Chapter 6 - Quest

I am Tsuchiya Ryleigh, a senior highschool student that ran away from home. Through some strange turn of events, I discovered a portal in my toilet bowl. Being an amateur scientist and mathematician myself, I tried to understand the inner workings of this unknown object. Unfortunately, my plans was interrupted when a giant T-Rex showed up in the toilet bowl. Using some boxes of gunpowders and a drone, I succeeded in killing the monstrous creature. However, I am now faced with the hard dilemma of destroying this toilet bowl to save my life. For now, I am thinking of accepting reality and exploiting this bowl to the max!

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In a dark room, a computer monitor is flashing bright lines of text as if it is calculating something. In front of it, is a young man who's probably dead, buried in piles of papers covered with strange lines and diagrams.

Suddenly, a knock came from the bottom first floor followed by a red continous alarm. Even though the sound is hella annoying, that lazy grub is still rock asleep.

A minute pass and the knock came again, but that grub is still dead asleep. That person can no longer wait and she bashed the door open. Quite the attitude you got, but good job.

"Taki! Come down you MORON!!! ONE! TWO! TH-"

"I'm here."

Oho? He's still alive? That groggy grub is finally awake and dragging his pathetic ass down a floor.

"YAWNnnn... What is it?"

"What do you mean WHAT IS IT?!!! I can't sleep because of that loud noise in your house! Can you see this?!!! Because of you my beauty sleep is ruined!"

"How much?"

"Are you seriously thinking that everything can be solved by money?!! 20,000$ in cash. If you don't have it right now, I accept 10% installment for one year."

"10, can't go higher."

"15, or I will burn this down."

"Fine."

What is this? A negotiation? What are they even doing?

"But, what are you doing? I can hear drilling sounds in my room. Are you finally digging a grave? I never thought it would be this hard for you."

That woman with bountiful breast is showing her heartfelt concern, but the grub treats her like air.

"I am just training an automatic arial navigation network for my drone. Those drilling sounds are probably the cooling fans. If the fans aren't turned on, the GPUs will melt."

"Ah, I get it. So, what happened to those metal sticks? And black powder?"

"Those guns? Currently rusting. The gunpowder? Gone, reduced to ashes. Get me more."

"You're a bad employer, you know. Is it that hard to say please?"

The grub looks at her like she's a missionary preaching civilization in a barbaric island. Is she stupid? This is my first time here, but I can see that that word is not even in the grub's vocabulary.

She looks at him with soft eyes seemingly pleading, but that grub's dark eyes makes it obvious that he ain't getting none of it.

"Want to die?"

"I know you're hungry, so I brought you this. I made it myself, and if you're worried about the price it is just an extremely affordable price of 499$ and 99 cents."

Hmm? Is it that cheap? One house is equivalent to 30 breakfasts. It's quite a steal.

"Are you crazy? Do you treat your own cooking as gourmet food?"

"Haiz, what are you saying? It's inflation. Rice nowadays cost 300$, 100$ for the sausage, 100$ for the egg, and 500$ for labor cost. I am already giving you a friend's discount of 50%. Don't be greedy."

Kughk! Does this woman have any shame? If I have a body, I would personally soften that thick face.

"Sigh, come in. Also, if you tried to destroy the door again, I swear that I will strap you on that very doorway."

"Hai, Hai, excuse me. I will humbly enter the abode of the exalted one."

She removed her slippers and entered without welcome. She ran happily up the second floor with obvious familiarity. The grub is following her with crossed arms, clearly displeased.

Without ceremony, the woman opened the door of the dark room, but immediately after her face contorted with digust.

"What in the hell is this room? This damned stench! You haven't cleaned even though I already told you a month ago. And those squiggly lines, don't tell me. Are you a part of a cult?"

That's what I thought too. This grub clearly have something wrong in his head.

"Research shows that people with dirtier rooms are more creative than those with cleaner ones. Also, I am trying to strengthen my immune system by cultivating microorganisms in my room."

"Bweh! Well said for an unhygienic hermit! Don't make excuses and clean your room. I will come here in a week. If this is not yet cleaned before the demolition crew comes in, you know what will happen."

"Are you threatening me?"

"I am just stating the possibilities."

I like this woman. I really want to give her a hand. Let's see, hmm. Alright, I had set a demolition crew to arrive tommorow. If that grub fails to clean his room, he will feel the consequences.

[Quest: Clean your room.

Duration: 1 day

Punishment: House Demolition.]

Is that how you do it? I'm quite new at doing this. Did I get it right? If not, I will just change it later.

"What?!! Hey! Alexis, can you see this?"

"Hmm? Did you finally snapped? I thought that it is weird that you're not mentally insane yet. It turns out that you are just a late bloomer."

"No! You idiot! There's a blue window screen in front of me! Can you not see it?"

"Yes."

"So, you can see it. Alexis, do you have any idea what this is?"

"Yes, I can't see it. I will call the hospital staff to fetch you later. Don't worry, the hospital is very cheap and they have excellent service for those with special needs. Goodbye, I still have to make an appointment."

"You fu-"

SLAM! The door closed for the grub. He was now trapped alone and forced to face the new reality in front of him.