The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! - Chapter 84

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The Magic Hunter Girl Builds a Dungeon! Episode 84
Even as Lee Ji tried to look around, an overwhelming sense of comfort wrapped itself around her face and body.
All she could do was squirm.
“Jun-seo… Pffft!”
Jun-seo didn’t answer. His eyes were closed. The rise and fall of his chest beneath the fluffy light told her he was asleep.
‘I need to… pull myself together…’
Rainbow Butterfly wasn’t moving. Did that mean this comfortable sensation was safe?
Lee Ji only managed to confirm that much before losing consciousness.
…Something poked her cheek. Soft and slightly cool, but not an unpleasant sensation.
‘I’ve seen this on YouTube.’
Dog owners experienced this every morning, they said.
Wake up, human. Play with me. Right now I’m just using my nose, but if you don’t get up soon, I’ll lick you mercilessly….
‘But this is a dungeon!’
There’s no way there could be a cute puppy here!
Lee Ji gritted her teeth and sat up, then froze.
Right before her eyes—truly, a puppy with a tiny black bean of a nose was looking at her and wagging its tail.
‘What?’
By the drooping ears, it was clearly just a pup….
‘But it’s huge!’
Its head came up to her chest. Standing on its hind legs alone, it would easily tower over her.
When Lee Ji looked at it, the puppy barked happily—”Woof!”—its soybean-colored tail spinning like a propeller.
‘Where am I? …The Nest?’
The place where Lee Ji had been lying was a nest full of white down. And not just any nest—one the size of a bedroom.
Beyond the jagged twigs that formed the nest, a verdant forest was visible. The trees and leaves looked three or four times larger than anything Lee Ji knew.
‘Why am I here? Jun-seo is… oh?’
“Jun-seo! Jun-seo!”
Thankfully, Jun-seo was lying beside her too. As the puppy licked Jun-seo’s cheek, he jolted awake.
“Huh? Where… where is this?”
“Looks like a dungeon.”
The message appeared immediately.
You have entered a Dungeon.
Clear Condition: Hatch a chick from an egg and receive the Professor’s acknowledgment that you did wonderfully.
‘An egg? A chick? A professor?’
While Lee Ji pondered, Jun-seo—not an Awakened One and unable to see messages—suddenly sprang up and clung to the edge of the nest.
“Where is this? It’s a dungeon, right?”
“Jun-seo, be careful! You’ll fall!”
“It’s fine. It’s not that high.”
Jun-seo pointed to wooden stairs leading downward from one side of the nest. True to his word, the nest was about two stories high.
Seeing the two of them awake, the puppy bounded toward the stairs and wagged its tail. It seemed to want them to follow.
Having nowhere else to go anyway, Jun-seo and Lee Ji made their way down the stairs.
At first, Jun-seo behaved like an action movie hero, spinning circles around Lee Ji while constantly surveying the surroundings.
But the peaceful landscape was too serene to maintain such tension.
A forest path bathed in gentle sunlight.
“Quack! Quack!”
Ducks that looked like ducklings but were the size of adults waddled by, their hindquarters swaying. A large platypus led the procession at the front.
Beyond the forest, a peaceful walking trail spread across open grassland.
“Jun-seo, look over there. There’s a stream!”
In the crystal-clear water, where pebbles were visible—what she’d mistaken for a Golden Retriever, a seal with golden fur, was splashing about with abandon.
“Kee-ing….”
The puppy guiding the two children paused briefly to gaze at the stream, as if wanting to play, then resumed walking with renewed determination.
By then, Jun-seo had let go of his caution and petted the puppy’s head.
At the end of the trail, the puppy stopped.
“Woof! Woof!”
Before a dark forest where thick, towering trees let no light through.
A wooden house, one story tall but no less impressive in presence, awaited them.
‘This is a bit scary…’
The puppy lay down at the building’s entrance, and the two children cautiously stepped through the open door.
Though its exterior resembled a rural shed, the inside was as bright and spotless as a laboratory.
Mysterious machines hummed along the walls, and anatomical diagrams of various creatures hung on another wall.
At the desk in the center—
“Ah, you’ve arrived! New contestants have come!”
A bespectacled dinosaur sprang to its feet.
Though its body was covered in fluffy feathers, its peculiar posture, sharp claws, and frame slightly larger than Jun-seo’s were unmistakably those of a dinosaur.
Jun-seo called out the dinosaur’s name.
“Deinonychus!”
“A human, eh! In any case, welcome. You came to raise an egg, yes?”
“An egg?”
“You didn’t come in without knowing?”
Lee Ji stepped forward.
“He’s not an Awakened One, so he couldn’t see the message. In this dungeon, we have to hatch an egg into a chick to leave, right?”
“Just wait, I’ll explain it directly!”
The bespectacled dinosaur opened the lid of a machine that resembled a kimchi refrigerator. With a whoosh, a storage unit filled with eggs in individual compartments rose up.
As the dinosaur pulled out an egg about twice the size of a soccer ball, it spoke.
“This is the egg you shall be given. Make a wonderful chick hatch here, receive a good evaluation from me, and you’re done!”
“But it takes twenty-one days for a chick to hatch. Do we have to stay here the whole time and incubate the egg?”
“Ho? You know quite a bit about chickens—a clever student indeed! But for convenience we call it a chick; this isn’t an ordinary egg, you see.”
The dinosaur pointed to one of the diagrams on the wall.
It showed an egg with multiple arrows extending from it, and at the end of each arrow were not only birds but a variety of creatures.
A young dolphin, a foal, a spectacled monkey, a sea cucumber….
“All life begins in an egg. And depending on what happens while in the egg, it can become anything whatsoever!”
Looking closer, each arrow leading to a result had various icons attached—sunlight, hearts, lightning, ice, and more.
Jun-seo murmured.
“So depending on what we do, the egg could become a human or a dog…?”
“You understand perfectly, human boy!”
“I don’t understand at all!”
“But the human girl beside you seems to understand?”
Lee Ji nodded.
“Yes, I understand.”
In reality, there were similar stories. Sea turtle eggs, for instance, determined the hatchlings’ sex based on temperature.
And besides, this was a dungeon.
A place where all manner of strange things happen.
The dinosaur chuckled.
“Whether you keep holding it, leave it in the cold, or indulge its every whim—it’s up to you. Fast enough and it’ll hatch in two hours; slow and it might take forty-eight.”
“Forty-eight hours?”
“Ah, time flows differently here than outside. One day here is about an hour out there.”
……
‘If we hatch it quickly, maybe we can clear quickly too?’
“You understand?”
“Yes.”
“Then take this. Raise it well.”
The dinosaur placed a pure white egg into Lee Ji’s arms. It was heavier than a two-liter bottle of water.
“Raise it like it’s a part of yourselves. If you’re unsatisfied with the result, I’ll give you a new egg, so don’t worry!”
“What if something strange is born?”
“We don’t know either?”
The dinosaur shrugged.
“It might run away, or it might follow you around. Just as our parents didn’t know our futures.”
……
Jun-seo stared at the diagrams on the wall with an uneasy expression. Among the egg’s possible futures was a baby crocodile with a crooked grin, its teeth gleaming sharply.
Then Lee Ji interjected.
“What if the two of us take care of it together? Would the egg hatch faster?”
“Generally, yes.”
“Then could we raise one egg together, the two of us?”
The dinosaur frowned disapprovingly. Lee Ji quickly bowed.
“Oh no, the egg is so heavy! I can’t hold it alone!”
“Dear me… such a young human has come. Well, I suppose there’s no help for it. You two shall raise it together.”
“Thank you!”
“Off to the Nest with you. If you have any questions, ask anytime.”
The two left the cabin, cradling the egg.
Jun-seo let out a long sigh.
“The scenery here is pretty, but something feels off compared to that desert dungeon we fell into before.”
“It’s fine. This is an F-Rank Dungeon, remember? It should be just as easy as that desert dungeon.”
“I… was a little, very slightly worried about that one too.”
“But we cleared it just fine. Don’t you remember?”
“You cleared it.”
“No. I cleared it because of you.”
It was Jun-seo’s courage in facing that fear that made it possible.
And because Jun-seo was someone to protect, Lee Ji had been able to awaken as a Hunter.
Lee Ji smiled at Jun-seo.
“So let’s raise our egg together, okay?”
“… I don’t know.”
“Hm?”
Just as Jun-seo turned away, his face flushed slightly.
Suddenly, a sound came from the egg in Lee Ji’s arms.

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