Chapter 59 – A Familiar View

When she turned on her cell phone, she saw a few messages from her older brother. Hee-na chuckled at Hee-won’s messages.

‘As long as there is a wall, I can open the door and go home, yet he says he’s coming to pick me up. Really, brother.’

It seemed he had temporarily forgotten Hee-na’s skill. However, thinking that her family who worried about her was waiting at home made her feel reassured.

‘I should go home quickly before he worries more.’

Hee-na looked around the house, searching for a suitable space to open the door.

The interior where darkness had descended was quiet. At the same time, she felt a strange sense of déjà vu.

“What is this?”

There was no way she had ever been to an S-class hunter’s house before, but the space was strangely familiar.

“Come to think of it, the structure seems similar to our new house…”

She muttered as she walked past the living room to the balcony. This was because her shoes, which she had taken off, were on the balcony.

As she picked up her shoes in front of the balcony window, she glanced outside.

“Huh?”

And then, her eyes widened at the familiar scenery unfolding before her.

“Uh, uh, uh?”

Hee-na threw down the shoes in her hand and pressed herself close to the balcony window. Then she rubbed her eyes hard.

“Am I drunk?”

The scenery outside the balcony was very familiar.

“Why does the view look exactly the same as the view from our house?”

Indeed. The exact same panoramic view seen from Hee-na’s apartment was spread out before her.

Although it had not been long since they moved, Hee-na knew very well what was outside her house.

There were a few more apartments, and there was also a supermarket inside the apartment complex. Since it was a relatively bustling area, a main road ran through it, and large buildings rose here and there. In addition…

“……I can see the Blue Dragon Guild building.”

Moreover, the angle from which the Blue Dragon Guild building was visible was exactly the same as Hee-na’s apartment. Had she not chosen that house in the first place because it was closest to her workplace?

Instead of opening ‘Home Sweet Home’ to return home, Hee-na opened the front door of Kang Jin-hyun’s house and stepped out. She wanted to grasp the situation.

With a thud, as she closed the door, her suspicion turned into certainty. The two front doors, the elevator, and the stairs. They were familiar. This was indeed Hee-na’s apartment building.

She whipped her head around to check the door number of the door that had just closed.

“……Unit 1212.”

It was next door to Unit 1211, which was Hee-na’s house.

At the same time, the words she had heard from the security guard this afternoon came to mind.

‘I’ve worked here for a while too, but I’ve never seen the resident of Unit 1212.’

‘It seems they moved in a long time ago, but they’re like a ghost. I see a housekeeper coming and going periodically, so they must be living there. Well, they also do a lot of minor renovations.’

‘It will probably be difficult. The building representative went to visit a few times to get some consent forms signed, but they said the resident never showed their face.’

‘Unit 1211 was empty all this time, so I’m really glad such a nice lady moved in.’

“No way?”

Did they give Hee-na the apartment next to Kang Jin-hyun on purpose?

Thinking about it, it made sense. Since Hee-na would be responsible for Kang Jin-hyun’s overall daily life in the future, it felt natural for the guild to buy her a house near Kang Jin-hyun.

Even while understanding it rationally, Hee-na could not believe the situation and even went down to the first floor by elevator herself.

When she came down to the first floor, she was certain. She saw the familiar security office and the familiar parking lot. It was really Hee-na’s apartment building.

Hee-na went back up to the 12th floor and pressed the buttons of the door lock on Unit 1211, which was presumed to be her house.

*Beep.*

A green light appeared on the door lock, indicating the door was open.

“Heh……”

Hee-na held the door handle for a long time until the beep-beep-beep sound echoed because the front door wasn’t closing. She was at a loss as to how to understand this situation.

As soon as the door of ‘Home Sweet Home’ opened, Hee-won, who was half-reclining on the sofa, sat up. He seemed to have been waiting for Hee-na.

“You’re here? You’re a bit late. By the way, today Baduki…”

Hee-na cut Hee-won off.

“Oppa.”

“Huh? Why?”

Seeing his sister’s serious mood, Hee-won became serious as well.

“Is something wrong? What, did the previous landlord say there is no way he can return our deposit?”

He assumed the worst possible situation he could think of.

“No. It is not that. That matter is going well.”

Of course, the words Hee-won brought up were terrible. However, the current situation was not of that kind.

“Then what on earth is it? Did you get fired from the company?”

Hee-won assumed the second worst situation.

“It is not that either.”

Hee-na shook her head.

“Then why on earth are you so serious? Tell me quickly.”

“……Well.”

“Well?”

Hee-na moistened her dry lips and swallowed hard.

“Our house is next door to Hunter Kang Jin-hyun’s.”

“Hunter Kang Jin-hyun? That S-class? Of the Blue Dragon Guild?”

He also asked back in surprise.

“Yes. I just went to Hunter Kang Jin-hyun’s house, and it is right next to ours.”

At Hee-na’s words, Hee-won jumped up from his seat. He looked like someone whose butt was on fire.

“What? Why did you go to that man’s house?”

“No wonder. I thought the layout of the house was similar. Of course it was similar since it is the same apartment building!”

“Hee-na? You did not go alone, did you? You went with that… Hunter Woo, right?”

“I knew our apartment building had good security, but I did not know it was secure enough for an S-class hunter to live here. No wonder the house price was so high!”

“Sister? Will you answer me? Why would a grown woman have any reason to go to a grown man’s house? And after drinking at that!”

“Ugh, to think he’s right next door. What should I do?”

The siblings spoke to the empty air, each saying their own thing.

Lack of communication. A chronic disease of modern society.

Osaek-i, who crawled out slowly, waved his antennae around. It was as if he was clicking his tongue.

Baduki, who followed behind Osaek-i, tilted its flower bud as if it did not know what the problem was, and ran around the living room in circles.

The situation only calmed down after Baduki, who was running around the living room, stretched out flat.

With a sigh, Hee-won picked up Baduki and placed it on its dedicated pot. At that, Baduki buried its roots in the pot’s soil and rested its chin.

“Anyway, Hee-na. Let’s sit down and talk.”

Hee-won sat on a dining chair, holding Baduki’s pot in his arms.

Hee-na, who had regained her senses after watching Baduki’s chaotic behavior, also pulled out a chair and sat down with Osaek-i on her lap.

#Let’s_communicate_together☆

Osaek-i urged proper communication between the siblings in tiny detail. She thought about it every time, but it was truly a snail that knew all sorts of things.

“Who should speak first?”

The siblings decided on their turn.

“You ask first, Oppa.”

Hee-na also had a mountain of things she wanted to say, but she yielded the turn first to her brother, who seemed to have an immense number of questions.

Otherwise, it looked as though Hee-won would wither and die from anxiety.

“First, who did you go to Hunter Kang Jin-hyun’s house with?”

“I went alone.”

“Y-you went alone……?”

Hee-won’s voice trembled slightly. His pupils also seemed to tremble.

“Where did Hunter Woo, who said she would eat with you, go, and why only you…? No, nothing happened there, right?”

“Ah.”

Only then did Hee-na realize what her brother was worried about.

Hee-won was worried that ‘something’ might have happened between a man and a woman. To be precise, something like sexual exploitation by power.

It was nonsense.

Hee-na quickly waved her hands.

“Oppa. Nothing of what you are worried about happened. Does Jin-hyun look like that kind of person to you?”

“……What? When did Hunter Kang Jin-hyun change to Jin-hyun?”

Although Hee-won seemed to have gotten hooked on a different part.

“No, Oppa. Calm down. We already started using that title in the dungeon. It is not like that. We are not in that kind of relationship in the first place.”

In Hee-na’s opinion, for ‘such’ a thing to happen between him and her, they would have to die and be reborn about five times.

Hee-na did not think she was lacking, but she at least knew that the world she lived in was different from Kang Jin-hyun’s. This was akin to a dog marrying a bird.

Above all, Hee-na had no desire to get entangled in the world of S-class hunters. Although she was already entangled, she refused to lose any more of her normalcy.

‘I’m going to live happily with Oppa, Osaek-i, and Baduki.’

Hee-na resolved once again as she looked at her family gathered around the dining table.

“Hey, you never know what will happen in the future. Hunter Kang Jin-hyun seems to have a good character, but I am against it. He is too famous and an S-class hunter. His work is dangerous.”

Far from just beating around the bush, Hee-won was speaking as if it were someone else’s business. He seemed to have already forgotten that he himself had worked as a hunter with the status of a D-class farmer.

“It is really not.”

When she vehemently denied it while waving her hands, Hee-won fell silent with a suspicious expression.

“Since you say nothing happened anyway…… Alright for now.”

Through long experience, he knew very well that if he questioned her further, the only thing he would receive was a glare from Hee-na.

Moreover, no matter how close they were as siblings, private life was private life. It was awkward to say more when his sister said nothing had happened.

“Then what is it that you want to say? That Hunter Kang Jin-hyun lives next door?”

At her brother’s question, Hee-na let out a deep sigh. Her worries suddenly deepened.

“Yes. That is the problem. What should I do?”

“What is the problem? You just became neighbors. ……Surely it is not because that guy has designs on you or something?”

Hee-na easily ignored the nonsense. Instead, she poured out her worries all at once.

“An S-class hunter is living next door. I saw today that his hearing is so good he can even overhear conversations inside a closed room. And we are going to live in this house, not the new apartment. What if Jin-hyun notices that no sound whatsoever is coming from next door?”

The Homemaker of the Dungeon