SSS-Rank Talent: Super Upgrade System - Chapter 154: The Genius Despised

... The all-radish meal, a dish made from the very vegetable that had mocked him all morning, felt like a cruel, almost poetic punishment.

He could feel the mocking gazes of the other workers on his back, their silent judgment as sharp as any blade.

Old Man Hemlock appeared beside him, his eyes alight with a fervent, almost religious zeal.

He grabbed a large wooden bowl and began piling it high with steaming radish slices, a look of pure bliss on his wrinkled face.

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