Housekeeper in the dungeon

EPISODE 97

Won Deok-sam’s sharp reaction caused the grass to die.

He didn’t forget to set out the soup and rice bowls as Hee-na had instructed.

Rice, soup, grilled fish, and a couple of side dishes. A normal dinner was quickly prepared. The siblings and their captor sat at one table.

Hee-na, who had been giving off an icy aura the entire time, finally warmed up and offered the food.

“Enjoy.”

“You can’t eat in an uncomfortable atmosphere.

This was the philosophy of the head of the table at Hee-na’s house.

“Thank you, miss, I’ll eat well.”

Won Deok-sam sneaked a glance at his brother and sister and picked up his cutlery.

Zalgraak, zalgraak.

The quiet sounds of eating continued.

The atmosphere was cheaper than usual, but Hee-na’s flavor was still excellent.

“The sandwich was delicious, but what is this……?

Won Deok-sam, who had been watching Hee-na and Hee-won closely, was also wide-eyed at Hee-na’s skill with the rice, and he made fun of her cutlery.

His mouth was swollen, making it difficult to chew the grains of rice and side dishes, but the flavor of the food was so amazing that he was able to wash it down.

Hee-na’s cold heart softened somewhat at that sight.

‘You’re lucky to eat rice.

Even though her swollen cheeks and mouth hurt, she felt proud to see her eating without complaining.

“Thank you for eating so well.”

And a polite compliment……. The corners of Hee-Na’s mouth twitched.

“It’s always nice to be complimented on your cooking skills.

“Well, as long as you don’t do anything stupid, you should be fine for a while.”

Hee-na huffed and turned away.

Won Deoksam, noticing that Hee-na had relaxed a bit, chuckled.

“Of course, that’s bullshit. I don’t intend to do that at all. Come on, I’ll wash the dishes.”

“That was a bit…….”

Hee-na shook her head impatiently.

Unless she was as close as Kang Jin-hyun, she was reluctant to entrust her kitchen to a stranger.

“I’ll get better at it if I do it myself.

But Hee-won interrupted him.

“Baduk, Wu Xiaoxi, make sure he washes the dishes properly. If he doesn’t, you can beat him up one by one.”

“But!”

“You need to get some rest, don’t you think you barely slept last night because you were worried?”

“Right, right, right, landlord’s blood relative agrees!”

Baduk pushed Hee-na’s back with his bouncy head. It was as if he wanted her to went back to her room and rest. Hee-na sighed heavily in exasperation.

“Okay, okay, but I’m supposed to keep an eye on him for you?”

“Okay. I’ll keep an eye on him to make sure he doesn’t break your favorite bowl.”

At this point, Hee-won joked.

“You know that’s not what I meant!”

Hee-Na poked her brother in the side and ran out of the room.

She thought she heard a shout behind her, “Hey, Lee Hee-na!” but she couldn’t make it out.

* * *

The kidnapper, Won Deoksam, was detained in the spare room that doubled as a storage room.

Just in case, a go player was present at his doorstep.

Won Deok-sam was locked up in the room, unable to touch the doorknob, entirely due to his captor’s brutality.

Except for meal times, he was never allowed to leave his doorstep, so he was practically imprisoned.

Despite being treated like a complete criminal, Won didn’t find his life in this house as painful as he thought it would be.

On the contrary, he enjoyed it immensely!

“This is a real innovation!”

Won exclaimed as he emerged from the bathroom.

His face was still covered in mottled bruises, but his expression was as happy as if he had reached heaven.

“Uncle, no one asked about your bathroom situation.”

Hee-won twitched the tips of her eyebrows.

However, Wen Dexam’s face was thicker than he thought.

“I’m offering again, that Class A bidet. Why don’t you sell it to me? I’m willing to pay any amount of money for it. A billion? Two billion? Just say the word. I can pay you in cash or kind.”

Won Duk-sam coveted the “All-purpose Bidet (A) that solves constipation by sitting down” in Hee-na’s bathroom.

It was a special item that Hee-na had picked up when she leveled up in the early stages of Home Sweet Home.

It was an A-grade item, but she didn’t think much of it because it only solved constipation.

Hee-won and Kang Jin-hyeon didn’t seem too impressed either.

But Won Deoksam was different. He was very surprised by the performance of this all-purpose bidet.

No, he wasn’t just surprised. He considered it a miracle.

“Constipation is like an incurable disease! This is like the greatest treasure in human history!”

He waxed eloquent about the greatness of this grade-A all-purpose bidet that even high-end probiotics can’t match. It was an inappropriate topic for the head of the table.

Hee-Na, who was eating hot Spam on white rice, pouted her lips.

“Can we please stop talking about the bathroom at the table?”

“But this is the only time I have to talk to you two, isn’t it? Don’t you think I should at least make a good impression now so you’ll consider selling me that bidet?”

Despite his grim first impression, Won Deoksam was quite a smooth talker.

Not surprisingly, he was also thick-skinned. After eating with him a few times, he began to talk skillfully.

The food was delicious, the house is so cozy, thank you for sleeping and feeding a bad guy like me in the right place, etc……..

It was hard to ignore the compliments.

Moreover, after I used the bathroom once, I was hooked on Hee-na’s A-class bidet and complained about constipation, so I was just a chatty neighbor.

“In my 40 years of life, in my entire life, I’ve never been constipated properly, and I wouldn’t pay a thousand dollars for this feeling of freedom!”

Won Deoksam praised the bidet while vigorously scrubbing his cutlery.

He worked sedentary most of the day and ate poorly. As a result, he was suffering from severe constipation.

“Constipation is something that all the money in the world can’t fix…….”

He went on and on about how much effort he had put into his constipation. It was not what she wanted to hear.

Finally, Hee-Na raised both her hands and feet and waved a white flag.

“Okay, Mr. Won, I’ll sell you a bidet the day you leave here, and we’ll stop talking about this.”

It was an item that Hee-na’s family didn’t need anyway, so it might as well be sold to someone who desperately wanted it.

Won Deoksam jumped for joy.

“Are you sure? Thank you so much. I will never sell your information to anyone else. If you ever need it, just let me know. You’ve cured me of a lifelong illness, and there’s nothing I can’t do for you.”

‘If I had known this would happen, wouldn’t it have been much more helpful to sell them a bidet instead of using the Amulet to make unseemly threats?

It was not unreasonable for Hee-Na to think this.

“I’m going to get the bidet!”

Won Deok-sam rushed to the bathroom, trembling with fear at the thought of following Hee-won.

It was an act of great courage that was fueled by his desire to escape constipation.

‘If our first meeting wasn’t so strange, I would have thought you were a nice old man.’

Hee-na shrugged as she washed the dishes.

‘He was such a weird guy……. No, am I weird?

For a kidnapper and his victim, their relationship seemed strangely cordial.

I had originally planned to be more cold and scary, but I wondered if a strange rapport had developed throughout the meal.

‘System Quest kidnapped him, and he said he never had a bad heart in the first place…….’

Hee-na sighed heavily as she tried to make excuses for Won Deok-sam’s situation.

“Isn’t this something that comes so naturally to you, even Mr. Kang Jin-hyun said that…… are all high-ranked Awakened like this?”

Do high-ranked Awakened people lose their Yin Chi in exchange for gaining a higher rank?

As I was pondering this, I heard a scream from the distance, “No!”

It was Won Deoksam’s voice.

“What’s going on?

Curious, I finished washing the dishes and wiped my dirty hands on my apron.

“Mr. Won, what’s wrong?”

Hee-na poked her head into the bathroom, which was equipped with a Class A bidet.

On the floor of the bathroom, Won Deok-sam was slumped over, looking dejected.

Next to him, Hee-won was clutching a screwdriver and scratching her chin. Hee-won explained the situation to him.

“It won’t come off.”

“What, the bidet?”

“Uh, there’s no seam at all. When I tried to force it off, I got a system warning.”

“What did it say?”

“It said that if I keep trying to force it off, the item will be destroyed. It says it belongs to Home Sweet Home.”

“Aha.”

Hee-na quickly understood the situation.

Since it came from the level-up chance draw of Home Sweet Home, it couldn’t be transferred to anyone else.

“Item belonging to a space…….”

Won Deoksam lamented his predicament.

“I thought I’d finally find an item that would save my life, but it’s not fate!”