The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! - Chapter 58

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The Magical Hunter Girl Furnishes a Dungeon! Episode 58
Ji-hyeok whispered the unbelievable reality to the E-book Reader.
“Grimoire. That black rabbit seems to be Jin Si-heon the Hunter.”
[Seriously? That’s a Hunter? ……Hah. The movements don’t feel like a summoned creature or monster. There’s a mix of human movement in there.]
Grimoire’s brow furrowed sharply.
[That bear also seems like a Hunter. At minimum, it’s not a summoned creature.]
“Really?”
Strange animal companions—two of them already.
“If they’re Hunters, could they be cursed?”
[If it were a transformation curse suffered in the dungeon, the curse wouldn’t hold up this long after the dungeon shattered.]
“Then is there anything else you’d expect?”
[I’m telling you, in three hundred years of living, I’ve never seen anything so fundamentally absurd. ……As an old-timer, just looking at them makes my skin crawl.]
“…….”
[Rather, I’d think you, being of the newer generation, might be able to understand it faster.]
I couldn’t tell if she was being sarcastic or genuine.
But the fastest solution in a moment like this was always the same.
Go and see for yourself.
“I’ll try speaking to them.”
[What if they’re dangerous!]
“There’s a child in the middle. Nothing rough will happen in front of a child.”
[And you’re certain that bear and rabbit are Hunters, but that’s actually a real child? How do you know?]
“…….”
[More than anything, if I were you, I wouldn’t mix words with such a strange group! I’m not speaking as wisdom—I’m speaking as common sense!]
That, I understood.
‘Games are like that. The more hardcore the player, the weirder their outfit gets.’
Comics work the same way. The more hidden the power, the more plain the appearance.
The cliché of the final boss turning out to be a cute younger sister came to mind.
‘Brother. Your adventure is over. From now on, I, Chainreap Jenny, will be your opponent!’
‘……No. I need to stop reading comics!’
“I’m going anyway!”
[Ha…… All right, contractor. I’ll protect you to the very end.]
Ji-hyeok crouched lower and advanced quickly. Their voices grew steadily closer. Though the sound of grass brushing harshly made it difficult to hear clearly.
‘If I can just get past this grass……!’
The moment he parted the last clump of grass with his hand.
Si-heon’s voice reached him.
“I…… I really hate this!”
A feeble expression of resistance.
……Something Jin Si-heon would absolutely never do.
And right now. The rabbit-form Jin Si-heon stood before the young girl with his shoulders hunched slightly. As if he were being scolded.
The girl spoke firmly.
“Whether you like it or not, you have to! Mr. Jin Si-heon. You were really in danger this time!”
“…….”
“Can you just brush off dungeons, or can’t you?”
“I can’t…… I’m sorry.”
“You don’t owe me an apology. Just promise you’ll listen to what I say.”
“Ugh……!”
Jin Si-heon, the greatest under heaven, turned into a rabbit and now he’s being scolded by an elementary school student? What does he dislike so much that he’d plead like this?
‘……I wish all of this had just been my imagination.’
Maybe I should turn back. And forget everything I saw here.
The moment that secondary option occurred to him, Ji-hyeok’s feet had already left the field and stepped into the yard.
‘Damn! Too late!’
The girl noticed the sudden intruder and her eyes widened.
“It’s the brother I saw at the Association before!”

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Klaus’s final blade lodged in the Angel Statue’s head. With a crack, as its bridge of nose split vertically, it thrashed its mouth to the end.
“No, this can’t be……. My sword finally completed……! Ruler of the universe, is this your mockery—your cruel arrangement for me!”
The Angel Statue’s trembling hand flailed near the sword. But before it could grip the blade, its head began to split apart.
“Aaaaaaahhhhh……!”
It shattered along with its final scream, and fragments flew across the entire dungeon.
The destructive power was like a bomb.
Crack, crack, crash!
The smithy walls crumbled. The sound of a mountain collapse echoed. Geum-hee quickly embraced Lee Ji. Looking up from within that embrace, even the sky was fracturing.
‘Is it collapsing?’
But when the sonic storm subsided, Si-heon steadied Lee Ji with a calm voice.
“It’s all right. We…… did it.”
He slowly lowered the sword.
A message appeared.
Dungeon Break—Permanent Halt
Dungeon ‘Claude’s Dream Smithy (B)’ Erasure Operation in Progress
Erasure in 00:19:59
“Erasure……?”
“In twenty minutes, this dungeon will vanish from the world. We’ll naturally be left outside the dungeon.”
It was like what happened to the Career Experience Center Desert Dungeon.
‘Then Klaus…….’
Before the smithy furnace where he’d lit his last fire, only gray ash lay quietly piled.
Lee Ji suppressed the urge to cry.
Klaus had gone where his family went first. And to where his deer friend was.
The tension in their bodies released belatedly.
“Wheeeee…….”
“……Ha.”
“Ohhhhhhh.”
One by one, they sank to the ground. Even Jang Mi-sam and Grimoire collapsed flat.
Before the eyes of Lee Ji, lying in the smithy courtyard, messages appeared in succession.
Final Reward Acquired Due to Dungeon Erasure (Scheduled)
: 20% Basic Ability Enhancement
The effect was about to take hold…… but stopped.
Error!
Minimal Reward Effect Due to Low Basic Ability
Individual Balance Adjustment…… Hunter ‘Lee Ji’ Exclusive Reward Approved
100% Basic Ability Enhancement
The number jumped up!
Simultaneously, the dizziness that had plagued her since she’d overworked the rainbow butterfly earlier eased away.
‘My Magical Power increased!’
The Magical Power stat that had been 3/31 until just now was now 34/62. It looked like she got a bonus charge as well.
The changes weren’t limited to that.
[Gardener’s Song]
: Remaining Decoration Points 4/8
‘Woooow! I need to add tons of pretty stuff!’
Until now, I’d used this skill almost exclusively for rescue operations!
Lee Ji cheered. Behind her, Geum-hee laughed softly.
“Looks like you got something nice. Grandma’s body feels healthier than before too.”
“Yes! I feel good! How about you, Mr. Si-heon?”
“Not nearly as well.”
Si-heon answered lightly despite the content.
“Since I’m in a weakened state, the enhancement efficiency is low. The fact that my body got smaller seems to be a factor too.”
“Oh no…….”
“Well, I got a good sword out of it, so it doesn’t matter. My Magical Power is completely gone, but this alone is a fine blade.”
Si-heon swung the sword and smirked.
“And the next reward should come too.”
“Next? ……Oh!”
[Random Distribution of Remaining Dungeon Resources]
Additional Reward Acquired
: Moon Metal—1 box
: Angel Statue Coins—3 pieces
Each item dropped before the people with a thud.
Before Lee Ji lay three gleaming coins. And a large wooden box.
Inside the box were stacked perfectly round, silvery metal lumps.
[Moon Metal (B)]
: A metal extracted solely from the ‘Ocean of the Moon’ in dungeons related to ‘the Moon.’ Only craftsmen of B-Rank or above can handle it.
Jin Si-heon examined the items on her behalf.
“It’s a metal you can sell for good price. You could also hand it over to a crafting-class Hunter.”
“Wow! ……Should I put it in the garden for now? It’ll be hard to carry.”
“You don’t know how to use an Inventory?”
“What’s that?”
Soon Si-heon taught her how to use the Inventory. He said it was like a magical pouch granted to Awakened Ones.
“I never carried heavy things in dungeons before, so I didn’t know…….”
A magical girl had no need for such baggage!
A single small bag was enough.
The metal box went into the Inventory, and the gold coins went into her bag.
Erasure in 00:09:42
Si-heon sat on the grass with a languid posture.
“Ha…… I’m finally getting the sense that I’ve got my soul back. Being tense the whole time in the dungeon was exhausting.”
“Do you feel a bit better now?”
“I do.”
“Then I have something serious to tell you.”
Lee Ji stood before Si-heon with a grave expression. Si-heon found himself sitting up.
“Mr. Jin Si-heon. You’re the magical girl’s rabbit companion, aren’t you?”
“That’s the setting, at least.”
“And you understand that when I’m active as a magical girl, you should act like a proper magical girl’s companion, right?”
“……That was the case?”
An inexplicable sense of foreboding gripped Si-heon as he swallowed hard. What came next was entirely unexpected.
“From now on, you need to speak in a cute way in dungeons.”
“……Huh?”
“—How about using ‘myo’ as your speaking style? You know, ‘Myo’ from the zodiac cycle!”
“……What?”
“Not ‘what,’ it’s ‘myo!'”
“No. Why would I do that?”
“It’s for your sake.”
Lee Ji clenched her teeth and cried out.
“You said you were incredibly strong! You said since you’re a rabbit you can clear any dungeon, so I should just stay put! Then why were you so helpless—completely incapable of moving!”
At the unexpected word, ‘helpless,’ Si-heon’s jaw dropped.
Lee Ji pressed on without pause.
“You even said ‘Ha, the alphabet means nothing to me’ when Grimoire warned that B-Rank dungeons would be dangerous!”

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