Chapter 27 – Sibling Reunion

While Osaek-i fell into thought, Hee-won cut into the conversation.

“By the way, you’re a homemaker, so what other skills do you have besides the house-giving skill?”

“Just this and that… most of them increase my house-related skills.”

Hee-won nodded as if he understood.

“That must help a lot in living. But it’s dangerous, so you must not work as a Hunter.”

Hee-na flared up and shouted.

“Mind your own business! You’d better not even bring up Hunter or whatever from now on!”

“No, I didn’t know it would turn out like this either. This time I really went looking for a safe job. I went because they said they were recruiting collection personnel for the dungeon raid cleanup crew through an acquaintance’s introduction, but how was I to know it would be a employment scam and human trafficking?”

Hee-won let out a sigh and raised both hands as if surrendering.

“I’ll make sure nothing like this happens in the future. I thought a lot due to this incident too. I worried a lot about what you would do if you were left all alone without me.”

“That’s right. There are only two of us left in the world, so what am I supposed to do if even you are gone, Brother? So please think of your body while working! Now that I earn money, you can play a bit. Even if you don’t earn much, just do safe and easy jobs.”

“Sure, sure.”

Hee-won held her hand and slowly stroked the back of it as if comforting Hee-na. Hee-na shook off the hand, pretending to dislike it.

“Why are you doing this, it’s embarrassing!”

Her brother’s hands were rough and full of scars. They were the traces of his struggle to survive with his younger sister for the past ten years.

Hee-na turned her head to hide the tears that were starting to leak out.

“Anyway… that’s how it is. Now I’ve got a job at the Blue Dragon Guild and earn much more than before. No overtime either. So you should also take a break for a while and slowly think about what you want to do. I won’t say anything even if you play for years.”

Hee-won chuckled and teased Hee-na.

“Are you going to regret saying that later, complaining that you’re sick of raising a jobless bastard?”

“Whatever. You raised me all this time, didn’t you?”

Hee-na slapped the back of her brother’s hand and glared at Hee-won. At any rate, he was a master at spoiling the mood.

Now that the touching atmosphere was ruined, Hee-na decided to ask what she had been curious about all along.

“Brother, what is your awakened job class?”

“Why that? You’ve never asked before.”

“In the past, I thought all awakened people were similar… I wasn’t really curious.”

Hee-na scratched her head.

In fact, Hee-na also did not know the importance of awakened classes when she was an ordinary person.

However, once she awakened herself and met various awakened people at the Blue Dragon Guild, she belatedly realized how diverse and important it was.

Along with that, she naturally became curious about her brother’s class. She only vaguely knew it was D-class, but had never asked what class he was or what skills he had.

“Besides, I hated you coming home injured while working as an Awakened… that’s why I didn’t want to know more.”

“Ha… Haha. Is that so?”

Hee-na’s sincere confession to Hee-won made him laugh awkwardly. It was because the relaxed atmosphere was in danger of becoming serious again.

Hee-won hurriedly changed the topic of conversation.

“But my class is also a bit funny. You know you shouldn’t laugh when you hear it, right? It could harm your brother’s dignity.”

Hee-na smirked at the useless bluff.

“I won’t laugh.”

Hee-na was confident she wouldn’t lose to anyone when it came to being peculiar and funny. Where could there be an awakened class that could beat ‘Homemaker’?

“We’ll have to see about that.”

Hee-na patted her chest at the sly answer. It was teasing.

“What on earth is it? Don’t just drag it out, tell me.”

“It’s my first time telling anyone, so I’m a bit nervous.”

“Hurry!”

At Hee-na’s urging, Hee-won raised both hands in surrender. Then he opened his mouth.

“I am also a hidden class. A D-class ‘Farmer.’”

“Huh?”

Hee-na could only blink at the awakened class she hadn’t even imagined in the slightest.

A D-class ‘Farmer’? What on earth was this about?

“W-Were you not a Hunter, Brother?”

At the question filled with embarrassment, Hee-won responded calmly.

“Yes. If you work as a Hunter, you’re a Hunter, what else? Even if I’m a D-class non-combatant, my stats are higher than ordinary people. If I take on easy work, it’s doable.”

“What the…”

Hee-na was at a loss for words. All kinds of thoughts passed through her mind.

From the basic curiosity about what kind of class ‘Farmer’ was, to imagining what her brother’s feelings must have been like when he jumped into Hunter work with such a peaceful awakened class, and how much he must have suffered until now…

Reading Hee-na’s complicated expression, Hee-won slowly began to explain.

“Actually, the reason I wasn’t very surprised when you said you awakened as a D-class homemaker is also because of my class. I, the older brother, am a farmer, and you, the younger sister, are a homemaker… I thought, we really must be siblings. We both share the same ‘ggun’ suffix.”

It was nothing much, but Hee-won giggled as if it were so funny.

Hee-na had no choice but to say something out of sheer absurdity.

“Can you laugh so easily?”

“Yes. It’s funny.”

Hee-na’s insides boiled at the easygoing remark.

“So there was a reason you were always hurt, sick, and struggling! I thought it was because your rank was low, Brother! Of course it’s because you’re a non-combatant!”

Hee-won eagerly refuted.

“No. Listen, Hee-na. I didn’t do anything that dangerous. I only followed behind real Hunters. Besides, I had to get you through middle and high school, didn’t I? If I hadn’t worked as a Hunter, we would have starved to death. For a greenhorn with no social experience, working as a Hunter was the only way to earn that much money.”

Hee-won had finally made Hee-na lose her temper. Hee-na yelled out loud.

“Y-You… Lee Hee-won! You foolish jerk! What do you think you were doing, risking your life? If you talk such nonsense, our late mom and dad would be so pleased!”

A sharp atmosphere hovered inside the house. A system window flashed past before her eyes.

At the same time, Hee-na’s palm shot up, then fell down with a whooshing sound. The target was the back of her insolent brother who spoke as if his life were cheap.

*Slap!*

“Aaaack!”

With the crisp sound of the slap, Hee-won’s painful scream rang loudly in the small studio room.

“Aaaah! It hurts like crazy! Hee-na! Your brother is dying! Don’t hit me again! It hurts!”

Hee-won rolled around with his hand on his back. If Hee-won, who rarely whined under ordinary circumstances, was like this, it was truly painful.

Landlord, nasty hand habit. Condemn violence!

Osaek-i, who was searching for the explanation of the Pieces of Space, stealthily slipped in and said a word.

It crawled around the rolling Hee-won as if it knew the pain from having been hit once itself.

“Ah, sorry. I didn’t know the skill would be cast… Sorry. Does it hurt a lot?”

Hee-na squatted down and apologized to her brother. Then she frowned.

‘Why is the Pest Extermination skill being cast so randomly all the time?’

It was cast when she first saw Osaek-i in this house, and now it was cast even on her brother.

It was fortunate that she could exert the skill when using it against the bad sniper, but she did not welcome the fact that the innocent victims hit by ‘Pest Extermination’ were increasing one by one.

“…Why is a non-combatant homemaker’s hand so spicy? Wow. I thought I was going to die.”

Hee-won muttered while lying flat on the floor. Hee-na slightly brought up the skill window and read.

“Pest Extermination. D-rank. The skill details are to repel existences that threaten the peace of the home… But earlier, the system window popped up saying the peace of the home is in danger of being broken and it would eliminate the cause.”

At that, Hee-won clicked his tongue.

“Did it judge that you getting angry because of me harms the peace of the home?”

“…Is that so?”

Hearing it, it sounded plausible. Hee-won shook his head.

“All skill descriptions are like that, but it really is a case of ‘if you put it in your ear it’s an earring, if you put it on your nose it’s a nose ring.’ Well, anyway, whatever. It’s reassuring that you have something like an attack skill. That one hit was scary painful.”

Due to the series of violent events, the intense atmosphere inside the house became peaceful again.

This was because Hee-won chuckled as his stinging back hurt, and Hee-na watched her brother’s reaction, feeling sorry for hitting him.

In that sense, ‘Pest Extermination’ was truly a peace-seeking skill.

“So what kind of abilities does your awakened class have, Brother? The description of my homemaker class is like this: ‘Can manage housekeeping with excellent skill!’”

Even seeing it again, it was a really crummy description. Hee-won also grinned as if the description were funny and replied.

“I’m similar. Farmer. D-rank. ‘Can manage farming with excellent skill.’”

It was a description not much different from Homemaker. Hee-na pouted.

“If you have a class that can farm well, why didn’t you move to the countryside? I’ve awakened as a homemaker and am doing cleaning work now too.”

Then, Hee-won scratched his head as if embarrassed.

“But the thing is…”

Hee-na questioned him with fierce eyes.

“But what? Don’t tell me you couldn’t go down because of me?”

“No. That’s not it. It’s because there were no skills that were actually useful.”

Meanwhile, he finished explaining about his farming skills.

“All of my farming skills only apply to dungeon soil. Even if I go down to the countryside, I’d end up being nothing more or less than a worker who is just a bit good at shoveling.”

“Dungeon soil? So that means you can only farm inside a dungeon?”

“Smart girl, my sister.”

The Homemaker of the Dungeon