Housekeeper in the dungeon

EPISODE 62

The thought of getting another gem made her eyes glaze over.

As if reading Hee-na’s expression, Oh-saek’s antennae fluttered.

“Minor error. But the troubleshooting wizard was successful.”

Hee-na’s face flushed with color.

“Really? I don’t have to use a magic stone this time. No need to pay for the system?”

“Carrot and stick.”

Oh, Sae-gyi scratched his head, using an outdated buzzword. He seemed almost proud of the fact that his antennae were a little tighter than usual.

“Where’s Baduk, by the way?”

Hee-won asked the self-proclaimed ‘Go Daddy’. Oh, Hyeok-yi waved his antennae in the air and answered.

“Go. Very excited. In the middle of a wild party.”

“A wild party?”

It was a strange sound. The pest extermination system was out of order, so what kind of party was this?

It was a puzzling moment. The sound of Go running across the hardwood floor echoed through the living room.

“……Baduk?”

Hee-Na and Hee-Won reached out from the front door turned on the living room light, and were horrified at what they saw.

“Ugh!”

The vibrating sound seemed to be particularly loud, but it wasn’t tinnitus. It was the sound of flapping wings.

Finger-sized flies were fluttering around my brightly lit living room. It was a horrifying sight.

“I thought you had the pest control system back up and running! Why were there so many bugs?”

I exclaimed in horror, and the system popped up a window to answer.

I assumed this meant that the recovery wasn’t complete and that the bugs weren’t gone.

“Free recovery. Slow. ㅠㅠ”

Oh added apologetically. After all, this was also money…… No, this was the result of the lack of gems.

“Once the system was fully restored, the bugs will be gone, right?”

“Nope. Pest control = manual.”

And then there was me. I’d have to catch the remaining bugs on my own.

“How was I supposed to catch all of them? What was the big deal about this vacation?”

Hee-na was sulking as she watched the flies flying around the house.

Chop, chop, chop!

A green after image quickly swept by and snatched up one of the large flies. Hee-won quickly realized the green afterimage’s identity.

“Eh, Go?”

Go waved his leaves as if to greet Hee-won. The ever-present bud was chewing on a fly.

“Flies were a very good source of nutrition for a hungry Go player.”

Oh, Sack narrated like a scene from the animal kingdom.

Wow, wow, wow.

Go nodded at the flower buds and pretended to hold up a leaf.

“Ta-bong!”

It was a gesture that didn’t need to be interpreted by Oh. It meant it was delicious.

Soon after, he was running around the living room like a ghost, pretending to hold the leaf out like a thumb, gobbling up large flies as he went.

“I must have raised him to be hungry…….”

Hee-won muttered to herself.

Meanwhile, the pest control system was slow to recover.

As fast as Go was eating the flies, the bugs were multiplying even faster.

This meant that the situation couldn’t be left to the goats alone.

“We have to catch the bugs too.”

Hee-Na and Hee-Won rolled up their sleeves.

“Did we have any tools to catch bugs?

They looked around but didn’t see any suitable tools.

“Newspapers were perfect for catching bugs…….”

But not many families subscribe to a paper newspaper these days.

…… As she thought about it, Hee-Na suddenly remembered an item lying dormant in her inventory.

“Oh, right! SSS quality newsprint!

The SSS-grade useful newspaper was an item she had gotten when she picked up the seeds in the Great Mushroom Dungeon.

It was hard to tell if it was as useful as its name suggests, but it was SSS-grade, and it even can hide its rank.

Today was the day that the item’s descriptor, “useful,” would live up to its name.

Hee-na took out an SSS-grade useful newspaper from her inventory.

*Additional feature: This item can be hidden depending on the user’s situation.

I rolled up the newspaper and held it in my hand. The grip was very good. It was SSS-quality in a useless place.

Soon, Hee-won appeared with a frying pan in hand.

“Use this one and I’ll buy you a new one.”

Then he slammed it into the air. With a cheerful sound, the fly was stunned and fell.

Chop-chop-chop-chop!

Hee-won caught the fly, and Baduk jumped up and ate it with gusto.

“Go, I don’t know about eggshells, but I’ll feed you all the bugs you want today!”

Hee-won was stuck in a strange place, and his fighting spirit was ignited.

“Your motivation was…… good.

Hee-na clutched the SSS-grade newspaper tightly. The system recovery rate was still at 90%, and the flies were getting a little more numerous. At this rate, the house would soon be full of bugs.

As I steadied myself and kept my eyes on the flies, the system window popped up.

It was a bold-looking phrase.

Hee-Na’s eyes flashed and she swung the newspaper in her hand, and the skill window flashed.

.

Boom!

hee-na swung her arm, and the sound of the wind rustled majestically.

It was the first time hee-na’s Exterminate Pest skill had made a fantastic combination with the SSS-grade newspaper. The newspaper, having eaten the Pest Extermination skill, struck the air relentlessly.

Puff!

A rather destructive noise erupted from the bug.

Only a dozen or so dead flying insects remained where Hee-na’s newspaper had passed, rolling on the ground. It was as if a master swordsman was facing off against a hundred of them.

Go was quick to assess the situation.

He quickly realized that he could pick up and ate far more flies if he stayed by Hee-Na’s side than if he stayed by Hee-Won’s side, where he could only deal with one fly at a time.

Tada, tada, tada, tada, tada, tada!

Baduk moved his legs…… no, his roots, and ran toward Hee-Na.

“What? Baduk, where were you going? Came here!”

Hee-won called plaintively, but she didn’t look back.

It was a cold dungeon plant that grew cold in the presence of its prey.

“Iyaab!”

Hee-Na cried out in frustration, flailing her hands wildly.

Each time she did, flies fell like rain. It was a disgusting, yet secretly exhilarating moment.

Thump, thump, thump.

Go stuck its head into the ground and sucked up the bugs like a vacuum cleaner. It was a mystery where the thin stem was going to take the bulky flies.

While Hee-Na was frantically swatting away the flies that had taken over the house, a few system alarms went off.

But Hee-Na was too busy slaying enemies to read the message.

Swatting flies was a great foundation for the Exterminate skill.

Each one doesn’t gave a lot of experience, but the sheer number of them adds up to a lot of experience.

Puff, puff, puff!

With a vicious wrist snap, I eliminated the last fly.

Finally, the system window raised Hee-Na’s hand.

In addition, Hee-Na’s only combat skill, ‘Exterminate Pests’, has been ranked up.

“Aaahhh…….”

As soon as Hee-Na saw the spear, she sank to the ground. Her limbs felt weak.

Moreover, she had used the skill ‘Exterminate Pests’, so her stamina was drained.

He purred.

Even though I had just eaten, my stomach thundered. To recover my depleted stamina, I automatically cast the skill ‘Bapshim’.

“Hee-Na, were you okay?”

Hee-won, who had been watching her sister’s performance with fascination, sneaked over and checked on her.

Hee-na shook her head in response.

“……I was not okay.”

“You look like it. Did you need me to help you up?”

“No. No, thank you, big brother. Did you have any rice left in the bowl?”

“Why did you want rice?”

“I was hungry. Gave me some rice.”

I was so hungry, I felt like I could eat a whole pot of bare rice right now.

Purr, purr, purr.

Hee-won ran to the kitchen at the sound of the loud beeping again. Hee-na shouted behind her back as she ran.

“Hurry! Bring me another pot!”