I didn’t ignore my father’s insight, but I never thought I’d come to know this sooner. But it makes no more sense to hide it from my father now.
“Yes, there is a gate in my room.”
“Well······. Yes. Then the wild boar you brought last time must be like that too?”
“Yes, to be precise, it is meat that raises stamina by 5 points. Maybe that’s why my family’s stamina improved after eating it.”
“It wasn’t out of the ordinary either. Was it like that? So what are these things?”
“Fish increases Intelligence by 3, Digging by 1, Onions and Chinese cabbages by 1 Stamina, Peppers by 1 Agility, Bites by 1 Spirit, Strawberries by 1 Intelligence. They say that it goes up right away when you first take it, and after that, if you take it steadily, it goes up.”
“Isn’t that something pretty great?”
I nodded my head at my father’s words.
“It would be a little like that if it was known, wouldn’t it?”
“By the way, will this apply to people whose status window is not open?”
This is the part I am most curious about.
“Father, how was it after you ate wild boar?”
“I definitely felt that my stamina improved.”
“okay?”
“uh.”
“Then try what I keep bringing you. And the crops grow really fast inside the gate. These are the things my father grew with the seeds he gave me last time.”
My words took my father by surprise. He’s only a few years old, but he’s still a farmer. So you can see how absurd this is.
“Why? Do the crops grow well there?”
“The crops seem to be growing well, and the time cost is different. An hour here is five hours there.”
“really?”
“yes.”
“That’s true… doesn’t a person like me age faster?”
Come to think of it, yes. If the time ratio is different, it’s like living a year old here and five years old there. But what I think may not be one thing is right.
“Hoya.”
Nyaang!
Hoya quickly throws herself at me. If that is an attack, I will become an unfilial child in front of my father today. If you think about what the world’s greatest unfilial piety is, you’ll know. But fortunately, Hoya gently embraced me as if protecting me.
Hoya spent at least 10 years in it. At the time of Hoya’s disappearance, Hoya was seven years old. If that’s the case, then she’s roughly twenty years old now, but it’s often said that the average lifespan of cats is around 16 years. This is the case with domestic cats. In the case of stray cats, they live for a few years. Especially in Korea. Of course, long-lived domestic cats live 30 years, but Hoya does not appear to have aged at all.
As cats age, they don’t really change much, but there are some characteristics. In terms of people, the face becomes slightly slender, like a clown protruding. Considering that Hoya still has a round face, I wonder if aging doesn’t progress inside the gate.
I wonder if it is at least the difference between Earth and Gate. Conversely, wouldn’t it be similar even if the creature over there crossed over to this side? Of course, this is just an assumption.
“Hoya actually went inside the gate and went missing.”
“What?”
“So maybe Hoya would spend more than ten years there and meet me again.”
“her······.”
My father looks at me sadly and strokes Hoya.
Nyaang.
Hoya groaned happily at his father’s touch. Certainly, when I look at Hoya, I wonder if I don’t age within him.
“A place called the gate, can we go in too?”
“That’s natural. But I think we need to think about whether that will be better for our family and then decide.”
At my words, my father nods.
“Never give anything out of the gate to anyone else. It may seem greedy, but treasures are worthwhile when you can protect them.”
“Yes, I think so too.”
Ingredients that increase abilities. Frankly, it’s hard for me to say what kind of repercussions this will bring.
“At first, I thought that everything that came out of the gate was like that…”
“I am hearing it for the first time.”
“Iknow, right. Everyone kept one secret, but it doesn’t seem like it, right?”
“If these things came out of the gate, there would definitely be a world uproar. Or maybe, as you say, I am keeping a secret for the sake of a few.”
Father is right. Maybe it’s something that’s only in my gate, or maybe it’s a secret forced for the sake of the few who have it.
“But one thing seems clear.”
“what?”
“These are the seeds my father gave me. From planting the seeds to harvesting the crops, it took about a day in real time. then······.”
“You mean you can grow crops on a large scale.”
“Yes, then was there any need to keep a secret?”
If you harvest crops that grow quickly, as many people as you can share. Of course, the price will be high. But I’ve never heard of such a thing.
“I could have kept a secret though. Don’t assume that their mindset is the same as ours.”
“Well, maybe that’s it too.”
“Anyway, let’s focus on keeping secrets for now. If the secret comes out, I will go to you right away with your mother and Siyeon.”
I am relieved to hear what my father has to say.
“Yes, if you have any doubts, please come right away.”
“Yeah, got it.”
For a while, I had a secret between my father and myself.
***
After eating with my family, I returned home learning new seeds and growing techniques. And I went straight through the gate. It’s night, so you can sleep at home, but in fact, you can sleep much longer if you sleep inside the gate.
The camp bed I bought from Seon-woo is very comfortable. I wonder if it can be this comfortable.
“You’re really good at making things like this these days, aren’t you?”
Nyaang.
Hoya set up Hoyaman’s bed. It is called a cat hammock, and it is an item that cats like very much. Hoya especially liked this hammock. So I bought a new one and installed it.
“Do you like it?”
Nyan!
Hoya lays flat on her stomach at Baladang and smiles as she looks at me. Some people say that animals don’t have facial expressions, but pet owners know that. How many facial expressions animals have. That is an expression that Hoya is very happy with.
That’s what I wanted to see. For years, I wanted to see this and shed tears. There were many times when my heart ached like crazy when I came home and there was no Hoya to greet me.
In fact, meeting Hoya again is the happiest thing for me than becoming the owner of the gate.
“Should I still sow the seeds?”
Nyaung.
Hoya continued to lie down as if it was annoying. After petting Hoya once, I came out and started to level the ground. I plowed the field using the tools I brought from my parents’ house. Then he planted the seeds and watered them. Fortunately, I found Ongdalsaem not far away. There is a continuous flow of water, which is very useful. It even tastes good.
This field has been planted with several crops on a considerable scale. The things I planted before were planted before going to my parents’ house, and this time I planted watermelons, melons, paprika, and leeks.
Then a notification popped up.
– The level of skill farming has risen to 2.
skill up.
it’s the first time It seemed that his skill had leveled up by making a field on a considerable scale.
“The reward is certain.”
Certainly, as the level rose, the parts that were not visible at level 1 became visible. So I modified and supplemented all those parts. I think that maybe I will be able to harvest when I go to work tomorrow.
“And let’s see.”
When I went to the fence of the island chickens, I saw three of them holding eggs, and ten of them hatched as chicks.
I took six of them, and they were already breeding like this.
“Great.”
It is an astonishing fertility. I don’t know how long it takes for an egg to become a chick, but like crops, those classified as livestock seem to grow quickly.
“Wow, I thought this gate was just a vacation spot with nothing much to do… Do you think it’s a hit?”
It seems to be really great. The question is how to protect this jackpot and what to do with it in the future.
“Let’s go to sleep.”
I held Hoya in my arms and lay down on the camp bed to sleep.
***
It feels like you’ve been on a long vacation. Is that why?
“Oh, are you going to hit the company?”
In the first place, when I entered the gate and came up with a skill, what I was trying to do was to acquire a skill that would be useful in company life and suck honey at the company. But surprisingly, after realizing that the gate wasn’t a hit, and maybe it could be a huge jackpot, I don’t want to go to the company because the main guests are being evangelized, so I think that people are really cunning.
“Anyway, I have to go. It’s weird when you suddenly quit your job. Hoya, I’ll go to my dad’s company. If you’re bored, go to the gate and play.”
Nyaang!
It comes to me with an expression that everything in the world is annoying, rubs its head against my leg, goes back, climbs up the cat tower, settles down, and begins to bask in the sun.
“If I really am born again, I want to be born as you. you must be born with me Understand?”
I got mad at Hoya for no reason and left the house. and go to work.
“Assistant Choi, did you rest well yesterday?”
“Is that fifty? Didn’t you mean quarantine?”
Manager Jung flinched at my words, but quickly recovered, probably because the company had a jjambab. I think that man also has a ‘calm down’ skill, or maybe he has a skill like ‘deceit’.
“what! I told him to rest because he thought of Choi.”
“Yes, I know that. By the way, did the results come out?”
“Oh, just came out. Wanna see?”
“Absolutely.”
I picked up the test results and looked at it. And he said it confidently to the manager.
“What do you mean?”
The test paper was written in both Korean and English, but it makes me wonder if this is Korean or English. All I could figure out was the title.
“As a result, it is good to say. If you put it in our food, it’s very good for sick kids. And to say that it’s very good for sick kids…”
“I’d say it’s expensive.”
“right. We can now make our signature feed.”
It may not seem like a big deal to make feed, but it is very sophisticated and complicated. So, there are many people who feed their pets foreign-made food while raising companion animals in Korea. The reason is simple. Because that’s good.
It’s not that our feed is bad, but there were parts where it was difficult to close the gap with companies that have been making feed for a long time. But what if you add Bran chicken from Gate to the ingredients? The effect will be different depending on the content, but we will create a considerable hit product.
From my point of view, who is mainly in charge of exports, it means that I have finally been able to make feed that can be exported to foreign countries.
“When will the samples come out?”
“It will come out soon. Assistant Manager Choi go and sign a contract so that there is no problem with supplying the chickens.”
“Is that also my job?”
“Think of it as playing. Because when this product starts coming out, I’ll probably be crazy.”
That’s right. And as a person in charge of exports, I would also welcome it.
“You can go here.”
I didn’t decline. Even if it wasn’t so, I was curious about what kind of person the other gate owner was.