The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! - Chapter 105

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The Magic Hunter Girl Decorates a Dungeon! Episode 105
Lee Ji’s eyes went wide.
“Running away from home? ……Where’s your luggage?”
If you were running away, you’d wrap your belongings in a large cloth bundle, the way characters in fairy tales did. But Ha-rin’s hands were empty.
Ha-rin shook her head.
“Hmph. I don’t need anything. I won’t brush my teeth or wash my face, I’ll sleep in these same clothes, and I’ll get all grimy. I’m not listening to Mom!”
‘That actually sounds kind of fun!’
But Lee Ji’s sense of reason whispered belated caution.
Running away was supposed to be a last resort.
‘If my sister ran away…….’
“Did Mom refuse to listen to you?”
“She says asking Mom to play is something only kindergarteners do…….”
“…….”
“Remember how you once said your Geum Grandmother could carry someone who wouldn’t get out of the way? What do you think she’d have done in a situation like this?”
“……Carry Mom somewhere to play?”
“Would that even work?”
“Grandmother’s a Hunter. She’s really strong. ……But. Even so, I don’t think she’d force someone to play.”
Playing with someone who doesn’t want to play isn’t any fun anyway.
Ha-rin nodded, her expression darkening.
“Right? But if she’s a Hunter, she’s a strong person, so lots of people probably want to be around her. I’m jealous of that.”
Ha-rin closed the countless tabs about Moon Blet open on her phone, murmuring to herself.
“Mom doesn’t seem interested in learning from me.”
“…….”
“Go ahead and play. The teacher’s going to be here soon.”
“Oh, okay.”
Lee Ji hurriedly played through the beginner piano method book. Ten times over. Ha-rin backseat-drove the whole while from beside her.
Outside the door, the Piano Academy Teacher chuckled—”Ha-rin’s got a lot going on, huh?”—and passed by, but the children focused on the piano didn’t notice.
As the lesson was ending, Lee Ji asked.
“Sister. Are you going home now?”
“Then it wouldn’t be running away. I can’t go home.”
“How long?”
“I don’t know. Maybe a really long time.”
Lee Ji was aghast. Running away turned out to be way more serious than she’d thought!
Ha-rin spoke as she climbed the stairs.
“I’ll be in Room 403, so don’t tell anyone…… Why are you following me?”
“If you’re alone in there, you’ll get bored.”
“……I have my phone.”
“If you just look at your phone, your eyes will get worse. Besides, the person who made you run away is me. Let’s play together.”
“Hmph, why would I run away because of you? I left on my own!”
“But……. Still, still.”
Even Lee Ji, the smartest in second grade, Class 3, couldn’t find the right words in the face of such a delicate topic as her senior’s running away.
Watching Lee Ji desperately search for something to say, Ha-rin finally sighed and waved her hand.
“Come up, then.”
“Okay!”
Lee Ji pattered up the stairs.
In Room 403, Ha-rin—who claimed she hadn’t brought anything—handed her a snack.
“Have this. It’s Mozart Chocolate.”
“Wow! Thanks!”
Contrary to her expectation that it would be chocolate shaped like Mozart’s face, the contents were just round, but it tasted good anyway. Ha-rin laughed softly at the sight of Lee Ji staring intently at the wrapper.
“You really liked it? I’ll bring you more next time.”
“Yeah! Should I bring you something like Maisitzer?”
“Never mind. ……How long are you staying here?”
“Oh, just a bit.”
Hyun-ji wasn’t picking her up today, but if she came home late and the neighbors mentioned it, her sister might worry.
Lee Ji sent a message to Hyun-ji on Cocoa Talk.
A moment later.
“Sister. Our sister wants to Face Talk. Can you show her?”
“Why me?”
“I told her I was playing with the Academy friend, and she asked to see you. She said seeing your face would put her at ease.”
“……Fine. Whatever.”
On the other side of the camera, Hyun-ji recognized the unexpected person and her eyes widened.
Ha-rin spoke smoothly.
“Hello. I’m Ha-rin Kim, currently in third grade at Roael Elementary School. I’m a friend Lee Ji knows from the Academy.”
[Oh, that’s the friend I saw in front of the Academy before. Are you playing with Lee Ji today?]
“Yes! We decided to play while practicing piano together. I’ll send her home before it gets too late.”
[Ah, um……. Thank you.]
“See you again later!”
Ha-rin smiled brightly and waved her hand, and Lee Ji awkwardly returned the parting gesture. The call ended shortly after.
“Ha-rin, you’re really good at talking.”
“I have to be. I’ll need to speak well when I give my first-place acceptance speech later.”
“First place? Piano competition?”
Ha-rin hesitated slightly before lowering her voice.
“……This is a secret, but I’m going to audition for an idol agency later.”
“Wow! Like becoming Moon Blet?”
“Yeah. Since I’ve studied piano, I’ll have lots of personal content to post on NeuTube!”
“That’s so cool!”
The fluffy, wonderful conversation continued. The walls around Ha-rin’s heart—which had been thin and hard like a stray kitten’s—softened considerably.
……Or so Lee Ji believed, until late afternoon shattered that illusion.
Ha-rin glanced at her watch and said.
“You should go now. Before it gets much later.”
“What? What about you?”
“I’m running away. I have to stay here.”
“…….”
Outside, it was growing dim, and she was going to hold out in this creepy place alone?
“By yourself, sister?”
“I’m ten, you know. I can take care of myself.”
“…….”
For Lee Ji, who had yet to reach ten, it was logic she couldn’t refute.
Ha-rin opened her eyes sharp and triangular, and before Ha-rin could get angry, Lee Ji finally stood up.
“I’m going. If you get lonely…… let me know.”
“Hmph, that won’t happen.”
Sister walked Lee Ji all the way to the back door of Room 403, then turned back.
Lee Ji pretended to go down the stairs noisily, exaggerating her footsteps—
Then crept back inside.
‘If I leave her alone, she might cry!’
Crying was sad enough, but crying alone was even sadder.
Fortunately, the back door was unlocked. Ha-rin had entered with the key to prevent the accident of getting locked inside.
‘Where is she?’
Not in the Prayer Room, not in the Sermon Hall. She must be in the Meditation Room or the Break Room.
‘If I go further, I might get caught.’
Fortunately, the Sermon Hall was packed with chairs and podiums. A perfect hiding place. And she even had the perfect item for it.
‘Moth camouflage!’
Lee Ji draped the Moth Cloak around herself and pressed her ear to the wall. If Ha-rin cried, she could rush right to her.
Soon, a sound rang out that didn’t belong in the empty pseudo-office.
It was music.
An Electronic Organ left behind in the Meditation Room began producing the Czerny Op. 30 Etudes beneath Ha-rin’s fingertips.
Lee Ji didn’t know the exact names of the instrument or the piece—
But she caught the one thing that mattered most.
‘That’s the song I hear a lot at the Academy…… but it sounds more lively now.’
Even without anyone listening together or a teacher praising her.
Ha-rin seemed to be playing with more joy than she did at the Academy.
‘I want to hear it closer!’
One piece ended. Lee Ji clapped silently in her mind. Clap, clap, clap.
‘Next piece!’
But before the next piece could begin.
A voice in the hallway stopped Ha-rin’s playing.
“Huh? Didn’t you hear music somewhere?”
“It’s probably the Piano Academy downstairs. Take your time looking around.”
“Yes, thank you—”
‘Who are they?’
She recognized the voice of the person who mentioned the Piano Academy. It was the building’s dignified Security Grandfather.
But someone entering the pseudo-office…….
“Let’s go in—”
“Wow. This place looks haunted.”
A young man with a flippant voice. Alongside him, a woman who seemed a bit older.
Lee Ji quickly rushed behind the podium and pulled the Moth Cloak tighter around herself.
The two walked down the hallway, murmuring.
“That Young Master really plans to win the bid on this place?”
“He’s trying everything to change his image. He ruined the factory he got last time right away, remember?”
The Young Employee chuckled.
“You mean he got beaten by the righteous warrior and had to shut down? That’s kind of pathetic.”
“What’s pathetic about a GEG Group silver-spooner. ……The Prayer Room is empty.”
They walked past without even entering the Prayer Room, their footsteps echoing.
Next was the Meditation Room. Where Lee Ji was hiding.
The formally dressed man and woman looked at the sea of chairs and sighed.
“This is going to be a hassle to clear out. Look into demolition companies.”
“But we’re not confirmed to win the bid yet, are we?”
“Who would bid on a Dungeon without a Magic Stone? Usually it just gets Auction Cancellation and torn down—this one just happened to catch the Young Master’s eye.”
“So we’re supposed to interpret the fumbling of someone clueless about the industry…….”
“Interpreting is the best-case scenario. Hey, check inside and see if there’s anything.”
“What would be in here?”
Grumbling as he went, the Young Employee made his way past the sea of chairs, approaching the podium.
‘Uh!’
Lee Ji curled herself smaller—
And the man definitely caught sight of the massive moth’s existence behind the podium. His pupils trembled roughly in midair.
“…….”
“What is it? Find something?”

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