Chapter 14 – A House in the Dungeon

Hee-na soon came to her senses from this absurd situation.

[Wow! Kakkakkakkak!]

[Kyouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!]

No, to be precise… … Should I say that when I come face to face with disgusting monsters with flashing teeth, I automatically come to my senses?

“Huh, aren’t they attacking here?”

I grabbed the front door handle and slammed the door. And then he hesitates and takes a step back, but something is stuck in his heel! and got hit.

“Be careful not to step back!”

When I looked at the message that appeared in my field of vision, it was of five colors.

“I wrapped it in a towel and even closed the bathroom door. How did I get out?”

Housing manager = competent.

After seeing the scary monsters, I felt reassured when I saw the cute little snail.

Hee-na squatted down with her back to the front door and looked at Osaek.

“Anyway, Oh Saek, what’s going on? I opened the door without even thinking and a dungeon appeared.”

“Mold extermination liquid is toxic. Ventilation is required after 15 minutes.”

In response to Hee-na’s question, Osaek made a nonsense statement about the mold extermination liquid being poisonous.

Then he crawled over and tapped the front door with his antenna. Anyone could see that it was a call to go outside.

Hee-na was horrified and waved her hands.

“Hey, hey! Ventilation isn’t the problem right now. There was a dungeon outside the house! A dungeon! A dungeon with monsters running around!”

?

Osaek put a big question mark as if he didn’t know what he was talking about.

It seemed as if she was asking what a dungeon was, so Hee-na tried to explain the existence of a dungeon to Oh Saek.

“Five colors. The dungeon is…”

But more than that, Osaek’s message had to be completed first.

“Outdoors, dungeon. Of course. Housing land = Inside the dungeon.”

Hee-na was horrified by those words and asked back.

“Wait a minute. So you’re saying that this house I’m living in right now is actually inside a dungeon?”

“Affirmative.”

“Does that make sense?”

I guessed that this house would be connected to an unknown space like an inventory function, but that wasn’t the case.

“The house site is in a dungeon… What is this? It’s a very dangerous place!”

Hee-na jumped up from her seat. My head was pounding at the unexpected fact. Maybe it was the smell of ‘pest exterminator liquid’, but either way, I felt dizzy.

“I can’t do this. I can’t live here. I have to pack my bags and leave right now. Oh Saek, do you want to come with me?”

Hee-na also recommended Osaek, whom she had become attached to, to move. It was clear that a small snail with five colors would not even be a bite to the monsters.

However, Osaek accepted Hee-na’s favor as Dooly.

No leaving without permission! “No leaving without permission!”

He climbed onto Hee-na’s leg and grabbed her. Additionally, in very bold font, they repeatedly shouted, ‘No unauthorized discharge!’

Entry = Free, Leave ≠ Free!

You may have been free to enter the room, but there was even talk that you had no freedom to leave the room.

At this, Hee-na looked down at Osaek with a half-crying, half-dead expression.

“Oh, why! I’m leaving! I heard it’s a dungeon outside? What if a monster attacks me?”

Then Osaek again displayed a message in bold letters in front of Hee-na. This time, it was written in a thick palace script, as if it was really serious.

“ skill, safety guaranteed. Attack ×. Entrance radius 2m → safety zone.”

Osaek said, ‘The skill is a skill that guarantees safety, so you will not be attacked by monsters. So, the 2-meter radius of the entrance can be considered a safety zone.’ I kept the main point as short as possible.

Fortunately, Hee-na, who was accustomed to abbreviations, understood the words well.

“…Really? Is it really safe?”

“The housing manager himself ≠ a liar.”

Osaek insisted that he was not a liar. That was correct. Osaek never said anything wrong.

Hee-na nodded obediently and placed the five colors on her hand. And then I opened the dungeon door again like before.

Then this time, it was not a sandy beach, but a vast grassland. It seemed like the dungeon changed every time the door was opened.

“It seems difficult to talk indoors because of the mold extermination solution, so let’s talk in front of the house. You said it’s safe within 2 meters of the front door, right?”

Safe.

Two antennas twitched. Hee-na looked at that scene and calmly opened her mouth.

“Okay. You’re not a liar. You’ve never said anything wrong. I believe you.”

… … However, he was not only a liar, but also a fraudster who was hiding important facts.

“So, tell me everything you haven’t told me about ! Right now!”

The snail’s antennae shriveled up in front of Hee-na’s beautiful eyes.

“…So, is this all? Is there anything else you’re hiding from me?”

Osaek’s antenna was twitching.

“I’m telling you everything that comes to mind right now.”

All I remember now is that we said everything. Hee-na did not miss even the slightest opportunity.

“If you remember something you forgot to mention, you have to talk about it later. Okay?”

This snail had the temperament of a swindler beneath its cute appearance.

‘I should have gone with the system and looked into it from the moment they handed over this house to me!’

Hee-na snorted as she recalled the memories of that day.

The weak five-colored antenna was swayed by the strong snoring wind.

In conclusion, the information about the skill that Hee-na found out from Oh-saek was as follows.

The site of the house given in was a ‘dungeon.’ So, to be more precise, it is not ‘a specific dungeon’ but ‘all dungeons’.

It was like that. Hee-na’s sweet home existed in every dungeon.

It may sound strange. If you ask how a house can exist simultaneously at the same time, there is no answer.

This was a mysterious event, as if dungeons and monsters suddenly appeared and awakened people and systems were created.

Hee-na frowned and scratched her cheek. It was because I remembered something more troublesome than that.

‘That’s why I said that every dungeon has a door leading to my house.’

Thanks to this, it was said that there was at least one front door to Hee-na’s house somewhere in the spacious dungeon.

However, the door was hidden in a very difficult place, and it was said that finding the front door of Hee-na’s house in the dungeon was more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack.

It was a fortunate thing.

And one more thing.

The front door of Hee-na’s house had a very strange ability.

The door could be created anywhere outside the dungeon that the homeowner could think of. However, it had to be a place that the homeowner had personally visited and knew about.

Up to this point, Hee-na knew this from her own experience. What I didn’t know was from now on.

But what if the homeowner opens the door with no destination in mind?

For example, like Hee-na did earlier, when she opened the door thinking, ‘I should leave the door open because the smell inside the house is terrible.’

‘In that case, it is connected to the dungeon that is the original home site, la… … .’

Hee-na carefully organized the information Osaek had told her in her mind.

‘If you think specifically about where you want to go, the door will open there, but if you open the door without that, you’ll be in a random dungeon, right?’

For reference, the door to the house site was fixed inside the dungeon. So it was impossible to open the door anywhere, like outside the dungeon. The door could only be opened from one location per dungeon.

And when you want to revisit a dungeon you’ve been to once, you can open the door by recalling that place as you would outside the dungeon.

Anyway, outside of the dungeon, it meant that Hee-na could always go back to any place she had been to once, and it also meant that there was an entrance to every dungeon.

Even without considering the skill rank, it was an incredible ability.

In addition, since there was a house in the dungeon, there were also minimal safety measures.

In the dungeon, the 2m radius of Hee-na’s front door was a safe zone. Monsters did not recognize you as long as you were within this area.

‘Unless I’m crazy, why would I risk going beyond 2m?’

Hee-na shrugged her shoulders and shook off her worries.

In addition, it was said that the higher the skill level, the wider the radius of the safe zone, so Hee-na’s job was to work hard to improve her skills and promote safety.

‘As expected, everything is safe and stable!’

The Chinese character ‘An ()’ was Hee-na’s favorite letter. If I were to name her in English, I was willing to name her ‘Anna’ after the comfortable ‘Ann’ character.

‘If possible, avoid entering the dungeon.’

After listening to Osaek’s explanation of the skill, I even finished using the mold exterminator and ventilation.

Hee-na entered the room with Five Colors in her palm.

It became much easier to breathe inside the house, with the strong smell gone. And the mold on the mottled and dirty wall had also completely disappeared.

However, the colorful rose wallpaper still remained, which disturbed Hee-na.

“I need to do something about that first. If I sleep with this wallpaper on, I might get hit by scissors.”

Looking at that situation, I felt like it was a waste of time to think about it.

As soon as Hee-na calmed down her shock from the dungeon outing, she started searching for things like self-wallpaper installation, self-wall painting, etc. on her cell phone.

Housekeeper in the dungeon