The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! - Chapter 20

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Magic Hunter Girl Decorates a Dungeon! Episode 020

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After wrapping up today’s transaction quickly.
Iji entered the Alice in Wonderland Dungeon together with Grimoire.
The thrilling moment had arrived!
“Trans! Form!”
Twirling sounds filled the air!
Frills unfurled across her limbs. It felt like an enormous flower blooming over her body.
As the Butterfly Ribbon descended onto her head, its blue tail fluttering, the light wrapping her hands transformed into pristine white Gloves.
This was the first time she’d admired her transformation outfit so leisurely.
‘These aren’t children’s gloves. They’re the delicate kind adults wear……! So pretty!’
As light finally enveloped her down to the tips of her toes—
Ding—☆
An elegant Magic Girl, making her entrance!
Flap, flap, flap.
Grimoire rustled her pages enthusiastically.
“……What are you doing?”
[You seemed to need applause for some reason……]
“No, no, that’s not it.”
The transformation was complete.
But there was still one Magic Girl-like act left to perform.
‘A magical animal companion!’
“My friend, Jin Siheon…… Sir, I’m sorry for calling you by name so casually, and I know you don’t need friends! I apologize for such a small child calling you a friend, but—summon!”
[No one has such a long-named friend!]
“Jin Siheon! Summoning Jin Siheon!”
Grimoire glowed, and moments later.
A pitch-black rabbit descended onto the grass.
Its size was no different from an ordinary rabbit, but those ruthlessly suspicious eyes that doubted everything in the world—they were unmistakably Jin Siheon.
“Hello, sir!”
“Yeah—ugh…….”
Siheon sighed so heavily his feet nearly sank through the ground, his eyes squeezed shut.
“That I’ve actually become a rabbit……!”
“Don’t you like being a rabbit?”
“Can’t you change me to a different animal? Like a black wolf, for instance.”
“Wolves belong with wild girls, not Magic Girls.”
Somehow that seemed obvious.
Grimoire chuckled.
[Magic Girl Iji would prefer a caterpillar to a wolf anyway. How about a plump green caterpillar, hmm?]
“I absolutely refuse! Anyway, let’s set this topic aside for now. I called you today because—”
‘Is it because I was lonely?’
“I want to establish clear routines for future Dungeon clears.”
“Future, yes?”
“Making a plan to clear Dungeons well. We won’t just be visiting easy Dungeons like this one, right?”
“Right, yes!”
Right. From now on, she’d venture into Dungeons with the terrifying monsters she’d seen on video platforms!
‘I need to remember this carefully!’
Before the visibly tense Iji.
Siheon spoke.
“The moment we enter the Dungeon, you summon me. I stay put. Done. Easy, right?”
“……Yes?”
“Is it difficult?”
“You’re saying you’ll clear the Dungeon alone?”
“I told you before. Leave all the troublesome work to me. I’ll handle all the monsters and traps.”
He’d said that the day they first met, crushing a boulder with his front leg.
But she hadn’t realized that “troublesome work” meant “everything that happens in the Dungeon.”
“I’m not the kind of villain who leaves everything to an animal companion!”
“I’m not an animal companion. My strength should have proven itself adequately that day.”
“…….”
“When you have free time, ask an adult around you to search up ‘Jin Siheon.’ Thirty seconds is all it’ll take for you to understand what kind of Hunter I am.”
‘…… I do know.’
Until then, she’d only known him to be incredibly strong, friendless, and rude.
But after becoming his partner and looking up information about Jin Siheon properly—
‘This mister was ridiculously, extraordinarily, amazingly—strong.’
So much so that there had even been a Bug Controversy about him.
Years ago, one day, the familiar names that usually graced the Hunter Ranking were replaced when ‘Jin Siheon’ seized first place.
Not a gradual climb in rank, but a meteoric rise.
When astonished Hunters looked into it.
He had single-handedly cleared the “Uncleared, High-Risk” Dungeons that had been gathering dust, handling them all in a single week and accumulating overwhelming accomplishments.
Title: Is Jin Siheon actually a bug?
Seriously though
Is it even possible to solo clear a Dungeon that only had a Mana Check and then got marked as too dangerous to enter?
Like if a patient came into the ER and the doctor was like
What is this?
Well, he’s not breathing, so he’s definitely critical condition!
OK I’ll operate on him
What?
He just went ahead and sliced him open for surgery
And then actually performed solo surgery successfully? That makes zero sense
[Comments]
-“Dangerous” is relative; for government Hunters sure, but top guilds avoid Uncleared dungeons because the profit margins are uncertain
-A top ranker could go solo tbh but do you know what a useless thing is
-[OP] I’ve literally never heard of anyone successfully solo clearing a high-rank Uncleared Dungeon?
-Solo clear swag only exists in games, not for working adults
Tired of the continuing counter-arguments, the original poster left two final comments and departed.
-[OP] Scared?
-[OP]
@Gunja Ran Guild

@Rock and Hustle Guild

@ATK Guild

@New Wind Guild

@CHAIN Guild
Below appeared to be a list of top guilds.
Hundreds of replies piled up afterward.
While difficult to understand entirely, two things seemed clear.
1. Entering Dungeons as a group is standard practice.
2. Should anyone defy this rule? Expect a funeral notice shortly; ignore them.
Yet as time passed, no funeral ever came.
Jin Siheon reigned as an exception.
Whether profitable or not, he soloed every Uncleared Dungeon imaginable and returned alive. And he mocked every single person who hated him.
Thus he set records for fastest entry to Ranking page one, longest time at rank one, and then one day—he vanished.
‘Now he’s become a rabbit.’
“……What is it, little one? Why are you suddenly looking at me with such a wistful expression?”
“I wasn’t looking at you wistfully!”
“Just so you understand—I got caught up in that Dungeon Break because of my companion. If I’d been going solo like usual, there’d have been no problem.”
“…….”
“Really. Even the Hunter Association executives would agree.”
“I believe you!”
Iji shouted without hesitation.
If a Magic Girl doesn’t trust her partner, she’s not a Magic Girl at all!
“Good, you should believe what adults say.”
Siheon seemed satisfied with her sincere response.
However, there was one more thing that needed addressing.
“I’m a Magic Girl.”
“……Yeah.”
At his answer—which could have been either “yeah” or “uh”—Grimoire’s corners of her mouth twitched upward.
[He doesn’t seem convinced.]
“No way. I’m clearly a Magic Girl no matter how you look at me!”
Iji spun once in place. All the Frills rippled like jellyfish.
For him to not call her a Magic Girl after seeing this—that was like looking at an apple and calling it a “plant”!
“Right?”
“……Y-yeah.”
“So I have to do everything in the Dungeon. Because I’m a Magic Girl!”
“…….”
Siheon could no longer hide his expression of complete befuddlement.
Thud—!
It felt like he’d just hit a wall.
‘Where do I even start explaining?’
That Magic Girls save people? That they defeat monsters and villains alike, always doing their best?
Fortunately, Siheon steered the conversation first.
“So you believe that ‘I can’t just sit idle in a Dungeon,’ right?”
“Yes!”
“Hmm…… I heard you’ve solo cleared Dungeons before. What Skills do you have?”
“Just a moment! I’ll tell you everything!”
Iji read through her Skill names and descriptions.
[Magic Girl Wants to Talk]
: You can communicate with living creatures within the Dungeon.
: However, the other party must also have the will to communicate.
“I’ve cleared two Dungeons with just this! It’s really a great Skill!”
“Communication doesn’t make something good. You’ve simply never encountered liars yet.”
“You don’t know how well elementary schoolers can lie, sir.”
“……Next Skill.”
[Being a Magic Girl is a Secret☆]
: Witnesses to your ‘Magic Girl’ form cannot harm your daily life through information leaks or similar acts.
“That one’s decent.”
“Right, it’s cool! So very Magic Girl-like!”
“It would’ve been more efficient if you could wipe witnesses’ memories or eliminate them instead.”
“Yes……?”
“Moving on.”
‘He sounds like a villain!’
“Next.”
[Magic Girl Daisy, Transform!]
: You transform into a Magic Girl within the Dungeon.
[Gardener’s Song]
: As a ‘Magic Girl,’ you can decorate your Territory in Magic Girl fashion.
: Remaining decoration Points: 1/2
“Magic Girl this-and-that Tart collapse incoming…….”
“Tart? Is that a magic spell?”
“Similar words kept blurring together, so it didn’t stick.”
“I can explain! It’s all important for a Magic Girl! First, transformation is—”
“Ah, no!”
The rabbit flinched with his whole body in refusal.
“Don’t explain! You saved me with this, after all. Don’t pout. I trust you’ll use it well on your own!”
‘…… Is that a compliment?’
Either way, he didn’t seem like he’d listen to explanations.
Iji postponed her mental “Magic Girl Core Lesson Plan for Jin Siheon.”
“That’s all your Skills?”
“Oh, wait. There’s one strange Skill.”
“If even you find it strange, what kind of Skill is it?”
“It’s like ‘You are Korean on Korean soil.'”
“……What even is that?”
Iji read the Skill carefully, word by word.
[Garden of Iji]
: You may act as a Magic Girl within your Territory.
“……Huh?”
Somehow Siheon looked flustered as he asked.
“Setting aside my suspicions…… but what’s this Skill’s rank?”
“EX.”
“E rank, right? Not——”
“No, it’s the alphabet! E, X—two letters!”
“…… Ha. Ha ha ha ha.”
Siheon dried his face off with his front paw, then asked urgently.
“You. What’s your status as an Awakener?”

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