At lunchtime, Lee Hyun went to the grass plaza to eat his packed lunch.
‘It’s here today as well.’
A girl’s red lunch box.
Since about ten days ago, there was a red lunch box at the place where Lee Hyun regularly ate. Of course he did not touch the lunch box.
‘It’s someone else’s lunch.’
He thought that the owner might come looking for it, so he didn’t open the lunch box.
The next day, the lunch box was placed in the same position. However, this time, there was a yellow lunch box was wrapped in a white handkerchief. There was even a note left on top.
– Please eat me.
Sophisticated and beautiful handwriting.
Lee Hyun muttered while looking at the lunch box.
‘I don’t know who it’s for, but I envy them.’
The lunch box can be called the flower of love!
‘Traditionally, there’s nothing better to eat than that. How happy must that guy be, to have such a girlfriend. He’s even getting free food.’
Lee Hyun laughed lonesomely and ate the lunch he’d brought himself.
He thought for sure that some guy other than himself would come and eat that lunch box.
He, who had never dated before, would never have believed that lunch box was for him.
The next day.
– Lee Hyun, please eat this packed lunch.
The message, which was a little longer and more detailed, was written beautifully.
Perhaps because the sender was tense, the text was firmly indented in the paper, but Lee Hyun didn’t notice this.
“It was my lunch!”
He knelt to open the lunch box.
It was packed to the brim with sushi rolls!
“Korean sushi rolls, of all things.”
Lee Hyun complained.
The food he always packed for school was sushi rolls. He brought them because they were simple and not very time-consuming to make, but that didn’t mean he didn’t want to eat something different.
“Well, even sushi rolls are okay as long as they taste good.”
Lee Hyun tried 1 of the sushi rolls.
There was a harmony of evocative flavors bursting in his mouth.
A taste that could not be described by words!
The radish, imitation crab, and spinach she’d used were already in a different dimension from regular ingredients.
The faint sheen from the side of the rolls was from sturgeon eggs and plump lobster leg meat!
Lee Hyun was knowledgeable in cooking, but he had never seen these ingredients.
“The pollack eggs are fresh. And what in the world is this imitation crab that tastes so good?”
They were the best luxury sushi rolls!
After Lee Hyun ate the delicious sushi rolls, he left a note in the empty lunch box.
– This time as well…
He had left the note while harbouring a faint hope.
The next day when he went to the grassy area, there was another lunch box.
– Thank you for enjoying it. Please eat some today too.
Lee Hyun opened the lunch box lid.
They were korean sushi rolls today too, but today’s fillings were shark fin, eel, and salmon. There was even fresh fruit salad for dessert.
“It’s delicious.”
From that day on, Lee Hyun went to school without packing his lunch. Even if he didn’t pack a lunch, there was always food waiting for him.
As Lee Hyun ate, Seoyoon watched from a distance.
Every time he ate happily, she felt full, even if she hadn’t eaten.
‘Friends…’
Her precious friend, the only one she had in the world.
Seoyoon was thankful for him just eating it.
Due to her lack of cooking skills, her first batch of Korean sushi rolls had torn sides and their fillings protruded out. To pack delicious sushi rolls, she learned from five-star hotel chefs.
As Seoyoon watched Lee Hyun eat joyfully, she blushed. It was the sight of a goddess being shy.
***
In order to restore the art stats that had been consumed, Weed began working in Kuruso.
‘The fastest way to get art stats is through making handicrafts.’
A successful sculpture could earn him a lot of art stats.
Though it was a simple method in theory, the probability of success was low.
Since there was a limit to the techniques Weed could express with imagination, continuously making a successful sculpture was difficult.
Comparatively, jewelry handicrafts raised the art stat by 1 or 2 points, so it was good for replenishing. Although it took 10 works to raise the stat once, he had the perfect aptitude for doing these kinds of depressing jobs.
“The law is that grinding doesn’t lie. There’s nothing I’m more thankful to than grinding.”
In addition, videos of Kendellev’s Water Park for Children were being uploaded in Royal Road forums. Dwarven users had competitively put up their videos as quickly as they could.
Until then, Kuruso had existed so secretly that even amongst the Dwarves, there were only a few people who knew of it. However, after images of Dwarves enjoying the water park were published, the veil of secrecy was torn off.
As the number of interested people grew, the path to Kuruso was published and done with.
“We’re here!”
“WOW! This is the Dwarven Kingdom.”
More Humans and Elves came and found it, and the number of users in Kuruso increased by over 5-fold.
The sculptures of the newcomer Dwarves!
The sculptures they had acquired from above ground through one quest or another found their way to Weed.
“Art Hand-nim, I heard you can evaluate sculptures.”
“Yeah. Although I don’t do this for just any object… But since I have some time, I’ll appraise it for you.”
“Thank you!”
Even in Kuruso, where the best craftsmen had gathered, Art Hand was the most outstanding Sculptor.
The Battle in Shaspin Cave, and the victory against Death Hand!
There were Dwarven Soldiers and Warriors who gabbered in the taverns about the sculpting quests that had occurred in Kuruso, and Art Hand’s legend reached the ears of the newcomers through their gossip.
Weed, who was passing himself off as Art Hand, was gathering sculptures.
“Identify.”