The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! - Chapter 42

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The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! Episode 42
Soon a steaming pot of brown rice green tea appeared on the wide table. Iji set out the pastries she’d brought down from upstairs.
The result was a tea time that looked like it belonged in a pediatrician’s office—between a grandmother and her granddaughter and the doctor.
“Sir, if you keep forcing yourself to cough like that, you’ll hurt your throat.”
“Thank you. But honestly, if it meant avoiding 150 million won, I’d try anything. You think I’d find ten won if I dug up the earth?”
Geumhui dropped the pretense at once.
But that seemed to confuse the Director even more.
“In any case, if I put together what you both have said—”
One: Jin Siheon disappeared three months ago. Something serious happened to his body.
Two: Two elderly people who happened to make his acquaintance volunteered to help him.
End of story.
“That’s all I know! Would someone like him even accept help from others? Just watching Jin Siheon’s shorts, he looks like the type who’d bite his own tongue before owing anyone a favor?”
“Shorts? You don’t know him—you just watch him on YouTube?”
“That’s right. Who’d be friends with a friendless ranker?”
“Who knows. Life throws all manner of things at you as you grow older. I never thought I’d become a Hunter at my age, let alone enter Dungeons.”
…….
“Well, I don’t mix much with that young man, so I can’t speak to his character. Our child wanted so badly to help, so I’m doing it with her.”
Iji nodded.
“I happened to find him, and I decided to help. But where he is—that’s a secret.”
“Is he hurt?”
“Um, I don’t think so.”
“Can’t he move?”
“No. He runs around just fine!”
“……So why does he sit around while putting elderly people through hardship?”
“He doesn’t just sit around. He does his work on his feet!”
…….
She’d explained as best she could without revealing Siheon’s whereabouts.
Yet the Director’s expression twisted more and more.
‘Why is that?’
Geumhui ignored her own confusion and jumped in.
“Teacher, how did Jin Siheon end up giving you that Smartphone?”
“Well, you see…….”
The Director gestured to the space beside his office.
A spotless white corridor stretched out, with small patient rooms lining both sides.
“I’m a Healer Hunter with a medical license, and I run a small hospital. My main patients are Hunters without means. Someone found that Smartphone in a Dungeon and gave it to me instead of paying hospital fees.”
A person running a hospital for poor patients.
The dramatic nature of it made Iji’s heart quicken.
‘What a good person!’
“Normally I’d resell it secondhand. But I thought—what if it belonged to someone who’d offer a finder’s reward? So I went through the trouble of unlocking it, and wouldn’t you know, a celebrity showed up on the screen.”
‘Wait! He’s actually a villain!’
You’re supposed to return lost items to their owners!
Geumhui voiced her doubt.
“But Jin Siheon was missing. Were you going to extort money if he was alive, or summon his ghost to get lottery numbers if he was dead?”
“Someone of Jin Siheon’s caliber—if anything happened to him in a Dungeon, I was certain he’d have people around him to track him down.”
“I heard Jin Siheon doesn’t have friends.”
“People who say they have no friends—if you ask them closely, they always have one or two. The only person I’ve ever met who truly has none is me……. No, wait, I mean—ahem!”
…….
Geumhui shot the Director a pitying look. Iji cried out.
“It’s okay to not have friends! You said so yourself, sir—children must learn how to make friends, but if an adult has a strong heart, they can find joy even without—”
“Stop comforting me!”
‘Not as strong as he claims.’
The Director quickly hid his expression by pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose.
“Anyway! Yes. I understand that you both claim to be helping Jin Siheon of your own free will. But I cannot budge on the 150 million won.”
Geumhui waved her hand dismissively, grimacing.
“Ugh, I couldn’t get that much money even if I sold my house!”
“For Jin Siheon, that amount is pocket change.”
“Really?”
“You really don’t know much about him, do you? Jin Siheon was once ranked number one. A walking corporation unto himself.”
“What, that rabbit?”
Before the Director could ask what she meant by rabbit, Iji interjected urgently.
“He might be able to give it!”
She didn’t know exactly how much 150 million was, but Siheon had said he could easily give her a Premium Apartment, so 150 million would be pocket change.
The problem was—
“He might need the Smartphone first to do Internet Banking…….”
“No. If the Smartphone gets into an S-rank Hunter’s hands first, how am I supposed to get it back?”
“But—”
“Even being generous about it, the most I can accept is if he comes here in person and does the transfer. And I’d have to set up safeguards to keep him from causing trouble in the hospital.”
“It’s difficult for him to come out.”
“That’s not my concern. I have other ways to use this Smartphone anyway.”
Ugh…….
What should she do?
‘Actually, we don’t absolutely need Dungeon information.’
With King Rabbit, Geumhui the grandmother, and the brown bear, they could clear any dangerous Dungeon.
But the problem was—
‘I’ll need the Smartphone later for him to give me the Premium Apartment.’
That was her original reason for helping Siheon in the first place—the finest home for her sister, a two-story Premium Apartment with a garden.
‘It’s shameful to lose my childish dreams so soon!’
Just as she was about to cry out that she couldn’t give up the Smartphone.
A siren wailed from somewhere, low and urgent.
The Director bolted upright.
“Excuse me, we’ll talk about this later!”
A whirring, mechanical sound came from not far away. Its source became clear almost immediately.
The sound of the staircase leading to the basement transforming into a slide.
A new patient slid into the examination room right next door—the same one Iji and Geumhui had left earlier.
The patient’s sleeves were soaked with blood up to the shoulders.
“Aaaaagh……!”
The man transporting the patient rushed the stretcher forward, shouting.
“Director, this Hunter was working at Maseok Factory! Machinery injury!”
“Hmm……. We’ll prioritize the Ligation Technique. Set it up.”
“Yes, sir!”
The stretcher had already reached what looked like an operating theater, and the Director began washing his hands urgently.
Meanwhile, the patient being rushed in lifted trembling eyelids and spoke.
“I, I don’t have money.”
…….
“I lost it all, found work, didn’t even get paid……. Ugh!”
The Director didn’t listen further and fitted an oxygen mask over the patient’s face. As another staff member injected anesthetic, the Director spoke.
“If you live, there’s always a way to pay. Clench your teeth now.”
“I, I am……. I…… ahhhhhng……. Cool…….”
“Patient’s out. Drape!”
“Yes, sir!”
With no way to intervene further, Iji and Geumhui quietly sat by the examination room and finished the remaining snacks.
“Grandmother.”
“Yes, dear.”
“Is that Director a good person?”
He ran a hospital for people without money, after all.
But Geumhui neither said yes nor no.
“Iji, that tea shop lady who gave you free Monaka earlier—is she a good person?”
“I…… No! I don’t know.”
Only kindergarteners believe the formula that someone who gives you delicious things equals a good person!
‘Kidnappers give out candy too!’
“Right. To know who’s good and who’s not, you need a lot of time.”
…….
“But here’s one thing I can tell you for certain: when someone brings up money from the very start, they’re usually not just being stubborn about it.”
By the time they finished the snacks, the procedure in the operating theater was done. The Director came back to his office, removing his surgical cap.
“Did the strategy meeting go well?”
“We’re counting on winning first prize in the lottery this week. There’s no other answer.”
“Let’s pray it comes true. If you help move that patient, I might even reduce the bill by ten thousand won.”
So he was asking for help.
Geumhui helped pull the wheeled stretcher without a word.
The Director continued talking to the patient the whole time.
“You can’t fall asleep. Where did you get hurt?”
“Ugh…… Maseok, Factory……. OO City…….”
“That neighborhood again? Hm. Seems like that factory owner keeps resupplying me with critical cases.”
The patient couldn’t answer in time. Severe pain had swallowed his voice.
He steadied his breathing for a long while before finally squeezing out the important question.
“Doctor. Will my arm…… be able to move……?”
“Just rest for now. Rest one day and we’ll talk about it.”
…….
The patient’s expression twisted with despair.
Iji understood it too. The Director’s response was essentially his way of saying, ‘It’s going to be difficult. Prepare yourself.’
The Director’s lips were also twisted slightly with pain.
‘He’s a Healer Hunter, but…… Ah.’
Now that she thought about it, Hunters’ skills lost potency outside Dungeons.
But you couldn’t just carry a patient into any Dungeon.
How much harder must it be to have power but be unable to use it.
While she was thinking, the patient transfer ended.
A staff member moved the patient to the hospital bed, and the Director dusted off his hands and stepped back from the stretcher.
“That completes the examination. Now then, shall we return to our earlier discussion—”
“Huh, what?”
At that moment.
A patient lying in the adjacent bed to the newly admitted one pointed at the grandmother and shouted.
“Aren’t you Geumhui?”
“Huh?”
“We shared a room at the Municipal Rehabilitation Hospital before. You were the grandmother who came in on a stretcher and checked out doing burpees!”

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