Please Give Me A Kiss, Healer! Chapter 24

Life suddenly returned to Jiwoo’s lifeless eyes.

The word “newlywed house” bothered her a little, but this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

She did have the compensation payment from Blank Guild, and she would receive hazard pay once she left the dungeon.

Jiwoo considered her current finances.

‘If I add it all up, I’ve got about 10 million won to spare.’

She hadn’t made any firm decisions yet, but with the possibility of a stable job at Blank Guild, her wallet — and her heart — felt a little fuller.

Jiwoo clicked on the upgrade package.

Then she saw the price and clutched her neck, practically foaming at the mouth.

“You filthy scammers!!”

The special package that was supposedly 10% off cost…

[27,000,000,000 won]

2.7 billion.

Not 2.7 million.
Not 270 million.
Not even 27 billion.

270 billion won.

“Pff—kh… hahaha… haha—ugh!”

Jiwoo lost her mind and started laughing like a lunatic.

Then she screamed at the empty air ahead.

“With that money I could buy a real house OUTSIDE the dungeon! You rip-off artists! You crooked con-men!!”

Clenching her fists, Jiwoo punched and kicked at the air wildly.

She was exhausted — fighting monsters, cleaning up the aftermath — and now the system was mocking her on top of everything. Her anger skyrocketed.

Perhaps the system sensed her simmering rage.

[To commemorate your first visit to the shop, you will receive a free bonus gift!]

A new system window popped up in front of the fuming Jiwoo.

[Drawing a random reward…]

[Congratulations! You have obtained a rare item.]

Item
Worker Random Summon Ticket ×2
= Automatically summons suitable helpers.

“…Huh?”

What kind of nonsense was this?

Summon ticket? Random workers?

Jiwoo blinked slowly.

It didn’t take long for her questions to be answered.

She heard strange noises from the hut behind her.

— Frrr. Stay still. If Juu finds out about this, it’ll all be your fault!

“Hey, get your facts straight! This all happened because you egged me on!”

— How is this MY fault? I didn’t know I’d end up in Juu’s house either!!

“Keep your voice down, idiot! She’ll hear us!”

…Wait. This voice sounded familiar.

Carefully, Jiwoo approached the entrance of the hut.

Then she yanked the cloth covering the doorway aside.

Inside the hut—

“N-noona?”

—should’ve been in a hospital bed right now, receiving treatment, her younger brother, Do Heeseong.

And beside him—

— Jiu! Jiu! I didn’t leave to leave! I didn’t mean to come here!!

The insane penguin, Dongsik, whom she had sealed inside a bag.

Jiwoo needed several long moments to process what she was seeing.

‘This must be a dream. Hahaha… yeah. Obviously a dream.’

She pulled on her cheeks, twisted her nose, even bent her finger backward.

…It hurt. A lot.

The sharp pain brought her crashing back to reality—tears welling up in her eyes.

Jiwoo grabbed the back of her neck and yelled.

“Why—why—why are you two here!!”

Dongsik was one thing… but Heeseong? How did a non-hunter even get inside a dungeon?!

But shock didn’t last long.

Jiwoo immediately swept over Heeseong with frantic worry.

“Do Heeseong! Are you okay? Does anything hurt? Your heart?!”

Heeseong was an ordinary civilian.

Because of his mysterious dungeon-related illness, his heart didn’t function properly — he wasn’t supposed to leave the hospital.

While Jiwoo was hurriedly checking him over, Heeseong suddenly dropped a bomb.

Grinning, he grabbed her arm.

“Noona, I awakened. Wait, no— I might awaken any minute!”

“What? What are you talking about?”

“So here’s what happened…”

Heeseong began calmly explaining everything he’d been through.

 

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It happened while Jiwoo was rolling around for her life inside an A-rank dungeon.

Left alone in the hospital, Heeseong tossed and turned in bed.

“Seriously, my sister is too much. What’s so wrong about morning dramas? Dramas transcend gender, age, and national borders!”

Before leaving the hospital, Jiwoo had taken every battery out of the remote control.

It was a merciless crackdown on her morning drama, “Why Did the Madam Give Cake to the Secretary?”

“Why did she have to do it at the most important moment? I need to see the DNA test results…”

Whose daughter was the protagonist, Haena?

The daughter of the villainous executive controlling the corporation?

Or the real daughter of the kind, honest businessman?

At the decisive moment when the truth was about to be revealed, Heeseong had his remote control privileges snatched away.

Of course, it was the 21st century. He could’ve watched it on his phone, but he didn’t feel like it.

Morning dramas deserved to be watched on a big TV.

“Fine, whatever. I’ll just check in on Kangwoo-nim.”

Ever since he saw an old video of high schooler Kangwoo saving someone, Heeseong had become a fan.

As he tapped his phone, a close-up of Kangwoo staring blankly into the camera appeared as his background.

A photo he had just downloaded from the internet fan café ‘SeSaMo’.

“Kangwoo-nim, aren’t you living life too perfectly alone? If you’re this cool and handsome and amazing all by yourself, how am I supposed to survive?”

Heeseong, now a passionate member of the fan café, smacked his mattress in despair.

Maybe Kangwoo’s beauty in the photo was too blinding. Or maybe he got too excited while admiring him.

Because the strength in his hand suddenly gave out.

The phone slipped— and its corner dropped straight toward his face.

Thunk.

“AAAAAGH!! THAT HURTS LIKE HELL!”

Nosebleed—am I getting a nosebleed?!

He rubbed under his nose, but thankfully there was no blood. Just tears.

“Ugh, I seriously need a phone stand or something.”

He rubbed his poor, abused nose and cheekbones.

His phone—with its cute little case—had rolled all the way under the bed.

After complaining for a while, Heeseong finally reached out toward the fallen phone.

It had rolled deep under the bed—just out of reach.

“Just… a little… more…”

He was just about to touch the phone when—

Brrr. Brrr.

—Jiiuuu, let me out of heeereee.

“Huh? Where’s that voice coming from?”

His eyes snapped to the bag under the bed.

He forgot all about the phone and grabbed the bag.

The voice inside became clearer.

—Jiuuu? Jiuuu, is that you? Hurry and open this thing already!!

“‘Jiiu’? What’s a ‘Jiu’?”

Was it talking about his sister?

Do Jiwoo… Do… Jiu…? Something like that?

Heeseong unzipped the bag.

Inside was a goofy-looking penguin plushie.

Like a scene from a horror movie, the plushie’s beak started moving on its own.

—Nyananyak? Who are youuu? Where’s Jiu?

“W-wait. This is what’s been talking?!”

Heeseong lifted the penguin plushie out of the bag.

And then—

POOF!

Penguin Dongsik burst out of its plush form and returned to its original size.

In the chaos, while Heeseong still had his hands on it, a system window popped up in front of him.

System

You rescued a lost pet.
Awakening mission activated!
Complete the mission to awaken into the hidden class <Butler>.

“…Butler? What kind of BS is that?”

So… since it says ‘awaken,’ did I just become an awakener?

Awakeners were supposed to be hard to become… wasn’t this way too easy?

“Am I supposed to be happy about this right now?”

As he stood there dumbfounded, another alert appeared.

[Error: You do not have a house required for awakening. Mission cannot proceed.]