The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! - Chapter 59

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The Magical Girl Hunter Builds a Dungeon! Episode 059
“…….”
“I nearly got caught and roasted like a rabbit!”
“That, well. There was no choice! The soul I absorbed on the second floor suddenly got controlled by the dungeon, and it bound me down! It was essentially fighting myself—”
[His tongue runs long.]
“…….”
At Grimoire’s four words, Si-heon fell silent.
Of course Si-heon knew it well.
He’d simply been caught off guard—treat it as an exception this once, do better next time—but these were all just pathetic excuses.
“……I understand. Next time, absolutely! I won’t get excited just because I find my soul! I’ll examine the dungeon situation carefully before I move!”
“Of course. And change your way of speaking too. Like the real cute animal friends of a real magical girl!”
“…….”
“Magical girl’s cute animal friends, you see, they don’t get hurt easily. Being taken hostage or brainwashed is rare! Stuff like that is mainly the human companion’s job.”
“What kind of manga are kids watching these days……?”
“The kind adults make these days.”
“…….”
“Come on, try it. ‘What kind of manga are kids watching, meow.'”
“What. Kind. Of manga.”
Si-heon’s lips fumbled and then he cried out.
“I…… really hate this!”
“You have to do it anyway! Jin Si-heon. It was really dangerous this time!”
“…….”
“You can’t take dungeons lightly, right?”
“No, you can’t. I’m sorry.”
“You don’t need to apologize to me. Just promise you’ll listen to what I say.”
“Ugh……!”
Before long, Geum-hee, Grimoire, and Jang Mi-sam began staring intently at Si-heon from beside him.
If they’d been looking at him with a teasing expression, he would have picked a fight with Grimoire as usual and escaped this situation.
All three of them bore wounds from their injuries in this dungeon.
‘Yeah, I’m sorry! I’m the guilty one!’
Eventually, feeling blood rush to his face, he opened his mouth.
“What. Kind. Of manga are kids watching…… meow!”
And at that moment.
The field trembled, and someone appeared.
It was a neatly featured boy.
Judging by his disproportionately long legs and arms with a faint musculature, he seemed to be about middle-school age.
Si-heon’s face flushed as if it might burst.
‘What the hell is this guy doing popping out here……!’
If he were an elementary schooler, he could be coaxed along. From high school onward, the logic of force applies.
But middle school is when a male human comes closest to resembling a velociraptor in his ecological development.
‘How am I supposed to get past this mortifying moment!’
That’s when Lee Ji stepped forward. She recognized the other person.
“Oh, it’s that older brother I saw at the Association before!”
“……you are.”
The boy’s gaze turned toward Ji. The moment their eyes met, Ji lost her smile slightly and looked flustered.
It was probably the first time Ji had experienced such a ‘wary’ gaze.
“Who are you?”
The boy asked with emphasis, and Ji responded immediately.
“I’m Lee Ji, a second-grader at Chamssae Elementary School! I’ve awakened, but since I’m still young I haven’t registered as a Hunter yet, and I’m a righteous magical girl!”
‘Ahhhhh!’
Si-heon cried out inwardly.
‘How can she blurt everything out when she doesn’t even know who the other person is!’
Of course, they were in a dungeon, and it was obvious they were both Hunters. But revealing her real name, her characteristics, and even her school—that was an entirely different problem.
‘Ji, the only thing hidden by your skill is the fact that you’re a magical girl!’
With that, Si-heon forgot his embarrassment—
And Ji innocently waited for the boy’s answer.
The boy clenched his teeth.
“……Bold of you. Giving away all your information like that.”
“Hehe, it’s not that impressive. I learned that you should always introduce yourself from my sister! What about you?”
“My name is Han Ji-hyeok. I’m an unregistered Awakened One like you. But with the favor of the Association Chairman! I stay at the Hunter Association Headquarters! I’m also close with the Vice Association Chairman! ……So it would be wise not to do anything pointless.”
Before the boy, bristling with caution like a hedgehog.
Ji exclaimed at once.
“Wow, that’s perfect!”
“What?”
“They say when the Dungeon Break alarm goes off, the Hunters from the Hunter Association arrive first.”
“Right. Hunters from the Association will be coming here soon.”
“But my identity is a secret…… If someone comes, could you tell them that you cleared this dungeon instead?”
Ji-hyeok’s mouth fell open.
“What? That makes no sense—”
“……Ah. Maybe you’re not that strong? It was pretty difficult since it’s a B-Rank Dungeon! If you find it hard to say you cleared it—”
“That’s absolutely not it! I can clear a B-Rank by myself!”
Ji-hyeok shouted loudly, his face flushed.
Ji’s eyes lit up.
“Really?”
“……Yes!”
“Wow, that’s amazing!”
The embarrassment remained Si-heon’s burden.
‘A hundred percent lie! That bastard’s just posturing in front of an elementary schooler! And you, Ji, you were just lecturing me, so why are you swallowing someone else’s posturing whole!’
Si-heon writhed in embarrassment, while Geum-hee and Grimoire quietly giggled to themselves as they watched them all.
Ji pulled out the box she’d just received as a reward from her inventory.
“Instead, here. This is a clear reward I just got, so I’m giving it to you.”
“What…… is this Moon Metal! You’re giving me something this precious?”
“I don’t need it. I finished what I came to do in the dungeon.”
“……What did you come to do?”
Ji-hyeok tensed again. When Si-heon and Geum-hee saw him reach for the Broken Sword Hilt at his waist, their eyes sharpened reflexively.
But the feared confrontation did not occur.
Ji laughed with a hehe. It was a smile that shone like a marigold.
“I saved a magical girl’s friend!”
“……Don’t joke.”
“I’m not joking. Ah.”
Word Deletion: 00:03:00 remaining
A deep rumble echoed.
The moment the countdown hit three minutes, the dungeon wall trembled. Someone was attacking the dungeon from outside.
Si-heon grumbled.
“Whoever it is, they’re damn impatient. The Break looks completely resolved already.”
“……It must be Hunters from the Association.”
“Huh? Hey, middle schooler. How would you know?”
“No Hunters answered the emergency summons until now. So the higher-ups must have come themselves, and since the dungeon is dissolving, they’re probably trying to confirm what the situation is.”
“Ah. That makes sense…… but why are you speaking formally to me? Do you know me?”
“…….”
Ji-hyeok looked at Si-heon with eyes that seemed to have much to say. His gaze was as if he knew him one-sidedly.
A foreboding descended like a cold bead of sweat down Si-heon’s spine.
“Rather than ‘know,’ perhaps you—”
“Phew! My body is so stiff, meow! Magical Girl Daisy, let’s hurry and hand this child over to you and leave, meow!”
Surely, surely. The boy wouldn’t recognize him from just the voice after he’d become a rabbit!
‘You never know!’
Si-heon chose to sacrifice immediate embarrassment in order to protect the image of ‘Hunter Jin Si-heon.’
Ji-hyeok’s eyes nearly bulged at that manner of speech. In the meantime, Ji quickly positioned herself between Si-heon and Ji-hyeok.
“My friends want to rest. Could you do me a favor?”
“……little one.”
“It’s Ji! Or Magical Girl Daisy!”
“It doesn’t matter if I say I cleared it. You’re really okay with that?”
“What?”
“If you report that you resolved a B-Rank Dungeon Break, the Association will compensate you greatly. Maybe they’ll even help you get your Hunter License faster.”
“Whoa……! But it’s okay!”
She’d wanted to become a Hunter to earn money in the first place.
‘If that auntie buys me ice cream, I don’t need a license.’
Of course, Ji didn’t explain this honestly.
A magical girl’s words must always be brief and cool!
“If we protected people from danger, then the magical girl’s job is done!”
“…….”
“So thank you very much!”
Ji bowed her head with a nod.
Si-heon grabbed the hem of Ji’s clothes and gathered his companions together.
“Ji. You’ll land near the dungeon entrance as planned. Hold the lady’s hand tight. And pull out your Access Card right away.”
“Yes!”
From above came the sound of cracks widening with a sharp crackle.
Ji sent Jang Mi-sam and Si-heon back into Grimoire and clasped paws with Geum-hee.
Word Deletion: Complete.
The sky breaks apart. Brilliant light pours down like prison bars through the gaps in leaves. Behind it, the landscape of a factory begins to overlap.
Lastly, Ji heard the handsome boy, Han Ji-hyeok, standing in the center of the dungeon murmuring to himself.
“A magical girl……really…….”

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