Housekeeper in the dungeon

Chapter 41

Wu Min’ah grunted and groaned as she ran a hand through her hair. Then someone spoke up.

“Can’t an S-class Hunter run a dungeon alone with a civilian?”

“Uh……. Of course not, he got her out just fine last time, so he’ll get her out unscathed this time, right?”

“Even if it’s random, he’ll be dropped in a B-level dungeon, so it’ll be easier than chewing gum for an S-level.”

That was true. Woo Min Ah put aside her worries about Hee Na and shouted to her teammates. Their eyes widened.

“Stop flirting around here and get rid of that guy who’s been experimenting with gate stone activation!”

If Hee-Na didn’t come out of the dungeon in two days, she was going to hunt him down and kill him.

* * *

“Ugh.”

Hee-Na screamed as a wave of dizziness washed over her.

It was like being inside a squirrel barrel ride. The world spun 360 degrees. I felt like I was being sucked into a vacuum cleaner.

The strange dizziness lasted for about 10 seconds before it stopped.

“Uh, I’m dizzy.”

Hee-Na groaned, holding her throbbing head. She was so dizzy that she could see in and out of her eyes like she was anemic.

Kang jin-hyeon set her down on the floor and sat her down.

“Ms. Hee-na, are you okay, or are you dizzy?”

He knelt on one knee and grabbed Hee-na, who was still on the ground and looked her over.

When he was satisfied that there was no apparent trauma, he removed his hand from her shoulder. He waited for her to regain her composure.

The first words out of Hee-na’s mouth were.

“……What, what is it?”

Kang Jinhyun answered calmly.

“This is a Class B dungeon.”

He omitted the preceding sentence.

“No, not that.”

HeeNa pressed her temple hard and asked pointedly.

“……Me and Hunter Kang were having lunch on the roof of the company just a few minutes ago.”

“That’s right.”

“Then why did the background suddenly change to a dungeon?”

I felt like I was dreaming. It only took a few minutes, maybe even seconds, for the carefree routine to turn into the extraordinary.

“I didn’t even polish any coins this time! Did the dungeon gate open again? Is the Blue Dragon Guild disappearing? No way!”

Hee-na’s job loss trauma was about to be triggered.

“Yes, the dungeon gate has opened, but it’s not a normal gate. It’s an artificially created gate.”

“Artificially create a gate?”

“It seems that the gate gems have gone wild.”

Kang jin-hyeon explained to a dumbfounded Hee-na.

Someone was experimenting with artificial gate gems and let them run wild, so they found a place where no one was around and threw them away.

It doesn’t happen often, he added, but it does happen occasionally in the guild.

Hee-Na couldn’t contain her disbelief.

“This is how they’ve been disposing of them? Throwing them over the rooftop garden?”

It was unbelievably crude for a large guild.

“There’s never been a problem.”

“Isn’t this the kind of thing that gets you into trouble?”

Hee-na was dumbfounded, unable to adjust to the Hunters’ unusual way of thinking. Kang jin-hyeon replied casually.

“Of course, I only use this method when there is no one else in the rooftop garden. It’s just that this time, Hunter Woo Min-ah didn’t catch me off guard.”

No wonder. It was a cloaked S-class Hunter and his companions. So it wasn’t so much Woo Min Ah’s fault that she threw the gate gem into the air when she thought there was no one on the rooftop.

“By the way, the artificially created gates are small in size and have an extremely short opening time.”

Kang jin-hyeon was kind enough to share some useless gate trivia with her.

Hee-na listened intently and then organized her thoughts.

“So you’re saying that we were sucked into the artificial gate by bad luck and fell into the dungeon?”

“That’s right, I understand.”

Kang jin-hyeon raised the corners of his mouth, praising his smart student. But he was not pleased at all.

Hee-na exclaimed.

“I haven’t been in a dungeon in less than a month, and I’ve fallen into one again!”

She wasn’t even a Hunter, and this was her third dungeon. A third dungeon that would take someone a lifetime to get through!

“If you’re going to do this, you might as well join the dungeon raiding team and get a basic paycheck!

In frustration, Hee-na even had a ridiculous thought. If it was Kang jin-hyeon before he tasted Hee-na’s food, he would have welcomed the idea with open arms.

“Don’t worry. It’s an easy dungeon to capture. It’s a dungeon that the Blue Dragon Guild is scheduled to capture in two weeks, so you’re here early.”

Kang Jinhyun seemed to know where this place was. With a familiar expression, he pulled Hee-na to her feet. His firm hand felt exceptionally reassuring.

Hee-na looked around.

There were a lot of big poles, maybe three meters tall. They didn’t seem to be trees, as they had no branches or leaves.

Instead, something like a wrinkled flower bud hung open-mouthed from the tops of the poles. The pillars were all different sizes, but they were all similar in shape.

“Have you ever been to this dungeon before?”

“Yes.”

The answer came out coolly. Hee-Na looked up at him in surprise.

“It’s not hard to navigate, so I don’t do it now, but I remember entering during the first slaughter when I didn’t have any information.”

Kang jin-hyeon blandly explained the dungeon. It was refreshing to see him so relaxed, not even a hint of agitation.

“This dungeon is a cluster of mushroom-shaped monsters. If you defeat the boss monster in the center of the cluster, all the others will wither and disappear.”

“Mushrooms are…… monsters?”

Hee-na remembered the enoki mushrooms and enoki mushrooms she had put in the miso soup today.

“Mushrooms like that can become monsters?

Reading her expression, Kang Jinhyun explained a little more.

“The mushrooms themselves can’t move. But it can attack enemies by releasing spores.”

“Spores?”

“That’s right. The spores move like a swarm of bees.”

“Ugh……. I can’t imagine it, but it sounds gross and dangerous. Should I wear a mask?”

Hee-Na pulled out a disposable mask she wore when cleaning and handed it to Kang.

Kang politely declined her kindness.

“It’s okay, there’s no spore attack unless they attack first. It’s completely safe, except at sunrise. And you don’t have to worry about anything because I’ll protect you.”

He further explained.

“The strategy is simple. For an hour after sunrise, the buds of the mushroom colonies will open up and start to become active. At that time, the buds of the boss monsters will also open up, and you can take advantage of that by stabbing them in the middle.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Hee-Na looked down at her shadow. The sun was at the top of her head, and shadows pooled at her feet.

“It’s only noon, so we’ll have to wait until dawn?”

“Yes. But we don’t have to fight while we wait, so I’d say it’s relatively clean and simple.”

He replied quietly, gathering up the items that had been swept through the gate with them. He was very careful with his hands as if he were touching luxury goods.

“What is it?

I stuck my head out to take a closer look and realized it was Hee-na’s insulated lunch box.

“Your lunch box must have come with you. I thought it was broken, but it’s surprisingly intact.”

Hee-na squatted down next to him and said. Now that the S-class Hunter was recovering the lunchbox, she felt like she had to do something.

“……The lunch box is still intact.”

However, Kang jin-hyeon’s aura was somehow off. Hee-na turned her head to look at his expression.

“What?

His eyes, which were usually indifferent, were a little different. They were sending a moist gaze towards the bento box, the so-called ‘Melo eyes’.

“Hmm. I’m excited.

Hee-na’s heart was vulnerable to the handsome face. She tried to calm her racing heart.

“Is something wrong?”

She asked, and Kang jin-hyeon slowly parted his lips.

“I packed a lunch…….”

“A lunch box?”

“I didn’t eat half of the lunch Ms. Hee-na packed for me, and I spilled it all.”

He was looking sadly at the mangled contents of the lunch box.

He looked forlorn, like a raccoon looking at the cotton candy that had disappeared after being washed in the water.

Unable to help himself, I stepped in and grabbed the lunch box.

“It’s just one meal.”

With that, Hee-na dumped the dirt-spattered rice and side dishes onto the dungeon floor.

Kang jin-hyeon’s pupils fluttered as the food hit the floor.

Hee-na briefly wondered if it would be rude to tell him, “Hunter, you shouldn’t eat anything that falls on the floor.

“That pretty much sums it up.”

Fortunately, Hee-Na managed to retrieve the lunchbox without incident. Kang jin-hyeon continued to stare at the discarded food on the floor.

“When we get out of here, I’ll pack you something better, so don’t be too sorry.”

“But this is special…….”

“Bitter, Hunter.”

Hee-na unintentionally made a tongue-lashing sound like a puppy.

Fortunately, Kang jin-hyeon didn’t seem to mind her treatment. Instead, he nodded with his tail between his legs.

“I understand, I’m sorry. It’s food that Hee-na touched, and I guess it was a bit of a disappointment to think of it as an object.”

In any case, it was hard to keep watching the S-class hunter’s gruff demeanor.

Hee-Na asked something else to divert Kang’s attention.

“So where do we go from here? Can we just stay here?”