The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! - Chapter 29

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The Magic Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! Episode 29
Subject, Image, Transformation
Geum Grandmother was enveloped in a pure white light.
Transformation possibility calculation…… confirmed, 85%
The transformation begins. Iji tried to visualize in her mind how Grandmother would change.
Just then, the rift stopped expanding as well.
‘This is my chance to hurry…… huh?’
For a moment, Iji doubted her own eyes.
From deep within the rift.
Something enormous began to rise up.
‘What is that? A giant?’
Sallow skin, covered in dirt, fine hairs all over, but only a single strand of hair on its head……
A creature writhing across its entire body.
Jin Si-heon cried out.
“Hey, you con artist! What is that thing?”
“That is a Mountain Ginseng Spirit!”
“If anything with five limbs counts as ginseng, does that mean I can sell a chubby rabbit as ginseng too? Talk some sense!”
“P-please don’t step on it! It really is a Spirit Mountain Ginseng! If you leave it alone, it will ascend and be done with!”
Spirit. Mountain Ginseng. Ascension.
Faced with this trio of nonsense, Jin Si-heon lost the will to argue back.
After all, a dungeon is a place where common sense doesn’t apply.
Jin Si-heon turned his attention to the practical problem at hand.
“If we leave it alone, Grandmother’s going to ascend first anyway, isn’t she? How do we get rid of that thing? The little girl’s view is completely blocked!”
That was true. That was the problem.
‘I can’t see Grandmother well!’
The thread of mana connecting Iji and Geum Grandmother kept wavering, breaking and mending repeatedly.
Indifferent to human concerns, the Mountain Ginseng Spirit writhed its body in delight. Dirt from its fine roots scattered in all directions.
[Uooooo…… finally my long training has ended! Ascension!]
“Shut up, you chaos-mongering thing!”
Jin Si-heon fired a bundle of mana at the particularly irksome fine roots.
The aim was perfect.
But the moment the Mana Bullet made contact—
[Hahiho— ouch, that stings!]
The Mountain Ginseng Spirit spun its body frantically, and the fine root severed by the mana flew straight at Jin Si-heon.
“Ghack!”
Jin Si-heon dodged.
In that instant, his vision was blocked by another fine root.
Grandmother, barely visible in between, was tilting more and more.
“Damn it, I’m going in directly!”
Just as Jin Si-heon’s hind legs were about to kick off the ground.
Something gleamed in Iji’s mind.
‘Ascension……? Ascension! I know that word!’
She’d definitely learned it while reading folk tales.
And the story went……!
“Black King Rabbit, don’t run!”
“Again? ……Pfft!”
Jin Si-heon tumbled forward over his own feet.
To the spirited Mountain Ginseng Spirit, Iji called out, apologizing inwardly.
“‘Hey, look, the bellflower is flying away!'”
Thunk.
The Mountain Ginseng Spirit’s dancing stopped dead.
Its fine roots began to tremble. This time, the movement was fear, not joy.
[A…… no, noooo! I’m not a bellflower, I’m the great moun—]
“It’s a bellflower! An earthy bellflower! The kind no one even eats as a side dish!”
[Kiiieeeeeee!]
According to the folk tale she’d read, if an imugi trains for a thousand years, it becomes a dragon and can ascend to the heavens.
But if you call it an “imugi” or a “snake,” the ascension fails and it plummets into a pond.
Like that tale, the Mountain Ginseng Spirit’s body began to slowly sink.
[I hate bellflowers…… hate them!]
‘I’m sorry!’
The moment the Mountain Ginseng Spirit’s backside went thud against something. Iji seized the moment and cried out.
“Gardener’s Song!”
Burst!
A pure white light completely enveloped Grandmother.
Moments later, the white light mass split open like a chrysalis—
“Uoooaaah!”
Something burst from the chrysalis, executed a perfect combat roll, tumbled halfway across the ground, and rose to its feet beside the Black King Rabbit.
‘It’s Grandmother!’
She was instantly recognizable.
Jang Geum-hui’s new form as the Magic Girl’s companion was—
Round eyes like chocolate balls! Fluffy brown fur!
A brown bear roughly two meters in length.
A grizzly bear, or what some call a brown bear.
MC gasped in shock.
“Huh…… what?!”
Jin Si-heon and Grimoire both dropped their jaws.
“……incredible.”
[……a companion befitting a Magic Girl, and it’s that?]
“I can’t believe I was a rabbit!”
[Is the concept of a Magic Girl perhaps something close to a zoo.]
And with that, they were left to their own thoughts.
Iji ran toward Grandmother, blinking her round eyes.
“Grandmother!”
“What in the world is all this…… oh my, Iji. I’ll fall down!”
“Grandmother, I’m sorry! You see, you were hanging there, so I just did this for a moment! This bear transformation mode isn’t permanent!”
“…….”
How bewildering it must be for her to have turned into a bear.
‘I should explain first that you return to normal once we leave the dungeon!’
Just as she’d carefully chosen her words.
Grandmother crouched down and said something unexpected.
“Iji. Is Grandmother scary?”
“Huh? No? Why would you be scary!”
What’s scary about this? It’s so adorable.
Iji poked at the soft pad on Geum Grandmother’s paw.
“Grandmother isn’t scary at all.”
“Mm.”
“Bears…… might be a little scary.”
Looking at the enormous bear claws, a bit of honest feeling leaked out.
Grandmother flinched.
Still, there was one truly important thing that remained inside Iji.
Iji gripped Grandmother’s claws tightly in both hands and spoke.
“When I’m with Grandmother, nothing scares me!”
As if she’d heard the most perfect answer in the world, Grandmother let out a hearty laugh. Even as a bear, her teeth gleamed a magnificent golden color.
“Then Grandmother’s all fine with this!”

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Grandmother held Iji carefully while in her bear form, then fell asleep.
Grimoire stored Grandmother in the Friend List and spoke.
[She’s utterly exhausted. She pushed an aging body beyond its limits.]
“…….”
[Her human form won’t be in good condition.]
Before MC, the King Rabbit cracked his front paws together with a sound and spoke.
“I don’t know all the details, but either way, it’s this con artist here who bears the responsibility, right?”
“Hieeeek!”
“Iji. What do you think judgment should be passed on a villain?”
All Iji had learned at school was one thing.
“They must pay for their crimes!”
“Understood. There’s a skill that suits ‘paying for crimes’ perfectly.”
Within Iji’s domain, the Court of Jin Si-heon skill unfolded.
Moments later.
MC was prostrate before Jin Si-heon, tears streaming down his face.
“I sincerely apologize. I am a con artist!”
“I know.”
“Mana Stones don’t appear in our dungeon, and we don’t recruit workers either.”
“No doubt.”
“And the Red Ginseng Juice we sold to the elderly was actually just bellflower juice with red ginseng candy dissolved in it.”
“……and what about all those ginseng roots lying around?”
“They bite if you try to pull them up…… and fighting them isn’t worth the effort…… ”
“You pathetic wretches!”
“We’ll repent and make amends!”
The henchmen who hadn’t managed to escape the dungeon were soon dragged before the King Rabbit to be judged, and they all bowed their heads together in apology.
The elderly people at the Event Venue received apologies and promises of compensation shortly after.
And Geum Grandmother……
Was found asleep outside the dungeon and immediately taken to the Hospital.
Sprain, compression fracture, herniated disc.
Serious words were exchanged among the adults.
Surgery would be necessary, they said.
Yet when Grandmother woke in the hospital, she smiled at Iji as usual.
“My goodness. We went out to play and you ended up suffering more.”
“……Grandmother. I’m so sorry. You were trying to help me……”
“What are you apologizing for. I really only remember falling asleep and having a strange dream. And at this age, your back breaks just from sleeping wrong.”
“…….”
“Ah, it was such a fun dream. You can’t imagine how satisfying it was to become a bear and toss grown men around.”
As a bear, all Grandmother had done was hold Iji. But her memory of that moment seems to have blended with recollections of her acting alone.
Iji didn’t bother to correct her.
‘Grandmother is a civilian.’
She couldn’t call her back into the perilous and ruthless world of hunters……!
But she did want to make amends.
‘Is anyone around?’
Fortunately the hospital room was empty.
Iji pulled out a small packet of Red Ginseng Juice from her pocket.
“Grandmother, have this.”
“Goodness! Where did you find something so precious?”
“I got it.”
“……but the packaging looks familiar somehow.”
The answer was yes.
It was from that con artist company’s packaging.
“This isn’t a con! Those con artist men actually made a version with real effects separately for me.”
“Oh.”
“Drink it quickly.”
Iji tore open the edge of the packet and handed it over. Grandmother had no choice but to accept it and bring it to her lips.
Gulp, gulp.
Iji clenched both fists and watched Grandmother with an anxious heart.
‘It will work, right?’
It has to.
This is made from hundred-year-old ginseng root after all!
In fact, after Geum Grandmother fell asleep in bear form in the dungeon.
A small trouble arose.
The dungeon door wouldn’t open.
Clear Condition: Protect the peace of the Great King Ginseng Field
It was likely because of the Mountain Ginseng Spirit crying in the rift, its ascension a failure.
‘Oouuughhhhuuhhh…… grrrhhhhuuuh……’
Ginseng roots murmured from all directions.

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