did you come?’
Seong-il was able to grasp Ann’s feelings in real time through 『Emotion』. He could feel her emotions wavering in her.
“Why?”
“…Actually, I’m the type of person who wants to receive results only for the amount of effort I put in.”
“However?”
“But… It’s because my dad’s and me’s dreams depend on it. I don’t want the ranch he’s been working hard on for decades to be in jeopardy. That’s why I’m begging you please. Could you share that ‘nutrient supplement’?”
“…You say you don’t like expedients?”
In his heart, he wanted to do it right away, but to bring out Ann’s earnestness, Seong-il tries a close push-and-pull.
“Because there’s not much time left! There’s only one week left, so I’m going to try it with the feeling of grabbing at least a straw.”
“Hmm…”
“And using nutritional supplements is not an expedient! The expedient is always the act of secretly bringing in your cow. It doesn’t matter if we feed our dairy cows, which we’ve been working hard on, nutritional supplements, right?
Ann, who has been completely taken over by her own tricks. Although Seong-il was delighted on the inside, he doesn’t show it on the outside and shows trouble.
“Can’t I?”
Ann quickly approaches Seong-il and asks again. She asks him in a earnest voice if she thinks that the fact that her holy days are in trouble is giving her room.
“Ummm…Original wouldn’t do it but…”
“Ahhh!! That means…!?”
“I’ll think about it this time. I can’t give you a recipe, I’ll just give you nutrients…”
“I… Really?!”
“Yes! Instead!”
“…Instead?”
“Promise me the Goddess of Harvest.”
Flinch.
One of the absolute must-haves of the farm story world.
Farm Story People all over the world believed that they could live a prosperous life thanks to the blessings of the harvest goddess.
Because of this, they had a habit of incurring the wrath of the Goddess of Harvest and fearing that her blessings would disappear, and they had a habit of never breaking promises made in the name of her goddess.
“…Uh, which one?”
An oath made by the goddess very carefully, as long as she had to not break the promise. Ann looks at her holy day with a slightly nervous expression.
‘I’ll have to talk to you as if it’s nothing on the outside.’
Seong-il, who thinks so, hides her sinister intentions and answers her as if she is asking for nothing.
“It’s simple! Two things in total. First, I will keep absolute secrecy about my nutritional supplements and related ‘circumstances’!”
“…Second is?”
“Secondly, follow the nutritional ‘how to use’ exactly and keep the secret!”
“…How to use?”
“Yes. This is the point.”
In her mind, she thinks of her bet and feels her blood boil.
“I understand the secrecy, but why do you ask for correct usage?”
‘Almost passed.’
As soon as she seems to have fallen for her own tricks, her Seong-il desperately pretends nothing is wrong and she continues her words to Anne.
“What is it? If you use that method in a wrong way and a problem arises, moral responsibility arises for me as well.”
“Hmm…”
“So you see my ‘cow’ being milked, and show me how to do the same!”
“Well… I don’t think it’ll be difficult…”
“If you swear on that part, I’ll do it. The most important of these is… You, too, have to feed the ‘dairy cow’ of the same ‘breed’ as the ‘dairy cow’ I raise, with nutritional supplements on the same day!”
“In today?”
“Yeah! Stealing nutritional supplements is going to be difficult.”
“Ah, if it’s something like that… I swear to you!!”
‘Caught!!’
As Anne seems to have fallen for her own insidious tricks, her Seong-il desperately holds back her laughter and tells her to tell her.
“Then come to my farm tomorrow! Show me my ‘cow’, and I’ll show you ‘how to’!”
“Okay!! Okay!! Can I take my cow?”
“Okay!”
Exactly, the nutritional supplement was not a drug used for real ‘cows’, but Ann, who was unaware of the fact, leaves to pick up her cow with her happy expression on her face.
