The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! - Chapter 57

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The Magical Hunter Girl Builds a Dungeon! Episode 057
A girl on a bear, a rabbit on the girl, a sword in front of the rabbit, an angel.
There’s not a single thing in common with the Town Musicians of Bremen.
‘They say when a Dungeon Break happens, chaos beyond imagination unfolds…… Is this really the situation before the Break occurs? Could it get even more chaotic than this?’
Even so, magical power was condensing into Ji-hyeok’s weapon—the silver sword.
[Weapon]
[Sword of Counterlight (A+)]
: A blade forged from Moon Metal, holding Blue Dragon Blood as its essence and World Tree roots as its hilt.
Its high Magical Responsiveness allows it to withstand the pressure of powerful skills.
[Skill]
[Shadow Destroyer (A+)]
: Area-of-effect attack within a 10-meter radius (Fire type)
: Violent heat rising from the earth strikes all beings standing upon the ground—including inanimate objects—with bewilderment they cannot overcome.
It was the most impressively described skill Ji-hyeok possessed, and the one that could obliterate a Dungeon Core fastest.
Of course, not just the Core—the entire building would disappear. Every living thing inside included.
Even if a Hunter who entered the Dungeon first got caught in it…… their chance of surviving a Dungeon Break was low anyway, so preventing civilian casualties outside took priority.
That’s what the Hunter Association taught.
But…….
‘A girl?’
Logically, there shouldn’t be a girl in a Dungeon.
Yet atop common sense shattered by words like “bear,” “rabbit,” and “angel,” the word “girl” arrived as the sole reality worth accepting.
And while Ji-hyeok was deliberating.
[00:00:01 until Dungeon Break]
‘Oh……!’
Click—the moment the final line in the number changed to a curve, light began pouring from the building.
[Aaaaagh!]
He quickly caught and held Grimoire, swept up by the blast of hot wind, then took that same wind full force one step behind her.
Fifteen-year-old Han Ji-hyeok had a thought.
If this was the end for him—
‘I should’ve ordered an extra plate of boiled pork at that Makguksu Restaurant earlier—!’
Honestly, in his final moment, Ji-hyeok never imagined he’d be remembering a 27,000-won plate of boiled pork.
But that was how short his life had been—scant of any other memories worth holding.
Fourteen years spent born and raised in the Slum District.
Six months under the care of the Hunter Association’s director after awakening, living at the Association.
The boy’s radar, always wanting to forget the past, was forever aimed at the future.
He wanted to live as an honorable and impressive Hunter.
Specifically, impressive enough to film a public service announcement someday.
But while he studied hard and trained, the boy came to know of a Hunter named Jin Si-heon.
A rude bastard. One who openly mocked the Hunter Association.
Yet when paired with the word “strength,” such traits created remarkable synergy.
He was incredibly cool.
Even thinking he shouldn’t emulate such a bastard, the boy’s hands and feet trailed after Si-heon.
And finally, he’d reached the point of tracking down traces of the last Dungeon Si-heon had entered.
Of course, even after finding it, there was nothing to do at a Dungeon site that had cleanly vanished.
Grimoire must have suggested eating Makguksu for that reason—to cool his head.
The Makguksu was truly delicious. While he chopped and ate the spicy radish kimchi, his anxiety about the Dungeon supposedly appearing nearby began to fade.
A proper Hunter would handle it.
Then, after he’d agonized over the price of one more plate of boiled pork and given up, finishing even the soup from the Makguksu—
Suddenly, an emergency message arrived on his Association phone.
[Warning! Dungeon Break danger detected at B-Rank Dungeon on OO Mountain in Yangju City!]
[Any nearby available Hunters, please respond!]
Ji-hyeok threw his card on the restaurant counter and ran out, finding the Dungeon under Grimoire’s guidance.
Midway up the mountain, a filthy pond was the freshly formed entrance.
The swirling pond water and metallic sounds emanating from within signaled this Dungeon was not in normal condition.
Another message arrived.
[!!Any nearby available Hunters, please respond!!]
[!!C-Rank or higher welcome!!]
The increasingly frantic messages conveyed the urgency of the situation.
There was no sound of anyone nearby. Perhaps he’d have to handle this alone…….
‘……Alone? That’s pretty cool.’
Damn. Even cursing himself for such recklessness, Ji-hyeok threw himself forward.
[00:00:58 until Dungeon Break]
And as he was about to fire the Shadow Destroyer skill toward where the Core was, he heard there was a girl inside and hesitated.
That brief moment of carelessness cost him—the building exploded.
‘Is this really how my short life ends in a flash—?’
Wait, hold on.
‘What kind of fifty-eight-second lantern show of life is longer than the three minutes you wait after pouring water into cup ramen! I’m not dead—I’m alive!’
Ji-hyeok belatedly snapped back to reason and opened his eyes.
He lay in an open field. The fragmented sky visible as if through broken glass told him this wasn’t Earth.
But it wasn’t a dangerous situation either.
Grimoire 998, staggering beside him, spoke.
[This is that Dungeon from before.]
“Did the Dungeon Break happen?”
[No. That little girl—or rather, the girl and the bear and the rabbit—seem to have succeeded in destroying the Dungeon Core.]
“What?”
The Town Musicians of Bremen, forgotten just moments ago, began dancing through his mind again.
Damn. For someone appearing at the moment of his life’s end, they were far too lame—he wanted to forget them!
“So when the Dungeon Break stops…….”
What happens? He’d learned this, but it had escaped him.
Grimoire 998, diligently following along with their lesson, answered properly.
[The Dungeon system judges this situation as equivalent to a Dungeon Clear and grants Hunters appropriate compensation.]
“…….”
[During that time, the Dungeon becomes a closed Neutral Zone. Wait and the situation will be resolved, and the gate will open.]
“Thank you for the explanation.”
Ji-hyeok first tried to hide in the grass and check his condition. He swallowed a curse in one second flat.
‘My weapon!’
When the hot wind swept him away, the blade had broken.
From the fractured silver sword dripped Blue Dragon Blood—the magical catalyst you couldn’t buy even with money anymore.
‘The director gave me that sword…….’
Human nature was truly devious.
He’d come in prepared to die but instead lived—yet he wasn’t happy. Instead, a sense of injustice welled up at being unable to fight impressively and merely losing his weapon.
Ji-hyeok stuffed the sword handle into his inventory and stared toward the building from before.
‘What exactly are you guys, Town Musicians of Bremen!?’
The two-story building from before had its walls and roof completely blown away.
Scattered anvils and hammer remains in what had been a courtyard testified that it had once been a blacksmith.
[That’s the Dungeon Core I confirmed. Destroyed well.]
On the ground lay a headless angel statue, scattered across the space.
Before it, a rabbit, a girl, and a black bear caught their breath—exactly as Grimoire described.
Ji-hyeok deliberately ignored the existence of an enormous wild rose vine dancing merrily behind them. He had no mental space left to comprehend such things.
Most of all, the moment he confirmed the girl’s face, something clanged in his head.
‘That kid—I’ve definitely seen her before!’
Not long ago, when the Hunter Association held a consultation at the Civilian Support Center, she’d come there.
He’d happened to pass her and thought ‘This girl has seriously thick hair,’ and he even remembered how Grimoire 998 had tensed up for a moment.
Shortly after, they’d even taken a photo in front of the Hunter Association building.
‘So she wasn’t a civilian but an Awakened One. And that thing flying beside her—’
“Grimoire 998, is that girl also a contractor of a Grimoire?”
[We don’t divulge information about other Grimoires. ……Though I’d say the situation is obvious.]
Beside the girl, a book covered in soot was flying through the air. It was definitely a Grimoire.
‘What exactly is that kid? What kind of Awakened One is she for a Grimoire to be attached to her?’
Ji-hyeok pressed forward, flattening himself against the grass.
Between the whisper of grass against grass, he heard the voices of the Town Musicians of Bremen.
[Pant…… I thought I was dying……!]
“Geez, completely covered…… Like a roasted sweet potato wrapper…….”
“Are you…… okay?”
“……Barely.”
‘Hm?’
The moment Ji-hyeok heard the rabbit’s voice, he froze in place.
Just two syllables and he could tell.
This was Jin Si-heon’s voice—the one Ji-hyeok had heard countless times in Shorts and Reels.
Ji-hyeok frantically moved his limbs forward. The voice grew closer.
“Right after destroying the Core, my power had almost completely returned to the blade. That statue, which would’ve earned nothing but a ten-won coin in Korea from a pond full of algae, caused real trouble without knowing its place.”
If sound could have appearance, it would certainly be called handsome—but the lack of manners in the tone had demolished countless advantages.
‘It’s definitely Hunter Jin Si-heon’s voice……!’
……Despite being in the form of a pitch-black, fierce-looking rabbit.

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