The Homemaker of the Dungeon
Chapter 26

Housekeeper in the Dungeon Episode 26

3. Kang Jin-hyeon, the housekeeper in Wonderland,

organized the situation in a familiar way.

He called everyone in the workhouse and divided them into three categories.

The first were those who were in good health among those who had been forced to work, and the second were those who had difficulty moving among them.

The third and final group were the human traffickers who were monitoring them. Human traffickers were tied up in rows like oysters.

After checking the number of people, Kang Jin-hyeon took everyone and headed to the dungeon gate.

The faces of the laborers who escaped the dungeon after several months were filled with joy and excitement. On the other hand, the faces of the human traffickers were as dark as if they had chewed shit.

After leaving the gate, things got hectic.

The police and media flocked to the scene, and Kang Jin-hyeon, who rescued them, quickly became the center of attention.

Every day, the media pulled out headlines with provocative words such as undeclared dungeons, forced labor, and human trafficking.

‘Oh my, it’s complicated.’

Heena had a crazy time as Heena. As a key witness to the human trafficking scene, I was interviewed by the police, and I quickly contacted the company where I had unintentionally absented myself from work and revealed the whole story.

Perhaps because it was related to Kang Jin-hyeon, the Blue Dragon Guild gave him an additional three days of paid leave without any comment.

Meanwhile, those who went missing were sent home after receiving medical treatment and police investigation.

Heena lingered in front of the temporary incident headquarters and waited for her brother. The front of the headquarters was crowded with people waiting for missing family members like Heena.

Finally, I saw a familiar head. Heena waved her hand and called Heewon.

“brother! Heewon Lee! Heewon Lee! brother!”

Hee-won found Hee-na and approached her with joy. Her face was thin, but her expression was bright, perhaps because she had gained freedom.

“You waited a long time, right? “You must be tired, shouldn’t you have gone home first?”

“no. I didn’t wait very long. Besides, you don’t know the way home, so we have to go together.”

“I’m not stupid. “You don’t forget your home address just because you’ve been away for a few months!”

Hearing Heewon’s joke, Heena glanced at her brother. I was resentful of having experienced something so big and then pretending it was no big deal.

Hee-na, who was grumpy, blurted out something to Hee-won.

“no. You don’t know my house. “The rented house is gone.”

Heewon looked puzzled at the sudden sound.

“What does that mean? “There’s still a year and a half left on the lease contract.”

“I got caught up in the dungeon gate of that house and everything but the site of the house disappeared.”

“what?”

Heewon’s face, which had remained calm the entire time, stiffened.

After all, he was Korean. He seemed more shocked by the fact that his rented house was gone than by the fact that he had been kidnapped and released.

“Then did we receive compensation for the rent? No, before that, where are you staying? When did that happen?”

Heena put a finger to her lips to tell her brother, who was asking random questions, to be quiet.

“Shh. I’ll explain everything later. “Let’s go to my house first.”

“I heard you lost your house?”

“I arranged everything myself.”

“We haven’t paid off the lease loan yet, so how did we get another loan? Didn’t you use private loans, Heena? huh?”

Heena was horrified because Heewon was talking nonsense.

“it’s crazy? Do I look like the kind of person who would touch something like that?”

It was ridiculous that Hee-na, who is the most safety-minded among safety-minded people, would take out a private loan.

Heena would have preferred to sleep on the street instead of using private loans. It was safer that way. At least Heena thought so.

He dragged Hee-won to a quiet place with no people and warned her.

“Oppa, no matter what you see, you can’t be loud. Understand? And in the future, you will see a snail, but you must not call it a bug or hit it. This is very important. Remember again. “You have to cherish the snail.”

Fearing that the house she had put so much effort into decorating would be covered in floral wallpaper again, Hee-na warned Hee-won several times.

Seeing his younger brother’s serious expression, Hee-won muttered in confusion.

“What do you mean, snail? “Where is my house, anyway?”

“Let’s go in first and talk.”

Heena casted the ‘Home Sweet Home’ skill. Then, a front door appeared on an ordinary concrete wall.

Heewon’s mouth widened at the magical scene.

“Come in quickly. “Who can see?”

Heena quickly opened the door and pulled her brother in. Heewon suddenly entered as if she had been sucked into a wide open door.

Heewon’s first impression upon entering Heena’s ‘Home Sweet Home’ was this.

“What is it? “What is here?”

Heena, like a good younger sister, answered politely.

“It’s my house, brother. So, come in and sit down.”

He pushed Heewon’s back and made her sit in the small room. The room, which was just over 3 pyeong in size, seemed almost full as Heena and her brother sat there.

“Condemn the landlord for staying out without permission! “Condemn her for staying out without permission!”

In the midst of the chaos, Osaek came from somewhere and pointed out Heena’s unauthorized stay-out.

He was such a picky snail that he cared so much about whether or not Heena, who was well over twenty, stayed out overnight.

“Did you wait, Osae? sorry. “Something happened suddenly and I fell into the dungeon and finally got out.”

「?!」

Osaek’s antennae shot up at Heena’s answer. He seemed very surprised and as if he was checking to see if there were any injuries.

Heena’s heart sank for no reason at the little snail’s worried movements.

“I am safe and uninjured. Thank you for your concern.”

“The landlord, Saji, is fine. “Thank goodness.”

In the midst of the tearful reunion with Oh-saek, Hee-won suddenly showed her face.

“A snail talks like a system? Am I dreaming because I want to go home so bad? Heena, I’m so confused right now, so could you please explain the situation?”

A door appeared in the air, a small room inside the door, and even a talking snail…

He looked truly bewildered by the series of events.

“Visitor identity reporting is required.”

Osaek also requested the introduction of new faces.

Heena placed a snail and a person on each side and greeted each other.

“Osaek, this is my brother. My older brother and his name is Lee Hee-won. And the name of this cute snail is Five Colors. “I am the manager of this house.”

O-Saek was the first to greet me, waving his antenna in an awkward manner.

“Banga-banga.”

In response to the gentle greeting, Hee-won also awkwardly waved her hand at a small snail the size of her fist.

“Oh, that’s right. “Hello, Five Colors.”

Meanwhile, Hee-won winked at Hee-na and earnestly asked her to explain the whole situation. He looked very confused.

Heena spoke directly to her brother.

“I’ll explain everything now. First of all… Oppa, I have awakened.”

In response, Heewon slapped himself on the cheek.

“Am I still dreaming?”

* * *

It took quite a long time to explain all the dynamic events that had occurred over the past few months.

Heena spoke in detail, starting with how and when she became awakened, the reason why she got this house, how she joined the Blue Dragon Guild, and how she found her brother.

“…Hunter Kang Jin-hyeon found my brother at the workhouse and saved the people.”

After finishing the general explanation, Heena went to the refrigerator and drank a cup of bottled water.

“Wow, it’s delicious!”

Is it because I found my brother, whom I was worried about the whole time? The water was cool and even tasted like honey.

“So this house was obtained through your skills?”

Heewon repeatedly asked questions as if Heena’s explanation was not easy to believe.

He seemed more surprised by Heena’s ‘Home Sweet Home’ skill than by her awakening to the strange class of ‘housekeeper’.

Heewon, like a typical Korean, attached great importance to home.

‘but. ‘The ability to create a house is amazing.’

People sometimes compare building owners to God and refer to them as “God”, so Heena could be said to have acquired a skill similar to a miracle of God.

“It’s small, but giving a house is a really great skill, right? No matter how you think about it, it’s huge!”

Oh-saek agrees with Hee-won’s opinion that the house is small.

“Space is limited → due to lack of competency of the homeowner.”

Osaek explained that there was no problem with skill, but Heena’s low skill rank was the problem. And added:

「You can expand your residence in the future through self-improvement and charging.」

“Huh? “What does that mean?”

Heena asked curiously.

The story of self-improvement is about moving up the rank, but what on earth does ‘paying’ mean? It was really unexpected.

“Charge? “Isn’t that a term you use when you’re being sassy and rude when playing a game?”

The snail twitched its antenna.

“Similar.”

“Then if you pay into the system, the house gets better? But how do you pay the system? “Can I just spray it in the air?”

Heena mumbled a question. This cute snail is all good, but the problem was that the words were too brief.

‘Sometimes I forget and don’t teach you facts that should be taught to me.’

While I was looking at the evil in my mind, Osaek began to explain.

「Charging = payment of a ‘piece of space’.」

「Expansion of residential area when paying a ‘piece of space.」

From what I roughly understand, charging here does not mean paying money, but rather paying what is called a ‘piece of space.’ .

But once I knew one thing, there was another thing I didn’t know. Thanks to this, question marks were drawn out one after another like Vienna sausages.

“What is a piece of space?”

When asked what a piece of space was, Osaek’s antenna slowly moved in a circle. He looked as if he was deep in thought.

「… (Searching for an appropriate explanation) ….」

In fact, he even added an explanation of his condition in parentheses.

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