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Kim Haru's responsibilities were minimal. The first was that, if he intended to sell his vegetables, Pyeongseong Saze Zone would be his preferred choice.

However, the safe zone commander didn't enforce this as an absolute rule.

He promised that if any regulations or people in Pyeongseong Safe Zone made Kim Haru feel uncomfortable or unhappy, he could choose not to sell his vegetables to them at any time.

Of course, the safe zone commander vowed never to let things escalate to that point. No matter who it was, anyone who dared interfere with Mr. Kim's business would be considered an enemy of the entire safe zone.

Beyond this, Kim Haru would also occasionally fulfill his consultant duties, offering guidance whenever the Plant Research Institute encountered problems with vegetable cultivation.

The contract also did not stipulate that Kim Haru had to answer any questions; everything would depend on his mood.

Initially, the safe zone commander wanted to allocate a dedicated research room for Kim Haru in the institute, but he declined.

Kim Haru had no plans to stay long inside the safe zone; he was still thinking about his wooden cabin outside the safe zone.

Besides, he wasn't truly an expert in farming. Kim Haru wasn't sure if he could actually help the Plant Research Institute solve its problems. He had already made up his mind that if he couldn't provide answers, he might as well offer them seeds and see if anything different came out.

The farming system was simply too unique. If he stayed in the safe zone for too long, it was only a matter of time before someone noticed something strange.

Because of this, the safe zone commander even wanted to assign Kim Haru a car for easier travel back and forth.

Kim Haru refused.

It wasn't that he didn't appreciate the offer; he simply didn't know how to drive, so the car would have been useless to him.

"I'll just use a balance scooter."

Seeing that Kim Haru wasn't just being polite, the Pyeongseong Saze Zone commander had no choice but to agree. Although, inside his heart, he still felt uneasy. So, he mentioned that the next exploration team was set to depart in the next few days, heading to east. He offered to have them give Kim Haru a ride in that direction.

Unable to refuse any longer, Kim Haru finally nodded in agreement.

The Pyeongseong Saze Zone commander immediately sent someone to check on the exploration team's preparations.

After the contract was signed, Kim Haru remembered that he still had some vegetables left unsold. Shin Woncheon and the others had bought some before, but there were still some remaining. Kim Haru handed them all over to the safe zone commander, exchanging them for the corresponding amount of crystal cores based on the system's pricing.

He also declined the extra amount the safe zone commander wanted to give him.

In the end, after deducting what he had given to Hwa Jian, Kim Haru had sold a total of 5,004 crystal cores. After purchasing two items, he still had 4,204 crystal cores left.

Kim Haru asked for the location of the miscellaneous market. Before going there to buy various things, he had something else to take care of.

"Where is my villa?"

Before signing the contract, Kim Haru had made one request.

He wanted his villa back and to punish the shameless thieves who had taken it!

The safe zone commander, of course, did not hesitate.

Even if Kim Haru hadn't mentioned it, after realizing how valuable Kim Haru was, the safe zone commander would have made sure to handle the matter for him.

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Yongwan Street, Second District.

The Flamma Squad was leisurely making their way to the villa.

"Ah, it's so much better now that the annoying guy's gone from the villa. He used to boss everyone around, even about where to throw the trash. Just because his name was on the deed, he thought he could control everything. His life was only saved because of us, anyway."

"Daepo, you must have been born in a trash heap. Have you seen your room? It smells worse than a garbage dump. Good thing the villa's big now, with enough rooms for everyone. So, I don't have to be near you. Sure enough, big houses are the best."

"Bah! Like I want to share a place with you! You reek of sweat. When was the last time you took a shower? You're so lazy. Now that the whole villa is ours, and there's such a big bathroom, I could spend all day in there.

You just don't know how to enjoy life."

"Ha! I was wondering why the water's been used up so fast lately. So it's you, Daepo, who's been wasting it. We don't have that loser to buy water for us anymore, so use it sparingly."

"What the hell? Weren't you the one, boss, who couldn't stand him the most and pushed to take him out early? We were waiting for him to buy more water first, and hopefully drain all his money before finishing him off. Now we don't even know where he hid it."

"Enough talking. There's no way any of you could've put up with that idiot constantly hanging around, reminding us that we were living under his roof. How could I, the boss of Flamma Squad, stand that humiliation?"

"The boss is right. He was just an ordinary person with no abilities, yet living in such a nice villa? He was practically begging for someone to target him. Now that he's dead, the house is ours. Let's go back and enjoy it properly."

"Yeah, yeah, let's hurry back. I've got a few bottles of alcohol waiting. Too bad we don't have a lightning-type ability user. Otherwise, we could use the fridge, the washing machine, the TV, and play games. That'd be heaven."

The conversation gradually drifted to what fun things there were left to do in the villa. As for killing the owner? There wasn't a trace of guilt or regret, they just complained that they hadn't done it sooner.