The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! - Chapter 109

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The Magic Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! Episode 109
Familiar words she’d been holding back in her mouth crackled and burned.
Kim Ha-rin. Don’t act like a child.
If there’s something you want, just say it honestly.
Even now, you’re hoping I’ll hold on to you, aren’t you?
……But what she needed right now wasn’t that kind of logic.
Seon-ah found herself turning the question back on herself.
If the child wanted her to stop—
“……Don’t go!”
—then wasn’t it just a matter of holding on? Why couldn’t she do that?
Seon-ah stepped in front of Ha-rin and cried out to the Magical Girl.
“Ha-rin, I won’t let her go. You can’t take her!”
“If you come with me, your sister can become a happy pianist right away.”
“That’s right!”
“Don’t you want your sister to become a pianist?”
“No, I do! I really do! But…… this. This isn’t…… it’s not enough.”
Ah, laughter spilled out of her. It was both mockery of herself and the laughter of clear-eyed realization.
To understand this at the very moment she’d nearly lost her child.
Ha-rin didn’t need only the ending where she became a pianist.
“My daughter loves blueberry cheesecake. We share one every month. You don’t have things like that here, do you?”
“…….”
“This June, we promised we’d definitely go to a swimming pool with a wave pool. Actually, I promised her that last year too…… but I forgot. I even bought a life jacket.”
“Mother…….”
“Right. Let’s go see the baby ducks by Hongje Stream. You like baby birds, don’t you? Every spring, the duck families raise their young there.”
Rather than a perfect distant future born of imagination.
Handful upon handful of happiness, far closer and far more concrete.
She gathered them one by one, wrapped them in beautiful words, and offered them.
And at last, Seon-ah turned her back to the Magical Girl and looked down at her daughter to say:
“See. I need Kim Ha-rin—the one who loves chocolate and moonlight. Won’t you stay by my side?”
“Mom, I…….”
“……I’m sorry.”
“Mooommmm!”
Ha-rin reached out her hand. The child who wrapped Seon-ah’s heart completely, whether she was three kilograms or thirty kilograms now.
Her daughter’s voice arrived like a declaration.
“I want to go with Mom!”
“……Yes.”
Seon-ah spoke the words she needed most in that moment.
“Let’s go do all the fun things together.”
And from somewhere, with the chorus of ‘Magical Logical’—
came the Magical Girl’s voice.
“All of this is a dream. But you will go into a sleep, holding these words in your heart…….”
Whoosh, whoosh…….
With the sound of waves, Seon-ah’s mind—cradling her daughter—slowly grew hazy.

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“Lee Ji, your expression has gotten brighter lately. Did something good happen?”
A few days later, as they left the apartment complex together, Geum-hui asked gently. Lee Ji thought for a moment before answering.
“I’ve been going to the Piano Academy. That’s probably why.”
“Really? Do you enjoy the piano?”
“Yes! There’s a teacher there—well, when she has free time, she teaches me Beyer. Her name is Kim Ha-rin, and she says she’ll be an idol later.”
“Ah. So you made a good friend and that’s why you’re so happy.”
“It’s a secret, but the academy says I’m her first friend!”
“My goodness. What did you do to become such good friends?”
“I helped my sister run away from home!”
“……Huh?”
A few days before, in Room 403.
After the Hypnosis Effect from ‘The Magical Girl Wants to Tell a Story’ wore off, Ha-rin’s mother opened her eyes in the Break Room. Beside her, Ha-rin was waiting with puffy eyes.
‘Ha-rin?’
‘Mom…… what are you doing here?’
‘……Well, yes. How should I know?’
Meanwhile, in the Meditation Room, Lee Ji was wearing the Moth Cloak, waiting anxiously for the end of the runaway incident.
‘If the lady contradicts herself by saying dreams and reality are different after all!’
Then Ha-rin would run away again.
But, fortunately—
‘I had a strange dream.’
‘What kind of dream?’
‘……Well. A dream where Mom said Ha-rin is really needed…… and asked me to play with her. Now, should we go home and do something fun together?’
‘Yeah!’
The mother and daughter left Room 403 with their hands clasped tightly together.
Though Lee Ji, left alone, had to go through some trouble tidying Room 403 back to its original state.
But compared to the satisfaction of that day, it was hardly any effort at all.
“My sister was going to run away because she fought with Mom, but I got them to talk it out.”
“Oh my, our Lee Ji did something big. What kind of trick did you pull?”
She could tell more if she really wanted to, but—
Lee Ji had decided to keep quiet about the F-rank Dungeon.
‘If I tell her, she’ll get depressed.’
To think she’d have to watch that peaceful landscape fall into the hands of villains…….
Maybe for the entire time she goes to the Piano Academy!
“Lee Ji. Why do you suddenly look like you’ve seen a cockroach?”
“Oh, it’s nothing!”
“Right. Then go into the dungeon and call me.”
“You don’t want to come in with a young body?”
“Joints are consumables. If I can move using someone else’s body, then I should use it.”
“I see, yes!”
Today was the day everyone gathered at the Alice Dungeon.
For some reason, Si-heon had requested assembly through Grimoire.
For the first time in a long while, Grimoire, Si-heon, and Geum-hui were all in one place.
Si-heon said something out of the blue.
“Elder. Would you consider creating a guild with me? I think we need to bid on that F-rank Dungeon.”
“Huh? Where did that idea come from all of a sudden?”
“I’ve obtained information that a certain company has recently been coveting that dungeon. And for quite improper purposes at that.”
‘Oh! That’s the same story I heard last time!’
So Jin Si-heon, though he didn’t say it directly, really did want to stop the villains’ schemes!
Geum-hui’s brow furrowed as if to say why is he suddenly like this, but—
when Lee Ji nodded in agreement, she didn’t glare at Si-heon any further.
“What kind of purpose?”
“It appears they intend to create an underground gambling arena inside. Of course, since it’s illegal, even with considerable tricks, the success rate would be fifty-fifty.”
“……Those kinds of bastards always exist. The ones who can’t feel satisfied unless they’re betting money on other people’s fights. Some people only get honor for winning and injuries for losing.”
Geum-hui looked down with a bitter expression, about to glance at her arm……, then realized that what was there was a front leg, not a scarred arm from her youth, and awkwardly lifted her head.
“It’s not like they’re going to rampage directly—if I can legally interfere with those bastards who make money off other people’s blood, I should join in. How do you create a guild?”
“It’s possible to do remotely with just two or more Hunters and a certified phone. But Elder, are you really sure about this?”
“About what.”
“Information about new guilds and guild members is always disclosed in the Hunter Database. The moment you create a guild, idle people will learn of the existence of ‘Jang Geum-hui’ who has become a team with Jin Si-heon.”
“…….”
“You said there would be no particular problem since you have no official activity records, but…… don’t underestimate people’s information networks.”
“Well, that’s true.”
“It…… yes? What are you saying right now?”
“Someone came by already. What was it called again? The ATK Guild?”
“…….”
When a top-tier guild was mentioned, Si-heon’s pupils trembled violently. Geum-hui waved her front paws and spoke.
“It was nothing serious, really. What they said was…….”

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The day the ATK Guild came with expensive Yangpeng as a gift and asked if there was anything she needed.
Geum-hui answered like this.
‘A decent hair dryer, maybe? One where both the cool and warm air come out just right.’
‘Pardon? There’s nothing we can’t do, but…… well, understood.’
‘My scalp gets weak as you get older. Get two—one for me and one to introduce to someone who needs it.’
‘Understood.’
From their expressions, they didn’t seem to have understood much. They’d do it because she asked, but you could plainly see they looked like they were wondering why they had to handle such trivial tasks.
‘The person I’m introducing it to even sang a song about needing one, so there.’
A few days later.
The ATK Guild men, true to their word, bought a hair dryer and called Geum-hui with solemn expressions.
‘Will you guide us to the hero?’
‘Yeah, let’s go. Apparently she just got back from seeing a medicine peddler.’
‘A medicine peddler?’
‘It’s funny. I’ll stop her from buying useless stuff, so don’t worry.’
‘That’s not what I’m worried about…….’
‘You’re not worried?’
‘No! I am, I am!’
Shortly after.
The two men, who had walked deep into winding alley passages, fell silent at the sight of the signboard before them.
‘The hero…… is here?’
‘Can’t you read? Then I’ll read it for you.’

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