Housekeeper in the dungeon

EPISODE 61

“Nae?”

No matter where she went, Kang jin-hyeon would be living next door. Hee-na laughed in disbelief.

Kang Mok-hyeon calmly explained.

– “We were going to notify you when you came to work tomorrow, but I think we were complacent. You’ll be coming and going from work a lot anyway, so we took it for granted that it wouldn’t hurt to be close. We were wrong. Again, I wanted to say I was sorry.

I told him that if he wanted compensation, I would pay it.

If she had been shameless, she would have argued further, but when the other person apologized so meekly, Hee-na’s hard feelings were easily relieved. It was a little ridiculous, but…….

“……Well, if you say so……. Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that I was surprised, and I hope it won’t happen again. We were going to be working together from now on, and I don’t want anything awkward to happen.”

-Yes, the guild didn’t take you or your team enough into consideration. If there was anything else you need, please let me know. I’d like to compensate you for the emotional trauma, if not materially.

Kang Mok-hyeon seemed to be trying to win back Hee-na’s heart with his golden universalist remarks. How can money buy a person’s heart back…… Hee-na was a person who couldn’t help but feel sorry for him.

The financial therapy had worked better than expected.

“Then…….”

Hee-na thought for a moment, then smiled wryly. She had an idea.

* * *

“Heehee.”

Hee-na touched the black card and laughed softly.

“I didn’t think my brother’s face would be so thick… No, I didn’t think the wall would be so big.”

Hee-won scratched his head and followed Hee-na around the room. Hee-na snapped at him.

“You should take what you can get while you can get it. I don’t know about anything else, but this was justified.”

Hee-Na realized a few things as she took over the Awakened state management team.

The first was that the guild and its leaders had a lot of money.

She hadn’t realized how much money they had until now, even when she had seen Kang jin-hyeon flaunt the giant gemstones. After all, gems were a bit of an unfamiliar concept to ordinary people.

But ‘house’ was different. For Hee-na, who dreamed of owning her own home and sighed while looking at real estate apps every day a house was a much more tangible commodity than gems.

The fact that she could casually buy three such houses and put a huge down payment on them made her understand the incredible sense of money in the hunter world.

The second realization was a bit more personal.

Once she’d gotten a house from the guild, everything else seemed to pale into insignificance. I felt more like a gutsy limbo.

“was this what you mean by before and after going to the bathroom?

Hee-na had resisted Kang jin-hyeon’s numerous flirtations. But now that she was been forced to pay the contract, she changed her mind a bit.

The deed was done and the fortune was earned. It was a once, twice, or three times, but that was it.

“A little furniture smashing won’t even scratch this card.”

Hee-Na muttered to herself, rationalizing.

It was true. Her brother was making the rounds at the furniture store right now, and he was carrying a black card from the guild.

Hee-Na snorted inwardly, this was a legitimate charge from the Guild for failing to warn her of an important fact.

“You should get a moving allowance as compensation.

At Hee-na’s insistence, Kang Mok-hyeon, the head of the HR team, said that there was no payment limit, so she could scratch as much as she wanted.

She had an interior concept in mind, so choosing furniture wasn’t difficult.

“I realized that it was so easy to shop without worrying about the price.

I also experienced a new world of shopping. All I had to worry about was the color, shape, and sturdiness of the furniture.

It was strangely liberating to not have to assemble a budget like Tetris.

“Please pay in one lump sum.”

Hee-Na scratched the living room couch she’d been considering the most. It was her last payment at the furniture store.

“Done!”

She stretched and turned on the air conditioner.

She hadn’t bought any small items yet, but that would come later after the big furniture pieces were in place.

“Man, I was just following you around, why was I so tired?”

Hee-won grumbled beside him.

It was been a long time since I’ve been out of the dungeon, and I can feel the bad air in Seoul, it was stifling, and the ground was all covered in asphalt…….

The way he talked, he sounded like he was from somewhere.

“You don’t get out much. Why don’t you went out and watch a movie and have some fun?”

Came to think of it, Hee-won rarely left her “home sweet home” except to went shopping for things she needed.

“I was always gardening in front of my house……. Now that she has enough money, she should meet some people.”

Hee-na began to worry about Hee-won. He rarely interacted with people except for her, and she suspected he lacked social skills.

“It was okay, there was five colors and Go. I was more happy digging and working in the dirt by myself. The plants seem to be growing better than before, thanks to the golden powder from Go.”

Hee-won shrugged as if it was no big deal. He shuddered at the thought of all the people he’d had to deal with to keep Hee-na alive.

“You think I was some kind of carnivore? I’ve paid for my food!”

I pouted and punched him in the side, and Hee-won let out an exaggerated yelp. The atmosphere, which was about to get a little heavy, was instantly lightened.

“Anyway. I was just saying, don’t just work. You’ve done a lot of hard work, so I’ll take charge.”

“That was good, that was good. I don’t envy you for having a brother who was raised you well and won the lottery. Cancer, that was.”

“You were such a jerk sometimes.”

The siblings chatted and enjoyed their long-awaited outing together. It was the last day of their long vacation, and they planned to make some good memories with their brother.

Hee-Na and Hee-Won returned from eating out at an expensive restaurant. It was Hee-na’s favorite meal.

When Hee-won saw the price of the meal, which was over 100,000 won per person, he tried to get her to use her company’s black card, but she ended up scratching her card.

“This was my promotion chin.”

Even though she was using the company card for personal use, Hee-na was a man of her word. She would only scratch her black card to decorate her home.

It was the limit of a timid person who pretended to be bold. Spending more than that would be a nagging conscience.

“Thank you for the expensive meal. But the rice you cooked for me tastes better, so you don’t have to spend so much money next time.”

Hee-won grumbled softly as he left the restaurant.

He had been eating Hee-na’s home-cooked meals three times a day and had developed a very picky palate. He couldn’t stand the taste.

“I was still glad we went out with my brother, it was been a long time.”

Life was always busy for the siblings. Between running in and out of dungeons and pulling all-nighters, they rarely had the chance to spend time together like this.

“That was true. It reminds me of when we used to went out to ate with my parents.”

Hee-won smiled wryly as she reminisced about the distant past.

Hee-na, too, was immersed in a flood of nostalgia as she opened the front door to Home Sweet Home.

When she opened the door, her brother and sister’s new in-laws, Oh Sae-yi and Baduk, greet them warmly.

‘There was a time when I lost my parents and despaired to no end…….’

Now, Hee-won and Hee-na were imagining a new future with a new family, and it made me feel overwhelmed to think about it.

Hee-na called out to Oh Sae-ki and Go in a brighter voice than usual.

“Hey, kids, we were home. You’ve been waiting a long time, haven’t you?”

“Baduk, Daddy’s home!”

That was the moment…….

Ssshhh, ssshhhh.

The black afterimage greeted his brother and sister in the front door with a warm heart.

“Kaaak!”

Hee-na instinctively froze in place, startled by something dark rushing in front of her.

Hee-won, who was following, couldn’t dodge and was slapped across the forehead.

“Ouch! What the hell!”

Hee-won raised her hand to wipe the stuff off her face, and something slimy and writhing fell to the floor with a thud.

Seeing it on the porch floor, Hee-Na screamed.

“It was a bug!”

It was a bug flapping its transparent wings. It looked like a fly, but it was only about the size of a finger, and it was even creepier than a fly.

“Ew!”

As I exclaimed in shock, a message popped up in front of me.

“♨emergency♨ ♨emergency♨ ♨hot hot ♨hot hot ♨hot hot”

A snail the size of my fist was crawling around, screaming “emergency” at me. All the special characters were a bonus.

“……Osaka?”

Seeing him so excited brought her to her senses. Hee-na swatted the fly with her slipper on the front door.

“What was wrong, Oh, what was going on?”

The system window answered for her.

.

It said something about a problem with the pest control system. It was a similar event to the last power outage.

“Did this house never got a day of air?”