Housekeeper in the dungeon

EPISODE 95

The siblings’ suspicions were justified.

The bowl of Won Deok Ginseng seemed too small for the informant who held Asia in his hands and shook her.

“If you’re such an informant, shouldn’t you be divulging government secrets or something, not kidnapping people like me and blackmailing them?”

“There’s no such thing as too much information, there’s just information that’s worth money and information that’s worth less money, and as far as I’m concerned, this peanut thing was worth a lot of money!”

Won stammered in his defense. And then he added, in a stammering tone.

“True, I agree that I rashly kidnapped the young lady. But I had no choice. There was a quest to kidnap a young lady, so how could I not do it?”

The reward for success was rewarding, but the penalty for failure was devastating.

The penalty for failure was the loss of the Truth Workshop skill, which was Won Deoksam’s bread and butter.

“……This is why I had no choice but to kidnap her. I don’t think I would have done it because I enjoy terrorizing ordinary citizens. It was many times easier to deal with Hunters who have been rolled over.”

At his words, Hee-Na and Hee-Won exchanged glances. They were thinking the same thing.

“The system gave her the quest?

The system had always seemed to favor her, and she couldn’t believe that it would order her kidnapping.

No, she didn’t want to believe it.

“Do you have any idea why the system wanted to kidnap me?”

Hee-na asked urgently.

But Won Deoksam waggled his eyebrows as if she were asking a strange question.

“The system is just the system. I’m sorry to say this, but…… was a victim of some kind of natural disaster.”

“Beware of the horns, beware of the horns.”

The off-white color twitched its antennae in disagreement.

Hee-na patted him on the round head in excitement. It bounced like a bouncy ball.

“Anyway, we can’t be sure if you’re Mr. One or not. Do you have any evidence to confirm it?”

Hee-na asked sternly, unable to let went of her suspicions easily.

Hee-won, standing behind her, secretly made a strangling gesture. If she didn’t answer properly, he would kill her.

Won Deoksam quickly rolled his eyes.

“What do you have……? I’m going to blow a government secret, and they’re going to believe it?

He tried to think of dozens of ways to prove his identity.

But with a flying monster hissing above his head and a plant-like monster rolling up blades of grass in front of him, it was hard to think of anything that would work.

“Let’s do this, then.”

It was Hee-Na who spoke first.

“Swear an oath on a magic stone. That you’re Mr. One, and that if you’re not, you’ll pay a heavy price.”

He dug into his apron pocket and pulled out a fist-sized glass vial. It was filled with glittering gemstones.

It was something Kang had once paid for with coffee.

“I never thought I’d use these.

Hee-na popped the cork and shook a handful of gems into her palm.

Some were as red as rubies, some as greenish as emeralds, and some as blue as sapphires. They were all fairly transparent, but their dark colors and small size prevented them from being graded as high grade.

They weren’t good enough to make items, but they were good enough to make an oath.

“I can do it!”

Wen Dexam nodded up and down his puffy face. His expression was full of desperation.

Hee-Na pressed a gemstone into Wen Dexam’s bound hands.

“Swear by my words.”

“Yes, yes. I understand!”

“From now on, I will only speak the truth within the ‘Home Sweet Home’ zone, and if I tell a lie, I will immediately lose all my powers.”

Won Deoksam stammered after Hee-na’s words.

It was an almost violent oath for a man who made his living by telling lies. But what could he do?

“Lives matter more than that.

A weak glow emanated from between his fingers where he held the gem. The gem disappeared, and the contract was sealed.

Hee-Na asked one question to confirm.

“What is your name and age?”

“My name is Won Deoksam, and I’m turning forty this year.”

Given that his last name was Won, it was obvious that he was “Mr. Won,” and his age and appearance matched, although he was a bit gray-eyed.

“Are you Mr. One, according to your information?”

“Yes, I am Mr. One for all intents and purposes, and I haven’t told you a single falsehood!”

His story must be true because nothing happened.

Hee-Na interrogated him, asking a few more questions she’d been dying to ask.

“Are there any forces behind this?”

“No. It was all my own doing.”

“Have you leaked this information to anyone else?”

“No. I don’t teach that kind of thing to others because I’m a big believer in keeping information to myself…….”

I could see a hint of greed creeping into his face as he shared the information, which made me trust him even more.

“So you’re not going to have people tracking me down because of you?”

“Yeah. I have no family, and I work alone, so there’s no one to look for me…….”

Won Deoksam looked a little lonely, then shook his head.

“……Well, yes, but others might smell money in the peanuts and track you down just like me. Of course, they won’t be as quick as me, so it’ll take a while.”

Won Deoksam blurted out a fact he hadn’t been taught.

“Hmm……. Big brother, what should we do, should we ask the guild for help?”

Hee-na made a troubled face.

According to what Won Deoksam was saying, there could be other kidnappers like him.

“That’s right. It seems like we can’t handle this alone.”

The siblings nodded in agreement.

“Let’s wait until Mr. Jin Hyun gets here first. He might have a good idea.”

“Okay. It might be dangerous, so let’s take a vacation until he gets here.”

“Okay, I’ll do the same.”

For a moment, the faces of the regular Hunters eagerly anticipating Hee-Na’s food flashed by, but she couldn’t help it.

Her safety came before the welfare of the group.

“I’ll only feed you if I’m alive and well.

That’s what he was convinced of.

“I can help you!”

Won Deoksam shouted.

Hee-na and Hee-won’s gazes focused for a moment.

“How can you help us?”

Hee-na asked, and Won Deok-sam leaped to his feet and offered.

“First of all, I’ll help you if you promise to never hurt me.”

“Mr. Won Deoksam, you know what kind of state you’re in right now, and you’re asking me to make a deal with you?”

Hee-won shot back, not liking the idea.

The go player sitting behind Hee-won also made a grinding sound.

Won Deoksam’s puffy face turned pale.

“Ah, no, I can at least beg you to guarantee my life, don’t you think? I don’t ask for much. Just let me go alive, and I’ll do anything for you.”

He looked so desperate, if his hands weren’t tied, he might have begged.

Hee-na chewed her lip hard. She and Hee-won exchanged sweet nothings.

The longer the conversation went on, the more anxious Won Deoksam became. His back was already drenched in cold sweat.

“Please…… save me.”

Hee-na, who had been talking to her brother for a while, turned around and sat down.

“……So here’s the deal: my brother and I will spare you, but there are a few conditions.”

She held up three fingers.

“First, you don’t leave my space, Home Sweet Home, for a week.”

This was to prevent Won Deok-sam from escaping before Kang Jin-hyeon arrived to help his brother and sister.

“Second, no matter what happens, I will not cause mental or physical harm to my siblings, Oh Saek-yi, or Baduk.”

The second condition was for the safety of Hee-Na’s family.

They would have to keep him locked up in the house for at least a week until Kang Jin-hyeon arrived, and their common sense wouldn’t allow them to leave him tied up like this.

It was a safety measure in case he was released.

Then Hee-na recited the last condition.

“Third, Mr. Won Deoksam agrees to help us in any way he can to keep us out of danger. …… If you keep these three conditions, I will release him alive and untouched for a week in my house.”

Of course, he left out the most important part.

“We won’t touch you, but if you get into trouble after you’re released, Mr. Qin or the guild can take care of it for you.

The sharp-eyed Wen Dexam quickly realized the loophole in the deal.

“That’s a bit unfair…….”

However, in the current situation, the Hee-Na siblings were the absolute powers, and Wen Dexam was only a weakling.

Just getting out of here without dying immediately was a big deal.

“Do you have any objections? We have other things to trust, you don’t have to solve it for us.”

Hina bluffed.