Chapter 86: BlackChef’s Alley Restaurant: Study Villa (1)
Rest is important.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a machine or a person.
If you leave your computer on for tens or hundreds of hours, it will stutter due to the accumulated cache data, and if you make a person work overtime every day, they will be overworked.
“Especially for tasks that require brainpower, such as studying, rest is even more important.”
For example, don’t they say that cramming only works once or twice?
The first time you succeed by willpower, and the second time you succeed by the inertia of having already stayed up all night.
But from the third and fourth times on, both willpower and inertia wear off, and you’ll crumble miserably.
“So today, everyone, don’t study and rest. I won’t either.”
“Huh?!”
Kyung-joon suddenly declared while taking the residents to the lake.
The residents, who thought they were on their way to a large-scale construction project, were greatly surprised.
“Y, You must be kidding, haha!”
“Kyung-joon-nim not studying……What in the world happened…….”
“Did the sun rise from the west today? But in my 40 years of life experience, that kind of thing……”
“Playing is the best~♬ Gather around, Yeongji people~♬ Always~♪ Fun~♪”
The residents’ reactions were unbelievable.
But Kyung-joon meant it.
“I’m not kidding. I’m serious. Of course, this is also part of the work, so you must rest. No exceptions.”
“……!”
Today is a day of no studying!
From now on, I’m thinking of having these large-scale group breaks regularly.
Yeah.
While we’re at it, let’s just designate 『No Studying Day』 as a public holiday.
If anyone is caught studying or working on this day, they will be fined and punished.
No one can study or work on 『No Studying Day』.
“Yes!”
“Can’t I just go to the farm……”
“I used to play a lot back in the day. But I’ve forgotten everything now.”
“Even if you tempt me with a sweet holiday~♪ I’d rather just go to work~♪ When I say~~♬”
The residents couldn’t figure out how to spend the day without studying or working.
It was a natural reaction.
Because there was no entertainment content in Kyung-joon’s study village!
“Hehe, I knew you’d all say that.”
Kyung-joon quickened his pace with a meaningful expression.
And then he stopped in his tracks. It was the highest point of the hill.
Kyung-joon pointed his arm beyond the hill and said proudly.
“I’ve prepared this for all of you. Look. Everyone.”
As they reached the top of the hill, the scenery beyond the hill, which had been hidden from view, was revealed.
“Ohhh! There’s a fishing spot……!”
“I’ve never been fishing before……”
“There’s even an outdoor kitchen nearby for cooking. It reminds me of the cooking competition I saw when I visited the Kingdom of Francois 20 years ago.”
“The sound of echoes~♬ Looking for fish in the flowing water of the fishing spot~♬ Let’s go on a trip to that place~♪”
As the residents reacted.
The sight before their eyes was truly festive.
Kyung-joon, bathed in the sunlight at the top of the hill, shouted loudly, looking at all the residents.
“From now on, today! We will hold the 1st Study Village No Studying Day Festival!”
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Cooking! Fishing! Napping! Swimming! Games!
A festival is where you can do anything you want!
Bustling!
At first, the residents were at a loss as to what to do, but they soon managed to organize the festival on their own.
“Then, judges! Your evaluation!”
Three residents are sitting in a row at a desk with serious expressions.
By the way, there are three plates of the same food on the desk.
“This taste with a subtle flavor……! It’s truly excellent. The moderate acidity reminds me of PH4.5. But something is missing.”
“I can really feel that you’ve maximized the umami. The taste of glutamic acid still lingers on my tongue. But it’s not that delicious.”
“The perfect harmony of milk and chili peppers…… I was worried it might be too spicy, but the casein in the milk combines with the capsaicin in the chili peppers to reduce the intensity of the spiciness to a comfortable level. But it still feels like it’s missing 2%.”
This is how people who love to cook hold cooking competitions.
“The pawn on D4 to D5.”
“Wait, was your pawn on D4?”
“Huh? Wasn’t it? Geez, blind chess is so hard.”
“Then how about we try this game called ‘Sudoku’ that Kyung-joon-nim taught us?”
“Sudoku? Oh, that looks pretty fun.”
They also enjoyed various analog games that Kyung-joon taught them.
Some people were fishing, some were taking naps, some were grilling meat, and so on.
All the residents were enjoying their break in various ways.
“Lord, what is this exactly……?”
“Ah, Fezun. Crescens. You’re here?”
Fezun and Crescens, who had just finished their daily patrol of the Energy Tower, the fence, and the lecture hall.
They blinked at the sight of the festival.
“It’s a festival.”
“A festival?”
“Yes. It’s good to work hard, but it’s also good to refresh ourselves like this once in a while so we can work even better later. You two should take a break from studying and working today and just relax.”
“I was thinking that would be nice, but…… even if I try to rest, I don’t know how to……”
“Oh? What’s that stage? Fezun! Let’s go!”
“W, What?”
While Fezun was wondering how to rest, Crescens immediately took action.
“Okay, okay, stop pulling me……!”
In the end, Fezun couldn’t overcome Crescens’s muscular body and was half-dragged towards the stage.
“You should come with us, Lord……”
“Yes, yes. Go ahead.”
Kyung-joon followed them with a smirk, amused by their youthful appearance.
A quiz show was being held on the stage they arrived at.
“Okay! Let’s move on to the next question!”
As the quiz host tore off a huge piece of paper, a new question was revealed to the world.
『Mental Calculation』
『356×487』
“The first person to answer correctly will get 500 points!”
“Ah, that’s easy.”
“Just divide it into 300+50+6 and 400+80+7 and calculate.”
“Ah, but the cross terms are a bit tricky.”
“Why bother? Can’t you just do 400-44 and 500-13?”
“Oh, Brute! You’re a smart one!”
“…….”
Fezun and Crescens, who arrived first, were speechless.
A festival so much fun it’s crazy!
……Right?
Fezun looked at Kyung-joon with an expression that said the world had gone mad.
“Um…… Lord? Is this really a festival?”
But Kyung-joon couldn’t answer Fezun’s question.
How could he take his eyes off such a fun festival!
“The answer! 173,372!”
“Oh! The Lord, who suddenly appeared! That’s correct! 500 points!”
“Hmph.”
Kyung-joon brushed his hair back, showing off his outstanding calculation ability.
He usually would have adjusted his glasses at a time like this, but he wasn’t wearing glasses in the game, so he couldn’t.
“…….”
Watching Kyung-joon from the side, Fezun realized something belatedly.
‘Ah, that’s right. Our Lord wasn’t normal either…….’
Surely the Lord was the one who came up with the idea for this quiz show.
“Let’s move on to the next question!”
“Haha…… Crescens? Why don’t we go over there to the barbecue party and hang out?”
“What? Later! Let’s solve this problem first! What the, this! It’s so much fun I’m going crazy!”
“…….”
And then he realized something else belatedly.
That Crescens and our Lord weren’t so different after all.
So…….
“The answer! 1,738,044!”
“Oh! Fezun was the fastest! Fezun, you’ve earned 800 points!”
“Yes!”
He decided to go crazy too.
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< (///▽///)>
<I had a drink…… My ability may be lacking for a while. I did my best day and night and worked hard…… I hope you can feel my sincerity…… Thank you.>
<『Just A Rather Very Intelligent System (Lv.1)』 is entering sleep mode.>
“Woohoo! It’s been so long since I’ve had a drink like this! ―Gulp.”
“Drink! Glug, glug, glug! ―Thud.”
“Ugh, I’m sorry, Lord. Everyone’s really bad at drinking. ―Thump.”
All the residents were sprawled out, having had too much to drink.
[Rare Skill 『High-speed Detoxification (Lv.1)』 ]
[All alcohol toxins are decomposed.]
[Due to continuous magic use, the level of 『High-speed Detoxification』 has increased to 2.]
Only Kyung-joon, who had the High-speed Detoxification skill, was fine.
“Tsk, they’re all so weak.”
Kyung-joon scratched the back of his head and left everyone behind, heading towards the lake alone.
[You have purchased a 『Wooden Fishing Rod』 from the Player Auction House.]
[Please check your mailbox.]
“There we go.”
Whoosh! Clack!
Kyung-joon attached a float and bait to the fishing rod he had just bought and immediately cast it into the lake.
Today was a day off from studying.
After trying this and that, he had finally decided to go fishing.
‘I was personally interested in it too.’
He had never done it before, but he had seen it a lot on YouTube.
Whenever he saw people grilling fish they had just caught, he always thought he wanted to try it someday.
“No bites.”
The lake was calm except for the current flowing in and out.
He wished something would bite.
As Kyung-joon was changing baits, recasting, and trying various things to no avail…
He heard a voice next to him.
“Well, fishing these days is all about opportunity. You see, there’s a lot of fish here. But this is the funny thing, right? Just because there’s a lot of fish doesn’t mean anyone can catch them.”
“……?”
Hmm.
Was he saying not to be impatient because he wasn’t catching anything?
Kyung-joon clicked his tongue and stopped fiddling with his fishing rod.
He then took out a tool, secured it to the ground, and said,
“Something like this?”
“That’s not bad either.”
It was a very bizarre situation.
The presence next to him wasn’t Teemo, nor was it one of the villagers who should have been passed out from drinking.
<Ranked 11th>
<Wanderer>
▼BlackChef (Player)
A giant Chinese cleaver on his left hip.
A sharp sashimi knife on his right hip.
BlackChef, a player dressed in full cooking attire, was fishing next to Kyung-joon.
‘…His cursor is red.’
Unlike other players, his player cursor was red instead of green.
It was clear what that roughly symbolized, but…
Despite that, Kyung-joon acted nonchalant.
“You’re a pretty tough customer. It couldn’t have been easy to break through the Energy Towers.”
“Oh, that thing was really something else. I took out my frying pan to heat it up, and that fire was so strong. Oh, just thinking about it, it was an amazing gas stove.”
“……It seems a bit disrespectful to call it a mere ‘gas stove’?”
The chef’s uniform, which was supposed to be white, was covered in black scorch marks.
Although not a direct hit, it was clear that he had taken a considerable amount of damage from the Energy Tower’s area of effect attack.
However, BlackChef didn’t seem to care at all.
“Ah, right. That firepower was perfect for Chinese cuisine. Here, try this. I just stir-fried it nice and hot using your fire.”
BlackChef secured his fishing rod like Kyung-joon and took something out of his pocket.
It was a frying pan filled with food.
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