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[Hey~, Miss~, remember "We"?]

She woke up and looked around her. Everything was white except the dark black tree positioned in the middle.

"How-..you again?"

[Yes, and "We" have a name miss. It's "We".]

"..."

'Okay, that's easy to remember.'

"Why are you here? Didn't you say that our last time seeing each other was yesterday?"

[Yes, "We" know. "We" just wanted to give you the seeds that "We" had forgotten to give, remember?]

"Ah, yeah, the seeds..."

[Yeah, so the seeds are in your inventory. You can open your inventory by concentrating.]

"What, am I going to use magic?"

[No, this is not magic, but something special that "We" gave you, y'know. In total, there are thirty seeds, you just need to raise it, okay? Water it every day and maybe you will find many surprises.]

"Surprises?"

[Yes. "We" couldn't believe that in the only day we were away, you already hurt yourself again. How pitiful are you? Sadly, "We" can't help you this time. But, don't worry, you will get better in no time because you have our blessing,.]

"Shut up."

The dark black tree, "We", giggled and departed. Then, in its place, appeared a glass greenhouse. However, there were no flowers or plants. Only a single bag of seeds without a name on it and several tools were left in the greenhouse.

She looked at her first seed, which had a different color from the rest. It was glowing.

'Although I don't agree nor did I disagree, I think I have to do this so that I can repay that tree's debt. I would rather not owe anything.'

She then further inspected the glass house. There were different types of equipment such as shovels, dirt, pots, and fertilizers.

How was she so well acquainted with those gardening tools? Wasn't she a queen who otherwise would have never encountered such tools?

Yes, but she was also a farmer when she was little.

Long story short, Tereza grew up in a loving farming family. She spent her childhood in the field, either helping her father to harvest the crops or playing with her sisters in the forest.

Her father was a gentle, yet ordinary farmer. The village where she grew up in only consisted of her own family and a small number of other families. All of them knew how good her father was.

However, because of an unfortunate event, he died while saving a crown prince from assassins. The old king gave a hero medal to her dad. But, it didn't relieve her sad feelings.

The next thing she recalled, was her mother and sisters dying slowly, following her father to the grave. That year, the kingdom was overwhelmed by an epidemic that spread around the kingdom. Fortunately, Tereza herself was alright.

She didn't even know why she could survive that disaster. Thus she became a sole lone orphan.

Tereza, with her positive attitude, slowly grew up trading crops to merchants. Her father always told her to be optimistic, confident, and also humble at the same time.

She used those personalities when trading with a lot of different people. She then began to develop her habits of intuitive thinking and talking as a merchant.

Because of her efforts, her delicious crops became the best selling in the kingdom.

After a couple of years, she became a noble whose title was bestowed by the king because of her contributions for stocking food when the wars came.

She also became the number one merchant after selling crops and gold, which she coincidentally discovered in a mine within her territory.

Thus, she was the richest noble in the kingdom.

The crown prince, now king, proposed to her and she soon became queen. But, the story ended up twisted along the way.

Tereza, finally, done with her inspecting, left the white space after thinking of leaving.

...

Suddenly, she heard a man's voice.

The source of the voice approached and bent down to her body. He wore green and black striped clothing. He seemed like a soldier. In fact, he was a soldier.

He tried to wake her but there was no response. He was just inspecting the area to check on the reports of the other soldiers. One of the soldiers got poisoned by eating a strange fruit. But in the next second, he was in the heat.

At first, the strange fruit looked delicious, but it was actually a trap to lure you to eat it. Later the body will feel hot and thirsty. It was a drug.

Coincidently, he met the unconscious woman.

'Did she eat the fruit?'

He looked at the nearby fruit she ate. 'Yeah, I think she did.'

He tried to wake her up again.

Finally, she showed a response.