Housekeeper in the dungeon

EPISODE 112

“Did I have any minced garlic left in the fridge at home?

The sudden realization stopped her in her tracks, and the sesame oil overflowed from the measuring spoon.

In a flash, the overflowing oil dripped onto the blanched spinach.

“Oops, my mistake.

Yu Yunyi, who had been recording Hee-na’s work next to her, exclaimed.

“……you!”

But Hee-na beat him to the punch.

“I know what you’re going to say, but don’t you realize that human hands aren’t machines and can make mistakes? Criticizing them for mistakes they’ve already made won’t help your research. It’s a waste of time. That time would be much more productive working on the next thing. Besides, I thought you said that mistakes like this are data that can be used somewhere down the road.”

Yu Han chewed his lip as if his mouth was greased by the excuse.

He pouted for a moment, then grumbled.

“That, no, well, okay, who said anything?”

“You were going to find out how much sesame oil you put in anyway, so you can consider it a preliminary result. I just meant that you shouldn’t be too picky.”

“…… Okay.”

They said humans are animals of adaptation.

Hee-Na had spent the last few days collaborating with yu Yun-Yi, and she had mastered how to deal with him.

He was a no-nonsense guy, but he was serious about his research.

With just the right amount of research talk or threats of “I won’t work with you,” the angry cat quickly turned into a tame sheep.

“Hey, your spinach chopping is a little different than before. I’ve never seen someone as homeostatic as you.”

……

This was not to said that Yu has completely lost his natural temper.

But after being around him all day, Hee-Na had gotten used to his tantrums and wasn’t as angry as she was at first.

“Oh, right. Sorry.”

She had gotten better at listening in one ear and spilling out the other.

“Compared to the bad clients, you’re a good guy, Mr. Lee.

When she thought about it, the things that Hee-Na had encountered at her old job were almost as cute as Yu Yun-Yi.

Perhaps it was because she had gotten used to the well-mannered staff of the Blue Dragon Guild that she was so shocked when she met Yu Yun-yi.

Hee-na glanced over at him as she nibbled on her spinach sprouts.

Yu was scribbling away in his lab notebook, unaware of her glance.

“That’s it, you’ve done 30 stirs, stop now, sprinkle a small spoonful of sesame seeds on top!”

He supervised the spinach sprouts with an incredibly serious expression. Hee-Na grumbled to herself.

“Annoying.

She didn’t like having anyone tell her what to do with her food.

But she had learned a few things from Yu Yun-yi’s interruptions the past few days, so she didn’t argue.

“Cooking conditions make a difference.

As Yu had hypothesized, food cooked in the same way at the same temperature had the same effect.

Once they confirmed this, they tried different recipes to find the one that worked best.

They learned to cook in precise proportions, not by hunch.

They also realized that they had developed bad habits.

She realized that she had developed bad habits: she had lost her focus and had been cooking roughly because the food tasted good no matter how she made it.

‘I’ve been too attached to other people’

Hee-na reflected on her past attitude and placed the finished spinach sprouts in the side dish bin.

“Would you like a bite?”

She picked up a row of spinach and held it out to Yu Yi. It looked so natural.

In Yu’s lab notebook, he recorded not only the cooking process, but also the shape, color, potency, and taste of the resulting product.

As a result, it had long since become a matter of course for him to hold the food out for him to taste after it was finished.

“Ah.”

Yu yun-Yi opened his mouth to take a bite of a row of spinach.

“Ms. Hee-na, I’m home, I’ve missed you.”

A familiar voice rang through the kitchen.

Yes, it was the voice of Kang Jin-hyeon, whom she hadn’t heard in days.

“Huh? Mr. Jin-hyeon?”

Hee-Na looked up with delight.

“You’re finally here……!”

She was about to greet him with a big smile when a chill ran down her spine.

Hee-na widened her eyes in surprise and looked at Kang Jin-hyun, whose expression was colder than she’d ever seen before.

“What’s going on?

His gaze wasn’t on Hee-na. Kang Jin Hyeon looked at Yu yun-Yi and asked.

“……Who are you?”

Yu yun-Yi swallowed hard, the spinach in his mouth gurgling.

“……I?”

His face was as pale as the spinach as if he had grown weary of the momentum exuded by the S-class Hunter.

“Identify yourself. No, first of all, get away from Ms. Hee-na.”

Kang Jin-hyeon was on his feet in an instant, separating Hee-na and Yu-hyun.

“Ugh! Ugh!”

Yu Yun-yi was practically pushed aside. He was lucky he didn’t fall because his body was like a mulberry tree.

The sight of Yu yun-yi’s flailing figure brought him back to his senses.

“Mr. Jin-hyeon, what’s going on?”

Hee-na clung to one of Kang’s arms, not even realizing that this felt like a pretty aggressive touch.

He must have been too, because Kang Jin-hyeon had a scary look on his face like he was about to do something big.

“You’re going to hurt someone.”

Looking up at her face with concern, Kang Jin-hyeon’s body stiffened. It was as if he felt Hee-na’s gaze on him in retrospect.

“Oh, this…….”

He rolled his eyes in embarrassment. It was a rare agitation from his usually expressionless face.

“Did something happen on the mission? Why are you acting like this?”

Kang Jin-hyeon was much more sensitive than the others.

She wondered if he had been sent on a mission for a few days and suffered a lot of hardships, and that might be why he was so agitated.

Hee-na looked at Kang Jin-hyeon’s face with concern.

“Come to think of it, his cheeks seem to be hollow.

The handsome man had been working hard and not eating enough.

‘All those years of feeding and sleeping him have been wasted!

My thoughts drifted off to this point.

He had long since forgotten about Yu Yun- Yi, who was standing in the distance, looking bored.

“Your face is halved, you look very tired. Do you want to go to sleep? Do you want me to straighten your bed? Or eat?”

As Kang Jin-hyeon asked in a pitiful voice, he relaxed his embarrassed expression and put on a meek face.

With his eyebrows drawn together, he replied.

“I haven’t had a proper rest for a few days, but…….”

“Hunter doesn’t have court breaks or anything?”

“No.”

“Oh good, that’s why you’ve lost so much weight on your face, you need to get some rest.”

Kang Jin-hyeon’s eyes moistened at Hee-na’s enthusiasm.

“It’s okay, Ms. Hee-na, I see…… is better.”

“Oh.”

Kang Jin-hyeon usually said things that could be misunderstood, so Hee-na was used to this unexpected attack on her heart.

No, she thought she was used to it.

“But if you make those eyes and say those lines……!

The handsome attack suddenly energized the clown.

He waved his hands in the air, trying to cool the heat in his face.

“What the hell are you two doing, hitting an innocent man, huh?”

A squeaky voice echoed through the kitchen.

It was Yu Yun- Yi, a figure I’d forgotten about for a while.

“……acha.”

Hearing that sarcastic voice, my face instantly cooled down. The effect was immediate.

“Oh, right. You’re still there.”

Hee-Na looked at Yu Yun-Yi with a puzzled expression.

“What, you forgot about me?”

In response, Yu Yun-yi’s face turned bright red with indignation, and she squeaked.

“Quickly explain, and apologize!”

Hua sat the two men down in her office and served them three cups of mixed coffee.

“Have a cup each.”

“What, you never gave me one of these when I came over.”

Yu yun-Yi grumbled, and Hee Na rolled her eyes.

“What makes you think you’re pretty?

She was about to retort, but when she saw the look on Kang’s face as he calmly sipped his mixed coffee, she clamped down on her temper.

No, I couldn’t raise my voice in front of Kang Jin-hyun.

“…… unless you don’t want to drink it.”

“Hey, who says I’m not drinking it? I’m eating it.”

Yu Yun-yi snatched the cup of mixed coffee from Hee-na’s hand and gulped it down.

“Ooooh…….”

His eyes sparkled as soon as he took a sip, so it seemed to be quite palatable.

However, she didn’t say good job or delicious to the person who served her the coffee, so her eyes were still yellow.

It was a very unfamiliar reaction for Hee-na, who had only met people who were lavish with praise after awakening as a housekeeper. Honestly, it was sarcastic.

Hee-Na pouted and introduced Yu Yun-yi to Kang Jin-Hyeon.

“……This is Mr. Yu Yunyi, an alchemist dispatched by the guild for a joint research project. My brother Spinach has grown up, so he’s the manpower that the guild leader supported in that regard.”

“Is that so?”

Kang Jin Hyeon looked at Yu Yun- Yi with a heavy gaze.

Under his gaze, Yu shivered as if he felt a chill.

But he held his head stiffly, not wanting to show any signs of discomfort.

“And this is……”

“I know who you are even if you don’t introduce me. Do I look like a lowlife who doesn’t know the face of Hunter Kang Jin Hyeon?”

Yu Yun-yi bluntly cut off Hee Na’s introduction.

“That asshole, he’s not worthy of……!