Chapter 29 – A Two-Room Upgrade

“Could it be that the house became wider now because the skill rank rose due to the billing?”

“Seems like it. It says that with C-rank, a ‘worn-out basic two-room’ has been unlocked.”

Hee-na brought up the skill window to check her status.

The rank had become C-rank, and the state had changed from ‘Old Basic One-room’ to ‘Worn-out Basic Two-room.’

Whether the level of the house had nothing to do with the rank, it still remained at 9.

“Perhaps because it has some level, this house is at least clean.”

Hee-na walked here and there inside the house, grasping the newly obtained house.

Fortunately, the household goods placed in the one-room had not disappeared and were organized, each finding its own place well.

“Isn’t it usually a 1.5-room after a one-room?”

Hee-na muttered at the curiosity that suddenly arose.

Normally, when a house gets better, it is common to move from a single one-room to a 1.5-room with a room attached to the living room, and then to a two-room with two rooms.

Hee-na had no complaints since she got a better house, but considering the trick of the somewhat petty system, it was a bit strange.

System coding problem. □-room. In this case, □ = Natural number which is only 1, 2, 3, ……

Beside her, Osaek-i listed words like a math textbook.

Roughly, it seemed to mean that the system could only give house structures with easy-to-define numbers like one-room, two-room, and three-room, and could not give house structures with ambiguous numbers like 1.5-room.

Hee-na quickly erased Osaek-i’s complicated explanation from her head.

No matter how it turned out, in conclusion, it was a good thing anyway.

“Wow. Isn’t this too much discrimination for the same D-class hidden worker? Someone is given such a cozy house, but I can’t even dig the ground properly unless it’s a dungeon.”

As Hee-won complained while looking around the house together, Hee-na opened her mobile phone and showed a photo of the previous dirty one-room.

“It only looks good because I cleaned and decorated it all. It was like this before leveling up. At first, the system force-sold me this trashy house because I was D-class.”

However, the experience points from cleaning were quite good. Landlord, positive perspective needed.

Osaek-i took the system’s side on the sly, asking if she hadn’t leveled up a lot thanks to the experience gained from cleaning. Hee-na glared at that Osaek-i.

“You only did ‘Heave-ho, heave-ho’ beside me, so of course you’d say that! It was really hard for me!”

Snail, no hands and feet. Cleaning impossible.

No matter what excuse Osaek-i made, Hee-na ignored it and preempted one of the rooms.

“This room is mine!”

It was the slightly larger room of the two. Perhaps the system also thought this should be Hee-na’s room, as it placed the bed Hee-na used in the large room. It was the E-class ‘frameless old mattress bed’ received from the first random draw.

“Sure. Since the landlord says she will use the larger room, how could I, a tenant, stop that wish?”

Hee-won shrugged his shoulders and conformed to Hee-na’s opinion. The power of the landlord was thrilling.

Anyway, the situation was roughly settled. At this, Hee-na took out the underwear and training suit she had purchased in advance and handed them over.

“Then go wash up now, Brother.”

Since she explained various things as soon as they entered the house, Hee-won had not even been able to wash up yet. Now that they finished assessing the situation, next it was urgent to wash off the grimy dirt.

“The house looks a bit old, will the water pressure here be alright?”

Hee-won naturally made a worry fitting for Hee-na’s brother. Hee-na roughly nodded.

“It should come out well. Even when we were in a worse one-room before, the water came out fine. Anyway, wash up quickly. Let’s eat. I’ll buy pork belly.”

*Growl.*

As soon as she brought up pork belly, a growling sound rang from Hee-won’s stomach. Hee-won laughed sheepishly and said something completely unbelievable.

“Take your time preparing. I’m fine.”

Then, feeling embarrassed, he slipped into the bathroom.

Not long after, along with the sound of water, an exclamation of “Ah, refreshing!” was heard.

‘Putting on a useless bluff.’

Hee-na shook her head and grabbed two shopping baskets. It was because she planned to buy a lot of food for her brother who had become like a mangy dog.

“Delicious!”

Hee-won put a lettuce wrap full into his mouth and clapped his hands.

Emotion overflowed at the corners of his eyes. It was meat he was eating after a long time, and since Hee-na’s hand-taste skill was also overlapped, it was a miracle he didn’t shed tears.

“This is what I live for!”

Hee-won swallowed the meat wrap and built a wide grin.

Hee-na watched that sight with a bit of pity and a bit of pathetically.

“Eat a lot. I bought three geun of meat. I’ll grill as much as you want to eat. I also bought digestive medicine, so eat to your heart’s content.”

“Indeed, my sister is the best! Lee Hee-na! Lee Hee-na!”

Hee-na pushed the grilled meat and lettuce in front of her brother who was chanting her name.

Do not disturb meal!

Then, a snail about the size of a fist popped its head out from the pile of lettuce.

“I wondered where you went. Why are you inside the lettuce basket?”

Hee-na picked up and took Osaek-i out. In the place where Osaek-i had been, there was lettuce full of holes. Hee-na asked as if surprised.

“What, Osaek-i, do you eat lettuce too?”

It was because she had never once seen Osaek-i eating anything. At that, Osaek-i replied as if it were no big deal.

Special meal.

Well, even if it was a housing manager, since it had the appearance of a snail, eating lettuce was not a very strange thing.

“Osaek-i, by the way, I have a question.”

Taking advantage of Osaek-i’s timely appearance, Hee-na asked what she had been curious about all along.

?

“I can enter and exit this house by casting my skill, right?”

Yeah.

“Then can my brother neither enter nor exit this house without me?”

This was an important issue.

If Hee-won could only enter and exit the house by following Hee-na, the holder of the ‘Home Sweet Home’ skill, there was no meaning in having a new house.

A house is a space families share together, and entry and exit must be free for everyone.

Landlord’s concern fully understood. Housemate entry/exit status: No problem.

Osaek-i shook its antennae left and right as if telling her not to worry at all. Then, it wriggled and crawled up onto the back of Hee-won’s left hand.

Whether the snail climbed onto the back of his hand or not, Hee-won was too busy dipping pork belly in ssamjang and eating it, lost in Hee-na’s hand-taste.

Family member. Spare key provision possible.

“Spare key? So that means you can give my brother something like an extra key to go back and forth here?”

Yeah. Spare key provision agreement?

When Osaek-i asked, a system window popped up shortly after.

“Yes.”

As soon as Hee-na nodded, the text ‘Family Member 1: Lee Hee-won’ popped up on one side of the skill window.

Along with the registration, a question immediately followed.

Hee-na answered without hesitation, “Yes.”

Okey-dokey.

As soon as Hee-na answered, Osaek-i’s shell on the back of Hee-won’s hand began to glow in rainbow colors.

The shell glowed brightly for about ten seconds, and the light soon faded again.

Completed.

Osaek-i crawled down from the back of Hee-won’s hand. In the place where Osaek-i had been, a golden key shape was settled like a stamp.

At the fascinating sight, even Hee-won stopped eating pork belly and looked down at the back of his hand.

“Is this the key?”

Yup.

Osaek-i began to explain while giving a half-hearted reply with only a single ‘y’.

Roughly translating it, the contents were like this.

By receiving the spare key, Hee-won could also open the door to ‘Home Sweet Home.’ However, he did not gain the ability to open the door anywhere he wanted like Hee-na.

He could only open the door to ‘Home Sweet Home’ in exactly one location.

Simply put, unlike Hee-na, who could summon the door regardless of space, it meant that the guest’s ‘door’ location was fixed.

“Then can I designate the front door location? Or is it random?”

Hee-won asked Osaek-i. Osaek-i replied.

Only for the first time, user can designate the location for free. However, from the second time, paid goods are required for change.

“Is it money again?”

Although the talk of billing popped out again, anyway, it meant that the front door location could be designated directly by Hee-won.

“Still, it’s a relief that the first time is free, Hee-na.”

Hee-na shrugged her shoulders at Hee-won’s easygoing words.

“Yeah… Anyway, we should find a quiet place to designate the front door location.”

Proper location designation is key.

Osaek-i also helped with Hee-na’s words.

Then, Hee-won muttered with his chin resting in his hand, as if thinking of a suitable place.

“Let’s see. Where would there be a place that is moderately close to a subway station, quiet because people don’t pass by much, and where living facilities are not too far away~?”

Hearing it, he wanted too much. If there were such a place inside this city of Seoul, it would have already gone into development long ago.

So Hee-na responded honestly to her brother’s worry.

“Rather than finding such a place, it would be faster for us to work without rest for over 100 years and buy an expensive house.”

“That’s true…”

Hee-won laughed sheepishly at Hee-na’s point. There was not a single wrong word in it.

The Homemaker of the Dungeon