Housekeeper in the dungeon

EPISODE 120

Hee-Na, Hee-Won, and Kang Jin-Hyeon patted their stomachs after slicing through six melons.

“Melons are in season right now,” she says.

“We should get watermelons next time. Mr. Jin-hyeon, you’re not busy for a while, right? Let’s slice half of them and eat half of them.”

“Okay, watermelon kwacha, it’s been a while.”

The three of them chatted about their favorite fruits.

Suddenly, Hee-Na asked a question.

“So, are you ever going to plant a fruit tree or something?”

“I don’t know. It’s complicated to import seedlings, so I’m putting it off until later. It would be nice to have a fruit tree, right?”

Kang Jin-hyeon nodded in understanding.

“Of course. Seedlings are bulky, so it would be a hassle to move them through the house.”

“Maybe it would be better to sow seeds and grow them.”

It was a flimsy plan.

“When will we sow the seeds and grow the tree, and when will we pick the fruit?”

“I think we can do it with a little help from Go.”

Hee-won stroked Baduk’s smooth leaves and chuckled.

“Why, you know, plants grow faster when they get hit by the gold dust that Goes sprinkles. So…… do you know if you can grow a tree?”

-Bam!

As soon as he finished speaking, Go, who had been sleeping on the floor, jumped to his feet.

“Do you want more tangerines?”

In response, Go flicked the bud across the room.

Tsk, tsk, tsk!

He thumped the floor with his root and pointed to the front door with his leaf.

“Does that mean you want to go for a walk?”

Hee-won asked, and Baduk smacked the leaves together in delight. It seemed to be the right answer.

“It’s almost dusk, so it’s dangerous to walk around the dungeon…….”

Chop, chop, chop, chop!

Hee-na hesitated, and Baduk continued to be stubborn, spinning in place like a puppy trying to poop.

Eventually, Kang Jin-hyeon, who was even worse, intervened.

“I think you should just go out to the front yard, which is a safe zone, and come back, and I can follow you just in case.”

At this point, there was no time to dwell on it.

“……Yes. We’ll have some dessert, and then we can get some air.”

With Hee-na’s permission, Oh crawled over to the go-board and crossed his antennae in celebration.

“Dramatic agreement! (Congratulations)”

The front door opened, and the crisp dungeon air rushed into Lung’s lungs.

As if on cue, Go leaped out of the door and ran wildly through the front yard.

He was like a fish out of water as he trotted through the fields Hee-won had cultivated.

“So energetic.”

Hee-won watched him with delight.

Although his expression was unreadable, it seemed that Ouyang Yi was similarly impressed.

“Youth is a good thing~”

Meanwhile, the leaping Go player suddenly came to a halt at a certain point and shook his head.

“Huh?”

Hee-Na’s eyes widened at the sight before her.

A glittering golden powder was emanating from the Go player’s entire body. It was much darker and brighter than the light dust he usually emitted.

The golden rays of light seemed to envelop the stem and bud of the Go, becoming a single beam of light.

And the rays that emanated from its body were like spotlights, illuminating any given location.

“What is that?”

I asked, eager to see what it was, but I was grabbed by the shoulder. I glanced up and saw Kang’s hard jawline.

“It might be dangerous, so it’s better to watch from a distance.”

He whispered, not taking his eyes off the go player.

“I have faith in Go, but since this is about the dungeon, let’s take a step back and watch.”

“Okay.”

I was a little worried that something might happen to the Go player, but Kang Jin-hyeon had a point.

This was a dungeon, even if it was a safe zone. You never know what might happen.

“Besides, Go was not weak, so it’s okay.

And Hee-na believed in Go.

Despite his seemingly immature behavior, Go was physically capable of defeating most low-level monsters with ease.

Meanwhile, a dark aura rose from the place that had received Go’s golden ray.

Pow!

The black and blue aura coalesced together to form a black hole that looked like a black hole.

“Huh?”

Hee-na’s eyes widened at the mysterious and bizarre sight.

Kang Jin-hyeon, who was holding her, muttered softly.

“……gate?”

As soon as he finished muttering, a black aura spread out in all directions. It happened in an instant.

“Boom!”

Hee-na was stunned, and without realizing it, she unleashed the ‘Exterminate Pests’ skill. Her fist moved and a boom sounded like the wind.

It was a powerful swing that could have taken out any monster with a single blow.

Unfortunately, it was a waste.

Saaaaah…….

The energy that had been spreading in all directions had vanished like smoke.

There was a moment of silence in the front yard of Home Sweet Home. Everyone looked around nervously as if they were dreaming.

The first person to notice the change was Kang Jin-hyeon, who had good eyesight.

“What is that? …… Is that a tree?”

“A tree?”

“Look, there’s something in front of the board.”

While I was whispering and trying to figure out what was going on, Baduk came running up to me as usual.

He bounced around Hee-Na, Hee-Won, and Kang Jin-Hyeon, ruffling leaves.

“Baduk, what did you just do?”

Hee-won, the self-proclaimed “Baduk’s dad,” yelled at him.

Suddenly, Baduk stopped hopping and pulled the three of them into a vine of leaves.

“Go wants to show you something, shall we go?”

“Go, go, go!”

Even Oh Sae-yi twitched his antennae and agreed with Hee-na.

Kang Jin-hyeon hesitated for a moment, then relaxed and followed her.

“I don’t feel anything out of the ordinary, so…… good. I’m just taking a look.”

The three of them and the snail put their heads together as they stood at the spot where Baduk had just been emitting light.

“Wow, this is a tree.”

“Yeah. It’s a tree.”

“But it looks a little small for a tree.”

“A little small. A lot smaller.”

A small tree, perhaps a meter tall, stood where the black hole had been.

Baduk stood next to the small tree and held its trunk upright.

It was a proud gesture.

Hee-won, who was looking back and forth between the tree and Go, flicked her fingertips.

“Is this…… because you said earlier that you could grow fruit trees with Go’s help? Are you trying to show me that you can grow trees with your power?”

Tsk tsk!

Baduk clapped his hands with his leaves and waved his large flower buds. It was an enthusiastic affirmation.

“Wow, this is amazing! I thought you could only make grass grow, but you can grow trees!”

Hee-won praised Go in an exaggerated voice.

“You’ve grown up! You’re really good!”

Ouyang Yi echoed the praise.

Then the roots of the go pieces began to tap dance. The praise made the go-root dance.

Meanwhile, Hee-Na bent down to examine the tree.

“It looks interesting.”

The tree wasn’t shrunken, but smaller, like a scaled-down version of a normal tree. It even looked like a model.

“So what kind of tree is this? Do you remember what you planted here?”

I asked, and Hee-won pointed to a sign at the base of the tree.

.

“This is it. An unknown seed from the use of ‘Fragment of Space’.”

“I thought it was dead?”

I shook my head, and Hee-won reminded me of a distant memory.

“No! I told you about it when we were counting spinach a couple of weeks ago. It sprouted.”

“Mmm. I guess so.”

At the time, I was so excited about the spinach story that I put the topic completely on the back burner.

In retrospect, it was a pretty interesting story.

“It’s amazing,” I thought to myself, “that you can grow something so big after only a few months of sprouting! I guess the Go powder is really good for you. You’re really good, my boy.”

Hee-won stroked the go, proudly.

Meanwhile, Hee-na squinted her eyes and examined the tree that Go had grown.

“It hasn’t sprouted in months? Isn’t that enough time for the seeds to have rotted away and grown weeds in the same spot? The weeds are the ones that Go nurtured.”

It was a reasonable doubt.

But Hee-won explained the situation quite confidently.

“No. The status of the new sprout says ‘□□□ sprout’. It also said that it sprouted from an unknown seed that I planted a long time ago.”

Hee-Na’s mouth dropped open in disbelief.

“What? Why did you leave out something so important? You could have told me next time!”

Hee-won chuckled and scratched the back of his head.

“I forgot. You know, I was distracted by the spinach.”

Eventually, Hee-Na couldn’t help but glance at her smiling brother and mutter.

“I……. If Baduk hadn’t raised me like this, I would have forgotten and never told you.”

“Could it be?”

Hee-won shuddered and brought up the things she hadn’t gotten around to saying.

Hee Na and Kang Jin Hyeon listened intently.

“Anyway, the name was still not completely written, but the description was more detailed.”

“What did it say?”

“It said it would need enough manure to become a full tree, and I thought it was enough manure, so I just fertilized it a little more than before. But now I realize that the manure was going powder.”

While his brother and sister whispered about the tree’s identity, Kang bent down to study it.

As he concentrated on the tree, a system description window popped up.

<□□□ Tree (50%): □□□ □□, □□□ □□, □□□ □□, □□□ □□, □□□…….>

The description window was a dizzying array of blanks.

All he could make out was the word “wood” followed by a percentage number: “50%”.

The description was long, but he couldn’t read it, so he quickly lowered his gaze.

Luckily, the last line was a sentence he could read.

<*This information is restricted to certain classes only.