Hunters Keep Coming To My House - Chapter 61

Chapter 61

“Yeon-oh? Are you okay?”

Ellie Kim looked at me with a very worried expression. Understandably, my expression now resembled that of someone who had lost almost everything in the world.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t muster the mental strength to tell her not to worry with just one word. This was because I had witnessed a very shocking fact.

‘…Why is the pest extermination rate 0%?’

Why? Seriously, why? Ellie Kim caught the cockroach, so it should be gone now, right? I had heard that originally, one or two might sneak into the belongings and secretly enter the house. If that’s the case, now that one has been killed, the cockroach should no longer exist. But why is it still 0%?

Is the cockroach breeding prolifically in the corners and damp places of this house, just as Ellie Kim said?

“Oh my god.”

It was a harsh reality that I would have to search for everything starting with ‘Oh my god,’ ‘Oh my Buddha,’ or even girl groups starting with ‘Oh my.’

‘I’m going crazy.’

Before moving, I thoroughly checked that there were no bugs. I even called the exterminator just in case and sprayed insecticide all over the house.

Given all that, the current situation was incredibly shocking.

I hadn’t neglected housekeeping during this time, and it hadn’t even been that long since I moved.

‘Could it be that one of them came with me, found the dungeon’s climate warm, and took the opportunity to breed?’

I was completely unaware of this, and…

I wanted to faint.

In a state where tears would burst out if anyone touched me, I tightly closed my eyes. I harbored the futile hope that this was all a dream and opened my eyes again, but unfortunately, nothing had changed.

“Ha.”

Haha…

Now I had to admit it.

The existence of cockroaches in my precious home.

And quite a lot of them.

‘Well, at least I know about it now. Thankfully.’

If I had found out later, the situation would have been even more dreadful.

Let’s think positively. People, you know… If you think optimistically and move positively, you can overcome any hardship or adversity.

Making a firm commitment to myself internally, I took a deep breath. Now that I faced the cold reality, I needed to quickly resolve this horrifying situation.

I looked at Cha Jae-joon and Ellie Kim with the most friendly smile possible.

First and foremost, recruit personnel… no, gather them.

“Does anyone happen to have some free time?”

Cha Jae-joon’s face, having roughly grasped the situation from my smile, gradually turned pale. Then, summoning courage, he slowly asked me a question.

“Ms. Yeon-oh, this can’t be, right? A quest to catch all the cockroaches… It can’t be that such a quest has appeared. Please tell me it’s not true.”

This is a matter of a person’s life.

Cha Jae-joon earnestly pleaded.

But unfortunately, this was the actual situation.

“……”

I wanted to vehemently deny his words, but I was already someone who had quickly passed through that process.

So, as if to express that I fully understood his feelings, I nodded my head slowly.

On the other hand, Ellie Kim, who had been observing the two scared cats’ fear of bugs, shrugged her shoulders as if wondering why they were reacting so strongly.

“Catching cockroaches is very easy! So, Yeon-oh! Jooni! Don’t worry too much. Of course… if they have completely taken over this house, it might be the right choice to… well, abandon the house.”

“Taking away hope and then snatching it back is too much, Ellie.”

“I agree, Mr. Jae-joon.”

“Oh… I didn’t say anything wrong!”

Ellie suddenly felt very unfair about becoming a very realistic person with no blood or tears. Despite explaining that it was just advice based on experience, her words went unheard by the scaredy-cats. Their ears were already filled with the worst assumption that they had to abandon the house.

No matter how good the idea was, it was the statement of a bug expert’s daughter… It was an unavoidable situation. In the end, the one who was more afraid surrendered first.

“Ms. Yeon-oh, I can’t do this. I’d rather clear an S-level dungeon alone and come back!”

“Now, everyone needs to join forces to solve this situation… It’s difficult if you act like this, Mr. Jae-joon.”

“But bugs are what I hate the most in the world.”

“You’re good at catching bug-type monsters. Think of it like that. Wouldn’t it be easier with mind control?”

Sending a look that asked if this situation was similar to the current one, Cha Jae-joon firmly pressed his lips together. His expression showed a strong determination to somehow escape from the war with these cockroaches.

Of course, I knew very well that the two of them were completely different. But in this situation, it would be better to somehow overcome the fear. Because…

“Yes. We can’t force someone who doesn’t want to… But once you step into this house, it’s not easy to leave.”

When you come in, you don’t know, but leaving is at the discretion of the owner, my guest.

Cha Jae-joon looked bewildered. It seemed like he was reconsidering whether what he heard was correct.

It took quite some time for him to return to normal. Well, it might have been difficult to completely erase doubts just because he closed his mouth.

“…What?”

“I’m a pretty ruthless person. You know, people do anything to survive, right?”

“…I trust Ms. Yeon-oh.”

“That’s impressive. I can’t even trust myself.”

Haha. Giving a wicked half-smile, I looked about halfway through my eyes. At that, Cha Jae-joon hid behind Ellie Kim. Even though she was tall, covering someone well over 180cm like Cha Jae-joon was a bit insufficient.

Moreover, Ellie Kim was watching us like a person eating popcorn while watching a tragedy.…

“Jooni! Are you a scaredy-cat? How can Yeon-oh be expected to catch all the bugs alone? She’s even giving you personal space! Jooni, you’re cowardly!”

“Ugh…”

She was properly fanning the flames in a burning house.

“Ellie’s right. There’s loyalty, Mr. Jae-joon. How can you leave me behind?”

“Ugh…”

“I’ve said it before; we’re in the same boat, right? So, this is a collective responsibility.”

“That’s too much.”

I wanted to clarify that it wasn’t me who was too much but the system, but there was no need to insist on that, so I responded with a cheerful smile.

Perplexed, Cha Jae-joon slumped down against the wall.

“Do you have a plan?”

“Well, I’m thinking of trying to make a cockroach repellent.”

I could combine the ‘upgraded’ items in the house.

So, I could probably make a super powerful extermination solution.

‘…I could have bought cockroach spray and upgraded it outside.’

In that case, the system wouldn’t have had to give me a quest. I couldn’t understand why I kept trying to figure out the system’s intentions when I wasn’t even a student taking the college entrance exam.

Oh, my fate. After sighing about my fate, I pulled out an eff-X from the multifunctional drawer.

At that moment, Ellie Kim’s eyes sparkled.

“Yeon-oh, what do you plan to do with that? The best way to deal with cockroaches is to eliminate them all at once. They have strong reproductive abilities, so it’s hard to solve the problem by just spraying them with repellent!”

“I know that too. I’ll think about the rest after spraying the repellent. It’s difficult to call in a professional service for this house… and just waiting without doing anything is like leaving a time bomb.”

“Hmm… Still, it seems better to kill them all at once….”

“…Huh?”

As I tilted my head, Ellie Kim scratched her cheek with her finger and slowly opened her mouth.

“Um… that’s what my dad said before. No matter how tenacious their vitality is, they’re still living organisms. He said it’s difficult for them to survive in an environment without air. Without air, they can’t fly, and it’s difficult for them to move. And in that state, if gravity is also gone, they won’t be able to withstand the body’s pressure and will burst and die.”

Well, these are almost impossible things to happen.

Ellie Kim joked that if it were the cockroach, even if it fell into the water, it would survive, rendering her abilities meaningless.

However, her words gave me some insight.

This place is inside a dungeon, and anything can happen.

I’ve experienced this fact several times before. So, I have a house where I can even block out sound. Can’t I create a vacuum state?

For the same reason, I probably can eliminate gravity, too. Safe zones are spaces where I can exert dominance. If I utilize my skills and items well, there’s no reason for the hypothesis I just formulated to fail.

“…Ellie, thanks. I thought of one good way.”

A way that only I can do.