The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! - Chapter 17

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The Magic Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! Episode 17
She had been waiting for today.
The beginning of a long journey that would continue until she could buy her sister a house!
After such careful preparation, the transaction flowed as smoothly as water.
Though it had passed through several hands, what Iji finally held in her palm was…….
[What is this round thing? A badge?]
“It’s a self-defense item!”
It looked similar to the pull-string buzzer that children sometimes received when starting elementary school.
“If you pull the string here!”
[Pull it?]
“Everyone apparently wants to go home.”
[……Is there no product manual?]
Instead of a manual, Iji showed him the secondhand marketplace listing.
Transaction Complete
(Hunter Equipment) Emergency Escape Buzzer D-Rank
When activated, all animals (including humans) within 1 meter wish to return to their den and rest.
Manufactured from the resentment of Bear, a Giant Tortoise who developed insomnia just before hibernation (D+)
H-KC Certified
Drawbacks
Also affects allied parties other than the user
Ineffective against Godly Livers
Magic Power efficiency: Grade 5. Requires Mana Pool of 30 or higher
[Is it good……? What is a Godly Liver?]
“Someone who wakes up at five in the morning to exercise and study English?”
[Those who despise adequate sleep. Since such creatures are rare, it should prove quite useful.]
Grimoire had even acknowledged it as a good item!
‘I’m weak, so I should start collecting self-defense gear.’
Next time, she would purchase equipment to increase her defense.
Iji tucked the remaining cash deep into the inner pocket of her bag, looking forward to the next transaction.
Keeping just ten thousand won aside.
“Hehe…….”
Iji always carried only a thousand-won bill with her.
Things she needed or wanted could usually be bought for three thousand won at most.
But now that she had a whole ten thousand won!
It was time to fulfill a small wish.
[Is there something you want to buy?]
“Yes! Grimoire, you wait inside for a bit!”
Having come into a large sum, she made a bold decision.
Iji headed alone toward the busy shopping district in front of the Subway Station.
Her destination was the large Fancy Shop she had seen before.
‘Wow…… there are so many people and things!’
It must already be the time when middle and high school students left school.
The shop was crowded not only with kids her age but also with middle and high school students.
The problem was that there were even more beautifully pretty things.
‘At least a hundred times better than the Unmanned Stationery Shop.’
But an even bigger problem was—
‘There’s the keychain too! Two slots!’
At the neighborhood Unmanned Stationery Shop, she’d only seen knockoff keychains!
In front of the official character keychain section, her feet felt rooted to the ground.
Older girls passing by giggled softly.
“You’re going to bore a hole right through that keychain. Hey, ask your mom to buy it for you.”
“I came alone.”
“Oh, you don’t have money, so you’re just looking?”
Iji almost cried out, ‘No, I do have money!’ but held back.
Right. She didn’t have money for a keychain.
‘Grimoire, give me the strength to endure this!’
After deliberately ignoring Bunny Princess’s pretty eyes.
Iji left the shop, opened her bag, and whispered.
“I bought something.”
Inside the bag, Grimoire peered into the paper shopping bag.
[A ribbon. ……It looks black, maybe because it’s dark.]
“It is black.”
[Hm? It doesn’t look like something a magic girl would wear]
“It’s for my sister. It’s a Ribbon Hair Net for nurses.”
Her sister still wore the Ribbon Hair Net she’d bought when she started working.
She’d been working for four years now, and the ribbon had half-detached from the net, hanging loosely.
‘I should get her a pretty new one this time!’
Since it was under ten thousand won, her sister wouldn’t suspect how she’d bought something so expensive.
Grimoire was impressed.
[Hoo…… a choice for family. How admirable.]
“Yes!”
She’d thought about buying some skewered rice cakes with the remaining money.
But hearing the praise made her feel full, and she thought it would be fine to go straight home.
But as she retied her bag and headed home.
In a remote Alley where yellow academy shuttles and fish-cake vendors were rare, a voice called out.
“Hey, kid over there.”
Kid? Where was there a kid?
As she looked around, a harsher voice continued.
“You. What other kid would I be looking for?”
“……Yes?”
“You. Come here for a second.”
Beneath the shadow created by a large illegally parked truck.
An older student was gesturing for Iji to come over.
“You were the kid looking at keychains at Artkoix earlier, right? What did you buy?”
“I…… didn’t buy anything.”
The feeling was wrong. Iji quickly denied and stepped back.
But before she could take even a few steps back, another older student blocked her escape route from behind.
“Where are you going, kid? I don’t bite.”
“N-no.”
“But if you lie, I might just bite. I saw the whole thing at the register.”
“…….”
“Show me the change you got. I’m just checking to make sure you got the right amount. Really.”
The older student next to the telephone pole smirked.
Iji clutched her bag tight.
“I got the right amount. You don’t need to see it.”
“Oh really?”
“Don’t come any closer.”
“Da-gae-ae mae-sae~”
“That’s, that’s childish. Even first graders don’t do that kind of wordplay.”
The expressions of the older students who’d been giggling from behind immediately hardened.
“What did you just say?”
“Hey, seriously, come here.”
The students started closing in.
Estimating the distance, Iji gripped the buzzer she’d just bought.
‘As long as I have MP, it works even outside a Dungeon.’
She didn’t want to use it on ordinary people.
But…….
“Whether you give us money or not, I’m going to make you cry.”
For people who wanted to make others cry……!
But just as she was about to pull the buzzer.
Someone’s voice cut through the group.
“Hey. What are you doing?”
The older students turned toward the intruder’s voice, all wearing confused expressions.
“Do you know that guy?”
“Is he from our school?”
Only Iji recognized the name of the unexpected arrival.
It was Junseo.
She barely swallowed his name before it escaped her lips.
Junseo walked steadily over and positioned himself in front of the older students.
“What are you doing?”
“……Who are you?”
“Just someone passing through.”
“Then keep passing.”
“When did we meet for you to talk like that?”
Junseo’s tone had turned sharp.
But the group of older students, seeing that Junseo was roughly at eye level with them, didn’t think he could be younger. They looked confused by his standing in front of Iji without hesitation.
“What, are you from our school?”
“Let her go.”
“Why are you ordering us? Want to try 3 on 1?”
The older students seemed genuinely ready for it.
Junseo was in danger.
No matter how good at sports he was, with just his bare hands…….
‘……Huh?’
Junseo slowly raised his right hand.
In it was a basketball.
If that hit, it would hurt quite a bit.
One girl instinctively stepped back. A boy flinched in surprise, then tried to act tough and shrugged his shoulders…….
The moment he said ‘try it’.
Junseo threw the basketball.
“Try i…… Yike!”
The basketball whizzed past the boy’s face in an instant.
Just as the boy’s startled expression rapidly shifted to a dismissive sneer.
The emergency alarm attached to the telephone pole struck by the ball rang out—
And a clear adult’s voice came through.
[Control center. Go ahead.]
The older students panicked.
“What is this! Wait, hello! There’s really nothing wrong—”
“Stop talking and just get out!”
The girl grabbed the boy’s collar and yanked him away.
The older students thundered out of the Alley. Someone fell while running, and a thud echoed from a distance.
The voice from the emergency alarm grew slightly sharper.
[Hello?]
Junseo spoke into the speaker.
“The troublemakers ran away. Thank you.”
[Oh my, that’s a relief. Are you hurt?]
“No.”
[We’ll send a patrol to that area, student.]
The communication ended.
Junseo picked up the basketball and turned to Iji, asking.
“You okay?”
“I’m…… fine. What about you?”
“I’m fine.”
“Not that! Why did you jump in so recklessly?”
If this had been school, a teacher would have come running if something happened.
But this was the street.
It would take the police a while to arrive.
Junseo replied.
“You helped me in the Dungeon.”
“Of course! I’m a Hun…… that’s just who I am.”
“…….”
“It’s fine outside the Dungeon too. I’m strong.”
Besides, she was holding Hunter self-defense gear right now.
She’d grow stronger step by step going forward, so it would only get better.
Truly.
“So…… even if I look pathetic, you don’t have to help me.”
She didn’t want to put a child she wasn’t even friends with in danger again.
That’s when Junseo shook his head.
“You’re not pathetic! I know. Since you’re Garlic Bread, you’d obviously wipe all of them out!”
“Then why did you come running?”
Junseo hesitated for a moment, then spoke.
“I heard your voice from the Alley earlier…… it was shaking a lot.”
“Oh…….”
Junseo wasn’t teasing her. His next words hit the core of it.
“You didn’t want to fight, did you?”
……That was true.
Not just fighting—she even hated tense situations.
She wanted to run away.
She’d only endured it because of the thought that a Hunter should face hardship with wisdom.
While Iji was struggling for words.
Junseo continued without hesitation.
“No matter how strong you are, if you don’t like fighting, it’s better not to fight.”
“…….”
“If you have to fight with people…… you can leave it to me.”
‘……What?’

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