To get straight to the conclusion, the random box was decided to be sealed.
Of course, pulling a gold bar once wasn’t enough, and getting another one right after was incredibly thrilling.
Is this why everyone gets addicted to gambling?
[You can open the box by investing 60 levels and 120 stats. If you lack levels and stats, you can invest 20% of your lifespan instead. Investing all stats and levels, or adding your own instant death probability, increases the chance of good items coming out.]
This is insane.
It’s starting to demand all-in?
The gold ingot obtained by downgrading from level 800 to 690 is heavy.
I could use this as a dumbbell for arm exercises.
The Box of Desire has grown to the size of a tissue box, so wouldn’t it be nice if gold came out one more time? The thought is desperate.
Just one more time!
Kim Chang-hwan and his bastard son.
And our examinee friends?
It’s okay to live as if they are strangers.
The problem is………….
“What are you doing?”
“……”
The queen stopped her aggressive seduction.
“I’m a queen in my own way.”
“A queen?”
“I have pride too, and I’m upset…..!!”
“O…….”
This is the first time I’ve heard the queen complain to me.
Even my level doesn’t go up.
It doesn’t seem like seduction. This.
It’s true that, crazed by money, I saw the female body as stone right now.
It means the power of money was strong enough to overcome this myriad of charms.
I never expected that even I would feel the Nightmare Queen’s chest as having a stone-like texture.
Still, because I needed money, I added one more word.
“No, I said I need money?”
“If you make me bite, I’ll bite too. Meow.”
Uh, that was cute.
“You’re extorting money from a man? Don’t do that. That’s a crime here.”
“Gambling is a crime too, right?”
She couldn’t take her eyes off the TV, and now she’s fully become one of us.
“Anyway, don’t do it.”
“Then the giant should stop opening that too. As you can see from the description alone.”
“Ah, that’s true.”
Indeed, the random box is starting to urge all-in.
If I lose my mind, it’s obvious I’ll lose both stats and life.
‘They say gambling addiction needs a lot of help from those around you.’
As the queen said, opening more here is dangerous.
Moreover, currently, the queen has declared a seduction strike, so I can’t open the Box of Desire anymore for now.
I wish she hadn’t gone on strike, but as the queen said, pushing yourself as a woman! to a man who treats you like stone would hurt your pride quite a bit.
Isn’t that similar to appealing as a man to a woman who says ‘I don’t see you as a man’?
I understand.
I’m thankful.
She might ask for vitality as a reward, but that can’t happen, so instead………….
“Hey, queen.”
“Yes?”
“Can I hug you from behind?”
“Oh my yes!? No, suddenly?”
“You worked hard, and I’m thankful and sorry.”
I tried seducing her in reverse.
But looking at the queen’s back………….
Suddenly, there’s something I want to try.
“Ah?!”
Feeling sorry to hit her pretty head with a stone, I picked up the stone and gently scratched her head.
She startled, so I put my hand on her shoulder and answered kindly.
“Just a moment. Stay still.”
“Wh-what is it?”
“I want to pet you.”
“Ah, uh. Yes.”
[The opponent’s intelligence is too high; memory deletion is impossible.]
[The opponent’s magic is too high; skill deletion is impossible.]
It doesn’t work on the Nightmare Queen.
It’s small to call a pebble, slightly larger than a gravel, the size of a flip smartphone—the memory deletion stone—if I hit the back of the head, she might not die.
Even so, just scratching without hitting shows the effect on the pebble.
It was worth investing 12 levels and 24 stats.
“S-suddenly my head uh? Right. You’re trying to use that memory deletion thing from earlier, aren’t you? You said thank you!?”
“Ah, no. I’m really thankful.”
She figured it out right away, so I quickly put the stone into intangible space and just back-hugged her.
Thanks to her helping so enthusiastically, I somehow pulled a proper gold ingot.
She even prevented gambling addiction.
She seems disappointed that the seduction isn’t ticking back and forth, but I need to cheer her up.
That way, she’ll seduce more and level me up.
“Uh, um, he-head first since you want it. Nice. Uh. Um.”
“Got something to say?”
“I-I can touch anywhere……. Why, why only the belly. I haven’t done anything to have a baby yet.”
Cough.
And then the level starts filling up again.
Historic rise, immediately recovering to the 750s.
Hugging from behind and hearing weird lines, something might touch from the back, so I removed my hands.
At this rate, I’ll really offer vitality.
Fortunately, thinking ‘just put level 60 into the box.’ activates the Hermit of the Hovel again.
It blocks lewd thoughts.
What, is this the sage time activation condition?
“You’re back. Love is achieved when both sides connect and empathize. Shall we lie down together today too?”
“Ah, no, I refuse. Stop seducing today.”
“Ah, then you’ll stop opening the box today?”
“No, I’m going to smash it completely.”
I raised my fist.
Coming to my senses and thinking, starting from needing 60 levels, there’s no reason to open it anymore.
The more I do the random box, the slower the level gain from the queen’s seduction, and above all, the required levels are too big compared to the rewards.
There’s no need to voluntarily offer that much level.
“You’ve finally opened your heart to me more than money?! I’m happy.”
<Level increases>
Then, as the Nightmare Queen leaned in and there was a reaction in the body.
I decided to stop at not opening it, but not smashing it either.
The Nightmare Queen is still a monster from the otherworld that might devour me.
***
It’s a call I want to avoid, but when it comes three times, I couldn’t dodge it.
“Ah, yes. Hello.”
[Young landlord. That inspector guy for the leak is coming to the room today. Open the door. Whether the pipe burst or the wall is leaking, today it’s just inspection.]
“I’m out today.”
Shut up and play dumb.
Of course, I’m home.
Would I go out?
[Then can I pick the lock with the master key?]
“Sorry. That’s a bit difficult.”
If the landlord enters at will, it’s illegal.
If I firmly refuse, he says there’s no choice.
[Heh heh, I need to repaper 103. If water leaks again, have to repaper again, right?]
“I’ll do the repapering, whatever. Just give me the repapering cost. You can make me do it twice.”
[Why bother? Hey, are you really into the 103 lady?]
“It’s not that……. Anyway, today is difficult. Baby alone.”
[Huh? There’s a baby at home? That nephew from then? No, how can you leave a baby and go out? This young man is in big trouble.]
“Ah.”
That’s right.
This is my slip of the tongue.
If there really was such a baby dad, I would’ve said something too.
[What age kid do you leave like that? Uh-huh, young man has no responsibility? Leave to the cat, huh?]
“I’ll go right in. I was short-sighted.”
[Really not leaving the kid like that. At least leave to the 202 lady and go out.]
“Why 202.”
[You come and go there, clothes disheveled.]
No, this guy was watching the hallway CCTV?
Memory erase stone, should I use on grandpa?
It might seem outrageous, but precisely, I just need to pet the head with this stone.
But the landlord grandpa has no hair on the back, so just the skin………….
And petting the back of a much older grandpa’s head………….
Sigh.
The activation condition is fucking shit.
Bzzzzzzzz, bzzzzzzzz.
After my call ended, now an inexplicable vibration sound, seems from 202.
Then after a while, 202 answers the phone.
[Ah, I’m still sick. Eh? Ah, ah, no. Why are you looking at that? No. Well, you have to look but. Yes, ah, nooo! We’re not dating? Why did he come? The 203 oppa came to check the leak. Ah, it’s not like that!]
From the context of the conversation.
Since I said no. The landlord grandpa seems to plan to check the wall via 202 side.
[Sorry. Seems not possible. Can’t move, right. Yes, I’ll tell when better.]
And 202 also hangs up on the landlord grandpa.
Firm. Cool, 202.
If she wasn’t crazy, I’d ask to date when eating.
I also find crazy people a bit………….
By the way, lately 202 sounds are heard better.
Is it because senses are sharpening.
Then that means my room sounds are heard better too?
Even if I crack the back of the head with the pebble, she seems fine, so erasing memory isn’t bad—202 is the judgment.
“Hm.”
Soon, people sounds in the hallway, then doorbell rings.
Not my room, seems 202 or 204.
Beep, be-be-beep, beep,
[ Aigoo, why isn’t anyone cooperating? 202 lady. 202! Stop thumping the wall and talk. The 203 young man came to check leak too. It’s not weird, right?]
[Sorry! I’m really sick today.]
The landlord who got rejected at 202 immediately presses next door 204.
[204! 204, you bastard! Stop that ski-ski and open the door!]
204’s sit-in is the strongest among the door-closed sit-ins I’ve experienced.
202’s word-changing and sick excuse were good, but the master is 204.
Because.
[No, this guy? I say open the door, no reply and turns ski-ski louder?]
That’s a real madman.
[This time all 2nd floor people, no re-contract next year! No normal, no normal! Ei shit!]
That’s something I sympathize with.
Be-be-be-be-beep.
[Teacher young man is the most normal. Open the door please. Won’t take long.]
In the midst, targeting me as the most normal.
Can’t do, tried using charm.
[Blocked by huge barrier, charm doesn’t reach.]
[Cast while looking into the person’s eyes.]
Tried charm but activation condition is ‘eye contact’, doesn’t activate.
[Uh, knight sir? Have to come next time?]
[Ah………. I have schedule, might delay a lot, okay?]
[Don’t, 202 seems not inside, just use master key to open and enter first. Tell later, should be fine?]
What, you?
[Tsk……. Okay, later deduct rent once, then fine. Baby alone inside too. Check if something wrong. Thought 203 kid, but so careless, really temporary nephew huh.]
What are you saying?
Where are you entering!
In hurry to send back.
[Al-alert! Air raid warning! Blackout.]
“Huh?! What are you again?”
RiceCookerMan blocking the gate shakes and reports.
This means an entity directly falling from the gate is powerful, and the gate reacts intensely accordingly.
At this timing of all?
That black newt really. Want to kill it.
“That queen!”
“Yes? Didn’t you say stay in this state now?”
“Rice cooker enter.”
“???????”
“Hurry!?”
In front of the baffled Nightmare Queen at ‘enter the rice cooker’, I clasped hands and begged.
“Please. No one but you can fight from the rice cooker.”
The fairy princess doesn’t enter anymore.
I’m too big.
CatMan enters, but has to coil like a snake, can’t move, would be out of situation.
Above all, entrusted with important task, not home now!
“St-still…………. Inside is too narrow and scary…..”
I understand.
The inside of RiceCookerMan is a space that steams monsters to death, right?
For a person, it’s like entering a coffin to fight.
Urgent, shouted first.
“I-I love you! Please enter for me!”
“……If those words, worth moving. Yes. Open this.”
So opened the lid, still the gate just glowing and shaking.
Thus boarding the Nightmare Queen into the rice cooker, placing her at the front line, then tried to hug and pick up the fairy princess sleeping prone on the bed.
Ring-ring-ring-ring-ring beep-ring-ring.
‘Huh? What, this?’
[Young man, not inside? Sorry. Entering?]
‘Uh?’
Click.