Solo Farming In The Tower Chapter 818 91: The Chaotic Housewarming Party (3) / 815

TL: Hanguk

PR: MiniPixelZ

"The thickness of the carrots is all uneven, and what's with how the meat is cooked?! Can't you even get something like this right?!"

Clang!

Baek Sung-jin shouted at the other chefs and threw a frying pan to the floor.

The carrots were sliced evenly, and the meat was cooked exactly as Baek Sung-jin had instructed, but none of the chefs dared say a word.

Why?

Because their opponent was a Michelin 3-star chef.

How long do we have to keep sucking up to someone just because they're higher up?!

Even though he had agreed to it because they promised him a lot of money.

"Have it done properly by the time I get back."

Still fuming to himself, Baek Sung-jin spoke to the subordinate chefs and left the kitchen.

Then, once he got a bit away from the kitchen, he began smoking a cigarette.

"Hoo."

Baek Sung-jin exhaled a long stream of cigarette smoke.

Many chefs quit smoking to properly taste food,

I'm fine though?

Baek Sung-jin didn't bother. He was overflowing with talent and could become a top-tier chef without much effort. He believed that kind of effort wasn't necessary for him.

As he smoked about half the cigarette,

"Hm? What's this smell?"

Where is this food smell coming from?

Baek Sung-jin smelled food coming from somewhere other than the kitchen and turned his head in the direction of the aroma.

Gulp.

His legs moved naturally, drawn by the mouth-watering aroma.

Unconsciously, Baek Sung-jin was being led by the scent.

What the hell?! They called me here and had someone else prepare food?!

When he discovered the food Sejun had prepared, he became enraged. This was an act of disrespect.

Calling a Michelin 3-star chef and then hiring another cook?!

"What?! Who set up food here without my permission?!"

So he got angry. He was a Michelin 3-star chef, and he believed he had every right to be. That's what he believed.

Preparing food so half-heartedly.

I can already tell how low-level this is.

And seeing food stuffed haphazardly into a giant pot,

Was this from a catering buffet?

The other person didn't even seem to be a chef. The delicious smell he had thought was enticing no longer mattered. The other wasn't a chef, after all.

Sensing someone approaching, Iona used an invisibility spell on herself and the group, so to Baek Sung-jin, only Sejun and Aileen were visible.

And clearly, Aileen didn't look like someone who cooked, so Baek Sung-jin naturally assumed Sejun had done the cooking.

In Baek Sung-jin's eyes as he looked at Sejun's food, scorn began to appear.

And then,

"How dare you……."

You're looking at our Sejun's cooking with that kind of expression?!

Tremble tremble.

Seeing Baek Sung-jin, Aileen trembled as she desperately held back the power that looked ready to explode at any moment.

Honestly, she didn't care if other people got hurt or died, but she couldn't allow Sejun to get hurt.

"Aileen, calm down. If he doesn't eat this food, he's the only one losing out."

"Hehehe. That's true. Sejun, like you said, if he doesn't eat this delicious food, he's the only one missing out."

Aileen replied with a bright smile as her anger subsided at Sejun's words.

But then,

Kueng! Kueng!

[He disrespected Dad's cooking! Cuengi will show him the taste of Dad's cooking!]

Cuengi really wanted Baek Sung-jin to know the taste of Sejun's cooking.

"Urgh! What's wrong with my body?!"

After immobilizing Baek Sung-jin with telekinesis, Cuengi kindly shoved Sejun's food into his mouth.

Kihihit. Kking! Kking!

[Hehe. Human! Open wide! Butler's food is coming in!]

"Heehee. Chew thoroughly, please."

Blackie and Taecho watched from the side as Baek Sung-jin ate Sejun's food.

***

Wha… what is this?

At first, he tried to resist the food being forced into his mouth.

But after a short moment,

Crazy! What is this savory taste from the squid?!

And why is the broth so clean and refreshing?!

'What's next?'

After the Slime Blood Leech Soup cleaned his palate, he hoped for the rich, buttery steamed lobster next!

Gulp.

Without realizing it, he was waiting for the next bite of food to enter his mouth. His rational mind refused to accept it, but his body was honest.

Looking back, everything had been perfect.

Baek Sung-jin analyzed the memory of the food that had entered his mouth.

At that moment,

Kueng!

[This time it's a steamed dish Dad made!]

Cuengi placed the steamed petrifying spider into Baek Sung-jin's mouth, and this time he chewed carefully, analyzing the flavors.

As expected, the texture, the seasoning, everything was perfect.

Even if he wanted to nitpick, there was nothing to criticize.

Having deliciously eaten the final spicy stir-fried slime,

'For some reason… my heart feels warm……'

At that moment, the tightly blocked heart of Baek Sung-jin gently loosened, and the memory of when he first decided to become a chef resurfaced in his mind.

The hot summer when he was seventeen.

The handmade knife-cut noodles his late mother had kneaded and prepared herself.

They had been poor, and there weren't even clams in the noodles, but maybe because of his mother's loving touch, it had been delicious. Like magic.

So he made a resolution. He would become a chef and make magical dishes like his mother.

But the cooking he learned as he grew up was different. Cooking wasn't magic. Cooking was science.

He precisely measured ingredient quantities and grilled meat by checking temperatures with a thermometer. The taste came out exactly as calculated, and the person who could produce that calculated taste consistently was considered a top-tier chef.

And if you plated the dish with flashy decoration and added some plausible explanation, everyone acknowledged it. They said it was food worth paying expensive prices for.

But it couldn't bring back childhood memories like this food did. It couldn't give him the courage to try performing magic again through cooking.

More than anything, this food… was just 100 times more delicious than his own.

"I've lost……"

As Baek Sung-jin opened his mouth after eating all five of Sejun's dishes,

Kuehehehe. Kueng!

[Hehehe. Cuengi has shown the chef man the taste of Dad's cooking!]

Cuengi, full of pride, raised his arms in victory.

Kihihit. Kking!

[Hehe. Cuengi hyung! You're amazing! Butler! Cuengi hyung showed that human the taste of your cooking!]

Blackie barked while spinning wildly around Sejun and Aileen.

"Heehee. Then that means we won, right?!"

"No. It just means we gained another rival to eat the food."

"Ah! You're right! Nooo!"

Sejun teased Taecho.

At that moment,

"Thank you for serving such good food. Thanks to it, I've realized a lot. Also, I'm very sorry for earlier."

Baek Sung-jin approached Sejun and offered a sincere thank-you and apology.

And then,

"If it's alright, may I plate the dishes?"

He asked Sejun politely for permission.

Baek Sung-jin felt a desire to beautifully plate this food so people could properly recognize the value within it. So they wouldn't make the same mistake he did.

"Sure. Do as you like."

Since Sejun had planned to let people serve themselves buffet-style anyway, he agreed without much thought.

On the way to gather the other chefs,

Baek Sung-jin called the person in charge and declined the payment he was supposed to receive today. Since he no longer intended to cook today, it was only natural not to take the money.

A little while later.

"Alright. Let's begin!"

"Yes, Chef!"

The chefs who had followed Baek Sung-jin began plating the food with care under his direction.

And then,

[As expected of Park Sejun-nim, the Guardian of Fine Cuisine!]

The gourmet star [Delicious], praising Sejun who guided the lost chef back to the right path, began to shine even on Earth.

***

"Now let's go check out Kyung-chul's house."

"Okay!"

Sejun left his seat while watching the chefs carefully plate the food. He felt a little self-conscious, being the only one not doing anything.

So, entering from the garden into Kyung-chul's house,

Looking at it this way, our Kyung-chul is pretty impressive?

Sejun saw Kyung-chul casually chatting with well-known chaebols and celebrities, faces even Sejun recognized from the news.

Sejun quietly watched him for a moment and then began to explore the house. The house was enormous, and all over the place, refreshments and alcoholic drinks were laid out generously for guests.

And then,

Srrrk.

As Sejun passed near the refreshments, they all started disappearing.

It wasn't because Sejun or Aileen was eating them.

Kuehehehe.

Kihihit.

It was the work of Cuengi and Taecho in stealth mode.

The two of them were stuffing their mouths with snacks and diligently stashing the rest into their snack pouches to eat later.

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Meanwhile,

Kihihit. Kking!

[Hehe. You! Become a subordinate of great Blackie!]

Woof! Woof!

[Loyalty! Loyalty!]

Kking! Kking! Kking!

[Alright! I'm in a good mood! This is a snack reserved for great Blackie, but I'll give you one!]

Blackie had wandered off and was now playing boss, making Choi Mi-na's pet dog Fluffy his underling.

For reference, Aileen usually didn't eat anything other than Sejun's crops or cooking. Taste aside, for Aileen, who valued the flavor of magic power, Earth food always felt like it was missing something. It felt a bit bland.

"Oh, whoa?! There's a game room too?! A PS and a NinS… wow. So many games!"

As Sejun stood mesmerized in front of a room fully equipped for gaming,

"Sejun! Do you want this?! Should I make you one?! I can make it 100 times bigger than this!"

Aileen immediately responded.

"Huh? Nah. These days, games aren't that fun."

Reality is more spectacular and fun.

"Really?"

At Sejun's words, Aileen was disappointed. She wanted to gift something that would make Sejun happy. But unexpectedly, Sejun didn't seem to like much of anything.

While Sejun and Aileen were touring the house,

Who are those?

A man was watching Sejun and Aileen carefully from a distance. He thought they were stealing snacks.

He had been bored and was about to leave, but then- what luck.

The man looked at Aileen with impure intentions and began walking toward Sejun and Aileen.

His plan was to humiliate the guy and kick him out, and have a good time with the girl.

And then.

What is this disgusting feeling?

As the man's gaze turned to her, Aileen felt as though insects were crawling all over her body.

"How dare you…!"

You filthy worm!

Furious, Aileen strode over to the man and tapped him on the shoulder with her index finger.

Thud.

The man collapsed. Forever. Aileen's touch carried a power even Sejun could barely endure, and of course, an ordinary person on Earth couldn't survive it.

And so, a Russian Hunter who had been known as a bloodstained slayer in the shadows lost his life quietly in Korea.

"Aileen…?"

Sejun carefully called out to her, gauging her mood. Her gaze was so cold, he wasn't sure if this was the same Aileen he knew. Honestly, it scared him. He was afraid she might look at him with that same expression.

"Huh? Sejun, what's wrong?"

Thankfully, Aileen's eyes returned to normal at Sejun's voice. They sparkled, radiant and enchanting…

Ehehehe. She's so pretty.

Before he knew it, Sejun was entranced by Aileen's beautiful gaze, losing all sense of reality.

Our Sejun is so cool.

Aileen, too, was completely captivated by Sejun's eyes.

As their faces drew closer, their lips.

Swept up in the mood, Sejun and Aileen forgot all about the consequences of a kiss.

But there was someone who stepped in to stop that kiss on their behalf.

Kkuik–!

The King of Misfortune, Uren, fell from the sky screaming.

-Kekeke. Should I be thanking you for this?

-Kikiki. So many delicious-looking things around here.

-Hoohaha! I'll devour them all!

Bringing dangerous existences with him.

*****

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