The Homemaker of the Dungeon

Housekeeper in the Dungeon Episode 40

“I’m watering, but nothing has sprouted yet.”

Heewon shrugged and pointed at the fence near the front door. There was a sign saying ‘Unknown Seed’.

I took a quick look, and just as Heewon said, nothing was sticking out.

‘I don’t even know what it is… Will it sprout?’

Instead of voicing her question, Heena waved her hand at her brother.

“Come in within 30 minutes. “Dinner is almost ready, so let’s eat together.”

Heewon politely answered those words.

“I knew! Chef! “I live by the taste of eating your food these days!”

“tooth. Yunan.”

Heena giggled and went in to prepare the remaining side dishes.

Although it was a house in a dungeon, a peaceful and ordinary day passed, no different from any other house.

* * *

As soon as lunch time started, Heena went up to the rooftop garden with her lunch box.

The rooftop garden was generally quiet. Most of the time, we ate lunch in the cafeteria, and after the meal, we went to the break room to spend time.

This was especially true after Heena’s ‘Comfortable Bed’ skill was created and a bed was created.

Thanks to this, Hee-na and Kang Jin-hyeon were able to meet at the rooftop garden without raising any special suspicion.

“Hunter Jinhyeon Kang!”

Heena found Kang Jin-hyeon sitting in a corner of the garden and waved.

Kang Jin-hyeon bowed his head in response to Hee-na’s greeting. Kang Jin-hyeon was still polite to Hee-na.

‘It’s already been three weeks and you’re still like this.’

It’s been almost a month since I became lunch mates with Jinhyeon Kang.

‘I never thought the day would come when I would sit across from an S-class hunter and forget my lunch box.’

Heena shook her head at the still unbelievable reality.

Then I remembered what happened three weeks ago.

One day, Kang Jin-hyeon noticed that Hee-na had packed two lunch boxes. He asked who the other lunch box belonged to.

Of course, it was Heena’s.

Kang Jin-hyeon, who found out about this, suggested that if nothing else happened, they should eat the packed lunch together.

I heard that it was inappropriate to eat alone, but in reality, I was trying to keep Heena’s cooking skills out of the public eye because I didn’t want others to notice her.

Hee-na sat across from Kang Jin-hyeon without even dreaming of the latter reason.

“Today, I tried spicy and seasoned braised tofu. Do you like tofu? “I like it.”

Today’s menu was spicy braised tofu, sweet beef bulgogi, freshly seasoned geotjeori (spicy seaweed) from yesterday, and spinach greens.

Kang Jin-hyeon’s eyes trembled as he listened to Heena’s explanation of the menu. Because it sounded so delicious. I wanted to open the lunch box right away and scoop up a big spoonful of rice.

But he behaved calmly, like a good puppy being trained to ‘wait’. Heena helped me put the lunch box on the table and set the cutlery.

“bon appetite.”

Kang Jin-hyeon raised his spoon only after hearing Hee-na’s greeting for the meal. A few seconds felt like a thousand years.

First, he took a spoonful of rice that was still slightly warm from the insulated lunch box.

The sweet and savory scent of white rice reached my nose. Just the smell of rice stimulated my salivary glands.

Without hesitation, I scooped the rice into my mouth. The live grains of rice were chewed by my teeth, soft and elastic.

I felt like I could empty an entire rice cooker with just bare rice. The rice tasted fantastic today.

‘This feeling.’

Kang Jin-hyeon knew how precious the taste of this rice was.

After awakening to S-class, all food became too salty, blind, and insensitive to him. No matter what I ate, it felt gross, like chewing on a rock.

But I had to eat something to fill my energy.

Every mealtime was like hard work for him. The unbalanced salty, sweet, sour, and bitter flavors were all mixed together, stimulating the taste buds. No matter how great the chef was, the result was the same.

What was more painful than anything else was the ‘memory of taste.’ I felt very cursed at the fact that I would never be able to taste the taste I once knew.

Until the little woman in front of him appeared.

The food touched by her touch was harmonious. None of the flavors stood out or were lacking.

It was delicious, and more than anything, it tasted like ‘food’. Food that people eat, not something like horrible food that you have to eat to survive.

That’s why Kang Jin-hyeon couldn’t let go of Hee-na.

‘We have to recruit them somehow.’

Kang Jin-hyeon desperately clung to Hee-na, and thanks to that, he was leading a very satisfactory eating life recently. That alone had the effect of calming my nerves.

“Do you have no appetite?”

Meanwhile, Hee-na looked worriedly at Jin-hyeon Kang, who was chewing rice in silence.

Yesterday, the rank of the skill ‘This is the taste of home cooking’ rose to C, so I was secretly hoping that the food would be even better.

However, Kang Jin-hyeon was only eating bare rice for five minutes, not even eating a side dish. Additionally, his eyes seemed to have relaxed a bit. It’s like I’m addicted to something.

“Ah…”

Kang Jin-hyeon changed his chopsticks as if he had woken up from sleep at Hee-na’s question.

“no. The rice was cooked deliciously today. “I was so absorbed in savoring the taste.”

Heena couldn’t hide her bright smile at his praise.

“thank god. Yesterday, my cooking skill rank rose to C grade. “Seeing that Hunter enjoys it, I guess it’s effective.”

He also boasted that he had secretly moved up the rank.

Kang Jin-hyeon opened his eyes wide at that sound. He swallowed the food he was eating and spoke.

“Congratulations. Ranking up is difficult to achieve with any amount of training, so it’s amazing that you’re able to do it.”

“I only have skills like cleaning and cooking, so it’s much easier to build up proficiency.”

Heena trembled humbly. But the compliment felt good, so it was difficult to hide my widening mouth.

“I am very excited about future developments.”

Kang Jin-hyeon looked at Hee-na with shining eyes.

‘I can’t believe the skills of Class D and Class C are like this. How great it will be if it develops further.’

I think about this every time I eat Heena’s lunch box, but I had to catch this talent.

Kang Jin-hyeon once again decided to hire Hee-na as his personal chef and stop her.

“The braised tofu was really delicious. “Try it quickly.”

Only Heena, a very dull C-level housekeeper, did not notice the gaze and was just chewing and swallowing her stewed tofu.

The lunch box was about to be half empty. Suddenly, Kang Jin-hyeon stopped spooning.

“People come. “We are getting closer quickly.”

“Oh, what should I do?”

Heena didn’t know what to do. If it is discovered that a member of the environmental cleanup team and S-class hunter Kang Jin-hyeon were secretly sharing a lunch box, Hee-na will find herself in the middle of an issue within the company. I didn’t like that.

“The energy coming together is unusual. “I need to take some shelter.”

Kang Jin-hyeon wrapped his arms around Hee-na’s shoulders. At the same time, the meticulousness with which he packed his lunch box was also seen.

It was when they had just hidden their presence.

Jump up!

The door to the rooftop garden opened.

“hey! come fast! here!”

‘…sister?’

Heena opened her eyes round. The person with the loud voice was Woo Min-ah.

Woo Min-ah pointed to the hunters who followed where Hee-na and Kang Jin-hyeon were hiding.

“There’s no one here! Throw it here!”

It seemed like he didn’t recognize Kang Jin-hyeon’s presence.

“hey! Hurry!”

“Handle with care!”

The situation was becoming somewhat tense. Following Woo Min-ah’s instructions, the hunters moved something.

It was a large crystal ball with an ominous blue glow. The crystal ball gave off a threatening buzzing vibration as if it would explode at any moment.

“Quickly throw it away before the gate opens!”

And the large crystal ball was thrown along with Woo Min-ah’s shout and split the air like a shot put. Heena stamped her feet.

‘oh! How to!’

As it happened, beads were flying towards the spot where Heena and Kang Jin-hyeon were hiding.

“Don’t panic. “I will move.”

Kang Jin-hyeon was not embarrassed and tried to avoid the beads while holding Hee-na’s body.

But it was that moment.

Paaaat!

A blinding, cold blue light burst from within the orb. At the same time, space split and the sky became distorted. The cracked hole began to suck in the surrounding things like a black hole.

Heena and Kang Jin-hyeon were no exception.

“Huh…!”

Tendons sprouted on Kang Jin-hyeon’s forearms as he held on to the landscaping tree on the rooftop garden.

But that didn’t last long either. The roots of the tree I was holding on to began to be pulled out little by little.

“100 million! manager! “Is there someone over there?”

Someone spotted Heena and Jinhyeon Kang and shouted. Woo Min-ah narrowed her eyes and looked at the two people.

“what? With Kang Jin-hyeon… Heena? “Why is he here again?”

Unfortunately, both of them were familiar faces. Accordingly, she tried to throw herself into the gaping void without delay.

I wasn’t worried about Kang Jin-hyeon. Of course, it was because I was worried about Heena.

‘It’s the meat party day in three days!’

…Maybe it’s because Heena was worried about the meat she was going to grill.

Paaaaat!

However, the speed at which the mini gate closed was as fast as the speed at which it opened. Minah Woo narrowly missed entering the gate.

She landed on the ground and looked into space where the gate was.

“Oh, I’m going crazy. “What do you do?”

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