Housekeeper in the dungeon

The Housekeeper in the Dungeon
Episode 4

An hour ago, Hee-Na followed Woo-Min-ah out of the gate.

After a quick hello, they parted ways and were handed over to the rescuers.

Hee-na was not seriously injured, so she received simple first aid and was sent home after leaving her name on the gate’s list of victims.

……No, she was going home.

“My house!”

Hee-Na screamed. Her resolve shattered in the face of the monsters in the dungeon.

The dungeon gate ate everything around it. Nothing but ruins remained where the gate had once been.

But since I had gotten caught up in the dungeon while working late at work, I didn’t expect the company building, which was in the center of the gate’s rampage, to be intact.

“It’s a company building, sure,” I thought, “but what about my house?”

But she didn’t realize the scope of the gate rampage would be so wide.

Hee-na had rented a villa near her workplace to commute to work, but when she staggered in, she found nothing but a crumbling brick wall.

There was no sign of a house at all. Anything worth salvaging had been stolen by the dungeon gate.

“You thieving bastards!”

Hee-Na began cursing at the sky.

As the rescuers examined her, they realized that Hee-na had not only suffered a physical wound, but a great wound in her heart.

For Koreans, home is like a soul.

“Your place was caught in the gate surge. We have a temporary shelter at a nearby elementary school. Would you like us to take you there?”

The rescuer patted Hee-na on the back with a very gentle touch.

Hee-na gasped in anger for a moment before she managed to speak.

“……It’s okay, I’m an elementary school, I know where it is, I can get there by myself.”

I was grateful for her kindness, but I wasn’t in the right frame of mind to be with someone, and the reality of the situation was making me angry.

“What am I going to do? My building is gone, the company that pays my salary is gone, and my house is…… How much compensation will I get? It won’t be much. My house! My deposit! My furniture! My money! What am I going to do? Even if I’m kicked out naked, I’ll be more hopeful than this!

The house was narrow and shabby, but it was a sublet that her brother and Hee-na had worked hard to build.

It was one of the few comfortable places where they could lie on their backs, even though they didn’t get to go in often due to their night shifts…….

“……What if it disappears, my home, my home, my home!”

I was about to beat my chest in frustration at the miserable reality of my situation.

A system prompt popped up before her eyes. Hee-na stared at the status window and muttered to herself.

“What’s a hidden skill and what’s ‘Home Sweet Home’?”

The information window was kind enough to answer her questions.

Hee-na’s eyes quickly scanned the skill window.

.

Still, the skill description was poorly written, and the unlock conditions were miserable and ridiculous.

What are the odds that someone who awakens as a nerdy hidden class called a Housekeeper would be crying out for a home?

But none of that mattered to Hee-Na. The skill itself was quite hopeful.

“A skill that gives you a house? …… house?

If true, a house had just fallen out of the sky.

Yes, it was. This was a skill that was bigger than winning the lottery!

I couldn’t believe it, but I couldn’t help but want to believe it.

“You’re not asking me to get materials to build a house like the skill, are you?

Hee-na cast the skill, unable to erase her doubts until the end.

“Home Sweet Home!”

As she cast the skill, a door appeared in the half-collapsed wall with a pale light. She quickly turned around and checked the back of the wall, but there was nothing behind it.

Hee-Na swallowed hard and pulled the door open. She couldn’t see anything beyond the door.

“What do you think?

She couldn’t imagine what she would see. She took a small breath and stepped to the other side of the door.

As soon as she stepped through the door, she realized that it was pitch black.

“This is home?”

I muttered, and a system window popped up in front of me.

“Why does this damn system take so long to load?”

Hee-Na nervously chewed her fingers. Her fingers tasted like grass and earth.

It was the dank smell of the dungeon. It was a memory so precious she never wanted to feel it again.

I don’t know how many times I spun in place. A second seemed like a minute, and a minute seemed like an hour, as she waited in the middle of nowhere.

Hee-Na’s patience was at its peak.

At the eleventh hour, the system popped up a message that the adjustment was complete. She swallowed hard.

“What’s next?

Her heart was pounding with anticipation.

At that moment, a fanfare erupted in front of her eyes.

“Home Sweet Home is open! (Celebration)★”

“Ugh!”

A colorful effect enveloped Hee-na’s optic nerves. The fonts and colors were so intense, it was as if they had pierced her eyeballs right through her open eyes.

“My eyes!”

Hee-Na grunted as she squatted down and covered her eyes with her hands. The afterglow of the ocular terror from the congratulatory text lingered for a long time.

“Ugh…….”

After a while, Hee-Na slowly opened her stiff eyelids. Something shone through her blurry vision. It wasn’t the same blurry background from earlier.

Yes, she was indoors now.

“Do I have a home?

Before she could get a good look at the house, a series of system notifications popped up in front of her.

“Old, basic one-bedroom……?”

Hee-na read the notification and dismissed it, then slowly looked around. She was standing in a small studio room, about three square meters.

A small sink sat in the corner, and a door to the bathroom hung on one wall. It was barely big enough for one person.

You could say it was too much for hee-na, whose only place to sleep was the spacious gym in the temporary shelter.

…… But.

“Why is everything so dirty?”

Hee-Na is appalled by the state of the house.

The wallpaper was yellowed and discolored, and there was a nasty-looking mold in one corner of the room.

I don’t know what it looked like, but there were cobwebs, and the floor was so dirty that I wouldn’t mind walking on it with my bare feet. I’d rather have cleaner asphalt.

The system asks Hee-na if she wants to sign a contract.

She ignored the system window and stormed off to the bathroom. When looking at real estate listings, the bathroom is the most important thing to her.

The system acted like a real estate agent who only wanted to sell the studio right away.

It kept popping up windows in front of her and asking if she wanted to sign a contract. The system kept popping up duplicate windows as if to distract me.

Well, it was almost like semi-coercion.

“You think I’m going to fall for this?”

Hee-Na snorted and yanked open the bathroom door.

As soon as she opened the door, a strange musty odor hit her nostrils.

“Ugh, what a smell!”

The bathroom smelled like it hadn’t been cleaned in months. The floor tiles were streaked with grime, and the mirror was mottled with water spots and looked rusty. The sink and toilet were supposed to be white.

“You call this shit home?”

Hee-Na scowled and stomped her foot. Her house was a mess, but not this mess. Seriously, this was a bargain.

“I don’t want to sign a contract! Show me another house!”

Hee-Na yelled at the air, and then the system window popped up in front of her again.

The “No” button that was supposed to follow the “Yes” button had disappeared. It was ridiculous.

“Where’s No? I’m going to press No, No! No! No! No!” I said over and over again.

I said over and over again, but now the system just said the same thing.

“Show me something else!”

“No!”

“Why is there only one choice?”

If the system were a tangible thing, I would have pulled my hair out.

But the system was something invisible, and in this situation, there was only one option for her to choose.

“Okay, you scammer, yes, I’ll take the contract!”

She shouted “Yes,” and the system seemed satisfied.