The Homemaker of the Dungeon - Chapter 20

Housekeeper in the Dungeon Episode 20

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The cleaning team gathered together and worked overtime to clean up the 8th floor, which was flooded due to the Hwawonho.

“I’m sorry because of me…”

Heena felt sorry for suddenly working overtime and didn’t know what to do, but the cleaning team members didn’t mind.

“It’s been a while since I worked overtime. “But these days, it’s comfortable because there’s less of a fuss.”

“Oops. It’s going to decrease a bit. “I thought next month’s overtime pay would be reduced so much that my salary would be cut in half.”

“Don’t make a fuss.”

The team members chatted loudly and cleaned up the flooded break room.

I moved the bed, took out the sheets and changed them. Heena also wore an apron and a scarf and helped hard.

“I like Heena because she works quickly. “He’s also good at working.”

Someone next to him praised Heena. Since Heena came, the number of accidents and fatalities among hunters has decreased significantly, and the number of overtime shifts has decreased significantly.

“omg. “Did things like this happen a lot in the past?”

I was horrified and asked, and the answer was yes.

“Okay then. “There was a time when they fought among themselves and remodeled the entire 8th floor!”

Someone lowered their voice and shouted back.

“Oh my, oh my. There are so many accidents… there are no gangsters in the neighborhood. “It’s not like our salary is high for no reason.”

Members of the environmental cleanup team gossiped about how many accidents the guild’s hunters cause. Heena listened to the story blankly.

‘Even if strong people get into accidents, the scale is different.’

As we cleaned up while chatting about various things, the cleaning was almost finished before we knew it.

“I’ll take care of the rest of the chores. “Please go in first.”

Heena was in charge of the 8th floor, so there were a few chores left to do. I was left alone on the 8th floor after barely getting rid of the team members who repeatedly asked if I would help them.

I gathered up the cleaning tools lying around and moved them. And I checked every corner of the 8th floor to see if there was any remaining moisture.

“Uh, what is this?”

It was then that I noticed dark water droplets dotting the floor.

‘Did any dirt splash out while moving the cleaning tool?’

Heena brought a mop and thoroughly mopped the floor again.

The water droplets were scattered sparsely like pebbles. Heena moved with the mop, following the trail of black water droplets.

One step, two steps, three steps…

‘Here.’

Heena finally reached the final source of the stain and raised her head.

At the same time, an unfamiliar yet familiar voice was heard.

“What’s going on?”

“…Hunter Jinhyeon Kang?”

It may have been a little too long to say it again, but in any case, it was Hunter Jinhyeon Kang again.

Jinhyeon Kang was sitting at a desk in an empty office and writing something.

On the desk was a black plastic bag filled with paper, a few pens, and a cup of coffee.

At the same time, Heena realized the identity of the black water. It was a trace of spilled coffee.

‘Is it true that you drank coffee? ‘Isn’t that what you brought with you, almost all of it spilled?’

I glanced at the coffee cup and saw that it was half empty.

According to Heena’s guess, she didn’t drink it, but spilled it on the floor. That’s how much liquid Heena wiped up on her way here.

Kang Jin-hyeon asked Hee-na again, who was staring at her coffee cup in silence.

“What’s going on?”

Heena quickly came to her senses and smiled awkwardly.

“ah. Something fell on the floor, so I followed it while wiping it… and ended up here. “I think it was a coffee stain.”

Kang Jin-hyeon looked down at his coffee cup and said, “Ah.”

“Ah… I’m sorry. “I tend to spill things a bit.”

It seemed like it wasn’t spilling a little, but rather a lot.

Instead of correcting what he said, Heena asked something she was curious about.

“I knew you were clearing a dungeon. I guess you came back?”

“yes. I finished it a little earlier than planned so it came out today. “We haven’t made an official announcement to the media yet, so you shouldn’t say it anywhere else.”

Kang Jin-hyeon seemed blunt, but he gave a fairly common sense answer.

There was a heaviness that was different from the thunder-baked hunters Heena had seen so far. He had a calmness that was uncharacteristic of someone who had just spilled half a glass of coffee.

At that sight, interest in the human Kang Jin-hyeon suddenly arose.

“You must be tired since you came out today. “I guess you have some work to do?”

“I am writing a report.”

“A report?”

“There is a report I have to write after I clear the dungeon. “Compared to the previous strategy, we keep a record of whether there have been any changes or anything unusual.”

Kang Jin-hyeon thoroughly answered Heena’s questions, which may have been annoying. He seemed to have a very different personality from his first image, where he just said what he wanted to say and left, leaving me feeling unlucky.

‘I guess he’s the type of person who does his best at his job.’

It was like that when we first met. Even though it was only an E-level dungeon, I was working as seriously as I did when I entered an A-level dungeon.

Heena thought that this was why Jinhyeon Kang was number one in Korea.

‘I guess you can’t trust first impressions after all.’

As I was nodding my head in admiration, Jinhyeon Kang opened his mouth.

“By the way… are you part of the beautification team?”

“yes. By the way.”

“Then could you please find me a suitable mop or dishcloth? “I tried to find it because I needed it, but I couldn’t find it.”

“ah. The sprinkler on the 8th floor went off today. “I gathered them all together for cleaning, so it must have been difficult to find them.”

Heena took a dry dishcloth out of her apron pocket and handed it to her.

Kang Jin-hyeon carefully received the dishcloth. Then, he began to polish a piece of iron that looked like a 500 won coin.

However, the piece of iron was not cleaned at all and was torn in half, just like a dishcloth. I had no idea how someone could tear a dishcloth like that and eat it.

“What is that?”

Heena couldn’t hide her curiosity and asked about the identity of the piece of iron.

At that question, Jinhyeon Kang sighed and placed the piece of iron on the desk.

“I do not know. The leader of the attack unit said he felt a strange energy, so he brought it with him, but its purpose and source are still unknown. “I’m just showing it to you because it doesn’t look dangerous, but…”

Heena bent down and looked at the coin-like piece of metal.

It was a piece with a lot of rust, but when I looked closely, I saw what looked like strange letters. An explanation of the Hanji system, which is a by-product of the dungeon, appeared.

<Dirty piece of □□ (□): Covered with indelible rust, no traces of the past can be found. Will the rust disappear if a special touch is applied? >

“It is covered in indelible rust and no traces of the past can be found. “If I get a special touch, will the rust disappear…?”

As Hee-na read the explanation window, Kang Jin-hyeon looked at her in surprise.

“Was it Hunter?”

Heena waved her hand.

“no. I’m just an ordinary beautification team member. “He’s an awakened person, but he’s only D-class and doesn’t have any attack skills.”

“ah.”

Kang Jin-hyeon nodded as if he understood. However, he did not sound curious or surprised like other hunters. That attitude somehow made me feel at ease.

“Can I clean this? “If there’s something I shouldn’t touch, please tell me.”

That’s why I made a pointless suggestion. I wanted to be of some small help to this plain and simple S-class hunter.

“It’s okay to touch. “It’s so rusty that it doesn’t react even if someone touches it.”

Kang Jin-hyeon pushed a piece of metal in front of Heena, as if asking her to feel as much as she wanted. Then he buried his back in the chair and muttered.

“Trying to clean it probably won’t do anything. “I’ve already tried it a lot…”

“It comes out clean when I wipe it with a dishcloth?”

“…but it wasn’t cleaned at the time.”

In response to Heena’s answer, Jinhyeon Kang half-raised his body. And I looked at the silver piece of metal regaining its shine in Heena’s hand.

Then, without realizing it, he grabbed Heena’s wrist.

“…oh!”

Heena gasped in surprise at the feeling of a large hand wrapping around her wrist.

Meanwhile, Kang Jin-hyeon was busy looking around at the wrist he was holding, paying no attention to Hee-na’s reaction. It looked like a spectator looking for a magician’s trick.

“What on earth did you do?”

“I just wiped it with a dishcloth and it came off?”

Heena answered honestly, but Jinhyeon Kang was not one to easily believe her words.

“No matter how much physical and magical stimulation was applied, there wasn’t even a scratch? “You think it can be cleaned so easily with just a dishcloth?”

Heena also murmured in agreement with Kang Jin-hyeon’s monologue.

“Iknow, right. “Why couldn’t you clean something that could be cleaned so easily…?”

To be honest, Heena had a strong suspicion that the hunters who tried to clean this piece of iron were all idiots.

Didn’t Kang Jin-hyeon just tear up the dry dishcloth instead of cleaning the piece of metal?

Heena showed Kang Jin-hyeon a shiny, shiny piece of silver metal.

“Now that I’ve cleaned everything, could you please let go of my wrist? “It hurts a little.”

“Oh, I’m sorry.”

It was when Kang Jin-hyeon apologized and was about to let go.

A bright light burst from the piece of metal in Heena’s hand. A blinding white light filled the room.

“Tsk!”

Heena and Jinhyeon Kang raised their hands to cover their eyes from the intense light. Something unknown was happening.

“What is happening…!”

Squirt!

Heena’s screams were cut off for a moment along with the sound of the harsh wind.

Within a few seconds, the light that had filled the room subsided.

Eventually, the scene inside the room was revealed.

The office was quiet.

Only an unwritten report and a half-empty coffee cup remained, and Heena and Kang Jin-hyeon, who had been there until just a moment ago, had disappeared everywhere.

Housekeeper in the dungeon