The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! - Chapter 28

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Magic Girl Hunter Decorates a Dungeon! Episode 28
He has no intention of fighting.
He’s only thinking of pinning down the “feeble old woman” by pressing on her shoulders.
‘Well played, you bastard.’
Jang Geumhui is, broadly speaking, a feeble old woman.
The muscles of her youth have long since flattened, and her body has aged.
Even now, after hurling Big Bug, her joints creak with every movement.
……But wisdom was not something time could steal from her.
The fastest way to end a fight is—
to throw the first punch when they least expect it!
“Grandmother…… Ugh?!”
She pulls his outstretched arm and drives her body sharply inward.
His center of gravity tilts in an instant.
His heavy mass rolls over Geumhui’s rounded back—
“Aaaaagh!”
His weight immediately sends her tumbling to the ground as well.
Thud!
The impact echoes through the ginseng field.
“Oof!”
It’s too early to relax.
The ground here is soft earth. The impact was significantly cushioned.
Geumhui pins him down, her hands grasping his legs.
“Kyaaaa!”
“Your screaming gives me a headache, you wretch!”
“I—I submit! I submit!”
As if he’d actually seen something before, he taps out with one hand.
Geumhui glances toward Big Bug in the distance.
“You coming too?”
“Grrk…….”
“Your friend better stay put, I’d say.”
The moment she adds more weight, the scream she’d been waiting for tears from his throat.
“Don’t come any closer! Fall back!”
The hostage situation has completely reversed.
Big Bug mutters ‘I told you, didn’t I, this old woman isn’t ordinary, and I fell on my own just now, so don’t blame me’ while backing away.
The rabbit cackles like a villain.
“Looks like the situation’s under control. Wouldn’t you say, fraudster leader?”
“Grrgh……. What exactly are you people!”
“Just happened to be passing by…… no, wait.”
The rabbit glances sideways, as if to say it’s not his turn to speak.
Iji steps forward eagerly—
and spins in place.
Her skirt billows into a bud shape, and as it flutters down and clings to her legs, it tears away.
Iji raises her right arm diagonally inward and shouts.
“Flower Warrior Daisy, blooming here!”
“……And so it happened.”
“This is my companion, Black King Rabbit!”
“…….”
Her left arm stretches diagonally, pointing down at the rabbit below.
The rabbit hangs his head in embarrassment.
A brief silence settles.
Only Geumhui breaks it with genuine feeling.
Clap, clap, clap, clap……!
“Magnificent, Iji!”
One who takes the stage deserves applause.
Iji flushes red.
“Hehe, thank you…… oh, Grandmother! Over there!”
Geumhui turns to look.
Big Bug is scrambling away in panic.
If reinforcements arrive, they’ll be in trouble.
As she’s considering whether to give chase—
the man pinned beneath her suddenly shoves her hard.
“Hrgh—oof!”
“Whoa!”
Geumhui’s hand misses the ground and she tumbles. There’s no space for a proper roll.
But the real problem is his counterattack—
‘Hnngh!’
She shields her face with her left arm—
“Kiieeeeee!”
Instead of attacking Geumhui, the freed man bolts away at full speed.
“Huh?”
He stops beside Big Bug, breathing hard.
‘What’s this?’
In any case, there’s no sign of him attacking or calling for help.
Geumhui slowly lowers her hands. Her wrist throbs.
‘Ouch, ouch, ouch.’
She must have landed wrong.
From that pain, her entire body begins to scream in protest.
The adrenaline has worn off much faster than expected.
Lightning continues to streak down her spine, and her legs turn to clay, sagging with fatigue.
Yet a smile leaks from her lips.
‘At my age, I took down two of them on my own.’
She’d done well.
‘I’m rather magnificent, aren’t I?’
Geumhui turns to look at Iji. Iji smiles brightly back at her.
But in that moment—
MC shouts.
“Grandmother, run that way!”
“What?”
“Hurry! I don’t want corpses in my Dungeon either— argh!”
The ground suddenly shakes violently.
Between Iji and Geumhui—
one particularly deep furrow in the field begins to split open.
The rabbit cries out.
“What is this!”
“It’s the Dungeon’s nature! Get the girl back and away from it!”
“Amazing!”
The rabbit grabs Iji’s skirt hem and pulls.
Almost simultaneously, the ground where Iji stood becomes a pitch-black cliff.
Beyond the rapidly widening and deepening chasm—
comes Iji’s piercing scream.
“Grandmother!”
‘That child will tear her voice hoarse.’
Worrying about grandmother first—how thoughtful of her.
‘I’ll handle it myself.’
……Or so it should be.
By the time she barely gets to her feet—
the splitting chasm has already reached her toes.
“Grandmother!”
The very ground beneath her tips toward the crevasse.
Like a massive jaw about to swallow her whole.
……It is precisely that image which ignites Geumhui’s remaining will to fight.
If her back and legs won’t obey—
as her body tilts toward the abyss—
all ten of Geumhui’s fingers drive into the earth.

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After Iji first exposed the “Hunter Talent Assessment Device” fraud and was suddenly summoned before Grandmother Jang, the door slamming shut behind her—
MC and Iji began spinning around the room.
“Give me the cellphone!”
“No!”
They weren’t just running away, of course.
‘Lure him toward the door and hit the buzzer!’
That way, both MC and the man outside would be sent home at the same time.
But before the chase ended—
an ominous sound came from outside the door.
Whack, bang, crash-bang!
‘Grandmother?’
The moment Iji flinches with worry for her grandmother—
“Little one, you need a proper scolding!”
MC pressed some button—
and shoved Iji into what she’d thought was a wall.
After that came tumbling, crashing sounds.
And a familiar message.
Entered Dungeon
Clear Condition: Protect the peace of the Great King Ginseng Field
Inside the Dungeon, furrows of ginseng beds wind in every direction.
MC laughs triumphantly.
“Krah-hah-hah-hah! Your first Dungeon, little one?”
“…….”
“Scared? Frightened? You can only escape if you follow my instructions!”
“…….”
“First, hand over the cellphone! The recording file—”
“Transformation!”
She transforms, summons a Grimoire using the Grandmother’s Cookbook she’d brought just in case, and also summons Black King Rabbit.
MC is knocked out by a single Bunny Kick.
After that, Grandmother Jang enters the Dungeon—
and magnificently hurls the villain that came after her!
‘Grandmother is amazingly cool!’
Like a retired warrior of justice!
She’ll have to explain to grandmother later that Iji is a Hunter…….
But grandmother probably has stories of her own to tell.
Yet peace is far away.
After defeating the villain, another calamity finds them all.
MC shouts.
“Grandmother, run that way!”
The earth begins to split.
“Grandmother!”
As King Rabbit drags Iji backward, he asks MC—
“What’s the Clear Condition for this Dungeon?”
“Just waiting will finish it. But I can’t stop the ground from splitting!”
“What?”
“We can only run!”
“Then that grandmother…….”
“What can we do!”
Grandmother Jang can barely get up, tottering. It seems her legs won’t respond.
King Rabbit rushes over, but can he clear the chasm with those short legs? Won’t they lose King Rabbit too?
‘I should have made Siheon into a cheetah instead of a rabbit…… oh.’
Then a sudden idea flashes in her mind.
Why had she made Siheon into a rabbit in the first place?
……It was to save Siheon, that’s why!
“King Rabbit, don’t run! I’ll use the Gardener’s Song skill!”
“What?”
He skids to a halt, kicking at the ground with his hind legs.
Siheon quickly understands the situation.
“You’re going to turn that grandmother into an animal and summon her to your side? Like you did to me?”
“Yes!”
“I get the idea, but—! Can you just turn someone into an animal in a crisis like this?”
“It’s fine! It only works here in the Dungeon!”
The Gardener’s Song is a Magic Girl’s Domain decoration skill.
Once Iji leaves the Dungeon, grandmother will return to her original form.
The Grimoire cackles.
[Iji is not as stupid as you…… wait. Do we have remaining Decoration Points?]
That was indeed the problem.
The last time she checked, the Gardener’s Song (F) skill had 0/2 remaining Decoration Points.
One was used to save Jin Siheon, and one was used to change the Garden of Daisy skill name to Garden of Daisy.
Was changing the name a waste?
‘But…… but still!’
Something feels strange.
There’s a certainty that somehow it will work.
Because—
having a beautiful name—
and never giving up—both are things a Magic Girl does.
“Gardener’s Song!”
As if answering her unwavering voice, the message appears immediately.
Remaining Decoration Points: 2/4
Select a target in your surroundings to decorate the Domain
‘The points…… increased!’
She understands without anyone explaining.
On the day they held a strategy meeting in the Dungeon—
Siheon had said this to her:
‘The more you act like a Magic Girl within your Domain, the stronger the Domain becomes.’
‘The day I made the skill and your name pretty, it wasn’t wasted effort!’
Iji quickly looks toward grandmother.
On the tilting slope, a blue border forms around Grandmother Jang as she clings on, leaving deep finger marks in the earth.
Proceed with this selection?
“Yes!”
‘Mr. Siheon. After I save Grandmother, I’ll make you even cuter!’

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