The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! - Chapter 43

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Magic Girl Hunter Decorates a Dungeon! Episode 43
Burpee Jump.
At that word, the Director’s face twisted as if he doubted his own ears.
Meanwhile, Geumhui belatedly recognized her conversation partner.
“Oh, I remember now. You’re the young lady who shared coffee milk with me in the next seat, aren’t you? That was delicious. What was it again? Caramel macchiato?”
“I really enjoyed the rice cake and steamed corn you shared with me back then. Where did you get that rice cake?”
“A friend gave it to me, so I don’t know where it’s from. I should ask them about it—… wait, more importantly, why are you lying in the hospital again?”
The Patient fell silent for a moment.
“……That’s the life of a low-rank Hunter. Wherever they call, you rush over, and you keep getting hurt until you can’t anymore.”
“…….”
“When I first got hurt, I had enough money for a regular hospital…….”
On the bed, a steel support brace ran through the Patient’s ankle. For a while, she wouldn’t even be able to walk, let alone work.
The Patient pulled the blanket over it and laughed weakly.
“I’m glad to see you. You haven’t been admitted again, have you?”
“……No.”
“That’s a relief. Tell me where the rice cake shop is later. Please.”
The Patient murmured: ‘That sounds delicious.’ As if it were the only sweet word she could speak right now.
Taking the silence as a signal, the Director pulled Iji and Geumhui toward the Director’s Office.
The moment the door slammed shut, the Director cried out.
“What was that conversation you were having with that Patient?”
“Rice cake—do kids these days not know what that is? It’s also called drunken cake, and when you steam it fresh with just a light sprinkle of black sesame, it comes out white and fluffy—”
“Never mind that! Not that!”
The Director quickly swallowed.
“She came in on a stretcher and then did Burpee Jumps? Ma’am. Why were you admitted to a rehabilitation hospital in the first place? How did you recover?”
“……I got hurt when I went into a dungeon because of some conman.”
“Hmm.”
“On the day I was admitted, I Awakened as a Hunter and recovered quickly.”
It wasn’t a lie.
But the Director was skilled at detecting when someone was hiding something. It came from his experience as a medical professional.
All patients lie.
“Some people do experience bodily changes at the moment of Awakening. But usually, it stops at the level of hormonal secretion. Like when an injured person forgets pain and escapes danger from an adrenaline rush.”
“…….”
“To offer another example, there are cases where the Skill gained from Awakening affects the person’s body. Are you a Healer?”
“I am.”
“From the way you’re fretting over 150 million won, you don’t seem to be high-rank. How did you recover so quickly?”
Geumhui shrugged.
She’d lived too long to fall for such cheap provocation.
“Perhaps heaven blessed me for living without speaking ill of others.”
“……You’re impressive. If you were a high-rank Healer, I could even give you a Smartphone in exchange for treating a few patients.”
“That’s generous of you, truly. But I don’t think it’s something I can do.”
The Director let out a short sigh, then spun around and spoke.
“Then negotiations have failed. Tell Siheon this: in one week, I’m putting this Smartphone up for Hunter auction. People more capable of utilizing it than I am will buy it.”
The conversation ended.
Along with the Director’s villainous words.
Iji tried to add something more—
“Director! Patient in Room 3 is bleeding again!”
“I’m coming!”
The Director rushed out of the Director’s Office. His ragged doctor’s coat fluttered like a pirate flag.
Geumhui patted Iji’s shoulder.
“He’s no ordinary stubborn mule. Let’s go.”
“……Yes.”
The slide where Iji had slipped earlier had already turned back into stairs.
‘I thought it was a trap, but it was a patient transport mechanism.’
It fit perfectly with the Director—a villain who wouldn’t return a found Smartphone, then whipped into an angel helping the injured.
Right down the middle of the mental wall erected when the Director mentioned compensation, a crack shaped like a slide appeared.
‘He’s a villain to us, but…….’
Perhaps there was a way for him to become an ally to us as well.
‘He’s not completely bad, after all!’

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“150 million won? That’s cheaper than I thought.”
The Alice Dungeon, where they’d gathered for a strategy meeting before heading home.
After hearing the situation, Siheon answered that way. Geumhui dropped her jaw.
“So you’re giving that money to the Director?”
Siheon shrugged one shoulder in disbelief and spoke.
“No. It’s too little for me to keep, but too much to give to someone else.”
“How annoying.”
“Besides, there’s no way to use it anyway. We’d need the Smartphone first to try anything……. And he won’t give us the Smartphone first.”
“Right. And it’s not like I have the skill to heal patients.”
“Speaking of which, I haven’t yet heard about the Healer Skill you possess.”
“I have one F-rank Skill. It’s not much, but do you want me to explain it?”
“Never mind. If it’s F-rank, it’s not worth hearing about—ahhhhh!”
Geumhui hugged Siheon’s side and squatted down, then began writing on the ground. She seemed to be explaining her Skill.
“Read it carefully. It might come in handy someday.”
“No, stop! I’m gonna throw up my guts! I’m reading it, I’m reading it!”
Iji wanted to see the letters too, but the bear grandmother had become so enormous in the dungeon that the writing was hard to make out.
And rabbit hind legs jutting out from beside the bear’s ribs absorbed all her attention.
‘It looks like a scene from a fairy tale!’
A carnivore and herbivore coexisting peacefully.
Either way, since no one was getting eaten, it was fine.
Soon afterward, Siheon was finally released.
“…… Anyway, we don’t need to give money to such a person. Let’s use your ID to gather information and head into a dungeon.”
“But the Director said he’s putting your Smartphone up for auction! Bad hackers might steal your money!”
“It’s just a threat. The Hunter Community is a mess, but not enough to condone stolen goods auctions. That’s why it has to go to an underground auction—”
Siheon smiled with a slightly cunning edge.
“Siheon’s property hits the market? The moment that rumor spreads, scoundrels start swarming—some investigating the truth, others tracking the seller thinking ‘Why auction it when we can just take it?'”
“Wow…….”
“Apparently, the Director likes working in the shadows. The odds of him doing something so conspicuous—and giving us advance warning—are low.”
From his long explanation, Iji understood exactly one thing.
Siheon really was amazing!
Geumhui tilted her head.
“That makes sense. But that Director didn’t seem like an easy opponent.”
“Still, we don’t need to let him shake us beforehand. First, let’s clear the dungeon where I felt my spirit, sell the byproducts, and buy the Smartphone with the proceeds.”
“No need to let him shake us beforehand? Now that’s smart. We’ll handle it when it comes.”
Geumhui laughed heartily.
Soon the adults searched for dungeon information using Geumhui’s Smartphone. They said they’d handle this themselves.
[Between Uijeongbu and Yangju, estimated B-rank Dungeon. Seems to be near a mountain, but there’s a metallic smell.]
“What’s the road address?”
[How would I know that?]
“Ma’am, could you use the map app—… Wait, not the whole screen! Your bear paw is huge!”
“Iji, could you tap here on the screen?”
Either way, Iji managed to poke her head in among the rabbit, the bear, and the book, and gather information together.
‘No information available’—that was the information.
“Damn. It’s not even on the dungeon registry site…….”
“Do we have to buy expensive information with your Smartphone?”
“Hard to say. If there aren’t even cheap leads, valuable ones are unlikely to exist.”
“…….”
“If that’s the case…….”
There’s only one way: go straight to the dungeon without information.
Geumhui made a face.
“After all that fuss, you want to just go raw? Goodness. Even a sweet potato wears a batter before diving into hot oil, but you’re worse than a sweet potato.”
“That’s fine for me. Magic Girls are always like that anyway!”
No Magic Girl knows what trials await her!
It was quite a proud line, but Geumhui widened her eyes and echoed it.
“Magic Girl is a sweet potato?”
“Magic Girls always face hardship.”
“Hardship my foot. At your age, the hardest thing you should be dealing with is opening a yuzu tea lid.”
Still, Geumhui didn’t stop the EX-rank Hunter.
While making plans to head toward the Northern Gyeonggi Dungeon.
Every time the adults grumbled with each other, Iji alone made her own plan.
‘I want to get the Smartphone.’
150 million won. She didn’t know exactly how much that was, but it was surely money she couldn’t earn even if she worked for ten whole years.
However, Iji had another method she could present to the Director.
‘My homeroom teacher said solving the problem means removing the cause.’

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