The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! - Chapter 55

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The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! Episode 55
The Angel Statue reacted to those words.
“Who are you calling a piggy bank!”
“If you’d fallen in the water just to get a few coins, wouldn’t that make you a piggy bank?”
“No! I was trying to scientifically reinforce Klaus’s wishes through positive affirmation…… Damn it. What’s the point of explaining to a bear!”
The Angel flew higher into the air.
Inside the basket, coins that Klaus had once tossed in as his only hobby scattered and rolled.
He spoke.
“I am the master of this dungeon. If you refuse the rules I have set, you cannot remain here!”
Lee Ji clenched her teeth and cried out.
“Those rules are tormenting Klaus! They’re bad rules!”
“Bad rules are still rules! Klaus. Obey my command. Eliminate these intruders at once, or this dungeon will collapse and we will all perish!”
Geum-hui clapped her hands and jumped in.
“Oh! I remember the orientation now! They said if we just smash the core, the Dungeon Break stops!”
“What? Smash? Kahahaha! Can a mere F-rank Hunter possibly destroy me!”
“Well, you wouldn’t know. Once you hit forty, your bones creak just from stretching.”
“……I won’t fall for such crude provocation!”
“Not provocation—personal experience talking.”
“Argh!”
Ku-ku-ku-ku……
Every metal implement stored in the Blacksmith Shop began to tremble.
‘An earthquake?’
“Well, your house will crumble before those old bones do!”
It was neither.
What moved were the metal implements of the shop. They all rose into the air.
An overwhelming force incomparable to the blacksmith himself.
The Angel spoke.
“I will dispose of you all.”
Whiiing—!
A poker tore through the air and struck Geum-hui’s shoulder.
Geum-hui deflected it, but the poker was only the beginning. A pickaxe, a shovel, and other blades flashed toward her with cutting light.
Though Jang Mi-sam swung his vines, the weapons altered course with uncanny precision and flew past.
Some turned toward Lee Ji.
“……!”
The first thing to come flying was a metal basin.
Lee Ji instinctively squeezed her eyes shut.
But there was no impact. The metal basin simply reversed direction and crashed back into the storage cabinet, crumpling with a dent.
‘Rainbow Butterfly!’
In Lee Ji’s embrace, Rainbow Butterfly beat her wings desperately.
‘I’m fine! So then—’
“Grimoire! Come here!”
[Ugh…… embarrassing, but don’t ask for favors!]
Lee Ji snatched up Grimoire and stuffed her into her bag. Even as she did, several blades aimed at her were blocked by the shield and fell roughly to the ground.
It didn’t hurt, but the sharp sound of collision and the terror of being targeted kept shaking Lee Ji’s heart.
‘I’m scared…… Grandmother really won’t be okay!’
By then Geum-hui had positioned herself with her back to the storage cabinet.
She was using a wooden board torn from the cabinet as both shield and weapon, but how long could she hold out?
‘What do I do?’
First, she had to deal with the flying objects.
“Klaus! Earlier you created tools in midair and wielded them. How did you do that?”
“A blacksmith’s job is to make things and test them by swinging them. I wondered if I could do that directly in midair, and it just worked.”
[Probably the Blacksmith Shop Dungeon itself helped. It was thrilled after obtaining that S-rank Battery.]
“Then right now—could you stop those flying objects too?”
“……Let me try!”
Klaus fixed his gaze on his own shop. The objects that the Angel Statue had been freely wielding froze in the air one by one.
Geum-hui didn’t miss her chance.
“Water pigeon, here I come!”
Geum-hui climbed halfway up the Staircase, then hurled the Speaker with all her strength. With a crack, a small chip appeared on the Angel’s forehead.
That was all.
The Angel trembled and spoke.
“How rude……! I’ll skin you and hang you in front of the Blacksmith Shop!”
A heavy Halberd rose from the shop. Geum-hui rushed up the Staircase, but the Halberd, gaining momentum, chased her ankles.
If Jang Mi-sam hadn’t extended his vine, the Halberd would have split Geum-hui clean in half.
Clang! A severed stem and several rose petals fell to the floor. Jang Mi-sam swallowed a cry of pain.
Klaus shouted.
“Kid, I’m sorry. That bastard is far stronger than me!”
“It’s okay. Keep going. Until the S-rank Battery is drained!”
“……You asked me to use my power for that reason?”
“Yes!”
There was only one fundamental way to stop flying weapons.
Drain the battery.
Grimoire clicked her tongue.
[Lee Ji. The Magical Power of an S-rank is beyond imagination. This kind of foolishness could go on for days!]
“But……”
[……Right. We have to do something anyway! I know!]
Warning!
The Dungeon is entering Unstable Mode
Dungeon Break in 00:24:59
“Ahhhhgh! Rude intruders, get out of my house now!”
“Just sit down already, water pigeon. Let the rabbit go!”
Everyone was desperate.
Lee Ji grabbed a Hammer rolling across the floor.
She wanted to add even her meager strength. She had to.
‘I’m going to save my friends!’
All the way forward, the sound of falling blades rang like hail, endless and relentless. Rainbow Butterfly gasped and shone with light.
Grandmother, fighting on the 2nd Floor, had started to shout ‘Don’t come up!’ to Lee Ji when she took a pickaxe to the face and bit her tongue.
The 2nd Floor at last.
“So all the intruders gathered in one place!”
The Angel fixed his gaze on Lee Ji.
Almost simultaneously, the blades hovering around him turned in one direction.
The movement was very smooth.
As though Klaus no longer resisted the Angel’s power.
‘Mister…… Are you tired?’
“I don’t want to attack a child…… but a brat who doesn’t know her place will only grow into an adult who doesn’t know hers.”
“You damp pigeon! Let that go, hack!”
“Bear, don’t interfere. It seems the leader of this messy bunch is the little one here, yes?”
The Angel smiled. An expression utterly unbecoming of the word ‘angel’—full of greed.
“I will eliminate you.”
“Wha——”
“Like a torn fawn.”
Every blade turned toward Lee Ji.
‘Rainbow Butterfly!’
The butterfly glimmered. But the rainbow hue was much fainter than before, and Lee Ji’s head swam. She had exhausted too much Magical Power.
Geum-hui, Jang Mi-sam, and Grimoire all cried out.
“Lee Ji!”
“Groaaaargh!”
[Damn it, even I——!]
The bear charged forward. Jang Mi-sam stretched his slender vine. Grimoire opened her pages in front of Lee Ji’s face.
‘No——’
If Grimoire were torn to shreds——
……But the tragedy she had imagined did not come to pass.
Clang, clang, clang!
Suddenly the blades began to fall to the floor.
The Angel was taken aback.
“What, what is this? Fly, move!”
But even as his hands flailed, the blades on the floor only quivered like dying insects.
And that was not all that changed. The height at which the Angel flew had already grown noticeably lower.
Dungeon Break in 00:13:23
Feeling the remaining time slowly decrease, the Angel spoke with a bewildered expression.
“Ughh…… Why has my Magical Power dropped so suddenly?”
“Because I used it all.”
“……What? Klaus, you bastard! What have you done!”
The voice belonged to Klaus, who had somehow made his way to the 2nd Floor.
Lee Ji turned her head in relief, then froze.
Klaus looked like a man who had weathered a storm alone. His body was drenched in sweat, and both eyes were shot through with burst blood vessels, glowing red.
“Mister! What’s wrong with you? Why……”
“Very, very…… I pushed hard.”
He answered with a strained smile on his pale lips.
“A task I’d put off too long. Creating ‘the finest blade,’ you see.”
Klaus raised what he held in his right hand.
The newly honed Arming Sword’s blade shone a brilliant blue, sharp enough to cleave the very air.
Lee Ji could sense it by instinct alone.
This was the kind of ultimate weapon that appears exactly once in every anime.
The Angel cried out.
“Surely…… you used all this Dungeon’s Magical Power to forge that blade? In such a short time?”
“You have it backwards. I forged the blade in order to use the power. Haha. It felt like pouring an enormous dam’s water into my cup.”
“Of course! Your cup is broken! You’ll never swing a hammer again…… damn it. Forget it!”
The Angel gnashed his teeth.
“Give me that sword! It’s mine!”
“No.”
While Geum-hui and Jang Mi-sam blocked the diving Angel with their bodies,
Klaus looked down at Lee Ji and spoke.
“This is for you, child.”

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