Housekeeper in the dungeon

EPISODE 93

The quest was as follows

Quest reward: +1 to all stats

Penalty for not fulfilling the quest: Truth Telling skill is lost>

This quest had a terrifying message.

“Failure to fulfill the quest will result in the loss of the Truth Chamber skill!

No way.

The Truth or Dare skill was an incredible skill that allowed you to force your opponent to tell the truth about a question for three minutes.

It was the bread and butter of the information merchant Won Deoksam.

But the rewards for fulfilling the quest were also huge. Increasing all stats by one was a dream come true.

That was the reward for kidnapping that harmless-looking girl and getting her information.

From his point of view, he had no choice but to accept the quest, “What the hell!

The plan was to kidnap the girl and release her after getting just the right amount of information about Tyler.

She’d need to set the tone, but she’d try to keep the interrogation as gentle as possible.

Of course, she didn’t know if the other party would think so, but…… as long as she didn’t cause any serious harm, right?

Won Deok-sam was in a dangerous job as an intelligence officer, but he was a relatively pacifist person.

To keep his job safe, he had to refrain from doing anything that would cause anyone to resent him.

South Korea’s police force didn’t lose its power after the Gate scandal broke.

It still had a high rate of arrests for violent crimes, and it was concerned about the safety of its citizens. I didn’t want to get caught for murder, assault, or blackmail.

If that was the case, why was he here?

Won Deoksam nodded and groaned.

‘I clearly remember the scene where I kidnapped that young lady to fulfill the quest……. I think I had a headache and smoked a cigarette.

After that, his memory was fuzzy.

Won Deoksam’s “Truth Telling” skill gave him three minutes to tell the absolute truth, but the penalty was severe.

It came with a massive headache, dizziness, and a temporary reduction in his overall stats.

[Kitty-kitty-kitty-kitty-kitty! Kitty-kitty-kitty!]

Meanwhile, his reminiscences didn’t last long. His liver was too busy shriveling from the screams of the monsters flying through the air.

He screamed to himself.

“……How the hell did I end up in the dungeon anyway?

The dungeons were closely guarded by the government, the Hunter’s Association, or some other illegal organization.

It was not a place for the common man to stumble into, even by accident.

[Cackle! Cackle! Cackle!]

The monsters roared again. It was terrifying, and it looked like it would tear him to shreds at any moment.

‘I’m going to burn! Damn it!’

As he was shaking violently in his chair in fear, he heard an unfamiliar voice behind him.

“Huh? Go, why, ah…… you’re awake?”

It was a young man’s voice.

“Young man, untie this……!”

Wen Dexam turned his head quickly to call for help, but his face turned to stone.

“Mo, mo, mo, mo, monster!”

A plant-like monster stood in front of him.

It opened its tulip-like flower buds to reveal razor-sharp teeth jutting out from within the buds. It was a horrifying sight.

“……hhh!

Suddenly, Wen Dexam remembered what had happened to him just before he woke up.

The woman had used a spatial skill to open a door, and that monster had jumped out.

The monster lunged at him and beat him relentlessly.

“And then he blacked out?

As he gritted his teeth and recalled the painful past, a human figure appeared behind the monster.

“You’re awake.”

It was Hee-won, a young man with a large shovel slung over his shoulder.

He stroked the plant-like monster and looked up and down at Won Deok Ginseng.

He looked like a grim reaper, pondering, “Should I kill him or save him?

“Please, please, let me live.”

Won Deoksam begged, ready to fall flat on his face in front of him. But Hee-won’s frosty expression showed no sign of easing.

“That’s none of my business.”

He kicked the chair Won Deoksam was tied to.

“Ugh!”

The chair went sideways, and Won Deoksam fell face-first into the sand. He got a lot of sand in his mouth.

“Tsk, tsk, tsk!”

He was spitting out the black sand.

The shovel landed with a thud right next to my head.

A slight miss and it would have crushed his skull. Cold sweat hollowed out my skin.

“Hey, Uncle.”

Hee-won squatted in front of Won Deoksam’s head and pointed at the air.

His fingertips pointed to a flying monster screeching through the sky.

“Do you see that monster over there?”

“Yes, yes, I can see it, very clearly!”

Hee-won pointed to the safety perimeter of Home Sweet Home.

“Where we are right now is a safe zone, so the monster can’t hurt us, but if we step outside that line, it won’t.”

“Yes, yes, is that right?”

Won Deoksam replied, his chin twitching, and Hee-won folded her arms.

“In a little while, my brother will come out and ask you questions, and if you don’t answer properly or say something harsh, you know……?”

He raised his thumb and made a throat-cutting gesture.

“You don’t want to end your life here, do you?”

The meaning of the hand gesture was very clear.

If I didn’t give him a cool answer, he’d throw me right out there into the feeding frenzy of monsters flying through the air.

“Ah, ah, I understand, I won’t talk nonsense, please spare my life!”

Wen Dexam was a man who greatly valued life, especially his own, and he had sworn time and time again to tell the truth.

“Okay, let’s make good on our promise. If I don’t like it, I’ll bury it or throw it to the monsters.”

Hee-won made a final plea. Then he stood up and shouted.

“It’s Hee-na! The kidnapper’s awake!”

Hee-Na’s hands moved quickly as she heard her brother’s voice through the open front door.

“Okay, wait a minute, I’ll get your lunch!”

She scooped up a big scoop of egg salad tossed in mayoneese and placed it on a piece of bread, then covered the bread again. I quickly cut off the tough edges of the bread with a knife, leaving the fluffy white part.

She repeated the process a few times and soon had a stack of delicious egg sandwiches.

Hee-Na neatly packed the sandwiches into her lunch box.

It was a beautiful day at the dungeon beach, so she pretended it was a picnic.

Of course, packing a picnic lunch the day after being kidnapped by a mysterious man is a little odd, but…….

“But it’s the least I could do to make myself feel better.

In any case, chores were often the most helpful way to clear your mind and make you feel better. At least for Hee-Na, it was.

Hee-Na sighed heavily.

“Mr. Jin-hyeon has been gone for so long!

It had only been a day since Mr. Kang had been gone, but so much had happened in that time. Everything had happened all at once, as if on purpose.

He received complaints from regular Hunters, and while out shopping for them, he was kidnapped by a stranger.

She revealed her brother’s secret to her captor and barely escaped danger.

At first, she excused her absence from the guild by saying that she was in a hurry and left halfway through the afternoon.

She could have told them about the situation, but that would have been awkward since it involved the peanuts she was contracted for. Hee-Na’s “Home Sweet Home” skill could have been exposed.

‘If Gilden can’t even keep a secret about her brother’s peanuts, there’s no way she can keep a secret about my skills.

This made her distrust the guild.

So she took a week’s vacation, using all her annual and monthly leave. She needed time to heal her bruises, and she needed a pair of eyes on the kidnappers.

Unfortunately, there was no one else she could trust to help her.

Woo Min-ah was in the middle of a long dungeon run, and Kang Jin-hyeon was out of town.

“We’ll just have to hold her until Mr. Jinhyun gets here.

So, for now, they had no choice but to capture the kidnapper.

Of course, her brother Hee-won had a radical suggestion, “Let’s bury him in the dungeon dirt,” but Hee-na dismissed it as a joke.

“Hurry up, I’ll melt the soy sauce!”

After a moment’s pause, Hee-won urged her from the doorway.

“Guo guo xing, chu Baal!”

The five-colored eagle stretched out its antennae and drew the word “departure” in the air.

Hee-Na put the bird on one shoulder and grabbed an egg sandwich.

[Squeak, squeak, squeak!]

As she slipped on her flip-flops, the cries of the polite monsters pierced her ears.

Hee-Na spotted her brother and cocked her head.

“What are you doing there, big brother?”

The chair the kidnapper had been tied to had fallen over on its side, and Hee-won was squatting in front of it.

“Oh. He was struggling and fell over on his side, so I……. upright again.”

Hee-won casually dusted off his butt and got up.

With a grunt, he straightened up the chair of the fallen kidnapper. He even took the time to brush the sand off his body.

I laughed out loud at the absurdity of it all.

“……Wow. You care about people where you shouldn’t.”

It might be the best thing in the world to care about someone who was trying to harm his brother.