Chapter 73 – Setting Off

“Are you really going out?”

The one who burst out before Badugi was her brother, Hee-won. With a worried look, Hee-won tried to dissuade Hee-na several times.

But he failed to change the mind of his sister, who had made up her mind.

“I can’t just sit still. Strike while the iron is hot, so now that I’ve received the robe, I should head out immediately.”

“Why are you acting so brave, which is so unlike you…!”

“Then how can I sit still when they say Osaek-i might disappear forever? Don’t worry too much. It will be safer than you think, Oppa. You know I’m a coward, right? If I feel anything strange, I’ll run away immediately.”

Hee-na patted her chest, telling him to trust her coward radar.

Still, Hee-won, unable to put his mind at ease, blamed the system several times, saying, ‘I’d rather go myself; why did it give her this kind of quest?’

Worries are like Mount Tai.

Safety first, awake or asleep.

Osaek-i, also worried about Hee-na, crawled around the floor, babbling about this and that concern.

When the worries of those around them become excessive, the person facing the situation tends to become bold. Hee-na’s courage, which had been the size of a grain of rice, grew to the size of a soybean.

“I told you not to worry. I’m going out with two A-grade items, so could anything really happen?”

Master Lee Hee-na, who had become the incarnation of bravery the size of a soybean, draped the A-grade Robe of Stealth over herself and led Badugi.

“I can still see you even when you’re wearing the robe. Is there something wrong with that robe?”

“Do you think this is an invisibility cloak? You already know I’m here, so you can still see me. To someone who doesn’t know the situation, I would instantly be unrecognized.”

Hee-na pretended to know, retorting sharply. Having a coffee time with Kang Jin-hyun earlier was quite helpful.

He had told her about the Robe of Stealth, and thanks to that, Hee-na developed a great deal of trust in this A-grade item.

“Let’s go, Badugi!”

Hee-na opened the door, leaving the enlarged Badugi behind her back.

B .

Wait, let’s translate this line! Ah, my list had:

` B . -> The place she chose for the first walk was none other than the B-grade Giant Mushroom dungeon she fell into last time.`

I copied the Korean text by mistake? Let’s check my input content!

Ah! In the scratch block of my thought, I translated it:

` B . -> The place she chose for the first walk was none other than the B-grade Giant Mushroom dungeon she fell into last time.`

But in the final CodeContent, did I write the English version?

Ah, let’s make sure I write the English translation.

Let’s see:

“Let’s go, Badugi!”

Hee-na opened the door, leaving the enlarged Badugi behind her back.

The place she chose for the first walk was none other than the B-grade Giant Mushroom dungeon she fell into last time.

“It’s empty?”

Standing at the front door, Hee-won briefly described the surrounding scenery.

That was right. The dungeon was very desolate. Not a single blade of grass, no, not even a single mushroom could be found.

“It’s a dungeon where the boss monster was defeated not long ago. Since it’s still in a deactivated state, there won’t be any monsters.”

Even in a deactivated dungeon, small-fry monsters usually remain, but in the case of this dungeon, there was no such worry.

This was because the surrounding mushrooms were all individuals that had branched out from the Giant Mushroom in the center of the dungeon.

In other words, it was the same as saying that when the Giant Mushroom, which was the boss monster, died, all the mushrooms in this dungeon were wiped out.

In that sense, this was the safest place among the dungeons Hee-na knew.

It was very suitable for the first walk with Badugi.

“How do you know about a place like this?”

Hee-na boasted, saying that if you work for the Blue Dragon Guild, there’s a way to know all of this.

The story of falling into this dungeon and barely surviving after nearly dying was an absolute secret from Hee-won.

“Is that so? If you only choose such places to go for walks, I’ll be much more relieved.”

Hee-won swept his hand over his chest with an expression that looked much more relaxed.

“Yeah. Don’t worry too much. I’ll just choose suitable places to go. Dungeons can’t possibly be entirely dangerous, right?”

Hee-na made a groundless boast.

She felt that speaking like this would reassure Hee-won and make herself feel at ease too.

“I’ll be back, then. Oppa, wait here with Osaek-i, or do some house cleaning.”

Waving her hand indifferently, Hee-na left the ‘Home Sweet Home’ safe zone together with Badugi.

When she crossed the line of the safe zone marked in red, a tingling tension ran through her body, but she pretended to be as calm as possible, thinking of her brother who would be watching from behind.

‘There’s nothing here. Even if something appears, I can defeat it all with my Mold Exterminator Liquid.’

The memory of the Giant Mushroom melting away in Hee-na’s Mold Exterminator Liquid gave her confidence.

On top of that, Badugi’s physical stats, which had improved significantly, were reassuring. It seemed that he could defeat any average medium-sized monster with those large leaves and stems.

Of course, in Hee-won’s eyes, he was still a small and pretty baby plant that had only grown 25%… but judged objectively, that was the case.

“Let’s go, Badugi.”

Hee-na circled around the safe zone together with Badugi.

Since the only outside world Badugi knew was the field Hee-won cultivated, his curiosity was immense. This was true even though the first walking spot was a desolate plain with nothing.

Badugi placed his bud on the ground and sniffed, acting as if he was smelling it. He also extended his roots long and dug holes into the soft earth.

Then he went inside and rolled his body… no, his stem.

After circling the outside of the safe zone four or five times like that, the first quest completion window popped up.

Hee-na, who was watching when the ‘Badugi Dungeon Walk 1’ item in the quest would reach 100%, muttered.

“It seems the quest isn’t completed immediately just by going out for a short while.”

Her guess was that she had to spend more than a certain distance or a certain amount of time outside the safe zone.

“Sigh. It will be really hard to fill it up to 100% if we enter a difficult dungeon.”

They say well begun is half done, but resolving the remaining half made her feel just as hopeless.

“Let’s go back now, Badugi.”

Hee-na gestured to Badugi, who was dancing and running around the dungeon in excitement.

Badugi circled around Hee-na with reluctant movements, as if he found it hard to break away from the sweet taste of his first walk.

It seemed as if he was begging to play a little longer.

“I’m stopping here for today.”

When she declared firmly, Badugi’s lively leaves wilted. Even though his size had grown tenfold, he still had baby-like traits.

“We can just go out again next time. Your father is waiting for you anxiously over there, so are you not going to enter?”

When she pointed at Hee-won, who was watching Hee-na and Badugi from the front door, Badugi shook his flower bud left and right.

Although Hee-won had raised him indulgently, a clear attachment relationship seemed to have formed.

“Let’s go, then.”

She brought Badugi and stepped inside the safe zone of ‘Home Sweet Home’.

Hee-won and Osaek-i rushed over.

“You aren’t hurt anywhere, right?”

Homeowner, limbs intact?

Both of them competed to ask about Hee-na’s well-being without saying who was first.

Despite clearly witnessing with their own eyes that nothing had happened in the wide-open wilderness.

“I’m fine. I told you this place is really safe.”

It was when Hee-na was reassuring the two by showing off her healthy body, uninjured by even a single hair.

Suddenly, Badugi began to dance and run around inside the ‘Home Sweet Home’ safe zone.

“Badugi?”

Rather than being exhausted after going for a walk, he was running around jumping with excitement, which was flabbergasting.

If he were small like before, she would have grabbed him and calmed him down, but now his size was larger than a person’s, so she couldn’t even do that.

Badugi ran around the vicinity twenty times more distractingly than before.

“Oh, I’m dizzy.”

It was around the time Hee-na, unable to watch any longer, held her dizzy head.

Gold dust began to fall in heaps from Badugi’s dancing body.

The gold dust sparkled, accumulating like snow on the dungeon soil. And soon, it melted and was absorbed into the ground.

“Oh?”

Hee-na opened her eyes wide and blinked at that mysterious sight. It was a scene that was not entirely unfamiliar.

Hee-na had already seen such a sight once before. This had also happened when Badugi was first born.

The memory was clearer because, upon hearing that the gold dust Badugi shook off fertilized the land, she had once thought that the gold dust might actually be something like poop dust.

“Oppa, what is this? Explain it quickly.”

Hee-na nudged Hee-won’s side and begged him to explain the situation.

Hee-won belatedly read the system description window.

“It says Badugi is a pet plant that fertilizes the energy of the soil.”

“I knew that from seeing it before. But he hasn’t done this even once since the first day I saw him. Why is he suddenly doing this now?”

“Apparently, it’s because he absorbed the energy of the dungeon while walking. He is emitting the absorbed energy. They say that once he gets used to walking, he won’t emit the energy immediately like this, but will be able to hold it in and unleash his power at a desired time. If the field receives Badugi’s energy, the soil quality level of the field will rise.”

In other words, if Badugi got a bit more used to controlling his power, it meant he could play the role of a living compost spreader.

Meanwhile, Hee-won let out a small sigh as if he had realized something while reading the explanation window.

“Hmm… So the reason the crops couldn’t grow smoothly all this time was because the dungeon soil was not fertile enough. With Badugi’s help, we’ll be able to grow crops much better.”

Badugi, important plant! Just like me.

Osaek-i took credit from the side.

Because it seemed to be a similar principle to how Hee-na’s ‘Home Sweet Home’ was maintained properly due to Osaek-i.

It was clear that without Badugi, Hee-won would not be able to raise the soil quality and thus fail to farm properly.

The Homemaker of the Dungeon