Housekeeper in the dungeon

EPISODE 108

Hee-Na felt her temper flare up for the first time in a long time.

“You look younger than me, and I’m sure I’m higher up in the organization.

The Confucianist in her was on the verge of a rampage. But Hee-na exerted her last bit of patience and replied gently.

“If we’re going to work together, don’t you think you should tell me your name and position?”

“It’s annoying…… you’re so picky.”

After a few mumbles, Hee-Na finally exploded.

“Excuse me, how old are you and what’s the big deal about your age?”

In the past, she would have sucked it up, but not anymore.

“I’m an important person in the company, and I’m paid enough to live here without doing this!

It wasn’t like the old days when I had to make ends meet somehow, and my flattened ego had been healed by frequent financial therapy.

But his opponent’s cheapness was not so easy to take.

“Me? Twenty-five. Aren’t you twenty-five, too? If you’re a kid, you can talk back.”

“What…… what?”

“If you don’t like me talking back, talk back. I don’t care.”

“What? Do you think I can’t talk back? Do it, do it!”

Hee-Na barked, and the alchemist gave her a sour look.

“You should have done it a long time ago, don’t get all worked up. We’re supposed to be working together, aren’t we?”

He had provoked her first, and now he was accusing her of being temperamental.

It was ridiculous, but it was enough to make the mild-mannered Hee-na irritable. At first glance, it was quite a feat.

“You, you, you, you, right there!”

Hee-na screamed at the alchemist and stormed to her desk in the office, slammed the phone down, and dialed the extension for HR.

– This is Ms. Kang Mok-hyun, head of HR.

Kang’s voice was very calm, but it was not enough to calm Hee-na’s excitement.

“Mr. HR, this is Hee-nan Lee from the Awakened State Management Team!”

– Yes, I’m listening. What’s wrong?

“There’s an alchemist in my office right now, an asshole twenty-five-year-old guy who’s skinny and pale as a corpse, and I need you to get him out of here!”

I shouted into the phone, and a nonchalant reply came back.

– “Ah, you must be referring to Mr. Yu, the alchemist who will be working with you on special crops in the future. He’s one of the top three in the country when it comes to reagent manufacturing. He’s a bit of a free spirit……, but he’ll be a great addition to the team.

Since when did the meaning of the word free-spirited change to mean cheap or stupid?

Hee-Na was horrified by the HR manager’s suggestion that she continue working with this “jerk” alchemist.

“Do I have to work with this person? Please replace him with someone else, he’s so asshole!”

– Um……. That’s a little awkward.

Hee-na shot back like a shotgun blast. It was easy for her to yell at him without any manners because he was next to her.

“Why, you said yesterday that you’d support me in anything! Is it so hard to change one person? Is there no talent in the Qinglong Guild?”

– Yes. That’s right.

Hee-Na was aghast at the blunt admission.

“……?”

– There was always a shortage of talented high-ranked non-combatant Awakened. The only one I had time for right now was Mr. Yu, and I know he was not the roundest personality. But personality aside, he was not a bad partner to work with.

“Even with his personality?”

When I protested to the end, Mr. Kang Mok-hyun, the head of HR, sighed low.

– Not right now. We’re short-handed. Give it a couple of weeks, and we’ll find someone else, but I’d appreciate it if you’d cut him some slack for a while, just for a while. I’m sorry, Team Leader Lee.

I couldn’t help myself.

“……So, just a couple weeks.”

– Yes. Please. And I’d like to take Mr. Yu Yu-yi aside and have a meeting with him about his attitude.

“Okay. Please do so.”

After ending the call, Hee-Na hung up the receiver with a click.

She wasn’t entirely happy with the outcome, but the conversation with the head of HR had calmed her anger for now.

“I’ve never seen such a bad-tempered awakening before. You’re an asshole.”

Hee-Na grumbled under her breath and stomped off to the kitchen where Yu-Yi was. She stopped in her tracks as she took in the scene.

“What the hell is ……?”

Whatever had happened in the few minutes she’d spent on the phone with the head of human resources, Hee-Na’s cozy kitchen was a mess.

A pile of ugly machines sat on the large island that separated the kitchen from the dining area.

The sink, which Hee-Na had scrubbed clean, was piled high with clutter. Each one was a tangled mess.

It was even worse when Yoo said with a proud look on his face.

“A couple more lab tables and we’ll be good to go.”

“It’ll be more useful,” he said, ruining Hee-Na’s elegant and cozy space.

“Where are your research specimens, by the way? Are you working or not?”

And with that, he stretched out his palm for Hee-Na to give him the spinach. It was my pace.

“Oh, my God, I’m going to get my blood pressure up!

Hee-Na’s brow wrinkled.

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At the same time, her fists clenched. Unable to control her temper, Hee-Na took off her office slippers and held them in one hand.

Then she flew out like a lightning bolt and slapped Yu Yu’s forearm.

“Hey, I don’t work with you! Hurry up and restore my kitchen to its original state!”

Ouch!

The sound of the slap was louder than the intended ‘slap’. It was thanks to the ‘Exterminate Pests’ skill I had unknowingly cast.

“Ow! It hurts! It hurts!”

Yu Yu Yi grabbed his injured forearm and jumped up and down. He looked like a cat whose tail had been stepped on and his fur stood up in alarm.

“Don’t be so hard on yourself. It’s only one punch, what’s the big deal?”

I grabbed the slipper and waved it in front of Yu Yu’s face.

Although it was said that the power output was random, the base strength of the ‘Exterminate Pests’ skill was stronger than before due to his training with Kang Jin Hyeon.

This one punch must have hurt quite a bit.

“But that’s none of my business.

Hee Na snorted. Yu Yuanyi should be grateful that she hadn’t ended up like the rabbit he’d seen the other day.

Yu Yi shook his head. There were a few tears in the corners of her eyes.

“A sore thumb! It hurts!”

But the look on his face was more amused than pitying.

“Stop whining. I’ll clean up your mess in my kitchen…… in a bit, but first, come into my office and sit down.”

Hua flicked her slippers sassily and pointed toward the office.

Yu Yi looked a little annoyed, but the lesson of the slap had been learned, and he obeyed.

Hee-Na was a hospitable person, but she had no refreshments for the uninvited guest.

“I’m not going to offer you a glass of water. Hmph!

She crossed her arms and rubbed her eyes.

Yu Yi, sitting across from her, twitched his lips. He didn’t like Hee-na’s attitude, but he didn’t want to get hit again.

She still had a pair of slippers in one hand.

Yu Yi hesitated, then blurted out.

“Don’t you think you should talk to him if he’s sitting down?”

“How is it possible that everything you say sounds so stupid?

It was a trick if ever there was one. It wasn’t often that someone could make Hee-na, who was kind to everyone, so violent.

“I don’t work for you. I’ve already spoken to the head of HR on the phone, and he said he’ll have someone else for you in a couple of weeks, so clean up your mess and get your stuff out.”

Hee-Na’s words made Yu-Yi’s face flush red.

“What? I’m the right person for this project! Don’t tell me what to do with my research!”

Hee-Na snorted as if she had no choice.

“So what? I’m the one who gets to choose who to collaborate with, and I get to choose! You’re the one who’s acting like a bully, and you’re thinking of touching my brother’s spinach? Don’t even think about it.”

“The Guildmaster himself told me to be nice!”

“Not anymore. I won’t work with someone as disrespectful as you.”

Hee-Na thought back to the contract she had signed with the guild leader yesterday.

They would collaborate on research as suggested, but it wasn’t mandatory. If she said no, that was it.

In this situation, she was the one who could bully and manipulate. Not the alchemist!

“I don’t want to force myself to work if it hurts my feelings.”

Even though she wasn’t as desperate for money as she used to be, she had no intention of working for someone who wasn’t compatible with her.

Today, she’s more of a “healthy self-realization” kind of person, which means it’s all a half-hearted hobby.

Hee-na’s explanation made Yu Yu-yi’s face turn a deep natural color.