The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! - Chapter 48

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The Magic Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! Episode 48
“Hey, that’s…….”
“Fool.”
Si Heon’s voice turned sharp.
“The longer you hesitate, the more obvious it becomes that you’re just stalling, throwing out any name that comes to mind. If there was someone you wanted to beat down anyway, why not just say so?”
“No, that’s the real truth!”
The Supervisor’s eyes brightened. It was his fatal mistake.
Si Heon spoke, raising his front legs.
“That gleam in your eye—disgusting.”
A sharp cry escaped the Supervisor’s lips.
The moment he raised his arm to defend, Si Heon’s hind legs lashed out, kicking the Supervisor’s thigh with a solid, wooden thud.
The Supervisor couldn’t even scream.
Si Heon spoke softly.
“Today, because of you, a Hunter got caught under a conveyor belt and damaged his thigh—or so I heard.”
“……!”
“Don’t do to others what you wouldn’t want done to yourself. ……Though I’m hardly one to talk.”
Darkness slowly descended behind Si Heon’s back. The Court of Jin Si Heon was activating.
“Your path from here on—”
“Kim Dong Ha!”
Just before the Court of Jin Si Heon wrapped around everything, the Supervisor cried out a name. Si Heon paused.
“Is he your direct superior? You want me to punish him?”
“Ha! I absolutely can’t! That man—he’s a third-generation chaebol heir who’ll inherit our factory soon!”
“…….”
“He’s the starting point of why the factory’s problems get hushed up. The higher-ups warned us not to bother the young master with anything. You wouldn’t dare touch a chaebol family either, right? Someone small like me……!”
Another rabbit kick landed. Si Heon spoke coldly.
“Blame the rat’s head all you want. Does that erase the fact that you beat people while wielding what little power you had?”
The curtain of darkness fell.
Click, click. The dry gravel along the stream bank began to tremble, emitting an ominous sound.
The dungeon’s entities were transforming into jurors.
“You have two paths. Either protect people through reason, or be crushed under the weight of the sins you’ve wielded.”
Around the Supervisor, gravel began spinning in circles. Like a factory conveyor belt.
The reeds along the stream bank sang.
“Let’s work happily, la-la-la!”
“Exciting Mondays through! Bittersweet Fridays till!”
Si Heon pressed his forehead.
‘My domain’s gotten a bit twisted where it’s mingled with the kid’s.’
Either way, the important effect remained intact. Si Heon raised his right paw as judge within his domain.
“My friend once said: the end of a villain must be singular.”
“Ugh……save me!”
“……A child is watching, remember. I’ll go easy on you, so don’t panic just yet.”
“How am I supposed to trust those words with that look in your eyes!”
“I speak it with the Power of Black King Rabbit.”
The Supervisor gritted his teeth and cried out as if resigned to his final breath.
“Punish the young master Kim Dong Ha too!”
“From now on—”
“That bastard who looked down on us eating the greasy scraps while he feasts on factory profits!”
“—live righteously!”
“The heir of the GEG Group!”
A torrent of light descended upon the Supervisor.
Verdict rendered: the defendant is sentenced to live righteously according to law, reason, and conscience. Term: for the rest of his life.
The Supervisor trembled violently, then collapsed.
The Court of Jin Si Heon’s trial had ended. In a few dozen minutes, the factory Supervisor would wake, his mind transformed.
Geum Hee scooped up the Supervisor.
“Water’s starting to drain down. Everyone move to the sides!”
“Yes—”
“The factory’s Hunters will try to enter soon, so we need to deal with that—rabbit boy, what are you doing?”
“…….”
But even after releasing his domain, Si Heon stood rooted in the middle of the stream bank. Iji rushed up to him, then stopped short.
“Sir? You……look angry……?”
His jet-black pupils were trembling faintly.
“What’s wrong?”
“Not anger. I need to understand more……and then rage properly.”
“If you’re not angry right now, let’s go together anyway. The water’s coming!”
Iji scooped up Si Heon and bounded up the embankment. The rabbit’s hind legs flailed in the air.
“……No time to be angry.”
“Look! The water flowing over the Magic Stones—it’s so cool!”
Upstream, a gap between the gravel banks slowly widened, and water began seeping through, trickling in.
Like someone drawing thread from light.
The stream bank gradually filled. Between the glittering ripples, gravel studded with Magic Stones shimmered in rainbow hues.
A scene like a pond where silk carp swim.
Even Si Heon’s mouth opened without thinking.
Geum Hee sighed in wonder.
“Should’ve brought kimbap.”
“……Elder, your thoughts turn to food even here?”
“Seeing something beautiful and eating something delicious at the same time—it’s even better, isn’t it? Besides, we’ve got ten minutes before the water stops anyway.”
“When does the next shift of workers get sent in?”
“Hold on.”
Geum Hee tried to turn on her mobile phone with her front leg, failed, and tossed it lightly to the ground. The phone announced the time as if gasping its last breath.
“Fifty minutes from now.”
“That’s plenty of time. We could really get—”
But at that moment, an urgent message flashed across Geum Hee’s phone screen. A text from a patient in league with a staff member.
Elder! The dungeon entry time’s been moved up by thirty minutes!
Apparently because of the accident on lanes 1 and 2, the Raw Stone supply ran short—
“……Damn.”
In twenty minutes, if the staff workers entering the dungeon discovered the intruders already inside?
They’d wait for the dungeon to be cleared instead of recklessly trying to breach the dungeon walls.
The moment the dungeon is cleared, Si Heon and Geum Hee would be pulled back into the Grimoire for a while…….
“We have to clear it fast! Let’s carry the stones up!”
“How long will it take with pebbles this small? I’ll pull up a tree!”
“Carry anything we can! Damn, it’s so slippery!”
Si Heon tried to pick up gravel, failed, and flattened himself on the ground instead. Then he started kicking gravel with his hind legs. The stones flew and piled up in moments.
Iji moved to help, approaching Si Heon.
Then something caught his eye.
‘What’s that?’
As the gravel scattered, a pink triangle appeared on the exposed dirt floor.
‘Like a kids’ puzzle.’
One of those shape-matching toys with marked spots for where pieces go.
Right beside it, he spotted a triangular piece of gravel. It shimmered a deep crimson—holding fine-quality Magic Stone.
‘I want to take it, but……. Uh!’
Snap!
When Iji placed the triangular gravel against the pink triangle outline, it fit perfectly like magnets locking together. The area around it trembled.
‘Whoa?’
This is no ordinary thing.
“Sir, over here! Dig around this area!”
“You got it!”
Si Heon scuttled over sideways and unleashed his hind legs. Pow-pow-pow-pow-pow!
As gravel scattered, the dirt floor’s outline sketch beneath became visible. Next came an orange heart. A yellow star toward the stream. A green square below that…….
When the dark blue stone was placed in its correct position, Si Heon finally lifted his head.
“But kid, what exactly are you making me do?”
“Dig.”
“For what reason!”
“You’ll see soon!”
Finally, the purple stone settled into place.
At that exact moment, Geum Hee returned to the stream.
“Brought a rock since there’s no wood……wait, what? When did the water drain?”
Si Heon and Iji realized it too—the water that had soaked up to the rabbit’s belly had somehow receded until it only lapped at their feet.
In that instant of realization, the seven stones that had found their places began to glow in sequence from above—
And then a deafening boom echoed from downstream.
“Huh?”
They all turned to look downstream.
Through the rising dust that obscured their view, a system message announced reality a step ahead of them.
Hidden Dungeon Gate Open
Entry Available Time 00:02:59
“What’s a Hidden Dungeon?”
“Remember when I told you there are dungeons with hidden entrances? That’s exactly what this is.”
“The Hidden Dungeon entrance was hiding in this dungeon all along…….”
As the dust settled downstream.
A verdant blue hill jutted out suddenly, utterly at odds with the desolate stream landscape. There, a cave mouth yawned open—that must be the entrance.
“We don’t have to go in, do we?”
“If we leave it alone, that entrance will close and this dungeon will clear. ……Probably.”
“…….”
The entry countdown ticked down relentlessly.
Iji swallowed hard, tension tightening his throat.
A precious opportunity, but one that didn’t demand a choice.
‘I’m curious, but a good student has to resist!’
But with only a minute remaining.
The Grimoire looking downstream cried out.
[That……is the scent of that B-ranked dungeon I’ve been searching for.]

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