Housekeeper in the dungeon

EPISODE 85

“I don’t blame Hee-na for what she did at the time, it was the right thing to do.”

Kang jin-hyeon shook his head, saying he understood Hee-na’s position.

But he quickly returned to his stern expression.

“However, you made a very risky choice about this dungeon walk. For a C-class non-combatant to think about running around in a dungeon…… is beyond common sense, this.”

“Still, I had some suitable items, and if I use my guidance skill, I could avoid the dungeon bosses…….”

“You were being complacent. For her safety and stability, Hee-Na, who rejected my offer and chose to live a normal life, shouldn’t do something so bold.”

He was right, this was not like Hee-na. Who could have predicted that the timid, ultra-security-minded Lee Hee-na would make such a radical choice?

But…….

“But……, if I don’t break this quest, I’ll lose both Oh Sack and Go. They were not people, but they were my household, my family.”

No matter how important safety was, family was the priority.

She lost her parents at the age of 15 and grew up with only her brother to support her, and for her, family is a concept bound by more than affection and trust.

“I would never abandon someone I considered family.”

Kang jin-hyeon seemed to pause for a moment in thought.

“……I see. Family is a top priority for you, Hee-na.”

He stroked his chin and muttered slowly and thoughtfully.

“She will never abandon…… such an existence.”

After saying that, Kang was silent for a while. He seemed to be pondering something.

Hee-na rolled her eyes, and the rooted Go player began to squirm in boredom.

“I can no longer trust your safety or your sense of safety.”

Kang jin-hyeon said, bluntly. Hee-Na reflexively apologized.

“I’m sorry, I’ll be more careful in the future…….”

“Words are not enough.”

He was very firm.

“Then what else can you do……. Did you want me to write a pledge? Did you want me to swear on a magic stone?”

I was beginning to wonder how to get out of this situation. Kang jin-hyeon put his arm around me again.

“I need to see Hee-na’s safety with my own eyes.”

“How?”

I was doing enough of that now. They’d seen each other every day for five days of the week, and occasionally on the weekends for small talk.

“What more could you do?

I was wondering when he dropped a bombshell.

“I’m going to move into Hee-Na’s house.”

“……?”

Hee-Na’s ears perked up. She even dug in her earlobe and asked again.

“What did you mean?”

Kang didn’t raise an eyebrow at Hee-na’s exaggerated reaction.

“It was literal. I’m going to live in Hee-na’s ‘home sweet home’.”

“My home, Mr. jin-hyeon?”

“Yes. I’ll be right there to keep an eye on Hee-na to make sure she doesn’t do anything stupid…… No, I’ll be there to make sure she doesn’t do anything stupid. I’ll also be there to help her if something dangerous happens.”

“You’re making such a sudden move?

The offer to move in and live in her house came out of nowhere. Hee-Na took a few steps back in dismay.

“Oh, well. My house is really small, maybe 20 square meters, so it’s barely big enough for just my brother and me, and there’s a lot of stuff in there, and it’s busy, and you don’t like that, do you?”

“I sleep on the floor when I was in dungeons.”

Kang jin-hyeon stepped forward as much as Hee-na stepped back. The height difference made him feel quite intimidating.

“If you don’t accept my offer, I’ll report that plant-like monster called Baduk to the higher-ups.”

However, Kang’s non-threatening words made Hee-na jump up and down, and she couldn’t help but shout.

“That’s too much! You’re threatening me over Go!”

“It was forbidden by international law to raise or cultivate monsters, whether they were normal people or Awakened.”

“…….”

It was. Monsters were considered to be the main enemy of mankind, unable to be tamed, but they could also be used as weapons of war.

As such, monster research was heavily regulated.

Of course, there were secret rumors that the great powers were secretly conducting monster-related research in the same way as nuclear testing, but…… this was strictly forbidden to the public.

If anyone found out that they were raising a Go, a plant-like monster, they would be in a very awkward situation.

“The only reason I didn’t kill that monster was because Hee-na begged me to, and for no other reason.”

Hee-na’s eyebrows knitted together at the aggressive point, and the shrewd Go player quickly backed away and hid behind a large tree. He didn’t even bother to run away, which worried Hee-na.

‘I didn’t think Mr. jin-hyeon would be so mean.

Hee-na felt a sense of betrayal.

Of course, as a go player, Hee-na was not in a position to be dignified.

But she didn’t expect Mr. Kang jin-hyeon, whom she had always thought of as a steadfast and sturdy man, to pressure her in such a weak way.

“If you let me into Hee-na’s house, I’ll pretend not to know about all this, and I promise to actively help you if you have any problems in the future.”

He used a carrot-and-stick strategy. He pressured her, then gently nudged her.

At this point, there was almost only one answer Hee-Na could come up with.

“Okay, Mr. jin-hyeon, do as you insist!”

Hee-na screamed in exasperation.

“There’s not even a room in my house for Mr. jin-hyeon to stay in! You mean to tell me that Kang jin-hyeon, an S-class Hunter, is going to sleep in the corner of someone else’s living room?”

Hee-na’s house was a small two-room house. One room was occupied by Hee-na and the other by Hee-won.

There was no room for Kang jin-hyeon. At best, they could give him the living room, a small common area.

“You don’t have to worry about that.”

Kang jin-hyeon held out his hand to reassure Hee-na, who was still fuming.

But the calmness of Kang’s voice only made her more excited. Hee-na barked like an angry Chihuahua.

“How can you not worry? You’re not going to take out the rock that’s stuck in the stone, are you? You’re not going to give my brother’s room!”

It was unacceptable to have someone who wasn’t even family in this tiny house!

“Calm down. I have a solution.”

“What way? It was not like Mr. Jin Hyun is going to upgrade our house!”

“I can do it.”

“What do you mean you can do……!”

Hee-Na’s eyes widened as she tried to shout.

Something formed in the palm of Kang’s hand. It was a shiny coin, and it looked like he’d pulled it out of his inventory window.

“You said you upgraded your house with a piece of space, right?”

“Uh, yeah.”

“Here’s a piece of space.”

He placed the coin in Hee-Na’s hand in a leisurely manner. At first, her fingers felt hard and hot as she took the coin.

Hee-na examined the coin in her hand, and a window popped up with a description.

And just as Hee-Na’s finger touched it, the system window flickered.

The coin glowed tiny as the attribution message faded away.

“Huh?”

Cha gasped, wondering if he was about to fall into another dungeon. Kang jin-hyeon thought the same thing and grabbed Hee-na’s wrist where she held the coin.

Luckily, the system didn’t do anything more than add a few extra characters to the description of the space fragment, which read “Owner: Lee Hina”.

“It was been preserved cleanly, so it doesn’t seem to be shifting like it did when she touched it before.”

Kang jin-hyeon quickly assessed the situation. Hee-Na secretly agreed with him.

“I see. I fell into the dungeon right after I cleaned the dirty coin, too. Something must have gone wrong when the damage was repaired.

But instead of nodding, Hee-Na asked about the source of the spatial fragment.

“But where did you get this?”

“It came from inside the belly of the boss monster we captured earlier.”

Kang jin-hyeon jerked his chin at the corpse of the boss monster lying in the distance.

“From what Hee-na said, I can see its use. It seems to be an item directly related to her skill. I’m sure it will help you expand your space.”

‘Ugh…….’

Hee-na wanted to slap her mouth for blurting out every word she hadn’t said.

The problem was that she had mentioned that the last time she had picked up a piece of space, it had raised the level of the house, turning the one-room into a two-room.

Meanwhile, Kang jin-hyeon, who had figured out the purpose of the items he had picked up and offered Hee-na a deal she couldn’t refuse, was also willing to take a chance.

‘I thought it was a bear, but it’s a fox, right?