It was the busiest day ever. Hunters who participated in the expedition came to visit.

So I ended up buying 3 large tents that weren’t even planned.

The name of the guild the hunters belonged to was Hwarang. They were the hunters who had gone on the expedition that Hunter Chae Dong Hwa had mentioned earlier.

“Owner! Another cheese ramen and hot dog here please!”

“Okay!”

“Hey, who ate my potato? I put it deep inside the firewood! I was on a quest to burn it and eat it!”

“Just ask for another one. Owner! Do you have more potatoes?”

“Yes! Just a moment! I’ll bring it to you after I finish this!”

Teddy went to get the cheese ramen and hot dog. Originally, having Teddy around felt like a luxury because it was so quiet, but now we were short-handed.

In a hurry, I stopped cutting meat and ran to the vending machine. The harvested crops had long since run out.

Now I had to buy them with coins from the shop. I thought it was good to have many customers, but at this rate, I was going to run out of coins.

“Huh? What are you doing here?”

“Oh, the owner looked busy. I saw that pressing this makes items come out. Can I just buy it with this?”

A customer was standing in front of the vending machine.

‘Wait a minute. Could other people buy from that too?’

When the customer clicked on the food they wanted from the vending machine, coins were charged. Not to the system, but to me.

If someone else used that vending machine, the money came to me!

“Is it not allowed? Was I not supposed to touch this freely?”

“No, it’s fine. Thank you!”

My goodness, this method! Why didn’t I know this until now?

“Owner, what’s going on?”

Teddy, who was just serving ramen, asked with a surprised expression when he saw me.

“Teddy, when someone else pays for this, the money comes to me.”

“Wow, really? Well, at this rate we were going to be in the red. Originally, we gave out food for free because there were so few customers.”

“Yes. We almost got into big trouble.”

Originally, there weren’t many customers, so we gave out food for free. But with so many customers now, it’s a different story. I was glad I found out now, even if it was late.

After that, the hunters went to get their own food. The workload decreased, but the coins became even more abundant.

Countless notification windows popped up about camping site quests in between, but I was too busy to check them all.

“Ah, now that I’m full, I want something cool.”

“Me too.”

The hunters who had satisfied their hunger wanted snacks. Not potatoes or sweet potatoes roasted on firewood, but cold desserts.

Just then, a good idea came to mind.

“Do you like ice cream by any chance?”

“You have ice cream too?”

“Well, there’s an ice cream machine in the camping market that doesn’t need ingredients, but it’s too expensive to buy…”

“Really?”

I subtly tried to induce payment, thinking of another way to earn coins.

“If we just had that, I could serve ice cream…”

The hunters, tired from the expedition, lit up their eyes.

“How much is it?”

“2,000 coins…”

“What, that’s not much. It’s 2,000 coins for 20 servings each of dumplings and cheese sticks, right? We’ll order that for dessert, so can’t you buy that machine with those coins?”

“That’s fine with me. But don’t you want slushies?”

“Wow. Owner, you’re good at business. 20 servings each of hot dogs and rice cakes too! Buy both please!”

“Thank you!”

Maybe because Hwarang was a named guild, the hunters were that generous.

I immediately installed the purchased machine and made ice cream. It was soft-serve ice cream with a cookie handle.

When I turned on the slushie machine, fruit-flavored syrup fell onto the finely crushed ice. When I took a bite to taste it, a cool and refreshing flavor spread.

“Here you go. Enjoy.”

“Wow. It’s real ice cream.”

“The slushie is amazing too. It colors your tongue the same color. It’s exactly like what I ate when I was young.”

“Wow, I think this is the first time I’ve eaten this since I was a kid at an amusement park.”

“Me too. It brings back memories.”

All the Hwarang hunters looked about my age. Maybe that’s why the atmosphere felt like a college MT.

If I threw them some food, they would play well among themselves. Later, they even grilled their own meat, and saying I looked tired, they handed me food to eat while sitting down.

“No, I’m fine…”

“It reminds me of my younger sibling. I can’t just make my sibling work hard, right?”

“What are you talking about? You don’t have a younger sibling.”

“Shut up.”

But somehow they seemed to think I was much younger.

‘Is it because I’m short? I’m not that young.’

It seemed like there was some misunderstanding, but I didn’t bother to correct it. My legs were aching anyway and I was bored.

When I took a bite of the steaming sweet potato, a sweet taste filled my mouth. The outside was crispy and the inside was moist.

Maybe because it was roasted on firewood, the smell of fire and the sweet taste harmoniously swirled around.

‘It’s so delicious. Is this crazy?’

The sweet potato tasted especially delicious today. Food eaten after labor was more valuable than any other food.

While I was concentrating on eating the sweet potato, I felt a gaze. Black lenses were pointed in my direction.

“Owner, you eat well. Would you like another one?”

It was Hunter Ma Jin Woo, who was filming to promote the campsite. Hunter Ma Jin Woo’s hair color was uniquely pinkish.

Hunters sometimes have their hair or eye color changed due to the influence of magic, and Hunter Ma Jin Woo seemed to be experiencing such symptoms.

“Yes. Thank you… But will my face show in this too?”

“If you’re uncomfortable, I can blur it out.”

“No, please show my face. You said a lot of people watch this, right?”

“Yes, of course. Expedition content always gets over 10 million views.”

If so many people watch it, maybe Dad will see it too.

I asked Hunter Chae Dong Hwa to pass on the news, but since I don’t know when he’ll get out of the dungeon, it’s good to have a backup plan.

“I have circumstances that prevent me from leaving the dungeon. I need to convey the situation to people outside anyway, so this works out well.”

“Really? Then would you like to do an interview too? I was originally going to include it as a fragment in the expedition content, but there seems to be enough to use separately.”

“Will more people see it that way?”

“Yes. We expose it in the expedition video and upload another video separately. We can promote it twice as much.”

“Yes! That’s great! I’ll be able to send news to Dad!”

I talked seriously while eating the sweet potato. If what he said is true, I’ll be able to send news to Dad for sure.

At first, I was a bit nervous when I heard the guild name, but the Hwarang guild members were very kind.

But the most famous person wasn’t visible. The reason I was nervous when I heard Hwarang’s name.

“By the way… Did the guild master not participate in the expedition?”

I couldn’t see the face of their guild master.

“Oh, you mean Mo Gyeon? Do you know Mo Gyeon?”

“No. I don’t know him personally, I just saw him on broadcasts.”

“I see.”

No matter how much I tried to avoid being interested in hunters, there were so many hunters around that I knew all the names of famous people. Among them, Hwarang’s guild master, Seol Mo Gyeon, was famous for his bad personality.

He doesn’t commit crimes, but I knew that small incidents and accidents never ceased around him.

Moreover, his language was harsh and his skills were rough, so I had a bad image of him. If he looked like a gangster too, I would have thought he was like a thug.

But his face was pretty, so he gave off a pretty delinquent vibe.

Hunter Ma Jin Woo peeled a sweet potato for me and continued his unfinished words.

“He came with us but suddenly disappeared. So we came to look for him, but they said he left first?”

“What? He disappeared? Didn’t something happen?”

“Seok Hyeon met him and said he was fine. He’s such a moody guy, so we just let it be.”

The guild members seemed accustomed to such behavior from their guild master.

It didn’t feel like they had given up, but rather they didn’t seem to care much, as if saying ‘that’s just how he is’.

Judging by how they casually called him by name, the guild members seem to get along well.

“But why did you come looking for him? If he’s usually like that…”

Somehow their words and actions didn’t match.

They say they don’t think much of it, but they still all came looking for him like this?

“Well, that guy has a weakness. It’s not well known to ordinary people, but when he falls into water, he becomes a dog-”

“Ma Jin Woo. Stop talking nonsense and eat this.”

“Ow, hot! Ji Seok Hyeon, are you crazy?”

Suddenly appearing, Hunter Ji Seok Hyeon shoved a sweet potato into his mouth.

“I almost burned my tongue!”

“You talk too much.”

“Geez, you crazy bastard.”

Is this something I shouldn’t hear?

Seeing how they’re covering his mouth, it might be internal guild confidential information. If it’s a secret, I didn’t want to hear it either.

“Has the owner eaten a lot?”

“Yes. Thanks to you.”

Hunter Ji Seok Hyeon approached and spoke to me. He gave off a quite different vibe when he was with his friends.

When he was at the campsite, he always felt gentle and kind. Now he’s still friendly, but somehow it seemed like he was being cautious.

‘Is it because of what I said earlier today?’

Actually, Choco had suddenly disappeared since the morning, so I asked Seok Hyeon about his whereabouts. He said that Choco’s skill had been released because the time limit was up.

It suddenly felt real that Choco wasn’t really a dog, but a summon. Then they said they would leave the campsite tomorrow.

I felt a bit depressed at the thought that I couldn’t even say goodbye to Choco properly.

“Um, Owner…?”

“Yes?”

As I was lost in thought, Hunter Ji Seok Hyeon hesitantly called out to me for some reason.

“I wanted to make this proposal more formally, but the situation has become awkward like this.”

Then he lowered his voice quite seriously.

What is it? What’s going on?

“Would you consider joining Hwarang?”

“Me…? Hwarang…?”