The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! - Chapter 31

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The Magic Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! Episode 31
“That’s Yi Ji’s voice?”
“……Could it be the grandmother with the broken back we just mentioned?”
“That’s her!”
Two active medical staff members hurried down the corridor.
In the hospital room they reached moments later.
The orthopedic surgeon doubted his own eyes.
“Patient Jang Geum-hee?”
An elderly woman stood there wearing only a patient’s gown—someone who looked utterly incompatible with the word “patient.”
“Pl-please lie down!”
“I’m fine though.”
“You’re not fine! I explained you should stay in bed……Argh!”
After setting down the Peach Can she’d been holding.
Jang Geum-hee began doing squats right there on the spot.
As her lower body moved through a dozen repetitions, her upper body remained rigid as a blade at a perfect angle.
“Huff! A person can’t, huff! just lie around, huff! or they’ll die.”
“…….”
“I’ll loosen up my body a bit, then lie down.”
As Jang Geum-hee flowed into a plank position like water.
Hyun Ji asked the doctor.
“Doctor. You said it was a spinal fracture earlier, right?”
“……It was. Genuinely.”
“She’s doing burpees right now.”
“Excuse me! I’m ordering new X-rays for patient Jang Geum-hee!”
The doctor shouted as he left the room.
By then, Jang Geum-hee had already recognized Hyun Ji.
“Want some peach? It’s from a can, though.”
“Ah…… Thank you.”
Hyun Ji reached to pull out a peach slice, then noticed something odd.
‘This…… this isn’t the kind of can you need an opener for, is it?’
There was no can opener nearby.
The top of the can was already open, cleanly, just like a yogurt container lid peeled back.
‘……There must have been some special way to open it? Right?’
In any case, what mattered now was one thing.
Both the grandmother and Yi Ji looked healthy in body and spirit.

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“So, the grandmother had another X-ray taken.”
“She did.”
“And apparently she’s completely fine! Those holes in her bones that were all over the place—now they say they look like a twenty-year-old soccer player’s legs!”
“That’s good.”
“But she still can’t be discharged yet. She’ll have some heart…… or was it something-else check on Monday, and then they’ll send her home.”
“……I see.”
Inside the Alice in Wonderland Dungeon.
Si Heon, summoned as the Black King Rabbit, pressed his forehead and spoke.
“Do I really need to hear this? Right now, even?”
Just a few hours since he’d left that Ginseng Field Dungeon where he had no Soul, no Magical Stone, and not even a shred of “coolness.”
Yi Ji had summoned him again, and he’d rushed out thinking she’d found Soul information—
Instead, he was hearing about some stranger’s grandmother’s health status.
“I’m glad she’s healthy, but that has nothing to do with me.”
Yi Ji’s eyes widened.
“She’s our Comrade.”
“Comrade? Wait. You’re not seriously planning to summon that grandmother into a Dungeon, are you?”
“The grandmother wants to! She used to be a wrestler!”
The Grizzly Wrestler, they called her.
Si Heon’s lost sense of wonder seemed to cry out.
‘Damn, that’s awesome.’
Suppressing that feeling, Si Heon answered rationally.
“We can’t drag ordinary people into Dungeon business.”
“Oh. The grandmother Awakened.”
“What?”
“After drinking the wild ginseng juice, as her body recovered, a message appeared!”
“H-how did it appear?”
“Healing Ability, F-rank.”
“That’s a rare characteristic……but F-rank is a waste.”
One wouldn’t expect healing from the Grizzly Wrestler anyway.
But more than that—
“So the Century-Old Ginseng juice has an awakening effect. Even at F-rank, that could be worth serious money.”
Yi Ji shook her head.
“We can’t sell the Century-Old Ginseng!”
“Why not? Just because she’s a ‘Comrade’ again? If I slice it up little by little—”
“If I summon her, she becomes a rose.”
“Oh.”
“And you definitely can’t slice up a Comrade!”
“…….”
Grimoire scoffed.
[Bad personality and stupid to boot. What am I going to do with you? Did your brain shrink to rabbit size too?]
“Tch……. I only said that because money’s the urgent priority right now!”
[Huh? Why’s money suddenly urgent?]
“To find my Soul, I need to enter higher-rank Dungeons. To do that, I need good gear.”
[Ah yes, that was your grand purpose! I’d forgotten about such a trivial matter.]
“You make yourself sound stupid as hell.”
[…….]
Before the two Comrades could start their second round.
Yi Ji interjected.
“We can solve the money problem too!”
“Hmm?”
“The grandmother said that once she’s discharged, she’s going to the Hunter Association to get her license.”
“Ah. Then she can use the Hunter Exchange!”
Without any tedious procedures, they’ll be able to sell Magical Stones from Dungeons directly—at higher prices than before!
With a small sense of relief, Si Heon let out a breath.
“For someone who said she thought it was all a dream, you’re accepting this awfully fast. You really believed her about the transformation and Hunter stuff?”
“Yes. She said, ‘I threw around plenty of men when I was your age—why would your magic be strange?'”
“Fair point.”
“And you know what’s really great! Now the grandmother says she’ll go everywhere with my sister so she won’t have to worry!”
Yi Ji beamed.
‘That really is good news.’
The biggest problem for an elementary school kid.
The inability to travel far without a guardian had finally been solved.
Si Heon immediately thought of something to ask.
“Yi Ji. I have a favor to ask.”
“Yes! What is it?”
“Can you find my Smartphone? It disappeared during the Dungeon Break. I was wondering if it might still be intact.”
“Do you know where it is?”
“If anyone tries to turn on my Smartphone, my phone’s location gets sent to my email. Access my email and check for me.”
“……Yes!”
“……Do you know how to use email?”
“I’ll learn!”
“Just lend me your Smartphone for a bit, would you?”
“Mine’s a pay-as-you-go phone, so it won’t work without Wi-Fi.”
In the end, they decided to borrow Jang Geum-hee’s Smartphone later.
Yi Ji’s chest puffed out.
“See? It was a good idea to get a Comrade!”
“Yeah…….”
“We should throw a Comrade welcome party later!”
‘A party? That’s pretty pointless—’
“I’ll bring lots of snacks.”
Suddenly, his appetite surged.
He hadn’t even seen snacks in months!
“……Can you get Bbopagak Chips Lime Pepper Flavor?”
“Yes!”
“A party sounds good. I like parties. I’ll be waiting.”
“Understood!”
“If you can find my Smartphone too, that’d be great.”
If he could even use the banking app, he’d wrap Yi Ji in S-rank Armor right away.
“I’ll tell the grandmother!”
[Congratulations on breaking free from that kid’s only lifeline.]
Of course, Grimoire sounded anything but congratulatory—rather, it spoke as if it were certain Si Heon would be upset.
‘There’s nothing bad about the kid having a Comrade.’
Honestly…….
To a degree that surprised even himself, his heart felt lighter.
‘Because I’ve been carrying a nine-year-old alone all this time.’
If she fell, if she got hurt, it all seemed like it would be his responsibility.
‘I’m not the kind of adult who can take full responsibility for someone.’
A fresh realization.
“Then get some rest, sir!”
After the Summoning was dismissed.
Si Heon stared blankly up at the ceiling.
More precisely, at the tangled landscapes of five Dungeons and just one strip of gray hospital ceiling.
‘My mind’s all over the place.’
Still, it was heaven compared to before.
Especially having learned that voice—the one that put his heart at ease while making it race all at once…….
“Hello—”
“Oh? Hyun Ji!”
‘Ah…….’
That voice reached him like the sound of a ghost.
A warm person who alone made time for the abandoned Si Heon.
His heart began to pound.
The nurses chattered.
“Eek! You came by just to bring coffee? Thank you!”
“I’ll see you later. I’m heading out!”
Her footsteps faded away in an instant.
It seemed she wasn’t on shift.
Yet his every nerve stood on end like a lightning rod toward that person, refusing to settle.
‘What kind of lovesick teenager gets excited over footsteps…….’
While mocking himself.
The nurses’ whispers caught his ear and stuck.
“Hyun Ji’s working the night shift today, isn’t she? What’s she doing here?”
“I saw that kid from her place on my way in. I bet she—”
‘What?’
That kid from her place?
Squeak, squeak. The meal cart’s rumble filled the ward. A machine alarm followed, then a voice saying “I’ll be right back!”
The voices Si Heon had been chasing after—those he’d paid little attention to—drifted to him from a distance with an incomplete sentence.
“Wow…… raising a child alone must be so hard.”
“Right? So young too. It’s amazing.”
“Come to think of it, I sometimes see her looking at her phone’s home screen with such tenderness. The person on the screen……aack, Patient! Don’t pull out the IV!”
‘Don’t you dare pull out that line, you bastard!’
After the nurses rushed off, Hyun Ji’s name didn’t come up in conversation again.
But Si Heon’s mind continued to circle around a few sentences he’d inferred from that earlier conversation.
‘She……was married.’
It felt like a bomb had detonated in his chest.
‘She has a child.’
It felt as if his heart was sinking through a hole torn in his chest.
But this was right, wasn’t it.
Before those heartbeats developed into anything deeper, he needed to let go of this feeling.
He could only be grateful that she’d let him taste a small thrill during his difficult hospital stay…….
‘……Wait. She’s raising the child alone now?’
Now. Alone.
At those two words, a small balloon seemed to drift up above the dark hole.
‘It doesn’t matter either way. No, no! Whatever her situation, what’s that got to do with me anyway!’

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