The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! - Chapter 12

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Magic Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! Episode 12
‘Payment for helping?’
A truth from fairy tales came to mind.
When you help an injured creature, you receive a reward.
But that wasn’t what Ijee wanted to say.
“Dragon, won’t you really have a tea party with me?”
“What?”
“Drink black tea with me. There are cookies too!”
…….
“They’ll be really delicious, I promise?”
The last thing Dragon had eaten was a Mana Stone.
She wanted to cover that horrible memory with something joyful.
March Hare shouted abruptly.
“Who do you think you are, inviting people to tea parties? I never invited you, or you, either!”
Even as he protested, March Hare was lashing chairs together—making a seat sturdy enough to hold Dragon.
Dragon fell silent for a moment, then answered in a softer tone than before.
“Child, your offer is kind, but all I wish to taste now is the wind of the open sky.”
“Dragon……I understand.”
“Is there truly nothing else you desire?”
“No. That’s not why I did this.”
What she’d wanted right away, she’d already achieved.
Saving her animal friend from suffering.
“……Then you’re right. Just as you respected me, I must respect you.”
Dragon tilted his head, then plucked a Scale from his own body with his mouth and offered it.
“Should we meet again someday, show me this. Then I shall repay you properly.”
The moment Ijee accepted it without thinking, Dragon beat his wings and took flight.
The shadow that swept across the sky shrank rapidly, growing fainter…….
And disappeared entirely.
…….
Only the hard black Scale remained in her hand.
Could they really meet again someday?
Words from the official she’d heard before came back to her.
‘With the Core destroyed, the bandaged monsters will vanish forever!’
Surely the Black Rotten Dragon, a resident of the broken Dungeon, would too…….
Just before sadness could take hold, someone spoke from behind her.
“Little miss! Will you take milk in your black tea?”
It was March Hare.
Hatter spoke up as well.
“That ribbon in your hair is adorable! How about you buy a hat to match it?”
Dormouse pointed to an empty chair. An invitation to sit.
[Ho! So those cantankerous fellows have decided to accept you.]
Grimoire spoke with genuine amazement.
Ijee smiled with joy, but shook her head.
“I’ll be back in a moment.”
“Ha! Who said we’d wait for you? All that’s waiting in your seat is a teacup with a floral pattern—a special sky-blue one!”
“Thank you! I’ll be right back!”
She had to return before the tea got cold.
Grimoire giggled and chased after Ijee.
[So the Mana Stone dregs……or rather, you’re going back to that friendless hunter? Did you find a way to save him?]
“I’m going to check now. Skill Window!”
The day she cleared her first Dungeon.
Even when she received only a 0.01% Attribute boost as a reward, a Skill had appeared.
Now, after clearing “Protect the Tea Party from the Black Rotten Dragon’s Attack,” she’d received a 10% Attribute enhancement as a reward.
Surely a better Skill had appeared!
Seeing the Skill Window open, Grimoire sighed.
[Don’t tell me……you’re thinking you might obtain a Skill to help him as a clear reward?]
“Yes.”
[Aha! You charged ahead so confidently I thought you had some grand plan! Turns out you’ve just rolled the dice!]
Even faced with something close to mockery, Ijee didn’t waver.
“A foolish plan beats no plan at all.”
[……That’s quite wise. Did they teach you that in school?]
“It’s just common sense. You learn it by living.”
[Are you really nine years old?]
“I’ve lived nine whole years—no wait, let me focus!”
…….
Grimoire’s pages fluttered up and down. His expression seemed almost like pouting lips.
Ijee ignored him and peered into the Skill Window.
A welcome message appeared.
[Magic Girl Daisy, Transform! (B)]
Additional effects for this Skill have been unlocked!
During and after transformation, the Magic Girl is affected by the new Skill’s effects!
Her heart began to race—thump-thump.
So what was this new Skill……?
[Gardener’s Song (F)]
: The ‘Magic Girl’ can decorate her Territory in a manner befitting a Magic Girl.
: Remaining decoration points: 2/2
F Rank? Really?
She swallowed her disappointment and cried out anyway.
“Gardener’s Song!”
A message appeared.
Select a target in your surroundings to decorate
Objects near where Ijee’s gaze fell were wrapped in sky-blue light.
‘I think I’ve seen something like this in a garden-decorating game!’
She must be choosing deco items.
Excited, Ijee swept her eyes across the surroundings. There was plenty that was pretty nearby.
Deep red tulips, a caterpillar as thick as a forearm, spotted mushrooms…….
‘Ugh, I hate mushrooms!’
Selection cancelled
Grimoire sighed.
[What a trivial Skill.]
“It’s not trivial! If a Magic Girl is going to look like a real Magic Girl, she needs flowers and light!”
[I don’t understand the concept of ‘Magic Girl’ no matter how many times I hear it. In any case, the Skill is useless right now, yes?]
“If there’s a use right now…….”
[……it’s to rescue that Mana Stone dregs.]
By then, Ijee had already reached the Crystal.
Beyond the thick Crystal.
Through Jin Si-heon’s twisted, agonized lips, small bubbles rose with a sickly gurgle.
He was definitely still alive.
“Hunter…….”
[Don’t burden yourself with guilt if you can’t save him. He wouldn’t have expected anything from a child.]
…….
[You should just—]
“Gardener’s Song.”
[Mine the Mana Stone……What?]
Pat, pat, pat.
Sky-blue light followed the direction of her gaze and touched the Crystal—
Then scattered with a crackling sound.
The range is too wide
“Gardener’s Song!”
Ijee focused on Jin Si-heon.
With his body appearing distorted through the Crystal, it was no easy task.
The light that had been trembling finally wrapped around Jin Si-heon’s body.
Proceed with this selection?
“Yes!”
But once again, the light scattered.
A confused message appeared.
Target is not suitable
“What?”
Using the Skill again, the light dissolved uselessly.
Target is not suitable
She tried to attempt once more, lifting her head—but—
“……Ugh……?”
Her vision swam dizzyingly.
Grimoire clicked his tongue.
[That’s what happens when you use a Skill in rapid succession.]
…….
[You might collapse. Stop now—]
“Grimoire. What exactly does ‘suitable’ mean?”
It was a word she’d seen even during her Awakening, so she had a rough sense of it.
‘It must be a shortened form of “adequately acceptable,” right?’
But now she wanted to know the precise meaning.
Grimoire grumbled.
[Do I look like a dictionary to you?]
“You’re incredibly smart!”
[……It means ‘to match a certain standard or to be fitting and appropriate.’]
“Thank you! Gardener’s Song!”
[Wait! Why are you repeating meaningless actions, Ijee!]
No, it’s not meaningless.
‘This time it’ll work.’
Ijee swallowed her response. She had no breath to spare explaining, focused as she was on Jin Si-heon.
The Gardener’s Song Skill description was this:
‘The Magic Girl can decorate her Territory in a manner befitting a Magic Girl.’
The error message that had appeared meant “not suitable”—that is, it didn’t match the Territory’s standard.
‘I understand why that message appeared.’
Flowers and cute animals all fit with a Magic Girl.
Having them near a Magic Girl would seem natural.
But that handsome man……
‘Absolutely not!’
A dark, beautiful man could appear in a Magic Girl manga.
But he would belong in the headquarters of an evil legion.
If he appeared close to a Magic Girl…….
‘It’s an emergency! When that scene happens, the next episode always shows the Magic Girl getting kidnapped or corrupted!’
It was common knowledge.
Once she understood the problem, the answer came swiftly.
Target is not suitable……Target, Image, Convert
Conversion possibility calculation……Confirmed, 72%
Please generate your desired image specifically
……Approved
Light flowed from her fingertips, enveloping the Crystal, then slowly seeping through it to reach Jin Si-heon.
Grimoire’s pages trembled.
[Ijee, did you……! Did you find a way?]
“Yes.”
Ijee gritted her teeth and cried out.
“Even you can become cute!”

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When a hunter is caught in a Dungeon Break during a Dungeon run, they usually die.
But Jin Si-heon envied the dead.
After being directly caught in a Dungeon Break.
When consciousness returned, he was trapped somewhere.
Even unable to move an inch, his five senses were assaulted with too much input.
His vision was split into six fragments, showing different worlds simultaneously—day, night, blizzard, desert sandstorm and more.
In his ears, laughter, curses, and the roars of beasts all sounded at once. There would be six kinds of this noise too.
His body was cold, hot, burning with pain…….
How many months had he endured this grotesque hell?
Only one thought remained distinct in his mind.
‘I will kill…….’
The moment he regained his freedom.
He would find whoever burst the Dungeon and wring their neck.
Countless times he’d imagined completing that revenge.
‘Huh?’
Over the kaleidoscopic chaos of his vision, pure white light began to slowly bloom.
His instincts told him without doubt.
A chance to escape this hell had arrived.
But shock was brief.
The instincts of a man who’d lived a harsh life bristled like a wolf’s—alert, wary.

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