The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! - Chapter 85

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The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! Episode 85
[Peep…….]
“Huh? Jun-seo, did you hear that just now?”
“I heard it too!”
The two of them leaned in cautiously, pressing their ears to the egg. A small sound came from inside.
[Achoo!]
The egg trembled slightly. Someone inside had sneezed.
“It must be cold!”
“What should we do……. That’s it. Let’s hurry to the Nest!”
The soft, fluffy Nest, brimming with down!
Jun-seo scooped up the egg and quickened his pace. Lee Ji stayed right beside him, rubbing the egg gently with her hands. The chill clinging to it from the Egg Refrigerator slowly faded away.
Just as they reached the Nest, Puppy, who had arrived there first, barked happily.
“Woof! Woof!”
“Yeah. We’re coming up!”
The egg was laid gently upon the Nest’s downy softness. Jun-seo tidied the leaves hanging from above the Nest a little.
As sunlight touched the glossy egg, it trembled slightly.
[Peep…….]
“It seems to like this!”
“Wow……. Really.”
While the chill from the Egg Refrigerator gradually subsided, Lee Ji left Jun-seo to tend to the egg and stood at the edge of the Nest, surveying the surroundings.
‘Peaceful…….’
The landscape around them looked like the ecosystem diagram from an elementary school science textbook brought to life.
A forest, beautiful meadows, a babbling stream, and distant mountain ridges.
Only the creatures wandering through it all strayed somewhat from what the textbook showed.
‘Earlier, a duckling was chasing a platypus instead of its mother duck.’
And down at the stream, seals were rolling around like dogs at play.
Even now, curious creatures dotted the forest in various places.
Beside them, a large lizard and a big rabbit lay sprawled in an empty Nest. The rabbit occasionally licked the lizard, but the lizard, displeased by this, kept wiping its own face clean of the rabbit’s saliva.
‘That’s so cute…… wait.’
A rabbit!
‘I have a rabbit friend too!’
They’d decided that even for an F-Rank Dungeon, they’d call an adult first. Lee Ji raised her right hand immediately.
“Grimoire…….”
“Wait.”
Jun-seo tugged at the hem of Lee Ji’s clothes, stopping her.
“We’re not alone in this Dungeon. Those officials came in first, remember?”
“Oh, right.”
“If they find out you’re a Hunt…… it’ll get complicated. Let’s stay quiet until we know where those people are.”
Lee Ji nodded in agreement.
Her anxiety eased, though belatedly.
They didn’t know when their egg would hatch—
‘But if the officials’ eggs hatch well, the Dungeon will collapse too!’
And in the meantime.
A peculiar sound came from the egg, now warmed by the sunlight.
[……Peeping.]
“Huh?”
[Peep-peeping.]
“Jun-seo, the egg spoke! ……well, not exactly spoke, but you know!”
[Peep-peep-peeping…….]
A sound like a young creature whimpering. Clearly it was complaining about something. The egg even began rocking side to side in the Nest.
“It seems unhappy about something! What do we do?”
“Wait! Hey, stop squirming!”
Jun-seo grabbed the rocking egg with both hands. But the egg’s resistance only grew fiercer—as if demanding he let go immediately.
A panicked Jun-seo released it—
Next, when Lee Ji placed her hand gently on the egg, she understood what the problem was.
“It’s hot. The egg is too warm.”
“Ah. No wonder it felt familiar. It was exactly like the temperature of a boiled egg.”
“Let’s cool it down!”
Jun-seo quickly bent the upper branches into place to create shade, while Lee Ji gathered several large leaves like a fan and waved them toward the egg.
As the leaves rustled and a breeze arose, the egg’s trembling stopped.
[Coo…….]
“It seems to like this temperature now.”
Jun-seo puffed his cheeks slightly.
“It loved the sunlight just a moment ago.”
“It probably warms up quickly without feathers.”
As she fanned the egg, Lee Ji recalled what the dinosaur expert had said earlier.
‘Whether you hold it, leave it alone, or grant its every wish—it’s all up to you two.’
“How long do we have to do whatever it asks?”
Just then, a voice they hadn’t heard before cut in.
“Nobody knows that, so just give it a try, woof!”
“You startled me!”
Jun-seo jumped. It was Puppy, the one who had guided them here, who had spoken.
“You—you could talk the whole time?”
“A little! But I figured you two would be surprised if I said so from the start!”
“…….”
“Think of me as your childcare assistant, woof!”
“Chi—childcare, not raising!”
Jun-seo’s face flushed as he tried to correct the word. Meanwhile, Lee Ji stroked Puppy’s head and spoke.
“You’re just a young pup yourself. How can a young pup raise a baby?”
“That’s okay! Just by being born, I’m already a senior compared to that egg!”
“I suppose that’s true…….”
“If you have any questions, ask away. I’m also hoping a wonderful companion will be born!”
Puppy wagged his tail at high speed, his front paws hooked over the edge of the Nest.
[Coo…….]
The egg had grown quiet now. Lee Ji carefully brought her hand over the round egg.
The temperature was just right, and thump, thump, thump—she could feel a pleasant heartbeat.
Like an egg where blood vessels have begun forming inside the shell.
[Snoore…… Snoore…….]
Peaceful.
Except for the curious question of what kind of body was being formed on the other side of that shell, producing a sound like an animal snoring.
“By the way, will a chick come out of the egg?”
“Yes! And no!”
“Huh?”
“Here, we call all creatures newly hatched from eggs chicks! But that chick might have four legs, no legs, or even two pairs of wings!”
“I see…… oh.”
Two pairs of wings are a feature of insects.
I learned that from a book.
‘Little one. Please, just four legs at most!’
Puppy chattered excitedly.
“Since you two are caring for this egg together, it’s sure to hatch into a wonderful chick!”
“A chick raised alone can still be wonderful.”
“……that’s true, I suppose.”
Struck by Lee Ji’s blunt rebuttal, Puppy glanced nervously before adding to his words.
“Still, the people who came before were all scrambling while raising theirs alone. The results weren’t great either.”
“What? People who came before?”
“Before you two arrived, a few others fell from the sky. They each received an egg as well.”
“Where are they now?”
“Just a moment.”
Puppy pondered briefly, then stretched out his front legs halfway over the edge of the Nest.
“They were over that way, I think. Oh, I found them! That big rock in the meadow!”
“…….”
In the middle of the meadow, now that he looked closely, what appeared to be a Nest woven from tall reeds could be seen nestled among the reeds.
‘Hard to see…….’
As Lee Ji squinted, Jun-seo came closer, cradling the egg, and observed the distant location instead.
“There’s someone in that Nest wearing a uniform. Must be a government Hunter!”
“Really?”
Could they ask for help?
But Jun-seo’s tone was not encouraging.
“Um…… right now, they’re also hugging an egg, but……”
“But?”
“A zebra keeps trying to bite at their sleeve.”
“What?”
“It looks painful.”
Lee Ji narrowed her eyes. Through the slits, she could see something striped touching a person in a blue uniform.
The zebra seemed to be having fun, its rump wiggling continuously.
Meanwhile, the person looked genuinely hurt—flinching with each bite, shuddering inward, yet unable to leave the Nest.
Puppy spoke up.
“That zebra is that person’s first chick! Cute, right?”
“What?”
“But it failed the expert’s test. So that person is now raising a second egg.”
“…….”
“That zebra seems to really like that person!”
While Puppy spoke cheerfully, Lee Ji felt a chill run down her spine.
Even if they hatched the egg beautifully, there was no guarantee it would pass the test.
‘Is this really an F-Rank Dungeon?’
“Jun-seo. I’m going to visit that government Hunter for a moment.”
“Oh, okay!”
“Please take good care of the baby!”
“Um…… I’ll do my best, don’t worry at all!”
Jun-seo began cradling the egg and rocking it gently.
Puppy, unsure which one to follow, hesitated before deciding it was right to stay by the egg, settling down in front of the Nest.
Meanwhile, Lee Ji ran forward while calling into her bag.
“Grimoire!”

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