At that time.

Contrary to many people’s concerns, Daphne’s daily life was happiness itself.

“Ahahahaha. Hahahaha. What, it’s so funny and cute.”

Suji was rolling on the floor, overwhelmed with happiness, watching the island residents acting cute on the monitor.

The floor of the comfortably warm house was covered with three of the softest mattresses connected, so there was no worry about falling even if she rolled around freely with the joystick.

After laughing so hard she was out of breath, Suji got up and looked out the window.

“…Hah. It’s so much fun.”

That’s right.

If there was only one problem with this life, it was that it was too much fun.

There probably isn’t anyone who doesn’t enjoy playing, but this suited her too well.

They say it’s a Korean trait to diligently play healing games, but there were overflowing outlets for passion even while sitting in a room corner. Putting the future of the country and the world on the back burner, it was surprisingly this enjoyable. Honestly, it was astonishing.

“This… I wonder if I won’t get tired of this?”

Suji got up with a pleased smile and picked up the pad she had set aside.

On the desktop was a list of hobbies with a long underline under number 5.

1. Try cooking and eating my own food
2. Growing plants
3. Raising pets
4. Decorating the house
5. Playing games
6. Watching popular movies, animations, and dramas on OTT
7. Reading bestselling novels
8. Inviting grateful people for a party
9. Learning to exercise
10. Drawing pictures
11. Doing volunteer work

Suji checked off number 5 for now. She had done a lot of various things over the past month, but for now, it seemed she had devoted all her attention to gaming.

‘I think it’s enough to check this off after enjoying it this much. Of course, I’ll do more.’

The games were quite fun.

Enough to make her think about 50 times why people play them.

Of course, they’re fun since they’re made to be enjoyed, but for someone like Suji who had lived through unusual experiences and always in tension, the peace of reality didn’t really feel tangible.

Perhaps that’s why the peace in a virtual space, where some goal was given and she could leisurely achieve it, felt more comfortable.

Of course, games that required physical skills couldn’t be enjoyed for long because she was too good at them.

For FPS, Souls-like, or roguelike games, Daphne’s strength and agility stats were so high that she couldn’t lose even if she tried to play casually.

Moreover, even when encountering monstrous-sized monsters often called “the judges of refunds,” they couldn’t have the same presence as the monsters she met in reality.

Not being tense, coupled with her excellent control skills, she cleared the games quickly.

So the games Suji settled on were cute games like decorating islands or solving puzzles, and she quite liked how the virtual space became more beautiful and the virtual residents living there became happier the more time she invested.

Suji looked at the games she hadn’t opened yet while idling.

If there was one disappointing thing, multiplayer games required people to play with.

So, pondering whether to try something else now, Suji scanned the list again.

Scanning from 1 to 11, Suji drew a large X on item 11, which read ‘Doing volunteer work’.

‘Why on earth did I think I would do volunteer work if I had spare time.’

Thinking about it now, she had been doing what amounted to volunteer work for almost her entire life since becoming a hunter.

Well, she didn’t particularly regret it, but having lived such a life, regular donations were more than enough to do things for others.

‘For now… number 4?’

Suji nodded, thinking her idea wasn’t too bad.

Having decorated virtual spaces so excitedly, it was now time to decorate real space.

The delivered items had been gradually organized as time allowed. It seemed she had chosen items with similar atmospheres when purchasing, as even just spreading them out randomly made the place feel quite cozy and lived-in.

For now, the interior didn’t seem to need much organizing, so Suji turned her eyes to the outside of the house.

Looking at the overgrown weeds spread vastly in front of the house, she thought about pulling some out to manage the garden.

The “beautiful dungeon full of grass” where her house was located was, in other words, a “space where manageable grass was spread vastly from end to end.”

“Maybe put up a fence… plant some flowers… wouldn’t that be pretty?”

Games and reality are different.

Putting up a fence, planting flowers, and managing all the wide grass was not an easy task.

But ignorance breeds courage.

Suji, who came out of the house, looked around once.

The time for monsters to respawn had long passed. She had been guarding the place almost without leaving since first arriving here. She had come out only about twice more, but each time she had chased them away after putting them in a state beyond fear, and it seemed they weren’t coming out again.

Peaceful, beautiful, and no one around.

She liked it very much.

Whistling, she opened her inventory after a while. And in it, she looked at items that might be suitable for fieldwork.

[ Tier 8
Strength +21 Speed -2 Weight 2400g
12% chance to apply status effect ‘Charm’ to AA-rank or lower monsters hit] [ Tier 8
Damage +100 Additional damage +120 against water attribute magical beasts] [ Tier 9
Strength +10
Space Distortion: One hit on monsters within 10m regardless of distance. Cooldown 30 minutes] [ Tier 9
Additional damage +100 against demon attribute magical beasts, Additional damage +20 against desert attribute magical beasts
Penetration: 40% chance to ignore 50% of enemy’s defense]

Even choosing items that might be suitable for fieldwork, the performance of the items was not ordinary.

She couldn’t help but laugh.

Of course, all the items she owned were of a grade not easily obtainable by others. Although her inventory slots were larger than others’, she who particularly disliked keeping unnecessary items had disposed of all lower-grade items as soon as she acquired them, so it was natural.

‘Is it okay to tend to the grass with these weapons that seem like I should go out right now and subjugate magical beasts?’

Such doubts did cross her mind, but Suji was one to follow through on what she had decided.

Firmly putting on the gauntlet and lining up the saw and short swords on one side, she picked one of them and started pulling out weeds.

Pop.
Pop.
Pop.

‘…Is this right?’

With each gesture, weeds covering an area about ten times the width of a palm scattered into the sky. The physical shield characteristic of SSS-rank hunters often offset very low-level physical damage. Needless to say, not a single speck of the scattering weeds and dirt touched her.

Suji, who had usually only taken on challenging tasks befitting her strength and abilities, didn’t realize how tremendously powerful and fast she was as an SSS-rank hunter.

But just because she didn’t realize it doesn’t mean that strength and ability went anywhere.

Before she knew it, all the weeds that had been swaying in the wind near the house were pulled out and rolling on the ground. A radius of 30m around where her house stood prominently was cleared in an instant.

Ding!

Then a notification sound rang out and a log appeared.

[Repetitive action detected.

A new quest has been added.

Quest: Pull out weeds!

Content: Pull out all the weeds in the given amount!

Reward: Presented according to level

Weed Removal Lv.1

(1/10,000)

Reward 1G]

“What is this?”

Suji glared at the window that popped up with a trivial quest that paid very little money compared to the enormous amount of labor.

She had heard a few times that regular hunters who earn money through gates never do miscellaneous quests.

She didn’t understand well then, but looking at it now, she could see why they don’t do miscellaneous quests.

What would be the point of achieving this?

It would take an enormous amount of time to pull out 10,000 weeds normally, but in comparison, getting 1 gold… That’s money that would be gone after buying one cheap knife used by apprentices.

But she was on vacation anyway, and she didn’t particularly want to become incredibly strong or earn a lot of money, so she wasn’t hung up on the rewards.

It was something she did for fun from the beginning. And it wasn’t particularly tiring either.

And above all, the subtle boundary between neatly trimmed land and grass and land where grass was growing in a mess was too bothersome. It felt like she had to dig into it more.

Suji ignored the quest window and continued digging the ground.

Thud.
Thud.
Thud.

[Quest completed.

Reward is being paid.

1G] [A new quest has been added.

Weed Removal Lv.2

(0/100,000)

Reward 10G]

In an instant, the ground was neatly organized.

Games and reality were definitely different.

No matter how realistically a game is made, it’s only a simplification of reality after all.

It was quite satisfying to see the weed field in front of her eyes transform into a well-managed garden in an instant.

Moreover, it was fun in itself to become more skilled as the weed removal skill level increased.

‘If we supply one SSS hunter to a farm, it might be better than machines.’

Suji continued moving her hands while thinking this nonsensical thought.