Housekeeper in the dungeon

EPISODE 106

“Anyway, my brother said…… that this farming season is a success.”

Hee-won exclaimed cheerfully.

“Of course. It’s a great success!”

A halo seemed to shine behind his back. It was the glow of a successful burning.

Hee-na clenched her fists. Seeing her brother so motivated gave her an extra boost of energy.

“Now we just need to decide how to cook it, right?”

The status window said it might benefit from a special touch.

This meant that if she did something with it, whether it was making a salad, chopping herbs, or boiling soup, it would have a better effect than a Class B strength potion.

“Maybe if you touch it, it’ll have more than A-grade potency?”

Hee-won looked at Hee-na’s balled fist with anticipation in her voice.

Hee-na laughed along with her brother, then remembered something.

“By the way, you said you had two good news stories, one about the spinach…… and the other about what?”

“Oh, right!”

Hee-won exclaimed as if she had forgotten.

I almost forgot to share one less piece of good news as I was trying to explain to Hee-Na how awesome the percentage buff was.

“You know, the seeds you got from the disappearance of the ‘Piece of Space’, remember?”

“Oh, that. I remember.”

There was something left behind, like a residue, after Wu Xiaoxi had used the Shard of Space. It was an object whose name didn’t appear at all: □□□ □□.

The status window described it like this

<□□□ □□: Seed. Let’s plant it in the ground to find out what it was. (Lack of stats prevents us from fully verifying the information).

I called it a seed and planted it in the ground. Later, I planted the new seeds that I had gotten from the ‘space fragments’ in a row next to them.

But I didn’t have high hopes. The first seed didn’t show any signs of sprouting, despite Hee-won’s best efforts to water and care for it.

“I thought it was dead, but it just sprouted the other day.”

“Really? What does the status window say?”

“Well……. It’s a little complicated to explain. It doesn’t show all the information.”

Hee-won pushed herself up and held out her hand to HeeNa.

“Hmph.”

Hee-na ignored her brother’s hand and stood up sharply. She had no intention of holding his hand.

Hee-won smirked.

“You used to chase me around and annoy me with your brother, but now you’ve grown up, haven’t you?”

“What’s the use of holding your hand? Not if you’re a handsome man.”

I jokingly replied, but Oh Sack interrupted me.

“Boarder = handsome man”

“Are you willing to hold hands?”

Kang Jin-hyeon, the boarder, is a handsome man, so he was asking if you’d like to hold his hand.

Unfortunately, Oh Sae-yi is a snail, so it was hard to tell if he was joking or serious.

“What, what?”

Hee-na stammered, momentarily flustered. As soon as she saw Oh’s question, she remembered Kang Jin-hyeon’s big, hot hand.

She had already taken a walk with Kang Jin-hyeon, holding hands affectionately…….

‘That time, I couldn’t help it, I couldn’t shake it off because of Go.’

It was unavoidable because Go would be very disappointed if she let go of his hand, and it was not polite to abruptly pull away someone’s hand.

“What?”

Hee-won looked at her suspiciously as she cooled down.

“Do you like Jin-hyeon?”

“Of course I like him! Who in Korea doesn’t like Hunter Kang Jin-hyeon?”

Hee-na squealed, and Hee-won pretended to cover her ears.

“Oh, you’re deafening me. Who said anything? Don’t be so angry.”

“It’s not because you’ve been suspicious of jin-hyeon for a long time!”

“That’s because you didn’t know what kind of person he was before. I don’t anymore. I’m in favor of him as a matriarch. His only flaw is that his job is a little dangerous, but other than that, he’s fine.”

“The house manager is also in favor of the relationship.”

Oh, Haekyi waved her antennae for a moment before adding a sentence.

“However, due to skill issues, Home Sweet Home is not available for joint names.”

Hee-na’s eyes widened at the sudden jump from one man and one snail to another.

“It’s not like that!”

Hee-na finally shouted and ran back into the house.

Behind her, she heard Hee-won’s confused voice.

“What? Hee-na, aren’t you going to go see what’s sprouting in the space?”

“Are you making fun of me?

Hee-na wrinkled the bridge of her nose and glared at her brother.

“Forget it, I’m not in the mood!”

She slammed the front door, which was wide open, and leaned back.

“I’m not in the mood to talk to you about ……, embarrassing.”

It was a good thing Kang jin-hyeon was out of town on a business trip. Otherwise, I might have overheard this conversation.

I sighed and patted my thumping chest.

“What’s with the one-pot meal family thing? We’ve already confirmed that we’re not together, even after the scandalous story broke.”

It was the absurdity of her words that made my heart flutter.

Hee-na excused herself and tried to erase the embarrassing thoughts from her mind.

* * *

That evening, Hee-na cooked the entire bunch of spinach that Hee-won had brought.

She chopped the savory spinach sprouts, added clams, and boiled a cool spinach miso soup. I also made an egg omelet called a spinach frittata.

Together with the side dishes, it made for a very appetizing meal.

When Hee-won returned from the fields, she looked at the table with pride.

“Let’s see how great the spinach our housekeeper cooked has become.”

He hadn’t tasted the last harvest because he was mildly allergic to peanuts.

This was his first thrilling moment of eating something he’d grown and harvested properly.

“Thank you.”

He picked up his cutlery and shoved the food into his mouth.

“Oh!”

“Wow!”

At the same time, exclamations erupted.

“This is so delicious!

Was it because it was made with crops they had grown themselves using their skills in the dungeon? It was so different from ordinary spinach.

For Hee-Na and Hee-Won, who had gotten used to the skill, to be able to taste it like this, I couldn’t imagine how ordinary people would feel.

“It’s a dish that maximizes the benefits of …… ingredients.

Hee-na’s eyes lit up as she tasted each bite of the different dishes, each time feeling as if fireworks were bursting in front of her eyes.

“Ah.”

It took her a few minutes to realize that what was sparkling in front of her wasn’t fireworks.

“It was the …… status window.

A message informed her that her stats had increased after eating the special spinach dish.

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After eating three dishes, the strength buffs stacked three times, bringing her strength stat to nearly 14.

Considering Hee-Na’s tiny and insignificant Strength stat, this is a huge increase.

I felt like my muscles were burning unnecessarily. As I strained my hands in excitement, the metal spoon in my hand bent.

“Oh, my God, how did I do that!”

Hee-Na gasped as she looked at the bent spoon and came to her senses.

She tried to reverse the force again, but she couldn’t control it, and the poor spoon’s waist was completely gone.

“Hing.”

Hee-Na sulked.

She couldn’t believe that the beautiful set of cutlery she’d spent so much money on had gone to waste.

“Your skill in the kitchen is amazing, this is a first-class……, no, a first-class potion!”

Meanwhile, Hee Won also checked the status window in front of him and was excited.

The grade of the spinach, which had been Class A, had been raised to at least Class S, if not higher, in Hee-Na’s hands. The effect was also noticeably better.

“It seems that the grade of ingredients changes depending on how they are cooked. Each menu has different effects. Heck, even the spinach frittata increased my Agility. Double buffalo, that’s so……!”

Hee-na asked her brother a rather pointed question.

“Is it good if it’s double-buffed?”

Hee-won explained in response to her sister’s question.

“Uh, of course it is! To put two effects in one potion is such an incredible skill! It’s a masterpiece that only a high-level reagent can create!”

Many thoughts flashed through Hee-Na’s mind.

‘If my brother is that excited, these foods must have a great effect……. I’ll have to be very careful when I tell the guild this time.”

On the other hand, he wondered how much more he could do with his skills.

There were more foods containing spinach than I thought. There were spinach salads, spinach pasta, and spinach pesto.

Spinach was not the main ingredient, but it was also in kimbap and japchae.

The possibilities of what you could do with spinach were endless.

“What class and effect would these foods have?