*
To deliver an amazing gift for her first Parents’ Day, there were several steps she absolutely had to go through.
First, step one!
Find out what an amazing gift was!
To begin with, what exactly was an amazing gift?
In order to learn about that, she needed help from someone who had experienced countless Parents’ Days and was a trendsetter even now, still preparing for it.
A roulette wheel spun rapidly inside Geuru’s head, then stopped.
The suitable candidate was?
Gidan!
After losing his parents and beginning to live under the care of his aunt, grandfather, and grandmother, Gidan had often bought gifts and gone home for many commemorative days.
‘So Dan-oppa will probably be good at taking care of Parents’ Day too.’
Because Gidan somehow seemed like the kind of minor who would be good at these events!
Having reached that conclusion, Geuru moved.
Kkiririk— kkiririk— kkirit—
Kkiik.
Geuru stepped on the brakes and stopped in front of Strategy Team 1’s office.
It seemed to be study time, because Serhi was sitting at a desk with Gidan, solving a test paper.
Though while Serhi was concentrating hard, Gidan looked like he was practically dying from how much he didn’t want to do it.
—You are all working hard. Excellent. I commend you.
“Geuru-Geuru, did you come because you missed Oppa?”
“Why do you always go around like that?”
Seeing Jjapso enter, Gidan and Serhi each greeted her with a remark.
—I have come today to make an important proposal. O Gidan.
“What?”
Kkirit— kkirit— kkirit.
The bicycle came all the way into the middle of the office.
—Are you preparing well for Parents’ Day?
“Parents’ Day?”
“What’s that?”
—To think you don’t know Parents’ Day. O Serhi, how ignorant.
When Geuru shook her head, Serhi furrowed his brow.
—Parents’ Day is a day for expressing gratitude to those who raised you.
At that, Gidan quickly put down his pen and smiled coyly.
“What about Parents’ Day?”
Geuru got off the bicycle, cleared her throat, and said,
—Since this is Geuru’s first Parents’ Day, I want to give Dad an amazing gift.
“Ooh— what a filial daughter.”
—Gidan must be a veteran with many years of experience, so I would like to hear your advice. Ah, and since it will be Serhi’s first Parents’ Day too, I think it would be good if we all prepared together while we’re at it.
“What? Why me?”
—Wouldn’t it be good for Serhi to give Team Leader Jin a Parents’ Day gift as well?
Serhi let out a deflated laugh.
“Me? Why?”
Hearing Serhi’s dumbfounded answer, Geuru clenched both hands and trembled before shouting,
—Silence!
“……!”
—It is only natural to practice filial piety toward the guardian who raised you with love!
Geuru spoke like an old village schoolmaster and swung the duck clamp.
When the stinging duck clamp smacked his thigh, Serhi screamed.
“Ack! The beak! Why does it hurt more now?”
Having improved the duck clamp in the meantime, Geuru had managed to add an option where being jabbed by the beak doubled the sting.
Gidan giggled as if it served him right, only to be struck by the duck clamp as well for being “a bad child who teases his friend”—but that was a secret.
“That’s right. Serhi, now that you’ve become Korean, you need to become a Confucian boy. And for that, you’d better listen to the advice of someone with many years of experience like me.”
Confucian boy? Serhi looked bewildered, but Gidan folded his arms and spoke arrogantly.
“Serhi, in the Korean hunter world, you see, there’s a custom on Parents’ Day where you wear a carnation headband and present your prey.”
While Serhi sent Gidan a look telling him not to talk bullshit, Geuru let out an exclamation of admiration.
—Oh……
“A carnation headband?”
More nonsense again, huh? Having been teased by Gidan so much that he had now developed some learning ability, Serhi tried not to believe it.
But as if she had already prepared it, Geuru took a carnation headband out of her bag and put it on.
Seeing Jjapso wearing a carnation headband, Serhi dropped his pen with a tap.
“Insane. It’s real?!”
—I made it at kindergarten.
While Gidan burst into laughter at this unexpected situation, Geuru said she had more spares and handed carnation headbands to the two of them.
Serhi’s eyes wavered as he received the headband.
His face said exactly, ‘Is Korea a crazy country?’ but Gidan held back his laughter.
If he held back his laughter now, something even funnier was sure to happen later.
—There are ribbons too.
Geuru took out ribbons from her bag, the kind that looked like they belonged on flower wreaths, and hung one around Serhi’s neck.
It even had the phrase “For Parents’ Day, I’m the gift!♥” written on it.
Wearing carnation headbands and ribbons around their necks, the three gathered at Gidan’s instruction and took a photo.
Serhi tried hard not to join in, but because Geuru and Gidan took the picture with Serhi wedged between them, he couldn’t escape in time.
“Good.”
Having found something to use for mischief, Gidan reached out his hand.
“Now let’s go fulfill our filial duty.”
Geuru snorted excitedly.
—Filial piety! Filial piety!
“To the dungeon! Confucian guys!”
—Filial piety! Filial piety!
Geuru chanted, waving her hands up and down.
Beside her, Serhi, prettily wearing his headband and ribbon, had the eyes of a dead fish.
‘Fuck. Is this for real?’
Gidan immediately found a suitable guerrilla dungeon, and Geuru opened the dungeon door with her skill, “A Dungeon Is an Open Door.”
“We can’t let Yeojin-noona catch us, so let’s go quickly.”
—Are we skipping out?
“This is the practice of filial piety, Confucian girl.”
—Filial piety! Filial piety!
*
Flame Region Guerrilla Dungeon.
“Wasn’t this supposed to be the Flame Region?”
Serhi, who had arrived at the dungeon through “A Dungeon Is an Open Door,” said as he looked around.
Gidan frowned while checking the “Knock Knock, Where’s the Dungeon?” app.
“It is… the Flame Region.”
“Then why……”
Serhi looked around.
The dungeon, where countless small craters were spread out, was covered in a thick layer of snow.
Normally, since this was the Flame Region, heat should have been boiling up from the craters.
“Did it mutate?”
At Gidan’s words, Serhi nodded as if it made sense.
Between them, Geuru, the only one who hadn’t understood, asked,
—Mutate?
“The dungeon changes. Strangely enough, things like that have been happening lately.”
—Hmm. Is it bad if it changes?
“Usually, yeah. If monsters you didn’t prepare for appear, it’s hard to clear. And these days, sometimes monsters with the word ‘Failed’ attached to their names appear too, and those……”
Just then, not far away, they saw a group of hunters roughly kicking a monster they had hunted.
“It’s another dud.”
“I told you, didn’t I? Monsters with the ‘Failed’ modifier don’t drop mana stones.”
Gidan looked at them and said,
“They don’t drop mana stones.”
Geuru’s mouth formed a round O.
Mana stones didn’t come out of monsters?!
The biggest reason hunters hunted monsters was mana stones.
But if mana stones didn’t drop?
—Then doesn’t that mean there’s no point in hunting monsters!
“Exactly.”
Gidan smiled bitterly, and Serhi, who had been watching the group of hunters, furrowed his brow.
“They’re just leaving without cleaning it up.”
“I heard parties like that have increased. They don’t want to hunt if there are no mana stones, basically.”
It was a serious problem.
Because if more and more people failed to finish dungeons like this, they would become Red Gates, making dungeon breaks more likely to occur.
For now, it seemed the government was keeping people quiet so as not to heighten public anxiety, but if cases like this continued to increase, the day would surely come when they could no longer silence it.
Geuru looked at Gidan and Serhi’s worried faces, then rummaged through her bag and took out the Great Detective’s magnifying glass.
—Hmm.
After quietly examining the monster with the Failed modifier through the magnifying glass, Geuru said,
—If an item comes out, will the problem be solved?
“Yeah.”
Looking through the magnifying glass again, she saw light shining from the part where the mana stone should originally have been.
That meant there was something to extract.
If so……
—The time has come to bring out a new item.
At Geuru’s solemn words, question marks appeared above Gidan and Serhi’s heads.
In the meantime, Geuru took a toy hand hoe out of her bag.
[Play-House Hand Hoe]
A farming-exclusive item. Greatly increases the farming probability.