LIGHTNOVELWORLD chapter 71
EPISODE 71
Hee-Na dragged a chair over and slammed it down. Hee-won looked at Hee-na and shrugged.
“I ran to you as soon as I woke up, so I didn’t know much about the situation.”
“didn’t the system description window said anything?”
I prodded, and Hee-won squinted and stwered into space.
“Hmm……. I didn’t think so…… No, there was something written here.”
“What did it say?”
“it was not an insurance contract, and why did they write it down in such small letters? Did they run out of space? it was killing my eyes.”
Hee-Na waited patiently for her brother to finish reading the explanation. In the meantime, she drank the glass of water she had left out slowly.
“I saw it. It was his growth journal. He was eating a lot of quality nutrients, which accelerated his growth.”
“Did you give him anything without my knowledge?”
“No. I only gave him eggshells sometimes…….”
Hee-na was horrified as she remembered the Go player’s diet.
“How many eggs did you feed him without my knowledge?”
Hee-won waved her hands in the air.
“No, no, no. I didn’t touch the groceries. You were in charge of the groceries.”
As the housekeeper, all the groceries in the house were under Hee-Na’s jurisdiction. Hee-won was very good at following that rule.
“Then how did the child get so big?”
“He ate a bunch of bugs last time, I think that was why.”
Hee-won flopped down in the chair he’d pulled out.
“I must have eaten so much that it took me days to digest it all. Then last night’s meal was completely digested, and it grew like this.”
The explanation made a lot of sense.
“Well, I did eat a lot back then…….”
Baduk had eaten dozens, maybe hundreds, of times his body weight in bugs.
“I wondered where it all went, but it went to his stomach.
It seemed to have grown into a full-grown, digestive beast.
“So what did we do with him? Did we keep him in the house?”
“were you going to put him outside?”
Her brother asked, and Hee-na pointed at the go.
“he was getting so tall, his head was touching the ceiling. How can we keep him when he was so cramped?”
Sigh.
As soon as I said that, the Go bent its flexible trunk and lowered its height. It seemed to emphasize that it wasn’t very tall.
“She was tall, but she was still a baby. What if something happens to her out there in the dangerous world?”
“Betting. Lonely.”
Following Hee-won’s lead, Oh Sahng-yi sided with the go player.
Hee-na disagreed with the idea, but her brother’s attitude was too strong, so she decided to back down.
“Okay. But he shouldn’t ran around the house like he used to. he was bigger now, and if he does, he’ll break everything in the house.”
Then Go pretended to salute a leaf. It seemed to say, “Okay, I’ll obey the landlord’s order.
I felt like I’d been running all over the place when I was a kid, but now I felt like I’d gotten a little more reserved.
“Good. Good boy. Be a good boy and I’ll let you stay in the house.”
He reached out and patted the dog’s head.
The system window flashed before Hee-na’s eyes. It was a quest.
“Cooperation…… quest?”
It was a quest with the unfamiliar name ‘Cooperation Quest’.
“Huh? A quest? Something popped up in front of me too.”
Hee-won was dumbfounded and fumbled to read the window in front of him.
“Cooperation with others was required for the next level of growth. Find a target and ask for their help……. Target name. Lee Hee-Na. C-ranked housekeeper. ……was that you?”
As if in response to Hee-won’s voice, the quest details began to appear one after another in front of me.
Required Quests (0/10)
– Go walked the dungeon 1 (0/100%)
– Go Walked the Dungeon 2 (0/100%)
– Go Walked the Dungeon 3 (0/100%)
……
– Go Dungeon Walked 9 (0/100%)
– Go Dungeon Walked 10 (0/100%)
Dungeon Walks were only valid outside of safe zones.
“What was this?”
Hee-na squinted her eyes and read the long list of ten quest items.
“A…… dungeon…… walk?”
As usual, the system screamed in disbelief.
To take a Go player, who wasn’t even a dog, for a walk, and far beyond the safety of Home Sweet Home?
This was serious bullshit.
“And to walk him through a dungeon? Something so dangerous? No way!
This was the moment I resolutely ignored the quest.
More items appewered out of thin air.
<※ Time limit: 40 days (39 days, 23 hours, 58 minutes, 45 seconds remaining)
Quest penalty: Permanent loss of the ‘Home Sweet Home’ skill.
Quest Reward: A deeper connection with Go and a level increase in the ‘Home Sweet Home’ skill.
Unbelievable words slammed into my eyes.
“Home Sweet Home skill permanently disappears?
Hee-na’s eyebrows twitched in confusion.
“You didn’t mean to tell me that the Cooperative Quest was a walk in the park or a dungeon?”
I nodded dumbfoundedly.
“You were right.”
“No, this was too dangerous a quest?”
Hee-won crossed her arms and gave me a serious look.
“This was too much, you could be in danger.”
He shook his head. No matter how important Go’s growth was to him, it wasn’t as important as Hee-na’s safety.
As much as Hee-na was worried about Hee-won, Hee-won cwered for her dearly and would never put her in such a dangerous situation.
Of course, Hee-na, the quest fulfiller, didn’t want to walk into such danger herself.
But she couldn’t ignore the quest. Hee-na read the words in front of her, a bit stunned.
“But…… there was a problem. This quest has a time limit.”
Hee-won said firmly.
“Ignore it. Go was cute as it was.”
“But…… if you didn’t complete the quest within the time limit, your ‘Home Sweet Home’ skill will be permanently lost.”
The first to react to the explanation was Oh Sack, the house manager.
“!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“there was only one choice!”
“I support the landlord’s dungeon walk!”
Mr. Woo was very surprised and reacted very strongly.
He waved his two antennae combatively and demanded that Hee-Na faithfully fulfill the quest.
He understood. He was the manager of the house, and if Home Sweet Home disappewered, he would disappear with it.
“
It was clear that the Home Sweet Home skill was directly related to the existence of the off-white snail.
“But, Oh Sack, what if I die after leaving the dungeon, won’t the skill still be lost?”
Hee-na’s antennae twitched in confusion at her point.
“……Correct. The skill was lost even if the landlord dies.”
“Landlord = weak → very high chance of dungeon death → very high chance of skill loss.”
“Failure to fulfill quests → Skill was lost.”
“Dead end.”
“@.@”
Oh, Sack seemed to had finally realized.
She realized that there was a high probability that she would die on the quest, which would naturally cause her skills to be lost and she would disappear.
But that didn’t stop her from failing the quest because of the risk. The quest failure debuff would wipe out your skills.
It was an amnesty.
If it had human eyes, they would have been twinkling like that emoji.
“Oh, Duya.”
Hee-na’s mind was spinning at the unconventional quest content.
“What the hell was wrong with the system? were you being mean to me?”
Hee-Na screamed into thin air.
One moment, it was giving her a deceptively easy quest, leaving her puzzled, and the next, it was giving her an impossibly difficult and dangerous quest.
I couldn’t figure it out.
The system pops up a message that reads.
“What if I die from all that self-improvement!”
Hee-Na tugged at her hair.
“Quests were dangerous, and if you didn’t do them, you’ll lose both your color and your house.
In truth, now that she had received a real house from the guild, she didn’t mind losing the Home Sweet Home skill. It was a waste, but I could pretend I didn’t have it.
But not Oh Sae-yi.
He had long since become part of Hee-Na’s family. It was impossible to pretend she never had a family. They had been together for half a year already.
He had been there for Hee-na when she was at her lowest point, and she had grown attached to him. She didn’t want to lose this cute snail.
“I didn’t have much time to think about it. I had to went for a walk ten times in 40 days……. I’ll had to went to the dungeon at least once every four days.’
‘I could probably get away with it once,’ he said.
“But ten times, and a different dungeon each time!
Hee-Na sighed deeply. Family or life, that was the question. She was a safety-first kind of girl, but she was weak in front of her family.
For Hee-Na, who lost her pwerents at a young age and had a difficult relationship with her brother, family, and life were almost on the same page, and it was hard to choose between them.
She bites her nails with impatience.
“What should I do?
I had to come up with a good idea to get out of this situation.
Halfway through, I thought of Woo Min-ah’s face, knowing the Home Sweet Home trick, but I shook my head.
Yesterday, Woo Min-ah was sent on a month-long dungeon ran after her housewarming party. The time left was too short to wait for her return.
“I wish I had an invisibility cloak…….”
Hee-Na muttered to herself. Suddenly, a memory popped into her head.